Tips on buying programmer.

[Nadia]

Sorry I couldn't know. In fact porting the powerpak to my country plus import taxes also summed up to $200, and that 2 times (for NES and SNES) but if that's too much I understand. Especially if you have a Famicom or Famiclone that would require an 72 -> 60 pin adapter for the Power Pak to work.

Fortunately I have recently bought an authentic NTSC NES from the US for around 65$. I got 8 games carts with it which are "supposedly original".

[Memblers]

other than prototype carts and game hacks I seriously doubt anybody could make any money doing that, could they?

Make repros of rare games, sell them off as originals. See the picture?

Yep, and that sort of stuff is only marginally tolerated around here. I know for me personally I'm pretty annoyed when I see creative people make stuff, but ends up with only other people profiting off of it (though there is a respectable amount of craftmanship involved).

I also would hate to see the market get so flooded with bootlegs and prototype "reproductions" (which just a euphemism for bootleg, if it's not official) to the point where no one wants to support homebrew games because they "aren't as good" as the bootlegged stuff. Then considering that a game developer literally sacrifices a sizable part of their life to make a game, after that if they want to release it on cartridge they basically have to compete with people who downloaded a ROM or purchased a prototype cartridge. I don't even care how much was paid for a prototype in the first place, whatever amount of money it is can't even begin to approach the "cost" to the developer.

Bregalad: Yeah there is the PowerPak, but there is a certain appeal to having 1 game per cartridge like the old days. Comparing a shelf of homebrews or reproductions with nice labels, to a Powerpak with a CF card in it, the only time you wouldn't notice any difference is when playing the game (hopefully, heh).

Sorry about the rant, heh, I'm not trying to take over the thread or direct it at anybody. Just rambling.

[Aituon]

other than prototype carts and game hacks I seriously doubt anybody could make any money doing that, could they?

Make repros of rare games, sell them off as originals. See the picture?

Yep, and that sort of stuff is only marginally tolerated around here. I know for me personally I'm pretty annoyed when I see creative people make stuff, but ends up with only other people profiting off of it (though there is a respectable amount of craftmanship involved).

I also would hate to see the market get so flooded with bootlegs and prototype "reproductions" (which just a euphemism for bootleg, if it's not official) to the point where no one wants to support homebrew games because they "aren't as good" as the bootlegged stuff. Then considering that a game developer literally sacrifices a sizable part of their life to make a game, after that if they want to release it on cartridge they basically have to compete with people who downloaded a ROM or purchased a prototype cartridge. I don't even care how much was paid for a prototype in the first place, whatever amount of money it is can't even begin to approach the "cost" to the developer.

Bregalad: Yeah there is the PowerPak, but there is a certain appeal to having 1 game per cartridge like the old days. Comparing a shelf of homebrews or reproductions with nice labels, to a Powerpak with a CF card in it, the only time you wouldn't notice any difference is when playing the game (hopefully, heh).

Sorry about the rant, heh, I'm not trying to take over the thread or direct it at anybody. Just rambling.

A tad off topic, but I've never been a fan of things like the power pak, just removes that "nostalgic" feel.

[peppers]

personally if I had it to do over I would have bought one of the earthbound repos rather than doin it myself. I can handle the hardware aspect no problem but there cases are far prettier than what I can do.

I justify this by the fact that if Nintendo just made the game I would have bought it but I could not so I see no reason I should be deprived.

The fact that reproductions and game hacks exist for sale would not stop me from buying a homebrew created game. I do not think they are really in direct competition with each other, really there is not a very large market for ether.

[game-tech.us]

Fortunately I have recently bought an authentic NTSC NES from the US for around 65$. I got 8 games carts with it which are "supposedly original".

Nadia, I wrote a little about my experiences with cheap programmers in a different thread.