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Pirate Discussion => Pirated Game Museum => Topic started by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 03:16:21 AM

Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 03:16:21 AM
Not much goes into starting a wiki, and I mentioned having this idea, so I made it.

http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/Pirated_Game_Museum_Wiki (http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/Pirated_Game_Museum_Wiki)

Not complete or anything, but no point holding it back, since putting pics up one by one is very time consuming, especially since I have to look for them, then save them, then upload. Too bad wiki doesn't let you just type the link to the pic instead of having to save  <_<

Obviously there's a TON of pictures out there to find, so if anyone is ever bored, this is a fun way to kill time! I'm sure everyone here can probably find ways to better improve it, I'll continue that myself as much as I can. I'm still getting used to it.

Lots to get to!
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on March 19, 2011, 03:32:21 AM
I can take a pic of all my games, this evening. Also I sent you the 2 missing but you didn't answered...
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 03:38:15 AM
Oops, I saw but I guess it slipped my mind to respond :x Sorry! I'll try shipping your games Monday ;)

I need help btw. Anyone familiar with Wiki able to tell me why Categories don't seem to work on the site? Each time I scroll over one it says page doesn't exist, and takes me to editing it. I choose publish yet I go back and again it says it doesn't exist. Confusing the hell outta me.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 19, 2011, 06:46:25 AM
Sonison? Obviously an edit of NT's Somari cart, unless it's the other way round.

BTW, I own pirate copies of a few official games, namely Lupin Sansei, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Tom & Jerry. In fact, the former comes in the same cart shape (and colour) to the Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle pirate.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Brn89 on March 19, 2011, 07:32:21 AM
Two Wikis on pirate games? Sounds cool... although I assume this one is all about just pictures of the carts but I may be wrong.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 08:08:29 AM
Yeah, it's not any sort of other version of Bootleg Games. It's mainly to just so everyone can see all the crazy different label variants that exist for all pirates out there. Specifically pirates of official games too, Bootleg Games is where I'll put pics of unlicensed games still, and don't see any real reason why anything that has an entry on the wiki here needs one at the other one.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 19, 2011, 09:03:20 AM
Well in that case, CaH4e3's site has loads of label variants just so you know.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: codeman38 on March 19, 2011, 12:19:57 PM
Cheetahmen
Mar 19 2011, 06:46:25 AM
Sonison? Obviously an edit of NT's Somari cart, unless it's the other way round.[/quote]That, or they're both stolen from a still-unknown 3rd source.

The illustration of Sonic and Tails is definitely taken from the Japanese Sonic 2 cart (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sonic-the-hedgehog-2/cover-art/gameCoverId,45783/) - wonder where they got that background from, though, because that's definitely not from it.

Incidentally, that's not the only place where Banana Prince has been misidentified as Sonic; the multicart in which Dragon's Lion King 5 was first discovered also has Banana Prince listed as Sonic.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 19, 2011, 12:27:35 PM
codeman38
Mar 19 2011, 12:19:57 PM
The illustration of Sonic and Tails is definitely taken from the Japanese Sonic 2 cart (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sonic-the-hedgehog-2/cover-art/gameCoverId,45783/) - wonder where they got that background from, though, because that's definitely not from it.[/quote]Given what NT are like, they probably just made a background completely at random and stuck Sonic and Tails on it. Then again, it's probably from some obscure Backgammon game I've never heard of.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: codeman38 on March 19, 2011, 12:42:56 PM
Also, someone with admin-ly powers really needs to add a menu to the top bar with links to Systems, Publishers, etc. - there's currently no way to find the actual game listings other than the "latest activity" section.

Actually, the categories that are there probably need to be organized into super-categories like Systems, Publishers, Developers, etc. Currently there's no overarching category that contains, for instance, both "Famicom" and "SNES".
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 19, 2011, 12:57:25 PM
One thing that's for sure (IMO) is that the articles need some short descriptions for those who aren't familiar with the original game. Nothing fancy, just basic info like the year the game was released and what console(s) it was made for. Oh, and in the case of TV/movie licenses, it's a good idea to name the company it's licensed from.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on March 19, 2011, 02:28:27 PM
Does the website include rerelease of unlicensed games ?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: KingPepe on March 19, 2011, 07:21:30 PM
I endorse this wiki all the way. You want me to make some sort of sub-forum for it or do you think this topic is good enough?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 08:36:11 PM
Maybe a sub-forum would be cool :)

And if anyone wants to help, tell me how to make you an admin heh. I'm still new to this and am not too sure how to add all the links that make it even possible to navigate, and as has been pointed out, you can't really find anything yet.

MLX, when you say rerelease of unlicensed games I take it you mean like the NT copies of Somari etc.? I assumed any unlicensed games, including hacks of official games like Mario 10, would probably best stay on BootlegGames. That way there's more a separation between the two I think. I dunno, should stuff like that be on the site? You can let me know if you think it'd help more :)

Edit: Well, just looked and looks like people are adding pics of unlicensed games already =p I guess maybe each  page for anything that has an entry over here can provide a link to the Bootleg Games page for more info That might work.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on March 19, 2011, 11:45:00 PM
i should get to uploading some of the stuff i have :D this is basically the sort of thing i was going to do on my site but yknow, i'm lazy
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 19, 2011, 11:53:57 PM
Well, if you can tell me how to make you an admin, lemme know =p I need someone to fix the site up so it's possible to navigate, and can't figure out how. I figured out how to do redirect pages at least :X
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: KingPepe on March 20, 2011, 12:00:40 AM
Under Special:UserRights page, you can make someone have the rollback ability, be an administrator or be a bureaucrat (administrator who can assign others permissions, note upon making someone a bureaucrat, you CANNOT get rid of that position)
Created sub-forum for Pirated Games Museum, lemme just move this topic...
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 20, 2011, 12:11:22 AM
Got it, thanks! I've added Taizou and Cheetahmen as admins, so whatever you guys think needs to be done, don't hesitate :)
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: KingPepe on March 20, 2011, 12:14:04 AM
By the way, you want me to take the galleries from BootlegGames Wiki, copy them and then put them in the Pirated Game Museum?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 20, 2011, 04:46:42 AM
If it's easy enough I guess it can't hurt.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on March 20, 2011, 05:47:25 AM
I'm going to have fun doing Super Mario Bros. page :p
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on March 20, 2011, 08:02:13 AM
Barver
Mar 20 2011, 12:11:22 AM
Got it, thanks! I've added Taizou and Cheetahmen as admins, so whatever you guys think needs to be done, don't hesitate :)[/quote]thanks! :D i'll get to abusing my power fixing up the navigation and stuff.
oh yeah, i think it'd be better to have the actual images (rather than the game pages) in the publisher categories - that way you get an overview of, say, everything released by NT just by browsing that category, rather than having to click through to each game page to see the NT version.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on March 20, 2011, 12:44:10 PM
Looking at Somari page, do we also put original carts/box ?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: codeman38 on March 20, 2011, 05:02:52 PM
A couple random observations that span multiple pages, so I can't really do these via a Wiki comment:

Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 20, 2011, 05:11:44 PM
That'd make sense, because I know NT called themselves New Game at some point or another, not to mention I've yet to find anyone else produce cart labels that ridiculous looking. (Unless you count Capcom with their Megaman carts :P ) Might be worth pointing out though that the copyright is intact in Lupin Sansei, whereas it isn't in the Tom & Jerry pirate I have, which has an NT ID on it. Although knowing them, they were probably too lazy to hack the copyright.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on March 20, 2011, 06:18:59 PM
codeman38
Mar 20 2011, 05:02:52 PM
Joe & Mac wasn't just popular among pirates as the source of a Mario hack. The title screen hacks in Back Goto Future 4 (http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/Blaster_Master) (sic!) and Tiny Toon 4 (http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bugs_Bunny_Birthday_Blowout) both use a font scavenged from Joe & Mac. And I seem to recall seeing that font in even more pirate title hacks, too.[/quote]
yeah, Turtle Ninja 5 (Toxic Crusaders hack) uses it too, as do a few random hacks on ABL consoles.. and its not just hacks, its also in Bar Room Shootout, a lightgun game possibly by Nice Code that i've got on a couple of famiclones. & Super Mario World uses the 8x8 font from the same game for its copyright screen.
MLX
 
Looking at Somari page, do we also put original carts/box ?[/quote] I'd say add them for unlicensed stuff - the publishers are quite often the same ones releasing pirate carts anyway.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 20, 2011, 08:11:17 PM
taizou
Mar 20 2011, 08:02:13 AM
Barver
Mar 20 2011, 12:11:22 AM
Got it, thanks! I've added Taizou and Cheetahmen as admins, so whatever you guys think needs to be done, don't hesitate :)[/quote]thanks! :D i'll get to abusing my power fixing up the navigation and stuff.
oh yeah, i think it'd be better to have the actual images (rather than the game pages) in the publisher categories - that way you get an overview of, say, everything released by NT just by browsing that category, rather than having to click through to each game page to see the NT version.[/quote]Good idea. I also thought that there should be lists, pretty much like what CaH4e3's site has, that lists each game in order of their ID. The ID lists wouldn't show pics though, but rather be like this:

NT 001 [[Game Name]]

The [[]] around it linking to the game page. Then people can look through the gallery and find for themselves the cart that says ID: NT001. Helpful for keeping track of new discoveries, since as you can tell by looking at CaH4e3's site alone, there's a HUGE amount of game IDs from many publishers still unaccounted for.

I still wonder when I see IDs that go over 8000 or so if the 8 really represents the thousands place, or something else. Cuz that's a hell of a lot of carts in the world if so many publishers went that far.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on March 29, 2011, 02:30:08 AM
Got distracted a bit since my brother visited. Probably will be continuing to post pics mindlessly soon.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: brightentayle on March 31, 2011, 03:10:53 AM
I'm definitely faving this page.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: codeman38 on March 31, 2011, 10:47:10 AM
I continue to be way too amused by how fractally wrong some of these cartridge labels are.

It's especially amazing to me how some bootleggers create perfectly reasonable art, some are off but still understandable, and some are just on some other planet entirely. Like Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (http://piratedgamemuseum.wikia.com/wiki/Kyattou_Ninden_Teyandee). Some of the carts actually feature decent art of the Pizza Cats, one of which isn't even from the original cart. Some of them use pictures of other cats (including Garfield), which is... at least on the right track, if not ideal. And then there are LEE02014 and K1119, which have... foxes. (From works whose names include the word "fox", even.)
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 01, 2011, 01:11:36 AM
I've always been fond of the simplicity of this one:
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110321051603/piratedgamemuseum/images/c/c1/060.jpg)

There is indeed a duck, and judging by the background, there will certainly be some adventures of which some tales can be told. Some piraters know how to convey these titles through such surreal art. It makes you think. Maybe they're deeper than we give them credit for.  :lol:

Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on April 01, 2011, 04:27:42 AM
And sometimes they use completely random material which has nothing to do with the game. Mind you, multicarts are a good way of finding unfitting images and names. I have a 190-in-1 which shows a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog on the front, even though he doesn't actually appear in any of the games. (One of them is called Bedgehog on the menu, but it's just a hack of Super Mario Bros.), a 7-in-1 which shows an image from Star Wars for Bucky O'Hare and the manual for Contra: The Alien Wars for Super Contra 6, a 112-in-1 which has too many errors to list and a 4-in-1 which manages to confuse Knight Rider for Super Mario Kart.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 12, 2011, 07:36:57 AM
Someone sabotaged the site a bit, but they didn't do much. Wondering if it was a bot or not. IP was 122.106.1.163.

Wondering if I should up the security on the site in any way...
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on April 12, 2011, 09:25:50 AM
The IP is owned by an australian website, no idea if many bots are from australia...

http://www.optuszoo.com.au/ (http://www.optuszoo.com.au/) - Provide IP adresses (?)

Here are the related IP Adresses:
211.29.132.105
211.29.133.14
203.2.75.2 (server 1)
203.2.75.12 (server 2)

You can send complaints here:
abuse@optusnet.com.au - No idea if it still works.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 12, 2011, 11:37:13 PM
Can anyone else confirm that you can click the add picture to gallery button and it works? It suddenly refuses to work for me in any browser :(

Edit: It partially works...now whenever I upload a photo it does nothing. I don't have any idea if this has something to do with that person that was doing nonsense last night, or if it's just bad timing for wikia to be glitching up or what  :(
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: MLX on April 13, 2011, 01:21:48 AM
I just uploaded a picture I had on my comp, it worked perfectly
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 13, 2011, 02:51:13 AM
Working for me the past couple hours, no idea what was wrong...
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 14, 2011, 10:13:43 PM
So I'm still proving incompetent to fixing my own wiki :X The Famicom page is still set for deletion thanks to that spammer a couple days back. How do I fix it so it's not a candidate for deletion anymore?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on April 14, 2011, 10:16:37 PM
you just have to remove {{Delete}} from the page. i've done it anyway. :D i swear i'll contribute some of my own stuff soon, when im less busy and all
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 14, 2011, 11:44:18 PM
That shows how bad I am at this, I saw it said to remove {{Delete}}, yet I couldn't even figure out how to do it. I must look the fool haha.

I've still got loads and loads of cart pics I haven't put up yet, I gotta find more other systems though since it's still a famicom. It's been fun since I've been discovering things not seen though, like Donkey Kong Country 4 with an ID of EL-033. Plus the original EWJ2 from Super Game from Sugar softec. And some NT carts not even on CaH4e3's list, which obviously is missing a lot of unaccounted stuff still.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: ThunderBlastMan on April 21, 2011, 05:03:29 PM
There are pirated carts for even licenced games such as Sonic 1, 2, 3, and knucckles. you can find them at sonicology also sonic and knuckles pirates lack the lock on due to lazyness probably or only technology SEGA can handle.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 21, 2011, 05:29:32 PM
Uh...duh? Pirates for licensed carts? You don't say!?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on April 21, 2011, 05:34:31 PM
SUPERSONICDUDE91
Apr 21 2011, 05:03:29 PM
also sonic and knuckles pirates lack the lock on due to lazyness probably or only technology SEGA can handle.[/quote]I'm pretty sure that's both. The extra parts required for the lock-on would be hard to find and rather expensive from what I understand, and pirates tend to the route which benefits them more than anyone.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: ThunderBlastMan on April 30, 2011, 02:34:49 PM
I think you should add gameboy (the original) and gameboy color to the system list
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on April 30, 2011, 08:08:40 PM
I'll do that whenever I start looking for GB carts. I've been on hiatus since I got tired of constantly uploading things, no one else is adding either :x Guess it still needs to get its name out there, but for the moment I'm assuming there's no rush, and I've also been caught up in a game I started playing that takes up a lot of my time lol. I'll probably start putting things up again once it's done.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Doomkid on May 01, 2011, 09:29:37 AM
I would love to add things, but this is the place I come to learn all that I know about pirated games :c..The classic gaming market in Australia is a complete fail. Its hard as hell to find liscensed stuff, and pirates are basically out of the question. There needs to be an ebay user who lives in China or Russia or something who just buys loads of pirated famicom and sega games and re sells them. Id be willing to sped the money for the sake of pirate research, Im actually considering going to russia and going on a big pirate shopping spree xD...

For the sake of research!
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on May 01, 2011, 10:28:01 AM
Faceplant
May 1 2011, 09:29:37 AM
I would love to add things, but this is the place I come to learn all that I know about pirated games :c..The classic gaming market in Australia is a complete fail. Its hard as hell to find liscensed stuff, and pirates are basically out of the question. There needs to be an ebay user who lives in China or Russia or something who just buys loads of pirated famicom and sega games and re sells them. Id be willing to sped the money for the sake of pirate research, Im actually considering going to russia and going on a big pirate shopping spree xD...[/quote]Ditto for the UK. Not quite as bad for me because I happen to live in a dilapidated town with several pawn shops which normally have a few older games for sale, but still. Of course, pirate carts are very rare here as you'd expect. I'd probably go to places where pirate carts are easier to find, but I don't exactly have that kind of money. <_<
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: PlayerSecelt on May 01, 2011, 01:30:57 PM
Same here. Here in Croatia it's the same. Pirated carts are very little known.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Ninja-Kun on May 01, 2011, 02:13:02 PM
It's curious: here in Argentina, everything Famicom and Mega Drive is 100% pirate... literally. However, the games are increasingly harder to find, since those systems are pretty old. Even like that, you can find pirate Famicoms almost everywhere. Now, if I just had the money... I can't believe I lost my Y2K 64-in-1 cartridge which for some reason included Ikki instead of the Donkey Kong Jr. hack which is on the dumped version of the cart XD Not saying it's a rarity... I just like Ikki.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: ThunderBlastMan on July 08, 2011, 09:47:08 PM
Is this wiki still running? Because not to much people add to it.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on July 08, 2011, 09:49:17 PM
I've ignored it for a couple months or more now. It's still there for people to add to, but apparently no one else cares to :x I only stopped since I was the only one adding anything, and it was getting tiring.

Not that I hold that against anyone, I've still got lots more to add but just never have found the motivation to do it yet =p
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: ThunderBlastMan on July 08, 2011, 09:51:02 PM
Ok just checking. But I add alot to it like pages, and more photos :)
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Doomkid on July 09, 2011, 09:11:37 AM
Cheetahmen
May 1 2011, 10:28:01 AM
Ditto for the UK. Not quite as bad for me because I happen to live in a dilapidated town with several pawn shops which normally have a few older games for sale, but still. Of course, pirate carts are very rare here as you'd expect. I'd probably go to places where pirate carts are easier to find, but I don't exactly have that kind of money. <_<[/quote]You know, it's funny, Id have to work over half a year just to save up enough for a plane ticket. But I was thinking... You can buy those games for ~$2 AU, if you convert it to russian rubles and use it over there (ive seen them on Russian sites for that much, but they never seem to ship Dendy games out of Russia...) Maybe I can find a site that does if I keep searching but its starting to seem unlikely. If anyone does find an easy way to order Dendy games online, let us all know please. 0:)  

Think about it, People pay upwards of $60 for these things on ebay, sometimes it gets even more ridiculous than that, simply because they dont know any other way of attaining them. I dont know, It could be a way to pay for a plane ticket and more, in the end. Buy 40 games for less than $100, sell them all on ebay starting at 40 bucks.. they'd go like hotcakes and You'd be raking in the cash. But I havent exactly built up the balls to go on this global venture, just in case it puts me too far in the red with my money.. But it certinaly wouldnt be a waste. If nothing else, I'll have visited Russia, and thats cool in itself. :P
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on July 09, 2011, 09:35:31 AM
there are plenty of agents that will buy stuff online for you from Chinese sites, maybe there are some in Russia too? i didn't find much from a quick google though. afaik its hard for non-Russians to buy from Russian sites directly because paypal doesn't operate there.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on July 10, 2011, 03:58:59 AM
Yeah, Russians can only send paypal but can't receive cash. Stupidity :/ Only option is stupid Western Union, which always no matter what doesn't like the information the seller will give you, and you will have to go through a huge hassle to get it corrected. I hate it.

It'd be great if we had some Russian friends here who could help, there's some things I want to buy but can't since they're Russia only.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Doomkid on July 10, 2011, 04:11:37 AM
Barver
Jul 10 2011, 03:58:59 AM
It'd be great if we had some Russian friends here who could help, there's some things I want to buy but can't since they're Russia only.[/quote]Yeah, Ive just never been too big on buying from China due to the fact that you honestly have no idea if it's going to work at all. Ive ordered many things from there, through easy to use Engrish websites... But even then it 99% of the time breaks or is already broken. Not a big loss, because I usually spend less than 10 dollars on AV cables, power adaptors, socks, pants - none of it ever seems to be 'as advertised' from China, whereas at least with Russia, I know I'd not only be able to get whatever knockoff Dendy games I want, but that it will at least have to be better than my experiences with ordering from China. But I guess that's not really an issue, since it's practically impossible until we meet a person whos willing to go out and buy/sell for us. :P

On a related note, can you guys list to me a few sites you have used before for ordering plug and play/cheap famicom stuff from China, or anywhere for that matter? I've looked around a bit but no sites Im finding seem to specialise in delivering cheap video games, and the last time I ordered a 'plug N play' without any outside help, it was NOTHING like expected... Or sometimes, everything Im interested in is sold out and then I'm stuck without a second place to look. Some of this may sound a bit n00by, but I just never seem to come accross the right places.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on July 10, 2011, 08:57:43 AM
there is one handheld console I want to buy from Russia, the distributors website has a country selection and i nearly went through with ordering until I remembered I don't actually have any damn money. so I have no idea if they actually would ship internationally or what payment methods they'd accept if they do, none of that stuff is on the website so I guess they email you the details after you place an order.

as for China, i've never found many sites that actually sell plug & play consoles or pirate games directly - DealExtreme (http://www.dealextreme.com) occasionally gets stuff in (usually handheld famiclones) and Volumerates (http://www.volumerates.com) has a growing selection of cheap multicarts and Famicom/Mega Drive clones, but your best bet if you want to find something interesting is probably ordering from taobao through an agent (unless thats what you were doing already, in which case i apologise for stating the obvious :D) although that can get kinda expensive with all the various fees they add on.

i've tried a few different agents, Yoybuy (http://www.yoybuy.com) seems to be the best so far (and their shipping isnt too extortionate if its under 2kg and you go with China Post small packet rate). i bought two plug & play consoles (the Samuri and one other) and a few gameboy games through them and everything worked out fine. i went through about three different sellers for the Samuri before I found one that actually had it, but that always seems to be the way with taobao - sellers always keep listings up even if they don't have any stock.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 10, 2011, 09:26:11 AM
Just wondering, if you buy off Taobao do you need an account on there or just one for the agent that you're buying it from?
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: taizou on July 10, 2011, 10:47:30 AM
you only need an account with the agent - AFAIK you can't register a Taobao account at all if you don't live in China.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 10, 2011, 11:12:51 AM
Thanks for the info. :thumb:
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Barver on July 11, 2011, 12:29:41 AM
taizou
Jul 10 2011, 08:57:43 AM
sellers always keep listings up even if they don't have any stock. [/quote]I can't stand how often that happens. That one seller called soundgarden has a lot of items like this, including a Metal Slug from Sintax that stayed up even after being told it was not in stock anymore. Such a shame sellers are so lazy there.
Title: Pirated Game Museum
Post by: Doomkid on July 12, 2011, 12:33:37 AM
DealExtreme looks interesting.. Those are the kind of things that I love to get. They're always a bit wacky.. :P
As for Volumerates, I just ordered from them. If it's good I'll be buyting from there again, it was waay easy.