Counterfeit Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire Warning

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:51 pm

DC906270 wrote:It is kind of awful the way as soon as you peel the shrink wrap from a sealed game, about 40% of the value will fall off

Yup. That goes for almost every single video game ever made though. It's indeed a shame.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:18 pm

Are these counterfeit copies still playable?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:00 pm

ZeetherKID77 wrote:Are these counterfeit copies still playable?

Yup, just like CDR copies of Sapphire are playable. Don't spend money on it though.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:49 pm

I see someone has opened another thread about Sapphire fakes. Not sure if this link is of use to anyone, but Lee at videogameimports.com had problems with snides back in '02. Sorry if this has already been posted.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:13 am

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 528#382528

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:24 pm

Addendum:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... ckAsSeller

Seems that didn't go so well

Justice prevails.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:11 am

wow. I wonder what the story on the re-shrinkwrapped one was.

orange · Post by **orange** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:03 am

Ceph wrote:Well, no video game is worth $350 just for its gameplay

verily disagreeing

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:16 am

orange wrote:
Ceph wrote:Well, no video game is worth $350 just for its gameplay
verily disagreeing

Me too. I was young and innocent when I wrote this ~3 years ago. There are some incredibly good games that warrant such a high pricetag, albeit not very many. With every new generation the ratio of great games to flashy ones is getting worse. The gameplay of most modern games isn't worth more than $1.50, at best.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:29 am

Battlesmurf wrote:wow. I wonder what the story on the re-shrinkwrapped one was.

Probably BS the buyer made up after reading that he made a really dumb mistake.

orange · Post by **orange** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:33 am

Ceph wrote:
orange wrote:
Ceph wrote:Well, no video game is worth $350 just for its gameplay
verily disagreeing
Me too. I was young and innocent when I wrote this ~3 years ago. There are some incredibly good games that warrant such a high pricetag, albeit not very many. With every new generation the ratio of great games to flashy ones is getting worse. The gameplay of most modern games isn't worth more than $1.50, at best.

my bad for not looking at the post date

but yeah there's not a lot of games that meet that criteria, but the ones that do i'd gladly pay that much (or more) for in the case that i had to

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:41 am

$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much. Not because I'm utterly broke, but because I just couldn't bring myself to fork out that kind of cash for a game. The most I ever paid for a game, was $115 for Thunder Force V's Special Pack shortly after it first came out (and that included a "converter" cart, and fast shipping). Even then, I felt a bit guilty about spending that much money on a game. But $350? There's simply no way I could justify that to myself, no matter how badly I wanted it.

And I'm not even the penny pinching type!

orange · Post by **orange** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:11 am

there's very very few games i'd pay a ton of cash for, but cash spent on something i enjoy is cash well spent

hermosaguy · Post by **hermosaguy** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:19 am

orange wrote:there's very very few games i'd pay a ton of cash for, but cash spent on something i enjoy is cash well spent

I couldn't have put it better myself.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:07 am

Ceph wrote:The gameplay of most modern games isn't worth more than $1.50, at best.

And most oldschool games, to be fair.

I mean, how many times can you jump on a ledge

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:09 am

The Coop wrote:$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much.

Make sure you run away from any affordable super gun.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:39 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
The Coop wrote:$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much.
Make sure you run away from any affordable super gun.

I don't intend to own arcade games. Besides not wanting to pay $100 to $500 for each game, I also don't have the space for arcade board storage... let alone a cabinet set up. I'm not knocking anyone who does collect them, but it's not something I'm interested in.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:24 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
The Coop wrote:$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much.
Make sure you run away from any affordable super gun.

This is a star piece of advice, really!

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:25 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
The Coop wrote:$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much.
Make sure you run away from any affordable super gun.

This is a star piece of advice, really!

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:09 pm

KindGrind wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:
The Coop wrote:$350? For a game?

Um... I couldn't pay that much.
Make sure you run away from any affordable super gun.
This is a star piece of advice, really!

QFT!!

i bought a supergun and a PCB.....2 months later i bought a cab....a few months later i started buyng high priced cave pcbs...now im buying another cab and more cave games......

be afraid...be very afraid.....

arcade games are worse than crack......lolz

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:29 am

second that... it's evil. I got a supergun then bought a few cheap boards like RF ect then I got ESP Galuda 2, that board was the end of sane spending habits for me.

I've now got:

RF1
RF2
Macross
19XX
1944
AvP
Aliens
ESP RaDe
ESP Galuda 2
Guwange
Mushi
Ibara

not anything compared to some but I really had to scrape hard for Mushi and Guwange. Especially that Guwange, I had zero cash to put towards that boad but found it with some of that art and had one of those panic/oh shit moments and comitted to the purchase.

My next way to much for a game purchase..... I REALLY want Mushi 2. Mushi 1 is my favorite board hands down.... I find it so much fun and the bullet patterns on maniac so addictive.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:47 am

Since nobody else would, I did the Wiki entry.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:05 am

We only THINK we know how to spot counterfeits...at the price that thing goes for, there's lots of reason to keep trying to make better ripoffs

I think I'll start demanding receipts and track data CRCs

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:03 am

Well, as long as they don't own a CD manufacturing plant, there's no way they can totally fake somebody out.

mitsuruga · Post by **mitsuruga** » Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:35 pm

uperpcenginegrafx.net/sapcomp2.html

"The original has HCD5080 printed on the middle left of the top side and HRH800925-1SAAS"

is it possible, that those two indicators have different positions on the ring?

I have seen different pictures of the ring (allegedly real not fake) and HCD5080 and HRH800925-1SAAS were positioned differently.

PerishedFraud ឵឵ · Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:04 pm

14 years

mitsuruga · Post by **mitsuruga** » Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:09 pm

In the future?!

BareKnuckleRoo · Post by **BareKnuckleRoo** » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:19 pm

I'd be OK with this bump if the link actually worked.

You'll want to fix the typo in the URL and put the [url] tag around it to make it clickable.

mitsuruga · Post by **mitsuruga** » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:38 pm

yeah, so back to my question:

uperpcenginegrafx.net/sapcomp2.html

"The original has HCD5080 printed on the middle left of the top side and HRH800925-1SAAS"

is it possible, that those two indicators have different positions on the ring?

I have seen different pictures of the ring (allegedly real not fake) and HCD5080 and HRH800925-1SAAS were positioned differently.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Tue Jan 18, 2022 12:00 am

So guys, I heard there's some repros floating around.

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