{"id":728,"date":"2010-06-01T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2012-10-12T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:48:19","slug":"just-how-difficult-is-getting-new-stuff-a-sorta-personal-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/just-how-difficult-is-getting-new-stuff-a-sorta-personal-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how difficult is getting new stuff? A sorta-personal story."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make up for the lack of updates on the latter half of May, I&#8217;ll tell a bit of a tale about it!<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;see, on eBay there was this auction for a Satellaview 8M Pack &#8211; why, this one, in fact;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360253372584&#038;ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:1123\">http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360253372584&#038;ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:1123<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI decided that, in the name of the research Callis and I do, I should try another 8M Pack purchase with my own money (Callis was bidding on other things at the time), and thus, you see, I snag the auction.<br \/>\nOne thing that should be obvious but I&#8217;ll reiterate anyway, and one of the major problems with trying to snag Satellaview material &#8211; purchasing 8M Packs is a lot like gambling. Most of these carts are untested, and you literally have no idea if there&#8217;s any data in them at all until you either boot it in BS-X or ROM-dump the data inside. Of course, if by some chance the data IS identified, it probably wouldn&#8217;t even be selling on eBay &#8211; rather at YJA for a hefty pricetag.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, yeah, I order this pack<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in typical &#8220;internet tragedy story&#8221; fashion, I spend the rest of the month waiting for it, because USPS pulled some BS on me (Pun entirely intentional) and had it sitting in their office for half a month without sending me a notice.<br \/>\nAfter a trip and a polite explaining to them of the going-ons, I get my memory pack, and put it in the BS-X set Callis gave me.<br \/>\nIn typical &#8220;internet tragedy story&#8221; fashion yet again, it&#8217;s merely RPG Tsukuru 2 Data. Now, for reference, I currently have no research on how to tell a &#8220;Homemade&#8221; RPG Tsukuru 2 data from anything that was downloaded from St.GIGA&#8217;s servers, so it&#8217;s theoretically possible I still have something interesting. Theoretically.<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t anything nearly as funky as a Kirby no Omachahako or Tamori no Picross, though, that&#8217;s for sure.<br \/>\nAnd so, there goes 60 bucks I could&#8217;ve spent on current-gen gaming instead. Aw, well!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, other interesting things have happened &#8211; in particular, one memory pack on Yahoo Japan Auctions was listed as one with UNDAKE30 Same Game Daisakusen Mario Version, which solidifed something I all but confirmed before. Now, if only I could get archives of the UNDAKE30 Radio show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rom Release Rushing will continue at some point in this month, but I want to write some actual articles in the meantime, somehow.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5308582010420588\";\n\/* Satellablog (link unit 3) *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5500881635\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make up for the lack of updates on the latter half of May, I&#8217;ll tell a bit of a tale about it! Y&#8217;see, on eBay there was this auction for a Satellaview 8M Pack &#8211; why, this one, in fact; http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360253372584&#038;ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:1123 I decided that, in the name of the research Callis and I do,<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Just how difficult is getting new stuff? 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