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Odd/Rare Variants Running Total List 2.0! Rare screw variants, upside-down labels, or other odd variants? Post 'em here!

Oct 1, 2011 at 5:16:03 PM

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Oct 6, 2011 at 8:35:21 PM

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Just received this badass yellow label Metroid NES in mint condition. What makes this unique is the box has a "Nintendo Promotional Offer: Not for Resale" sticker on it. The guy that owned it bought it direct from Nintendo almost 20 years ago and looks as if it was never played! Now I have another rare Metroid along with my upside-down label Super Metroid!

Edited: 10/06/2011 at 08:37 PM by lojack44

Oct 7, 2011 at 12:38:20 AM

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Originally posted by: nothingface023

Ic3M4n: I'm not sure how hard a no-seal SMB/DH is to find, but I know I have one also. I honestly don't know for sure, but I would think it's fairly common. Anyone else have a clue on this one? GammaRay? Braveheart?

I'm not GammaRay or Erik, but I can say this...SMB/DH without a seal is actually quite common indeed (probably relative rarity of 2 or 3 at best). Similarly, there's also a SMB 2 no-seal variant, which, while scarcer than the SMB/DH no-seal variant, is still nowhere near rare. A pic of the SMB 2...

http://www.rarityguide.com/museum...

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Edited: 10/07/2011 at 12:39 AM by mb7241

Oct 7, 2011 at 6:00:52 PM

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Originally posted by: mb7241

Heh, I noticed a while back that I have one of the no-seal SMB 2's CIB. I didn't think it was anything super special, but I kept it and it's oval-seal counterpart nonetheless.

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Oct 7, 2011 at 9:13:12 PM

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Originally posted by: mb7241

What Matt said. Here's one for sale on Ebay. **Just did a search for SMB 2 no seal on Ebay, and 5 were listed on the first page alone.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380372740438?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:I...

Edited: 10/07/2011 at 09:17 PM by GammaRay

Oct 8, 2011 at 3:06:19 PM

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Yeah, I picked one of those nonseal SMB2s yesterday. Thinking I'm going to take it back...

Oct 15, 2011 at 11:23:42 PM

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I have a ski or die 5 screw cart it must be in that factory fixed category, it is messed up I will snap a picture

Oct 16, 2011 at 12:18:29 AM

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Originally posted by: pats1717

I have a ski or die 5 screw cart it must be in that factory fixed category, it is messed up I will snap a picture

Nice find! It's most likely a factory mismatch. Ultra was using old 5-screw stock after the 3-screw switch.

Oct 16, 2011 at 8:43:40 AM

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Originally posted by: pats1717

I have a ski or die 5 screw cart it must be in that factory fixed category, it is messed up I will snap a picture

Awesome! I'll add it to the list, and I'll add the pic once you take it. Nice find!

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Oct 19, 2011 at 3:11:26 AM

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Is there a list somewhere of games known to exist in 5 and 3 screw variations?

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Oct 22, 2011 at 7:37:54 PM

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I do have a 5 screw Spy Hunter

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Oct 24, 2011 at 9:46:59 PM

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I just dug out a VERY RARE Ren and Stimpy: Buckeroos for SNES with a "Nintendo Promotional Offer" tag on it. I know this cart is rare, but this one's ridiculous!

Edited: 10/24/2011 at 09:48 PM by lojack44

Nov 22, 2011 at 5:30:17 PM

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Thread updated. Phins found a 5-screw Star Force, and I have acquired a 5-Screw Mega Man (many, many thanks to GammaRay!).

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Nov 22, 2011 at 10:17:00 PM

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Found a Non-Hangtab Gyromite box in my collection

Nov 23, 2011 at 1:11:35 AM

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I do not know if any of these are rare. I am personally not big in variants. But I have a few 5 screws games.

Spy Hunter
Winter Games
Legend of Zelda gold cart

I have lots of copies of LoZ, and they're all 3 screws except for one..

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Nov 23, 2011 at 12:58:18 PM

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Originally posted by: 8bitPat

I do not know if any of these are rare. I am personally not big in variants. But I have a few 5 screws games.

Spy Hunter
Winter Games
Legend of Zelda gold cart

I have lots of copies of LoZ, and they're all 3 screws except for one..

Zelda's probably the hardest of those three to find. Unfortunately, none of them are rare. Keep searching when you're out game hunting. You'll find some HTF ones eventually.

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Dec 12, 2011 at 4:43:43 AM

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Hi guys, first post here. I just signed up so I could join in on this thread.

First of all, all the games I have are PAL (being in Australia and all)
I have a few carts that are listed on the 3-screw/5-screw chart, though I'm unsure if them being PAL will make them more or less rare.

Such as:

Donkey Kong Jr. 3 screw
Donkwy Kong 3 screw
Balloon Fight 5 screw
Ice climber 3 screw
Popeye 3 screw

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Dec 14, 2011 at 4:48:22 AM

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I don't know if this thread is only about game carts but I've a pretty weird Micro VS. System with two controller ones. I suppose someone somewhere has one with two controller twos.

Dec 14, 2011 at 12:23:30 PM

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While we're not really tracking systems, that is pretty weird.

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Dec 22, 2011 at 5:59:22 PM

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Thread updated. Anyone else find anything lately?

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Dec 22, 2011 at 6:06:05 PM

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Originally posted by: lojack44

I just dug out a VERY RARE Ren and Stimpy: Buckeroos for SNES with a "Nintendo Promotional Offer" tag on it. I know this cart is rare, but this one's ridiculous!

As one of the world's top elite as far as Ren & Stimpy collections go...I must PM you!!!

Dec 22, 2011 at 6:21:05 PM

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Originally posted by: Remedylane

Is there a list somewhere of games known to exist in 5 and 3 screw variations?

here's a good jump on it, Matt.

http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/...

Dec 22, 2011 at 9:29:15 PM

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As far as 5 screw and 3 screw I haven't picked anything up recently, but I did pick up a yellow text end label for super pitfall. Does anyone else have one of those? I keep trying to tell myself it is a sun fade, but the more I look at I think maybe the printer ran out of red ink and instead of orange text it came out yellow.
Oh, and I don't know if anyone cares about the racer mate carts, but I think I found a version number that hasn't been reported to exist yet and I posted a little on it but no one has said anything?

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Dec 24, 2011 at 1:06:13 AM

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Sorry for thge Bump, but here are the pictures of all my Super Pitfall variants.

I'd really love someone's expert opinion on if they think this is legit.

My thought is this looks like the printer just may have run out of red or had an error that caused the top of the sticker label to print in only yellow and blue. And since red was needed to make orange text, it just printed yellow?

Does anyone else's copy have a yellow end label? I want to say I have seen another before. Thanks,

-Kirk

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Dec 24, 2011 at 1:42:53 AM

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EDIT: Nevermind, was looking at the wrong one ;P

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Edited: 12/24/2011 at 01:43 AM by the_wizard_666