Quoted from Friengineer:
It all depends on the collector. Do you want a mint copy of the original? Then prepare to shell out cash money. If you are tech savy, you can build your own ROM cartridge & have 100s of games. Most people just want the classics anyways like Super Mario World or NBA Jam.
Anyone have a cheap copy of Mega Man X2 collecting dust?

I do, but it's not collecting dust

I think if you are making repro labels they should be marked as such. All it takes is one person in the chain of ownership to either purposely or accidentally not let the buyer know it is a repro and someone gets hosed. IMO it's really not cool to make repros that look identical to the original.

#13 6 years ago

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Quoted from Darscot:
If you want to restore your games this way have at it. The whole messing up the market thing is laughable. There are already lots of counterfeit games for sale.

Laughable? Sure. Let you buy a counterfeit Stadium Events and then see how you feel. The whole "everybody else does it" mentality is lost on me.

#15 6 years ago

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MinusWorlds

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Quoted from Darscot:
The guy is not fooling anyone or even attempting too. Some guy making home made labels is not going to impact the market. No one is buying a counterfeit stadium events without knowing it. Companies produce knock off games, that is simple reality, they are much higher quality and much harder to detect. They are also cheap and have very little value. Some guy making very obvious knock off labels is nothing.

Uh actually people are buying counterfeit SE's all the time. How anyone thinks making repro labels to look like the original is okay is beyond me.

#17 6 years ago

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Quoted from Darscot:
I was thinking of the World Championship carts that are all accounted for. So no one is getting fooled by knock offs.
This guys labels are very obviously fake and not going to fool any serious collector.

I wasn't specifically talking about this guy's labels. And not all the NWC's are accounted for. We don't even know officially how many there are. I am a serious collector and know many people that have been taken by counterfeit labels. As far as NWC's being counterfeited, they aren't, until someone finds a way to reproduce the dip switches. Then you will see those too.

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