Terence wrote: July 9th, 2025, 4:42 pm
Read again my statement.
I never said or suggested what you are stating. That's your opinion.
As a matter of fact, mv25ta is one of the rarest cabinet ever produced : almost all serious cabinet collectors have never managed so far to get one and when it surfaced once on yahoo auction fetched very high price, far more than other coillectable cabs.
SC25, on other hand, is much more common and cheap priced, compared to mv25ta.
Desirability is a totally different matter.
You said an MV25TA was ten times more valuable than an SC25 because it was ten times rarer. That is just not how assigning value to something works.
My little 14 inch PYE CRT I have in the front room is probably one of the last left of it's kind on earth. It's millions of times rarer than a LG OLED. Does that make it much more valuable than the LG OLED? Of course not.
For sure, an MV25TA is valuable, I'm not saying it isn't. It will fetch a high value. But to say it's worth X value based on some arbitrary assessment of it's rarity compared to an SC25 is nonsense.
It is not my opinion. If you look at yahoo japan auction records, you can check actual value of those cabinets, just looking at selling price of each.
Sc25 surfaced already 4 or 5 times on yahoo Japanese auction and was sold quite a good number of times in private transactions; mv25ta only one time and fetched more than 4 millions of yens. SC25 is under 1 million of yens as last sold price on auction.
It is quite revealing that the member starting this thread is missing some of rarest cabinets and mv25ta is high priority as he writes on his list;
He is long time collector but no chance he owns a mv25ta. On other hands, quite a good number of collectors own a SC25.
Neo'nate wrote: April 4th, 2025, 10:51 am
Your best bet with a SNK MV25TA-0 is 'GameSaru' in America
Bad idea.
Game Saru / Cereth doesn't sell candies, and most of what he posts is not for sale unless explicitly stated otherwise. He also will immediately blacklist you if you ask him to sell you stuff (esp. candies) that isn't explicitly listed as FS/available.
Anyway, for OP, there's an E29 on YAJ (though I am sure you saw it already - the price is quite high), and Nawaf on Arcade Projects (he is based in Dubai I think) was selling several E29's recently.
Terence wrote: July 10th, 2025, 9:56 pm
It is not my opinion. If you look at yahoo japan auction records, you can check actual value of those cabinets, just looking at selling price of each.
Sc25 surfaced already 4 or 5 times on yahoo Japanese auction and was sold quite a good number of times in private transactions; mv25ta only one time and fetched more than 4 millions of yens. SC25 is under 1 million of yens as last sold price on auction.
It is quite revealing that the member starting this thread is missing some of rarest cabinets and mv25ta is high priority as he writes on his list;
He is long time collector but no chance he owns a mv25ta. On other hands, quite a good number of collectors own a SC25.
I think your maths might be a bit off if you believe that 4 million yen in 'ten times' more than 1 million yen.
Neo'nate wrote: April 4th, 2025, 10:51 am
Your best bet with a SNK MV25TA-0 is 'GameSaru' in America
Bad idea.
Game Saru / Cereth doesn't sell candies, and most of what he posts is not for sale unless explicitly stated otherwise. He also will immediately blacklist you if you ask him to sell you stuff (esp. candies) that isn't explicitly listed as FS/available.
Anyway, for OP, there's an E29 on YAJ (though I am sure you saw it already - the price is quite high), and Nawaf on Arcade Projects (he is based in Dubai I think) was selling several E29's recently.
