Reproduction Policy

Reproduction cartridges and discs circulate widely for several platforms — the Atari Jaguar especially, where many repros were produced openly by community members as playable substitutes for games that are otherwise unobtainable. Some, like the 2010 AirCars 94 run, are documented products with real collector value of their own. That is all legitimate. The problem is only ever a reproduction — or a modern re-release — sold at original prices to a buyer who thinks they're getting period hardware.

Any cartridge, disc, label, box, manual, or insert that is not an original commercial release must be identified as a reproduction in the listing title and description. This applies whether or not you produced it, and whether or not you knew what it was when you acquired it — most misrepresented repros are resold in good faith by people who never knew.

The same disclosure standard applies to modern and post-commercial releases of retro platforms: a 2005 Total Carnage or 2013 Another World Jaguar cartridge is a legitimate licensed product, and it must be described as a modern release, not left to read as 1990s stock. If you're unsure whether an item is original, contact us before listing and we'll help you check.

If a listing is reported as an undisclosed reproduction, we contact the seller for verification — which may include internal photographs of the circuit board, the authentication standard our own platform guides teach. Listings that cannot be verified are removed. Repeat or knowing non-disclosure results in account action.

Rights holders may report infringing listings via our contact page. Verified infringing listings are removed promptly.

For any high-value cartridge, request a photograph of the circuit board before paying. Original-era boards used mask ROMs and period components; reproductions show modern EPROMs and different trace layouts. A seller who declines to open the shell on a three-figure cartridge is telling you something. Our console authenticity guides — see the Atari Jaguar and Virtual Boy pages — document the specific tells per platform.

We publish detailed counterfeit-spotting guides because authentication knowledge is the whole point of a collector-run marketplace. That only works if the enforcement side exists too: disclosed repros are welcome here at repro prices, and misrepresentation is removed. Both halves protect the same person — the buyer paying real money for what a listing says it is.

Not sure how to classify something you want to sell? Ask us first — a two-minute question beats a dispute every time.