Author Topic: Medieval Madness Fakes  (Read 926 times)

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Offline flippnaussie

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Re: Medieval Madness Fakes
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2014, 03:51:02 AM »
Great topic.

Re-issues, do they lower or raise the cost of the original....I think Raise as it's a first edition, sure it could be worn and broken, but as this forum shows plenty of things can be done to get games back up to scratch. Plus the re-issue will also call for a series of spares on the market lifting the circulation of available parts for those that need restoration.

How many are being made?
I don't disagree with it, there is a good market for bringing old is new to the generations that will never get to play it.

Conversions should always be sold as such. But the rule buyer beware comes to mind, check the serial number and look at the unit before purchase. Do the research and know what you are buying.

Simon.

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Re: Medieval Madness Fakes
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2014, 09:14:42 AM »
Another tell tale sign is to turn the machine on, look at the boot screen, decypher the displayed serial number (sn) and check it against the sn on the cabinet.  Since all WPC-s & WPC-95 use the secure pic chip which contains the actual sn of the game it is harder to fake this.  Of course an original machine is more than likely to have the correct pic chip for the original title too, this of course can be circumvented but the sn and game number will not match.  MM is game number 559 as displayed.

Cheers