(04-30-2015, 07:19 AM)Koh Wrote: I personally don't see what would be wrong with reproduction cartridges. After all, I can't imagine too many original ones still being properly functional after all these years. All a reproduction cartridge is is slapping the same game data into a more recent cartridge anyway. Also great for rom hacks that decided to go the extra mile of making an official cartridge release.
Now if it's just a collector's pet peeve because everything needs to be 100% old and 100% not-reproduced, then it's a very minor complaint that only affects their collecting fix, and not the ability to play the games. All GameStop needs to care about is that they're functional, not that they're vintage.
WOW... I hardly know where to begin.
#1 cartridges last a pretty damn long time, all my cartridges from old systems still work perfect... Even the ones for my Atari 2600.
#2 All they need to worry about is if it works?? It's not a matter of vintage vs functional it's about REAL vs fucking FAKE. That's what determines the fucking prices of the goddamn games, the fucking rarity. If gamestop thinks that a repro cart of Earthbound is real they're gonna sell it for like $80 along with any real ones. Not to mention it's probably not legal to knowingly sell them.
Reproduction carts are cool for rom hacks/translations etc. but they should NOT be sold as though they're the genuine article. ALSO blowing in your carts does literally nothing but corrode the contacts.