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  nintendoThe Wii is everywhere, so what's actually rare?Somewhere in a drawer near you, a white Wii is resting under a tangle of cables, its sensor bar wrapped around a remote with a slightly chewed silicone jacket. Nintendo shipped over 100 million of these things, and it sometimes feels like half of them were donated, boot-saled or handed to a nephew before 2013 was out. That glut is exactly what makes the Wii interesting to collect: the hardware is nearly free, so all the collector attention concentrates in the stuff that isn't. Flip it over fir
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  Approfondimenti di MercatoWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Eating the Retro MarketAsk anyone who tried to buy an original Super Nintendo last year and they'll tell you the same thing: a decent boxed console isn't the casual pickup it was five years ago. Loose consoles still turn up cheap, but clean examples with the right cables and a working RGB-capable board have crept steadily upward. And here's the thing collectors are only now admitting out loud — a growing chunk of players have stopped chasing the original hardware altogether. The reason is sitting on a lot of shelves
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  nintendoWhy SNES Shell Yellowing Is the Honest Collector's TestFlip over the next SNES you find at a flea market. Odds are the top shell and the bottom shell are two different colours — one drifting toward old margarine, the other still close to Nintendo's original grey. That mismatch isn't grime, and it isn't just sun damage. It's chemistry, and it's the most useful thing to understand before you buy, sell, or restore Super Nintendo hardware. Why one console yellows in two different shades The SNES shell is ABS plastic mixed with brominated flame retard