I bought Japanese MYSTERY TECH

Chapter Titles:
0:00 What's Sendico?
0:34 Ordering Japanese Tech
1:54 Tech Has Arrived!
3:08 Casio Loopy
4:02 Loopy Part 2
5:54 Pokemon Cards (obviously)
7:17 Nintendo DS Lite
9:12 Sega Game Gear
11:05 Game Boy Light
13:33 How Did This Get Here?
14:00 WonderSwan Color
15:50 Sony PSX

[frankieinjapan]

You've gotta come to Japan and do a retro game hunt. It's absolutely surreal and incredible seeing thousands of old games all lined up in box for 5$, 10$, 20$, and so on. The first time I went out, I thought every game had to be fake or something because there's no way there's like 5 mint copies of pokemon silver in box for 16$ each. It's crazy

[TheRetroFuture]

Such a sick video! You bought some really lovely things. Love the Casio Loopy and the GameBoy Light!

[speedwaynutt]

When ever I hear Sendico my brain goes Retro Future since Elliot often uses it.

[bumpy]

One of my friends had PSX but we still used normal PS2 to play games because when we loaded a disc that was suposed to bypass pirated games, it didnt work in PSX for some reason and we used PS2 Slim instead... Good old days imma tell ya that... After school going to a friends home and play games, it was a blast...

[prizegotti]

I've used Sendico a lot in the past, was put onto it by Elliott from Retro Future. It's a really great place if you're an anime/manga/video game collector. I've picked up nearly new manga volumes for less than a $1 each. They same translated volumes sell locally for about $15-$25. It can be very confusing though, it's not you're normal online shopping experience. You have to be committed to your purchase, because everything is done in stages, including payment, which normally involves 2 or 3 transactions (one for purchasing the item, one for packaging, one for shipping etc).

[Akuzastar]

Ken: "are you stealing company property?"

Also Ken majority of the time: **YOINK** imma just "borrow" this

😂😂

[kainslayer]

I'm loving how Austin keeps hiding things he owns LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

[JohnDoe-wqeu]

Sendico is a pretty cool service.
You just have to be incredibly realistic about the cost of shipping times etc.
Once you get past that in the other little hurdles you have to deal with it's pretty cool.

[SaraBearRawr]

I still say that it is a travesty that the west never got the PSX because I have always wanted one in place of a traditional PS2 - Its such a neat little footnote in video game and console history. My local hobby shop had one about 5 years ago in near mint condition for nearly $600 but it had been region hacked so it was effectively fully functional.

[ringringbananarchy]

Wait what? The Casio Loopy shouldn't need the converter. Japan is NTSC standard and the Loopy is NTSC-M composite.

[fearbot]

There's some mods you can do to the PSX DVR, FMCB works and you can convert the XMB from Japan -> English also. Good haul overall!

[DctrGizmo]

You should make a video of you guys fixing up the PSX! Though the CD might have gotten damaged with that grinding noise 💀

[raax]

this is why i recommend japanese sites and shippers for ppl who wanna get into retro collecting cuz its much much more of a sane and reasonable market then the one scammers in the us built its why most of the imports here are reasonably priced plus the stock in japan lasts longer so less bs excuses of hey its less produced so we gotta sell a controller or game for 200$ when I can get it here for 10$

[Rdebo_]

After the Stadia "review" backlash, Austin and co. retreat to the land of the rising sun as wanted international fugitives

[Isaacandadler]

Love this video! Please continue to do this segments and expand to more japan unique tech like laptops, bikes, electronics, portable monitor etc

[SilverStormShadow]

Honestly, finding a broken PSX is a lot more common than finding one that fully works. The PSX is a notoriously faulty device with basically every component having common issues. Luckily for you only the Disc Drive seems to be the only issue and that can be fixed, but the system is prone to failures with the Hard Drive, Power Supply, cooling due to terrible thermal design and even the board failing entirely. It's a miracle that it even turns on to be bonest.

[iSamYTBackup]

we have seen japanese mystery tech before
back in 2019 when austin still said "hey guys this is Austin"

[Jdbye]

You were lucky to find a PSX that still works. The hard drive has failed on most of them, and without a hard drive, it won't even boot. The HDD is encrypted, so once that dies, the console is pretty much useless, there is no way to get it working again without a backup of the HDD from before it failed.
I would make a full image of that HDD as soon as possible, so when the drive inevitably dies, you can put the image onto a new drive.

[IndriAndri]

One thing about Japanese is they keep their items in good condition. The resale market is huge, so they buy with the thinking to resell later.

[Dusty_B]

The shipping is the one reason I’m wary of using any proxy shippers. It feels hard to find an upfront shipping estimate on a few of them and I don’t want to get stuck with $100-$300 in shipping fees on top of per item fees, holding fees, etc that a lot of them could have.