Comrade Porn King Mikhail
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Ladies and Gents,
Not a week goes by that another thread regarding NGF, Dion Dakis or KOF2K pops up in these forums. By this virtue alone, Dion has succeeded in having his name immortalized in the annals of Neo Geo history. After all, who else has created more scams or spread more deceit in this community. As years go by, Dion’s name will continue to circulate in association with Neo Geo, just as Hitler’s name continues to associate with the Holocaust. In both instances, there have been and will continue to be deniers of any wrongdoing and purveyors of misinformation. Time has come for an unbiased retrospective from someone who has actually purchased from, met with, and talked extensively to the infamous thief.
THE FACTS: I have purchased from Dion, sold to Dion and have been fair and honest in all of my dealings with him. I have met Dion in Vegas twice, visited his garage, and hung out with him on a personal level. I have always strived to maintain an unbiased perspective on the criticism levied upon Dion/NGF and have always attempted to provide information from a central and unskewed viewpoint. The information presented within this post continues along the same principles and guidelines, presenting nothing but the true facts. I have never lied, nor intend to lie in any way and can provide references to my credibility ranging from long-time standing members of this community, to members of other Neo lists and boards.
I originally heard of Dion shortly after joining the DHP list sometime in 1999. After several months of lurking, I could not help but join the flaming fray regarding his absurd claims of “rare Euro” versions of Shocktroopers 2 and Metal Slug X, both featuring orange stripes on the spines. It was around this time that Dion made his first attempt to con me by offering to trade me an authentic rare Euro orange Metal Slug X insert, for my errored US Metal Slug X insert. I was fortunate to avoid this mistake. Scott Wozniak and others, were not. For further information, the below reading resources are recommended to all interested parties.
RESOURCES
DHP list archives viewable by specific month and author: <a href="http://lists.dhp.com/neogeo/" target="_blank">http://lists.dhp.com/neogeo/</a>
Neo Geo Freak Blue Bible detailing incidents more specifically: <a href="http://www.shaolin-venoms.com/ngf_bible/ngf_blues.html" target="_blank">http://www.shaolin-venoms.com/ngf_bible/ngf_blues.html</a>
More than a year later, Dion came out with preliminary reports of the upcoming US exclusive KOF2000 US home cart. In his private e-mail and IM conversations with me, he was quite adamant in attempting to have me preorder this rare release. He specifically told me that the item was printed in Japan and limited to 100 pieces. He produced a FAQ to explain the pricing of this release (http://web.archive.org/web/20010204013200/www.neogeofreak.com/kof2000.htm).
Shortly after I received my KOF2000 US home cart in the late December of 2000, I made a report analyzing the discrepancies between this version and the other recent SNK-Japan releases of the same era (KOF2000 Jpn, Metal Slug 3 JPN, Garou:MOTW US, and KOF99 US). My conclusions specifically determined that KOF2000 US WAS NOT printed at the same facility as the other releases of the same time. Dion continued to state that the game arrived “as is” from Japan and could not account for the printing discrepancies other than to state that other printers may have been used. For the next year and a half, Dion attempted to use my report as conclusive proof that the KOF2000 was authentic, an obvious mistaken assumption. On numerous occasions, he would contact me about the report and offer to bribe me with KOF2000 printing plates or other flyers/bonuses so that I would create a more up-to-date version of the report putting the KOF2000 in a more positive light and officially authenticating it.
A few months later, my curiosity piqued as to the quality of Dion’s “corrected” inserts, I order his alternate NGF version insert of the KOF2000 US. This homebrew insert was extremely inferior in quality and prompted a series of debates on how Dion could justify flooding the market with “corrected” insert versions produced at a far more inferior quality than original SNK materials. Dion failed to directly respond, instead holding true to his statements of having obtained permission for reproduction of this copyright material and owning all of the original electronic files for SNK inserts of numerous games.
By June 2002, I relented to obtaining a Zupapa! cartridge with the intention of doing another report similar to KOF2000. I saw no purpose in such a report, since the game was of obvious inferior quality and certainly printed in the US (another in-depth report was later performed by Tarma/Richard, showing the game to be a bootleg constructed from World Heroes 2 carts and EPROMs with NGF sharpie markings). No amount of other examination could verify the veracity (or lack thereof) of Dion’s claims that this was an official release per the documentation he had. I was hoping that all matters would be cleared up at the CGE 2002, but I was wrong. Despite my requests for visual proof of documentation for the authenticity of Zupapa!, much less KOF2000, Dion could not oblige.
Through all of this time, I had managed and struggled to keep friendly ties with Dion for the purpose of gaining access to information about the prototypes supposedly in his possession. Time and time I failed, as Dion could never take a moment to justify his claims by simply posting the names of but a few people who are the mysterious owners of Ghostlop, Last Odyssey and Neo Pool Master. Dion could not even have the decency of offering screenshots or NGH numbers for these prototypes in his possession as a mere showing of support for spreading information to the community. These friendly ties must now come to an end as Dion has betrayed my trust and my attempts at gaining friendship with his childish behavior.
THE SCAM – Not hearsay, not supposed, but an actual scam by Dion that he has no possible way to justify or explain, other than to admit to being a thief and a liar
While selling off some mediocre condition titles from a bundle of home carts I had acquired, I was contacted by Dion in September 2001 and asked to purchase the following carts: !Arcade! Ganryu conversion (NM), NAM-1975 US complete (EX/EX+), Riding Hero JPN complete (EX+/NM), and Robo Army US loose (EX/EX+). Pictures of these items were posted publicly in my sales thread and the prices were more than reasonable. Again, trying to be friendly and hoping to acquire either some protos or original artwork from Dion, I agreed to sell him the above four items for a total of $245 ($150 for Ganryu, and $95 for the other three games). Dion specifically admitted to me in an e-mail that should I not find anything desirable in his possession in exchange, or should I not find anything worthy of trade value, that I would be paid in full in cash for this purchase.
I sent him the games ahead of payment via UPS 2-Day not even charging him for shipping. After two months of trying to get information from him regarding original artwork or protos, I was finally given the answer that he would not sell the protos to anyone outside the “Freak” club and that he “would never part” with his original penciled artwork. At this point, realizing that Dion and all of his rarities were useless to me, I requested to be paid for my items. Dion replied stating that the three common games were not in the condition he expected and that he would like to send them back. Bear in mind that this is after TWO MONTHS of having these games in his possession. When he originally received them, he voiced nothing about the condition, other than a slight blurb that the Robo Army had some scratches on it, but NOTHING otherwise. He saw the pictures, he was told about the condition of the items being suitable for a “gamer” and yet he was satisfied with the items received, mentioning nothing about condition nor any possible return.
Being the nice guy and the reputable seller that I am, I agreed to let him return any items he was not satisfied with as long as they were returned in the original and unaltered condition. Dion subsequently sent me the three games, but not before he defaced them with the NGF-USA stamps and stickers, making them worthless and tainted, as I have no desire to deal with any altered or “freaked” items. Not only that, but he mistakenly sent me a US Riding Hero (worth less than the JPN counterpart) and put the stickers on all of the carts, even the loose Robo Army the condition of which he was originally unhappy with. Upon my questioning him about how he could possibly expect a refund after two months of having the games and then returning them in altered and defaced condition, Dion could offer nothing but stating that I could return the games to him for an exchange. Dion, you have to be one dumb mother fucker to offer me an exchange for games that I am selling you without receiving payment upfront.
I immediately requested to be paid the remaining $150 for my Ganryu, concerned that Dion still had not sent the money for this nor included it in the package. Dion paid two weeks later after numerous e-mail from me, and three PayPal money requests. This was on March 2, 2003. Afterwards, I continued to ask for my original JPN Riding Hero and unaltered/unmarred inserts and manuals to replace the ones he purposefully defaced. Instead of rectifying the situation, Dion said that I should be grateful that he did not “report me to the courts” for sending him a conversion bootleg (notice the irony coming from a purveyor of converted bootlegs) and instead initiated a PayPal chargeback on me claiming that if I “was going to be a dick about some stupid stamps” that he would reply in kind. So, he has the game, he keeps the game, probably sells the game or has it seized in the Playmore raid, and then initiates a PayPal chargeback to spite me because I want reparations for the other games I sold him (prior to receiving payment) that were altered prior to being returned to me. Needless to say, I could care less about a measly $150 scam, but I do care about being explicitly lied to and scammed just for spite.
THE CONCLUSIONS:
We are not going to discuss that Dion has lied numerous times regarding having official rights to SNK copyrighted material, to putting out official SNK-approved corrected inserts, to producing official converted cartridges. We are not going to discuss that Dion has on several occasions sent people converted and/or marked cartridges without previously telling them of this. We are not going to discuss Dion’s continuous wordplay whether it’s from the word “official”, to the term “print press”, to the term “debut/see the protos”. Only the facts are present in these conclusions:
1) Dion received the game prior to paying for it, Ganryu conversion, was happy with it. He paid for it after incessant haggling and then reversed the transaction via PayPal without returning the item to me. RESULT: Theft of $150.
2) Dion returned the other three items in a marked/altered condition and has failed to compensate for depreciation. RESULT: Theft of ~$20-40 based on market depreciation of “freaked” items.
3) Dion sold me the Zupapa! under explicit understanding that he held the official release rights for this title. As seen by Playmore’s seizure list, this game is not official. RESULT: awaiting Playmore case resolution, but for the time being it is Theft of $180 (difference between converted Zupapa! cost and official MVS kit cost) and Deceit about origins of cart and printing location.
4) Dion sold me the KOF2000 US under explicit understanding that the game came as-is from Japan, was printed in Japan by SNK-Japan or their suppliers, and was limited to 100 copies. RESULT: pending public authentication by a couple of the MOST HIGHLY placed sources in this community, Theft of $280 (difference between original KOF2000 US and KOF2000 JPN home cart costs) and Deceit about origins or cart and printing location.
Thus you have it, definitive proof of how Dion Dakis is a thief and a liar. There is not much more to be said. We all know what a manipulative person Dion is, especially with his great sense of verbiage and ability to twist any sentence he utters to his desire. From just the simple conclusions I have illustrated above, as they are complete and utter facts that I have personally experienced, you can see how Dion Dakis is untrustworthy and a scammer. Now you take this information, apply it to the numerous other instances of complaints against Dion registered on these bulletin boards including Shawn (Neo-Store), Keith (Mouse_Master), Mike D. (TonK), and then wonder about who is really telling the truth, Dion or the NGF Bible.
I do not care about the money I lost. I request no pity or condolences, as I played with the fire, was able to control it and manipulate it for a time, but got burned in the end because of my own carelessness. All I care about is the immediate end to all NGF related threads or posts on this site. I care about every single person out there never experiencing a single doubt again as to the fact that Dion Dakis is a proven and verified thief, scammer, and liar.
Dion's current explanation when asked about the origins of KOF2000: "Playmore has authenticated it in their court documents and I have no further comments. It does not matter where it was printed." Dion's current explanation for selling 500 Zupapa! carts as official: "Playmore returned the seized inventory to us and we will soon win this trial."
Dion's current explanation to why he has taken back the $150 from me via PayPal for a cart he has received: "You want to be a dick, I'll play along."
Case closed, fuck you scammer. I've never trusted you and only wanted to use you to get the protos and original artwork. Now that I can't get either, you're about as useless as a diseased tranny. It's just a shame that you have to drag Chris Ray's name along with you, since at least Chris is decent and reliable as a salesman. And since I know that there is no way in hell you'll give me back the $150 you definitely stole from me (much less the rest), here is a big FUCK YOU lol to you and a reminder that what goes around, comes around.
Sincerely,
Mikhail
Not a week goes by that another thread regarding NGF, Dion Dakis or KOF2K pops up in these forums. By this virtue alone, Dion has succeeded in having his name immortalized in the annals of Neo Geo history. After all, who else has created more scams or spread more deceit in this community. As years go by, Dion’s name will continue to circulate in association with Neo Geo, just as Hitler’s name continues to associate with the Holocaust. In both instances, there have been and will continue to be deniers of any wrongdoing and purveyors of misinformation. Time has come for an unbiased retrospective from someone who has actually purchased from, met with, and talked extensively to the infamous thief.
THE FACTS: I have purchased from Dion, sold to Dion and have been fair and honest in all of my dealings with him. I have met Dion in Vegas twice, visited his garage, and hung out with him on a personal level. I have always strived to maintain an unbiased perspective on the criticism levied upon Dion/NGF and have always attempted to provide information from a central and unskewed viewpoint. The information presented within this post continues along the same principles and guidelines, presenting nothing but the true facts. I have never lied, nor intend to lie in any way and can provide references to my credibility ranging from long-time standing members of this community, to members of other Neo lists and boards.
I originally heard of Dion shortly after joining the DHP list sometime in 1999. After several months of lurking, I could not help but join the flaming fray regarding his absurd claims of “rare Euro” versions of Shocktroopers 2 and Metal Slug X, both featuring orange stripes on the spines. It was around this time that Dion made his first attempt to con me by offering to trade me an authentic rare Euro orange Metal Slug X insert, for my errored US Metal Slug X insert. I was fortunate to avoid this mistake. Scott Wozniak and others, were not. For further information, the below reading resources are recommended to all interested parties.
RESOURCES
DHP list archives viewable by specific month and author: <a href="http://lists.dhp.com/neogeo/" target="_blank">http://lists.dhp.com/neogeo/</a>
Neo Geo Freak Blue Bible detailing incidents more specifically: <a href="http://www.shaolin-venoms.com/ngf_bible/ngf_blues.html" target="_blank">http://www.shaolin-venoms.com/ngf_bible/ngf_blues.html</a>
More than a year later, Dion came out with preliminary reports of the upcoming US exclusive KOF2000 US home cart. In his private e-mail and IM conversations with me, he was quite adamant in attempting to have me preorder this rare release. He specifically told me that the item was printed in Japan and limited to 100 pieces. He produced a FAQ to explain the pricing of this release (http://web.archive.org/web/20010204013200/www.neogeofreak.com/kof2000.htm).
Shortly after I received my KOF2000 US home cart in the late December of 2000, I made a report analyzing the discrepancies between this version and the other recent SNK-Japan releases of the same era (KOF2000 Jpn, Metal Slug 3 JPN, Garou:MOTW US, and KOF99 US). My conclusions specifically determined that KOF2000 US WAS NOT printed at the same facility as the other releases of the same time. Dion continued to state that the game arrived “as is” from Japan and could not account for the printing discrepancies other than to state that other printers may have been used. For the next year and a half, Dion attempted to use my report as conclusive proof that the KOF2000 was authentic, an obvious mistaken assumption. On numerous occasions, he would contact me about the report and offer to bribe me with KOF2000 printing plates or other flyers/bonuses so that I would create a more up-to-date version of the report putting the KOF2000 in a more positive light and officially authenticating it.
A few months later, my curiosity piqued as to the quality of Dion’s “corrected” inserts, I order his alternate NGF version insert of the KOF2000 US. This homebrew insert was extremely inferior in quality and prompted a series of debates on how Dion could justify flooding the market with “corrected” insert versions produced at a far more inferior quality than original SNK materials. Dion failed to directly respond, instead holding true to his statements of having obtained permission for reproduction of this copyright material and owning all of the original electronic files for SNK inserts of numerous games.
By June 2002, I relented to obtaining a Zupapa! cartridge with the intention of doing another report similar to KOF2000. I saw no purpose in such a report, since the game was of obvious inferior quality and certainly printed in the US (another in-depth report was later performed by Tarma/Richard, showing the game to be a bootleg constructed from World Heroes 2 carts and EPROMs with NGF sharpie markings). No amount of other examination could verify the veracity (or lack thereof) of Dion’s claims that this was an official release per the documentation he had. I was hoping that all matters would be cleared up at the CGE 2002, but I was wrong. Despite my requests for visual proof of documentation for the authenticity of Zupapa!, much less KOF2000, Dion could not oblige.
Through all of this time, I had managed and struggled to keep friendly ties with Dion for the purpose of gaining access to information about the prototypes supposedly in his possession. Time and time I failed, as Dion could never take a moment to justify his claims by simply posting the names of but a few people who are the mysterious owners of Ghostlop, Last Odyssey and Neo Pool Master. Dion could not even have the decency of offering screenshots or NGH numbers for these prototypes in his possession as a mere showing of support for spreading information to the community. These friendly ties must now come to an end as Dion has betrayed my trust and my attempts at gaining friendship with his childish behavior.
THE SCAM – Not hearsay, not supposed, but an actual scam by Dion that he has no possible way to justify or explain, other than to admit to being a thief and a liar
While selling off some mediocre condition titles from a bundle of home carts I had acquired, I was contacted by Dion in September 2001 and asked to purchase the following carts: !Arcade! Ganryu conversion (NM), NAM-1975 US complete (EX/EX+), Riding Hero JPN complete (EX+/NM), and Robo Army US loose (EX/EX+). Pictures of these items were posted publicly in my sales thread and the prices were more than reasonable. Again, trying to be friendly and hoping to acquire either some protos or original artwork from Dion, I agreed to sell him the above four items for a total of $245 ($150 for Ganryu, and $95 for the other three games). Dion specifically admitted to me in an e-mail that should I not find anything desirable in his possession in exchange, or should I not find anything worthy of trade value, that I would be paid in full in cash for this purchase.
I sent him the games ahead of payment via UPS 2-Day not even charging him for shipping. After two months of trying to get information from him regarding original artwork or protos, I was finally given the answer that he would not sell the protos to anyone outside the “Freak” club and that he “would never part” with his original penciled artwork. At this point, realizing that Dion and all of his rarities were useless to me, I requested to be paid for my items. Dion replied stating that the three common games were not in the condition he expected and that he would like to send them back. Bear in mind that this is after TWO MONTHS of having these games in his possession. When he originally received them, he voiced nothing about the condition, other than a slight blurb that the Robo Army had some scratches on it, but NOTHING otherwise. He saw the pictures, he was told about the condition of the items being suitable for a “gamer” and yet he was satisfied with the items received, mentioning nothing about condition nor any possible return.
Being the nice guy and the reputable seller that I am, I agreed to let him return any items he was not satisfied with as long as they were returned in the original and unaltered condition. Dion subsequently sent me the three games, but not before he defaced them with the NGF-USA stamps and stickers, making them worthless and tainted, as I have no desire to deal with any altered or “freaked” items. Not only that, but he mistakenly sent me a US Riding Hero (worth less than the JPN counterpart) and put the stickers on all of the carts, even the loose Robo Army the condition of which he was originally unhappy with. Upon my questioning him about how he could possibly expect a refund after two months of having the games and then returning them in altered and defaced condition, Dion could offer nothing but stating that I could return the games to him for an exchange. Dion, you have to be one dumb mother fucker to offer me an exchange for games that I am selling you without receiving payment upfront.
I immediately requested to be paid the remaining $150 for my Ganryu, concerned that Dion still had not sent the money for this nor included it in the package. Dion paid two weeks later after numerous e-mail from me, and three PayPal money requests. This was on March 2, 2003. Afterwards, I continued to ask for my original JPN Riding Hero and unaltered/unmarred inserts and manuals to replace the ones he purposefully defaced. Instead of rectifying the situation, Dion said that I should be grateful that he did not “report me to the courts” for sending him a conversion bootleg (notice the irony coming from a purveyor of converted bootlegs) and instead initiated a PayPal chargeback on me claiming that if I “was going to be a dick about some stupid stamps” that he would reply in kind. So, he has the game, he keeps the game, probably sells the game or has it seized in the Playmore raid, and then initiates a PayPal chargeback to spite me because I want reparations for the other games I sold him (prior to receiving payment) that were altered prior to being returned to me. Needless to say, I could care less about a measly $150 scam, but I do care about being explicitly lied to and scammed just for spite.
THE CONCLUSIONS:
We are not going to discuss that Dion has lied numerous times regarding having official rights to SNK copyrighted material, to putting out official SNK-approved corrected inserts, to producing official converted cartridges. We are not going to discuss that Dion has on several occasions sent people converted and/or marked cartridges without previously telling them of this. We are not going to discuss Dion’s continuous wordplay whether it’s from the word “official”, to the term “print press”, to the term “debut/see the protos”. Only the facts are present in these conclusions:
1) Dion received the game prior to paying for it, Ganryu conversion, was happy with it. He paid for it after incessant haggling and then reversed the transaction via PayPal without returning the item to me. RESULT: Theft of $150.
2) Dion returned the other three items in a marked/altered condition and has failed to compensate for depreciation. RESULT: Theft of ~$20-40 based on market depreciation of “freaked” items.
3) Dion sold me the Zupapa! under explicit understanding that he held the official release rights for this title. As seen by Playmore’s seizure list, this game is not official. RESULT: awaiting Playmore case resolution, but for the time being it is Theft of $180 (difference between converted Zupapa! cost and official MVS kit cost) and Deceit about origins of cart and printing location.
4) Dion sold me the KOF2000 US under explicit understanding that the game came as-is from Japan, was printed in Japan by SNK-Japan or their suppliers, and was limited to 100 copies. RESULT: pending public authentication by a couple of the MOST HIGHLY placed sources in this community, Theft of $280 (difference between original KOF2000 US and KOF2000 JPN home cart costs) and Deceit about origins or cart and printing location.
Thus you have it, definitive proof of how Dion Dakis is a thief and a liar. There is not much more to be said. We all know what a manipulative person Dion is, especially with his great sense of verbiage and ability to twist any sentence he utters to his desire. From just the simple conclusions I have illustrated above, as they are complete and utter facts that I have personally experienced, you can see how Dion Dakis is untrustworthy and a scammer. Now you take this information, apply it to the numerous other instances of complaints against Dion registered on these bulletin boards including Shawn (Neo-Store), Keith (Mouse_Master), Mike D. (TonK), and then wonder about who is really telling the truth, Dion or the NGF Bible.
I do not care about the money I lost. I request no pity or condolences, as I played with the fire, was able to control it and manipulate it for a time, but got burned in the end because of my own carelessness. All I care about is the immediate end to all NGF related threads or posts on this site. I care about every single person out there never experiencing a single doubt again as to the fact that Dion Dakis is a proven and verified thief, scammer, and liar.
Dion's current explanation when asked about the origins of KOF2000: "Playmore has authenticated it in their court documents and I have no further comments. It does not matter where it was printed." Dion's current explanation for selling 500 Zupapa! carts as official: "Playmore returned the seized inventory to us and we will soon win this trial."
Dion's current explanation to why he has taken back the $150 from me via PayPal for a cart he has received: "You want to be a dick, I'll play along."
Case closed, fuck you scammer. I've never trusted you and only wanted to use you to get the protos and original artwork. Now that I can't get either, you're about as useless as a diseased tranny. It's just a shame that you have to drag Chris Ray's name along with you, since at least Chris is decent and reliable as a salesman. And since I know that there is no way in hell you'll give me back the $150 you definitely stole from me (much less the rest), here is a big FUCK YOU lol to you and a reminder that what goes around, comes around.
Sincerely,
Mikhail