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I just noticed this today, thought some of you guys might be interested. The guide I did for Hungry Ghost Night is currently on sale on Amazon. I have no idea how long the sale will last, but it's a decent savings for those who want a copy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KN4H67G/

I'm not looking for anything at the moment, however, I can probably still get Hungry Ghost Night ( Wang version), Hungry Ghost Night (Gasser version), Peace Love Trippy Club, and possibly Dragon Boat and Independence. No need for trades, only caveat is due to new PayPal terms I only accept postal money orders and checks.

Totally agree. Kelsens also does chocolate chip cookies.

Last night I added more content, as well as a user guide to the book. Scanned another Sachen advert, though I need to insert it in the guide. Unless I have a heart attack or get hit by a bus or something, tonight's the night, it's done.

From my understanding, it's about the amount of planes going to a region, for a similar reason I can send to the USA aside from Hawaii and possibly Alaska.

Maybe the mask situation in the States became political because of that, but if the WHO weren't in bed with China, it shouldn't have even spread as much as it did. Things were political waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before it even made it to the States, lol, because some crybaby country didn't want to admit that a deadly virus had been spreading around there.

Putting in the Chinese (and in a few cases, Japanese!) names for games now

@darkchylde28I appreciate your detailed response, and I agree with most of it. What I'm really curious though, is what we should be doing on an international level? Some places have quarantine policies, some don't, some places let people in for travel, some don't. In my case, my parents and brother can't even come visit me, yet people with less ties to the island than me (i.e. Taiwanense face, yet resided abroad for decades, or born abroad) can enter freely. I mean, supply chains and stuff are still f'ed, we can't even send parcels to England unless it's shipped via private courier! South America, similar situation,many parts of Africa, Canada only ems is available... Something's gotta give, sooner rather than later. That's what I'm wondering about, if just accepting covid-19 and moving on isn't the best way forward, then what is? Never being able to send a parcel via regular post to England isn't reasonable, imo.

If they want to actually enforce things, it's gotta be done solely by private security and the police. There's been many cases here in Taiwan, which is a relatively non violent country, where employees ended up beat, blinded, dead, etc over some asshole not wearing a mask or following policy. I reckon in the States it would turn violent quickly.

Just like full sets - stadium events - unlicensed also had nothing to do with affordability

I prefer true rares to true CIBs

@darkchylde28 I'm just curious, what do you think the best way forward is?

So the rest of the world is done with covid 19, as evidenced by this thread slipping into the second page, but sadly Taiwan is still going full strength. 82 local cases today, though it seems to be a bit hush hush what caused it, something with police officers it seems Then that big buffoon of a health administrator made an announcement that we won't open up for tourists in 2022, yet all the fake "locals" can come and go as they please. Still ten days quarantine time. Things have gotten absurd, it's time to move the F on.

Grading companies shouldn't necessarily be authentication companies. These are totally different things. Grading = condition Authenticity = real Unfortunately, these companies usually dip their toes in both areas, yet fail miserably at the latter, since any variant is going to get dismissed as fake. A company is only as good as the data it has. Edit: And I, like many collectors, generally don't share the information we've got, for a myriad of reasons, i.e. snagging good deals, preventing 1:1 fakes, etc etc etc

I'm reading Family Bits I

No love for Wang's? At least we grade all console boxes, and have scented cases

I was waiting to grab a coffee at the local shop, when I witnessed someone order one of the sandwiches from the shop. I probably wouldn't have thought twice, but my friend actually had a sandwich from the same shop for lunch (I grabbed a pizza elsewhere, we met up at the coffee shop after we both finished other things). Anyway, I was watching the woman prepare the sandwich. Two pieces of toast, yum. Mustard, yuck. Raw tomatoes, eh I can eat them but I prefer them cooked. Pickles, yuck. Lettuce, tolerable yet I feel similarly as I do the raw tomatoes. Egg or meat (I couldn't tell what it was), There was probably an onion or something in there too, also a huge yuck for me. In the West you might say I'm a picky eater, though I've eaten so much stuff in my life that it's an unfair label to use, some of you "non-picky" eaters wouldn't touch some of the stuff I've eaten over here. Anyways, it brought me around to this topic. I envy people who can go to a coffee shop or buy a train sandwich or something and enjoy it, stock. It's silly, though it would be nice sometimes. So I'm curious about what other little / silly things people might envy. It's the silly things we take for granted, yet might be a huge deal to others.

Stay off of my Mega Drive stuff yo!! Actually I need to reorganise my collection too...

Finished! Gonna give it one more proofread, over the next few days / weeks, but the first volume is done, content wise, format wise, etc. Still thinking how I want to handle something with Chinese names, but these are just little trivial things.

Yup, like I said earlier, that's the huge issue on these, too many fakes, small supply, huge demand. By now, I think a lot of collectors don't even know reals versus fakes, only way I'd buy one is with a traceable history.

Well Taiwan used NTSC format just like Japan or USA or whatever. The games that you had and sent in, which were rejected. Do you (did you) believe that they were sealed and not resealed? I'd imagine so, if you took the time to send them in, unless you were just looking to get a high CIB grade.

Things have been so busy around here, I haven't had the time to update this thread until now. Here are some recent finds. The two Famiclone controllers at the top go to an Ending Man Famiclone, iirc it's the 500 series or something like that. The codebook is for the PlayStation, and it was done by the company that used to do conversions of FDS games back in the day. Xbox stuff. Found one Taiwanense game, the Tiger Woods game, from EA of Taiwan. No, this one wasn't sealed I also found a Microsoft employee store game, and the case and manual for a second game. Yup, found it locally here in Taiwan, at a junk shop. The three Dreamcast games weren't sealed, sadly enough, but they were local finds and cheap. Then there's the two promo Mario Party things, Taiwanense market, not for sale, yes please.

This is one of those games along with Super Mauro, which I wouldn't ever touch even with a ten foot pole. Good luck, I'd speculate many aren't too keen of posting pics of theirs

Well, if were a Chinese / Taiwanense company and a single sound effect were borrowed, it'd be considered pirated so Which would lead us to another question, if a company made a game with infringing IP, for sale in a country that doesn't recognise the copyright laws of the other country, would it be pirated? Lol. But that's a fun topic for a different thread. Anyways, I think the easiest way is to take an Atari approach to full sets, everything goes on,and no one has one.

Thanks for the information! It's definitely useful