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playstationWhy PS3 Collectors Check the Model Number FirstFlip a fat PS3 over and read the sticker before you even glance at the disc tray. Those five characters – CECHA, CECHB, CECHC – decide what your library even is, because the PS3 is the rare console where the hardware revision matters more than most of the games it plays. Why collectors read stickers, not spec sheets The Japanese and North American launch units – the 60GB CECHA and 20GB CECHB from November 2006 – carry actual PlayStation 2 silicon on the board: the Emotion Engine CPU and Graph
Condition & GradingSpotting Repro Carts and Resealed Boxes Before You PayFlip a suspicious NES cartridge over and look at the two screws holding the shell together. If they're Phillips-head, you're holding a reproduction. Nintendo used a proprietary 3.8mm security bit on genuine grey carts, and no factory in 1988 shipped a game you could open with a screwdriver from your kitchen drawer. That single detail has saved plenty of buyers from dropping real money on a fake. Reproductions and resealed boxes have gotten good enough that a phone photo won't always give them a
