RetroN5: Hands on first look

[Gatucaman]

Hell, at least with those ripped lables, you know it's bound to be legit (ie not have a bunch of wires bunched up and an EPROM inside)! BTW, your argument is moot since Shantea and Earthbound are both available on Virtual Console as of summer 2013. Plus, there's plenty of retro games to enjoy for around $5-$10 bucks or so.

I know I argued that downloading ROMs is illegal; that doesn't mean i don't brake the law from time to time. I also have a few repros of unreleased, translation, hacks, bootleg multicarts, etc, and I do occasionally use flash carts to play "unobtainable" games.

Can people just accept the fact that I prefer to game on actual carts if/when I have the option and my space/budget allows it?

Carts are a special part of history meant to be enjoyed but also preserved. I once lovingly restored a roach feces covered Panic Restaurant that I picked up at game-X-Change for $5. See here:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/mes...hreadid=100979

The game required a donor PCB to work in the end so I sacrificed a Home Alone 2. Was happy to get it working in the end and it's a great charming game. Eventually I sold it along with a Bucky-O-Hare for $230. Had I not picked up this dirty cart despite being only $5, it would have likely ended up in a landfill. Instead it went to a good home in Canada.

People have been selling illicit repros of Wild Guns, Hagane and of course Eathbound that even looked like that, legit.

and sorry but, the only reason why Shantae was put there on VC in teh 1st place, was because of the high demand because of the sequel and that's because of the interest in teh original game, who have been playing it via emulation, because the original sold like crap because i came out at the wrong time.

and as for the games available via legal form for 5-10 bucks, fair enough, but it doesnt change the fact that rarely they put out obscure high demand stuff (like your Uforia, Rondo of Blood, Monster World IV, Shantae and Sin and Punisment, (and where do you think interest for those titles came from?), there's at leats 25 game who hanst been released and probably never will, not just because of licensing issues, but also because of extreme obscurity, the source code non exiting anymore outside of ROMS, Companie IP selling hell, and in some cases, lazyness and even dishonet trolling, (earthbound being teh greatest example, nintendo LIED for years as for why they didnt released Earthbound on Wii VC despite the GIGANTONUMOUS DEMAND for that game, they made so many excuses as to why, the most prominent being the music having lots of sampling form pop culture music...............and then the WII U was not selling so they slapped Earybound on the pitiful Wii U Shop with only one change..........a different piece of dialogue, everything else was the same as in the original release, so they lied, that was disgusting)

As for your issue, i think you should have specified and have tried to avoid sounding close minded.

BTW i saw your work on that restoration of Panic Restaurant, but you shouldnt sold it for that :P.