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Not a parent, but a teacher of pre-school children, for what it's worth.

I started gaming when I was three, we got our Nintendo when I was four. My folks had some rules and regulations set, to which my brother and I adhered. I guess my thoughts would be, what don't tv games offer that television / movies do? Or to flip it around, I'd reckon at least with games children can develop some coordination and things, which they wouldn't develop just from tv or movies, yet I generally hear about games being limited moreso than television itself.

Regarding something like a tablet or iPad, I'd personally be against it at that age, just as I'm against my students having their own smart phones by the second or third level of print school. To me, that sort of technology doesn't just provide screen time, rather it also isolates, whereas at least with a tv set involved, a group of people can still interact together in multiple ways .

I met OptOut from here, it's funny our online and offline personalities are oppisites

I also met a former NA user about 12 years ago, and I met the twin brother of another NA user (possibly now a VGS user?) a month or so back. It's always great fun to put a face to the name, and to meet up!

I like Kanji, it's like Chinese.

@fsped09 yes just Bubble Bath Babes style, nothing too crazy

I'm really enjoying these pictures, thanks for sharing Corey. I never knew you had almost a complete NTSC set! Will you share some pics of your Pirate and homebrew stuff later?

I'd say they count, though I can certainly understand why people might not want them to count.

These look like GBA carts, and can only be used on GBA hardware and whatever other backwards compatible hardware. These aren't hardware, that would be like considering CDs or VHS tapes hardware, so where does it place them? Yup, exactly in the GBA full set.

I agree with @the tall guy, it's still a box and beats dropping loads of money on one. I'd likely prefer this to sun faded, tbh

So what is Taiwan, well it's home of the cockroaches, lol. This is just a simple fact of life, you see them on the streets, sometimes in your house, once I found one in a bag of food from the vendor across the street (barf!)

Anyway, I've ran into a situation of etiquette. If my cat finds a cockroach and starts playing with it (before killing and eating it, of course), at what level should I interfere? Should I let nature run its course, hoping that my cat will do the job, and if not, and if the cockroach is smart enough to evade my cat, let it do so? Should I kill the cockroach myself and let it for my cat? Kill it and dispose of it? 

General thoughts?

Amazing! This is the kind of setup I hope to achieve some day.

@drxandy vcd was actually hugely popular in Taiwan it seems, and I'd imagine likewise in other Asian countries like Thailand.

@op: very very cool setup, I'm also going for an N64 full set yet not CIB.

There's the f'ing bastard himself, fcgamer. Anyone know the significance of the cart he's holding?

@Tanooki Very beautiful pics, and great to see you again brother!

@MuNKeY I would think so too, but I just want to clarify just to be safe

Can we post information / pictures of adult video games? Must we sensor them out or are we able to post a NSFW tag and post in general? I'm not aiming to post hardcore porn or anything, but in my region, a lot of 18+ games exist, and sometimes they are relevant to console gaming, documentation, etc.

About illegal items: is it still ok to sell old bootleg carts and what not, just like how it was on Nintendo Age? Not talking about 1:1 repros , rather old pirates coming out of Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc back in the day.

While I don't specifically collect Game Boy consoles, I do collect any Taiwan versions that I find, ranging from b/w to GBA. I also have a few Taiwan-made Game Boy clones that I've collected and kept. After Famicom, Game Boy is my next favourite machine.

Imo one can like the people and not like the product (i.e. wata), likewise one can like the product and not like the people (i.e. bands with douchey members). Such separation seems simple enough to me.

@B.A. The prototypes include After Burner II, Forgotten World, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (this is the Japanese version it seems), and Sonic the Hedgehog. There are three others that didn't run yesterday, but I will clean them and try different machines, etc. As @OptOut can personally attest, things are very wonky with the machines and tv I own, aside from my Famicom stuff, for unknown reasons of which we are trying to determine.

There was also a Ghouls n Ghosts and an Altered Beast in the set (not pictured). While on retail boards, the Ghouls n Ghosts chips code seem not to match any known Sega game, and the Altered Beast game seems to have early chip dates, so these might also be pre release games, though I'm not sure. 

They should open up the carts and inspect the PCBs to see if they match the proper timeframe of the box and manual or not. In bootleg Famiclone collecting, this is basically a must, and mismatched parts are hugely undesirable.

I've been collecting since 1998 or so, and have been gaming since 1989. For me personally, it's never been about the value or making a mint. Does this make me a fool, yes probably, in some instances it does. Will I ever cash out? Possibly, while I'd rather see more historical museums and displays set up where one could loan out their historically significant items, that's all still in its infancy and I really have no idea if we will ever reach this level, or if the market and interest will completely tank. If people stop giving a crap about this stuff, then I'm out, no use to burden myself or my kin with piles of crap that no-one cares about. Sharing the hobby with others is half the fun!

I personally have found some of the responses here to be quite interesting. I'm a small fish in this community, with shallow pockets; when I see others with much deeper pockets mentioning their complaints against these companies and their feeling that it has damaged the collecting community, then I listen.

I found a few more goodies yesterday. Since I had to take my brother to the airport, I was able to beg for a day off work, and got it! 

After he went through security, I left the airport and spent the rest of the day exploring the area. I managed to sniff out a few carts, and also found two that I was almost able to purchase, but sadly had to let sit (the guy had literally lost the key to the display case, so we couldn't get them out...). It's a shame, although I already had those two carts, a member from NA had been looking for one of them since April.

Overall, I found a few unlicensed original games, a few bootlegs, and a few Sega Genesis prototypes yesterday. Overall it was a decent find.

I was looking online at Sega prototypes, and I saw this thread referencing this to be a Sega prototype PCB:

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=37205

Then I found a few more threads with Sega prototypes with similar PCBs:

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=138850

https://assemblergames.com/threads/panorama-cotton-cart.65587/

http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/pirates-gold/

I guess what I am wondering is was thus type of PCB only used for prototypes, or was it also used elsewhere?

Edit: Also, has anyone ever seen one of these with the code 171-5694, instead of 171-5694-01?

Will there be a Famicom full set badge? Any thoughts whose list would be used for it? (Like NES there are some debatable titles)

@Bronty Thanks!

7 hours ago, Bronty said:

Hi, sorry, what image?   You mean the black box cut out art link?

Yes, that one!

On 10/28/2019 at 12:49 PM, Bronty said:

I can’t take credit for it; a link was posted onto the game art Facebook group.   Once you look at them that way you can’t unsee it.   You can see the layering of the paper if you look.   

I just joined the group, waiting for approval. Any chance someone could link the image here? I'm quite curious.