Collecting AES games are getting harder.
Buy stuff from ebay is becoming a russian roulette game, mainly for rare games. Stuff from Spain, France and a for the first time I saw a lot of bootlegs from UK.
I have a few AES games, and I am still looking for some games, SamSho V, all Metal Slug , KOF 2003, Garou. The funniest part, when you ask the guys if it is a conversion / bootleg, the answer is almost Its from my collection, mint state
Once I saw a store that if want they look for the game for you, and the prices was not that bad, so I decided to ask, id they could assure that I was paying from a legit item, not a conversion or bootleg, and this was the answer :
We cannot assure that, because we have several retailers which sell stuff to us, so we need to pay to them and then sell to you, for that reason we dont have such option to verify if the item is 100% legit
Not that they are based on Japan.
Nowadays, is getting difficulty to find a good store in which you may rely.