Price check on a few PCBs...

Just wondering if any of you PCB collectors could put a fair price on the following games for me?

Ibara - bare PCB
Dodonpachi - bare PCB
ESP Ra.De - bare PCB
Armed Police Batrider - both versions, bare PCB
Battle Bakraid - bare PCB
Great Mahou Daisakusen/Dimahoo - A+B board, bare PCB, phoenixed/unphoenixed
Battle Circuit - A+B board, bare PCB, phoenixed/unphoenixed

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Prices are always in flux, but these are some average prices I've seen. This is based on my own buying experiences as well as observing others on this forum, shmups.com, and ebay, over the past year.

Ibara - ~$250
Dodonpachi - ~$300 (Japanese release will command a higher price than international release)
ESP Ra.De - ~$200 (Japanese release will command a higher price than international release)
Armed Police Batrider - ~$250 (Japanese version, version B is the most desirable and will probably command a bit more than other versions/regions)
Battle Bakraid - ~$250-300

As far as CPS2 goes, I know that phoenixed/unphoenixed makes a difference to some people but I honestly haven't seen it figure into the price in a consistent way. Some people will pay more for one; some will pay more for the other. [Admittedly, the rarer the board, the more desirable it is for it to be unphoenixed (because of crazy "must be original" collector types ) and the more common it is, the more it seems phoenixing it raises its value by a bit] And as far as B boards go, it shouldn't add more than ~$20. Also keep in mind that a bigger concern for pricing of CPS2 titles is region.

Great Mahou Daisakusen/Dimahoo - ~$150 (I've seen far more blue than green for sale in the forums; for this price I'm going off what I've seen blue sell for)
Battle Circuit - ~$150 (I've not seen any blue boards up; green seems more common for this title. This is based on the few green boards I've seen sell).

Hope this helps; happy hunting! (unless of course you're selling, in which case, happy sales!)

astrodan88 said:

Hope this helps; happy hunting! (unless of course you're selling, in which case, happy sales!)

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Dude, you're an absolute legend!

Thanks a million for the helping hand, much appreciated.

And I'm buying!

I paid $90 + ship for the regular version of APB from ECL.

NGT said:

I paid $90 + ship for the regular version of APB from ECL.

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Wow, when was that? You got a great deal, whichever version you got. The last one to appear at shmups was right around $250 and it sold the same day I believe. It's one of those boards that have been on the rise big time over the past couple years.

astrodan88 said:

Wow, when was that? You got a great deal, whichever version you got. The last one to appear at shmups was right around $250 and it sold the same day I believe. It's one of those boards that have been on the rise big time over the past couple years.

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maybe a year and a half ago...$250 seems crazy to me, but I haven't been paying attention to it. Sucks I can't afford to re-buy the game now, lol.

NGT said:

maybe a year and a half ago...$250 seems crazy to me

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That's not cheap, I'll grant you, but that game is worth it in my book. It will definitely fetch that over at shmups.com
PCBs in general are insanely expensive. Not the best hobby for the economically challenged like myself.

astrodan88 said:

That's not cheap, I'll grant you, but that game is worth it in my book. It will definitely fetch that over at shmups.com
PCBs in general are insanely expensive. Not the best hobby for the economically challenged like myself.

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yeah, not a cheap hobby. I find deals, scrounge craigslist, talk to vendors and never really have the "newest" games. Cps2, H64, MVS, Naomi, Model 2 crx, etc... Vert Shmup pcb's seem to carry high prices, at least for the more popular games. I'd never pay $250 for APB, but that's just me. It's a fun game, but not $250 fun, when I think of what else I could get for $250. IMO, of course...

astrodan88 said:

Wow, when was that? You got a great deal, whichever version you got. The last one to appear at shmups was right around $250 and it sold the same day I believe. It's one of those boards that have been on the rise big time over the past couple years.

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I had one of these collecting dust for 4 years, bought it 4 years ago for $100

NGT said:

Vert Shmup pcb's seem to carry high prices

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I'd agree that is true, but I'd include shmups in general. There are some horis that bring big bucks (early Irem stuff, later Konami stuff).
Games by your big name shmup developers (Cave, Raizing, Toaplan, Irem, and to a lesser extent Capcom, and Konami) seem to consistently sell for $$$.

Again, all the prices I listed are an average. I paid less (some just a bit; some moreso) that those prices for the boards I own, but I also waited till I found what I thought were "good deals." The hunt is all about the waiting; part of the thrill I suppose.