horseboy Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 270624797249 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 I am guessing repros. Somebody must think they got something special though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Stickers match protos, impossible to tell without seeing the PCB's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 Stickers match protos, impossible to tell without seeing the PCB's. That is what I figured. Didn't most protos have lab loaner labels though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Stickers match protos, impossible to tell without seeing the PCB's. That is what I figured. Didn't most protos have lab loaner labels though? No, many 5200 ones do not. They could also be Best Electronics releases, on real proto PCB's, although I think they used different stickers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 (edited) Stickers match protos, impossible to tell without seeing the PCB's. That is what I figured. Didn't most protos have lab loaner labels though? No, many 5200 ones do not. They could also be Best Electronics releases, on real proto PCB's, although I think they used different stickers. Stickers aside, how could you tell the difference between a legit proto and a BE release? Edited August 23, 2010 by horseboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Ohh..so this is why I lost this after having watched it from the beginning! Just kidding... I have seen these types of labels on 5200 protos before. Someone took a chance (I tried) and chances are they are 100% legit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Stickers match protos, impossible to tell without seeing the PCB's. That is what I figured. Didn't most protos have lab loaner labels though? No, many 5200 ones do not. They could also be Best Electronics releases, on real proto PCB's, although I think they used different stickers. Stickers aside, how could you tell the difference between a legit proto and a BE release? Most open 5200 protos, I have seen, have typed stickers on the EPROM's, I doubt Best tried to fake that. Although you never know, considering the fake 2600 Quadrun loaner carts with a real mask ROM inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 (edited) I have had 5200 protos with labels like this before. I bet they are real. Edited August 24, 2010 by holygrailvideogames.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I have had 5200 repros with labels like this before. I bet they are real. Real repros as opposed to fake repros? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I have had 5200 repros with labels like this before. I bet they are real. Real repros as opposed to fake repros? LOL My 10 month old kept me up most of last night. This is what happens when I get 2 hours of sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Although you never know, considering the fake 2600 Quadrun loaner carts with a real mask ROM inside. Which ironically had a late beta version of the game on them. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianoid Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Hard to tell without looking at the boards. Even when you have a board, it's hard to know if it's the work of Brad from Best or engineers at Atari. Appropriate DMP labels over the eproms favor authenticity. Even for Best protos, this was a very good price. I might have bid just because it was a deal, had I noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseboy Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share Posted August 24, 2010 Even for Best protos, this was a very good price. Why would you say that? You can get repros with nice labels of all 4 of the unreleased games and nice copies of the released one's for a fraction of that price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Even for Best protos, this was a very good price. Why would you say that? You can get repros with nice labels of all 4 of the unreleased games and nice copies of the released one's for a fraction of that price. Same reason someone just paid over $30,000.00 for an empty air raid box. (Some) collectors are whack in the head. As far as the Best protos, I'm not sure anything much over the price of the materials and time for the guy to burn the rom onto the chip is worth the money. From the sounds of it, they are using the identical board and files that were used during the production years, but they were made many years later and therefore as far as I'm concerned fake. It's no different than the 2600 repros popping up on ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Same reason someone just paid over $30,000.00 for an empty air raid box. (Some) collectors are whack in the head. For the record, that boxed Air Raid did come with an Air Raid cartridge, as well as a molded plastic insert in the box to keep the cartridge in place. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Same reason someone just paid over $30,000.00 for an empty air raid box. (Some) collectors are whack in the head. For the record, that boxed Air Raid did come with an Air Raid cartridge, as well as a molded plastic insert in the box to keep the cartridge in place. ..Al Ah, well...makes it well worth the money then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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