Originally Posted by
Satoshi_Matrix
I have also found that those NA people are fiercely against reproductions cartridges, especially of commercially released games. I have no such problem. I think repros are a very good thing and a giant middle finger to some of the insane prices some NES games have risen to such as Little Samson now selling for $600. Rerpo that instead.
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.
To me, I have no problems whatsoever with any reproduction cartridges, no matter if its a hack, fan translation, homebrew or repro of a commercially available game.
I wouldn't have any real problem with any repro seller unless they also priced their Little Samson repros at $500-600. As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing at all wrong with people selling repros of Little Samson and other rarities for reasonable prices, maybe $25 a copy or something like that. If that ruin's NA's precious $600 going rate for the original copies......good.
But I do agree that people who try to pass repros as authentic originals are scumbags and should never be allowed to get away with that. Is the solution saying "no repros?" no. I also dont think the solution is slapping ugly REPRODUCTION CARTRIDGE letting on labels.