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Post by playgeneration on Feb 20, 2010 15:16:21 GMT
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 20, 2010 15:11:39 GMT
Nope, I haven't had any response to my messages from the seller either.
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Feb 18, 2010 12:12:23 GMT
Post by playgeneration on Feb 18, 2010 12:12:23 GMT
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 13, 2010 11:25:48 GMT
The game does indeed play smoother with Asterix, as he is a lot smaller. But its not just the characters that cause slowdown, just look at the backgrounds and how much animation they have on them, in one level theres rain falling, another a big waterfall which is really well animated - probably something you wouldn't see properly unless playing with RGB scart or on emulator. Trust me it does play a lot smoother in 50hz - just like Sonic1 for instance.
Its easily one of the best looking games for the sms, and is very ambitous with what it tries to pull off. The amount of animation on everything, size of characters, it looks great. But the sms lowly CPU just can't keep up with this all the time. But personally I'm happy with the trade off for speed to give a game that mimics its source material so well.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 13, 2010 10:51:36 GMT
Its a European game, and plays more smoothly in 50hz than it does in 60. You can't always attribute slowdown to just 'lazy programming', the game pushing the system hard and it slows down when theres simply a lot happening on screen at once. The Obelix sprite for instance is huge, and has lots of animation. While they could have used smaller character sprites, not use animation on the blocks when you hit them etc, that woud detract form the game for me. A big appeal of the game is how much it looks like the original comics and cartoon films - something the third game with its smaller characters doesn't capture so well.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 11, 2010 19:36:42 GMT
Welcome, your collections off to a good start, some top quality games you have there. Oh and if you've ever drawn any sms related pictures, it would be cool to see them :-)
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 11, 2010 19:29:48 GMT
My Sonic (surprisingly I only have one) has just the normal cart, with 'Made in Japan' as part of the plastic, not a sticker.
But I did just have a look at my Irwin Hangon/Safari Hunt cart, and that has a sticker and accompanying indentation like you describe, except it says 'Made in Hong Kong'. I just thought to look at that game, as its insert is so different. But I'm pretty sure most all carts are made in Japan, and don't have that sticker indent thing, it can't be too common a trait or I would have noticed before.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 11, 2010 14:31:24 GMT
From your description, yours will be original. You can't fake the metallic grid lines of the box insert, or really the type of paper.
A fake one will stand out a mile when put next to any other card games. That is it will stand out when looking with your own eyes, a photograph is very misleading as a camera's lens picks up colours differently to the human eye. I took a few photos of the hangon I got with my other card games, and in the photos the difference wasn't all that much, but when looking at them myself it was huge. Common white printing paper makes a genuine sms insert look really dirty by comparison, even though they look white when viewed on their own.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 10, 2010 16:38:15 GMT
I just got the game. And as suspected, its got to be a fake. It is a pretty convincing one though, the quality of the print out is very high indeed, looks like it was done with a top laser printer.
What the guy has sneakily done to make it look more authentic, is to artificially age it all. Several grubby marks have been purposely left and light scratches made on both insert and manual. Also the manual has been bent around to make it look like it has been read several times.
So if it looks old, how can we be sure it isn't? Well most glaringly the paper is all wrong. Stick the box and manual next to genuine ones, and the colour difference is massive, this hang-on is ultra bright white, not the off-white it ought to be. Also when you look closely at the print, its slightly textured, which shouldn't be the case. Even the insert I got isn't cut out perfectly straight, and looks like it was done by hand with scissors. The paper used is exactly the same for both the insert and the manual, its matte instead of glossy and very much thinner than it should be.
The silver grid of the original insert that the seller scanned to create this would have been shiny. And because of this the printed insert has slight gaps in the grid lines where light has been reflected.
In this printed manual you can still see the staple holes from the original scanned manual, off center and not covered by the staples put in.
If all that wasn't enough, most damning is the simple fact the seller sold two of them at once, and lied about the fact that the top bidder on ebay actually bought it and instead told me he hadn't.
Effort has clearly gone into this to deliberately fool buyers, and I guess some people would buy and not realize its a fake. Since a loose German hang on card can be bought very cheaply, and a lesser wanted card game like Super Tennis the same for its box, the print outs themselves probably next to nothing, there must be an easy 40 euro profit a time in this for that seller.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 8, 2010 17:52:13 GMT
I had a vision last night of a game about a blue or purple hedgehog who had super sonic speed. I am going to call it Sonic... Who wants to play as a hedgehog?, eating snails, and spending yor time avoiding cars and your home being used as a bonfire. I have an idea though, how about a game featuring a plumber. Except this plumber doesn't actually do any work, never touches a blocked toilet or ventures near a sewer. Instead you go around stealing coins and stamping on turtles and other endangered creatures, killing them because some princess enjoys watching animal cruelty. Also you eat magic mushrooms, and in you drugged up state you think you are twice as big and have special powers.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 6, 2010 20:28:34 GMT
Is it the same person though? as Pr3ston posted a link to the auction me and drrotule both ended up buying, but then said in the same thread that it wasn't him selling it.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 6, 2010 20:24:34 GMT
To me it still looks a slightly red/pink shade of grey. It is surprising how the sun can fade colours, often people think they have found a unqiue game cover, but when you look carefully you can see its just one or more colours have faded. It is quite possible that it was a mistake when it was made like you say, not every sms cart sticker is the same shade of red even when new.
Your collection looks very nice in the background of the video you made, very well organised :-)
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 6, 2010 18:02:05 GMT
20£ only for the bank transfer??? In france bank transfers are free for european countries.. Yep £20 for the transfer alone, banks in the UK like to rip us off where they can. Add that to the game price and postage, and thats nearly £80 I've blown on this! I really shouldn't have got carried away with buying it when realising it would cost so much. I blame the fact it was late and I was tired having just come home from work when I got the email offering it to me.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 6, 2010 17:49:00 GMT
If it was a seller from any other country I would never have done a bank transfer but insisted on paypal instead. What makes it worse is my bank charged me £20 just to do the transfer.
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Post by playgeneration on Feb 6, 2010 13:13:26 GMT
I presume you paid by bank transfer too?
A thought just occurred to me, isn't the boxed Hang-On card sold in Germany, actually in German language? And its the Australian version that has the insert and manual in English? This is from a German ebay seller after all.
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