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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
Buying & SellingHow to Buy Retro Games Without Getting Burned by ReprosThat gold-label copy of Pokémon Crystal for a suspiciously low price? Flip it over. If the back sticker's font looks a hair too bold, the ESRB rating box is slightly off-centre, or the cartridge shell has a seam that doesn't quite line up, you're probably looking at a repro. And once you know what a fake Game Boy cart looks like, you start seeing them everywhere. The reproduction market has gotten good. Really good. Chinese factory boards now come with proper battery-backed saves, silkscreened
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