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https://www.ebay.com/itm/203930661034 A friend showed me this and was asking about it. Someone totally unrelated to VGS. The seller is in Texas, which one of you backdoored Gloves just to snag and flip?

I'm not particularly interested in selling though, but who knows.

Everything.

I only take checks and money orders.

I've been stockpiling brand new cassette tapes when I find them as my dream is to fill them with Family Basic games at some point in the future, I think it's such a cool concept. https://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=15079.0

What would an AV Pretty Girl Fighting + Rocman X both boxed get me?

All we need is dumps, doo doo doo doo doo, all we need is dumps, dumps, dumps is all we need.

Friday morning fun. Oh I don't need to do 8Bit Music Power though, westerners dumped it as soon as it was released as they felt entitled to have it on a different PCB...pricks. Back to work though

Well as our friend @Orab GamesGames said himself, such unwelcoming attitudes ultimately lead to people leaving the site and not contributing anymore.

I always felt this way back on NA when I saw timewalk games and everyone else make "repros" of famicom exclusives, some possibly even profiting off fan translations as well. Talk about entitlement on so many levels, where were the support to stop that?

And for funsies, did I ever show you guys these bad boys?

I shall also be monitoring the site very closely and be pointing out and reporting piracy and sales of pirated modern-made "repros" of Famicom exclusives, unlicensed games, etc. Either we respect all IP holders, or we let it go, but enough is enough, the idea that some is more gray area or acceptable than others. Actually, let's take it a step further. I think by doing such, we should denounce the dumping of ALL games, including prototypes, unreleased games, maybe even move into stuff like high-res scans of manuals and boxes, yeah that surely isn't legal either Not trying to single anyone out or to be an ass, but there are so many misconceptions, so much fear steeped in misinformation, etc here that it's not even funny.

My point is two-fold: A. Size and scope of the company shouldn't dictate whether "preservation" on modern productions is okay or not. Period. B. If they are concerned about the money issue, they need to listen to customer feedback. If they tried to please the (small/niche) customer base, we wouldn't even be discussing 90% of this nonsense, as it wouldn't be an issue.

The people who went this route likely kept around a way of playing their favourite games, i.e. they aren't likely to be filling up the pi or powerpak with full sets of roms, and if they did, I don't think the intention is there to be playing every game, and if they're that out of the game, so to speak, they aren't going to be wanting to play those homebrew games anyways. You said it yourself with your own words even, they moved on and priorized something else over having a bunch of physical objects. This has nothing to do with them wanting to use ROMs so they can play for free, and probably any that were still interested in games, would gladly just purchase a ROM of the game, when given the option.

Strongly disagree. I'd like to see evidence supporting this, as from every situation that I've seen, it hasn't been that way at all.

BTW, Sogo is a shopping mall, and there's also a night market on that list of stuff I circled.

Nice Code is making NES games for plug n play machines and other items, yet people keep buying, reverse engineering, and dumping the ROMs. The same thing happened when Nintendo released their DK ROM with one of their wii (?) machines a few years back. Aaand, this conversation has been going on since the Nintendo Age days, and back then companies like Waixing and Nanjing Tech were still releasing and selling Famicom games. Even Sachen was selling Famicom games up through 2007 or so. Here are just a few random thoughts I had while walking home, for what they are worth: 1. I think a lot of these homebrew hobbyists are either terrible with marketing / business, or they don't care about the money. I keep hearing how they should get compensated for their work being tossed around, but if they cared about the money, why are most homebrewers only releasing games on one format (i.e. NES, not Famicom as well)? Back in the day the argument was because molds for shells were too expensive to make, but by now we have molds, we have PCBs, so it's literally just a conscious choice not to offer both formats. It would be like if I recorded music with my band and we only released our recordings on cassettes or records or something. Huge market that would be missed. 2. For these types of projects, people shouldn't be going into it "for the money". I mean, you can, and it's certainly a point to consider, but unless you're out of the 9-5 crowd, you should do it as a labor of love. On my Family Bits book for example, I'm only earning about $10 a book. I don't think I'll sell tons of them, as it's a very niche market, and although I would absolutely love for this to help me out financially, at the end of the day I made it because I felt it was something I wanted to do. Some of the old timer HB guys once said they made the games that they wanted to make. It's fine to take that approach if you're just doing it as a hobby, but if you're doing it for the money, then you gotta listen to what the customers want. Then again, I guess this goes back to point number 1. 3. We've seen the situation with digitalized movies and music, heck we even saw it with video games back in the late 80s and early 90s (well most of us haven't likely seen it, but folks in poorer countries where piracy was rampant did see it). People bootlegged, people downloaded, people used the items for free; however, they producer gained brand loyalty in exchange. By now, piracy of video games in Taiwan isn't really a thing, and I don't know anyone who downloads songs or movies illegally - people pay for Netflix or Spotafy or whatever, and are more than happy to do so. Some people might download and play the games illegally, but it isn't going to hurt sales. At most, it's free publicity. Now I hear you barking big dog, but regarding the lost sale: a. The person just "collects" ROMs and wouldn't have bought the game anyways, probably won't even play it b. The person played the game, loved it, then decides to buy the real thing when / if the opportunity arises c. The person played the game, hated it. Well they probably won't buy the real thing, but I honestly wouldn't want a dissatisfied customer either. 4. At the end of the day, gamers and collectors want to buy games and support people in their community. I have an everdrive but I never use it. As a quick aside, I own a complete full set of Japanese Famicom games; I decided to collect these games solely because I had found a lot of bootleg versions locally, and felt that even if I weren't supporting the companies with my purchases, I could at least have enough respect for the developers to own legitimate copies too (I have about 1/3 of the licensed Famicom set in bootleg format too, single carts). I bought some bootlegs of homebrew games on Aliexpress in Famicom format. If I want to play NES games, I can either use an adaptor with my Famicom (which would get nasty, with a cat that loves to race and tear around the apartment at night), or I could try to play them on my old toaster NES (which is a chore to get the games to run). That being said, if / when those games get official Famicom releases, I'll go back and purchase the real version as well, to help support the developer and community. We're not a bunch of poor teenagers anymore who just want to play free games or listen to the latest rap album, downloaded illegally. On a different note, the biggest turn off for me, by far, in the homebrew scene (and the homebrew scene is easily my favorite part of gaming by now) is the limited availability of games. If you even do so much as fart, you lose out. Then again I guess this goes back to my points about business sense and whether they're trying to make money or not.

I am really getting pissed off with the government over here. We're taking a beating too, and I never know if I'll be forced into house arrest for a few days, unpaid of course. Taiwan hasn't even started vaccinating kids yet (they'll start in May), but I am sure many parents will drag their feet getting the kids vaxxed. I just walked into a class today, half the kids are at home under the "quarentine" just because two students in a whole elementary school had "covid-19", which could be severe, or could be asymptomatic or sniffles. Sick until proven healthy. What really pisses me off is this though. I'm for safety and protecting the vulnerable...but: Here's an example of an average Taiwanense with covid-19. Went to KTV several times, went to IKEA, even went to fucking TGIF for a steak dinner. If the situation I'd truly so dangerous, people would be staying in, but they aren't. They don't care anymore as most people aren't getting sick, and their industries aren't hurt. Unless the Taiwanense change their thinking, the situation here will not improve for educators and their livelihoods.

@Alder Did you lose a lot of weight doing this or see an improvement in health? This sounds very similar to what my body builder friend suggested, and I'm thinking about giving it a go for a month or so, despite it sounding horrible.

I personally think the reason this hasn't been dumped yet I'd because of investment purposes, okay there I said it

I feel the same about dumping and reproing unlicensed games, dumping protos, etc. Repros suck, but at the end of the day, I hate smorgasbords more than people wanting an obscure and limited homebrew dumped

I feel the same way about "reproing" unlicensed games, and I got crucified for that.

While I agree with not endorsing the dumping of homebrew hobbyist games, I also remember that the reason that I first passed on buying this game was because he equated Famicom with piracy and cheap clones, which was honestly a dick move to everyone he probably ever gamed with during the formative years, especially when NES also was a hot bed for piracy in numerous locales around the globe.

This. That's why I think they should stay in their lane of grading games, rather than authenticating games. They wouldn't know their ass from their armpit in terms of some things being authentic or not, and yours might be an example of that,

Fire Dragon is rare on Famicom too. Very nice stuff.