How do you price some cart games that are disk games.

[GamerTheGreek]

I found 1 or 2 games Im really wanting. Both came out on disk and never released on cart. But someone burned it to a chip and now its in cart form. From what I remember years ago these were out back in the early 2000s. How do you value these kinds of games and get an idea how much to pay. I would like to own them in cart form without overpaying.

[recorderdude]

by that do you mean ports? as in, a disk game ported to a cartridge of a completely different system? If the cart version never came out, you're likely looking at a homebrewed (or beta) port and the price is essentially whatever both he'll take for it and you're willing to pay. Exceptions are larger-scale homebrew releases like, say, Pier Solar for the genesis. This is apparently a small matter, though.

[GamerTheGreek]

The game was on A8 disks but ported to A8 cart. Since I dont have an idea on value and ddint know if it was ported by another company Video 61 or something. Cart has a generic label CXL 9061 ( which isnt an atari cart number so wasnt sure if it was a company made or what. Ok Ill see what they are willing to take and play it from there.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Oh, you're talking about ATARI games.

Most people here, myself included, see "disc / cart" and think Famicom Disk System to NES conversion.

[Atarileaf]

I've seen these kind of things on ebay. Berzerk is an example. It never came out on a cart for the A8's but someone took an A8 cart shell, burned a rom on a new board, slapped a label on it and wants $20 for it. Personally I don't pay much, if anything for something like this.

Its not a homebrew, just someone making a cart from a rom image I'm assuming.