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Are you sure about this? I don’t read Japanese, but I know how to use Google translate. All I see in the title is: 聖剣伝説 which translates to Legend of the Holy Sword. Where is the Final Fantasy reference in the title? Edit: ok your right I found it on the Gameboy boxart.

I guess so. This isn’t super formal

Awesome. This is the type of info I was hoping to find

Joe and Mac SNES (AKA Caveman Ninja): Joe and Mac was called Caveman Ninja in Japan. Japan’s Caveman Ninja 2 is America’s Congo’s Caper. Japan’s Caveman Ninja 3 is America’s Joe and Mac 2.

Power Blade series on NES: In the US we have Power Blade is 1and Power Blade 2 on NES. In Japan, they were called Power Blazer and Captain Saver respectively and they were not actually part of the same game series. America just localized the games to make them into a series.

Seiken Densetsu Series (Mana Series): In Japan, Seiken Densetsu (meaning Legend of the Sacred Sword) was a Gameboy game. In America, they wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the Final Fantasy Series, so they promoted it as Final Fantasy Adventure (probably thinking it would just be a single and not a series). Well then in Japan they made Seiken Densetsu 2 on Super Famicom. Instead of calling it Final Fantasy Adventure 2, US called it Secret of Mana. Japan made Seiken Densetsu 3 on Super Famicom. It never came to SNES so for the longest time it was called Secret of Mana 2. But finally in 2019 it was officially translated and put on the Mana Collection for Switch and officially it is now called Trials of Mana. Even though the US screwed up the naming of the series, in the end I guess we won the naming dispute because Japan officially called the 4th installment of the series “Legend of Mana”

Adventure Island Series on Gameboy: In the US, we have Adventure Island 1 and Adventure Island 2. I always wanted to get Takahashi Meijin 3 on Gameboy because I thought it was a Japanese exclusive. As it turns out, in Japan, Takahashi Meijin 2 is just Adventure Island 1 and Takahashi Meijin 3 is just Adventure Island 2. There is no Takahashi Meijin 1 on Gameboy in Japan

Post about games that are part of a series that the publishers decided to change episode numbers around in different regions. For example, the most obvious one is Final Fantasy. In Japan they did 1,2,3 on Famicom then 4,5,6 on Super Famicom. In America, only 1 came out on NES, so they started with 2 on the SNES. On updated releases for later systems, they fixed the numbering but on NES and SNES in America it’s screwed up

If they did have a shot at making a come back, now would be the time to buy. If there was any way they could even get to half their 2015 value, you would get 5x your money by investing in them at todays stock price.

I’m no GameStop hater, but really don’t see how to monetize this concept

I wonder if Bronty is PM’ing him now

I wouldn’t mind. I believe it was the 3.5” but not 100% sure. I know it’s not from the CD era, but don’t know if they did 5” floppy versions of maniac Mansion. Do you have a trades list?

I got a big box of maniac mansion on pc. I don’t collect that stuff, but it was at a flea market with a bunch of junk so I picked it up for cheap. Looks pretty complete except missing the disks. I was thinking to keep the NES cart inside but now I’m thinking that’s kind of a dumb idea.

I don’t have an issue with reproductions. All legalities aside, my main issue is with counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is the act of deception when you try to pass something off as authentic when it is actually a fake. In my opinion reproductions should not be designed to look like originals so that there is no confusion. If you want to make reproductions, fine, but use different label art or change the color of the shell or something so it is obvious that it’s not original

I think this is one of those cases where they wanted to do it no matter what but then tried to build a business case after the fact just to self justify the decision. My brother bought a Tesla Model 3 with the pretext that he’d rent it out and it would pay for itself. We ran the numbers beforehand on a spreadsheet and the math didn’t add up. Even assuming the most optimistic set of conditions would perpetually recur month after month, we calculated that he would narrowly miss earning enough to make the monthly payment+insurance. The math hurt his head so much that he just went ahead and just ordered the car. If I’m not mistaken, the guy who owns LR is also a collector (With a lot of money, apparently).

To throw a wrench into things, there were some NES games like Smash TV by Acclaim, which were official and licensed, yet Acclaim manufactured the cartridge due to special agreements with Nintendo

There was an article where they interviewed the owner of Limited Run. If you search for it you should find it. Just as an FYI if turns out that it was 50k assume I had a brain fart Edit: It was actually $150k. Here’s the Kotaku article https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/two-guys-making-new-sega-cd-jewel-cases-are-in-an-accid-1825364528/amp

I bought the Amazon cases back in the day and read the interviews with limited Run as this was unfolding.. Here’s what happened: Limited Run and the guy from Alaska were independently doing it at the same time without knowledge of each other. The guy in Alaska came to market first with a made in China product. Limited Run found out and was very upset because they just spent like $100k on precision tooling for a near perfect mold from an American company. LR wanted to price them at a premium, but they felt that they couldn’t do it anymore because this guy had already established the market price. But apparently his quality was very poor, the cases didn’t lock close or even hold together (I would know, bought them). They ultimately ditched the idea of selling the cases, but since they had already paid for tooling they are using them for some special editions. There are a handful of LR special collectors edition that have a Saturn style case. These are typically games that were envisioned as Saturn style retro games

The only practical thing to do is reproduction media. I know.. I don’t like this idea either, but just being a realist. I talked with the guy from Limited Run at their pop up shop. I said I think they should reproduce Saturn games. Sega is on board to license their stuff to smaller companies. But apparently the special machinery that made the Saturn disc swivel pattern is lost in history. LR would have to re-engineer a way to make the Saturn swivel to reproduce these discs (Sega isn’t gonna do it, they just want to give licensing rights in return for free money). Then there’s the issue of having enough demand for a given title. The right way to do it would be to offer the lImiteds and CIBs as they do, but then also offer a low cost “disc only” option for like $10. I bet for some less popular titles they would do good with “disc only” runs (with alternate reproduction disc art). This would be an option for people that already have CIB’s but their disc has succumbed to disc rot, scratches or cracking

I never had a dog but I always thought if I had one I’d name him Turbo

I SO wanted to have a Fiero with a Lamborghini body kit back in the day

I wonder how practically enforceable something like that would be. If the museum didn’t uphold their end of the agreement and they went under, you have no one to go after. Not to mention that the act of donating the item means that you no longer want the responsibility of the item anymore. It’s not that you don’t care about the item anymore, you just want to be assured that it has been transferred into good hands, hopefully for perpetuity

I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic lately. I have an item in my collection that I believe to be pretty rare. I’ve never seen another one before or even any information about it to research it. At some point when I am done enjoying collecting, I had always thought that it would be better off at a video game museum for preservation purposes. However, I got to thinking about whether video game museums (or even any private museums for that matter) are as bulletproof as we’d like to think they are. For example let’s say someone has a private museum and ,God forbid, they were to pass away. All of that persons belongings at that point become inheritance to their family and would probably go up for private sale at an estate auction or something like that. So basically if I donated a valuable item for what I thought to be a good cause in this scenario, ultimately it would eventually become private profit in the hands of the museum curators surviving family. In that case I (and the item) would have been better off just selling the item to someone who would take good care of it. Even in the case of a more organizational type of private museum, with a board of several people managing the organization, if there were some sort of disagreement or falling out among the management and the organization were to get dissolved, what would happen with the items? Lacking government funding, what if the organization were not making enough money to pay the rent on the museum. What would happen to the items in the museum if the organization were evicted from the building?

I want to buy all of the Dragon Quest games on DS. Would like to buy them complete, minty good condition and preferably all of them together as a set. The games I want are: Dragon Quest IV Dragon Quest V Dragon Quest VI Dragon Quest IX I also have a bunch of Limited Runs for switch, might be willing to do trades

It’s a fan game. But if nobody told you that, you would have never known