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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 11:28:17 GMT
I have an idea to expand the forum with a new category, as you can read in the title. Many people here are able to make homebrew games and reproductions. I like it, cause it holds the Master System still alive! Japanese SMS games on a western cartridge, Mark III games, Game Gear or other projects could be presented here by their creators/reproducers. Other forum members could present their repro collections with pictures. But if I should be someone, I would be proud of my projects. To share pictures and informations about my repros, and getting positive comments from other SMS collectors would be very cool for me. Of course it needs little rules, cause this will be no shop! This poll will be closed in a week from now. So let´s talk about it EDIT: Please note - I don´t want to push "illegal things". Duplicating rare SMS games is bad and selling them is even more bad (selling fakes s*cks!"). My goal is, that everyone may show his creations and talk about it with other members, getting compliments and so on - A enjoyable thing Cheers, Gordman
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Post by Private Joker on May 17, 2012 11:44:56 GMT
I voted yes. It would be nice to see an overview of what is out there. Seeing as it wouldn't be a market place, there shouldn't be limited access. This way, it would be more difficult for the eBay entrepreneurs to get profit out of the hard labor that's been put in these repros or homebrews.
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Post by Retrobob on May 17, 2012 12:01:09 GMT
Homebrew yes, repro NO
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 12:09:54 GMT
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Post by Private Joker on May 17, 2012 12:30:13 GMT
If it's only homebrew, then there is only the one Digger Chan for me as I don't play on emulators. I welcome all repros if they are bringing me games I'd normally wouldn't get the chance to play.
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Post by playgeneration on May 17, 2012 14:12:09 GMT
I'd rather see more encouragement of homebrews than reproductions. I've gone off the idea of repros quite a lot, which might sound weird since I pretty much started them off on the SMS and particularly did on the Mega Drive. But there is a moral issue of people making money from games they had no involvement in, sure it may not always be much money and for me it wasn't, but its something I've wanted to distance myself from doing. Then people are making repros of games that were released, and its becoming increasingly easier to do so at a level where its hard to to discern the difference, at least in small ebay photos. That is something I'm not keen on at all, its damaging to the retro gaming community, as people get ripped off by these games at some point. I can't see the appeal of owning a repro of a rare game, from a collectors point of view its always going to be that fake game spoiling the collection. If you just want to play the game, then you really have to think about taking the route of using a flash cart, as then you can play all the games you want. I'd rather put efforts into making brand new games than simply bootlegging other peoples. Its more special in my mind, and more deserving of putting on its own physical cartridge. Not that I'm totally against repros, they can be really cool when the effort is put in to them, but stick to the unreleased/translated games please!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 15:02:17 GMT
Ok, I understand. I have only the Smurfs 2 repro, but that´s not a shame for me. When I talk about reproductions, I mean to put Game Gear, Mark III/japanese games on western cartridges for playing it on the Master System. This is the point behind my idea for such a section!Duplicating rare SMS games like Power Strike 2, 4 Pak All Action or something is really stupid, this is absolutely correct. I hope you guys understand my real idea better now
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Post by Aypok on May 17, 2012 16:08:39 GMT
Can't this all be handled as part of the "Master System Development" forum.
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Post by K1ngArth3r on May 17, 2012 16:14:17 GMT
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Post by Tears of Opa-Opa on May 17, 2012 16:16:46 GMT
I put yes, it never hurts to be informed. The real problem with repos is when someone tries to pass it off as real and makes money on it.
I think it may be a bigger problem in Europe. I've read stories here about fake inserts and stuff. I've never really had that problem but I don't think there's much worth trying to fake in what I collected.
I know in some of the other things I collect repos have literally ruined the hobby. You have to know a large set of details in order to weed them out. Most video game repos and home brew seem obvious to me. It might not be a bad idea to have a section on how to spot fakes but the problem with that is you're also informing the fakers on how to do a better job.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 18:10:49 GMT
@tears of Opa-Opa: Good point. I think, when someone makes a reproduction for me, it´s a big sign of friendship. A section with limited access could limit the fakers, but everyone could register and take a look then Creators could post photos, but they haven´t to reveal any important informations Aypok & K1ngArth3r: It would be ok. My oppinion with an own category for it was, that everyone can open a topic with his pictures and infos (if he likes). Similar to "The Games" category.
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Post by Retrobob on May 17, 2012 18:59:26 GMT
I'm all in favour of homebrew and getting stuff working that would't have otherwise, but what I find repulsive is people reproducing commercially available games.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 19:10:21 GMT
And this is absolutely ok Bob.
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Post by Retrobob on May 17, 2012 19:57:54 GMT
As an example of a good thing - meu2 made a fantastic Sonic Triple Trouble (and even gave it to me as a gift).
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Post by Private Joker on May 17, 2012 19:59:41 GMT
Why would you find that repulsive? What meu2 did for me, himself and others is make a game available to me that I wouldn't have been able to play otherwise. It doesn't take away any profit from the developers since they're long gone bankrupt, are dead or retired filthy rich. The games are not commercially available anymore if you take the definition literally...
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