Different Re-Releases?

Started by Circlekyuu, July 25, 2011, 02:27:47 pm

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About those slips, it was discussed before here http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=5995.0 it's a bit messy though, as forum threads can be.

Phosphora

May 04, 2012, 08:33:20 pm #16 Last Edit: May 04, 2012, 09:48:13 pm by Phosphora
Quote from: Xious on July 27, 2011, 03:36:01 pm
Complete, with the annotation (Old-Stock Photocopied Manual). Some stores also used (Nintendo-provided) white labels and hand-wrote the name of the game when they ran out of colour labels. These are noted as (White Label Disk).

The premium value comes from original manuals; white-label disks with original manuals are only slightly less-valuable than normal-label disks with original manuals. It's really up to the mindset of the person collecting them. Obviously, we all prefer original label disks and original colour manuals.

This type of thing makes Disk-Writer games very difficult to classify and grade, though I did work out a system for it.


Why do some white labels have clearly computer printed title names on them? Maybe was this only used for 1st party Nintendo releases on occasion?
I'm sure you were talking about the blank unprinted white labels in your above post, but what about the printed white labels? How common were these printed versions of the white labels compared to original/blank?
I would think that one would prefer the white label with the printed title in their collection over the much more common original disk label or blank white label.(?)

I mean, a store must sell out of a particular game's label stock before they even start handing out blanks. To keep things interesting Let's say Clu-Clu Land. So then Clu-Clu Land is so much in demand that they ran out of official labels before they can even hand out the special "sold-out" white labels (Yeah, we all know there was no demand for Clu-Clu Land). What I'm getting at is, the white labels were only handed out when full blown official label stock was diminished. Sure makes these white labels with printed titles more enticing.

Now for the sake of argument lets say the printed white labels could have been home-made. Sure anything is possible, but it seems like a lot of work in the late 80's/early 90s to line up these small official white label A/B sheets with the printers of that era to have such great results, especially when their was no monetary gain to be had? I strongly doubt a pirate thought to themselves "I'll take this official cart and official label that I paid retail price for, take the time to perfectly type out the name and details of each cart to get the perfect results on the first printing try on the small 2" labels, and in 30 years it will hopefully & maybe be worth something more than my retail investment".
That doesn't make any sense, with so much effort they'd just bootleg an official label with no fuss and use a cheap pirate Quick Disk with a huge profit margin.
While I've only seen this label on the Kaettekita Mario, I'm sure somebody else must have seen or owned one or more of these in their time?



Since I'm new here, maybe this post is stupid and this is all very common knowledge? I bumped this old post because I couldn't find much info on all the official label variations such as the above.

Parodius Duh

The printed labels are less common, but they are so damn dull looking it really doesnt make them more collectible.

Phosphora

Quote from: Parodius Duh on May 06, 2012, 02:31:26 pm
The printed labels are less common, but they are so damn dull looking it really doesnt make them more collectible.


I can hear ya' there. I kind of like how they have that Sample/prototype "look" to them.

fredJ

I gave you the same answer in a different thread where you asked the same question, if you read it.  :D
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Phosphora

Quote from: fredJ on May 07, 2012, 03:33:16 am
I gave you the same answer in a different thread where you asked the same question, if you read it.  :D

Thanks.
In the other thread I was asking about the value/rarity of original full color labels vs blank labels, but in this thread I was asking about the printed blank labels vs absolutely blank labels since I couldn't find any discussion on said printed label variations. I don't think it's the same question, but it does indeed seem that the answers are generally the same.  :-[