Pirated Game Museum

[Doomkid]

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!

[Awesome Panda]

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. <_<

[PlayerSecelt]

Same here. Here in Croatia it's the same. Pirated carts are very little known.

[Ninja-Kun]

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.

[ThunderBlastMan]

Is this wiki still running? Because not to much people add to it.

[Barver]

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

[ThunderBlastMan]

Ok just checking. But I add alot to it like pages, and more photos

[Doomkid]

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.  

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.

[taizou]

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.

[Barver]

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.

[Doomkid]

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.

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.

[taizou]

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 occasionally gets stuff in (usually handheld famiclones) and Volumerates 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 ) although that can get kinda expensive with all the various fees they add on.

i've tried a few different agents, Yoybuy 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.

[Awesome Panda]

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?

[taizou]

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.

[Awesome Panda]

Thanks for the info. :thumb: