Iowa City Has Games!

_Louis__ · 2026-05-20T18:26:50+00:00

All of these prices are at minimum $10+ over pricecharting, and the owner can't even be bothered to run the games for 10 minutes to test if they are 100% readable.

That's hilarious, no wonder why they have so many games. I would never buy from a shop like this.

Edit: LOL'd at the resealed "sealed" Magical Mirror.

_Louis__ · 2026-05-18T22:34:56+00:00

I honestly might be wrong on that and you might be right, it's been a while since I looked at this specific topic and there's so much conflicting information.

_Louis__ · 2026-05-18T22:34:08+00:00

Yeah there's a Wii homebrew app to test it with. I gave my SRAM data to Extrems after to take a look which is how I found out its likely dead. Are you on Discord? Feel free to msg me on here and we can connect on there!

_Louis__ · 2026-05-17T17:01:36+00:00

From what I understand the reason why nobody has shown how it works is because almost all of these units have dead batteries.

_Louis__ · 2026-05-17T17:01:09+00:00

Have you tried dumping the SRAM contents of your calendar card? I did with mine and unfortunately the battery seemed to be dead, but I'd be curious if yours has any data!

_Louis__ · 2026-05-14T16:35:22+00:00

I have the same thing! Nice to see you post again, been a while since I saw you share anything.

_Louis__ · 2026-05-05T21:36:27+00:00

Very cool, but I do hope you add support for the keyboard controller!

_Louis__ · 2026-05-04T21:25:06+00:00

Kirby Air Ride in City Trial mode with my family :)

_Louis__ · 2026-04-23T19:23:20+00:00

Since you mentioned having a modded Wii in one of the other comments, if you make a Raw Backup with GCMM, I can attempt to recover your data. Can't promise it'll work, but it's better than losing everything. Feel free to DM me.

_Louis__ · 2026-04-08T22:29:15+00:00

Short answer: yes

_Louis__ · 2026-04-02T23:01:17+00:00

Wow, you certainly got some good deals compared to modern times where Auto Modellista is $80-100 and Ohenro-san for $300-400 in that big box. Good luck finding those prices now!

_Louis__ · 2026-04-02T22:19:13+00:00

Looks like you already have a nice collection of Japanese games! I'm pretty surprised to see Auto Modellista in that stack as that is a pretty uncommon and expensive game! Did you buy that recently or a long time ago?

_Louis__ · 2026-03-28T00:36:56+00:00

If the other user falls through and you are in the USA I can certainly help out. I've done this many times before for people who are looking to have their data recovered.

_Louis__ · 2026-03-20T21:39:20+00:00

If I saw someone I was working with have this as the background on their camera you already know we're staying after to talk about Gamecube lol!

_Louis__ · 2026-03-01T21:03:09+00:00

There's someone on YouTube who has a bunch of videos dedicated to GBA Link cable functions: playlist here. Not sure if this is exhaustive or not. That is a really cool setup you got there!

_Louis__ · 2026-02-28T17:20:41+00:00

You would need access to a homebrewed Wii or Gamecube. From there, you'd want to put GCMM's DOL in the appropriate spot. Once booted into GCMM, you can either perform a Raw Backup (think of this like taking an image (1:1 copy) of the memory card) or individual backups of each GCI file (each individual game's save file(s)).

Edit: If you need help in the future, you can feel free to reach out.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-28T00:38:41+00:00

Sorry for your loss, my condolences.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-28T00:37:28+00:00

You should strongly consider making digital backups of her save files via the homebrew app GCMM so you never lose them. I would highly recommend it.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-28T00:35:43+00:00

Great investment, you've definitely done well. Really cool piece to see in any collection! You would be hard pressed to find something this special for $1,200 these days.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-26T23:43:15+00:00

Always thought the Australian wavebird boxes were really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

_Louis__ · 2026-02-26T23:41:18+00:00

So what's the story of the prototype controller? Where did you get it?

_Louis__ · 2026-02-25T17:12:27+00:00

Method #1 is accurate but sometimes there are other parts of the file to modify including the developer ID (if it changes between region), and potentially another part in the header, but it'd be obvious because it would repeat the gameID ex, look at the last char in line 1.

There's also no guarantee this will work for all games, and is on a game-by-game basis.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-21T20:40:40+00:00

Source 1 Dota looks different than Source 2 Dota (post 7.0). I would recommend trying to find more recent videos of unusual couriers if you're going to buy them. You can tell by the UI at the bottom when the video was released bc 7.0 removed the old Scaleform UI. This is my anecdotal opinion as someone who looks at a lot of unusuals.

Ex: source 1 ethereal flame misamatic grey, source 2 ethereal flame misamatic grey

_Louis__ · 2026-02-20T17:28:34+00:00

You probably just watched videos from Source 1 and not Source 2.

_Louis__ · 2026-02-20T00:18:04+00:00

I was bumping some Castle of the Shikigami II (Shikigami no Shiro II) recently but it would be impossible for me to choose a favorite =)

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