Originally posted by: deathrock83
Originally posted by: tracker465
Just always about people wanting things and not wanting to pay money for them.
This isn't meant to start a shitstorm since I don't know all the ins and outs but don't you own 25+ pirate carts? What's the difference, in that case?
A lot of people ask this question to me when these topics arise. In reality, I own hundreds of pirated carts on Famicom (not NES format but playable on NES with an adapter). Some are multicarts, some are just single carts. But there are a few things that make these pirated game cartridges much more acceptable to some folks than the stuff that is being discussed in this thread:
1) The pirated carts that I own were made by Chinese / Taiwanese / Hong Kong game companies back during the Famicom era, namely the 1980s and 1990s. These weren't made by single people who set out to defraud collectors of millions; rather, these were made by software companies that wanted to make some quick cash via piracy. Back in the day, interestingly enough, many retailers in Asia actually preferred selling these bootleg games to the originals, as there was a bigger profit margin for the store. While the consumers certainly knew about whether the game was a fake or not, most didn't care.
2) The carts I have are not close replicas, by any means. Once in awhile I find a bootleg / pirate game that is so close to the original, that most people would have no idea that it was a counterfeit; however, most of the stuff that I have is clearly not an original, with many clearly distinctive signs depicting it for what it is, a bootleg.
3) The carts that are in my collection were made back during the NES era. They may be copies of original Nintendo software, but they are period authentic and not modern.
The bootleg Famicom games have always been around, from the start. No one in the Famicom collecting scene cares about the bootleg copy of Recca that I found and own, nor do they care about the bootleg Little Sampson (Lickle) I have (though I also have a real one), the bootleg Gimmick, etc. These carts are not being made by collectors or sleazy resellers, and they are easily distinguishable from the official releases. Many famicom collectors do get up in arms, however, when fans make "reproduction" carts of Recca, for example. Those carts closely mimick the real game, can be easily confused with the real version, are being made in the modern times, etc. And that would be the same reason why something like this Flintstones 2 I find to be garbage and quite damaging towards the community, whereas one of the countless pirated carts from back in the day would not be.
