eBay Auction Won, Nintendo 64 "Hudson Joycard 64" controller!

Hi gamers!

I've got pretty exciting news to share! I have won, yes won an eBay auction for a Joycard 64 controller by Hudson. Never heard of it? Well that's normal, many people just haven't.. Only released in Japan of course by Hudson which are a 3rd party company and it was actually licensed by Nintendo. With it being licensed by Nintendo it looks very close to the 1st party controller we're all familiar with, except the handles are much more steep and have a whole lot of dials thrown on the centre.

These do not come up on eBay very often, and one of these boxed are super rare and no idea how much they go for boxed. This brings me to my next point, exactly how much are they worth? The price finds it's self sandwiched between the original controller and the Hori Mini controllers, if you don't know what a Hori Mini controller looks like check it out here. Original controllers without being a special edition just everyday versions go for about $30 mark loose and $50+ boxed and the Hori Mini Pads go for around $60 mark loose and $100+ boxed. Hudson's Joycard 64 controller goes for $50 loose and without question $100+ boxed, recently I found a site that are selling them brand new in box for $102+Shipping...Wow. The Joycard 64 comes in one colour from what I can find on the Internet and I think it's the same black as the original controller.

What's so special about the Joycard 64? Well purely it was made for Bomberman Hero also made by Hudson, it also has rapid-fire switches on the front pane, Pressure sensitive joystick, customized grips on the fin handles and near the Z button.

Once the controller arrives I'll most likely do a video review of it as my first review on my new YouTube channel, apologies for lack of images as there are not many around other than stock photos and the box, the one I won on eBay is very similar to the image above.. More images when it arrives ^^

The last of the amazing Bayonetta news!! Well, maybe..

Hi gamers!

This will be the last instalment of Bayonetta news, but it's great news! I received my Climax Edition Bayonetta along with the gun, soundtrack, and game box. It looks a lot better in person than people's images of the gun.

Unfortunately the gun has got the sight chipped off on the left, apart from that it looks near new.

The boxes are in great condition and so is the art book, My only complaint is that I'm disappointed with the art book there are not many concept images or many pages for that matter.
I couldn't really complain though, I only spent $50+$20 shipping in total $70 which is really good considering that there are only 1,500 made in the world.

I already owned the game for XBOX 360 so it slips into it's box nicely and now the complete set is all together in perfect harmony... nawwww.
Now I can sleep without worrying about this being lost or damaged during transit, I had to go pick it up from the post office though.. Stupid post man!

In conclusion I'm very happy with the set, it looks very cool and got it for an amazing price.

A Working SEGA Neptune prototype LOST in a move!

Hi gamers,

Every SEGA fan knows the story behind the one and only Neptune, it's mainly just a stand-alone 32X anyway. It was going to be a in-between the Megadrive and Saturn time frame to prolong the life of the Megadrive.

Recently a prototype collector that goes by the name of drx contacted a 1st party SEGA producer, as he was asking more questions about the system and just about to finally have it in his collection the producer said he lost it while moving houses. Sounds like a lie right? It most likely is. drx has many weird boards from SEGA as he claims, and I do believe him, he is fairly trusted by the community he has released a lot of prototype material in the past.

How could a professional first party producer lose such a rare piece of hardware, hell it's not rare it's ONE working on earth, and it's now misplaced. Now don't get confused with the many that people have "spotted" they were just case prototypes, no guts inside.

We may hear about the one and only Neptune again some day, but for now it's going to fade into the past. Sad day for many SEGA freaks including me, I could of seen a HD image of one of these oh well.

Source: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859

Even more Bayonetta news + A message to my readers!

Hi gamers!

This week just got better, not only it's the weekend and I got my refund but Bayonetta Climax Edition got posted on Friday!! So it should be here next week no problems, I really can't wait for this my second limited edition and I mean limited. As usual I'll make an entry when it arrives, but I'm really excited I just hope it wont be a disappointment. With the way the Australia post is with items, I messaged the seller to say pack it extremely well as there are not much around!!

So there you have it, on going news about one of 1,500 arriving in my collection.. It will also look so awesome in my new room (when I renovate it I should say, so I have more room for my stuff) in a class cabinet for all rare and limited items :D pictures of that in a few months, sadly. Please stay tuned as I have other gaming news to post tomorrow :)

I'll also take this chance to again thank all my readers, I got a lot of reputation in the last 2 weeks! Over 200 views a week! I'll try my best to keep my news closely into rare games, and systems, of course I can only afford so much as I'm currently studying and don't have a job :( but I'll do my best!

This is HeXiGON signing out!

Batman Arkham City collector's edition. US vs EUROPE Taboo.

Hi Gamers,

Today was the day that many Batman fans have been waiting for, everyone who pre-ordered the collectors edition went home without the animation DVD that was included in the US release, but not anywhere else. The empty space under the statue of Batman was for the animation DVD. Many european buyers were puzzled when they opened the draw and found nothing. Along with a download code for the soundtrack, not a physical copy. This is rather beyond me, it's the same price as the US release (ignoring exchange rate), yet the extra CD and DVD were left out they could of at least include a download code for the movie as well, nah that was the right thing to do. Instead they give the European players extra DLC skins, ohhh how collectable are those!

Even though the collector's edition is rather detailed and pretty damn awesome, the cost cut was rude towards the European buyers especially if they wanted the animation DVD and a physical soundtrack. Usually that's the point of a collector's edition, is the physical stuff that it comes with, and not just pieces of paper with codes on them. It's pretty debatable to say the European players were completely disappointed as the statue looks great, and the box for the lot is very well presented. I can surely say, I'd be pretty neutral... if it was a neutral price.

This edition got released here in Australia with the statue, but I'm not aware if it included a physical copy of the soundtrack or not. Which is very confusing as Australia gets European releases usually, some stores are offering the import which happens to be the US version I couldn't say the game is region free. Another thing to add to the crap factor this whole epic edition with the awesome box is that it doesn't even include a case for the game nor a manual. What you do get is a art book and at the end of that art book is a DVD tray, who designed this? Have it separate, so collector's can have the game on the shelf!

I won't go too far into detail about the inconvenience about this edition, as some fans will agree and disagree about the points I make here. Overall the edition is rather cool and interesting, the art book and the statue is what you're really paying for. Consider the game as a throw in extra.

HEX1GON signing out.

More Bayonetta News!!

Hello gamers, once again!

Last night I made an amazing discovery on eBay, no I didn't buy a Biohazard Code Veronica Dreamcast, or a working Atari Jaguar CD but I did manage to grab a Bayonetta Climax Edition complete with famous pre-order only bonus gun. Not only did I manage to actually get a hold of one, but the amount of money I spent on it is a miracle.

I got this for $70AUD, I'm dead serious! However it came without the game, but the game it's self is selling in stores for about roughly $20AUD, the good thing is it came with the sleeve for the game to slip into I also have the game by it's self so now this will be a complete item once it arrives, how cool is that?

After doing more research, SEGA says it's strictly limited and only 1,500 units. The UK, Australia and New Zeeland got the pre-order bonus however the UK got a plain white box, as a posed to the NZ and Australian release got printed box. The item I bought is the one with the printed artwork, awesome!
With the gun being strictly limited, brand new in the box it fetches $400+ -- wow. So the item even being opened like the one I'll be receiving would be worth just as much or a little less, I could possibly place $350 as it's value.

The seller possibly just didn't know what they had, or wanted a quick sale. Miracles do happen and many collectors pick up the rarest things for very small amounts of money from time to time. So finally it's happened to me and hope it happens again another time, because damn it's awesome :D

This item will be included in my next collecting video, as I've been a little tight on money recently it might be rather short.

Below you can find images of the item I *should* be receiving.

This is HEX1GON signing out.

Very Rare Nintendo 64 LodgeNet System Spotted!

Hi Gamers!

When I was 5 years old, my parents took me to the United States of America we got a hotel room right across from Disneyland.. In the hotel room there was a TV, but I noticed on top there was a Nintendo 64 controller looked down on it, and there were some extra buttons, and a telephone like cable coming out of it. What is this?

In 2011, today I found out what that controller was all about. It was a LodgeNet.. What's that you ask? A money operated Nintendo 64 that streams from a server into the LodgeNet box when requested by the customer, when the customer was finished they'd press menu I believe and these games were timed as well. If the customer wanted to play more, they then press Menu or Order depending if they wanted a different game or to continue. I remember my dad reading the instructions and it had something along the lines of: "25c per 10 minutes.." so this would be more of a luxury for the rainy days. If that doesn't make sense, well you try remembering when you were 5 about something you've forgotten about for over 10 years ;).

More about the LodgeNet, just as I was about to go to bed, I spotted these images on my favourite forum. A user named "wills82" managed to get a hold of the LodgeNet Nintendo 64 system and a controller for $5, and to my knowledge it might not be functional.
Previous to that post, another user, "grap3fruitman" got a hold of a bunch, yes a bunch! Of LodgeNet Systems and controllers a total of 5 units, complete with a PSU, but not as many controllers one of the units is missing one.

These boxes are rare and the controllers even more harder to find, and were only found in hotels around the USA (from my memory) but the server side of the hardware pretty much thin air, you'd need to be able to walk on water to find one, that's how rare the hardware is.

The owners of these are very lucky, the value is unknown.
I did a little bit of research as in looked on eBay and see how much they're going for. I only found a Super Nintendo Controller by Lodgenet, but it's actually not licensed by Nintendo. So maybe hotels later used Super Nintendo Boxes much like Japan Hotel's which is know by "SuperFamicomBox".

Some very HD images can be found below, of the controllers, stand and the boxes. You can enlarge these images.

You'd hate for your finger to slip.

So many N64 collectors think they have every controller, think again. ;)

I knew I wasn't dreaming, I've held this controller!

Looks like the system could of had RAM upgrades for the ROMs. Maximum memory is unknown.

As you know, this is HeXiGON signing out!