pro-tip: Get a megarom/flashrom cartridge with SCC if you intend to play Konami games. A lot of them use the SCC, and without it they sound decidedly awful.
Even then the price is still much better than you would normally get on eBay in the USA. I use Zen Market. I got a MSX2 from Japan and it wasn't bad at all. I got my TurboR from Spain, and it wasn't horrible either. My MZs and CZs came from all over and shipping was about $50 USD on average, with one of them being shipped for free. The price of them (the Sharp CZ-7xxs) were in the neighborhood of ~$250 USD. One came from Japan, and was damaged in shipping - I got a discount from the seller but it forced me to find a replacement from Croatia, which the seller forgot to ship. He apologized profusely, gave me the option of withdrawing my purchase, which I declined. It arrived a month later than anticipated. In the meantime I found a very nice example from the UK. So I'm set when it comes to Sharp CZ-731 (and a CZ-721) computers. :) If I am going to buy from Japan, I would most likely get it using Zen Market as my proxy. They always do a fantastic job of packaging. With two of the last four items damaged in shipping (eBay purchases, not Zen Market), I can't stress enough how important that is. And it simply isn't worth shipping them back.
Konami games sold in the UK were all on cartridge. They were available at both my local electrical shops, but not chains like Boots/WH Smith. The only tape games were licensed Imagine published Spectrum ports like wec le mans, tmnt. Konami ran a software club that sent out newsletters after the MSX magazines died. The MSX 2 was not available in the UK but you could buy Metal Gear / Vampire Killer in Europe. After 1989 they stopped selling in Europe
MSX was very succesfull in Brazil with two models: Gradiente's Expert and Sharp's HotBit.
Superb collection you've got there, sir!
Thank you
pro-tip: Get a megarom/flashrom cartridge with SCC if you intend to play Konami games. A lot of them use the SCC, and without it they sound decidedly awful.
Yeah I’ve got a better cartridge now, the cheap thing I had at the time was very flawed
F1 Spirit sounds much better than the footage here
If it wasn't for shipping, you could probably pick up 6 or 8 systems from Japan for $300-$400 or less.
Even then the price is still much better than you would normally get on eBay in the USA. I use Zen Market.
I got a MSX2 from Japan and it wasn't bad at all. I got my TurboR from Spain, and it wasn't horrible either. My MZs and CZs came from all over and shipping was about $50 USD on average, with one of them being shipped for free. The price of them (the Sharp CZ-7xxs) were in the neighborhood of ~$250 USD. One came from Japan, and was damaged in shipping - I got a discount from the seller but it forced me to find a replacement from Croatia, which the seller forgot to ship. He apologized profusely, gave me the option of withdrawing my purchase, which I declined. It arrived a month later than anticipated. In the meantime I found a very nice example from the UK. So I'm set when it comes to Sharp CZ-731 (and a CZ-721) computers. :)
If I am going to buy from Japan, I would most likely get it using Zen Market as my proxy. They always do a fantastic job of packaging. With two of the last four items damaged in shipping (eBay purchases, not Zen Market), I can't stress enough how important that is. And it simply isn't worth shipping them back.
Dankpods headphone testing music :)
I imagine we both fish in the TH-cam music pool :)
i always wondered could you buy konami msx games in the uk and other European countries or if most of the good games were japan only
You could, but they tended to be on tape and fairly cut down compared to the cartridge versions
Konami games sold in the UK were all on cartridge. They were available at both my local electrical shops, but not chains like Boots/WH Smith. The only tape games were licensed Imagine published Spectrum ports like wec le mans, tmnt. Konami ran a software club that sent out newsletters after the MSX magazines died.
The MSX 2 was not available in the UK but you could buy Metal Gear / Vampire Killer in Europe. After 1989 they stopped selling in Europe
@@JesterEricI only ever saw tape games personally, but it’s possible it was a regional thing