Nothing's there except 5 pages, all selling Coolboy multicarts. It could because of Chinese New Year but megadrive stuff is up, only th famicom stuff disappeared.
...and those 5 have disappeared. What the heck is going on?
My guess is just Chinese New Year...
But the megadrive stuff's still up. That doesn't make any sense.
Blast processing takes no holidays.
Yup, gotta trade fast.
That's because it isn't an issue. Businesses close down around now until the end of the month which means no stock. I'm actually happy to see that they aren't trying to oversell past their stock. Everything will be back up in a couple weeks.
Actually, yeah, that was a stupid post to make....
It is a shame that they will come back...Ali Express will be the death of Famicom collecting, I think.
ha i doubt it, fcgamer. The quality of the old pirate games is better, and honestly i will always prefer them for their style and content. I have yet to buy anything famicom from aliexpress and i doubt i ever will.
Don't be assumptive ;)
Quote from: famiac on February 12, 2015, 08:08:14 pm
ha i doubt it, fcgamer. The quality of the old pirate games is better, and honestly i will always prefer them for their style and content. I have yet to buy anything famicom from aliexpress and i doubt i ever will.
Don't be assumptive ;)
Heh, I am glad that there are at least two of us that think alike then! :)
I just got a few more clone carts for my personal collection, but I am happy they are the old originals from the 90s.
"Back in my day to get an 8-in-1, you had to walk 50 miles, uphill, in the snow, BOTH WAYS! YOU KIDS HAVE IT TOO GOOD! *snore*"
Seriously though, Ali Express is not the death of Famicom collecting. People who look for deals on Ali Express are different from people who want all the pulse line games, or want a rare Super HIK. I don't really consider myself a collector at all actually.
This little beauty popped up on Ali Express today. Nothing special (just Coolboy Multicart TV game cartridges) but tomorrow night we might see most of the good stuff come back.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/FC-bully-D99-D30-yellow-card-game-2989168245-one-game-card-does-not-repeat/1942474605.html
(For people that don't know, Ali Express stopped carrying Famicom stuff for chinese new year or something. So a little trickle of Famicrap might have good signs for the future?)
More 8-in-1s. More $9 Battletoads!
I've merged these Ali express topics - let's keep that supply discussion in one thread please :)
How is this the death of Famicom collecting? You know you can still buy official real games from Japan pretty easily.
I don't understand why all these bootlegs and multicarts are so popular here, but I know you guys really like them :P
Quote from: zmaster18 on February 24, 2015, 05:23:38 am
How is this the death of Famicom collecting? You know you can still buy official real games from Japan pretty easily.
I don't understand why all these bootlegs and multicarts are so popular here, but I know you guys really like them :P
I would imagine that part of it is that some of them contain pirate originals. Pretty hard to get those from Japan ;D
Quote from: zmaster18 on February 24, 2015, 05:23:38 am
How is this the death of Famicom collecting? You know you can still buy official real games from Japan pretty easily.
I don't understand why all these bootlegs and multicarts are so popular here, but I know you guys really like them :P
I feel the same about NES repros as I do about this Ali Express stuff. I feel that things aren't worth collecting, if they can just be cranked out infinitely. Where is the collectiblity of something, where you can get whatever you want, just by placing an order on the site? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Let's exclude the Japanese stuff for now (since bootlegs of that have existed for basically as long as the Famicom did), but let's take a look at the pirate original stuff. As we know, to begin with it is a lot harder to distinguish an original pirate original game from a copy, since even those games would end up getting bootlegged back in the day, to some extent. Whereas with the licensed stuff, it is much easier to separate and distinguish, it is harder with the unlicensed stuff. Then throw in services like Ali Express, and to me it just takes away from the collecting aspect a bit.
Also, couldn't you just download ROMS of these bootleg games and play on a PowerPak or emulator? Who cares about collecting the ugly and cheap looking carts?
Let me say something:
I'm not a collector.
I'm 12, and buying a $10 cartridge every month or so is how I play games. Plus, I don't have a phone or mobile device or anything, and I'm sort of saving up for a Hamy to play games portably.
It's BAAACK! Search for "8 bit game card", seller "Sindertech" has some stuff. Also, one to 59 is back too, so more 8 in 1s!
EDIT: w00t $10 Kart Fighter repro!!! (http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/8bit-game-card-Kart-Fighter/911614_32293245536.html)
oooo moon crystal