JonnyDBrit
Member
Thank fuck this had a happy ending. Hope the preservation goes well from here!
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byuu's SNES preservation project: $10k in EU games missing in post. Update: Found!
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Yeah, that's sadly one of the lessons here.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Awesome! Happy endings are the best.
Now get back to work!
*cracks whip*
Now get back to work!
*cracks whip*
SmiteOfHand
Member
Nice!
Agreed about the coverage. Looking at the box itself that is probably the same amount of effort I would put into taping it up. Guess in the future if I am sending something I really care about I will laminate the damned thing.
Agreed about the coverage. Looking at the box itself that is probably the same amount of effort I would put into taping it up. Guess in the future if I am sending something I really care about I will laminate the damned thing.
FrozenCell
Member
Great! now Nintendo can download them and sell them on Virtual Console - everybody wins!
So it was in an overgoods/overflow storage area? Nice. I work in the industry - highly recommend taking pics and knowing dimensions/weight of packages you send if they're valuable. I've seen some miracles found.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Glad they were "found" after getting "lost"
aha! What did I say? Once this hits social media then you'd see results! You shouldn't feel the need to apologize to USPS for accusing them of stealing. They fucked up, they didn't bother to really help you until you began to throw accusations and kick up a fuss, without doing that I don't think you'd have your games now.
Glad you've got the games safe and sound, both for you and the collector.
And it's good to see you haven't lost hope in your project, even if you'll be a bit more cautious going forward.
Don't ever think this project is not worth it. You're doing far more than even the original creators and publishers are doing to protect and preserve these titles. I and I'm sure many others have never said it before, but this means a lot to us. Good luck!
Glad you've got the games safe and sound, both for you and the collector.
And it's good to see you haven't lost hope in your project, even if you'll be a bit more cautious going forward.
Don't ever think this project is not worth it. You're doing far more than even the original creators and publishers are doing to protect and preserve these titles. I and I'm sure many others have never said it before, but this means a lot to us. Good luck!
Spiral Insanity
Banned
Someone should look into it more. If the address was visible, there was no reason it should have remained 'lost'.
... what are you implying, exactly?
DiipuSurotu
Banned
What the fuck? You have no idea what you're talking about
dead souls
Member
Don't do this. If they were stolen they'd be gone.
JonnyDBrit
Member
It's a crack about how Nintendo may be downloading roms of its own games from the internet - at the very least, Super Mario Bros - to then use in its Virtual Console releases. Frank Cifaldi covered it in a GDC talk.
That said, still not the appropriate place or time for such a joke.
mentallyinept
Banned
Thank goodness for that.
Hopefully he can move on from this event and complete his quest.
Hopefully he can move on from this event and complete his quest.
chronic_archaic
Member
So glad you found them man!
Marty Chinn
Member
Terranigma only came out in PAL territories with an English translation.
SmiteOfHand
Member
I'm sure byuu will come in and school me, but my understanding is we can't necessarily make any assumptions on any single PAL game? So not limiting to PAL-only games, the whole library needs a run through.
But to actually answer your question, it does look like there are a decent amount of PAL-only games (sort by region): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I overreacted but it's important to stress that byuu is not making these games available or anything like that. Nintendo cannot download them.
Starwolf_UK
Member
A quick search finds quite a few lists but one has to filter out the localised versions of Japanese games (e.g. Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden which I believe was French only, possibly Italian too). The list here looks good:
http://www.retrocollect.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=176
I'd say about half of it was localised games America didn't get.
Diablohead
Member
A happy ending but man what the fuck were the postal service doing, utter dogshit of a company.
TriAceJP
Member
USPS is pretty solid, I've had very few issues with them. Once you deal with international shipping, it becomes a complete shitshow.
Use FedEX for international.
The Faceless Master
Member
bad publicity strikes again
The guy is too forgiving with USPS, it was their fault that the package got lost and they didn't even attempt to send it to the right person and were going to sell it off.
They don't deserve his apology.
MacGurcules
Member
In fairness, the initial working theory was that the box was stolen. That it turns out there was an honest mistake in routing is very much a less serious infraction. Now, should their sorting machines handle boxes more carefully? Probably. But it doesn't appear there was any malicious intent.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Thank god for that.
test_account
XP-39C²
Very nice that the package was recovered! 
Chittagong
Gold Member
Really happy to hear they were found. Would you mind posting a higher res pic of the carts? I can tell they are rare as I know PAL games welI and can recognise only a handful of labels in low res - Vampire's Kiss, Mega Man X, Jurassic Park, Earthworm Jim, Daffy Duck, Flashback, Addam's Family, Bubsy, Castlevania IV
I'd love closer shots just to admire them too. Good stuff!
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
The funny part is that them finding the package ultimately makes the USPS looks worse from a PR standpoint. It basically says "We couldn't care less about the problems of the customer, we'll only help to cover ourselves if it blows back on us."
Starwolf_UK
Member
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Fiddle with the imgur urls. Remove the l from them like so:
https://i.imgur.com/cijC2a2l.jpg > https://i.imgur.com/cijC2a2.jpg
and the same for the other one
Remember that the ROM info will show up on https://preservation.byuu.org/ so that is another way of knowing what was in that batch. Of course looking there you see the other interesting thing about PAL is some games have a couple of variants (ah the days when you couldn't fit multiple languages at once).
papersleeves
Member
This is such a great news! I am really glad for both the loaner AND the owner, especially the owner. XD
Ah... A happy ending! Yay!
Speaking of which, someone should take this whole escapade and immortalise it as a mission in an rpg. Go on a quest to find customer services number. Head down into a dungeon to obtain the item code. Boss fight with head rep who denies you the treasure. Recruit sympathetic rep to help with your cause.
I'd play it.
Speaking of which, someone should take this whole escapade and immortalise it as a mission in an rpg. Go on a quest to find customer services number. Head down into a dungeon to obtain the item code. Boss fight with head rep who denies you the treasure. Recruit sympathetic rep to help with your cause.
I'd play it.
Woo hoo!
Considering how much time I spend at working trying to get USPS to find legal documents they lost I am legitimately SHOOK that they found this. They never find shit. They never even respond.
I can not begin to disagree with you more. I track several hundred legal mailings through USPS each month and for the last year they have lost 14% of our mail. 14%. This costs the state tens upon tens of thousands of dollars. All domestic mailings, and most are even local.
Fuck the USPS.
I can not begin to disagree with you more. I track several hundred legal mailings through USPS each month and for the last year they have lost 14% of our mail. 14%. This costs the state tens upon tens of thousands of dollars. All domestic mailings, and most are even local.
Fuck the USPS.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Definitely don't use USPS when you ship these back to the owner.