Source:
http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/456719-best-crt-retro-games/
And also this, as I am not sure if it has been posted elsewhere (the letter from Hudson that Tobias faked):
Also I would be surprised if Hudson would actually use the word "though". That just doesn't sound like something that fits in with the rest of the sentence structure which is struggling to be English. "Though" is too casual a word IMO. I think it would not have been in there at all and it would have fit better if it weren't.
The word "weird" stuck out to me more. Seemed very informal for a company to use that word.
Yeah, that's another thing that sticks out. He tried to make it sound Engrishy, but then slips up by throwing a term like 'weird' in there... I'd be pretty upset if I got duped enough by something as shoddy as this years ago and bought his bootlegs thinking they were real as a result!
I can better see now how he set this con-job up - it went something like this:
[uldecimal][li]He watched for years how Sapphire CDs went through the eBay madness of big-spending nuts throwing hundreds of dollars at it! Sapphire was one of the first PC Engine games to experience this. So naturally, he wanted to cash in and that's how he picked his first game to bootleg/press, eBay picked it for him!
[/li][li]He decided he wanted to create matching counterfeits to pass as originals for 2 reasons: a) originals in principle fetch more money than admitted fakes/counterfeits/bootlegs/etc., and b) he wanted to be able to phish for suckers with eBay which is an effective instrument in finding big-spending nutjobs all around the world. However, to evade their anti-counterfeit policies and not see any sales or auction listings shut down, he'd need to sell his lie for that reason too!
[/li][li]So the scheme is set, locked and loaded. He finds a CD pressing plant to make his counterfeits... but there's a snag in the plan. When his order arrives, he sees that the coloring on the CD labeling is off, mistakes were made, etc. and so they don't quite perfectly match... Somebody might discover
there's quite a difference versus the originals... What to do ??
[/li][li]Given points 1 to 3, he would need a believable cover story to sell the lie that this new batch of Sapphires were originals even despite imperfections/differences... So he decided to forge a letter by Hudson where he pretended to have sent one copy from this "newly discovered batch in some warehouse" of his for verification of authenticity by Hudson themselves.
This forged letter is written to sell a story that he actually mailed a copy from his batch to Hudson, they looked at it for him, saw nothing "weird" about it, mentioned how it could be apart of failed productions that were recalled at some point, etc. and they then mailed it back to him! With this, he floats the possibility that what he has are NOT bootlegs, but merely poorly produced authentic copies that were recalled until someone discovered them sitting somewhere and decided to sell rather than destroy them and what not and that Hudson actually looked at a copy for him and didn't find anything particularly wrong...[/li][/ul]
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen...
The making of "Sapphire-Gate..." 
So, I think that pieces it together for clarity. Jimmy Hapa, one of the Youtube personalities, had asked me for links, evidence, something more verifiable to really prove the case that Tobias was a lying fraudster. I did provide links to the 'fudoh' account, but yeah, this forged document was unavailable at the time so it could be useful for others in the future.
You do sometimes need to provide rock-solid evidence for some people who'll treat the matter as a judicial session and demand you act as an organized prosecutor, have all your links, facts, source quotes, etc. on demand, and all in order, etc.!
Anywhere that doubt can be cast, they'll seize upon if they really don't want to believe or accept it.
