The future of PCB's

[Magic Knight]

hah, I agree on the $200 price, seems fair. I know because something is in demand it might go up, but whats with the £250 dangun feverons too? Jesus.

Japanese PCB shops?

Some of the prices on the Fujita list I get sent through make the mind boggle. Is there a PCB drought over there or something?

I had trouble adjusting to the prices over here for a while (and still get surprised sometimes). Shops will always charge a premium, but they will sort your problems for you, as long as it's not GFront. I got Dragon Breed recently from MAK with a sound problem. So it's back with them for repair and they're paying for postage both ways, so with that kind of service it's worth a bit more sometimes. Auction prices are usually more realistic of course, and you can usually sell the games for the same price you bought them for. These days though, I mostly get my games from overseas as the price difference is usually enormous. I don't mind so much about regions either. When I can get a Nemesis for $50 (in Japan, it's 60,000 yen if you're lucky), and Iron Horse for £26 (Japan, 40,000 yen again) then I don't really mind the extra shipping at all. Not to mention my $80 Gain Ground and £30 Forgotten Worlds. Japanese buyers don't like foreign market PCBs at all, as far as I can tell.

Good prices I got on games at auction include: Double Dragon (4,100), Robocop (5000), Momoko 120% (25000) etc., prices well below shop prices.

[Skykid]

Japanese buyers don't like foreign market PCBs at all, as far as I can tell.

Gaijin PCB's.

[neorichieb1971]

Japanese don't buy anything foreign do they? Even seen a Rover 216si or a Chevy Malibu round that way?

[Skykid]

Japanese don't buy anything foreign do they?

No point, all their stuff is better anyway.

[dcharlie]

These days though, I mostly get my games from overseas as the price difference is usually enormous. I don't mind so much about regions either. When I can get a Nemesis for $50 (in Japan, it's 60,000 yen if you're lucky), and Iron Horse for £26 (Japan, 40,000 yen again) then I don't really mind the extra shipping at all. Not to mention my $80 Gain Ground and £30 Forgotten Worlds. Japanese buyers don't like foreign market PCBs at all, as far as I can tell.

yeah, it's insane - got Alien Syndrome for $5 , fully working via auction, yet it's a 30k yen board.

Phoenix is even weirder - they are pretty much given away in western auctions, yet even the western versions go for daft money in Mak/Try/Gfront.

The biggest mind boggler for me is Scramble at 80k in Gfront... i'm not sure where that price is coming from!

[Magic Knight]

These days though, I mostly get my games from overseas as the price difference is usually enormous. I don't mind so much about regions either. When I can get a Nemesis for $50 (in Japan, it's 60,000 yen if you're lucky), and Iron Horse for £26 (Japan, 40,000 yen again) then I don't really mind the extra shipping at all. Not to mention my $80 Gain Ground and £30 Forgotten Worlds. Japanese buyers don't like foreign market PCBs at all, as far as I can tell.

yeah, it's insane - got Alien Syndrome for $5 , fully working via auction, yet it's a 30k yen board.

Phoenix is even weirder - they are pretty much given away in western auctions, yet even the western versions go for daft money in Mak/Try/Gfront.

The biggest mind boggler for me is Scramble at 80k in Gfront... i'm not sure where that price is coming from!

I was thinking of selling my Alien Syndrome, but it looks like a non-Japanese version, but with no suicide chip, so it's difficult to know what kind of money I'd get for it.

What kind of money are we talking about for Phoenix, I paid 120 quid for mine many years ago.

I think the psychedelic colours in Scramble went to their heads maybe. Another one I'm looking for overseas.

[dcharlie]

What kind of money are we talking about for Phoenix, I paid 120 quid for mine many years ago.

i got two Phoenix boards together - both working, one needs a volume knob replaced - for $69.

When i first got a supergun when i got to Japan i paid 40k for Phoenix, since then i've seen it crop back up for 65k for the original, though i know GFront had a couple for 20k a a couple of months or so ago (1 copy board, 1 foreign board at the same price!). i asked for a demo, either the boards didn't work or the harness was busted. I was asked if i wanted the boards without a test and without a harness. I didn't bother, then ordered the two online. 20k was cheaper than i'd seen - but 20k for a board that might not work? no thanks -especially- from Gfront.

[Magic Knight]

What kind of money are we talking about for Phoenix, I paid 120 quid for mine many years ago.

i got two Phoenix boards together - both working, one needs a volume knob replaced - for $69.

When i first got a supergun when i got to Japan i paid 40k for Phoenix, since then i've seen it crop back up for 65k for the original, though i know GFront had a couple for 20k a a couple of months or so ago (1 copy board, 1 foreign board at the same price!). i asked for a demo, either the boards didn't work or the harness was busted. I was asked if i wanted the boards without a test and without a harness. I didn't bother, then ordered the two online. 20k was cheaper than i'd seen - but 20k for a board that might not work? no thanks -especially- from Gfront.

Great, thanks for that. Mine is the Centuri licensed version. I might see if I can sell it at auction, start at 10,000 and hope for the best. It's fully working with a harness so it might go well. Spent the weekend taking pictures of many boards. Took ages to set up both Defender and Stargate and get decent pictures of them. Hope to sell them when I manage to write up about them properly.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Isn't the barebones Data East produced Darwin 4078 PCB for sale at 17,800 yen at G-Front? I've got one with original instruction manual + two orignal arcade paperworks and paid way below that asking price. If they still have it in stock, it would be for a barebones PCB as it is.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~