ThePhleo

Can you take a higher resolution image? Maybe even scan the thing?

...well, that and the talent gradient is just a touch skewed to just two people. I mean, sure @CasualCart is good and all, but even at his level he's only second best to @OptOut

Can we see the Cherub from Chubby Cherub? http://copernicusnerdicus.blogspot.com/2014/09/nerdicus-nes-review-128-chubby-cherub.html I know you aren't doing specific request, but I always felt a John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy) vibe from that character.

Was watching it as well. I think it’s just some guys that have no idea that Jordan vs Bird is not valuable just because Michael Jordon is in it. I guess there goes my sealed Milton Bradley set off that’s legit :V Edit: fixed some missing text.

I sort of agree with @thesofasurfer Release rarity is a whole different ball game when you’re just looking for the overall rarest title. I mean, in the USA the rarest “Game” is ClayFighter Sculptors Cut.....but Big Box Rampage 2 is easily rarer than it. I for one know a minimal amount of information of N64 releases in Japan. But I’m willing to bet that besides the test cartridge, this is the rarest game.

In terms of the overall Nintendo 64 library, this may very well be the rarest unique game. However, it likely isn't even close to being the rarest N64 "release" If you want the rarest release you probably have to look into one of the non-Japanese "Asian" regions. I believe there are four asian regions not counting Japan. (-ASI) Singapore / Malaysia / Indonesia (-KOR) Korea (-ROC) Taiwan (-ROC) China

Yep, and 5-screw Tyson being such a rare variant I wouldn’t expect it to be on bootgod to begin with! If bootgods earliest variant is older than OPs then I say it lines up nicely.

I’m gonna call it legit. Ive seen a bunch of 5-Screw Tyson carts, almost all of which have orange bullets, but counting this one, I’ve seen two or three with white bullets. The label looks real, and the chip dates match the known timeline for 5-Screws. Edit: Also, the earliest date code Bootgod has is 8749....this is a date code BEFORE that so it lends more credit to it being legitimate.

OK, so I’m looking on eBay right now and I can clearly see that there are two major variants of Batman: Return of the Joker. One made by Nintendo, and one by Sunsoft. The Sunsoft copies have that shitty “glue mottling” effect (thanks WATA for the terminology) while the Nintendo copies have the classic clean look. This May lend some hints as to why some Joker boxes have “NES-P48-USA” on the top flaps, while some have “NES-48-USA”...still, all cartridges seem to have P48 on the label. Also, now that I have proof that this a thing that happened once, I need to add something back to my “rare variant Hunt” I could swear I remember seeing a copy of Roger Clemens MVP Baseball come in a brown cardboard box. I suspect there may be a variant that was made by Nintendo. This game already has two known cartridge label variants, one with a white block of text and logos on the bottom and one without. ...maybe it’s worth keeping an eye out for ALL of the games on that list I made above. (God help me) ps: if anyone has a 3-Screw Stinger I have a bounty of $500 on the cartridge and $1000 for the CIB

Companies that own the design of the circuit board are the ones who put their name on the board. Also, the Ⓜ symbol on the back labels indicates copyright for circuitry much like how the © symbol indicates general copyright.

Embrace the chaos. We have @Mario_Friend1982's epic lists showing up on Google, might as well have fake images too!

It's not like Nintendo had some sort of mythical method of shrink wrapping plastic. It just takes the right machinery. Anyone can browse used industrial machinery retailers and find a machine to do it properly. It just was never worth it to invest tens of thousands of dollars into it. Now in a world where common games can get five figure sales prices it may very well be worth it to get some mid '80s printing and shrink wrapping machinery.

Nice! I had no idea about the Sunsoft cart :) Theres gotta be more of these

Spoiler: everything in Mario is all set pieces. Mario canon doesn’t exist, there’s just loose rules around how a Mario game should look and feel. Think if it like Final Fantasy. They’re all loosely connected by having the same namesake, crystals, airships, magic, moo goes, chocobos, mythical godlike creatures from various religions, and other elements. Not even all of them have to appear either to make it a cohesive “final fantasy” Not everything has to have a consistent lore!

graded from VGA, this is CERTIFIED hazardous waste.

*sad Parker Brothers & Imagic noises* ... I mean, technically you can basically throw all the Atari 2600 games in the trash where they literally belong. Atari themselves didn’t want them and people dig them up and proudly display literal industrial hazardous waste on their shelves.

interesting! so not only did Konami and Sunsoft make the boards, but they also made the chips themselves and probably populated the PCB as well!

Virgin Overlord Hi-Tech Expressions Mickey’s Safari in Letterland Rollerblade Racer Acclaim / LJN Alien 3 George Foreman’s KO Boxing Incredible Crash Test Dummies Roger Clemens’ MVP Baseball Simpson’s, The: Bart vs. the World Simpson’s, The: Bart meets Radioactiveman Smash TV Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six Town & Country Surf Designs: Thrilla’s Surfari Terminator 2: Judgement Day Wizards & Warriors III WWF: King of the Ring WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge Not sure about Sunsoft and Konami. I think they just made their own boards at some point but I’m pretty sure Nintendo did the rest.

I’m not an “Atari” dude, but I do have a small Atari collection. I personally bundle first/second party together and keep them away from the dirty third parties. Also, from what I see from a lot of big time Atari collectors is that they mostly separate publishers on their shelves, which technically does separate their set into various “sets” ... they just have so many that it all blends in and the only difference is they don’t explicitly call third party games illegitimate like us NES weebs

They’re the same game but not the same title. Subtle difference, massive impact.

Do they? I thought there was a certain chip in the Aladdin. Maybe that chip is emulated too? Or maybe that chip is just a lockout defeated? Either way, this is NES only we’re talking about and there’s another hundred or so game libraries that count differently. For Windows, do games on windows live only count? Are Steam games considered their own library? On PlayStation, are PSN games different from physical versions? On Atari 2600, do third party games count even though they were against Ataris wishes to even exist? If so, then why do NES unlicensed games get second class treatment? If not then what the hell do we do with Activision? What about arcade games? Should a conversion mean that the cabinet itself is a “platform” what about different form factors.

For Europe you also have to argue is probotector actually Contra, or a Contra clone....track and field in Barcelona, action in New York, Corvette ZR-1 challenge, snowboard challenge, Phantom air mission. And about a dozen others. ... Also, the Aladdin deck enhancer was never actually released, and is a console add on just like the 32X or 64DD...you can’t just throw an Aladdin cart in an NES And expect it to work.

I’ll admit I’m not an expert on image artifacts or digital forensics. But I think it’s pretty damning evidence! I’d actually love to be proven wrong so I can be motivated to look into how actually *can* do something like this the right way.

Subsets are a nice and convenient way to build lists, and then just flat out exclusions are fine as well. Since were all NES heads here, I think I’ll use it as an example. We have the following “subsets” that a majority of people agree on. There are more, but these are the big ones. REGION: NTSC, PAL A, PAL B, Famicom, Comboy, Brazil, etc. PINS: 60 / 72 CLASS: Licensed, Unlicensed, Test, Competition, Pirate, Aftermarket/Homebrew, Prototype/Review PACKAGING: Hangtab, REV-A, Seal of Quality, Screw Count, -1/2/3 COMPLETION: Loose, Boxed, Cart+Box+Manual, Complete, Sealed, Graded So I can say I have a complete USA set, but it can mean I only have all the loose carts under that subset, but I can still add the boxes, manuals, inserts, and variants of everything therein. I can also say I have a Complete in Box PAL-B set, but then I’m missing a couple PAL-A games and I may or may not count ALL of the PAL-B subregions meaning if I skip (forgot which country exactly) the one country with Deja Vu then I don’t have a real PAL-B set by definition Also... The only thing I dislike more than people who say “Stadium Events isnt required for a set” are people who say “You can’t just exclude SE from the set”

If you can imagine a tangible addition to whatever you consider complete, no matter how minor or exclusive then you don’t have an absolutely complete set...you just have a set you’re satisfied with labeling complete under your own standard. In some instances that completeness matches what everyone else thinks is complete as well. Any Phleo can make a list, it’s up to you too adopt it.