Is it worth it?

[livefastdiefun87]

Just htought I would start a thread where before purchasing people can ask the opinion of the other forum members. Ill start

All night nippon cart only $40 is it worth it?

[JC]

It probably a pirate at that price, so no. Don't pay more than $1 for a pirate disk.

[livefastdiefun87]

its from toysonlinehk if that helps

[ericj]

All night nippon cart only $40 is it worth it?

I assume you mean "disk", not "cart". It's not worth it for a copied disk, unless you want to play it that badly.

[JC]

http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=1267.msg30390#msg30390

Didn't notice you said cart. If it's a cart, it's worth more than $40.

[livefastdiefun87]

Sorry its FDS he says

"Guarantee Original Nintendo Famicom disk "

What would you say

[xyzzy32]

I'm 95% sure his disks are genuine disk writer copies... the ones I have bought have the true "Nintendo" logo, they're yellow, and they look and function identically to official Nintendo-brand disks. That's not too bad a deal, although I don't see why you'd want one of these, unless you're a serious collector...

[ericj]

The disks are original, as in a real Nintendo disk--I've bought a few off him before. It's just that they're not original from Nintendo with that game on them.  Syzygy01 is right, they're probably disk writer games. Guess someone has access to a Disk Writer    Wish I did!

I guess we could just ask him if he copies them himself, or buy two copies of a game where you name your character and see if they have the same saved character names on them.

[JC]

No. They're pirated. The disks themselves -- as in the yellow plastic -- are authentic Nintendo. If you know how to write disks, it isn't much trouble to pirate your own games onto authentic Nintendo disks. These are not Disk Writer games, as I think it was confirmed a long time ago (by featherpluck) that All Night Nippon was never commercially available on Disk Writers. (Feather could have been wrong, I guess.) Someone somewhere took the All Night Nippon .FDS image and used their rudimentary writing software and setup to write these games, place terrible labels and then distribute them, for sale or otherwise.

Maybe toysonlinehk will confirm otherwise. I'd be surprised to discover that: 1) Nintendo somehow lost track of one of its Disk Writers (and it ended up in Hong Kong perhaps with toysonlinehk), and 2) that toysonlinehk would be able to write All Night Nippon's .FDS image to one of the yellow Nintendo carts that the Disk Writer used to write games. Possible, but very unlikely.

BTW: Toysonlinehk doesn't exactly lie in his quoted statement above.

[keiffer01]

I bought a Doki Doki Panic game from him a couple of months ago. When I played the game, the game was already one world finished for the mom/luigi character. I thought it was weird, so I turned on my psp and...just as I thought. The rom I'd downloaded for my psp had the exact same game progress as the disk I had just bought. So I think he does pirate the disks. It must be the same rom file I downloaded for my psp that he wrote on that disk.

[toysonlinehk]

I got over 2000 famicom disk in my stock , when we got time , we will check and test what game is inside the disk . if the lable and the game inside , we will just keep it as what it is . if the game inside the disk was not match the lable , we will just tear the lable off and put a white lable on it with the game name .

we got over 20 doki doki panic on our stock , some of it got no data , some got level 1 some already finished .  we will just test it is work . I wish I got a disk writer too .
so I can be a rich man

keiffer01

the game data from simulator  for psp cannot copy to a famicom disk , their data wasn't the same . even with a disk writer . it cannot use on a famicom disk . don't make rumour I make private games and sell .
Thank you .

[toysonlinehk]

forgot , people had sense will know that rom file for simulator are different from the original games . they cannot just burn into a ic to use on the original system . , it had chaged to zipe format .

[JC]

Ah ok. That makes sense. So you don't write games. I think a lot of members on this site want to learn how to write games -- that's why they would be interested in knowing if you knew how.

And perhaps, because toysonlinehk didn't write these, that they are Disk Writer releases. We need to reconfirm that.

[toysonlinehk]

I buy all my items from end user . I got a parnter in Japan to collect all this for me from end user .
with a system and many games , many of the games had been used many times and many different labels on it .  you can't believe what the label on the disk . since many people just want to play the games . they will just take their old disk to rewrite their game at 500 yen on thier old disk .  that why you will see so many loose disk on the market .

when i got all my disk system , I will open it to change the belt and clear the head and correct the speed of the motor .
and we will check what's the game inside the disk . if they are not match the label , we print a white label with the correct name .
then we use another 2 system to test the game . since after rewrite , some of the game will not work on all disk sytem . becasue of the writers' speed . if it cannot past 3 system , we will consider it is a dead disk .