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| wiggy:
--- Quote from: Westane on January 07, 2015, 04:54:11 PM ---So I've been wondering something since I actually did it... Not so much what I should do but how people like you might feel about it. I picked up a copy of Chrono Trigger about 15 years ago from a video store for a cool $10, along with a copy of BoF II for the same price. Good times. Well at some point my copy of Chrono Trigger was lost to my at the time girlfriend's moving boxes never to be seen again until I recently got in contact with her brother who just so happened to have it. He happily gave it back to me but it looked like it had spent that last decade and a half buried under a shed. Cart was stained and dirty, labels were peeling and ruined and I think the fungus living on the copper contacts had become sentient. I was able to Brasso the hell out of the the contacts and get the game working like new. TL;DR - I bought a copy of some hockey game in perfect condition (because it was never played), blowdried off the label and replaced it with a reproduction label. It looks brand new, and it makes me happy. I still keep the original crappy cart simply because it's the "original". If the day were ever to come where I were to sell my collection, I'd include that old shell and note that the game had been refurbished but still contains the original board. What would you guys think about finding something like that and what would it do for your perception of its value? --- End quote --- This is the exact same thing that I do with my games. I want my games to look as good as possible, and since I can pretty easily make that sort of thing happen... |
| SegaNomadman:
Personally I think a refurbished cart is a bit less valuable than an original, but that's just my taste. I like carts that are all original for my collection, but I'm not at all against refurbishing games! If you can give something a better look and a few more years than it had before then you're doing the community a favor by saving a cart! Well done my friend! ;D |
| Quazimoto:
I can attest to the fact that refurbishing a cart with a new or custom label or cart shell doesn't really effect the value much if at all. True, some collectors do want all original, but it seems that most don't care either way. When I had to sell my Gameboy collection a while back, I had a lot of carts with reproduction or custom labels. Didn't get any less than average for them when they sold. In some instances, I got a good bit more than normal. So long as you're honest about it when you resell the game, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem or difference in price. |
| KalessinDB:
Ours is a funny hobby. Rarely, if ever, is something collected both for the sheer joy of collecting as much as it is for a very real, use-oriented purpose. Games are, after all, meant to be played. A beat to hell cartridge missing its shell will (often) play ever bit as well as one that's just come out of a factory seal. Very little else can say that. So really, the value in a game is in the eye of the beholder -- this is true for collecting anything, but in my opinion nowhere more so than with video games. Myself? I want my stuff to look good, but the only thing that I really need original is the board/chips itself, and I occasionally wonder why I even need that -- in many cases, a homemade cart runs just as well as the factory cart. Heck, in some cases it runs better -- look at the notoriously bad Tengen motherboards for Genesis. Yes, windowed chips have a greater chance of getting wiped, but with the absolute most basic precautions the chance is basically nil. As has been pointed out on numerous retro gaming sites I've been on before: all games will cease to function eventually for one reason or another. But all the rest of it? Don't care. Original box? I won't say no if I come across it for the same price as a cart-only release, but I won't pay more for it -- I'd rather it get saved for someone who truly appreciates the cardboard, I will HAPPILY standardize my games in UGCs/DS-size cases from you guys. Original label? It's nice and all, but if it's badly beat up, screw that yank it and replace it if I can make it look good (this is especially prevalent in my mind with Neo Geo MVS which I've started to collect for -- they were originally designed to be in an arcade cabinet after all, even pristine labels are little more than basic black on white VCR-tape like labels. Artists have made far nicer, full color labels more akin to home releases and I intend to change mine out for those eventually). Original manual I would like if I could just because 2nd-4th gen games tended to need them to explain things, but honestly if someone gave me a full color replacement that's cut/stapled correctly? I would be every bit as happy with that. The main reason I prefer the original manual is just because most reproduction ones (obviously excepting places like Wiggy, or Tusk, or Timewalk RIP) are just lame photocopies that never work right. But yeah. That's my take on it. |
| TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: KalessinDB on January 08, 2015, 02:18:49 AM ---Ours is a funny hobby. Rarely, if ever, is something collected both for the sheer joy of collecting as much as it is for a very real, use-oriented purpose. Games are, after all, meant to be played. A beat to hell cartridge missing its shell will (often) play ever bit as well as one that's just come out of a factory seal. Very little else can say that. So really, the value in a game is in the eye of the beholder -- this is true for collecting anything, but in my opinion nowhere more so than with video games. Myself? I want my stuff to look good, but the only thing that I really need original is the board/chips itself, and I occasionally wonder why I even need that -- in many cases, a homemade cart runs just as well as the factory cart. Heck, in some cases it runs better -- look at the notoriously bad Tengen motherboards for Genesis. Yes, windowed chips have a greater chance of getting wiped, but with the absolute most basic precautions the chance is basically nil. As has been pointed out on numerous retro gaming sites I've been on before: all games will cease to function eventually for one reason or another. But all the rest of it? Don't care. Original box? I won't say no if I come across it for the same price as a cart-only release, but I won't pay more for it -- I'd rather it get saved for someone who truly appreciates the cardboard, I will HAPPILY standardize my games in UGCs/DS-size cases from you guys. Original label? It's nice and all, but if it's badly beat up, screw that yank it and replace it if I can make it look good (this is especially prevalent in my mind with Neo Geo MVS which I've started to collect for -- they were originally designed to be in an arcade cabinet after all, even pristine labels are little more than basic black on white VCR-tape like labels. Artists have made far nicer, full color labels more akin to home releases and I intend to change mine out for those eventually). Original manual I would like if I could just because 2nd-4th gen games tended to need them to explain things, but honestly if someone gave me a full color replacement that's cut/stapled correctly? I would be every bit as happy with that. The main reason I prefer the original manual is just because most reproduction ones (obviously excepting places like Wiggy, or Tusk, or Timewalk RIP) are just lame photocopies that never work right. But yeah. That's my take on it. --- End quote --- I agree with this completely. The one thing I will add is that it's important to state if the game or any part of it such as the label is not original. I don't have a proglem with any type of reproduction carts or replacement labels as long as no one tries to pass them off as original. |
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