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Marketplace / Re: Games n' Such for Sale and/or Trade.

« on: February 28, 2017, 05:30:12 pm »

PM'ed

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Classic Video Games / Re: Tianli / Sega Genesis Mega Drive DVD Game Player TL-D2000G

« on: February 16, 2017, 01:21:24 pm »

Very insteresting! I didn't even know this thing existed...

I can see "天利" (which is read "tenri" in Japanese, so I suppose this is how you write "Tianli" in Chinese) written in the back of the DVD player.
I am no specialist in Chinese language, but looking at the internet, I found out that the characters for Sega are supposed to be "世嘉".
Can't you find them somewhere in the equipment?

I will check for that, but  I doubt Sega's logo would appear in Chinese characters. The older VCD units seem to have the logo on the front in Roman script.  There is definitely Mega Drive hardware inside, though, like the earlier VCD players. no idea what type of game it would play and if Roms/ISOs are available, unlike the VCD where people have found some games.

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Classic Video Games / Tianli / Sega Genesis Mega Drive DVD Game Player TL-D2000G

« on: February 13, 2017, 05:03:32 pm »

I recently acquired a Tianli/Sega TL-D2000G DVD game player. These were originally only distributed in the Chinese mainland, and a  number of  different VCD and DVD player models were made over a few years. Some of the parts inside are from the Sega Genesis and there are even 2 controller ports that should be compatible with Sega Genesis controllers.  The one I bought, oddly enough, does not display the Sega logo anywhere on it unlike the earlier VCD units of which there are photos of online.  I was wondering why. I cannot find any photos of this particuliar model, though Sega retro does mention it exists on their Tianli electronics page.

 anyone else have any thoughts on this or is familiar with the hardware?

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Site Feedback / Re: New Search Sucks

« on: October 18, 2016, 10:35:14 pm »

I agree... I think it sucks. Now it takes me half an hour to find what used to take a few seconds using the search bar. There may be less dupes but I still see some and the easiest way to solve that is to stop noobs from creating or editing listings for a while, so that they learn how to use the site before adding entries.

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User Feedback / Re: kashell

« on: September 30, 2016, 05:49:56 pm »

Received Brigandine's guide, all went well.

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Modern Video Games / Re: New NX Controller Leaked - Pics!

« on: September 07, 2016, 06:24:57 pm »

For sure , thats fake. How  would the screen physically shrink between both sides of the controller? Also, what would be the point? So that it's now more portable like the 3DS?

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General / Re: POLL: Resellers, Good or Bad?

« on: April 29, 2016, 02:35:58 am »

The very milk that you buy at the grocery is from a reseller so STOP complaining. It's called free market. If there is somewhere money to be made you should get it, otherwise your loss. The problem with today's society is that every one should have something that everyone else has at the launch. People are xxucking addicted and can't control themselves and take their credit cards and pay the crazy prices set buy the resellers/scalpers. Have they had a minute sense of intelligence and knew about supply and demand, they'd know that if they held their pee pee and didn't buy an item from a reseller at a value X, well over time, that said reseller, after seeing he/she is not able to move his/her products, they'd start marking down the prices (sometime up to 60% less). IDIOT-ADDICTED-BUYERS freaking are to be blamed, not someone who tries to make living out of flipping. I for example, missed my chance to preorder Demon's Souls Deluxe edition when it came out in 2009, then I saw the price sky rocket, why because stupid buyers were paying those stupid prices. So I waited. 7 Years later, last month I finally snatched one for the same price when it came out, in an absolute good condition. So, please, next time when you miss out on something, please, please, please control your impulse and xxucking wait. Don't inflate the prices, but if you do, the shut the hell up and stop putting the fault on reseller/scalpers.
P.S. I'm not a reseller as I have a wonderful job that pays very good.

I dont see it that way. A grocery store does not have a high profit margin but rather makes big profits at smaller margins on volume of sales over a period of time on many products,  and they are also doing you a service by making everyday products readily available and affordable at a location near you. They also must hire employees which is good  as it creates jobs but further diminishes their profits margins, but its impossible to have a grocery store without employees and the other expenses of running a large store. All these products (milk, etc.) have to be loaded up, delivered and put on shelves from their place of origin and often kept in the right condition (temperature) and many unsold produce that goes bad or passes expiration is a further loss. Then, they also have to compete with their competitors.

So while we commonly call these people ''resellers'' in the video game scene, they are more akin to scalpers/flippers.  Resellers in the video game market do not really compete much, sellers will just copy the prices of other sellers or often inflate them even more - the opposite of competition. Aside from that, most full-time video game resellers have extremely high profit percentages (and not margins), since they can buy one game  for 5-10$ and sell it for 20-100$. That's a lot different than stores that require a large of volume sales since the profit margin on income is much smaller all expenses included.  Unless they are an actual business on ebay, resellers are solo or do it with the help of friends or unpaid contacts. So while grocery or electronic stores make goods readily available, at prices most consumers are  willing to pay, the video game resellers will buy up all the good games and try to sell them over a longer period of time  at marked-up prices, which makes games harder to find and not easier for video gamers. Whereas retail stores sell mostly new products that people cannot commonly find used/new locally or are not willing to buy outside of a store.