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So doing something against ebays terms of service, and something that can be potentially damaging to the community you're a part of is really ok because theres a possibility they might need a few extra dollars because or they wont be able to provide for their family. ASTOUNDING. Like this will cripple their entire life. Good lord. Consequences have repercussions. They made their bed now they have to lie in it. Take some accountability in your life.

LOL what an incredibly ridiculous comment.

I do like RE2 remake better but I would have to go with the original.

Thank you for reminding me why I muted you on NA!

Edge was an odd choice but not bad and a nice surprise. I thought the womens Rumble was mostly terrible with the dumbest spot I ever saw with Namois feet 'not touching' the floor. The logic is just so incredibly stupid that every wrestler who gets thrown out legs up is an idiot for standing up and walking away. But they pushed the right people in the right places. The womens RR unfortunately had the largest disparity between legitimate stars and filler. The mens Rumble was good. I cant stand Riddles personality but damn he had a great showing, laid it in and also took it. Him and Bryan was excellent. I hope to see that go somewhere. Big E still looks great. Damian Priest looks like a star. Really hate the #1 winner spot, its just lost its luster and isnt as surprising. Its like they took the gimmicks of the 95 Rumble and 99 Rumble and combined them (1 and 2 being there at the end, and an early participant being injured only to return at the end). When I saw Edge at #1 I new RO would be #2. Lame. Also really didnt love the last man standing match because it looks like every other kind of match ive seen. Theyve lost their specialness too. Wrestlers please stop diving off of high shit for the short attention spanned. Roman is excellent but I think its taking a backstep working with KO in this backyard match. Roman exudes badassness and having him in a match like this will lose its significance when someone (maybe BIg E?) takes the title from him. A dominant heel shouldn't need help from a manager or be put in those situations unless a top face beats him to the punch. Like when Drew and Roman worked. The only finish they could have done is Roman win by cheating. You want the face to beat the dominant heel at his own game and it makes him a bigger super hero. Like what Brock has done, from what I remember. But to do this with KO who isn't a top face (and by that I mean, he has the title) Also I thought it was amusing that the smaller light heavyweight guys in in the 90s (Christian and Edge) looked like some of the bigger guys in there haha. So over all when it was good, it was really good, and when it wasn't it wasn't.

The former I can totally understand. Thats why we have prototype experts. Usually its easy because Nintendo did make prototype boards for EPROMs. But when it comes to a hand made 'in-house' one, how could you possibly know? And with the former, I can't fully agree. They're always gonna be around and MOST times they're harmless, unless you're an uneducated buyer/seller. Which is why I always have been lobbying for EDUCATION. Its not that hard to tell. Except now, when the money matterns. My hope is that this doesn't get worse. I can't feel TOO much sympathy for someone that gets duped buying a fake, but for something like this how would they know? But honestly, I don't think something like these 5 will really hinder the market, or even get anyone duped soon. Its the pandoras box it can open that i'm really not excited on for OTHER things. Or if that person makes more without them letting anyone else know and another one just 'pops up'. Esp re-creating that PCB board. Anyone can really design it and do it, if they have the know how and time. Luckily all that documented stuff Pheo could really pay off if someone isnt sure.

Maybe, but they're not getting jipped ignorantly. They dont want to spend the money on the real thing so they buy something that is ALMOST similar but not for maybe a quarter of the price. They're making the choice to own it fully. Also AFAIK I dont know how much extra they're making buying in 'bulk'. A lot of those games might be like $20 and how much can you mark them up for if everyone sells them at a different price? You get it for 20 and try to sell it for 50 and maybe someone else buys it for 20 and sells it for 30? Im just guessing here, since i've been out of the buying game for a while, but no one is being jipped. The only time I can tell someone got scammed is some idiot with too much money than sense was buy everything without thinking and bought a fake SE. If he did a hair of research he'd know it was fake. Aside from that, I can't think of one instance so far where someone bought something thinking they got the real deal. I once bought a fake Tail Gator but I was already sure it was fake. When I got it I let them know and they refunded me and I tossed it. I couldn't tell from the pics but I would know immediately if I saw it, so to me it was worth the risk just in case. But when it comes to repros, where is the line drawn? Is it ok to make a repro for a game like Mr. Gimmick that wont work on a real NES but only a clone or FPGA system? Or hacks?

People sometimes just want to feel like they own the game and play it on their system, without spending a ton of money on it. They're not getting scammed, nor are the people selling it. They know what they want, know its not real. The problem is when it gets out, someone not knowing its fake and most repros are fairly obvious they're not genuine. This crosses the line because both the repros and real carts use eproms BUT the PCB was exclusive ONLY to the real cart. NOW thats been copied, its will be much tougher and you'd need to know so much more in order to get a genuine one. My only guess is by the time these get out of the hands of people who know its fake and into the hands of someone that doesn't know it (thru someone else selling it, an estate sale etc), the game might have tanked in value since people have moved on to collecting other things and wouldn't get burned spending 20k on a fake.

Also you are VERY VERY much in the minority with that stuff. YOU might have to deal with it, but 99.9% of people who collect dont care enough about that stuff and wont affect them. With the majority of what people collect, licenced titles, repros have not affected prices to my knowledge in the slightest and to my knowledge, repros of expensive games exist ONLY because they're being priced out to begin with. Those people were never gonna buy a Samson in the first place. But someone who does, knows its value and will pay for it.

As far as I can see, repros have never decreased values of ANY games because those people were gonna be priced out anyway. The only time it would be a real scam, is if it was sold with the intention of keeping or INCREASING the value, just with a non-genuine item. Repros have been more prevalent than ever and prices are also higher than ever? At least temporarily. Im more concerned that its hyper accurate that it takes a GREAT detail of knowledge to catch one, instead of being able to tell from a non-genuine label or eprom/wired chips. Wonder if it'll get to an ethical question. If I use a genuine shell, a genuine pcb, all I would need to do is print a genuine SE label (which can be done), chips (unsure if mask roms with the correct date codes can be printed from a factory) and proper machine soldering. If I could do that, how would you even tell my cart wouldn't be genuine? If its literally impossible to tell, would it matter?

At least its not that bad like the NEO GEO community. Glad I was never in the market for these things. Even though I didn't mind repros as long as they were easily shown to be fake, then to big deal. It'll still be tough to create an SE copy because you'd need a company to print mask roms with an older date code. But when you start adding in EPROMs, thats when things really get tricky. I always felt the PCB was good enough. I was wrong. Also I'd like to know how they created their own PCB. If they had a factory print them because small prints like this would cost a LOT more than printing like 10. Its like when you print CDs.

FUCK. I REALLY didn't think someone would ever go thru the trouble of creating an entirely new PCB board as an exact replica of the NES-EVENT PCB. Then having to get all the right era date codes for the chips. THE ONLY saving grace is MAYBE they couldn't find EPROMs printed around 89/90 and that could be the give away. This is ridiculous.

I never liked these people. It always felt like a scam to get every NES game as cheap as possible under the guise of some sort of vlog and bragging about it

I just wanted to say how much I despise 'meme culture'. I think its pathetic.

That seems pretty annoying

Is this the only thread people are posting in the forums now?

Oh interesting. At this point I was all into wrestling so I wasn't following any video game stuff till about 96/97 when I went to a new friends house and he had an n64 and my mind was blown he didn't have to blow into the cartridge.

This was on a Wed. How do I know? A) Its my dads bday. B) It was the WWF Survivor Series where the Undertaker beat Hulk Hogan for the WWF championship. C) It was also the day I got so scared about the match I threw up. I was 8. 11:19 look at those wrestling buddies! I think the Big Boss Man was actually rare cuz no one bought him. 13:23 there they are! Nes games! I see Jackie Chan Action Kung Fu, Whomp Em, Castelian, Bards tale, North vs. South, Power Blade, Totally Rad, The Punisher, Time Lord, Formula One Built To win, Terra Cresta. Weird cuz at this time the SNES should have been out.

Great game. I think I got about half way but couldn't finish it. Maybe one day i'll man up to do it.

9, one of my Arnie favs. Although it looks oddly dated at times and has some weird ARD.

Hmm I can't really think of anything specific, but I will go with games people hated that I loved. Sometimes because they WERE bad but I have an affinity for bad NES games. Swamp Thing, Die Hard, Zombie Nation, Waynes World, The Terminator, Ubisofts Indiana Jones, Cliffhanger all come to mind. And yea Silver Surfer too.

I kinda do something similar, I actually start with the normal start stage, then work my way thru the hardest levels first. The ghost one and the lava one. Once thats out of the way its pretty much smooth sailing. Id say the ghost one is the hardest because of the trajectory of all the enemies. If you dont know their patterns you will probably fly right into them. If you have a rough idea and fully powered, its not that hard. This games requires as much memorization as Ninja Gaiden, which compared to others, isn't a lot.

I will disagree because they are VERY different games in terms of combat. Doom 2016 is just "Use the SSG and run" where as Doom Eternal is really using the right weapon for the right monster. Its a combat puzzle. The difficulty doesn't really ramp up but its very RPG like as when you start building your Slayer with upgrades and get all the weapons (by the 4th level) you're just about ready to roll. So your underpoweredness is what makes it challenging. But it would be silly to say DEs first level is the hardest because you're playing it on NM without any experience. I started on UE and then went to NM so I could learn the game better. I WILL say the first few levels are the hardest on NM only because you don't have many upgrades and weapons. A couple of great things about the game, you can lower or raise the difficulty within the game at any time and even if you're stuck on a boss, you can choose to use 'sentinel armor' which gives you much more protection to try to finish. Also even if you get cheats, you can use them and finish the game without penalty. I really love they included so many different ways for you to play their game. Wanna use cheats? Sure! Wanna play the game on Nightmare with no upgrades? Sure! Yeah that is the level. I remember just dying there, I think in the middle and even using turbo (I dont use turbo all the time, I can beat it without), I could NOT get past some of the ghosts. I lost all my lives and continues just in that one area.

I remember beating Bayou a while ago. To me its one of those games that feels like it was designed to be beaten within a few playthrus but the difficulty ramp up in the US release makes it feel like every part of it has to be memorized (like who drops the health, what enemies will have weapons) or parts exploited. IIRC the toughest part WAS the beginning and the driving/shooting stages weren't that bad. Shooters def require memorization, along with fast twitch, but when you're fully powered up in SS, you basically just have to remember certain parts to just not die cuz you kill everything so quickly before it even has a chance. Im telling you, the game would not be that bad if you didn't start so weak. In fact, I think the game is practically unbeatable on one of the last stages because if you die, there arent enough power ups for you to finish as the enemies take more hits than you can fire off. I think it was the one with all the ghosts and top hats. Again when you know where all these things are, you can just breeze right thru it. Play thru it first with a turbo controller.

Well the thing is with Silver Surfer, you can pick your levels and they do tell you what level to start with. SS biggest problem is really how weak your normal shot is. Once you're upgraded within the first 2 levels, you can basically 1CC it, if you know a few of the tricky areas. I cant say the same for other space shooters I own. Didn't you beat Recca? With Bayou, you're FORCED to play that one stage. You can't even try the rest until that one is beat. Too bad cuz Bayou really is a great game, I have no idea why they needed to make it so much harder than Mad City.