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From my stand point, the situation is as follows: 1. I brought it up somewhat on NA, but the whole sticker seals desirability felt forced. Yes, some collectors cared about it before the hype, but I'd reckon that a lot (most?) didn't. To add some perspective to it, I'd reckon that if we currently asked the VGS group if they prefer Greatest Hits or original most would choose original over GH. With the sticker seals, the prefererence was much much smaller group initially, I think. 2. So we already have a feeling that the whole thing is forced, then we see look under the hood and see the so-called incestal relationship between the companies involved. It makes the whole thing feel even more disingenuous.

@acromite53mite53 I watched a playthrough of the Ducktales Remastered game, since I don't have the hardware it was for. It looks like it stayed true to the original, and looks really fun. It's ironic as my brother and I used to always look at the game in the Nintendo Game Atlas, but never had it as a child, only found it later as a teen at Funcoland. I just spent the night gaming. I played through Huang Di, an amazing unlicensed platformer for the Famicom. I'd place it in my top 100 list.

Grab some of your decent items, list on several places online for 60 or 70% of value. That stuff will fly off fast, money to your account. Then grab another stack of stuff and repeat until you got the money to cover the bill. Last weekend I was gone for a night, and when I returned home the next day, it seemed the cat was straining to urinate. Luckily it was just stress and things resolved themselves, but if not, I definitely would have been grabbing and selling shit at even 50% value to raise funds. In such instances as these, tapes should be taking a backseat to all else

I think CIB Japanese N64 games will be next

Here's another. Still no thoughts on price?

I'm going to go against the grain here by saying that I like pedigrees, at least somewhat. The concept can make it much easier to legitimise an item / the quality of an item. I've discussed it quite a bit with @OptOut, when describing my finds, so he immediately has an idea if it was pulled quite literally from a dumpster or from a storehouse along the coast. With that being said, I also feel that the whole situation from Dain's final actions with NA, this revelation, etc tarnish this legacy. I'd personally even take a step further and choose VGA over Wata, if I had an option, just due to the whole scenario. It's one thing to move on and to cash out, but the way Dain handled things was horrible, at best, and then when we see such an incestous situation, it just makes me look negatively on the situation even more.

Yeah I am guessing it's the software package too with no way to change it, but when I saw it I was taken aback as I've seen reports of these things on the news quite often, but never "experienced" it until now.

Tonight I had trouble logging in, thus I decided to have my password reset and was also sent this message (please check attachment) Taiwan should be listed as Taiwan (Republic of China) or Taiwan (ROC), not as currently listed as a province of China. Is it possible to get this changed? Although I'm sure most people here don't know a lot about the situation, or possibly don't care about it, I really don't like the rhetoric being used, as it's on-line with the bullying China has been recently doing towards Taiwan. Although China does lay claims to Taiwan, the fact is that Taiwan has been ruled independently since the Chinese civil war, has technically never even been ruled by the People's Republic of China (mainland China), and is a sovereign nation, albeit with very few allies. If we don't want to get political about it, Taiwan has their own region code for Nintendo games, than Hong Kong, China, etc. If the issue were to come down to "taking sides", I think all we'd have to do would be to see how the two Korea's are being referenced, since they both stake claims on the other as part of their own land.

You mean super team fighter print runs? In Taiwan, Ive seen both those games numerous times compared to some of the other titles on the list.

I know all those titles, I have original first prints of basically every single one. With these I always felt the same as i did towards the Greg pabich cheetahmen rerelease, better to let sleeping dogs lie, as I personally have zero interest in the reprints of these. But that's just my personal opinion, and I wish no ill will towards anyone doing reprints. About squirrel king, although I guess @pich owns the rights to the name and code, considering it's a literal clone of Rescue Rangers 2, no way it could ever legally get reprinted in the USA without undergoing drastic alterations.

I've been taking stock of my collection, I think I have four or five of these by now. Licensed Famicom for Taiwan region, official product, yet scare since hardly anyone could afford to buy this back in the day. Idea on price?

Sent you a pm about it!

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