NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T18:13:23 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: deathrock83

Originally posted by: JosephLeo

Stadium Events and Stinger in one month, hooo boy.

Someone better find a 5-Screw NWC now.

Or a 5 screw Wario's Woods.
 

No way! We have to find the 5 screw Caltron 6-in-1 first! ]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T18:02:11 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: pegboy

If a hangtab box exists for Mega Man 1 I've certainly never seen it, nor are there any pictures of one.
That you know of.  You're still fairly new to this hobby though. ]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T17:45:22 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T17:39:00 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T17:10:10 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: Forte

Originally posted by: pegboy

Anomalies like this are what made me stop caring about screw variants altogether. Too many one offs and wierdness. As far as I'm concerned if they don't have a matching box (hang tab vs no hang tab) then they aren't "official" variants.


exactly why I don't believe in the 5 screw Mega Man; at best, it's just a factory mismatch


Pretty sure I've seen at least one non-hangtab Stinger box over the years, and a hangtab Mega Man box.  Both are extremely rare though (and that's assuming memory serves me well).  Regardless, it's far less likely that a box survived than a cart, and since Mega Man was released before the switch happened (January 1, 1988), that one definitely had a 5 screw release, even if it was only a small print run.  Finding a 3 screw Stinger is likely NOT a mismatch though, seeing as it was released several months before the 3-screw switch happened.  A 1988-or-later 5 screw cart is a one-off error.  A 3-screw version of a 1987-or-earlier game simply can't be (unless it's a fake of course).

EDIT: That last sentence applies only to games without a confirmed 3-screw release.  If one exists, it was released, because the cart shells didn't exist for it to be a factory error. ]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T16:19:05 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: pegboy

Anomalies like this are what made me stop caring about screw variants altogether. Too many one offs and wierdness. As far as I'm concerned if they don't have a matching box (hang tab vs no hang tab) then they aren't "official" variants.

exactly why I don't believe in the 5 screw Mega Man; at best, it's just a factory mismatch
]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T16:09:16 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T04:57:42 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: JosephLeo

Stadium Events and Stinger in one month, hooo boy.

Someone better find a 5-Screw NWC now.
Or a 5 screw Wario's Woods.

]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-17T00:25:00 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 ]]> Stinger 3 screw? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=116847 2013-12-16T21:14:48 -05.00 Bee Kay 36 Originally posted by: mdesynz

So the box has a cardboard hangtab but it's a 3-screw cartridge, I thought all cardboard hangtab releases were 5-screw?


You think correctly, at least as far as the sealed games I've opened.  This was likely pieced together somewhere along the line, if not by the current owner, then by a former owner along the way.  ]]>