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[badedyr]

@greenshoots

@badedyr

They stated they would not grade but it’s 4-5 months ago and haven’t asked since. I’ll ask them again

Nightmare. I wish they’d make this stuff clear absolutely anywhere on the website. I’m actually not sure where I saw this graded Japanese game now, so maybe that was my mistake.

I just asked them again as it was way back in October 2020 I asked any got this (also asked about cross grading VGA I’d anyone is interested)

Currently we don’t grade Japanese Game Cube games though we would like to in the nebulous future.
We grade VGA games all the time though, even though they require a bit more labor to get them opened carefully we still allow people to submit them as normal submissions & we do the opening ourselves.

I’ll post what response I get from them when asking again.

[greenshoots]

@badedyr

@greenshoots

Nightmare. I wish they’d make this stuff clear absolutely anywhere on the website. I’m actually not sure where I saw this graded Japanese game now, so maybe that was my mistake.

I just asked them again as it was way back in October 2020 I asked any got this (also asked about cross grading VGA I’d anyone is interested)

Currently we don’t grade Japanese Game Cube games though we would like to in the nebulous future.
We grade VGA games all the time though, even though they require a bit more labor to get them opened carefully we still allow people to submit them as normal submissions & we do the opening ourselves.

I’ll post what response I get from them when asking again.

Ah, you have already asked again. I had to ask since it relates to an order I already made - I expect I’ll just have to take the game back ungraded.

[kpod]

@greenshoots

@badedyr

I just asked them again as it was way back in October 2020 I asked any got this (also asked about cross grading VGA I’d anyone is interested)

Currently we don’t grade Japanese Game Cube games though we would like to in the nebulous future.
We grade VGA games all the time though, even though they require a bit more labor to get them opened carefully we still allow people to submit them as normal submissions & we do the opening ourselves.

I’ll post what response I get from them when asking again.

Ah, you have already asked again. I had to ask since it relates to an order I already made - I expect I’ll just have to take the game back ungraded.

How did you even submit it? When making an online order, it forces you through the process with no open text fields really. If there was not Japan variant as an option, I’m curious how you even got it on your submission form? Or did you submit it under the English variant?

[greenshoots]

@kpod

@greenshoots

Ah, you have already asked again. I had to ask since it relates to an order I already made - I expect I’ll just have to take the game back ungraded.

How did you even submit it? When making an online order, it forces you through the process with no open text fields really. If there was not Japan variant as an option, I’m curious how you even got it on your submission form? Or did you submit it under the English variant?

Is there an option to select region variants for any platform? The preview art seems to simply default to NTSC-US releases for every game on every platform, and then I don’t see any option to specify a different region (aside from maybe the notes field). Am I missing it?

[kpod]

@greenshoots

@kpod

How did you even submit it? When making an online order, it forces you through the process with no open text fields really. If there was not Japan variant as an option, I’m curious how you even got it on your submission form? Or did you submit it under the English variant?

Is there an option to select region variants for any platform? The preview art seems to simply default to NTSC-US releases for every game on every platform, and then I don’t see any option to specify a different region (aside from maybe the notes field). Am I missing it?

I guess that’s my point, all signs point to them only doing NTSC-US releases so I wasn’t sure how you got the correct paperwork for any other release?

[eureko]

I thought Japanese N64 games were the same size as GB/GBC?

www.ebay.com/itm/304063309950

After seeing this I assumed they’d grade em.

[greenshoots]

@kpod

@greenshoots

Is there an option to select region variants for any platform? The preview art seems to simply default to NTSC-US releases for every game on every platform, and then I don’t see any option to specify a different region (aside from maybe the notes field). Am I missing it?

I guess that’s my point, all signs point to them only doing NTSC-US releases so I wasn’t sure how you got the correct paperwork for any other release?

They definitely grade PAL N64, GC etc. and since there is no option to specify that’s what you have during submission, I just select the correct game and trust they will denote the correct region on the label. I think the only issue they have with these older Japanese Nintendo games are the unusual box sizes. If they want to avoid receiving these Japanese games they can’t grade, they should probably add a region drop down for the submission process

[greenshoots]

@eureko

I thought Japanese N64 games were the same size as GB/GBC?

www.ebay.com/itm/304063309950

After seeing this I assumed they’d grade em.

Japanese GC games are a different size to N64 and Game Boy - and I believe GB are a slightly different size again to GBA, although I’d have to check.

[badedyr]

@greenshoots

@kpod

I guess that’s my point, all signs point to them only doing NTSC-US releases so I wasn’t sure how you got the correct paperwork for any other release?

They definitely grade PAL N64, GC etc. and since there is no option to specify that’s what you have during submission, I just select the correct game and trust they will denote the correct region on the label. I think the only issue they have with these older Japanese Nintendo games are the unusual box sizes. If they want to avoid receiving these Japanese games they can’t grade, they should probably add a region drop down for the submission process

I can confirm that, I just got 19 games back which was a mix of PAL N64, NTSC-US GameCube and PAL GameCube games.

[badedyr]

I got a response to my question in relation top WATA grading Japanese GameCube games and POP report:

*Hello,

Thank you for contacting Wata customer service. Our apologies for the delayed response.

Thanks for reaching out. We don’t currently grade those games or items. I’d encourage you to follow us on social media and sign up for our newsletter www.watagames.com/learn/newsletter. We use those channels to let our customers know when we expand our capabilities.

Pop reports are in our future, but we’re not ready to roll them out to the public yet. Please stay tuned to our newsletter to receive any information on if and when a pop report comes about.

Thank you.*