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Came across this recently and can't find any info on it. Looks like a regular US game except for the promo text on the back, which is in Spanish. The safety/fine print text is all in English. Any ideas? And if you want it, feel free to throw out an offer.

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NES carts.

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Genny controllers.

Rental chain seems unlikely to me - this MM cart does not appear to be ex-rental and the NA thread does not mention rental stickers. Anything's possible though. I still suspect these were refurb carts though line pulls make some sense...but I'm just speculating. The saga continues !

Found it! https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview496d.html?catid=8&threadid=51172 So it was on some SNES carts too, seems likely a Nintendo refurb?

I assume so, but who did the assuring? Is this a Nintendo refurb, or someone else? I wish I could find that NA thread, the stamps there were on other titles.

Hey all. I don't think this is much, but I recently came across a Maniac Mansion cart with a white QA stamped on the back (see attached photos). I had found a Nintendo Age thread on this with no clear answer (can't find it now though). Is there a consensus on where this originated? Is this a thing anyone cares about?

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Could have been a retail store or distributor many years ago. Sometimes distributors have damaged wrap items or store --> distro returns that get resealed. And small retail operations do...whatever the owner/employee wants to do, so anything is possible. I agree with others that suspect a reseal here. Hard to know definitively from the photos provided but I would be surprised if it was a legit seal. Box has a lot of edge wear that looks inconsistent with a factory seal.

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hahaha, pretty shocked anyone remembers that I sold these! I think I had around 20 total carts, only a few unique games, but they're long gone.

That's really strange. Back in the day, I filled out customs forms regularly and the info required is just the usual stuff - sender/receiver addresses, phone number, contents, shipping method. Just a few minutes per form. I wonder if the uncommon destination (Namibia) required additional forms? Literally have never heard of USPS int'l forms requiring this much time before and filled out hundreds myself. That said, today the customs portion of electronic labels takes maybe 30 seconds. I don't use Ebay/Paypal shipping services but I imagine it's pretty simple there too (though I could be wrong!). It just really isn't that much of an inconvenience in 99.99% of cases but I do think people get it in their heads that it IS, and the cost/benefit analysis of selling old stuff online to make a few bucks probably precludes learning a new annoying form to deal with, longer shipping times, potentially less reliable shipping depending on the destination, etc. It all sounds like a lot before you've done it a couple times, and then suddenly it's pretty simple. I echo Code Monkey on int'l tracking via non-US sites - canadapost is great for this - but that's a hot tip that most just aren't going to know about or think to check. Ultimately shipping internationally requires a little bit of learning and a little bit of extra work and a lot of people just don't want to deal with it.

Been shipping to AK/HI for decades, literally never an issue. Re: int'l - Int'l shipping requires filling out a form that, for those new to it, may take five minutes. You can end up with unreliable tracking and customs issues though, depends where you're shipping. I use Endicia and get insurance through their provider and have never had an issue getting reimbursed for lost packages. Never tried via USPS insurance though, certainly may be trickier. I think some people have a single bad experience, or hear about someone else's bad experience, and then make a policy decision off that very small piece of information. And for folks that don't sell much, the idea of undertaking any additional work to facilitate a transaction just isn't worth it.

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This is my understanding as well. I've sold a lot of new Turbo games over the years and they're all US games. Some titles also had a Canadian release with English/French boxes/manuals but they're still North American releases. I'd bet your friend has US games. Some really expensive titles on the TG-CD, so congrats.

Yeah, just after new batteries, OEM not necessary.

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Yeah, I think it's probably legit then. Def a little odd, but odd happens, haha.

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I would be interested but even if we assume GVN is correct at $9500, $8000 is going to be, imo, way too high for any reseller and that's really the primary buyer for something like this. Remember that GVN prices also do not take into account selling fees of around 10-15%. A buyer would be spending $8000 to, at best, come away with maybe $8500. Obviously not worth it. I think you'd need to sell for significantly less to find a buyer, or do the legwork of selling these items individually yourself to net the return you want. Just one man's opinion, as priceless/worthless as all the others.

I would guess that's legit. Hard to say without seeing in person, though it could also be hard to say in person too! Some thoughts: - Brand new games can have some manual wear. I've seen manuals with a faint bend that runs vertically through the entire manual in games that I pulled from a factory case myself. - Faint folds/bends at the spine of a Dreamcast manual, generally near the center, are not uncommon in factory sealed games. I've seen it countless times on countless different games. - That weird little bit on one side where the Y-fold is kind of funky does not concern me either. Seen issues like that many times. - There are several different Dreamcast seals. Most Chu Chu Rockets were sealed with a vertical overlapping seam down the back, Shenmue has the more gummy type seal with vent holes, Acclaim titles often had both Y-fold seals and shrink wrapped horizontal seams, etc. I think it's important to remember in sealed game collecting that (1) factories are not perfect, weird anomalies happen and (2) that nobody at the time of production gave any consideration for consistency in how games were sealed. Many games have multiple seals that are still 100% factory sealed. Back to your JGR: the corner wear is maybe a little odd, but I don't see any red flags otherwise so I'd assume it was just...one of those things. I also don't recall ever seeing a convincing reseal of a Dreamcast game, but I've also never had suppliers who tried to dupe me. Does the wrap feel like other first party Y-fold seals, give or take? Source: my experience selling sealed games for over a decade, have handled and sold thousands of Dreamcast games (among others) in that time, most of which I pulled from manufacturer's cases. Could always be wrong though!

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