Rare Nights into Dreams disc?

[HennessySlick]

Heh, even the front cover on the nights disc has been crammed in lmao, looks terrible. Part of me wishes it were real, because if it were a repro it's just embarrassing. Half a gold star.

I don't have a problem with repros being sold if they look good, are an interesting looking attempt at a variation (e.g. DC cases reproduced as DVD boxes) and are listed as repros (I feel like that goes without saying).

Great games like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Magic Knight Rayearth or Albert Odyssey and many many more are inaccessible to people who can't find or afford them - repros change that.

Some people, of course, get annoyed that potentially it devalues their legitimate copies, but the price value of a collection shouldn't matter if you're a decent person.

[Tripredacus]

$5 is the most I would spend on something like that.

[Madroms]

Apr 18, 2017 13:22:12 GMT dantemdie said:

Hi Guys,

I just found someone selling a pretty odd Nights into dreams disc. It does seem a legit game but in the same time, it doesn't match anything i know. Can someone help me out on this?

I was thinking about letting this go, but if this is a rare item i might get it.

Thanks for the help

It's a chinese bootleg made during the Saturn era. You can recognized them as:
1) they look like original with the color of the layer: always grey
2) they never have any copyrights, brands, name of company written on the cd/case/inserts
3) they have official or unofficial artworks on the cd/case/inserts, but always without any copyrights,... (see point 2)
4) serial number used is something like ss-xxxx, s-xxx, or any other simple serial
5) no outer ring on the cd, so can't be played without a modchip, etc

They are pressed discs, not burnt.

I have some of them, and somewhat liked to buy them (cheap) when I found them on the net.

[lanhilb89]

Apr 22, 2017 20:52:30 GMT Madroms said:

Apr 18, 2017 13:22:12 GMT dantemdie said:

Hi Guys,

I just found someone selling a pretty odd Nights into dreams disc. It does seem a legit game but in the same time, it doesn't match anything i know. Can someone help me out on this?

I was thinking about letting this go, but if this is a rare item i might get it.

Thanks for the help

It's a chinese bootleg made during the Saturn era. You can recognized them as:
1) they look like original with the color of the layer: always grey
2) they never have any copyrights, brands, name of company written on the cd/case/inserts
3) they have official or unofficial artworks on the cd/case/inserts, but always without any copyrights,... (see point 2)
4) serial number used is something like ss-xxxx, s-xxx, or any other simple serial
5) no outer ring on the cd, so can't be played without a modchip, etc

They are pressed discs, not burnt.

I have some of them, and somewhat liked to buy them (cheap) when I found them on the net.

Ahh heard of those never seen them before. I Understand all that but if you need a modchip anyways you might as well burn it yourself.

[Madroms]

Apr 23, 2017 1:32:20 GMT lanhilb89 said:

Ahh heard of those never seen them before. I Understand all that but if you need a modchip anyways you might as well burn it yourself.

Back in the Saturn days, finding ISO was not so easy: no highspeed internet for all, not a lot of websites where you can download them (IRC was the king), etc. And CDR + burner were expensive.
This is why bootleggers made profit in Asia easily. It was easier to buy a bootleg for say 5 USD than dlding and burning it yourself.
Also in Asia, this is THE place for all sort of bootlegs: games, music, videos, etc

[lanhilb89]

Apr 23, 2017 7:31:37 GMT Madroms said:

Apr 23, 2017 1:32:20 GMT lanhilb89 said:

Ahh heard of those never seen them before. I Understand all that but if you need a modchip anyways you might as well burn it yourself.

Back in the Saturn days, finding ISO was not so easy: no highspeed internet for all, not a lot of websites where you can download them (IRC was the king), etc. And CDR + burner were expensive.
This is why bootleggers made profit in Asia easily. It was easier to buy a bootleg for say 5 USD than dlding and burning it yourself.
Also in Asia, this is THE place for all sort of bootlegs: games, music, videos, etc

Yea I didn't have a way to do burning untill maybe 2004 or 2005. I remember payinf like 170$ for a graphics card rhat had S video output. It was great hooking my pc up to a tv to play mame

[mick_aka]

By the time they discontinued the Saturn here in Europe, CD Writers were still prohibitively expensive for the majority of regular consumers.
I think the Plextor I got in late '98 was around £300.

Local computer fairs back then would have no end of bootlegs for consoles as that was the cheapest and easiest way to acquire them.

[lanhilb89]

Apr 23, 2017 12:41:03 GMT mick_aka said:

By the time they discontinued the Saturn here in Europe, CD Writers were still prohibitively expensive for the majority of regular consumers.
I think the Plextor I got in late '98 was around £300.

Local computer fairs back then would have no end of bootlegs for consoles as that was the cheapest and easiest way to acquire them.

Honestly I still has a 286 ibm pc windows 3.1 in 98. I got an Emachines 800 mhz windows ME in 2001. My first real PC in all those years did not have cd burner. It costed back then 500$ just for the desktop. So to me a 200$ laptop these days is very impressive well to me atleast. Back than you wanted a laptop they startes at around 900$ for a bottom of the line we have come a very long way, very quickly.