New to MVS collecting. I have a few questions.

BomberHead

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So i bought this lot of games today. and noticed that some like titles (Puzzle Bobble) came in black, blue, and white. and bust a moce 2 is blue. What are the differences?

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i bet a couple of those puzzle bobbles are boots :/ but most times maybe an operator dropped the cart and the shell got cracked or busted so they just change it into another shell. at least thats what i do sometimes
 
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Yeah, the milky white carts were Japanese rental carts. Other than that, I don't know if there's any specific meaning to a cart color. Many originals are known to come in odd colors, like blue, clear, bright teal (Mark of the Wolves), or even yellow (Matrimelee).

Some carts, like your Metal Slug and Super Sidekicks 3, will have their serial numbers scratched off or blacked out. That means the cart was originally purchased by an arcade operator. From what I understand, the arcade op's could get in trouble back then for reselling MVS carts, so they often got rid of the serial numbers so no one could trace the cart back to them.
 
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Black (most common)
Blue
Transparent (Viewpoint, US Mark of the Wolves)
Transparent-Blue (Metal Slug X, and I think Strikers 1945 Plus)
Transparent-Green (also Metal Slug X)
Bright Turquiose (JP Mark of the Wolves)
Yellow (US Matrimelee)
Bright Green (JP Matrimelee)
White (mostly found in early 2000's carts)
Milky White (JP Rental carts)
Bright Red (usually Korean carts?)

Those are all the ones I know of.
 
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This is one of something that continues to intrigue me. I knew the white carts were rental carts, but outside of that I remain pretty unsure of the other colors’ distinctions.
 
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Doctor Shroom said:
One more.
Taste the rainbow. :lolz:
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Hah! I guess the only thing they don't have are pink carts then? :D

Sometimes you can spot a bootleg if the cart color differs from the usual colors that game comes in. But then again, many games do come in two or more colors, so who knows.
 
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I think the one for Super Bubble Pop is purple.
 
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Transparent is the second most common behind black and especially was used for older titles. KOF 2002 is known to come in a certain variety of possible colors. Newer games like MOTW, Matrimelee, etc. often came in colors like green. The final four games from SNKP were always black.
 
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Never seen pink. Thanks for sharing that. I'm assuming these are all real except for the Ironclad cart.
 
Dr Shroom

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What kind of plastic is that anyway? HDPE? I guess in the end they just took whatever color they had lying around.
 
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Zenimus said:
Some carts, like your Metal Slug and Super Sidekicks 3, will have their serial numbers scratched off or blacked out. That means the cart was originally purchased by an arcade operator. From what I understand, the arcade op's could get in trouble back then for reselling MVS carts, so they often got rid of the serial numbers so no one could trace the cart back to them.
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Sucks about that, I really dig the holo labels
 
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