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Guide

How to buy retro games from Japan

A cartridge is small and battery-free. A console brings the 100 V note.

Games versus hardware

r/Buyee mentions retro and rare games alongside cards and figures. This dataset has no Surugaya overseas-shipping policy. Use the shelf price in yen and a proxy; do not assume the shop ships abroad.

If you are buying a handheld, rerun the estimate with lithium set to installed or none. The default for retro games does not assume a battery, and it warns you that a handheld might have one.

Steps

  1. Copy the yen price. Read the price on the listing yourself. JapanLanded does not fetch the page.
  2. Weigh it, or say you didn't. Enter grams. If you leave weight blank, the tool uses an unsourced placeholder and labels it.
  3. Read pay-now separately from arrival. The partial sum is not a landed total. Duty amounts are not calculated.
  4. Check whether it can leave Japan. Lithium batteries, alcohol, and 100 V gear each have their own note. The result is not a customs clearance.
  5. Order on the proxy's own site. Outbound links are public pages until affiliate programs are enrolled. We never take payment.

Questions

Will a Japanese game work on my console?

Region locks are not in this dataset. This page only covers money and whether the parcel can be posted.

Sources

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