An Expert Guide to Factory Sealed N64 Games
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- Why do factory sealed N64 games have to be so confusing and inconsistent!? Hopefully this guide will help you to learn how to indentify real vs fake factory sealed video games.
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N64 needs a full compendium to be published...
Someone else make it😅
Anytime man, can’t wait for the next stream.
YES! Not that I collect N64, but I feel like it's high time there's a community-driven print/variant database made available for people. If only the grading companies* could merge their knowledge and pitch in some money to keep a database running. I think it would benefit them in the end
Likewise! Education pieces are absolutely necessary for this section of the hobby to continue to grow. As is, most people are terrified to enter due to risk of fakes/reseals/etc
I was going to make a joke about Pat's book, but on no planet would his complete documentation of N64 reference sealed anything. I almost hope it does just to know the pain he went through cringing through that section, but I ain't gonna waste money finding out. 🤣🤣 If people have photos it could be as simple as throwing together those in a Google Drive with game names for folders.
Working at Blockbuster during the N64, PS1 days, we did shrinkwrap our former rentals to resale them, so be on the lookout for those, but usually they are blatantly obvious.
Been explaining this topic for years. Spot on with ocarina and majora. Vertical seam, vertical overlap and flatback small vents otherwise known as LRB. The most common fake is the LRB. It will usually have the bottom seal on the top side or have inconsistent seal pinches. They all have consistant pinched seal corners in the case of the zelda games regardless of which version. Once you know what they look like you can spot a fake easily. Sadly i have seen many mario and zelda reseals sold on ebay some in the region of 4k upwards over the years. By the time someone gets the failed return from grading, its way past the return window. 😢
Good to have up to date videos for new collectors!
New Greg video ❤
Do the grading companies ever make mistakes with this or is it basically guaranteed to be factory sealed if they say so?
They *can* make mistakes, but like 99.99% if they authenticated it, it's going to be the real deal.
Fakes have gotten through at times with all grading companies across all collectibles.
A couple of games have no vent holes or just one relatively big vent hole on seal like Quarterback Club 2001
ISS 2000 and THPS3 has that overly big vent hole, too
Great video man, keep up the great work!
Much appreciated!
This is such a weird hobby. I love it.
Thanks for reminding me to stay away from sealed games. What a pain in the ass to deal with. I’ll take my CIB any day of the week.
Haha it's fun as heck once you get the hang of it
Ive got a factory sealed gamecube from Japan I got the console years ago for 14 dollars and I kept it since I all ready had the orange one. Ive gotten re sealed pokemon packs I can tell right away.
Question.
Have there been any records on factory sealed games, without wrapper, but had a plastic strap band across?
A local dealer is selling Star Wars Racer for 360$ saying its original factory sealed. And the strap has bend the box.
If it's a North American version of the game, no, you won't find anything considered "factory sealed" on N64 like that.
@@GetTheGreg I had a feeling that was the case. Thanks for your answer 😊😊
great !!! Now do one for DS games so that I can know if my megaman star force 2 copy is a re-seal.
I'm guessing it's a shrink-wrap, 3 side seal hey? You should be good on it, looks like that might be the only seal pattern it comes in and CGC has graded it with that seal pattern, too!
Love the content! Are sealed PS2 games more or less valuable with the hang tab on them?
Honestly makes no difference at all in actual sales
Is there any way to tell for resealed ps4, GameCube, or ds? I feel like those are just impossible to tell at this point only worth buying graded ones already
Well the grading companies themselves will regularly reject resealed or "questionable" games like GC & PS4 that use Y folds and nothing else. Usually it has to do with the type of adhesive pattern (or a lack of adhesive entirely, reseals are sometimes done with heat).
I personally do think it's much harder to tell 100% positive with those types of seals and I avoid anything that looks sketchy at all (weird Y folds, loose seal, etc).
Greg, love your videos! How can I tell which gba games weren't H-seam? I collect gba and have a decent number of sealed games, several of which aren't h-seam. I know it was done, if rarely, but is there a list anywhere besides my own research? I have been seeing more and more 3 sided seams on ebay and have to go through my whole collection to see if I can find any paint cracking (I had never been aware od this before i saw your video on it from 2 yrs ago). Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
Hey!
Your best bet would be to compare against eBay for GBA, yea. If it's a first party title (Nintendo published) it's usually always an H-seam.
Just like N64 though, many many 3rd party games with use 3 side seals. I also did a lot of sealed GBA collecting and much of what I share in this video about N64 directly translates to GBA. A few rules with a lot of exceptions haha.
Nice vid! I had gex 64 sealed on n64 and the seams were to the sides of the game but was authentic. As i opened it once to see and it was truly authentic. At that time , there was a seller on ebay selling them for 80$ cad a copy with shipping included.
Nowadays this game is worth 1000$ a copy
Hahah noooooooooooo. That one hurts 🥲
THE N64 SEALED LIST , WOULD BE GREAT..
I thought you were going to follow up on the majeso seal with "But, for the most part...no one gives a f*ck about majesco sealed games so it's moot"
Also this hahah...🤫
do you have a discord or know any to post a few of my n64 games to see if they are reseals before the return window closes
Discord link in the description!
Once you're in, there's a section called "authenticity check" where you can post them!
It was the 90s and early 2000s man, we gamers were wildin' out bruh! 🤪😆 Lol #GoodTimes
I would never purchase a sealed n64 game without the H seam seal as it’s basically the only seal that you can’t really replicate.
It's definitely the hardest to fake perfectly, but you can be pretty confident about any seal type once you see/handle them enough!
Factory sealed will always be a scary beast 😬
yes i agree greg
I thought you sold your entire N64 collection? At least you kept the bangers
I got lazy and only sold like 30-40 games overall so far haha. I have full intention to sell another like 150 of them... But yea, just haven't gotten around to it haha. Started with the NES stuff!
If you want to know if this video is authentic Canadian
Make sure you look for the hockey game!
Hahah exactly 🏒
5:15 So this is an authentic sealed game? I def would have said fake on that. Interesting info tho, yet also a bit alarming!
That bowling game is a mess. Some have that awful 3 side seal and I've seen other copies have like a horizontal overlap seam... I'm just going to assume both are legit for now until someone with even more knowledge than me says otherwise haha
@@GetTheGreg That bowling game has multiple seals alone?
I’ve seen trash third party n64 seals with no vent holes
Interesting. Do you know what titles or publishers specifically?
@@GetTheGreg oh man I’d have to go back and like look at old pictures etc
Id post raw copies of certain games i wasn’t going to grade
Get ragged on the seal
Send in identical seal copies to wata worthy of the then $90? Fee
They’d grade them
One in particular that comes to mind and I may even be misremembering but wwf no mercy 3 sided seal had no vent holes
@@johnloitz9857 that's good to know. Now I'm going to have to look extra close at eBay listings when I see them haha
@@GetTheGreg the treasure trove I had consisted of a lot of sports and wrestling titles lol
I can say pretty much without question that n64 wrestling titles have the lowest quality seal of any n64 game
The only one I remember truly having a quality seam was wcw nwo revenge which had your standard V seam
The next worst seams I saw were late quarterback clubs, nba showtime on nbc was pretty fucking atrocious
Honestly I’m planning my adventures into the RUclipsverse. And my first project was going to be an alphabetical breakdown of why PS1 is superior to n64 in all ways
And seal verification/uniformity just got added as a reason lol