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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
Market InsightsWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Reshaping Retro GamingAsk anyone who's tried to play a boxed copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga on original Saturn hardware lately: the tax on "authentic" retro gaming keeps climbing. Working consoles die, capacitors leak, and CRTs are heavy enough to throw your back out. Which is exactly why the FPGA movement has gone from niche hobbyist obsession to the most interesting thing happening in the scene right now. What changed, and why collectors are paying attention For years, the choice was binary: original hardware or so
Market InsightsWhy 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