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If you're an MVS collector like me, at some point you may have gotten or considered purchasing a game that comes in a fake looking case that's supposedly not a bootleg. You may have bought a blue cart on ebay from yaton6262 (owner of http://www.arcademvs.com) that came with real chips in it. This was the case for me. I bought Ninja Master's and Super Sidekicks 1 from yaton.
At first I didn't really care, and I examined the boards in the crappy blue cases to verify that they were indeed authentic boards. (Some bootleggers steal the shells off real games to make their bootlegs in order to make them look more believable when selling them. Then someone later comes along with fake cases so they can sell the old games.) Even though I do have a few games with fake labels in my collection (probably Japanese labels that were replaced because their original owners couldn't read them), later I became concerned with the presentability of the collection, and decided the two blue case games were the biggest eyesore.
I bought a KOF 02 bootleg from FUNLAND GAME ROOM back before I really knew very much about MVS bootlegs, and only years later discovered its lack of authenticity. (By the way, FUNLAND GAME ROOM is still an active seller on ebay with the username ju707. This person never shows photos of his carts, and to my knowledge sells ONLY BOOTLEGS. This seller is to my knowledge now the biggest MVS bootleg seller on ebay and SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.) I recently also got a Neo Geo Cup '98 bootleg from someone else on ebay. Since both have nicer looking black cases (the 02 looks official, and the Neo Geo Cup is at least close), I've decided to use them as donors in my project to rehabilitate my two official games in fake cases.
So I transplanted the following:
I affixed the same photocopied fake labels to the black shells using rubber cement. (In hindsight, I should have used a different glue. The rubber cement doesn't seem to hold that well.) I think the finished product looks pretty decent. Better than my original Ragnagard, World Heroes Perfect, and Pulstar with spoofed labels at least. Besides, you don't see Super Sidekicks 1 on MVS that often, except for yaton's cheap stock.
I encourage anyone willing and with the resources to do the same if they have any MVS carts in a similar predicament. They're real game PCB's -- they deserve a proper shell. That way we can restore forgotten games a little closer back to their former glory. These games are back home again.
At first I didn't really care, and I examined the boards in the crappy blue cases to verify that they were indeed authentic boards. (Some bootleggers steal the shells off real games to make their bootlegs in order to make them look more believable when selling them. Then someone later comes along with fake cases so they can sell the old games.) Even though I do have a few games with fake labels in my collection (probably Japanese labels that were replaced because their original owners couldn't read them), later I became concerned with the presentability of the collection, and decided the two blue case games were the biggest eyesore.
I bought a KOF 02 bootleg from FUNLAND GAME ROOM back before I really knew very much about MVS bootlegs, and only years later discovered its lack of authenticity. (By the way, FUNLAND GAME ROOM is still an active seller on ebay with the username ju707. This person never shows photos of his carts, and to my knowledge sells ONLY BOOTLEGS. This seller is to my knowledge now the biggest MVS bootleg seller on ebay and SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.) I recently also got a Neo Geo Cup '98 bootleg from someone else on ebay. Since both have nicer looking black cases (the 02 looks official, and the Neo Geo Cup is at least close), I've decided to use them as donors in my project to rehabilitate my two official games in fake cases.
So I transplanted the following:
I affixed the same photocopied fake labels to the black shells using rubber cement. (In hindsight, I should have used a different glue. The rubber cement doesn't seem to hold that well.) I think the finished product looks pretty decent. Better than my original Ragnagard, World Heroes Perfect, and Pulstar with spoofed labels at least. Besides, you don't see Super Sidekicks 1 on MVS that often, except for yaton's cheap stock.
I encourage anyone willing and with the resources to do the same if they have any MVS carts in a similar predicament. They're real game PCB's -- they deserve a proper shell. That way we can restore forgotten games a little closer back to their former glory. These games are back home again.
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