muhanad wrote:Looks weird, does splitting the cart preserve it better or something?
It's split up like that I guess to show that it is in fact the real deal.
Hobie-wan wrote:Well, since the board is out in the open and there are no pieces of electrical tape or anything on the windows on the EEPROMs to keep UV light out with them in the dark, they are in danger of being erased if they haven't been already.
The casing is UV protected apparently, so the chips
should be okay. Not that it really matters since you can't play the thing now anyway. Not without busting it open with a hammer.
Ack wrote:As I recall, this particular piece has been showing up steadily on eBay for the last few years. Nobody's bought it yet.
Yeah, I've seen it before as well. Most of the ultra high priced VGA stuff floating around on ebay pretty much never sells it seems. I think the sellers just want to show this stuff off.
In any case, I do think encasing games like this can make sense for those not-worth-playing collector showpieces, but as can be seen here, I think it makes for a very poor investment if you're hoping to resell.
Do it for preservation, protection, etc, don't do it because you think it'll increase the value. Most game collectors aren't picky enough about condition to make a grading service worth the extra piece of mind cost.
