I've always been conflicted about conversions. I'm not crazy about them, but I don't curse them or anything. I never liked the idea of sacrificing ANY original cart, but let's face it: Does anyone *really* want to drop an insane chunk of change to own a "real" Slug 1 homecart?
Once a proper conversion's performed, you essentially have the same thing (depending on how much of a hack n slash job you got
) minus the original art. To people who say "You might as well play a boot.", I think that's a little extreme, since a conversion's simply original parts interchanged.
Main thing about conversions that's pretty bad is there's always that
one person that ends up paying 2 grand for a Slug 1, which they don't know is a conversion. I generally think conversions are okay, as long as they're reasonably priced, because they help people complete their collections. (I don't care much for sacrificing carts though.
) I'm an MVS guy anyway, so take this as you will.