Sachen Gameboy Carts Rarity?

[HEX1GON]

A close friend of mine won this game in a massive auction lot on eBay. I know the background of the carts and what company made them and what not, but does anyone know how rare they are? I just have a second suspicion that it's a pirate of a pirate, as the casing is so horrible in quality...

[Trenton_net]

I'd say they are more rare than your average pirate cartridge, but still obtainable. The big reason these items are perceived to be rare is due to location. In China and other parts of Asia you have a much greater chance of scoring things like this, where as in North America your pretty much just rolling the dice. The same thing goes for American items in Asia, where locals perceive English titles to be rarer since for them it's rolling the dice if they'll come across any (Unless your specifically buying from North American sites/people).

[HEX1GON]

What type of figures would these types of carts go for?

[Trenton_net]

It really depends on how much people want to pay for it. But personally somewhere around the $20 range seems fair to me. The condition appears to be rather nice as well.

EDIT: By all means I'm no Gameboy collecting expert, so take it with a grain of salt. Perhaps there are some odd varients and titles which go for sky-high values, but for most items of this type that's what I usually expect to see.

[Mathias]

I'd expect that if this was placed on ebay, and described correctly, it could fetch anywhere from $15-25

[Tyree_Cooper]

I've sold brand new boxed GB multicarts for 10$ - this loose cart I'd say 5$ or less.

[Game Rogue]

How about these 152-1 and 99-1 GBA Multicarts - any value/rarity? I picked these up at a Kuala Lumpur Chinese market late 2005 for I don’t remember the price, but it was really inexpensive if memory serves.

[HEX1GON]

It really depends on how much people want to pay for it. But personally somewhere around the $20 range seems fair to me. The condition appears to be rather nice as well.

EDIT: By all means I'm no Gameboy collecting expert, so take it with a grain of salt. Perhaps there are some odd varients and titles which go for sky-high values, but for most items of this type that's what I usually expect to see.

Thanks very much for your opinion on these carts, just never seen one before. Good to know the ball park figure.

[brendand]

I found a different one today in a thrift shop for 8 dollars ^^ in good condition they weigh a little bit more then a normal gb cart as well it has some kind of side scrolling shmup on it and 3 other games also some boxed ones were sold on ebay recently all went over 60 dollars including this one > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayIS...ht_1597wt_1066

[brendand]

Intresting fact about Sachen carts is they do not work on any Gameboy color or Advance ....................... i just tried to no luck and googled to see what the problem was lol

[Denryu]

It's because they modified the scrolling "Nintendo®" logo to show "SACHEN®" instead, but their cartridges were only able to trick the original Game Boy.

[brendand]

It's because they modified the scrolling "Nintendo®" logo to show "SACHEN®" instead, but their cartridges were only able to trick the original Game Boy.

Intresting fact. so the only ways to play these things are Original Gameboy , Gameboy Pocket , Super Gameboy ? and Gameboy Light ( JAPAN ) or is there other devices ?

[Mathias]

Some of my multicarts work on the GB Color, some don't. I'm not sure about the sachen ones specifically...

[brendand]

Some of my multicarts work on the GB Color, some don't. I'm not sure about the sachen ones specifically...

intresting i have found 2 sachen carts in less then 1 week i know where a 3rd one is but thats going to be harder for me to get as its with a USED gameboy advance with light attachment for 50 dollars < overpriced lololol i am going to try test the gba with the cart if the cart does not boot after a few times on that gameboy advance then i will talk them into selling that game to me for dirt cheap

[Trenton_net]

Intresting fact. so the only ways to play these things are Original Gameboy , Gameboy Pocket , Super Gameboy ? and Gameboy Light ( JAPAN ) or is there other devices ?

You can use Chinese gameboy clones as well I would assume.

[HEX1GON]

They don't work on Super Gameboy.

[Mathias]

They don't work on Super Gameboy.

This is odd because all non-sachen multicarts work fine in a super gameboy

[mrdomino]

Non-Sachen multicarts don't modify the logo, so there's no reason they wouldn't work AFAIK.

Sachen's later carts were fixed to work in later consoles though - whether it'll work in your Game Boy or not seems to depend on when it was released. For example, my copy of Beast Fighter works in a GBC and GBA, but not GBA SP or Game Boy Player. But I have a 31 in 1 Sachen multicart (possibly one of the last things they released for the GB) which works in everything.

There are tricks to get non-working games working using cheat cartridges, too - for example you can make Gowin games work on a Super Game Boy using an Action Replay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4licd-5lY
I've also had some success (it works maybe 1/10 times) running Beast Fighter on my GBA SP or GB Player through a Game Genie.

[brendand]

Non-Sachen multicarts don't modify the logo, so there's no reason they wouldn't work AFAIK.

Sachen's later carts were fixed to work in later consoles though - whether it'll work in your Game Boy or not seems to depend on when it was released. For example, my copy of Beast Fighter works in a GBC and GBA, but not GBA SP or Game Boy Player. But I have a 31 in 1 Sachen multicart (possibly one of the last things they released for the GB) which works in everything.

There are tricks to get non-working games working using cheat cartridges, too - for example you can make Gowin games work on a Super Game Boy using an Action Replay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4licd-5lY
I've also had some success (it works maybe 1/10 times) running Beast Fighter on my GBA SP or GB Player through a Game Genie.

I Just found this today and its my birthday i got it for 5 dollars in a pawnbroker :P it has Jurassic boy 2 on althrough i wish i found that on a stand alone cart for that price :P oh well this is my 4th or 5th Sachen cart but the only one i have that works on everything :)

[Myria]

I'd say they are more rare than your average pirate cartridge, but still obtainable. The big reason these items are perceived to be rare is due to location. In China and other parts of Asia you have a much greater chance of scoring things like this, where as in North America your pretty much just rolling the dice. The same thing goes for American items in Asia, where locals perceive English titles to be rarer since for them it's rolling the dice if they'll come across any (Unless your specifically buying from North American sites/people).

It's weird, but that isn't true for legitimate SNES games. Japanese SNES games are found on American sites for cheaper than their American equivalents.