Mute City Electronics For Sale Tread: New Gameboys and Custom Service! (Page 1 of 2)

of course not. very uncool.

Not cool. Should definitely get permission before doing this, otherwise you're just asking for a C&D.

i think the burden is on you to contact him.  the responsibility in this isn't on him to find you and inform you to abide by his terms.  thats very much backwards.  (if whats been stated above are the terms, of course).  the ROM being used within the hardware you are selling is an obvious problem, it doesn't really matter where on your balance sheet you are drawing profit from.  the point is that there *is* profit (and the ROM *is* concerned when its involvement is supposedly disallowed in such things).

if i've gotten the story correct about this ROM, there was a big investment put forward to acquire it and make it available to everyone, with the condition it not be used for profit.  http://lostlevels.org/bio-force-ape/

but, i'm not intimate with the story, i'm just taking people's word for it...

(you should have probably tried to contact all the people whose ROMs you are using, just out of courtesy and to thank them...  even if they're free to use)

If I remember correctly, the guy spent $3700 (edit: $2700. Thanks Kitsch) on that cart and did us all a favor by releasing the rom for free.  While other people who have rare prototypes either don't release them, or sell their own reproductions to try to make the investment back.

I just did some searching, and he requested that all the profit from sales be donated to Red Cross. Not some, but all of the profit.

You should probably just stop selling them, since you couldn't even humble yourself to donate a portion of those NTRQ sales to cancer research upon Neil's wishes.

Last edited by Apeshit (Nov 18, 2011 9:39 pm)

when you sell 'reproduction carts' of roms that were released as 'not for profit' productions to begin with, im pretty sure that makes you a shithead 2kforever. you're charging people for games you did not create, code, or even seek permission to release or reproduce, or else someone else would probably be making this post. many of these games which were released for free have roms still available, which is why you have the roms in the first place.. its misleading and shady business ethics when you have so many fan produced games offered. theres others who do it too, but this thread isnt about them. your effort does not even come into play when you rip people's efforts off outright.

if you were being paid solely for your time, your prices would not be so high and as an example, compared to what you offer for trade-in donor carts, cmon guy, $1 for snow bros? get real! snow bros is an expensive cart-only game, but you offer $1 in trade to people? your whole affair is sketch central. and lets get completely real while were at it, you wouldnt even be doing it if it were a matter of it being solely for your time. you would be trying to build a rep first. im not about to let that happen unless its a bad one, because you know as well as i do your aim is to make bank off what you're doing and im calling that shit out.

id like to also note that its especially uncool for you to make carts of bio force ape when the people who bought the proto from yahoo japan are trying to release a production run of it themselves and are working out the logistics to make it happen, and theres only one thing holding up the process..well, one thing beyond you selling a reproduction of it yourself already.

im not gonna even touch base on anything beyond that because im not going to put ideas in your head about that game but i'll say this; the people who made that rom freely available so you can charge whatever you see fit to charge for it for your 'time' are the ones who invested the money, effort and a significant amount of time into it. not you. get what im saying? did you invest anything into it other than a bunch of hot air, talkin about 'reproductions are very time consuming'? sorry bub but thats you glazing over the real pressing issue, which is what you're doing is bitchmade.

that, along with all the other fan productions you're selling out your site is shitty practice and when you step on peoples toes who code, create, and make and turn it around for your own profit, well im gonna start callin it how i see it about this kind of stuff. im tired of it.

avoid mute city electronics.

apparently this guy does shoddy work as well.

two friends have now told me that they've had to send carts back to this guy for repairs. not tryin to start shit or nothin, but when two seperate people tell me the virtually same story with 'fan translated' games they purchased and i say 'lemme guess the person you bought it from...mute city electronics?' and they say 'yes', well that speaks for itself.

im not tryin to smear this guy, but be warned beacuse beyond the his ethics, if he does bad soldering and assembly, well...