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I've played both bro, and the star ocean battle system is flawless. It just requires speed. I like both, but I think star ocean has a better story. I got about half way through both. They are both games worth paying the triple digits for, not 5.

No thats not a troll, typo, or the final price! Just a work in progress Will still be a few more days before I get everything finished and available for ordering.

However if some crazy person wants to actually pay $12k I would send one now...

I thought it would have been obvious that the price was not serious or trolling.

Final Fantasy V and I think there may have been another one are supposed to be coming soon right? I know I'd like to see Seiken Densetsu 3.

Glad to hear. It was very amusing though . Do you have an estimate for the price?

Even though I'm not all that enthusiast about it, it wouldn't be a bad thing if Retrozone sold such types of cartridges if the price is low enough as that might stop people from selling translated repro cartrides as real games for high prices.

Yeah, I was thinking 85-90 usd.

So we go from modified original Star Ocean cartridges and partly copyright issues from the english fan translation to complete copyright issues because the game rom AND the translation is not licensed. Great I don't know how this is an improvement on the moral side of things, repros of Star Ocean never seem to go over 60 Euros in the last eBay auctios anyway.

No one said it was some "moral" or legal improvement. This is solely an improvement on quality and resources. The quality should be much better and the lack of destroying the limited number of original games is very nice.

Well I got into contact with ziggy and he said the cart would be 100 usd. Retrousb now says $70, which is amazing. Which should I buy? Also ziggy said he would put a save I've been working on (4 hours into the game).

Definitly wait for the retrousb version. No destroyed cart in the process and high quality. Don't give more money to that guy, I'm sure that he made way too much already considering people are even advertising his name here.

Buy the RetroZone version. Pretty sure it's factory quality. Not hand made. It beats some mess of wires with an EPROM. And it's cheaper. If you want to put a save on the cartridge there are other means to do that potentially.

MottZilla wrote:Buy the RetroZone version. Pretty sure it's factory quality. Not hand made. It beats some mess of wires with an EPROM. And it's cheaper. If you want to put a save on the cartridge there are other means to do that potentially.

Agreed, although I must admit there's also been some really shitty soldering coming out of retrousb too since there's been lots of defective cart reports with stuff like the Super Power Pak.

SkinnyV wrote:Definitly wait for the retrousb version. No destroyed cart in the process and high quality. Don't give more money to that guy, I'm sure that he made way too much already considering people are even advertising his name here.

Support is horrid from retrousb. Plus, you are using a circuit board that was designed in some dudes house, so who knows how long the thing will last, if it will burn into flames from overheating, short circuit your system, etc. Ill take a cart from original parts that had millions spent in quality testing any day of the week.

MottZilla wrote:I thought it would have been obvious that the price was not serious or trolling.

Final Fantasy V and I think there may have been another one are supposed to be coming soon right? I know I'd like to see Seiken Densetsu 3.

I have labels for some of the FF/DQ series, but for some I was having trouble finding the best translation. On one DQ (I think) you would get more gold than you could spend the whole game

Seiken Densetsu 3 has the same problem where there are so many versions and multiplayer hacks it may be hard to find the best.

Tormenter wrote: Support is horrid from retrousb. Plus, you are using a circuit board that was designed in some dudes house, so who knows how long the thing will last, if it will burn into flames from overheating, short circuit your system, etc. Ill take a cart from original parts that had millions spent in quality testing any day of the week.

Designed at some dude's house? Oh my. Since when does it matter where the pcb was designed? Quality of the build matters, and I would think he doesn't use some terrible board manufacturer. While the original parts certainly are of great quality, once people start hacking them up and soldering wires it is no longer of that robust quality. The weakest link is the worksmanship then of the cartridge hacker. And sorry but anytime you are using a bunch of wires to hookup the rom chip that is never going to be as good as components that are properly soldered to the board.

I haven't exactly bought an extensive amount of stuff from RetroZone but both my PowerPAK cartridges have been excellent. The build quality seems solid to me.

Fixed minor spelling error.