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by Green Gecko » Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:15 am

I think I recently saw alien soldier in the indie for £300. So it's good to see that in there.

Super Thunder Blade however is strawberry floating awful. I traded it back in for £2.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Lazy Fair » Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:17 pm

Just picked up a GB micro. Looking to buy a replacement faceplate. Seems to be a lot on eBay with presumably variable quality. Anyone able to recommend any specific ones?

Also looking to pick up Metroid Fusion/Zero Missiom for cheap and also Mario Golf if anyone is looking to offload?

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by Green Gecko » Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:21 pm

They both go for good prices (ie expensive) but I've seen a few cart only salves for OK.. my recommendation would be to bid on a few carts say up to £8 and see how you fare. It won't be hard to offload them if you end up with 2.

As for me, I aint selling ;)

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Lazy Fair » Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:34 pm

I’m not fussed about a box. Would prefer cart only to be honest.

Also noticed some folk selling “refurbished” carts. What does that mean?

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by kerr9000 » Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:30 pm

Refurbished can mean 2nd hand but cleaned up, contacts cleaned etc..... Sometimes you have to be careful though as it could mean new not official labels put on it, or heck could be fake and them trying to excuse away any descrepancys with oh well it's a refurb that but was replaced, changed etc

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by Green Gecko » Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:19 pm

There are a LOT of fake carts on ebay (and reproduction boxes). In some cases the majority of them are.

Some sellers show a photo of the circuit board which is a good shout but still not an absolute guarantee.

Box wise, the Nintendo seal should be gold, they are lustre and very rarely gloss for GBA and never dull. And the cart labels have a code impressed into them.

Consider what is worth faking (Pokémon, triple a titles etc ) and what isn't.

I would be careful with zero mission as it was a late release, fusion maybe ok. Only buy from the UK and maybe avoid business sellers... Unless you want s guarantee. They sometimes don't even check if their stock is genuine but randoms may well have had it off the shelf just like me..

Hopefully PayPal will sort you out if you get a fake.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:07 pm

Grabbed Virtual Pool 64 for the N64 for £1.50 cart only.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by jawafour » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:19 pm

kerr9000 wrote:Grabbed Virtual Pool 64 for the N64 for £1.50 cart only.

I think you may have picked up a bit of a gem there, kerr - it sounds really good!


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by kerr9000 » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:26 pm

jawafour wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Grabbed Virtual Pool 64 for the N64 for £1.50 cart only.

I think you may have picked up a bit of a gem there, kerr - it sounds really good!

Awesome thanks for showing me that jawafour, I kind of expected it to be rubbish being sold for £1.50 but it looks quiet good, and as the guy says his fave pool game is side pocket and I am a big fan of that myself things sound good.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Hypes » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:58 pm

Inspired by our retro chat on Rocket League discord I've been playing some SNES Indiana Jones on my mini SNES. Really enjoying it, I'd installed it a while back but only played 5 minutes or so. Love playing through scenes in the films, I'm only halfway through Raiders atm and am a bit stuck on a level. There's some bastard hard difficulty spikes in it as well, I guess that's old games for you. Would recommend it if you love the films

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by Herdanos » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:27 pm

kerr9000 wrote:Image

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Good luck with this one kerr. Had it back in the day as a kid and could never get past the early stages. Not difficulty so much as difficult to control.

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by kerr9000 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:29 am

Yeah for a game programmed by capcom the controls are not the best but it's kind of charming.

I really like Indy on the SNES it's well worth pushing past any spikes Hyperion

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:23 pm

Grabbed a bunch of stuff.

The adventures of Dr Frankenstein for SNES American cart only for £7

Virtual pool 64 and Top Gear Rally £2 for cart only copies of both... Yeah only just got Virtual pool but it was a good price.

I got a small bundle of game gear carts for £7, I got sonic the hedgehog, super Monaco gp2, Joe Montana football, solitaire funpak, and the majors pro baseball.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Drumstick » Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:44 pm

kerr9000 wrote:G

The adventures of Dr Frankenstein for SNES American cart only for £7

Sorry to say this, Kerr, but you've invested in a big dull dud here. I had this and even at 5 years old I could tell it was awful.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:46 pm

It's mostly for reviewing, so I'm not to worried,

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by kerr9000 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:42 pm

For £10 I got some Japanese SNES games Super cup soccer (boxed complete) prime goal 3 cart only, All star dream slam (wrestling) cart only and super famista 3 (baseball) cart only. I got these yesterday.

Today I went on a carboot and got Asterix & obelix cart only pal for the SNES for £10

NHL 2000 for the PlayStation complete for £1

NBA live 99 for the PlayStation complete for £1

Premier manager for the megadrive for £2

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by Trelliz » Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:17 pm

kerr9000 wrote:Today I went on a carboot


I forgot car boot sale season is starting, although it's mostly people selling utter shite I've found some good stuff over the years.

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:53 pm

I used to find great stuff but now everyone eBay's or such. There was a guy on today had a boxed copy of ocarina of time wanted £40, a cart of the Gameboy battle toads wanted £10 a GBA tribal version wanted £45. Actually wonder how much he sold.

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by Trelliz » Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:04 pm

kerr9000 wrote:I used to find great stuff but now everyone eBay's or such. There was a guy on today had a boxed copy of ocarina of time wanted £40, a cart of the Gameboy battle toads wanted £10 a GBA tribal version wanted £45. Actually wonder how much he sold.


They are one of the most stereotypical mid-2000s things I can think of:

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PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat
by kerr9000 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:02 pm

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I would take the pee out of the tribal design but I semi ripped it off for my custom master system 2 lol


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