Video Game "Look what I found"

Post by **vlame** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:40 am

vlame wrote:
Rurouni_Fencer wrote:vlame, have you had a chance to try out that chainsaw controller yet? That thing looked so bad-ass, but so awkward to actually use for anything..
I can't even conceive how to open it lol!

I made a video ,I will post it tonight.

Post by **Rurouni_Fencer** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:52 am

^ ha! awesome!

Post by **god** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:07 am

I love this thread! It inspires me to seek out fantastic deals. And it makes finding sweet gear all the more exciting, being able to show it off here!

I hit 4 Gold Coast pawn shops today, on an arduous car trip with my Daughter (she was so awesome to put up with all the driving. I told her we can go to 4 parks tomorrow if she wants) and my Sister.

I will put the haul in order, in terms of which pawn shop yielded what, with a few ancillary notes on each:

1st one: not much stuff here, I picked up a few things because I never want to leave it behind and regret it. The gamecube game, I didnt really want, but you never seem to see them cheap and nice in the wild (or so I thought.... but read on....)

Mario Dancing Mat for Gamecube - $5.00
Gamecube - Spyro A Hero's Tail - $5.00 (complete and very nice)
GBA - Rayman 10th Anniversary - $5.00
GBA - Silent Scope - $5.00

2nd one: Holy crap, I went weak at the knees when I saw their grid of GBA games (mostly what I'm looking for at the mo') - but last night I realised my GBA Mario 3 is almost definately a bootleg, and discovered that GBA is pretty notorious for bootlegs (this was all so much easier when I only collected Sega carts!) so I left a few behind that I was unsure about, but still picked up a decent number, all for $4.00 ea:

Mario Kart Super Circuit
Super Bust-a-Move
Columns Crown
Columns Crown + Chu Chu Rocket
Konami Collectors Series Arcade Advanced

and Game Boy Colour - Armorines $4.00

and also these gamecube games, $5.00 ea. and I could not believe their (albeit small) selection:

Super Mario Sunshine - Boxed, disc OK
F-Zero GX - Complete, disc pretty nice
Legend Of Zelda Wind waker, Limited ed. w/ ocarina of time - boxed, no manual discs ok
Mario Party 4 - Scrappy box, disc lightly scratched (I left this one, but then went back coz I knew I'd regret it)

3rd one I stumbled accross by total accident and was really bad. Nothing good, and everything there was was super pricey. Nothing bought except a DVD for my sister.

4th one, pretty good, they were having a 20% off renovation sale. Heaps of gamecube games. I got the following for $4.00 ea:

Pokemon Channel
Pokemon Box Ruby & sapphire (both of these are complete & very close to mint)
Super Monkey Ball (am I too late for Together Retro!?)

My sister also got a DS game and some Konami racing game on GBA for $8.00 (she's still training as a game hunter)

Humerous aside - I gave my girl a cube game to look at coz she was getting pretty over all the driving, she is 2 by the way, she immediately opens it, looks at the disc and says "it's fine, no scratches on it, any more". Hahaha, I was so proud, I'm teaching her well!

Anyway, spent more than I could really afford but pretty happy with the haul, I suppose I could put a few of the cube games on ebay and get some of it back, but I probably won't be doing that!

Post by **alienjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:42 am

Do we have a guide written up for identifying fake GBA games anywhere? If we don't I wouldn't mind writing one up for people to use.

Post by **god** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:04 am

alienjesus wrote:Do we have a guide written up for identifying fake GBA games anywhere? If we don't I wouldn't mind writing one up for people to use.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/Game-B ... s-1390.php

From noiseredux's blog, I was just reading this, and confirmed that my new Mario Kart, and My Silent Scope are bootlegs, as well as my TMNT cart. really casts a bleak pall over my day of sweet finds.

Post by **alienjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:26 am

That's a cool guide, but it needs to include stuff like the imprinted numbers on the label and googling the game code to check if its the right cartridge. This is all stuff I learnt from the likes of noise and hobie anyway, so I'm sure it's around here somewhere.

Post by **god** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:35 am

yeah, I agree that there should be a guide here that consolidates all this information. 24 hrs ago it wouldn't have bothered me but I'm now realising how easy it is for the uninitiated to get stung. And oh, how it stings. I can't even get my Silent Scope past the 'game boy' screen.

Post by **flojocabron** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:23 am

alienjesus wrote:Do we have a guide written up for identifying fake GBA games anywhere? If we don't I wouldn't mind writing one up for people to use.

I've seen fake stuff and have written post here on fake GBA games.

Some lables have an off color and some labels are way off. The fakes even come in fake boxes that you can tell that they are. Boxes are on shiny cardboard. Prints have a funny fuzzy look to them too.

you cant see the Nintendo logo just above the metal connectors inside the cart.

Sometimes you can see all the way inside into the cart! The fakes dont have a whole solid cover from the metal connectors.

Official GBA games have some numbers stamped lightly on the sticker covers. Some fakes dont have this.

This is all I remember, I can tell fakes and usually avoid them when I see them.

Post by **noiseredux** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:26 am

alienjesus wrote:That's a cool guide, but it needs to include stuff like the imprinted numbers on the label and googling the game code to check if its the right cartridge. This is all stuff I learnt from the likes of noise and hobie anyway, so I'm sure it's around here somewhere.

That "cool guide" was written by noise!

I should probably get around to revising that guide someday. Maybe I will for RB actually. It would probably be better as a full blown guide than that blog post that keeps being dug up again. Plus, a lot of those pics I had aren't hosted anymore. (BTW, I did include googling the game code in that post

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Post by **alienjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:34 am

noiseredux wrote:
alienjesus wrote:That's a cool guide, but it needs to include stuff like the imprinted numbers on the label and googling the game code to check if its the right cartridge. This is all stuff I learnt from the likes of noise and hobie anyway, so I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
That "cool guide" was written by noise!

I should probably get around to revising that guide someday. Maybe I will for RB actually. It would probably be better as a full blown guide than that blog post that keeps being dug up again. Plus, a lot of those pics I had aren't hosted anymore. (BTW, I did include googling the game code in that post )

I know, I was just saying that it doesnt cover one or two of the methods I know, which I also learnt from you

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