Has anyone ever purchased a game repro?
I randomly ran into a copy of FF3j NES translated to english. It's pretty neat to be able to play on the real hardware. The game seems pretty fun and it works just fine. I searched online and there are tons of sites selling repros of translated games for just about every 8bit/16 bits system out there. You can get cheap copies of unreleased stuff, games never released as NTSC, betas, and so on.
While it's neat, the downside to this is that they are using legit games as sacrificial lambs to do this
.. Also, people are now reproducing 'rare' games (like Hagane on the snes) and passing them as legit titles, even retro game stores are starting to order huge lots of them to pass them as legit copies to unsuspecting casual people. They get on sites like aliexpress and order copies of Zelda 3 and Chrono trigger for 20$ a pop and resell them for 50-100$+,. Thats pretty fucking shitty
Still, it's neat to enjoy translated games on the real hardware
Opinions on game repros?
