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Cartridge variations, do you care or must you collect?
noclass_nick:
I was going through all my sega master system loose carts and looking for better quality ones to swap into my collection when I noticed the cart variations, eg aliens 3 red text vs aliens 3 blue text, games with red labels with white grid vs red labels with black grids.
My question is how much does cart variations matter to you? I never thought about it but I cant trade them away they have to go into the collection now. Pushed me up about 20 games into my sms collection now at 173 games :S
What other consoles also have cartridge variations?
Does multi region titles, eg ntsc, pal, jap, factor into your collections?
Dicuss!
wiggy:
Every console has this. For the SNES there are "made in Japan" and "made in Mexico" variants, player's choice versus original releases, etc. I've never really cared about that, but I do actually collect some hardware variants. There are quite a few revisions of the original SNES motherboard and the Saturn went through many as well. For some reason I'm compelled to collect them.
amarthar:
For PAL SNES you've got 3 label styles and there are also regional variations (like "The Lion King" being named "Le Roi Leon" in France and "Der König der Löwen" in Germany even though the game itself isn't changed in any way), or just a different part number (like UKV in England, NOE in Germany, FAH in France and EUR for others).
I also kinda don't care.
quickfingers818:
I am with wiggy on this one. I don't really care for game variants, so long that it is NTSC. They play pretty much exactly the same anyways. And I will almost always opt for the original "non players choice" if there is that option. I do, however collect hardware variants. I have all models of the sega saturn variants as well as the ps1 and ps2 variants. I have a mega drive, but I also have a genesis. Same for super famicom and snes. However I do like to collect the same game for different systems if the game play is different, such as shadowrun on the snes and genesis. Both games are completely different, yet the box art and game label suggest otherwise.
e_brugal:
i much don't care but in playstation and xbox i prefer not to collect "gratest hits" or "Platinum Edition"