posted by Sonny_Jim on Oct 5, 2016:
jossan said:
I have nothing new to add to the discussion yet, apart from a mention on Facebook about another proto with similar vero board a while back (R-Type, if I remember correctly).
You mean this one? Doesn't look like vero board to me:
jossan said:
However, some of the things you write don't make sense to me at all.
Could you please elaborate on the points that I've made that don't make sense to you?
jossan said:
I don't see what good comes out of you (and some others) pointing fingers and questioning my motives the way you do.
I'm not so much questioning your motives, I think you have been fooled into thinking that this cart is something it isn't. I'm 'pointing the finger at you' because you were the seller of the item. If the two Nintendo hotline employees had sold this item, I would be asking them the very same questions I'm asking you.
jossan said:
And seriously, if you came across a piece you knew nothing about apart from its provenance and potential high value, would you leave it for someone else to find because you simply "weren't the best person to be selling such a thing"?
I wouldn't necessarily leave it behind, but I would do a bit of investigation before putting my name to it. For example, if I found a classic car in a barn, had no idea of it was legit or not, then I would be in contact with someone who *did* know about such things, before going off trying to sell it as rare, one of kind etc etc.
jossan said:
If it for some reason turned out to be fake, I would've had no problem refunding the full amount upon return.
I hope you are willing to stand behind these words, because if I were the buyer I'd be very nervous indeed.
jossan said:
I also don't see why you keep arguing about something I've agreed to all along - that the board is different to the others I sold.
This is the first time I can find in this thread that you actually admit that this cart is radically different to the other GB carts being sold.
jossan said:
I want to point out (again) that the collection I recently sold consisted of roughly 30 other prototypes as well
If I were a drug dealer, had 20 pills of MDMA, one of which turned out to be Aspirin, that pill would still be Aspirin. No amount of 'Well, the other 19 pills were legit' changes the fact that it's Aspirin.
jossan said:
If the owners actually had the equipment to make "fakes", why just make one?
Who knows? Maybe they were duped by someone else? Maybe they were unimpressed with the prices they were getting for the other GB protos and decided to up the ante? Maybe they thought they could slip in this obviously hacked up retail board in the hopes that someone would think that, due to the other legit looking carts in the auction, it may actually be real?
FWIW, it's trivial to make a cart like this, I've made several myself. You need a plain old soldering iron, you don't need expensive surface mount equipment. You don't even need EPROM burning equipment, you can just buy them preprogrammed from someone for less that $20. The instructions on how to do so are available are all over the web:
http://www.digital-circuitry.com/DO...GAMEBOY_Classic_Flash_Cartridge_UPDATED_2.pdf
If you are 100% sure that this cart is legit, why are you trying to 'change my mind'?