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now my daughter is loving this game, need more cards!!! found some on ebay, but that wont keep my daughter quiet for long :p

anyone have any of these (long shot I know) or leads to find more, please shoot me a PM with what you have/links to getting more, thanks
 

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Saw one of those machines at the Sega Gameworks before it closed down. Here's a link to Yahoo Japan, apparently those cards are pretty popular over there. You can bid and buy the cards through a proxy like Rinkya or Celga and use google translate to translate the page to english. If you need any help, PM me.

http://www.rinkya.com/new/en/Oshare-Majo-Love-and-Berry-category-2084062232
 
I didn't think that Oshare Majo was oficially released in the USA. I assume your machine still has vends remaining on the RFID chip (the 'Picochet' readers)? It will show you remaining vends in the test menus.

I'm just curious what happens when there are no vends left; if the machine shuts down and becomes an unplayable brick or just simply won't dispense cards but is still playable? I'm more worried about how future-proof & collectable the game itself is, not just the cards :(

These collectible card games (Mushiking--> Oshare Majo--> Dinosaur King & probably more) were made by Sega to sell consumables -- the cards were sold in packs of 800 and came with an RFID chip that is encoded to allow 800 vends. Each play vends one card, and you cannot continuously recycle the cards back into the hopper as the machine will not vend when the RFID chip is exhausted.
 
I have to reassemble my Mushi-King setup to confirm but I believe the software just displays an error message until it gets a chip with vend credits on it. I'm sure the chip or the program code itself could be hacked but since it's supposed to dispense a card with every play it will become a brick unless you can find a source for the chips.

Same as the other poster, I've only seen these machines in the US at Sega Gameworks locations.
 
I have a Dinosaur King (2008 Special Edition) that has about 600 vends left, thankfully, but I never pulled the chip to see what happens.

To the OP: I'd be weary of the life you have left on that machine. Of course, you can buy all the loose cards you want and mix them into the hopper, but you're still ticking off the available plays until the RFID shuts you down.

I hope I'm wrong, but new card packs are probably unavailable -- from Sega USA, at least. In Asia, Sega sells direct to operators (no affiliated distributorship system like the USA) so they can keep control of things like this and might not sell to anybody that doesn't own machines -- I'd imagine a major concern was somebody buying & parting-out new packs to sell the rarities piecemeal.. or allowing anybody to just buy the special metal "supercards" that were only meant to be given as tournament prizes -- they aren't available in the card packs.

Hacking is probably gonna be the only long-term option for these things to last another couple decades.

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yeah I know these have a short life, Andy at SegaShed has cards, and the kits to restore these to new, but at 350 GBP for the kit, it isnt cheap, I got a stack of those white discs with mine, is that the part that contains the data for plays? wonder if you can swap/convert/add different kits to it, like mushiking etc? as see the cart cheap on ebay, but guess still need the chip and cards :(
 
okay going thru the little white discs appears most are out of plays, have a couple that have about 266 plays left on them, as its RFID could you trick the game into thinking it has a new chip? bit like they hacked those skylander toys to become something else???
 
All the hardware is the same from what I've seen. It should be as easy as swapping the cart and the cards and the picochet chips to switch between games. Although if you have Love & Berry you are missing a few buttons on the control panel.

They even made NDS games for Love and Berry and MushiKing that came with a scanner that would read the arcade cards. Also a Love and Berry Limited Edition NDS Lite but I think the game was only in Japanese.
 
yeah I might go Mushiking, just because the sets are easier to source it seems, and cheaper, just daughter wont go for it as much Im sure :(
 
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