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Aaaaand the listings are gone. They're reading this thread. Hi :)

well so far there's a pretty steady flow at 1600 usd a few days after the current listings are gone. I'd recommend low baling them an offer still. lol

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKuhMm0Uuew

It's extra complicated since these are borderline cave production quality. It's basically a 1:1 copy without the cave stickers, not comparable to the bootlegs of the 80s and 90s that tried to recreate proprietary hardware with massive 2 layer pcb's that needed your PSU to max out the 5V rail...

The fact is this seller is making bootlegs solely focused on the more expensive titles. It's all about the money...they know what they're doing. And none of it is ending up with the original owner/developer which means zero income and zero motivation to make new games. This chinese bootlegger...

Ah, I'm blind. Didn't see the 1.

They've counter-offered with 1000 usd so you're guess is probably not too far off. Doubling the return of investment is a "good" normal index. But I'm just talking out of my ass. We have no idea what's going on. Yeah but those are long gone. And stripping any new-found ones of parts just to...

Yeah come on guys. It's one thing to buy one out of curiosity for the community to scrutinize (that we easily could've crowdfunded) but paying top dollar for bootlegs is not benificial for anyone. Resist the FOMO.

Wow Densha de Go Compact! Maybe I should splurge. :D (the Switch port is excellent but far from the arcade immersion). Is shipping included with the listed price?

You should definitely try to push the price down if making a deal in advance. We know they counteroffered with 1000 usd. Go below that.

Appreciate it, but I think the price of shipping nowadays is not worth it unfortunately.

Hmmm, so is it new manufacturing with original components or is it actually conversions??

Gerberleaks! As powerful as the wiki type.

Yeah could be. I guess I need to find a good magnifying glass/lamp. My old man eyes are only trained to spot pink bullet sprites.

Appreciate the info but I dont have the tools to fix it at the moment. Otherwise just shotgun swap the object ram as you say. Whichever it is, and hope for the best.

Anyone in Europe have the time to help out with an Outzone with "Object RAM Error" at bootup? Would be much appreciated. :)

Alright, we're at $1000. Coming down rather quickly. ;) Still needs to be halfed once or twice more before I consider. Besides, someone was joking about having stolen the gerber files but this is the most likely scenario. Cave designed and licensed someone to make this platform at some point...

Nah it wouldn't. I think I saw new SH3 listing recently (a few years back) but could you use SH4 out of naomis and dreamcasts?

Welcome, what an amazing effort and collection you've gathered over the years! Thanks for the story and information in between all the pictures. It's something that is recognized too well all over the world for any arcade enthusiast. :) Dilemmas of inventory, storage, cost and of course usage...