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or you dont have sticker residue on the case and they go for around market price for the game. I know stores who do that and prefer it.

@justjake2849 I'd rather have to clean sticker residue off and maybe get a tiny bit of a deal on a game. Like I said, it's so they can get the highest price possible at all times. Impossible to find good deals in a store like that.

It’s a third party seller. They look up market prices on the spot

@@kzxjone Yeah. I get that. But they don't all do that. So you can occasionally find a deal at places that don't wait to price their items. At places that wait so they can squeeze every penny out of you, you never find good deals.

No stupid people then how are they gonna sell anything?

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i watch his videos with captions and no sound and thats what they thought he said so i was like 👁👁

It's also insane that they get away with selling thing that are "reproductions". Back in my day we called "reproductions" what they are, "counterfeits", and they are illegal to sell.

@@superscatman4236 hard agree

Also what on god's green earth is that green ooze inside mario kart advanced? It looks like maybe some sort of flux or perhaps liquid duct tape?

@@Thatonefuckinguy lots of solder mask

A local game shop where i had i went for years cuz the rare stuff was sky high, but the common stuff weren't cheap but were reasonable. So i'd buy both there... The common stuff if I didn't want to bother with online shipping and i was in the store anyway, and the rare stuff if i couldn't find it elsewhere... Once it become more big and popular, the common stuff started becoming more expensive, and I stopped buying the rare stuff too.... fuck that shit. i'll keep looking

That's bs

@@charliekelly735 Yea get outta here supply and demand! That's never part of any market ever.

Not really true tbh. It just depends on the motives and how the shop wants to run their business. Some are in it to milk the retro game market dry because they know there's tons of late 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s people that grew up on these games and want to relive them. Other want to make a profit obviously but also are willing to haggle a 5-10$ on a price especially if you are buying a couple games and in general fairly price their games.

It's being sold for $80 new on ebay...

@@ModularKnight Then it's a scam. XD

I just came on here to say this exact same thing I have that 3ds and personally been offered $200 and turned it down $225 is a decent price for that

yeah i was like where did you find that WITH THE BOX. i had to get one for like $300 off amazon cause i couldn't find one cheaper. (and it didnt even come with the box, but it was very good condition except for the screws which were messed up and now they're broke because of it. still upset about that.)

Yeah I'm seeing parts and repair sell for $130 lol. $200 and up for actual working consoles.@@PerplexedAnimation

I got a repo of both Zero Mission and Fusion for like $20 total on eBay.

just get a flash cartridge at that point. most of those repros are so poorly made. @@sparkiestshoe7821

This.

That shit drives me nuts.

As if all that stupid extra plastic is good for the environment. Good stickers are easy to remove without any residu.

@@MrDavince72 Them investing more in something they're already making so little off of defly doesn't make sense. A good compromise would just be putting the stickers anywhere on the cart other than the label or near the bottom.

@@MrDavince72 You're so brianwashed if "the environment" is the first thing you think about from this. 85% of the worlds plastic pollution comes from southern and eastern asia. Not North America.

​@@bullythebooksWhether it's the first thing they think about, or just *one of* the things they think about... It's beyond confounding that you would criticize them for it. "Oh my goodness! They thought a completely unselfish thing and provided a very reasonable solution! What a sheep!"

yep... all shovelware... nevermind me digging thru the $5 bin for the 50th time 😂

In a shop here in my city, they wanted me to pay CIB price for a cartridge only. Completely insane xDD I obviously went the f out of there.

They won't. They're not even working with Nintendo to at least let Pokemon Bank continue to run after April which is cutting off the ability to get Pokemon from 22/27 main line series games into Home. All those ribbons from pulling Pokemon from older generations into newer games will be impossible to obtain.

They won’t because Nintendo doesn’t want to compete with themselves theyre only trying to push the latest stuff.

​@OmegaVideoGameGod this comment makes zero sense. How is re re-releasing games they own competing with themselves.

Yeah if they say selling fake people will buy if the price is cheap.

most of these stores don't last 6 months... there was one in my town and they had ebay + 100% prices and the one and only thing I found worth buying, the dumbass couldn't take my payment cause their internet was shut off (threw my hands up said whatever and walked out). I think they lasted till the end of the lease

there's definitely stores not trying to rip you off. but if you checked the long beach and cerritos areas in california, the stores there are definitely trying to rip you off. i still remember going to a retro based store in long beach where they tried to sell me an obvious fake for 50$. and then tried to haggle me with a price cut to 40$. honestly, if it wasn't for my trip to las vegas and checking the local retro shop i live nearby, i would think that all brick and mortar retro shops are doing nothing but ripping people off. and yeah, they have to make a living and all that usual excuses. but when some of the shops shown on this channel as well as ones i've visited myself are selling retro stuff for around the standard ebay price or lower, then i question why do they even try to sell these games.

It's because they do a large portion of their sales online, and there is always an idiot that has more money than brains shopping online.

Unfortunately in Spokane, the only used video game store there is has insane prices and sells a ton of bootleg stuff to boot. They've been in business for years now. They did once upon a time used to have good deals, but that was years ago.

So many of these pop up and shut down within a year in my area. I can't even keep up with which stores are around anymore.

Exactly, in The States you are paying the tax of store even being able to stocking the stuff you actually want and have it in front of you. So many of our meager regular pawn or hobby stores just don’t have the stock of golden physical games anymore. But I also know how expensive overhead is in 2023 and I’ve seen stores in major cities move standard N64s at $300*. They were amazing condition complete in box. But the crowd who actually buys there does so because it’s in front of them, and they just want assurance their shit will work. The rest of us just go to look to browse and occasionally grab stuff to stay in the owner’s good graces. Is just a shame this store sells games (fake or real) at these prices (because they know the worth) and still let a bootleg slip without being labeled though.

@@otterdonnelly9959 I don't care how cool the owner is. If the store starts to become shit (which all the good ones near my area seem to become shit once they become popular) I aint buying from them, and am looking for the next up and coming store.

This, this is exactly the problem, I used to go to the pawn shop and find decent games, but I found this game store not too far away, and the dude was way overcharging for things.

Oh. You've been to that specific store? Saw what it looked like days before? Ah. I see.

Just one place left where I live and they are the scummy type of retro store.

There's a handful in my area and sadly one of them is run by a total scumbag, and the Facebook reviews are extremely telling, and he doesn't pay anyone...not to mention the prices on his games are what you'd expect from overinflated retro sellers. The competition around the corner might not have an arcade but they do have fairer prices on their games and seem a lot friendlier.

It's already going down.

@@TheMysteryDriver But it'll never be as low as it used to. People still want to recover some as much of their losses as possible.

@@f937r they don't get to decide. Buyers do. Stop buying stuff and the price will come down

​@@f937rit'll always go down eventually some people's kids will inherit it and think it's trash

@@TheMysteryDriver The whole point of a speculative bubble busting is the crash. I don't mean going down a bit. I mean crashing into worthlessness. That's where a lot of this stuff needs to be. Value for value's sake, and not financial.

Please continue writing down those prices and call them out on it. That's really scummy behavior of them.

If there's no price on the item I ignore it and move on. You know the price is going to be mysteriously invented once you get to the counter.

Then it would just be a repro game unlike authentic!

That'll probably work on most older repros, but modern shell reproductions are pretty solid and some don't have any obvious indicators like this. In those cases, it's better to look for any inconsistencies with the label (miscut, wrong dimensions, poor print quality, etc.) or for the silkscreen Nintendo on the PCB. Obviously nothing beats just opening up the cart and having a look inside, though. A repro I have has no obvious indicators besides the slightly wrong dimensions of the label without opening it, and the differently colored shell that I got deliberately so it would never be presumed legit.

@@LunarShift I have a copy of Pokemon Sapphire that's not real, but it might be older. There are a few things that tell me it's fake: 1. The ESRB logo is too thin. 2. The Nintendo logo on the board is wrong. 3. My legit DS games won't recognize it to transfer Pokemon off of. Helping in this regard is the legit copy of FireRed that I have. Does all three of those things just fine. Also have a legit Emerald, but the label is scratched up so I can't compare it to that one.

@@LunarShift I don't know. I have yet to see a good repro cartridge, and as a collector, I see a lot of them. The text on real ones are flatter and textured while the text on fake cartridges are deeper, narrower, and has no texture, and I am pretty sure this is still true today. I've just checked like 30 listings on Ali Express and every GBA game (100%) can still easily be identified as fake by this method. Truth is: it would take little to know effort for the bootleggers to produce fake cartridges indistinguishable from the original ones, but they do not put the effort (thankfully). They still use the same crappy repro cases in 2024 as they did 5-10 years ago. So, combined with the imprinted number on the sticker, I don't see how can any knowledgeable person mistake a fake game for an original. Hundreds of games had went through my hands and not one time I was fooled. It is actually not that difficult.

There isn't a foolproof way. You have to really pay attention to everything. You can't rely on a single measure. You'll just be buying fake games with this kind of thinking.

The best way is to bring your Gameboy Advance into the store and test it right there then you'd know if it's fake or real.

heh. cut corners. that's funny, cuz some of those fake carts literally have labels which looks like the corners have been cut off.

That all businesses though, you see the issue is now everybody knows what they’re worth and a lot of these companies are trying to bank on those prices.

How dare they charge collectors' prices on forty year old, never to be made again items that people want to display in a cabinet for the sake of their -what's the word? ' collection!

​@@MJFallout Seems like that store is just a free uncurated video game museum.

I hate when some "elite gamer" who said emulation doesnt have authentic feel than in real hardware and im glad they getting fked by gaming collector

@@tehonlynoobs5556 fuck that shit. even for those people, flashcarts exist and that's multitudes cheaper than getting fucked by gaming collectors. Don't dismiss the "elite gamer"'s concerns. there are valid ones. I'm fine with emulation for most things, but actually, depending on the genre, and how competitive they are, software emulation often does have timing imperfections that don't happen on real hardware that can throw a game off. I refuse to play fighting games on a software emulator unless the community is so dead that competitions aren't run. FPGA Emulation reduces the risk of those imperfections, but it's still there, so FPGA emulation is acceptable in certain cases. Mostly dependent on how much testing has been done and the programmer's reputation and lengths they go to for accuracy.

Better quality cartridge reproductions would be nice. Change the Nintendo logo on anything to Nentendo.

KZfaqrs often do irrational stuff because they know it might create more views thus more money.

It's for science!

It was a bargain for the store

Idk if they coulda done much or not

Lol you can get robbed and cops won't do anything.

Real misunderstanding of what the police do

More like a real misunderstanding of you what a sarcastic joke is.

He was asking to be robbed

same

The only way to do it in person here is facebook market or offerup but that only yields good results in more populated areas. For me, i'm in Los Angeles and I recently found a $60 Wii console with all the cables and wiimote + wii motion plus and nunchuck. And I found an excellent condition GameCube controller for $30. If I went to a store I would have gotten fleeced

Ya same in australia.

It's not fake. It's uh, reproduction... For uh...archival purposes. You know "game preservation" and all that. So they're really doing a good thing by making more copies to prevent these games from disappearing forever. Imagine if they didn't make copies of Mario kart advance, and then somehow all the millions of legit copies just randomly stopped working for some reason, then we'd have these "reproduction" carts.

reproductions are fine if they're marked as such. trying to scam is wrong.

I call them fakes if they are trying to be passed off as real, and reproduction if they are being sold cheaper and is clearly stated it's not official. And the cheaper honest reproduction will often even have better quality and closer matching labels and shells, minus any reference to nintendo.

if they are actually good quality and sold at a reasonable price reproduction is a fine label, cause fake just sounds bad, in addition reproductions are likely to be in better shape than some actual games. The issue with their reproprices are they are expensive for the fact that they aren't originals

I bought them.

Whenever I see a ridiculous price on FB marketplace, I’m always disappointed because the seller lists the real price in the description.

One of the only good game stores we have here is the game shack

@@HAHA-rd4zw Cool, to see another local viewer. GameShack is good to go, found any good recently?

@@HAHA-rd4zwI went to game shack and it’s definitely the best one in the area, nice selection for most consoles. Guy also offers resurfacing of disc games which is nice

He's from a doomed country.

@@indalecio539 Lmfao. I really hope you don't think America isn't a doomed country.

@@KaguyaH Oh for sure. We're not too far behind on the doom scale as our brothers are across the pond.

Also if I can't see in public or online pictures of back of cartridges of the square on Nintendo i letter and bottom piece is brown! Then don't order or buy then!

Man, I know what you mean! Good times playing those in the summer of 04-05. I recently bought the first 2 games off ebay to re-play them.

Well, that's what they're supposed to look like in the US. Good thing I know what real hardware looks like. And I don't go to sketchy shops, anyway.

Couldn't it just be a US import? Maybe those aren't common in Australia

and you're incredibly naive if you actually had to stop and think about that (and write a comment about it). of course he bought it for the video - he was holding it in the shop pointing out how it was fake and still bought it. it's informative for folks that don't know how to spot them - but pointing out they still work (mostly) and how much you're willing to spend on a clearly fake game. the fact that this went entirely over your head makes me want to point to the "no stupid people beyond this point" sign that was in the shop and then point you to the exit.

@@MaxRide1 wow ok, you really are the human equivalent of a participation trophy aren't you...

@@MaxRide1 Mike Tyson has an opinion about you.

They probably would, he just never went back 😅 the sign is funny I guess.

I love the foundry, its literally one of my go-to stores. They have so much!

I won’t even go in to the second shop anymore. Way too overpriced.

his fault, but I digress. On your other point, agreed, the repros are getting better and better, it's going to change people from seeking out minty titles to a little more beat up ones so as to get a better chance at a copy being legit, and it's gonna change the pricing on boxes and manuals for sure, but not if people don't catch on. I'm honestly surprised I've yet to see fake stamps popping up. I buy enough games, if I get a fake, it's 100% on me. I don't think this guy should be any different.

Don't for get trades in.that rob u blind to

thank you so much that means a lot