I'm thinking about making it, yes, but I don't know if it's cost effective. After lunar year festival in china I can get a price estimate. It would be cart only. Quantity would be large. Quite a risk to take really.
I'm thinking about making it, yes, but I don't know if it's cost effective. After lunar year festival in china I can get a price estimate. It would be cart only. Quantity would be large. Quite a risk to take really.
I would think the biggest risk (other than not selling enough to at least break even) would be the fact that you're going to be dealing with customs everywhere you ship and you're talking about a large shipment of pirate goods.
Hey, welcome to the site dude. Man, I wish I still had a gameboy, I'm in the process of playing through Earthbound right now and I'd love to get my hands on the sequel.
Maybe talk to James Todd about getting parts? I'm sure he's got hookups for cart shells for gameboy and board prototyping. I doubt the boards in lots of 100+ would be more then $2 each. Then the shells, though.
If you added the extra poll option about "piracy" to be a jab at me, then you're way off base.
What repro makers do IS piracy, like it or not, and the nature of my post was in reference to the fact that you made it sound like you were going to make a bulk purchase of finished product from a Chinese supplier.
I'm pointing out a practical issue that you're going to face if you attempt to import a large quantity of actual pirate hardware.
If you're building the stuff yourself and just selling them one at a time, then you probably won't face the same issue.
Yeah, square is tough on people for their old stuff, as you saw with the SNES game hack. Maybe this'd get shut down by then if not by customs? Good thing Nintendo's pretty chill though. Despite it not really being that big of a deal in the first place since quantity is so small.
Arch_Angel...nono... wasn't for you question was there originally... I just know people see old games as "preservation".. and not-so-old games as piracy ^^ That's why I added that.. Because I think people will be against the project also..
About parts question; everything get's made easy by a china manufacturer. I even get red shells if I want (well..transparent), and ofc custom labels.
Earthbound has such a huge fanbase that it would probably be an easy sell even at a slightly higher price. I think $30 is fair though. I would buy one for sure.
Extensively test the save function. Chinese Pokemon game's save files always end up corrupting after a bit.
Thanks for that. That's somthing I really need to discuss with them, the quality of the batteries. I don't want old stock or bad quality batteries that's dead on delivery
Please do this, I've been waiting for this for quite a while to make a complete translated mother set. Maybe you could get in contact with Tusk and someone who can do manuals and make CIBs? I'd gladly pay around $50 for one.
Not sure how I feel about a red shell though. I like the gray carts.
I could be able to make some, however they would not be mass produced Price would be about $40 each cart only, but I would obviously want to make a box fitting the handbook BTW, I already own a Mother 3 translated repro cart
To get better price, it would have to be mass produced in China
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I'm thinking about making it, yes, but I don't know if it's cost effective. After lunar year festival in china I can get a price estimate. It would be cart only. Quantity would be large. Quite a risk to take really.
I would think the biggest risk (other than not selling enough to at least break even) would be the fact that you're going to be dealing with customs everywhere you ship and you're talking about a large shipment of pirate goods.
Seems like a bad idea.
I'd love to have one.
What repro makers do IS piracy, like it or not, and the nature of my post was in reference to the fact that you made it sound like you were going to make a bulk purchase of finished product from a Chinese supplier.
I'm pointing out a practical issue that you're going to face if you attempt to import a large quantity of actual pirate hardware.
If you're building the stuff yourself and just selling them one at a time, then you probably won't face the same issue.
About parts question; everything get's made easy by a china manufacturer. I even get red shells if I want (well..transparent), and ofc custom labels.
Extensively test the save function. Chinese Pokemon game's save files always end up corrupting after a bit.
Thanks for that. That's somthing I really need to discuss with them, the quality of the batteries. I don't want old stock or bad quality batteries that's dead on delivery
Price would be about $40 each cart only, but I would obviously want to make a box fitting the handbook
BTW, I already own a Mother 3 translated repro cart
To get better price, it would have to be mass produced in China
Add me to the interested buyer list.