Man, tons of NFR CD-i fakes are flooding eBay lately.
I used to beta test for Philips in '91 and have about 200 of these NFR discs, but they would almost never gave out more than 1 or 2 copies of a single game.
The last flood of fakes were from a guy selling CD-i bundles and he listed them as Zelda's Adventure in the title.
I guess he thought doing it this way would be less obvious. The guy even ripped off my homemade Mario's Wacky Worlds label.
Anyway, many of these are Inkjet printable CDR's. It's very easy to fake being 2 colors and simple text.
A dead giveaway would be a matte finish label. All of the discs I have are glossy (save for the few gold CDR discs).
This guy also doesn't want to give out any details weather they are CDR or pressed:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=22097...
When I asked if he could take a pic of the other sides of the discs he told me they were already packaged up and he can't access them.
Then I asked this:
Can you tell me if the tops of the discs were glossy?
The original NFR Philips discs should be glossy on top.
I just want to make sure I'm not bidding on CDR copies with Inkjet printed tops.
Thanks.
And he answered:
I don't think they were glossy.
Again, it's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like inkjet to me.
The text doesn't look smooth, and the discs don't appear to be glossy.
Also, the inner ring doesn't seem right either.
Compare his:
To this:
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