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It's getting harder to justify buying repros.

You'll hear so much discussion about whether or not donor carts should be used, but my opinion is "Who cares?" OCD and some other repro makers use donors and the parts are of sound quality.Īs for buying repros. There is a retro game enthusiast who did a bunch of testing and the worst offenders were Chinese reproductions.Īs far as repros go, get ones made from donor carts. Listen to /u/guspaz about the grounding issues with cheap cartridges. But when I see that games are unreasonably priced thanks to greed and nothing more, no amount of convincing by certain memebers on this forum will change my opinion of that as I see the world for what it is rather what all sorts of groups wold want you to see it like, well as long as the current trend in prices continues I'd rather not support those runining my hobby by selling games at insan prices. I'm not a collector, just a guy who loves video games and happens to be collecting them his entire life. The same happened with Super Turrican and soon it will happen with Iron Commando and Gourmet Sentai Barayarou thanks to piko interactive officially releasing gourmet sentai outside japan AND switching to metal screw shells. I like having an individual cartridge for each game I play and since my collection has over 150 original titles and I only miss about 20 or so expensive games at most I don't mind owning those in repro form until I obtain them at some point, assuming I'm lucky enough to do so.įor example a while back I bought a cheap bootleg of Ninja Warriors and it felt good having it, but eventually I lucked out and got the actual and JAPANESE version to boot of the game for a reasonable price so now the original replaced my bootleg. I don't mind buying cheap but well made ali express repros/bootlegs for unreasonably priced games I don't have or for translated Japan exclusive JRPGs.

Random aliexpress carts are probably not safe.įor more information (albeit very technical) on the general subject: RetroCircuits uses EEPROMs and should be safe. It's hard to tell you right off the bat which ones are safe and which ones aren't. There are a few ways to do this: use 5 volt flash (which is very rare and was never available in large storage capacities), use level translators between the console and the flash chips, or use 5v EEPROMs instead of flash chips.

It is possible to design good reproduction carts. That's why you see lots of people say cheap repro carts work fine even when they're damaging their consoles, because the failures are far enough in the future that they either haven't experienced such a failure yet, or when a failure did later occur, it was long enough down the road that they didn't associate it to their use of cheap repro carts. This will not instantly fry your console, but it will shorten the lifespan by wearing out the electrical components much sooner. They may appear to work fine, but they often directly expose 3.3 volt flash chips to the console's 5 volt power supply, which adds additional strain to both the cartridge (produces a lot of extra heat) and the console (cartridge draws much more current than it was designed to supply).