Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )

[Tommy Vercetti]

Discolored and worn Dynastic Hero + "personal collection" surcharge = $1500:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/The-Dynastic-Hero-TurboGrafx-16-1993-Complete-US-Release-CD-DUO-/191206572908?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2c84ccc36c

I can't believe this is real. My car is worth $1200, and its a reliable car.

[Black Tiger]

So there are counterfeit HuCards now?

There are new HuCards you can buy and add your own rom chip to.

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=140131020139627363.jpg


But counterfeit HuCards were around back when games were still being published. Being able to sell a game for thousands of dollars at first and maybe $500 a pop once people catch on, would make it much more profitable to do full repros CIB today. Look at how collectards pass around "Second Print" bootlegs of Sapphire as a "rarer than the first run" collectible.

[Gentlegamer]

How can anyone justify spending hundreds of dollars on a "rare" game when it becomes easy to counterfeit it?

Surely the inflated collector prices that bring out opportunistic counterfeits will lead to a "market crash."

[Medic_wheat]

So there are counterfeit HuCards now?

There are new HuCards you can buy and add your own rom chip to.

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=140131020139627363.jpg


But counterfeit HuCards were around back when games were still being published. Being able to sell a game for thousands of dollars at first and maybe $500 a pop once people catch on, would make it much more profitable to do full repros CIB today. Look at how collectards pass around "Second Print" bootlegs of Sapphire as a "rarer than the first run" collectible.

Megaman on a PC engine?


I kinda wanna try it lol.....

[tggodfrey]

There are reproduction Hucards but no counterfeit cards made to date.  There is a difference

[synbiosfan]

How can anyone justify spending hundreds of dollars on a "rare" game when it becomes easy to counterfeit it?

Surely the inflated collector prices that bring out opportunistic counterfeits will lead to a "market crash."

It hasn't with Neo Geo Home Carts/AES.

[Gentlegamer]

There are reproduction Hucards but no counterfeit cards made to date.  There is a difference

How can anyone justify spending hundreds of dollars on a "rare" game when it becomes easy to counterfeit it?

Surely the inflated collector prices that bring out opportunistic counterfeits will lead to a "market crash."

It hasn't with Neo Geo Home Carts/AES.

How do you tell the the difference?

Neo Geo has always been gonzo, those collectors probably like the challenge of figuring out if an AES cart is a MVS conversion.

[jelloslug]

So there are counterfeit HuCards now?

There are new HuCards you can buy and add your own rom chip to.

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=140131020139627363.jpg


But counterfeit HuCards were around back when games were still being published. Being able to sell a game for thousands of dollars at first and maybe $500 a pop once people catch on, would make it much more profitable to do full repros CIB today. Look at how collectards pass around "Second Print" bootlegs of Sapphire as a "rarer than the first run" collectible.

Well, that's not a plastic HUcard.  It's just a circuit board painted white and artwork stuck on it.

[Black Tiger]

There are reproduction Hucards but no counterfeit cards made to date.  There is a difference

Not recently, but the King bootlegs continue to fool people.

http://www.videogameden.com/pirate.htm?pce09

[tggodfrey]

Tiger as far as i can those are all PC engine games, not tg16 and this is the TG section if the forum.  To date there aren't any counterfeits if the high priced TG 16 games.

We do have reproduction cards of magical chase but it is just that and can no way be passed as original

[tggodfrey]

That's not a hucard.  We were discussing hucards

[synbiosfan]

There are reproduction Hucards but no counterfeit cards made to date.  There is a difference

How can anyone justify spending hundreds of dollars on a "rare" game when it becomes easy to counterfeit it?

Surely the inflated collector prices that bring out opportunistic counterfeits will lead to a "market crash."

It hasn't with Neo Geo Home Carts/AES.

How do you tell the the difference?

Neo Geo has always been gonzo, those collectors probably like the challenge of figuring out if an AES cart is a MVS conversion.

With today's printers it's harder to tell by only a pic. You usually have to open them up which may damage the label.

Bottom line I use MVS since it's about the games to me and I could care less about how nice a game looks sitting on my shelf.

[Necromancer]

Cant counterfeit a Huey yet.

Just because nobody has done it (for TurboChips) doesn't mean it can't be done.  It wouldn't be hard to do, it'd just take money.

[tggodfrey]

No one has genetically engineering dinosaurs liek jurrasic park but I would go around arguing prices of admission yet either.....

[Necromancer]

Don't be a moron.  There's a big difference between arguing theoretical possibilities and fact.