For parts $120? I suppose its motherboard could be of good value.
This kind of stuff has me slightly concerned as I'm going to get rid of a good amount of stuff within the next few years as I downsize my collective goods.
Melee? You own a disc doncha? Why would you not mod your Wii or Wii U and rip the disc for HDD play? It was the best thing I've done for the system. And you'll never have to worry about the disc. (And I don't play smash anymore so I've long sold mine. Sold it for over retail so I was pleased.)
Well, it's now up to $230 ish, my thoughts were that someone planned to repair and flip it as a refurb but kitting it out for parts would probably also work too. The takeaway for me was that these older systems that didn't meet say, SNES or Genesis numbers in circulation, are more difficult to come across in any condition these days. I'd have made an attempt to rebuild it myself but I have neither the tools nor the time to commit to such a project, and I'm getting out of the game anyway, so to speak.
The Melee situation... yeah I still have my launch disc, but forgot the most important detail -- the want for a second, affordable copy in great shape is for my brother, who would love his own physical game to mess around with once I'm done with this mass sell-off. I had considered modding my launch model Wii but it's already been serviced once by Nintendo (guess why? hundreds of hours messing with stage creator and general chaos in Brawl of all things, heh) and at this point it's more of a museum box filled with Virtual Console titles. Never owned a Wii U and don't plan on changing that, either.
Burning Rangers, HOTD, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and MKR I distinctly remember just picking up from TRU the days they released. They had 20+ of each and I seemed to be the only one who cared at that point. If I'd known, of course, I'd have at least gotten a spare copy of PDS.
Man, to have that kind of windfall during the dying days of Saturn. At the time I was living in GA, a coastal city with a large military presence, at least two credited colleges and a massive tourist presence. You'd think with all that traffic that the local shops would've warranted a bigger shipment than what ended up on shelves at the time. By then there was near zero Saturn presence on any shelf beyond TRU, EB and Software, Etc. Media Play had some castoffs and clearance sales but nothing new was being ordered; Best Buy was in a similar spot, and I never bothered with Circuit City since it was a ghost town long before they shut their doors for good.
Shame. I had cash in hand to buy three games the days all these titles were set to release but the aisles were dry. 20+ copies each though? Insane.
Teh_Lurv
Appreciate the video link. I wondered why there was such a strong uptick in regards to the clamor for sealed items recently. When I started out selling I made sure to research terms like Y-Fold, H-Seam and etc in regards to factory seals across all platforms, but the questions and complaints that pop up usually reference blemishes like accidental rips, accordion folds in the wrap, even factory mistakes like seams with millimeter sized breaks that tear open eventually due to time and age.
But some of these folks are straight manic. One guy returned a near $300 sealed N64 game to me because he found a quarter cm crease on the side flap just under the factory seam, which frankly anyone would've missed even with a through inspection. A lot of this stuff was purchased over the years through bin diving at store closeouts and such, so getting a 100% perfect item (especially on an item like an N64 game, where the outer box incurs damage if you breathe heavy on it) was never quite in the cards.
I've never heard of WATA before, though.
