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Author Topic: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole  (Read 1527 times)

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I am looking for a see through blue psx console or case to match my controllers and memory cards but am having a hard time finding one anywhere.

looking for one like this:




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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2009, 03:43:38 am »
I haven't seen those in years. I recall Lik-Sang used to sell those but I think they were discontinued long before Sony gave them a lube-less ass raping.

Check the B/S/T forum and see if one of the members has one.
Oryou can try eBay? There's a seller by the name of Classic Game Source that sells new clear colored shells for the PS1 and the PS2 slim, might get lucky and see if CGS has any PSX shells in stock.

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2009, 07:06:27 am »
 I have been checking ebay and I have checked with that seller already but I just wrote them to see if they can get them or know of a place that has them perhaps.

 They must be getting rare becuase I cannot find one and if I do I fear they may be yellowed due to age lol.

Lik-Sang used to have alot of cool stuff with good price's and to bad they got closed down for stuff that is alright for ebay to do for some reason  ???
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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2009, 10:30:21 pm »
Yeah, it sucks. Since Lik-Sang's death, I've had to resort to creating contacts in individual countries to make purchases for me. A very time consuming, expensive, and risky process. Living in a stark market makes it tough to return many of the favors these people ask for as well.

It's really hard to see so many people literally worshiping a company that does what it takes to screw their own customers over.

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2009, 10:35:57 pm »
I'm honestly suprised that no one has tried to fill the vaccuum that Lik-Sang left behind, just, ya know, negating the 'piracy' part.  Since I think there's still a decent market online for after market parts, improvements and customizations.

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2009, 10:36:24 pm »
Just on a whim, I wanted to see if anybody else snagged the lik-sang URL. To my surprise, the 2006 letter is still there! Checked whois and the domain was renewed in 2008 and set to expire in August. Hhmmm... Is Lik-Sang just hiding in wait?

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2009, 11:07:52 pm »
 I did not know they had something to do with piracy.

 I thought it was becuase they were importing/exporting games and systems for less then the following country and against the jap/pal/ntsc rules type thing becuase of the region price difference and release dates :dunno

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2009, 02:19:27 am »
I did not know they had something to do with piracy.

 I thought it was becuase they were importing/exporting games and systems for less then the following country and against the jap/pal/ntsc rules type thing becuase of the region price difference and release dates :dunno

Pretty much. Lik-Sang used to sell mod chips until lawsuits from all three cut that business down. After that, they were reinvented as an exporter for gaming stuff in general.

Sony killed them over a console that they would've sold in the different regions anyways. IIRC, Lik-Sang even noted that the back of the PSP sported UL (and various country equivalents).

What Lik-Sang did was really no different than any other import/export business before them. They just did it on a scale that was never matched before or since. And no, I don't care what anybody says, eBay doesn't compare. Not even close. I've encountered more useless ---tallywhacker--- sellers on eBay than I ever have in the last thirty years with any other trade medium.

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Re: anyone know where to find a translucent blue psx case or as a whole
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2009, 12:01:02 pm »
 I had mentioned ebay becuase anyone of us could go on there and get a jap ps2 ps3 PSP import games for any console etc. and was just using them as a comparable example as a company/site that moves the same type things in general really.

 Are the sellers singled out as big as lik-sang probably not even close.

 I just meant the ebay site itself in general as a combined whole as a single website like lik-sang's single site but for some reason it is ok for ebay to get away with it.