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The good news is you can make totally unauthorized copies of PCE CD games that play perfectly on your system.
I bit the bullet and got dracula x finally. I ended up spending $165.00.
I got it too, arrived today. Paid just about the same price. Disc and art/book are minty, case is a little yellowed so I ordered a set of these for all of my games:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281360620296
They seem to be identical to the originals, hope they in fact are!
Here is Rondo in all it's RGB/Frameister glory:
The good news is you can make totally unauthorized copies of PCE CD games that play perfectly on your system.
Which is good because it is the only way I have been able to play Sapphire. No way am I shelling out $600 for a bootleg let alone the real thing.
Its not going for that much. I got a sealed boot, works perfect. Last year for $60.00
Didn't realize the boots were so cheap. I haven't looked in forever as I have just written that game off as unobtainable.
I really think that company in Germany is making them still. My boot looks pretty damn nice, and plays perfect. It's so common a used import game shop by my place in Columbus Ohio had a stack of them.
I may have to look into this. I would be interested in one of these and retire the crappy cd-r I have.
I don't think they advertise it. Or have a website or anything. But there's something shady going on with those boots. They've been around forever. And they get scarce and pop up again.
Anyone played Tatsujin on PCE and compared it with the genny one Truxton? I was looking online and could not find a comparison article.
As far as I read there was a guy in Germany making pressings of Sapphire. They look almost indistinguishable from the original apart from a few tell-tale signs like the code on the data side of the disc. I just assume he makes more whenever he wants and puts them out for sale.
He is still making boots (sort of) as PCEWorks, but labeling them as repros now. Could possibly still be stealthily making Sapphire boots also.
Good info. It looks like the stuff they sell through their site they do mark as a repro so I guess that lowers the shadiness level a bit.
They're still pretty shady in my book. Selling fan translations for a profit without telling the translators and hoping they wouldn't notice is kind of bad.
It's semi-shady. They "sell" disc-only versions of those games for free (although shipping probably costs something). They could argue that they're just selling the packaging, which has nothing to do with the translators.
It's semi-shady. They "sell" disc-only versions of those games for free (although shipping probably costs something). They could argue that they're just selling the packaging, which has nothing to do with the translators.
Keep me In the loop about those cases. I have a few games I need to upgrade.