I'd be wary paying $50 a pop for things like these. I have a handful of these myself (Hotel Mario and I believe Link: Faces of Evil) and considering they are already on CD-R discs, they would be easy to duplicate at home.
Well he is down to his last copy if he was being truthful about having only 15 of these. I'm fairly positive we will know when we recieve these with little to no effort as to wether or not they are fakes. Lets hope this guy is not a scammer. It's sad that we collectors have to worry about these things. When I started collecting this kind of thing was unheard of, there were the pirate carts but you knew what you were buying, but of coarse back then the demand wasn't anything close to what it is now.
I do believe that I bought the last one. I bought a large lot of NFRs on ebay YEARS ago. I will do a comparison of them and report back to the group when it happens, unless someone else gets their shipment before me and can do it.
" If you have any problems please let me know before leaving feedback I will do everything in my power to make it right. I purchased from an ex-Philips technician from the 90's who had a collection this is what the gentleman told me. "The discs were purchased years ago from the Philips Tennesee Headquarters and stored for years and forgotten until recently found." This leads me to believe the items are genuine, people find nos all the time. I have had lots of questions about this, I did tons of research as these appeared to be different from the European orange release but it is white like the rest of the ntsc cdi nfr's selling for $15. I read somewhere in my research the orange European release to valued up to $500 but I don't know enough about that to verify. I also read that cdi roms are not shareware like most roms from the time period so I figured I was safe there. Any other questions or concerns please feel free, sorry for being short before just loads of ?"
Man, tons of NFR CD-i fakes are flooding eBay lately.
I used to beta test for Philips in '91 and have about 200 of these NFR discs, but they would almost never gave out more than 1 or 2 copies of a single game.
The last flood of fakes were from a guy selling CD-i bundles and he listed them as Zelda's Adventure in the title.
I guess he thought doing it this way would be less obvious. The guy even ripped off my homemade Mario's Wacky Worlds label.
Anyway, many of these are Inkjet printable CDR's. It's very easy to fake being 2 colors and simple text.
A dead giveaway would be a matte finish label. All of the discs I have are glossy (save for the few gold CDR discs).
This guy also doesn't want to give out any details weather they are CDR or pressed:
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"I have no reason to believe these are fake I purchased them from a Philips tech from during the 90's."
I think the 'collection' answer is bs
And if you see the sellers other items for sale *sega saturn for 90 bucks , segacd,32x,genesis2 for 180*
I don't think this person knows about collection prices...
Hopefully they are legit copies of the game
" If you have any problems please let me know before leaving feedback I will do everything in my power to make it right. I purchased from an ex-Philips technician from the 90's who had a collection this is what the gentleman told me. "The discs were purchased years ago from the Philips Tennesee Headquarters and stored for years and forgotten until recently found." This leads me to believe the items are genuine, people find nos all the time. I have had lots of questions about this, I did tons of research as these appeared to be different from the European orange release but it is white like the rest of the ntsc cdi nfr's selling for $15. I read somewhere in my research the orange European release to valued up to $500 but I don't know enough about that to verify. I also read that cdi roms are not shareware like most roms from the time period so I figured I was safe there. Any other questions or concerns please feel free, sorry for being short before just loads of ?"
Question is, which border state will get it first
I used to beta test for Philips in '91 and have about 200 of these NFR discs, but they would almost never gave out more than 1 or 2 copies of a single game.
The last flood of fakes were from a guy selling CD-i bundles and he listed them as Zelda's Adventure in the title.
I guess he thought doing it this way would be less obvious. The guy even ripped off my homemade Mario's Wacky Worlds label.
Anyway, many of these are Inkjet printable CDR's. It's very easy to fake being 2 colors and simple text.
A dead giveaway would be a matte finish label. All of the discs I have are glossy (save for the few gold CDR discs).
This guy also doesn't want to give out any details weather they are CDR or pressed:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220975515944&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123
When I asked if he could take a pic of the other sides of the discs he told me they were already packaged up and he can't access them.
Then I asked this:
Can you tell me if the tops of the discs were glossy?
The original NFR Philips discs should be glossy on top.
I just want to make sure I'm not bidding on CDR copies with Inkjet printed tops.
Thanks.
And he answered:
I don't think they were glossy.
Again, it's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like inkjet to me.
The text doesn't look smooth, and the discs don't appear to be glossy.
Also, the inner ring doesn't seem right either.
Compare his:
To this:
Pretty sure that the holographic digits in the center ring will be telling as well.
the Zelda wand of gamelon and numbers appear to be in 'bold' writing
while the mario hotel only the title has bold and the numbers aren't
Originally posted by: icarwngs55
Well we will see. My disc now says shipped from Ebay
I think I know the outcome of this already, but good luck.
It's sad to think this guy may have just made $800 in a under a week from selling 16 $.10 cent CDRs!
While you're at it report this guy...
He's selling CDR copies of Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (which I dumped from this gold CDR Prototype from Frank C.).
It was a real pain to copy and took several weeks to do so.
Now this ass is selling them.
Not to mention he stole the artwork I made years ago!
Originally posted by: Marioguy
So is that Mario Wacky Worlds fake or not?
Yes. The one in the auction is a copy of the original prototype.
I dumped the ISO and Frank made it available freely on the web years ago.
Unfortunately with that type of thing people think they are entitled to making profit off of it.
If it were real it would go for between $1000 - $2000 USD.
Originally posted by: theguy1962
He does say it's a copy, sorta. "This Disc is a Mirror of What Was Completed !"
Not when you keep it in context though.
(Prototype Incomplete Game)
"Super Mario's Wacky Worlds" Was Never Completed
Philip's Stopped Making The CDI During Game Testing
This Disc is a Mirror of What Was Completed !
He means it contains everything that was actually completed by the developers.
Not a "data mirror image".
Originally posted by: Marioguy
so these mario wacky cdi came like this from Philips (with that cover aswell)? So that this is not made by a fan or somethin like that?
No. The gold TDK disc and index card came from PIMA/NovaLogic.
And I made these for the webpage after releasing the iso
I didn't make them so someone could burn a disc of the game and sell it with my images.
After seeing a bunch of these pop up on eBay I removed the high resolution links, but it didn't do much good.