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Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Appreciation Thread: Alien Storm > Golden Axe
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Opening up the cart requires very, very little effort after the initial purchase of two different sized bits. Once it's open you can clearly see the issues with the connectors and how to proceed.
If it's barely dirty you can use an art eraser (standard pink eraser) to rub off the grime and leave the contacts as good as new. Just remember to wipe off any eraser shavings after. Can't do that with a closed cart.
If it's dirtier than that, you'll need either dangerous Brasso or slightly less dangerous glass stove top cleaner. Use a very small amount, let it set, and wipe off gently. Using too much and rubbing vigorously will remove the protective gold layer. What is all this black stuff? Whoa, this cart was so dirty! NOPE, that's the gold sonnnn.
You also get to clean the inside of the cart, which isn't always clean. You also also can switch out backs with ruined stickers for backs of shitty sports games to make your games look better.
Rubbing alcohol doesn't do shit. Opening the carts is a very small effort and investment for huge gains if you care about your games.
If it's barely dirty you can use an art eraser (standard pink eraser) to rub off the grime and leave the contacts as good as new. Just remember to wipe off any eraser shavings after. Can't do that with a closed cart.
If it's dirtier than that, you'll need either dangerous Brasso or slightly less dangerous glass stove top cleaner. Use a very small amount, let it set, and wipe off gently. Using too much and rubbing vigorously will remove the protective gold layer. What is all this black stuff? Whoa, this cart was so dirty! NOPE, that's the gold sonnnn.
You also get to clean the inside of the cart, which isn't always clean. You also also can switch out backs with ruined stickers for backs of shitty sports games to make your games look better.
Rubbing alcohol doesn't do shit. Opening the carts is a very small effort and investment for huge gains if you care about your games.
A Black Falcon
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I got my copy of Crusader of Centy (loose cart with partially torn label) for $5 in 2010. Yeah, it was a pretty great find.
The game actually has a pretty interesting story.
The game actually has a pretty interesting story.
Fox Mulder
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Genesis Knight
Member
Looks like I paid $70 for a CIB Crusader in August of 2011.
IrishNinja
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damn, that's a great price for not too terrible far back, man! congrats on that one.
'Grats on the Centy pickups, all who own that game. It's been on my radar for a long time now. A few Genesis games seemed to have absolutely skyrocketed in the past ~2 years.
Centy, Hard Corps,Hyperstone Heist and MUSHA have all went nuts.
Centy especially. Game has at least doubled in value since I have been following over a year ago. I don't think I can bring myself to import Centy, seems like a game I'd want to experience the story. Is there a clamshell variant to that game? I could of swore I remember seeing one a while back (either that or someone gutted the artwork and added it.
Centy, Hard Corps,Hyperstone Heist and MUSHA have all went nuts.
Centy especially. Game has at least doubled in value since I have been following over a year ago. I don't think I can bring myself to import Centy, seems like a game I'd want to experience the story. Is there a clamshell variant to that game? I could of swore I remember seeing one a while back (either that or someone gutted the artwork and added it.
IrishNinja
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yeah, i repo'd Centy & MUSHA both (fuck those prices for the latter, i had that shit in the day!), the local dealer was marking shit down for larger orders and i wanted Pulseman & Wily Wars anyway. i'd love reprint manuals for em though.
Hard Corps & Hyperstone i caught loose for a song thankfully though.
Hard Corps & Hyperstone i caught loose for a song thankfully though.
Genesis Knight
Member
No, cardboard only in the USA.
There was this guy Bratwurst who did repro manuals for Wily Wars, Alien Soldier, MWIV, and Pulseman. They kicked ass. Might still be some around, not sure.
IrishNinja
Member
i think i saw him on the Sega-16 Bazar, no? you think he'd just sell manuals? maybe i should PM him, can't hurt to ask.
sixteen-bit
Member
Wish I knew about Centy before the resale market went crazy. I had honestly never heard of it until last year. Was it a niche title when it launched?
IrishNinja
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no idea, but related: this shirt is dope
possibly, i recall JRPG's in the day not always getting super long shelf life since battery backup jacked up the price & the market was perceived to be small anyway, but i think what really stands out is that it was a summer '94 game, and you gotta figure by then SNES was doing great #'s, 32X was out in a few months & Saturn was on deck, so it's kind've a late gem for a system that would effectively stop seeing games the next year or so. I used to check my local shops for Sega-CD/etc stuff and i honestly don't recall even seeing it back then, i might go through my gaming mag collection just to see if it got much love/talk at the time.
IrishNinja
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...fuck. (;_
thanks again man! one night i'm gonna draw up a list of all the expensive ass gems we missed back then & check my collection just to see if any actually escaped them
sixteen-bit
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them blue shadows tho
no credibility
no credibility
Genesis Knight
Member
Atlus + 1994 = low visibility. Might have had a higher MSRP b/c of the battery backup and the fact it's an RPG. Not sure on that, though.
Got a scratched up Gen 1 off eBay a while ago. Wanted to try something really different so I went with pink & grey, but the grey ended up beige:
Reminds me of some sort of... Famidrive.
I think I mentioned it before in this thread once, but the English PAL CIB version (Soleil) regularly sells for around £20 ($33). With a game like Soleil it shouldn't matter that it's 50Hz only. Although it could be PAL optimized, meaning your best bet would be a PAL Mega Drive also. Still, I think all in all it would be cheaper than buying the Genesis version.
Morrigan Stark
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Shadow Hog
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Welp, gonna try for Snatcher tonight. Hopefully I can get this for less than $220, although I'm not feeling extraordinarily confident.
There's another auction on Wednesday if I botch this one, at least.
There's another auction on Wednesday if I botch this one, at least.
ExitPlanetDust
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Good luck!
Shadow Hog
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theSlacker
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Well to make you feel better about losing if you do, I don't really like the wear on the manual for a game you plan on spending that much money on.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Posting the link to an auction you're participating in but have not yet won?
Ur doin it wrong.
Ur doin it wrong.
I'll say. Lurkers all over man.
Also has anyone heard of Bad Omen? I'm not into Arkanoid style games, but this actually looks kinda fun. Great sounding music and it has an actual story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhJKcFJeJw
I have a favorite eBay seller for Japanese imports. I ain't telling anybody on GAF who he is until I buy all my imports, lol.
IrishNinja
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the kind've stain that burns for all of histroy
good luck m'man, that wednesday one just spiked up too though, haha. buying my copy tonight & taking that one off the list! i don't think popful mail is gonna happen any day soon, just looking around for Lunar 2 & Robo Aleste.
also, this so hard, cmon shadow!
good call man
we all know it's hit-japan, yakumoto classic or that one with letters like yjjink or whatever though haha
Shadow Hog
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Well, I was posting it so nobody else here bid on it (although at the rate it's accelerating it doesn't look like now's the best time to buy). Can't really rescind it when people quote it, though.
It's just, I've seen instances where two people from the same board try to bid on the same item, and then go "man, if only we'd coordinated better!"
It's just, I've seen instances where two people from the same board try to bid on the same item, and then go "man, if only we'd coordinated better!"
ExitPlanetDust
Member
Oh man, $208. Hope you get it.
Shadow Hog
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Although at $217, "free" might mean more than one thing.
(And since it's a crime punishable by thirty lashes to post an xkcd comic without its alt text: "
I'm as surprised as you! I didn't think it was possible.
those dudes have so much of my money lol
ExitPlanetDust
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Haha, congrats.
Although at $217, "free" might mean more than one thing.
(And since it's a crime punishable by thirty lashes to post an xkcd comic without its alt text: "")I'm as surprised as you! I didn't think it was possible.
Sick! I like it.Got a scratched up Gen 1 off eBay a while ago. Wanted to try something really different so I went with pink & grey, but the grey ended up beige:
IrishNinja
Member
2014 has not slowed my retro madness at all, it seems. past Saga & the DC haul, i picked up:
Snatcher
Shining Force CD (loose but i found a decent replacement case for the time)
Lunar 2
Juarassic Park
Revenge of the Ninja (thanks again for the manual mzo!)
and maybe Double Switch for a whole $3, so why not
sad one dude wouldn't come down on $18 for Wirehead, but that gem will have to wait. no luck on a cheap Spidey vs Kingpin yet, but what's funny is i totally forgot that when i bought this s-vid modded Genesis, it came with a small spindle of loose sega-CD discs so i apparently have Batman Returns, Prince of Persia, Silpheed, Monkey Island, Hook, Ecco: Tide of Time, Dark Wizard, Dragon's Lair, Night Trap and a few others, but i need case & manual for em, gonna watch ebay but no idea what my odds are.
Snatcher
Shining Force CD (loose but i found a decent replacement case for the time)
Lunar 2
Juarassic Park
Revenge of the Ninja (thanks again for the manual mzo!)
and maybe Double Switch for a whole $3, so why not
sad one dude wouldn't come down on $18 for Wirehead, but that gem will have to wait. no luck on a cheap Spidey vs Kingpin yet, but what's funny is i totally forgot that when i bought this s-vid modded Genesis, it came with a small spindle of loose sega-CD discs so i apparently have Batman Returns, Prince of Persia, Silpheed, Monkey Island, Hook, Ecco: Tide of Time, Dark Wizard, Dragon's Lair, Night Trap and a few others, but i need case & manual for em, gonna watch ebay but no idea what my odds are.
Shadow Hog
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I'd like to get Shining Force CD... keep kicking myself for not picking it up Summer '12, at a store in Las Vegas that had it CIB for $50, purely because I didn't yet own a Sega CD. I could've emulated it, at least, and besides, the game goes for much more than that on eBay, even then.
IrishNinja
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^damn....it'd be tricky to catch it CIB at that price, but you never know!
honestly, i beat 1 several times in the day, just tried 2 like last year & got stuck for a bit...between CD and whenever i find a copy of 3 (nevermind the fan translations of the further campaigns) i think i'm gonna have an SRPG backlog for months and months. it's the series that got me into them to begin with!
never did find a replacement 1 for cheap so i ended up grabbing a JP version with what looks like a colorful map & manual for about $5, that'll do for now haha
honestly, i beat 1 several times in the day, just tried 2 like last year & got stuck for a bit...between CD and whenever i find a copy of 3 (nevermind the fan translations of the further campaigns) i think i'm gonna have an SRPG backlog for months and months. it's the series that got me into them to begin with!
never did find a replacement 1 for cheap so i ended up grabbing a JP version with what looks like a colorful map & manual for about $5, that'll do for now haha
Im going to tell this story forever.
Middle school, 7th grade Science project. Went to a local dollar store and saw a STACK of at least 20 Shining Force CD in excellent condition in the display case near the front register. No one seemed to know they were games, and yes they were only a dollar each.
Made the worst decision ever, and only bought 1 game. Came back a week later after realizing how dumb that was...and they were all gone.
On top of that, I ended up selling that copy to someone on GAF a few years back...regretted both decisions ever since (not selling on GAF, just selling period).
Question is, how the hell did that many perfect quality complete Shining Force CD copies end up in a dollar store, right next to the lasers and yoyos up front no less.
Middle school, 7th grade Science project. Went to a local dollar store and saw a STACK of at least 20 Shining Force CD in excellent condition in the display case near the front register. No one seemed to know they were games, and yes they were only a dollar each.
Made the worst decision ever, and only bought 1 game. Came back a week later after realizing how dumb that was...and they were all gone.
On top of that, I ended up selling that copy to someone on GAF a few years back...regretted both decisions ever since (not selling on GAF, just selling period).
Question is, how the hell did that many perfect quality complete Shining Force CD copies end up in a dollar store, right next to the lasers and yoyos up front no less.
IrishNinja
Member
that's just...wow. i mean, geez i hope they all found happy homes at least, but man is that weird.
Armoured Priest
Member
Decent haul on the spindle. Dark Wizard ids a bit archaic, but its still a pretty cool SRPG.
Apparently I still have the images too lol. Cleaning out my image folder and looking for stuff for this month's Saturn banner...found these:
Around 1998.
Ok well that's not that so bad. I mean in 1998 wasn't the sega cd essentially a laughing stock? Now if you saw it in 2008 however ...
I remember when Apple stock was $20 bucks
Yeah thats what im thinking, people were just throwing away these things to whoever. Actually alot of retro stuff was like that...I remember when our local Gamestop had a bargain bin of loose N64 carts near its front register. Of course as always, hindsight is 20/20