Neo-geo.com Official WTF NEO Auction Thread

johhnnyD14 · May 23, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Musha-Alest...650204?hash=item2a6788e11c:g:lgcAAOSw3mpXLGCG

$45 for a cheap Ali bootleg

ChuChu Flamingo · May 25, 2016

http://www.neostore.com/Blazing-Star-AES-unofficial-conversion-p/1492.htm

Dat label. Who the f would buy this?

Hellfromabove · May 26, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEO-GEO-MVS...590575?hash=item210e49122f:g:kqwAAOSwRLZUCEIP

Guy lists this Bang Progress kit in the title as "FULL MATCHING KIT" yet in the description he states that the label on the cartridge is a repro label without a hologram. Dude is most likely creating fake kits by removing cart labels and replacing them with repros and trying to pass them off as legit. I highly doubt he would have said anything if the original cart didn't come with a holo label and would have tried to pass it off as original.

egg_sanwich · May 26, 2016

Hellfromabove said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEO-GEO-MVS...590575?hash=item210e49122f:g:kqwAAOSwRLZUCEIP

Guy lists this Bang Progress kit in the title as "FULL MATCHING KIT" yet in the description he states that the label on the cartridge is a repro label without a hologram. Dude is most likely creating fake kits by removing cart labels and replacing them with repros and trying to pass them off as legit. I highly doubt he would have said anything if the original cart didn't come with a holo label and would have tried to pass it off as original.

Isn't Bang Progress by default a repro label put on Bang Bead kits?

alphagamer · May 26, 2016

egg_sanwich said:
Isn't Bang Progress by default a repro label put on Bang Bead kits?

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showt...elp.&p=3344262&highlight=progress#post3344262

Hellfromabove · May 26, 2016

alphagamer said:
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showt...elp.&p=3344262&highlight=progress#post3344262

Yup, this. It was released in EU as Progress and came with a holo label. I have not seen or heard of any holo label fakes so that is a good indicator as well.

wyo · May 26, 2016

Hellfromabove said:
Yup, this. It was released in EU as Progress and came with a holo label. I have not seen or heard of any holo label fakes so that is a good indicator as well.

All Bang Progress labels are non-holo photocopies:

Hellfromabove · May 26, 2016

wyo_vr4 said:
All Bang Progress labels are non-holo photocopies:

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The expert has spoken

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Wyo, do you have any details on Bang Progress? From searching, all I can find is a bunch of indefinite statements. Were these just Bang Beads that had their labels removed and were repurposed with Bang Progress labels? If they are photocopies, then that kit I posted above would be fake, right? Very curious here.

ResO · May 27, 2016

Edit: wrong thread :blush:

Hellfromabove · May 27, 2016

ResO said:
Wasn't a purchase, but my raffle prize from the generous and Super Sexy Awesome mjmjr25! Many thanks,hon!

Think you meant to post that in the "Recent Purchases" thread :keke:

sylphia · May 27, 2016

Hellfromabove said:
The expert has spoken .

Wyo, do you have any details on Bang Progress? From searching, all I can find is a bunch of indefinite statements. Were these just Bang Beads that had their labels removed and were repurposed with Bang Progress labels? If they are photocopies, then that kit I posted above would be fake, right? Very curious here.

As far as I know, all Bang Progress carts have the same serial number (578), and Bang Progress kits have Band Bead artworks. Labels are non-holo, but I do not remember them as being photocopies.
Like Concorde B. Star (relabeled Blazing Star), Bang Progress was supposedly distributed at some point as a new official game. Not by SNK of course, but most probably by some arcade operators.

Hellfromabove · May 27, 2016

sylphia said:
As far as I know, all Bang Progress carts have the same serial number (578), and Bang Progress kits have Band Bead artworks. Labels are non-holo, but I do not remember them as being photocopies.
Like Concorde B. Star (relabeled Blazing Star), Bang Progress was supposedly distributed at some point as a new official game. Not by SNK of course, but most probably by some arcade operators.

Oh interesting. Honestly, had no idea about Concorde B. Star either. Thanks for the insight!

wyo · May 27, 2016

sylphia said:
As far as I know, all Bang Progress carts have the same serial number (578), and Bang Progress kits have Band Bead artworks. Labels are non-holo, but I do not remember them as being photocopies.
Like Concorde B. Star (relabeled Blazing Star), Bang Progress was supposedly distributed at some point as a new official game. Not by SNK of course, but most probably by some arcade operators.

Maybe not technically photocopies but definitely substandard compared with normal non-holo labels. I have seen such labels on a number of other games, such as Goal! Goal! Goal! My copy of Bang Progress has visible residue from the old label that was removed and replaced. Unfortunately, it appears it was ripped off. Sometimes in situations like this you can carefully remove secondary labels and find original (usually Japanese) labels underneath. My Irritating Maze cart for example, you can see the OG JP label under the OG Eng label :lolz: