J_Wil wrote:I was forced to move to Japan by the good ol' Navy last year and even though the job is shit the game collecting has far exceeded what I had imagined and I'm happy for the experience because of it. Honestly, I could be excited to show off something I found pretty much every week but I had the best find (dollar for dollar) of my life a couple of weeks ago. I found a copy of Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire for ¥500 ($4.53 US) and the week prior to that I got some other PC Engine goodies super cheap at the same store. Behold -
WOW! No bar code stamped on the inner ring of the disc, looks legit! Is that a game manual inside the case? I think the repressings did not have a manual.JoeAwesome wrote:If this guide is correct, Sapphire could be a bootleg. Still, it's not a bad price at all for the lot if it ends up being high-quality reproductions.
Tanooki wrote:Images aside, if you read the descriptive about the disc itself and the ring, ring code and the rest they're a 100% match for his $5 pick up. The artwork looks right there too, doesn't look like a fraud to me at all, and even if the color is off a hair we're looking at an old image where a photoshop app could have messed with saturation a bit, and if not the newer image could also have a color shift to the game just having seen a light touch of UV at some point too. It really seems to be a match and I've seen enough examples of boots pop up in the history of that pcengine fx forums before. I'm no expert as I don't own it, but all the others who point out obvious vs less obvious stuff makes me think it's a steal of a lifetime there at $5.
mjmjr gave me a reproduction of Ginga Fukei Densetsu Saphire right here on Racketboy. He had access to some of the well made pressings, but that was years ago. I do not own a PC Engine, but the disc plays just fine emulated on a PC computer with Magic Engine Emulator.
mjmjr25 wrote:So, after getting a bit annoyed at people admittedly selling these for money on ebay, i've decided to source a few more and will give them away to racket members.
The original game is quite pricey; a 3rd party named Care4Data produced some repressings and not clear if authorized by Huson or NEC. The disc is not a CDR, but an actual pressing, I wrote a guide on it back in 2012. Great info from Breetai in the replies at the thread.
Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire - A Bootleg worth collecting?
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=618156#p618156
