Plague von Karma
Banned deucer.
Many are, yes, and the ones that do end up that way usually become among the most expensive games on the system. During 2007-2012 Fire Emblem was in a "dark age" and the games released kept being understocked, and because of how much of a cult hit the series is now the prices have ballooned.Are most fire emblem games super expensive? I only own Path of Radiance, and judging from all the previous posts, it seems that most fire emblem games that came before it are even more costly. What is this "Nintendo Power and proper version?"
To name the expensive monsters;
- Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones (GBA) - ~£130 CiB
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GCN) - ~£150 CiB, considered to be among the rarest games on the GameCube
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii) - ~£85 CiB
- Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (DS) - ~£60 CiB, price has been steadily increasing for the past year
- Fire Emblem Fates Limited Edition (3DS) - ~£450 CiB, only way to get the third story on a cartridge
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So, to answer your question about Thracia...it has three releases: the Nintendo Power flash cartridge, the Deluxe Pack, and the "retail" release. Each of them have their own backgrounds and pricing.
Here's the flash cartridge, which could store up to 7 blocks of games. Some took more than others. If you took one of these to a writer kiosk in some stores, you could download games to them and put stickers over the numbered squares. Fire Emblem Thracia 776 was one of many games distributed in this way. The cartridges themselves are pretty inexpensive overall. There were Game Boy and SNES versions, and you can find the games here. Some of them are lost media, if I recall correctly. This is long and far the most common release of the game, which is why you see so many with reproduced boxes. You can get these for like £20, they're actually really common because of how popular Fire Emblem was over there. This is the edition I own. You could argue that Thracia just sold the cartridges...
During this period, a Deluxe Pack was also released, which featured a preloaded Nintendo Power cartridge. These go for enormous amounts of money that you may as well just spend on a Virtual Boy or something. It's absolutely magnificent though, like, look at those plushies and stuff! You've probably seen a few of these on the market if you've searched up the games before. These go for about £350-£400 in my experience but I've seen them go for way more. It's one of the holy grails of SNES collecting in my opinion.
Because of its popularity, Thracia received a full retail release in 2000 during the last days of the SNES, which has a few version differences that Blazade alluded to earlier. Because of it being among the last games released on the system, it's very expensive. Here's an image of one such release that I found on eBay, the listing is here if you're interested too. This costs about £150 from my searches.