Did I buy a fake!? Help!

[xelement5x]

Yeah, Working Designs never really liked games that were just silver with silkscreened text.  They would eventually go on to get much better at doing full disc art, as the variants on Lunar (excluding the Sega press) are quite well done, and many of their other Sega CD titles as well. 

[martinine]

who would fake probably the most common turbo game in exisistence?  people think KC is way too common, but at least it intentionally sold 1:1 with console. 
didnt working designs print like 3x as many copies of CF2 as there were CD systems sold?

This so much. Right before WD was closing shop. My buddy and I were trying to buy copies of any old stock they had left. He ordered CF2 and I ordered Lunar 2. They sent him 2 copies of CF2 and told him to give one to a friend. I only got 1 copy of Lunar 2 haha. Wish I had ordered Parasol Stars or Cadash as well, but I was consumed with Lunar back then, and I really only had enough cash for one game. He gave me the other copy.

I still have both games. I never got to play CF2 until last year because I never had a cd drive for my Turbo. Bought my Duo and was quickly a little disappointed with CF2. The battle system grates me a little, but I had a good time finishing a game I had sitting new in the box for almost 15 years! It's also the only box I kept around too. I bought almost all my HuCards used back in the day. My parents were displeased that I had purchased "yet another" gaming system, so I didn't get handed many new Turbo games. 

[SignOfZeta]

The battle system in the US CF2 is probably the worst of any RPG I've ever played. It sucked to begin with, then WD made it slightly worse.

[KingDrool]

Yeah, CF2 is crazy common. When I was rebuilding my Turbo library, I bought one off of WD's website for like $20. Brand-spanking new.

I have a soft-spot for the game, though. When I was a kid, it was the first RPG I ever finished. I absolutely loved it.

[johnnykonami]

I bought Lunar 2 the same way, off the WD website.  Wish I had bought more stuff from them but I couldn't have afforded it at the time.

[geise]

In case you want Exile it says the same shit.  MFD BY JVC , So... don't freak out when you get it.

[NightWolve]

That's weird, so you read out the JVC in reverse and that's what set off a "red flag" to you even though it was a pressed disc with factory labeling. I figured the front was somehow rubbed off from poor handling/care or something given the unusual material the CD was coated with and you read it from that side - wonder if that would show through.

But anyway, no, Cosmic Fantasy 2 was never targeted for bootlegging/unlicensed reprinting. Not yet anyway and the attempts to fake originals were really limited to Sapphire - Tobias' other stuff was CD-R which is obvious (Space Fantasy Zone) and taking Bonknuts' NES2PCE fan "hackulation" work for Rockman/Megaman and pressing factory CDs with it. Most of his future pressed stuff thereafter was branded with "PCE Works" using custom labeling/artwork with no attempts to deceive/fake originality/authenticity.

In short, you only mainly have to worry about the fakeness of a Sapphire CD.

I bought Lunar 2 the same way, off the WD website.  Wish I had bought more stuff from them but I couldn't have afforded it at the time.

I called them up to buy Parasol Stars for $9.99. They still had new copies of CF2 at the time for $29.99, but I had already bought a used copy for less (as I'm OCD and take care of my stuff, I regret not getting it new though). It's too bad, I remember she told me localization work on CF4 started, I had asked about new projects, but they had to quit given the Turbo Duo was dying in the US right about then. Can't remember where I bought Cadash, but I got that used also, likely from the ads in the back of gaming magazines. Exile 1 & 2 I know I bought from Turbo Zone Direct nice and new!

[SignOfZeta]

I guess the generation that doesn't pay for CDs anymore never even learned the difference between a CDR and a CD.

Which, I guess, dates us more than anything. We remember when CDR came out because it was revolutionary. Nevermind the games, just being able to make your own audio CDs was a paradigm shift in home recording. Since we were alive during the reletively brief period where only massive facilities could made CDs he sounds like a total moron but we're basically splitting hairs over the technological history of the buggy whip at this point.

That being said, it's not exactly an ancient lost science...

[ClodBuster]

I know the time back then in the late 90s, when some guy in my class sold lots of brand new PC games burned on CD-R to practically the whole school. Or at least it felt like the whole school to me. For 10 DM a piece, he made a good deal, I think. I once went to his place and saw his room stacked with two or three of those pop-out CD-R shelves that were made to maximize available space.

Amazing times.


About those disc polishing machines, when I bought a used DOA2 for PS2, the shop owner put the disc through a small machine first. You know it had a rough past, since a small sticker on the top said it was once prison stock. Came out afterwards pretty nice and plays like a champ still today.