So over the last few days, quite a few cartridges started making their way into my collection. I did one major batch/rush over a couple of days to get as many as I could. Just because I'm basically doing reproductions by adding these new labels, I decided to keep the costs reasonable as an additional challenge. Basically keep each cartridge under $10 (Canadian). I was able to do this with the only exception being Robot Tank which ended up being $14. Everything else was from $2 to $10. With
So I did receive the labels yesterday afternoon, which was a great coincidence, since I was just going to prep four cartridges for the eventual arrival of the new labels. I received about 40-50 of them. All the Activision ones and ordered one single Spectravideo cart for Planet Patrol.
So I'll start with my dupes: Keystone Kapers, Planet Patrol, Space Shuttle and Stampede.
I did do more of a clean, scrapping some of the residue of the Keystone Kapers and Pl
So a couple weeks ago I stumbled upon this post from pboland where he's selling replacement labels for cartridges. I was intrigued because I have a full set of Activision cartridges, but the labels on the majority of them are in a poor state. After doing the math and needing some new distraction, I decided to order a full replacement set.
Now, I think I will probably not touch the more rarer carts like Cosmic Commuter, Ghostbusters, Rampage, etc but will do the more common one. I
Got my last three carts from eBay vendors. Robot Tank, Starmaster and Megamania. Don't have natural light to take a picture of Megamania, so I'll provide it some other time.
Opening the Robot Tank cartridge, I found a surprise. It uses a new blob-type ROM chip with all epoxy. Of all the cartridges I opened in this project, this is the only one. So most likely this was a latter run of Activision cartridges. All the other ones had the larger chip.