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There's three arcade games I want because I feel like you just can't replicate the experience at home, and Time Crisis is one of them.
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cj iwakura wrote:
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There's three arcade games I want because I feel like you just can't replicate the experience at home, and Time Crisis is one of them.
Not the same experience, but it's a nice port for the system that controls with one of the more accurate home light guns around. Not to mention that it was dirt cheap too.
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Picked up a retrobit wireless sega saturn controller . Very stoked it matches the skeleton saturn so nicely
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Also picked up The world of Edena by one of my all time favorite artists - Moebius
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Fun trade with a guy in Australia. All handheld games are legit AU/EU releases, N64 games are Japanese.

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AKRATEN wrote:Also picked up The world of Edena by one of my all time favorite artists - Moebius
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Super cool one this. I've bought the Polish print as soon as it was out there, surprisingly many years ago, actually. Am about to dig it out just so I can make sure as to what year it was, exactly.

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Since the one I've got with my PS3 is no longer operational, out of a sudden.

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I've been terribly into Masses, as of late.

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Next one fiend of mine is likely going to be the F. Liszt, you just wait.

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Expectations
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Vs. reality
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Berumondo more like BeruPLAY-DOH mirite Image

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Who did the figure and how much was it?

I was all excited to get pics of my cib Duo R that came in but it doesn't work. :(
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It's an Amiibo, so it's very cheap. I don't give a crap about Smash Bothers, so this is the only reason I wanted Castlevania in there XD

I actually ordered this (along with the Richter one) over a year ago, and when it became clear they wouldn't be getting them, the store called me and asked me if they should cancel the order (which I told them to do), so I'm kinda surprised they sent me this anyway.
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Oh I should have noticed the Amiibo base. For shame...

I just had a figure order canceled twice but in this case it was me trying to use a proxy for a specific webstore, then that webstore blocked proxies. I find the figure later on Japanese Mercari and place an order with my proxy, it sells by the time they go to order it. RIP ME.
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Still waiting on a lot of it to arrive but in the past month:

Flea market finds
-Two Sharp NES "Game Television" controllers in a filthy $50 lot with stuff like Mega Mouse, Mega Fire, Light Phaser, etc
-3D Glasses adapter for Master System
-Atari lot containing 100% complete CIB SwordQuest WaterWorld for $35
-Complete CIB Atari 7800 Commando for $40
-Light-sixer 2600 lot
-Vader 2600 lot
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eBay (most earning +8-10% eBay Bucks and partially paid for with eBay Bucks and other promos)
-verified-original CIC Akumajou Dracula X Chi no Rondo for $100.51 (well, ordered in Sept but only just arrived)
-Boxed SuperGrafx for $20
-CIC Arcade Card Pro for $76
-Tetris Attack NFR for $49
-Super System Card 3.0 for $25
-Sega Saturn 3D control pad (Japanese white version) for $5.50
-Indigo Game Boy Player for $7.50
-Neo Geo CD Controller Pro for $27.77
-Super Mario Bros. 2-J FDS disk for $9.77
-PC Engine multi-tap for $0.75
-New, boxed, PC Engine Avenue Pad 3 for $20.50
-Midnight Blue Japanese N64 with matching controller (will install a spare UltraHDMI kit)
-Nunja Ryukenden (Ninja Gaiden) FC for $4.77
-Complete SFC Panel de Pon for $3.80 (favorite game; already had a loose copy)
-3DO "Digital Stick" arcade stick for $9.26
-Boxed FDS system for $6.50
-Loose Mega Man X3 SFC for $9.50 (plan to translate/patch to SNES version)
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Facebook marketplace:
-NES Ghoul School CIB, NES Kickmaster, CIB Saturn Action Replay, and NES Star Voyager CIB for $150

Salvage stores:
-Sealed Neo Geo Mini for $53.90 after 20% discount
-Silhouette Cameo 3 plotter cutter for $75 (screw loose inside; repaired; will use for making game stuff)
-Tons of 3DS Hey Pikmin! for $5 each and a bunch of $2.50-$3 Mario beanies (intend to use as freebies for people I trade with)
Lots and lots and lots of 3D printer filament (use mostly on game stuff)
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...and a lot more I'm forgetting. :) Stand-outs are obviously WaterWorld and the Sharp NES "Game Television" controllers. Incredible finds but nothing like the NES games we found there last year... if you remember those. ;)
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I'm sure most people in here have tried accidentally buying a game that they already own. It's the big problem of having huge collections, and it happens to me from time to time, even though I'm tracking everything online.

I just made probably the dumbest one yet... Intrigued by BIL's review of Veigues in the recent PC Engine thread, I went out and bought that game... completely forgetting that I already got that game less than a month earlier. It's even in that picture I posted a couple of pages back.
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Rad game, keep one copy nearby in case of wet concrete Image Image
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Yeah, I accidentally bought three copies of the same book recently. They all had different covers :oops:
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I'VE NEVER DONE THAT. NEVER.

*looks over on shelf at multiple copies of the same anime*

I believe I have some number of movies on LD/DVD/BD as well...
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LOL! Well, there is that time I deliberately bought dupes of NES Golf and Roller Games simply because they weighed more than my shelf copies. Totally don't regret it since it turned out they were drug mules.

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No, I didn't throw a party, but the video went viral and I got my $10-worth of excitement out of it. :)

...but, yeah, tons and tons of dupes just from condition upgrades and buying lots to fill holes or get mod/repair spares.

I did accidentally buy a manual for NES Goal! a few weeks ago only to find I already had it. :(
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I try to quickly sell my duplicates when I get condition upgrades but sometimes I forget.

Got a really nice package coming from our very own BulletMagnet. Will post pics when it arrives.
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Ha, I remember seeing that come up with the drugs. Did you ever find out what was inside? I assume they were just sadly taken away before the mystery was uncovered.
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Wasn't that years ago? I seem to vaguely remember having seen the originl post.
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drauch wrote:Ha, I remember seeing that come up with the drugs. Did you ever find out what was inside? I assume they were just sadly taken away before the mystery was uncovered.
Because of the amount it was sent off to Georgia Bureau of Investigation but one of the responding Newnan PD officers, Krause, now works for GBI as a drug investigator/specialist. Earlier this year his former boss from NPD, SGT Robinson, began working a side job with my employer. I asked Robinson what it was so he reached out to Krause. Krause texted back to say "Knowing what I know now, it was Fentanyl."

I don't even think Fentanyl has a street value since they cut it with other stuff and sell it as Heroin. The street value if it was just traditional Heroin would've been ~$22,600 and Fentanyl is an order of magnitude more potent...
ryu wrote:Wasn't that years ago? I seem to vaguely remember having seen the originl post.
Last year... April 1st of all days! Original post was on NintendoAge where my brother and I shared the discovery before even peeking inside a baggie or calling the police. Considering the date, we had to make sure we wern't being pranked by the flea market vendor (Infinite Games at West GA Flea Market).
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Great story - I hope I never run any primo ching chong chinaman charlie in my rarez :shock: they'll kick the door in and deport my ass faster than you can say Drug Sniffing Dog!

If I didn't know better, I might've thought you played the second-best April Fools' joke on the forum! (second to mine obv, gets em every time :cool:)
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Man, I loooooove that they even got the ring in that picture. A true artist!
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I know right! It actually made me go back and check the real deal, I was like "damn! memory's not what it was!" :shock:
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CZroe wrote:"Knowing what I know now, it was Fentanyl."
Did you leave the seller positive feedback?
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BIL wrote:Great story - I hope I never run any primo ching chong chinaman charlie in my rarez :shock: they'll kick the door in and deport my ass faster than you can say Drug Sniffing Dog!

If I didn't know better, I might've thought you played the second-best April Fools' joke on the forum! (second to mine obv, gets em every time :cool:)
LOL! Years from now when we all forget you'll have to pull this off again with an homage to tubgirl. ;)
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GaijinPunch wrote:
CZroe wrote:"Knowing what I know now, it was Fentanyl."
Did you leave the seller positive feedback?
Well, Dylan didn't need junkies tearing up his shop so I just did some other small favors. ;)

Hopefully repairing a Switch for him this week but the darn replacement USB-C parts are always salvaged/reject even when you go out of your way to order them "new." Three out of five have solder and bent pins so I can only imagine that the other two were rejected before they were ever even attempted to be installed. :(
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drauch wrote:Ha, I remember seeing that come up with the drugs. Did you ever find out what was inside? I assume they were just sadly taken away before the mystery was uncovered.
I think I posted it in this thread. I am CZroe's twin brother and I was with him that day. We used my cash to buy the suspiciously heavy NES games.

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Yup.
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Hah, I saw that one on Reddit and a few other places, it's really been making rounds.
Almost thought your post was a joke, but your username and avatar lines up with one of the guys on NintendoAge, so I'm assuming you're the same person :)

Did you ever find out exactly what chemical it was? :3
Yeah. I was with my twin brother at the flea market on April 1 (HAD to be on that day, right?) when we found the heavy games on the cheap rack at our friend's booth. Our friend couldn't find his gamebit screwdriver, so we bought the games from him and promised to show him whatever we found inside.

Julian / Emmett Turner is my brother (aka "CZroe"). He recorded the video of the cartridge shells being opened and of me cutting into one of the packets.

Police haven't contacted us back. We haven't heard what it is. People have said a dozen different things, but the more authoritative suggestions have said it's heroin.
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CZroe wrote: LOL! Years from now when we all forget you'll have to pull this off again with an homage to tubgirl. ;)
Top tier internet... reminds me of simpler times.
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