Is it ok to buy one of these with Paypal?

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:09 pm

We had a discussion about buying power players, mega joys, etc before but there are other items that fall into the grey area. Items such as:
http://cgi.ebay.com/FC-Game-Console-Nin ... dZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/PORTABLE-NINTENDO-N ... dZViewItem
Since they are basically pirate consoles. I was thinking that it is ok because the games are not built in but couldn't it still be considered illegal since Nintendo has not licensed these products?

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:01 pm

Yeh, it should be ok, it doesn't matter WHAT you buy on eBay, you can't get sued or anything unless it is like intellectual property (people get their auctions closed for telling what kind of stuff is in the save data of a game because it is not physically something that won't go away). I was thinking of buying one of those SP things, so if you get it, will you tell me if it's any good?

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:19 pm

Sure thing, but i have to get an SP first. *cries for being a sucker who bought a GBA*

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:42 pm

Isn't there a fine or something?

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:43 pm

Yeah, so what? I don't even have a GBA (though my friend is giving me his old one on Tuesday since he got an SP) and I'm going to mod it with a backlight and stuff. Then all I have to do is make it fit in that NES thingy, which shouldn't be hard if I can make an adapter or something.

Unidentified Assilant · Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:48 am

Yeah... same thing here usbcd36, although I thought of a great radica mod (that gets me a gbasp, and saves me money at the same time, what a great idea!), I was going to cut a hole inside the Radica Controller Case, where the GBASP could be inserted, and have an AV Adaptor for the Radica, since I like the GBA Screen, and then a cartridge slot, it would probably be the Street Fighter Radica, then make a secondary unit (sometime in the future) and have Gamelink between them (which I know how to do), since it's my birthday in 7 days... I think i'll have some money

Otherwise I could use my Pocket TV that is lying around.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:08 am

vb_master wrote:Isn't there a fine or something?

Nintendo probably doesn't really care about pirate NES (or SNES) stuff anymore, mainly because they don't support the NES apart from cartridge replacements and cleaning kits. They won't fine you either, companies don't intervene at eBay unless someone is selling something like a not-yet-released version of their software or something.

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:39 pm

usbcd36 wrote:Nintendo probably doesn't really care about pirate NES (or SNES) stuff anymore

Actually, they do care, oddly enough:

http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=437
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=435
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=434
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=425
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=422
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/boa ... age.id=447

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:55 pm

0_o Oh well, no one cares what is sold on eBay anyway. Heck, someone sold a USED silicon testicular implant on eBay. It went for $30 some.