so why would a company that presumably never existed and was made up to scam people on the internet also get into the business of manufacturing real famicom multicarts? my hunch is they didn't - the box and label were probably made either by the ebay seller or by some taobao seller they bought the carts from, and they just pulled the Wiioscoo company details off some random website to make it look more "real", or at least more like a real mass-produced pirate product rather than a homemade one (little did they know they'd taken the name of a scam company)
and as for whether the cart pcb itself was a homebrew-ish effort by the same person as the box/label, or if it's actually being mass produced somewhere and they just repackaged it.. i have no idea. mysterious.
(come to think of it, it's also v unusual for a modern boxed pirate cart to come in a cardboard box rather than one of those mega drive-style ones made out of the cheapest plastic in the world)[/quote]The box and labels were NOT made by the ebay seller, I can guarantee that. The carts did come from the mainland though, but apparently some had been circulating around Russia at one point as well, according to some contacts.
Just because Wiioscoo scammed people doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't exist / was only a scam company.
The cart is mass produced, in some quantity, I can tell you that. Also, it includes games from Asder, Sachen, and Waixing.
- taizou
- Dec 4 2014, 06:34:18 PM
so why would a company that presumably never existed and was made up to scam people on the internet also get into the business of manufacturing real famicom multicarts? my hunch is they didn't - the box and label were probably made either by the ebay seller or by some taobao seller they bought the carts from, and they just pulled the Wiioscoo company details off some random website to make it look more "real", or at least more like a real mass-produced pirate product rather than a homemade one (little did they know they'd taken the name of a scam company)<br /><br />and as for whether the cart pcb itself was a homebrew-ish effort by the same person as the box/label, or if it's actually being mass produced somewhere and they just repackaged it.. i have no idea. mysterious.<br /><br />(come to think of it, it's also v unusual for a modern boxed pirate cart to come in a cardboard box rather than one of those mega drive-style ones made out of the cheapest plastic in the world)[/quote]The box and labels were NOT made by the ebay seller, I can guarantee that. The carts did come from the mainland though, but apparently some had been circulating around Russia at one point as well, according to some contacts.
Just because Wiioscoo scammed people doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't exist / was only a scam company.
The cart is mass produced, in some quantity, I can tell you that. Also, it includes games from Asder, Sachen, and Waixing.
Oh, and the cardboard boxes are cheaply made.