Magical Chase Waiting List

[Necromancer]

The CDs are easy to make, but they'd be burned instead of pressed and the undersides wouldn't look the same.

Real pressed discs are easy to have made and at similar per disc costs to CDRs; they just have a higher minimum print run.

These are all good idea's but one thing would drastically backfire. The ORIGINALS would skyrocket in price overnight. Cause there are some of us forum members that would still like to get their hands on a original game.

There is no reason to believe that this would happen (look to Sapphire for proof).  Nobody is sitting around thinking "Game XXX isn't worth that kind of money to me, so I don't want it.... oh, there's a boot available?  Well that changes everything - I must buy an original!"

[Arkhan]

The CDs are easy to make, but they'd be burned instead of pressed and the undersides wouldn't look the same. (Meteor Blaster DX for example). A CD labeling kit would take care of the disc art easily ... with the right ink and right labels. Back inserts are also a cinch and they're virtually indistinguishable.

Press them like I did for Insanity.  You can go as low as 300  minimum. 

It's the instruction booklets that are problematic. (cover and back art are easy enough, just the interior is the problem) We'd have to get originals of some of those rare ones and then be willing to pop the staples and flatten them all for scanning. Good luck getting a Magical Chase owner to comply. There's no way my Dynastic Hero booklet is getting un-stapled.

Unstapling an instruction book is pretty fool-proof.  lol

Still doesn't solve the problem of producing chips. I bet Brandon Cobb over at Super Fighter Team would know a way to make HuCards. He's a genius at finding manufacturers in "middle-of-nowhere China", etc.

uhh. Where have you been?

www.aetherbyte.com

We're in Cleveland, OH.  Not China.

f*ck Stupid Fighter Team.  We don't need his holier than thou horseshit retarding up the Turbob scene. 

Cobb doesn't know dick about Turbob.

[RegalSin]

How would you contact a game company?

Just walk in threw their doors? because all I know if I call somebody on the phone I am just going to get a moron secretary who makes excuses.

Get Hudson Soft to pre-order for a 500000 copies for 2000 dollars a piece.

[Arkhan]

How would you contact a game company?

You write a formal letter.  and by you, I mean someone else because you'll f*ck it up and start talking about this one time you were wandering through the forest and encountered minotaurs.

[Bernie]

How would you contact a game company?

You write a formal letter.  and by you, I mean someone else because you'll f*ck it up and start talking about this one time you were wandering through the forest and encountered minotaurs.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!  Thats funny shit right there.

[Black Tiger]

If I had a US MC I would trade i for Coryoon.  That's it!  It's the only pc-e game left I really want to buy.

I will keep my Coryoon, ready and waiting for ya...

You know, this whole gouging problem could be solved...

Just trade to members (or pay), but mostly trade, so it stays in the community, and the price doesn't just keep going up and up...

That's how the price jumped from $100 - $1000 in the first place.

From the members, or from throwing that on ebay?

Both. One led to the other.

[SMF]

These are all good idea's but one thing would drastically backfire. The ORIGINALS would skyrocket in price overnight. Cause there are some of us forum members that would still like to get their hands on a original game.

There is no reason to believe that this would happen (look to Sapphire for proof).  Nobody is sitting around thinking "Game XXX isn't worth that kind of money to me, so I don't want it.... oh, there's a boot available?  Well that changes everything - I must buy an original!"
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You make a valid point, but there is still those people that seek out the originals for the collector aspect of it. Look at any mint Beatles album. You can buy the reissues but people still go ape shit for a mint White Album lol.

[Necromancer]

You make a valid point, but there is still those people that seek out the originals for the collector aspect of it. Look at any mint Beatles album. You can buy the reissues but people still go ape shit for a mint White Album lol.

Of course they do, but they don't want the original album because the reissues were produced.

[alexsduo]

How would you contact a game company?

You write a formal letter.  and by you, I mean someone else because you'll f*ck it up and start talking about this one time you were wandering through the forest and encountered minotaurs.

I say, ha ha


So Soylent green is forum members?

[jayamine]

I'd be afraid my instruction booklet would get roughed up in the un-stapling process. And 300 minimum pressing makes a lot of difference. That's great news. (I always thought it was 1000)

I didn't know there was so much love for Cobb here. I've dealt with him a few times, seemed okay to me ... but please do tell what's wrong with him. (I'm rather ambivalent on the subject.)

One more thing, where can we have Hus produced here in the USA?

I'll write the letter if you guys need. I'll be arrogant and toot my horn for a minute here. I have a Terminal Masters in Writing. I'm working on a PhD in Writing. I've taught College Composition for seven years now. There's not much else I'm good at, but I can write a letter and be professional and diplomatic when I need to be. Just let me know what you need and I'll be glad to help.

[MotherGunner]

That is very impressive Jay! (Your education).

[jayamine]

Thank you :-) But let's concentrate on something vastly more important than education and art & humanities and scholarship and all that ..... let's concentrate on making turbo-grafx games!

[jayamine]

Wow .. wait a minute ... where have I been? Arkhan ... how and where did you make HuCards? That's amazing!

[Arkhan]

Wow .. wait a minute ... where have I been? Arkhan ... how and where did you make HuCards? That's amazing!

The credit goes to TheOldMan, the other dude at Aetherbyte.  They were made in Cleveland, OH.  They've been in the works all year.  We had goonier prototypes demo'd at CCAG back in June.    This is the more refined "hey this is pretty awesome" version.


As for Cobb:

The guy's a moron.  He's full of himself and blabs about how Super Fighter Team is the best at what they do (which is take other peoples work and publish it, taking most if not all of the credit).  His attitude shows that he is more interested in his image/making $$ than he is video games. 

His site has little things you start to notice that make him sound idiotic.  There's the IGN quote on the homepage. The quote is retarded, and using it to look better makes you doubletarded. 

Then he claims to be the most dedicated.  That's debatable, considering the people who program these games are arguably far more dedicated than the guy who does the publishing.  Also, http://matranet.net/
does high quality publishing for MSX and Spectrum.  I have many of those games.  They are more dedicated, IMO.  The people in that group actively hang with the developers and stay involved.  They don't shove themselves up on some pedestal and go HURRR I AM THE BEST.

My favorite still is his raging ignorance.  Star Odyssey's page has "We're proud to bring yet another first to the classic gaming market: Japanese partnership!"

There were Euro/Japanese MSX partnerships way before this putz acquired the rights to Super Fighter and went on to make a mockery of the game and name.  If you think you're doing it first in 2011, you're a retart and obviously have zero clue what you are talking about and aren't as dedicated as you claim to be.  Woomb/Bazix/D4/lolMSXdiditalready.

OldRover could tell you more about the time Cobb approached him about making Turbo Grafx HuCards. 

I pity anyone who gets suckered in by the Cobbwebb and lets the guy basically take all the credit for their actual work.  He's like the Steve Jobs of retro gaming.  You wouldn't believe how many people see SUPER FIGHTER TEAM and think the guy writes these games himself.  It's because he makes mention of the original programming group on each page, at the bottom, barely... and then his big stupid looking logo dwarfs everything else. 

Plus he basically only posts on forums to peddle his latest game, which is usually a Sega game in a shitty clamshell that shatters like a 90 year olds hip the first time you try opening it.  He doesn't care about any of this stuff or the people involved.  He just wants to go HURRRR I PUBLSIHED A GAMES .

I hope he approaches me one day so I can punch him in the nose with a power glove on.

It sucks too, since the games he publishes are pretty neat.  (Except for the bug in Beggar Prince that renders it unplayable/have to restart).   I still haven't grabbed Star Odyssey.  I'll order it, even though I hate giving that pole smoker any of my cash.

[Bernie]

Question guys.  Say I wanted to have some runs done, such as Bonk 3, Beyond Shadowgate, or whatever...  Looking at the companies that actually handle the disc pressing, such as the one Arkhan used, there is a form to fill out.  Basically saying you own the rights to be able to repro it, bla bla bla.  How does one get around that?  Is it even checked on?  I mean, Sapphire was done somehow...