What do you think about Reproduction cart games?

Yeah if anything it's disappointing the stereotypical Chinese pirates haven't taken notice. There has to be someone who can make SNES bootlegs for about as close to cheap as Famicom as possible.

 

repros for protos/unreleased/etc i don't mind.

Repros for rare or not released in America games? No better than a bootleg.

I hate repros that use the original parts - I don't mind stuff like RetroUSB sells at all that uses all new parts. CHips, casing, etc. everything. They even make it blatant it's a repro and not an original. That's what I love.

 

Can SEGA-CD cd's reproduced? I have been getting a lot of SEGA-CD games and a lot of them look brand new. The box the manual and the disc look like it was never used and right off the press. :/

=hugh

 

Possible but not enough people care. They're so simple to burn that people don't waste money on having a fake look good.

 

Agreed, it is possible but it seems unlikely. Plus I don't think anyone makes new awful long box CD cases like Sega CD used. And it wouldn't be that profitable, SCD isn't that popular. I mean maybe if you start seeing lots of copies of Lunar that are mint be suspicious.

 

That's what I thought, but I thought I would ask my dumb question anyways.

=hugh

 

It's not a dumb question. These days the technology to make things is much cheaper, more available, and higher quality. You could with enough money and the right resources, reproduce just about anything.

 

On that note, I'd love for some shop in china to pump out some new large-box sega cd/saturn cases. Not for repro reasons, but because I have quite a number of them that are cracked or broken, which can only be replaced by gutting some cheap sports game. I weep for bill walsh's college football on the sega cd, because I'd taken about 7 copies just for their cases.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if SoA still had a warehouse full of Sega CD cases :excitement:

 

I appreciate the encouragement. No matter how disinterested most people are, enough money saved up will eventually surface contacts who can build my ideas.

 

Well I had to ask, if you have seen some of the games I've been getting look like they are brand new. No cracks, manuals look clean and never read, cd's that
brand new with no scratches and, they even have the sponge holder (NOTE: I realize that the sponge means nothing, they could have bought a large sheet of sponges and cutting them up).

=hugh

 

I made 1 repro in my life and im in the process of making another, the one im currently trying to make its for an unreleased game (Starfox 2) the other one is for a rare US game that i could never afford (MUSHA) my opinion is, i dont fell the best knowing im destroying a original cart if there was any one that would make simple mega drive circuit boards and cases for repros i would buy then insted of destroying original games. I Dont aprove the selling of repro cartridges even if its a unreleased game even more when its a mass selling, i belive if anyone wants a repro cartridge has to be:

1- For personal Use ONLY,cannot be selled.
2- It has to be made with their own hands, destroying their own game/s.

Its like killing a dog or any animal most people have other people to do it, but if they had to do it thenselfs they wouldnt be capable too. I know its a weird analogy but its a farly good example.

 

I see this as the main area for potential trouble with repros. Even if people put "reproduction" somewhere on the label there's always the risk that somewhere down the line some prick with try to rip someone off by changing it.

There's of course the appeal of repros that allow you to play the game on real hardware. This is less valid now with flash carts being made, but it wasn't always like this. I have to admit that I don't quite 'get' why a collector would want a repro cart of a rare game (it doesn't really make your collection more complete, just "impure" in my opinion), though I do fully understand wanting homebrews or some of the cooler ROM hacks as a physical cartridge. That said, it's not my concern what people decide to collect so go ahead!

Another thing that could potentially bother me is that I don't really like seeing the destruction of games, though this can be a somewhat moot point depending on the game. For example, it pained me to see people breaking Super Mario Kart SNES games to harvest DSP1 chips for the Super Everdrive! At least I had the common decency to use "Ballz" to get my DSP1 parts (a game that is about as good as it sounds).