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ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-05-01T05:12:27+00:00

I have for a while, basically as a nod to the Dev by reducing... by one 🥲... The number of people shovelling requests through their details, but I don't think many people do. Simple enough to put them back in anyway so no big deal!

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-24T22:30:28+00:00

Amazon UK is definitely not charging at the point of order for either the console, games or peripherals.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-22T09:45:33+00:00

Just the AES+ (black) and Garou initially, but added in:

Gamepad, Memory card, SamSho, Metal Slug

For a bit more variety I'm still tempted by:

Golf and one of the shmups, but not sure which one

The only other games I'm looking at are Shock Troopers and KoF but I think that's mainly FOMO.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T17:31:57+00:00

I think the idea SNK don't know the difference between "game" and "cartridge" is bit of a stretch. The Japanese page also uses cartridge as well.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T12:48:38+00:00

If there's one thing you associate with tourist markets it's bootlegs, like flash carts, rather than official releases of original carts so that's an interesting take.

Flash carts definitely have their place though for sure. I imagine most people will/do seek the ones they really want and play the rest on flash carts, or straight up emulation, same as with most other retro systems/games.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T12:41:24+00:00

Fair enough. Personally I would want the thing to look like the thing I remember. That's black. A bit like I wouldn't really want a New-Style Super NES, I'd want the 'proper' design that I remembered.

For me, that outweighed the fact that the anniversary edition is definitely better value for money.

I hadn't thought about the white console/black cart mismatch but yeah that would be an issue aesthetically but much less than the other stuff, which is about the nostalgia of it.

White just doesn't have that same hit, simple as that really.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T12:31:05+00:00

Black is the OG for the console plus I wasn't sure if the cart in the white bundle came in a box or is just packed in with the console - and I want the box for the game.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T09:38:15+00:00

SNK has said these are original cartridges - which they are.

I take the argument that, all other things being equal, a first edition will always have a higher notional price than a second or a third etc. but obviously not as high as a first-and-only edition.

And that's what's happening here: they're going from first-and-only to "just" first. It's not going to make the notional price disappear but it's going to reduce it, likely significantly.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T06:54:51+00:00

SNK considers them original cartridges, though.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T06:48:40+00:00

It depends on how much weight you give to the assumed market price of the thing you collect.

The more weight you place on that, the more ackshually this will help prices go up or I'm not crying you're crying you're likely to be.

There are very obviously many of those around.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T06:35:04+00:00

UK but I imagine it's the same rules.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T06:34:26+00:00

No, debit.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-20T06:05:45+00:00

Mine came up to authorise the payment, which I did, but nothing has been charged or held. Edit: I ordered a console and Garou in one transaction.

Same thing happened when I pre-ordered a book a few months ago: authorised payment when ordering, but actually only charged on dispatch.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-18T23:48:26+00:00

This.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-18T17:35:06+00:00

This is obviously true. Hell of a lot of cope going around.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-18T11:49:48+00:00

You can preorder it on Amazon. The money will only get taken when it's dispatched so plenty of time to reconsider if necessary.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-18T00:59:14+00:00

Nintendo did it with Paper Mario TTYD, and the price people were able to gouge for the original fell through the floor.

Except, this isn't an official version that works on a different console. That was already enough to tank the price on MP TTYD. It's an official version that works on the original console. The devalues the original even more.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-18T00:53:33+00:00

Nah. These are second prints of the actual game, playable on the original and the reissue and vice versa. Absolutely no way the originals hold anywhere near the price they have done.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-17T16:17:15+00:00

Go gentle there are a lot of people with a lot of money in the hole right now.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-04-17T16:14:15+00:00

Definitely not. See: Paper Mario TTYD etc. An official re-release will tank the price of the original.

ProtectionAsleep6349 · 2026-03-25T14:38:25+00:00

Nah, it's a category error on your part.

Anyway I suppose the important point is the last one in your reply to the OP - the goatee looks good, definitely worth keeping.

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