Official Sega-16 Haul Thread. 4.0

[Smii]

That sounds very reasonable being that I purchased the cheapest one on eBay, and it cost $130 - about 3 times what you paid LOL. I just had an urge to buy tons of rare MD games and went crazy.

Good to know That thing was there for a couple of days before my urge to own another Japanese MD game outweighed my knowledge that the game itself sucks I don't think they shipped worldwide though, that's possibly why.

Just been looking over my purchases in the past 30 days, and thought I just as well post my new collection additions while I'm here:

Around 30 PAL Game Gear games, many CIB (too lazy to list, and nobody here seems to like GG games anyway )
7 Mega Drive games (3 boxed Russian games, Jp Tom & Jerry, PAL Mega Games vol 2, Micro Machines 96 with diary, and ATP Tennis. All CIB. Also waiting on a loose Korean multicart with some nice SMS games on.)
2 SMS games (Wimbledon and Master of Monsters, Classic versions. Boxed, £8 inc postage)
2 Saturn games (Tempest and Whizz, CIB, £15 total - still in the post)
4 3DS games (Tetris, Frogger 3D, Dr Lautrec - CIB, £15 each and 3 for 2, plus London hidden object game, £1.99!) 2 DS games, 9 Wii games. This mostly came from the GAME sales. I should've bought a Xenoblade Chronicles while they were less than £10 each instore, but I doubt I'd play it anyway.
Blue PSP 3003 boxed with charger, + 9 CIB games & 2 sealed UMDs (both Family Guy something-or-other) £40 for the lot.

When I have a lot of time on my hands, this stuff happens.

[Guntz]

Wow, what a change from the usual... Of finding next to nothing.



Snowboard Kids - $10
Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding - $10
Lightening Force (CIB) - $5
Virtua Racing Deluxe (CIB) - $5
Sonic CD PC / Sonic R PC - $5
Motocross Madness - $1
Sonic 2 poster - was inside the TF4 box

There was a CIB copy of After Burner 32X as well, but I already have it so I passed on it. I probably should have told the clerk about the 32X...

In other news, online I got Paper Mario (N64) for $25, Pokemon Stadium 2 (N64) for $12 and Fatal Fury (US AES) sans manual for $35 shipped.

[cheaterdragon1]

You found that stuff locally Guntz?

[M4R14NO94]

Out of curiosity are there any differences between the JP versions of those games and the US versions aside from them having lower production runs?

From what I know, no. It's like that with every Japanese Acclaim release on basically any platform. There's the very very rare exception where something's translated (the SNES versions of Champions World Class Soccer and Alien 3), but that's it.

[Guntz]

You found that stuff locally Guntz?

The pictured and not-online mentioned stuff, yes.

[Ace]

...purchased a game and a broken console from Japan...

The game hasn't arrived yet, but the console came in this morning. It's...



The Sharp Twin Famicom. I was supposed to get one of these a few years ago from a local seller, but I lost contact with said seller and missed out on the console (and later got a bundle which included a complete-in-box AV Famicom and Super Famicom Jr.). Now, I have one, and I like it a lot despite the fact it's not in 100% working order. It plays Famicom cartridges just fine, but as expected, the drive belt on the Disk System drive turned to mush. It appears the belt glued itself to the PCB in the disk drive and snapped. To top it off, it's glued onto the motor and the gear used to turn the disks. Time for a new drive belt.

The system was $70, but with shipping costing $75, it kinda ruined the price as it totals $145.

Now, I need to clean the system inside and out and get a new belt for the disk drive.

Word of note for those of you who get a Twin Famicom without its DC 7.6V 1.25A power supply, you can use a PSone power supply with an adapter plug. The voltage is just a touch lower at 7.5V, but it's got a higher current rating at 2A and has the same polarity as the Twin Famicom (center positive). The only problem is the tip, which is too small to fit into the Twin Famicom's power supply input, hence the need for an adapter plug.

I will now purchase a Famicom game, and I will give you a hint about it: the game has a sound chip embedded in it.

[eddiespruce]

The game hasn't arrived yet, but the console came in this morning. It's...



The Sharp Twin Famicom. I was supposed to get one of these a few years ago from a local seller, but I lost contact with said seller and missed out on the console (and later got a bundle which included a complete-in-box AV Famicom and Super Famicom Jr.). Now, I have one, and I like it a lot despite the fact it's not in 100% working order. It plays Famicom cartridges just fine, but as expected, the drive belt on the Disk System drive turned to mush. It appears the belt glued itself to the PCB in the disk drive and snapped. To top it off, it's glued onto the motor and the gear used to turn the disks. Time for a new drive belt.

The system was $70, but with shipping costing $75, it kinda ruined the price as it totals $145.

Now, I need to clean the system inside and out and get a new belt for the disk drive.

Word of note for those of you who get a Twin Famicom without its DC 7.6V 1.25A power supply, you can use a PSone power supply with an adapter plug. The voltage is just a touch lower at 7.5V, but it's got a higher current rating at 2A and has the same polarity as the Twin Famicom (center positive). The only problem is the tip, which is too small to fit into the Twin Famicom's power supply input, hence the need for an adapter plug.

I will now purchase a Famicom game, and I will give you a hint about it: the game has a sound chip embedded in it.

I bought a Sharp Twin Famicom from Japan a few years ago, and it's the same color as yours. Mine seems to play FDS games fine, so either someone already replaced the drive belt, or it just hasn't fully worn yet. That price isn't so bad, I think mine probably came to $250 or something when I bought mine. The seller didn't have the original adapter, so they included a PSone power supply with a modded tip at the end.

[David J.]

Is that Tom and Jerry legit? And the Acclaim games aren't really anything different than the US ones - the roms are (W) meaning the same worldwide for the Genesis games. Still expensive and cool to have though.

[SpaceFlea]

Is that Tom and Jerry legit?

Is whose legit, mine or Smii's? I can tell you mine certainly is.

The really cool thing about T&J is that the manual is in both Japanese and English - pretty unique.

[gamevet]

YAY it's here! Always wanted one

You almost sound like QuickSciFi.

[Smii]

The really cool thing about T&J is that the manual is in both Japanese and English - pretty unique.

I thought that was nice, too.

Here's mine (from its auction photo).



I'm confident it's real* - a little faded along the spine, but I'm not too fussed really. I played a couple of levels when it arrived - it reminded me of the Sylvester and Tweety game, maybe a tad less shoddy. In the end, Tom was killed by a television blowing up. Poor Tom.

*this is a bit of a worrying issue - with so many lame repros floating around now, how can you prove your collection is legit? I've been collecting for years now, only have one repro (English language MWIV, clearly a repro as it never existed officially) and I know that all the rest is real, but that's not necessarily enough if I were to sell any / all of it. Not that I intend to do so, in the forseeable future anyway - but yeah. I don't suppose anything much counts as proper "proof", does it. Just thinking "out loud". :/

[MrMatthews]

*this is a bit of a worrying issue - with so many lame repros floating around now, how can you prove your collection is legit? I've been collecting for years now, only have one repro (English language MWIV, clearly a repro as it never existed officially) and I know that all the rest is real, but that's not necessarily enough if I were to sell any / all of it. Not that I intend to do so, in the forseeable future anyway - but yeah. I don't suppose anything much counts as proper "proof", does it. Just thinking "out loud". :/

For some reason this reminds me of the question I'm constantly asked.

Q: Are you sure none of them were faking?

A: **indifferent shrug**

At the end of the day, as long as you can't tell the difference (and no one you know can prove otherwise), it doesn't really matter.

[Guntz]

At the end of the day, as long as you can't tell the difference (and no one you know can prove otherwise), it doesn't really matter.

Well, it usually does matter when the value of the real thing is worlds apart from the fakes. That definitely means something when you're the one buying...

[MrMatthews]

Well, it usually does matter when the value of the real thing is worlds apart from the fakes. That definitely means something when you're the one buying...

You're kind of stepping on my joke a little, but besides the point, that's not necessarily true.

[Moirai]

Got all these loose Sega CD games for $2.30 a piece! not a bad deal if you ask me.

Final Fight CD
Robo Aleste
AH3 Thunderstrike
Eternal Champions
Panic!
Batman Returns
The Amazing Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin
Rise of the Dragon
Sewer Shark
Prince of Persia
Demolition Man
Hook
Heart of the Alien
Ultraverse Prime
Jurassic Park
Star Wars: Rebel Assault