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byuu's SNES preservation project: $10k in EU games missing in post. Update: Found!
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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He wanted to guarantee they were bit perfect so in 40 years the only way to play some snes game isn't an old slightly corrupted rip
sixteen-bit
Member
I don't get it. Aren't those games already dumped? Were they rare prototypes or something?
SoRuffShoNuff
Member
You don't ship something like that with the USPS unless you pay out the ass to send it registered.
Disagree Guy
Member
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
They aren't lost, they are in some guys house, stolen.
When sending something abroad you have to state it's value.
GiantBreadbug
Member
Yeah seems like you should be able to fuckin mail something without paying extra for them to take responsibility for fucking it up.
This is unbelievable
I ship expensive stuff for work all the time - one thing I've learned is to NEVER use USPS for expensive stuff. Just go with Fed.Ex. Yeah, it costs more, but as with all things expensive, it's worth it. Literally thousands and thousands of shipments, not a single one of them lost.
Seriously, who uses USPS to ship expensive, irreplaceable stuff?
Seriously, who uses USPS to ship expensive, irreplaceable stuff?
If you don't pay for insurance, how can the USPS know the value of the package? The economics of the postal system would fall apart if every pacakage was insured for an arbitrary value.
This package was insured but not for the full amount, so that it's not insured for the full amount isn't USPS's problem.
Theslammer
Member
Man, I have NEVER had a problem with USPS, so I really hate hearing this. This is the bummeriest bummer that ever bummed.
LinkSlayer64
Member
old manatee
Banned
USPS doesn't give a fuck about anyone or anything.
That's hilarious and sad at the same time.Delivery couriers the world over are a law unto themselves
Tweeting to Nintendo about a project to digitally rip SNES carts? Uh....Nintendo wouldn't be supportive of that. At all.
Rolodzeo
Member
Were there SO MANY incorrect dumps? Why not dumping only those corrupted? There's a reason hashes exists and they are (usually) publicly available. Why on Earth sending hundreds of carts by mail (back and forth!!!) instead of the dumping device(s)?
????????
HammerOfThor
Member
With USPS, you get what you pay for. They're cheap for a reason. If something is of high importance, I never ever go with them. Pay the extra money and use UPS or FedEx. They still have their downs, but they are far more reliable than USPS.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Hindsight and all, but why not purchase a planeticket and take your equipment on the road? Do all the ROM dumping at the owners residence? That way his games never leave his sight. Can the equipment needed not fit under a plane? Or why not send the dumping equipmet to the game owner and teach him how to do it?
KojiKnight
Member
Devastating... But it'd have been a lot less costly to plan a week vacation to Europe with the proper tools and just done the work there. I'd think.
mindatlarge
Member
What a shame. Probably sitting in some mail recovery center.
John Kowalski
Banned
hope they find the games 
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Insurance or not the games have gone.
Lil'DigiOp
Member
Why the fuck would you ship something like that with USPS?
They are fucking awful
They are fucking awful
fixed.
Bad policy to not use another method of shipment to be honest with that kind of money involved.
LinkSlayer64
Member
He was also archiving cartridge art, dunno what tools he was using to do all this. Nor do we know if he has the time to just take off work for a week and stay in some unfamiliar place.
One issue here, why does he owe the sender money? Isn't it their fault for not insuring it? Or are they just being a decent person who feels bad about the loss of games?
Rellik
Member
The value would have been declared at customs, right? I've received international items with the value right on the front of the packaging.
lmao
Dark_3nergy
Member
Absolutely agree. Definitely the senders error here.
On the topic of lost shipments; I know a guy who does business as a small retro shop. He lost a shipment that nearly wasn't as expensive as the guy in the OP. But after that experience he no longer sells online period.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
No way they weren't stolen.
Robin64
Member
KojiKnight
Member
Yep, he also completed the US set a year or two ago.
So let's say the sender and buyer are both able to provide proof of the contents and value of what they sent. Would they be able to claim what they've lost?
Diablohead
Member
I feel like someone checking the packages saw the contents and knew it was worth a bomb, the package has gone walking out the door.
As much as I am all for the preservation of these games, with the way the market has gotten these days, the method here seems flat out insane.
I can't believe the collector in question agreed to send out chunks of his collection like this tbh.
One would think there has to be a better way to accomplish this. :|
I can't believe the collector in question agreed to send out chunks of his collection like this tbh.
One would think there has to be a better way to accomplish this. :|
Not sending it USPS registered mail is crazy. With registered mail each person that takes possession of the package has to sign for it so if it's lost there is a single person responsible. With a package that has the monetary and cultural value like this I think sending it registered mail would be ideal.
Conciliator
Banned
do you think it's possible that...someone just jacked it? Like if really no one has any idea where it went. Some dude figured out what it was one way or another and just had more interest a box of $10k worth of rare Snes games than he had in being a mailman.
EDIT: I agree 100% sender screwed up as well though.
EDIT: I agree 100% sender screwed up as well though.
I wonder if the person who has it only took it because they were aware of the amount covered under insurance as opposed to how much the games are actually worth.
They'll probably find them on ebay at this point. Their best bet is that the person who stole the package is dumb enough to put the entire collection up in one posting.
hope they find the games
They'll probably find them on ebay at this point. Their best bet is that the person who stole the package is dumb enough to put the entire collection up in one posting.
RichiRamjag
Member
Sick of USPS. I can't ever trust that I get my mail on time if at all. No issues for years, but recently, it's been a mess. Lost my copy of the new deus ex a couple months back too.
spyroflame0487
Member
In this case lost likely means they either got misplaced (could have disappeared somewhere in the facility) or worse case scenario is they were stolen.
Disagree Guy
Member
With the rising value in games (at quite a rapid rate) and the potential for one fewer of these carts to exist raising the price even more......
If a GIF could more accurately describe this scenario ^
If a GIF could more accurately describe this scenario ^
He could have gone there with his equipment and had a nice time drinking beer and eating sausages.
Reading the official forum post is pretty amazing. These people are acting like anyone outside of their community actually cares about this subject. Contact major news outlets... Put up a video complaining on Youtube in order to bring attention to the issue until the USPS uses their incredible pull with Youtube to get the video taken down?
The worst part is that I'm sympathetic to their cause and I think it's a great idea to archive all digital media before it's lost to the ages.
Unfortunately, USPS loses shit all the time. Even if it's less than 1/1000 that's still thousands of parcels a day. If something is worth lots of money, you insure it for the full amount that it would take to replace. I just shipped about $2,000 worth of Magic: the Gathering cards yesterday. I over insured them by $50 just to be safe (and more so to have a round number). It cost me about $30 in total to ship the package 2-day. Was it a lot of money to ship a package? Absolutely, but it's nice to know that I'm not stuck holding the bag if the package is lost.
The worst part is that I'm sympathetic to their cause and I think it's a great idea to archive all digital media before it's lost to the ages.
Unfortunately, USPS loses shit all the time. Even if it's less than 1/1000 that's still thousands of parcels a day. If something is worth lots of money, you insure it for the full amount that it would take to replace. I just shipped about $2,000 worth of Magic: the Gathering cards yesterday. I over insured them by $50 just to be safe (and more so to have a round number). It cost me about $30 in total to ship the package 2-day. Was it a lot of money to ship a package? Absolutely, but it's nice to know that I'm not stuck holding the bag if the package is lost.