Quote Originally Posted by Satoshi_Matrix View Post
NA guys say they're adamantly against the idea of repros because they "negatively impacts the retro gaming hobby" through sellers that would sell their repro as the real thing and never inform the buyer its a repro and not the mask rom original.

If a seller tries to pass off a repro as the real thing then the problem isn't the repro cart, its the dishonest seller. That's a totally different issue.
The other argument is that a repro of a popular game could be sold off to someone who knows nothing about games and thinking he/she has an original. At some point he/she decides to sell it and lists it as an original. At that point either prices are going forced to fluctuate to accommodate the extra copies of whatever now being dumped into the market place (which happens anyway), someone is getting ripped off (dubiously) or both.

It seems like a lot of worrying for nothing. Or, rather, a lot of propaganda for the purposes of controlling the market. I fully expect to someday see an individual or group pop up and start selling obvious repros of popular games for people who just want to play the game on a physical system or have something nice to put on a shelve.