u/NotBlaine

Long story short... about 25 years ago I bought a Beatmania Watch from an import game site. I don't remember which one, but there were a lot of different places I'd buy from.

I've only ever been able to find one reference to this anywhere on the internet and it's this site here:

https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ua4s-njm/bemani/bm_pok10.html

The watchband has long since disintegrated and turned to plastic-y dust, but I was able to change out the batteries (2x CR2032). It's keeping time and it plays the animations (there is a simple scratching game you can play with the little 'scratch' control), but there's no sound.

The entire back of the watch is a fairly large speaker, and if anything it was obnoxiously loud. All the wires appear connected still, I took a piezo speaker I had laying around and tried to touch it to the contacts and I'm still not getting anything.

My recollection was there were actual audio samples it.

I'd like to at least get it fixed, but if there really isn't anything about this out there I don't know if anyone is doing any type of preservation of these solid state standalone games.

The LCD itself is very odd, all of the elements are black by default and only go light when powered. It's also non-rectilinar, so there's this whole fisheye distortion that you get that's kinda cool.

Any suggestions?

It's a U* so there's still other possible rare cards, right? Or is it just... You get one * card and that's it?

Reason is,I only got a U* Suzaku and 2 AP in my box of Yu Yu Hakusho. Everything else was just SR.

Hopefully someone can help. I've only been into the game for about a week, bought it on a lark just because I liked the different series. I'm halfway through my booster box. I've pulled one Action Point card, 2 SRs and now an SR** card.

The few videos I can find on rarity sorta indicate that the box is now tapped for collectible cards.

I have more than enough of the set to play, that's my first priority (I didn't start buying them as an investment) but if I'm thinking of these as collectibles... the few sealed packs I have left would be cool to keep sealed even if there's no shot of there being a 'hit' in there.