Past lives of MVS carts

I was looking through my MVS carts the other day, since I hadn't given some of them a look over in quite a while.

In doing so I noticed that my Baseball Stars Professional cart (which has a fake US label) actually appeared to still have its original label intact under the fake US one. Now the cart has legit boards and I guess I always assumed that it was simply a JP cart with fake US labels to make it easier on whatever US arcade operator used to own it.

So I decided I'd remove the fake US label. I peeled it off carefully and found not the JP Baseball Stars Pro. label I was expecting, but a JP Ninja Masters label instead(complete with a silver serial sticker).

Not only that but under the fake US Baseball Stars Pro. label was a fake US Puzzled label.

So for whatever reason this apparently real JP Ninja Masters MVS case had held at least two other MVS carts guts. Puzzled and the present legit Baseball Stars Pro. boards.

So now I'm just left wondering why a more recently released titles MVS case was relabeled and used to house the inards of two much older games.

- TGM

I have a JP ninja masters with original boards / PCBs and label, but I can see another label underneath it, however I don't want to tear it off.

Since I buy games for playability and not aesthetics I have a TON of these carts...random ass cases/labels with legit boards inside.

The one I always wondered about though is my legit original unopened AoF...it was caked in old cigarette smoke residue and gives off a nice gaming aura. I wonder what bar it was at all these years?

Kind of an interesting thought really. These things seem to be traded around so often. I Bought Blazing star from the sell forum where someone identified it as the same cart they sold it to the guy I bought it from.

If your really only interested in playing them I'm sure swapping stuff around happens quite often. Bummer there is no real good way to know where they have been, unless you opened the cart and stuck a little guestbook in there with a pencil :-P

Your games were probably boards that were pulled from original cases to make bootlegs. The cases were sacced, in other words. Over the years, these boards have been given new life on the internet market. Like yaton carts -- legit boards in fake cases. Sounds like someone tried to revitalize the boards by putting them in cases they had from other games. It sucks we can't put all the carts back how they're supposed to go now. There's someone with Ninja Master's boards out there now who wants their case back.

Back in about 1998 I bought Last Blade and Art of Fighting 3 from Chris Mullins, I think. They had English labels stuck over the original Japanese labels. I pealed off the fake labels, revealing the original labels, but the glue tore some small white spots in them. I still have those carts in my collection.

there is a website that tracks dollar bills called where's george.

we could start a where's was my mvs.

Neo Alec said:

Back in about 1998 I bought Last Blade and Art of Fighting 3 from Chris Mullins, I think. They had English labels stuck over the original Japanese labels. I pealed off the fake labels, revealing the original labels, but the glue tore some small white spots in them. I still have those carts in my collection.

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I've had good success in removing the fake English labels from my Japanese carts with little to no damage to the original Japanese labels. I was aided of course by just how poorly the fake US labels were made/applied.

I was saddened to see my puzzle bobble bootleg in a SNK rental cart was originally a Samurai Spirits 2. I would have sooner had that Samurai Spirits 2 to match my Samurai Spirits IV rental cart.

- TGM

About the only thing I can remember is that I bought a game (MLB baseball for the NES?) from Electronics Boutique that had Chainsawyak's name on it. We went to school together so it wasn't *that* odd... but he sold it to another location previously and it got moved there, so it was 1.29$ well spent for a laugh.

I remember someone saying they write their name on their systems in UV ink, and once bought a used system they previously owned.

Sorry to take the thread off base.

It's be nice to merge this with the "orphaned" serial numbers concept.

It really is amazing how far some of these games have traveled and may still even travel more!

(my copy of Garou has been in at least three countries that I -know- of)

Personally from my own collection, I have only four MVS kits, and not a single one of them is fully matching. All the kit boxes as far as serials aren't even close to matching as well as other pieces aren't even in the same language.

I think it'd be a great idea to make a tracking page that keeps up with serials to carts as well as kit pieces, perhaps even to get certain pieces reunited.

also lol @ finch w/ blazing star. You taking good care of her?

I thinking tracking the lives of MVS carts is a cool and interesting idea. I'm gonna take pics and write my serials down now