Mega Man 9 Retro Promo... so awesome!

[Mayhem]

Nice work Tony... a handout from Unity? :)

[TonyTheTiger]

How much do you want for it? $100? $200? How about apendages? An arm? A leg?

Women will be fine. And pogs. Lots and lots of pogs.


Nice work Tony... a handout from Unity? :)

You know it.

[GrandAmChandler]

I am very disappointed in Capcom for the intentional short supply. No matter though, I am just going to have a friend with a vinyl printer make the cart for me.

[SegaAges]

Women will be fine. And pogs. Lots and lots of pogs.



You know it.

Uh, I really do have a ziplock bag filled with a couple thousand pogs and slammers in a box somewhere.

Don't joke about pogs, because I will give you like 500 pogs plus slammers for it, hahaha

As for women: does it have to be a woman, or just a person dressed like a woman (don't worry, if it is a dude, I will make them shave their goat-tee)?

[TonyTheTiger]

Let this be a lesson for me: Never make jokes about zany fads from yesteryear because there will always be someone who still has a collection. Now where did I put my slap bracelets?

[SegaAges]

Let this be a lesson for me: Never make jokes about zany fads from yesteryear because there will always be someone who still has a collection. Now where did I put my slap bracelets?

Actually, I am too stubborn to throw them away as nobody wants them, hahahahaha.

You can have them for free if you want some pogs, hahaha.

Trust me, I only have them because I can't even give them away and spent too much to throw them away.

Now about those people that are "dressed" like women...

[TonyTheTiger]

Not to take this off topic but I'd love to be able to start a fad. Even if it lasts for just a year, if you can manage to sell kids little bits of cardboard, rocks, etc. for even just 365 days you'd be on easy street.

[kainemaxwell]

I so want this now!!

[The 1 2 P]

Women will be fine. And pogs. Lots and lots of pogs.

The only pogs I have are the Power Rangers ones I got out of a cereal box years ago. As for the women, they all left me when they found out I still had a small pog collection:(

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/lummox64/alfback.jpg

Remember Alf? He's back ... in POG form!

[Press_Start]

Don't got pogs. ^^;

I got Spin Fighters! They're shiny and accessories to boot. :D

What do you say?

http://www.aaa-multimedia.com/images/gtb2401.gif

[SegaAges]

The only pogs I have are the Power Rangers ones I got out of a cereal box years ago. As for the women, they all left me when they found out I still had a small pog collection:(


What's worse, the fact that I have a buttload of pogs, or that I also have those same power ranger pogs stuffed into that plastic bag?

[Blitzwing256]

ahem err, I'd be interested in the power ranger pogs you both mention and the spin fighters (if its the power ranger or street fighter ones NOT the wrastlin' ones)

holy de-railment batman!

[portnoyd]

I got mine yesterday and... I can't bring myself to take off the damn shrinkwrap. Goddamn OCD.

[ubersaurus]

I got mine yesterday and... I can't bring myself to take off the damn shrinkwrap. Goddamn OCD.

I have no idea how you guys get this shit :P

[Mayhem]

Btw anyone wanting to chance their arm at getting a $50 press kit, Capcom have announced the remaining stock will be available from the store at 3pm EST today. Their site is going to die...

[theChad]

@_@ It's 12:07 EST - Where the hell is it?!?

[kaedesdisciple]

@_@ It's 12:07 EST - Where the hell is it?!?

It's actually going on sale at 3PM PST. You've got another 5 hours and 46 minutes there, grasshopper.

[theChad]

WTF at backwards math :(

[ClassicGameTrader]

From the Capcom Blog: http://www.capcom-unity.com/go/network/blog


http://wa3.images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/s-kill/mega_man_934.jpg?v=184500

Attention Mega Man fans: The much-loved Mega Man Press Kits are going on sale at the Capcom Store at 3pm PST tomorrow, October 9th! They will be selling at the regular list price of $49.95.

If you were one of the lucky community members who received an advance purchase code, you need to use it NOW. The code does not guarantee you a copy of the press kit, it just lets you cut in line to buy one. If you wait until they are all sold out, you and that code will be out of luck, so buy yours today if you got a code.

There are a VERY limited number of these in existence, so if you want one and can't win our contest, get ready. They are going to go fast, so get your buying finger prepped and stay tuned!

And while you're at the store, remember, if you spend more than $75 (and you're mostly there if you buy the press kit), you score free shipping on your order, so be sure to check out the other goodness floating around. In addition to lots of hard-to-find games, books, and cool shirts, you'll also find things like this Chun Li SFIV statue, which is not available *anywhere* outside of the Capcom store.

One important note-do not order the Mega Man 9 shirt and press kit together. Since the Mega Man 9 shirt is on back-order, and the press kits are sent out first-come, first-served, if you wait until the shirts are back in (should be about a week), your order may not be processed until the shirts are back in stock. If the kits sell out super fast, as I expect they might, you could be out of luck.

[kaedesdisciple]

With ebay prices currently running $100-$750 each, best of luck getting your hands on one if you actually want it for the item and not the profit. Scalpers ahoy!

Wait, now people are trying to sell the t-shirt for >$100? This has gotten waaaay out of hand.

[Jorpho]

Maybe prices will be lower a few months from now when everyone has forgotten this thing exists, including the people who spend $150 on it. :p

[carlcarlson]

Is the case the same size as an NES cart? It looks like it's really fat in that pic above.

[Mayhem]

I believe the cases ARE gutted NES games...

[lendelin]

.. and my main concern is to defeat the stage 3 boss in Wiley's castle...sigh :) Guess the latter is easier than getting a copy of one of these.

[theChad]

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5279/megaman9pt7.png (http://imageshack.us)
8-):D

[Mayhem]

Nice work... sounds like it took a good 30 minutes for them all to go, partly because it was hidden away in the store and not on display in the main page...

Mind you appears five people have already flipped around and listed it immediately on eBay...

[theChad]

My order time says 6:05 PM so hopefully that's early enough to not get kicked by some of the people with promo codes. I see there are people on the capcom forums who ordered after 20ish minutes even.

[evil_genius]

Wish they didn't have to hide them where were they?

[theChad]

I had three windows open: the main page, the collectibles section, and the Mega Man section. I just went back and forth refreshing them and finally it popped up on the bottom of the collectibles page, but I guess it showed up on Mega Man as well.

[kainemaxwell]

Now see, that's just BS.

[carlcarlson]

Bah, I completely forgot about this thing. Rock Band 2 came in the mail so I was all pumped up about it. Damn damn damn.

[DDCecil]

I kept refreshing:

http://store.digitalriver.com/servlet/PromoServlet/promoID.4439100

Until the 1,999.99 price turned magically into 49.99. Then I hurried and inserted my info, and it says I ordered at 4:04 MST. Let's see if I actually get it or not.

[kainemaxwell]

At this point I'll be happy to pick up the poster and/or ost sometime.

[evil_genius]

that sucks I just thought they didn't put them up.

[Bojay1997]

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5279/megaman9pt7.png (http://imageshack.us)
8-):D

I don't want to break your heart, but they ended up accepting way more orders than they have product for. They are going to go through in the next few days and determine how many they received, in what order and how many they can sell. If you bought in the first minute or two, you might be ok. People that bought closer to 15 minutes in or just before it was pulled are probably out of luck. It doesn't matter if you paid with Paypal or Credit Card, they will refund once they decide who actually gets one and who doesn't. Having said that, good luck to everyone who got in.

[kainemaxwell]

I'm sure those who "cut in line" with the Advance code will be the only ones getting them. Everyone else is screwed and Capcom's laughing to the bank.

[DDCecil]

Got the e-mail. On back order, obviously. Damn it!

[theChad]

Wow...just got the e-mail as well. Unbelievable, really - I thought being in as soon as the item popped onto the list would've been enough, especially considering how many people couldn't find it forever and were crossing their fingers on the order.

[kainemaxwell]

Why did Capcom even hide it in the first place?!

[fuchikoma]

I sat down to watch a movie and missed it. WTF capcom. :(

[DDCecil]

Looks like everyone who ordered one did get a back-ordered e-mail:

http://www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man/go/thread/view/7461/4991578/Backorder_List

[theChad]

Looks like everyone who ordered one did get a back-ordered e-mail:

http://www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man/go/thread/view/7461/4991578/Backorder_List

I feel especially bad for everyone saying they got their orders in at ten, eleven - fifteen after, even. Mostly because they're all holding out hope, yet the moderator (or somebody important) was saying they sold out in four minutes. For me, that's important because: did they sell out at 3:04 (four minutes after the $2000 price changed to $49.99 for people who had that link) or at ~3:08 (four minutes after it showed up on the site) or somewhere in between?

If I don't get it, at least I'm not alone, but by god that doesn't mean I won't hope.

[ProgrammingAce]

I was ok with the limited nature of the promo, but now it seems like capcom are just being pricks about it. If you know you only have 200 (or whatever) units availible, then it's not that hard to only sell it to 200 people. Even if that's beyond your capabilities, it shouldn't take too long to sort out who actually got one and who didn't.

I get that they're soaking up all the free advertising they can get, but at this point they're just being dicks.

[SegaAges]

Wow, jerks.

They have how many people again that work on their website?

It is not that hard to implement a:

if the sales hit 200, take away the button to sell or immediately make this hit backorder.

Maybe it is the fault of the programmer.

Hey capcom, you could pay me the same as that guy and I would work for ya!

[DreamTR]

Don't blame Capcom. It's Digital River's fault, they are the ones who control the sales aspect for them, and they charge them a whopping 15-20% per transaction.

[Electric Blue]

Don't blame Capcom. It's Digital River's fault, they are the ones who control the sales aspect for them, and they charge them a whopping 15-20% per transaction.

That's a damn steep rate. Honestly, I'd think it would be cheaper to run it in house, but what do I know.

[rbudrick]

Using donor carts, I wonder if there are 5 and 3 screw variations!

-Rob

[DreamTR]

rbudrick: most of them were Silent Service carts.

[DDCecil]

Just got the e-mail: It shipped! Check youir e-mails if you ordered one!

[Bojay1997]

I got one too! I'm actually really excited. Not too sure why...

[theChad]

I'm getting nervous about the e-mails - like I said, I had my order in at 6:06 (3:06, whatever) and there are people who were in at 3:12 and over who've received shipping confirmation e-mails, but I haven't heard a thing yet.

[contra4life]

good luck to everyone!

[Neo-Jorge]

Was able to score one of these my order time was 3:11 pm Got the shipping confirmation.
.

[Nirvana]

I am so mad I missed out on this. I'm such a huge Mega Man fan, too.

[TonyTheTiger]

The Capcom-Unity boards are starting to piss me off.

Before this whole ordeal, everyone was hoping all the "true" fans would be able to get a copy early so they wouldn't have to pay the Ebay prices. Capcom obliged.

Now it seems that Capcom is trying to get more made so they can fill all of the orders. This makes people who didn't get one happy but, lo and behold, now the people who did get them are not so thrilled. They want "second printing" or something put on the new batch. I wonder why. :roll: It's really pathetic how people make a 180 degree turn once a dollar is waved in their faces. If they weren't serious about how they were saying all the fans should be able to get one then they shouldn't have said it.

[Bojay1997]

The Capcom-Unity boards are starting to piss me off.

Before this whole ordeal, everyone was hoping all the "true" fans would be able to get a copy early so they wouldn't have to pay the Ebay prices. Capcom obliged.

Now it seems that Capcom is trying to get more made so they can fill all of the orders. This makes people who didn't get one happy but, lo and behold, now the people who did get them are not so thrilled. They want "second printing" or something put on the new batch. I wonder why. :roll: It's really pathetic how people make a 180 degree turn once a dollar is waved in their faces. If they weren't serious about how they were saying all the fans should be able to get one then they shouldn't have said it.

I saw all those posts over there as well and it makes me really sad. Frankly, I give Capcom a lot of credit for even releasing this to people beyond the press and going even further by having more made when they couldn't deliver to all the orders they took. I think it's really the epitome of hypocracy when the same people who get upset that gougers are getting 5-10 times retail for these things complain when more fans can actually get them. If all these alleged fans really plan on keeping this item in their collection, it doesn't matter if there are 5 or 5,000 of them since they technically have no monetary value since they will never be sold. I also am really disappointed in all the people complaining that they didn't realize it was a used cartridge or just a cartridge and a box. Don't people bother to do a little bit of web surfing to understand what they are getting excited about? It's not like Capcom kept what was in this package a secret and it was well covered all over the web. Overall, I think I am done with Capcom-Unity and hopeful that Capcom keeps moving forward with more of these items.

[Neo-Jorge]

Most of those members on that board are not even old enuff to really appreciate a promo like that. They dont know the feeling of opening a boxed nes cart. To me it's all about nostalgia I dont plan on selling mine nor do I care how many were printed because it wil remain in my collection. Who even said they want a second printing on the box should be smacked upside the head with a Nes system. Damn Ebay Farmers.

[kainemaxwell]

Anyone want to guess how many of the people who signed up to try to get one of these had planned to put it up on ebay?

[IronBuddha]

I would really love to get my hands on one of these, but I'm not getting frustrated or anything just yet.

Is it really set in stone that they're not going to make anymore? Things I've seen happen in other hobbies makes me not worry. I'll use my hotwheels knowledge as an example, when Pixar Cars came out and they put out the toys, Lizzie was incredibley hard to come by. Even their website was saying good luck finding her, she's the "treasure hunt" of Cars, and people were spending hundreds of dollars on ebay for her. Few months later guess what, Lizzies out the ass everywhere in the stores.

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this would happen with Mega Man 9, I think it would be hilarious if we see it in stores.

[ProgrammingAce]

I would really love to get my hands on one of these, but I'm not getting frustrated or anything just yet.

Is it really set in stone that they're not going to make anymore? Things I've seen happen in other hobbies makes me not worry. I'll use my hotwheels knowledge as an example, when Pixar Cars came out and they put out the toys, Lizzie was incredibley hard to come by. Even their website was saying good luck finding her, she's the "treasure hunt" of Cars, and people were spending hundreds of dollars on ebay for her. Few months later guess what, Lizzies out the ass everywhere in the stores.

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this would happen with Mega Man 9, I think it would be hilarious if we see it in stores.

Problem is, they're destroying real NES carts to make these. It's a fairly resource intensive process that's done by hand. It's not something they can just go back to the molds and fire up a few thousand more.

That being said, you could make your own using a decent color laser printer and a busted NES cart. There's not really anything stopping you aside from copyrights...

[slip81]

though even though they are using actual gutted carts, I still wouldn't be surprised to see more. It's entirely possible to get a hold of say 1000 smb/duck hunt carts and make more of these.

I'm not saying that we'll see like another 10,000 produced or anything, but it's feasable to say that they could make a few more to cash in on the demand and thus make it not as rare.

[theChad]

From what I understand, that's what they're doing - making enough to fill all the orders that were placed. I don't really care if it's not limited to 200. Even if there are 500 or 1000 it's still pretty limited. What I am pissed about is all the people who ordered after me who already got theirs shipped while I still haven't even heard back from the Digital Rivers support about it and my status is still "Order in process". Huge letdown.

[Icarus Moonsight]

I'll probably make my own. I'd love to have one and that's the problem. For what it is it's not worth $50. It's surely well over $50 in cool value but, the urge to sell would be too much. So I'll print out a label slap it on Dino Riki and be happy with my faux Mega Man 9 NES cart that no one will want to give me hundreds of dollars for. So I get to keep it and sleep well at night. Win/win IMO. I don't care much for the disk content but a box would be nice. Then again, it would look weird with my mostly loose NES stuff.

[SegaAges]

I don't have the link and too lazy to look for it (there is a thread about the dude here somewhere), but the Happy video game reviewer made a video showing it. It was cool because they opened it up and examined everything about it.

[Mayhem]

From what I understand, that's what they're doing - making enough to fill all the orders that were placed. I don't really care if it's not limited to 200. Even if there are 500 or 1000 it's still pretty limited. What I am pissed about is all the people who ordered after me who already got theirs shipped while I still haven't even heard back from the Digital Rivers support about it and my status is still "Order in process". Huge letdown.

From what it seems, orders were not processed in chronological order for whatever reason...

And my one turned up at QoF's place a few days back, maybe she'll add it to her swag website...

[Jorpho]

...So, one year after all this fuss and fury, who has given a thought to this bauble recently? Or even taken it off the shelf to look at it twice in the last six months?

[TRM]

...So, one year after all this fuss and fury, who has given a thought to this bauble recently? Or even taken it off the shelf to look at it twice in the last six months?

Eh that's exactly why I got away from collecting, and shifted back into gaming for gaming's sake. Too much stuff sitting around on shelves, that is not even looked at / used.

[TonyTheTiger]

...So, one year after all this fuss and fury, who has given a thought to this bauble recently? Or even taken it off the shelf to look at it twice in the last six months?

It's propped up on my shelf staring at me and it's one of my most prized collectibles. :)

In fact, I hope Capcom does something similar for Mega Man 10.

[Bojay1997]

...So, one year after all this fuss and fury, who has given a thought to this bauble recently? Or even taken it off the shelf to look at it twice in the last six months?

To be honest, I completely forgot I even own it. It's this relative indifference that makes me glad I only paid MSRP and didn't get suckered into paying way too much on Ebay.

[Eternal Tune]

Sometimes I like to take poops on mine.

[Oobgarm]

I'm glad I didn't give in to the hype on this.

It's a neat piece and I love Mega Man, but paying good money for a practically useless item just so I can have it on a shelf and say "HURRR LOOK AT THIS, IT DOES NOTHING" is kind of silly to me.

[TRM]

I'm glad I didn't give in to the hype on this.

It's a neat piece and I love Mega Man, but paying good money for a practically useless item just so I can have it on a shelf and say "HURRR LOOK AT THIS, IT DOES NOTHING" is kind of silly to me.

Agreed.

[kainemaxwell]

I just wanted the poster honestly.

[Arasoi]

delete please, wrong topic