Originally posted by: Tanooki
Moral high ground has nothing to do with it. Hypocrisy is it plain and simple. The old quote and I have no idea who said it first: 'Never shit in your own back yard' pretty much covers it. You can pretend it's ok to screw with another regions games and pass them off looking right or right enough, and that's fine because you're only wrecking the value of those games in their area, but when you do it to a game in your area then the torches and rope come out. It's not right, but it is what it is.
That said the guys work looks good, and there is a minor variation to the seal to show it's not totally legitimate, it's just that guys choice of label versus using a nuclear sign, a timewalk or retrousb logo or whatnot, but in the end anyone not in tune with what a repro is still will think those are real too and they're getting just as equally burned and odds are they may never even notice nor care if it plays right and they get their money out of it. If that guy were using legit boards like retrousb does I'd probably buy that Samson off him as it's a solid game, but I'll never fork over $500 for it, even in traded goods as I could use that much for a new laptop, tablet, some equipment or something of real use.
Then again, same thing could be said about the powerpack, SD2SNES etc, which is basically a gateway for rom piracy.
I would be 80% of people who own them run roms of games they dont legitimately own. If not more.
Again, I just got a little defensive when someone said I should punch myself in the face for recommending a guy who has been known to do repros of US-Released games. He does good work, and has great customer service. Thats all that matters in my mind.
