Time for another huge "JDavis catches up on his pickups" post! ... But probably the last. Because...
I got a new iPod (5th gen)! My old iPod (3rd gen) finally gave out on the headphone jack, so it was time to upgrade. This one's got a camera, so I'll be able to easily take pics and upload and post them as I buy stuff now!
(And yes, that's a wallpaper I made out of my A Link to the Past cover
)
Now, for the actual games...
Gokujou Parodius! $1.76 + $6 shipping = $7.76
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary - $4
Went into my local game shop to replace an NES controller (rubber under the B button broke)... Ended up buying Snowboard Kids 2 and Brave Fencer Musashi as well.
All three - $55
New Super Mario Bros 2. - $40
A coworker is moving to Alaska, so he's been trying to sell a bunch of his stuff that he doesn't really need to make the move easier. So I was able to get...
Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games
Wario's Woods
Toy Story
Megaman 8
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
All for $45. Buuut...
While you could already see the sunfading on X6's manual in the closed pic, it turns out it's not even the manual, just the front page from the manual (the rest is missing). X6 also has a "Movie Gallery" rental sticker over it (which is not easily visible). These are easy to remove, I've done it before, but I haven't gotten around to it yet because they do leave a sticky residue which then has to be cleaned off.
X5, meanwhile, has a metallic rental donut sticker that I do not know if I can remove easily without potentially damaging the disc.
Picked these up at work. Shepherd's Crossing and Magical Starsign are still in the original shrinkwrap. Air Combat, not so much.
Altogether - $10
Finally, on a trip to my local game store a couple days ago I picked up...
Star Wars Rogue Leader (Rogue Squadron 2)
Valkyrie Profile-Lenneth (Remake of the original)
Metal Slug Advance
Contra 4
The first three qualified for the 3 for $10 deal they have on games $4.99 or less.
Contra 4 was $7.99. The art is badly water damaged, but the manual and cart are fine, and the cart alone goes for more than that on eBay
I also stopped and looked at a Gyromite cart while I was in there, in case of converter, (which it didn't have), so the owner of the shop gave me this for free:
Some guy had traded in all his NES stuff and basically left this at the store when they couldn't give him anything for it. Obviously, it's a Game Genie with a Famicom adapter and a pirate multicart attached. (The Game Genie presumably being used to get the adapter and cart into/out of the system)
Here's the multicart by itself. Haven't tried it out yet. The casing's come slightly apart on the right side, and peeking in... It's not globtop-based. Lots of chips.
Perhaps most interestingly, the loose adapter board isn't one of the Nintendo-produced ones...
It's a Honeybee! Don't know why it's missing its case.
I might try making a case for the Honeybee board out of a random cheap cart... Or maybe out of the Game Genie if I can figure out how to open it up.
Edit:
No luck getting the Honeybee adapter to work in my toploader with any of my Famicom carts... Of course, I'm not sure which way to inset it or which way to put the Famicom cart into it
The multicart, on the other hand, works perfectly well in my Famicom. Turns out it's a
Supervision 76-in-1. I'll let you look at the list on that link. It's mostly early NES/Famicom games, quite a few Japan-only ones... But I think the highlight of the thing is the last game on its list: Tengen Tetris
