(yea found my password!)

Didn't see a topic about this yet so here are a few quick corrections for the front page article:

Correct spelling for Sudoku author is Al Bailey, just want to make sure he gets the right credit!

And the Garage Cart was not made in the early years of repros, Leon has been building them since ~1998.  The original part was the homebrew games not the cart construction itself.  If more people expressed interest I am sure more would have been made but it just wasn't in demand then.

Flame on!  

I love all things homebrew!  It is my new favorite niche of collecting I think.

I love homebrew!

But ....

golden airball
for big cash$$  i mean its nothing more then old zelda carts with airball stickers on them.
I mean come on people, for people how helped out ok,but for $$$ on ebay thats just stupid

tower of radia
With number and with out
I understand that langenfeld didn't want to dissapoint people and made some without number but WTF..
Now the carts without number are more rare

ON THE OTHER SIDE

Sivak did it better ,made geminim with number on cart and rom!
And then did a general release.
Thats way better, i think that the unnumbered cart even had a different color?


But the best way to do it is sudoku from al

a couple of gold (for people how helped)

100 grey copies with number

and a general release on retrousb. (blue)

i heard that there are a little changes between general release and the numbered copies.
The great box in combination with the colors of the cart makes this ok in my point of view!

But its just how you look at it i think.




           HOMEBREW

It keeps the nintendo nes and its scene alive and i think it will become a new part of collecting for the nes in the future!

GOLDEN HOMEBREW RULE!!!

I doesn't mather what you think about homebrew and the special carts but i would like to ask people how bring out special(homebrew) carts in the fututre
To obey the golden hombrew rule

PLEASE PUT 1 SPECIAL CART ON EBAY FOR CHARITY!

amen

you know i'm a fan of homebrews all the way.  i think it is a great thing for the community, but as far as the rant goes I am still with Martin on this. 

i understand the costs and all that jazz, and yes I say recoup your money, but lets do so in a different way.

if people can make something that is TRULY unique to the limited run then I'd say DO THAT.  If you can't, then don't make it limited in any way.

I'd say this should be figured out before the next big rush of "limited" titles pop up, but if not, whatever, i'm not going to loose sleep over it.
Josh

Maybe it's just my growing up in the United States and being an ardent capitalist, but I don't see any legitimate complaint about limited edition carts.  I'm not really interested in them, so I don't buy them.  However, if someone else wants to spend $250 for someone's homebrew cart, what does my opinion on the transaction matter?

Now, if the limited editions are being sold for ridiculous prices under the promise that there will not be a general release, then there is a bit more of a problem because suddenly the product is no longer as described at the time of sale.

No, we don't "need" limited edition homebrew carts, but keep in mind we're talking about video game collecting here.  Most of the hobby is pretty frivolous.

(NOTE:  Please don't flame me for saying NES collection is frivolous.  I am pretty heavily invested in it myself, and have been collecting for about 11 years.)

I think that limited edition homebrews are a great idea.  Those who don't like them, don't have to buy them.  However, when it comes to collecting for the NES, such carts will be highly desirable due to their rarity.  Limited edition homebrews help developers fund new works, which help keep NES collecting alive.

Jagasian wrote on 19. May 2008 at 01:15:


Their rarity !?

come on ,i still dont understand why people would pay insane amounts of cash for homebrews put in old zelda carts

and there rarity is artificial and not real in my point of view!

I'm not sure how I'd do it, if I do another game.
The 3 types covered are:
1) Promotional items (ie: Sudoku Gold)
2) Limited Items (ie: Sudoku grey)
3) General Release (ie: Sudoku Blue)

I have my own outlook on this, and I certainly dont want to impose them on anyone else, or judge anyone who thinks differently than me. 

1) Promotional items should not be sold, otherwise its a money grab.
2) Limited items should be readily available. Otherwise you are creating an artificial rarity.
3) General Release items should have an end date.  Cheetahmen, the aladdins, Sunday Funday were all easy to obtain at one time, and it wasnt until after they stopped that people realized that they wanted one.

One last note: Anytime there is an auction for a new rare item, feelings seem to get hurt within the collecting community.   I dont get excited by logging onto ebay and seeing a game I dont have, I get exciting going to a flea market, yard sale, or convention and seeing it.

Al