Refurbished or restickered playchoice games

Gump79

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What is the story with refurbished or relabeled playchoice games? Are these ever actual refurbs or chip swaps offered through nintendo or just copies that have been burnt and rebadged? I have three games that the labels look like they were printed on a dot matrix printer. Frustrating to pay for a game and then see it was a relabel. Especially when one was a ninja gaiden 2 originally.
 
There were many refurbished games that were factory converted from other boards. These aren't game hacks or rom swaps.

If the name of the game appears on the menu screen (and the game instructions screen matches) then it is original. The 8-pin RP5H01 security chip that allows the game name to appear in the menu can't be hacked or re-burned (otherwise you'd see a lot of RBI Baseball boards floating around).

I think some games were exclusively produced as refurbished games. I've seen a half-dozen Rockin Kats game boards and they all were relabeled Nintendo World Cup. -- I even got a NOS Rockin Kats in an unopened box, and even the tinfoil had a Worlds Cup label on it. It only makes sense that if you have a poorly selling game, you'd take the boards off the shelf, swap the chips and put on a new sticker.

This dosen't reduce the value, in my opinion. Factory produced is factory produced.

Pete
http://playchoice.riemen.net
 
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