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If you’re here, then I’m guessing that you just might. We (yes, I say we because I’ve joined forces with a fellow retro gaming nerd to make this happen!) are going to be offering reproduction SNES and NES games in the not-too-distant future!
Any of you who have purchased products from me or taken advantage of my services know that I sort of obsess over packaging and presentation. Well, we want our repro carts to take that to the next level with hand-made limited packaging, unique artwork, purdy colored carts and such, and even custom cartridge shells with artwork and graphics molding into the shell itself! I know how much collectors love their special editions and just plain old hard copies in general, and we really feel that repro carts, while not official releases, deserve just as much, if not more attention. These carts are all modified by hand, which makes them just that much more unique. That Zelda cart up there is just a quicky to show what can be done with a MINIMAL amount of extra attention. You can expect us to take it much further once things get rolling.
I know there are mixed feelings about reproduction carts, and if it’s not your thing, then I hope you won’t hold our decision to offer such things against us. I promise we won’t obliterate EVERY copy of John Madden ’96 in order to satiate the market 🙂
Rose Colored Gaming 
I’ll be in for one … (or two or three), add me to the list! 😛
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Damn you…. You just had to go there. You just want all my money don’t you. I’ll be interested to see your prices, as most repro makers have games costing up to $100.
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I’d be in for Repos for game translations eventually when I have the money as long as the prices aren’t too high like most.(i’ve seen a lot of expensive Repro’s out there with poor attention payed to the quality of artwork and labeling)
Do you guys also happen to be able to just modify the SFC carts for Japanese games with translations? There was a guy on Racketboy.com/forum that did that sort of thing. Ideally that’s a perfect situation for the most part for me.
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They’ll be fair, don’t worry about that. The only game that will always be rather pricey is Star Fox 2, but that’s with good reason. It’s not cheap to make 😦
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Our prices will be very fair and attention to detail is pretty much guaranteed. Glossy, heavy stock labels that look as good as, if not better than original labels, carefully hand-made packaging, and even cleaned and polished screws to hold the carts together.
It doesn’t really matter if we mod a JP or US cart, the process is the same. There’s no way to simply apply a language patch to an existing cart without hardware modification. The only upside to doing it that way would be having a cart that originally contained the game that you’re making a repro of.
If that’s something you would specifically want, then we could most definitely make that happen for ya. Like if you wanted an English version of Final Fantasy 5, or Secret of Mana 2/3, then we can source those original SFC carts and repro them. The cost may be a bit more since the donor material will surely be pricier than the games we would normally use, but it’s entirely doable.
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Well, yeah it’s still a repro and you have to do work and what not of course.
What if one was to provide their own game?
Right now this is all hypotheticals though. I won’t be able to afford one for a few months at least.
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How much would a copy of the Parallel Worlds cost?
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Providing your own cart is a possibility. When you’re ready to order, just let me know and we’ll get it sorted out for ya 😉
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No definite pricing yet. I’ll be conferring with my partner this weekend though and we should have some pricing info this week followed shortly after by a list of initial offerings 🙂
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As long as you don´t copy the labels 1:1 from the originals I have no problem with it.
1:1 repros are destroying the collectors market. You never know if the cart is really mint or just a repro.
That said, the Zelda Box looks awesome!
Are you also able to do GBA repros? A translated Mother 3 cart would be awesome.
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Don’t worry, we won’t be doing repros of existing games like Earthbound or anything like that. Just stuff that never made it here which has since been localized and fan-made stuff like Parallel Worlds.
Thanks!
Not at the moment. We’re gonna test the waters with the NES and SNES stuff, and then, if it does well, we’ll look into the GBA stuff.
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With Awakening on the horizon I’d love to see a Fire Emblem repro.
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fire emblem? lorom that needs 256kb of sram, not alot of games have that type of sram
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I’ve always been kind of double-sided when it comes to Re-pro carts.
On one hand, the carts usually turn out really cool, and it’s nice to have an English copy of those classic games that were only released in Japan. On the other hand, destroying old games (even shitty ones) just seems, I dunno… wrong.
I would surely pay extra money for somebody to manufacture the cart circuitboards and mold the plastic themselves, as this would preserve the official commercial games, while adding new ones into existence.
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I’m sort of in that boat as well. I obviously have fewer reservations about using donors, but would like it if I could offer them with 100% new parts. That said, I do have something in the works as far as the cart shells go…
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