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In the spirit of junkerhq, I wanted to do this here, and only here. Even though I own my own website, I very much admire and highly respect the homage Artemio has displayed for Kojima related collectibles. I do hope Artemio doesn't mind me posting a link from my site directly to this thread on my collection list pages heh.

On to the show.

Basically, I've been able to obtain something that maybe only a few exist in the world in brand new condition, the Ultimate Sorter Black Edition, still in original Konami mailing box. I'm about to give you a brief history of the item and a complete picture rundown of it.

What is it? A box and a soundtrack. Yup, that's it.

Why is it so special? Rarity is way up there. Plus, when filled it's an amazing testament to the greatness that is MGS2. It almost has an ominous look to it, as if an indication of things you'll experience in the game and in the future.

How did you get it? Well, I bought it from someone in Japan. I saw it with a buy-it-now price, I didn't even hesitate. Honestly, I didn't care how much it was. But how did they get it? That's a different story.

To obtain this item, you had to win it via lottery. Not just anybody could enter however, only those that bought MGS2: Substance OR Document of MGS2. Inside those game are cards you can fill out and mail in. Once you did, you were entered. It is unconfirmed how many were given out, but the highest number I've seen is 100. Below are the cards.
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OK - now you know what it is and how you got it, let's get on to opening it!
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Of course I don't mind, congratulations on finding that item man, it is really rare.
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Ah, still sealed in the box. For years untouched without ever hitting the light of day.
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The box is labelled MGS 2 ULTIMATE SORTER, although the ink is fading after all these years. OK, time to make sure I didn't buy an empty box!
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Yeah, I put my cards everywhere. I don't want someone jacking my pics and using them to sell their own items or rip people off. Anyways, it's out. It was really tight in the box.
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I'm already impressed. I've never seen anything so black. I have to soak it all in before I open it...
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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: yeah! Let's take a look at everything. First, the winner notification card:
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If someone can translate that, help me out. Now the sountrack listing:
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Very nice. Shinkawa I heart you. Now what were those grey cardboard discs in place of the games:
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There you have it. Those grey discs are just fillers in place of the games. They almost look nicer than the games in there. Unfortunately one of the games (MGS2) is still in Japan, so I won't be able to show the filled sorter for a couple weeks.

A white version exists as well, when I get one, I'll update this thread (along with a picture of the filled black sorter) and give you all the info I have on it. The experience was priceless. Anyone can just go and buy something, but to experience opening one of these as if I won the contest was fantastic. The odds of that happening when the contest happened in another country, years ago with so few printed are almost nil - so I wanted to share it as best I could.
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Bloody hell, I think I enjoyed that almost as much as you did! I want one!
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So it never was really sealed? I couldn't understand how violent could break a seal on a such rare item :shock: That's a damn nice find anyway, but i thought the sorters had 4 music CDs
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The Japanese card basically says "congratulations on winning this item" in very formal Japanese.
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Nope, no factory seal. Japan very rarely seems to seal items that aren't standard jewel CD case size or dvd/blu-ray size. Add to that this is a not-for-sale item and I was sure it wouldn't be sealed. I almost wanted to keep it in the mailing box, but that's getting ridiculous heh. The white sorter may possibly have some sort of plastic wrapping as it was for sale on konamistyle japan.

It did seem like it has 4 discs but each sorter only has one soundtrack. At first, I thought it was the soundtrack and all 3 game discs! I didn't realize it until AFTER I bought it. I didn't want the item to be purchased by someone else and couldn't find any good info about the item so I "shot first, asked questions later".

But yeah, it was a cool experience I hoped to try and share. Possibly only 100 people in the world has had this opportunity, and who knows how many of those actually savored the experience as much as I did.
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violentsnake wrote:Possibly only 100 people in the world has had this opportunity, and who knows how many of those actually savored the experience as much as I did.
Now now, let's not be selfish..."who knows how many of those actually savored the experience as much as WE did."

lol :smile:
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**COMPLETE!**
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I now know true love exists. :mrgreen:
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Omg that looks so nice. Even bought a memorycard? ;)
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gixo wrote:Omg that looks so nice. Even bought a memorycard? ;)
in the name of completeness it seems so :lol:
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Hehe I did the same with my spare white one (kept the black in the box ^^) and put the promo uk mgs memory card in it, looks nice as well :mrgreen:
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Yeah I bought a memory card from Hong Kong for like $2 + shipping. It's probably a bootleg but it sure as hell looks legit (packaging and all).

I did notice in HK it was alot more rare to see bootleg merchandise than it was in Shanghai and Beijing, although you could still definately find it. When I get the white one one day I'll fill it with all the american releases and have them both on display.

I'm too afraid to do anything to damage the cardboard discs in place of the CD's so I just put the game CD's overtop. They're pretty flimsy it seems and I'd fucken bang my head into a brick wall if I bent one as I'm so insane about keeping items new and mint. I'm really glad the sorters don't have a factory seal so I can enjoy them heh.
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That looks sweet man, I got my black sorter today too. I'll be sure to post pics as soon as I get around to taking them. Yeah those paper disks look flimsy so I'll probably do the same as you. They look a lot better IMO than the game disks though! lol.

Mine's a little dusty, any tips on what I should clean it with?

I'm very impressed with it though, it's a lovely piece of kit.
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That's a lovely piece of Metal Gear memorabilia.
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jonthomas83 wrote:That looks sweet man, I got my black sorter today too. I'll be sure to post pics as soon as I get around to taking them. Yeah those paper disks look flimsy so I'll probably do the same as you. They look a lot better IMO than the game disks though! lol.

Mine's a little dusty, any tips on what I should clean it with?

I'm very impressed with it though, it's a lovely piece of kit.
Wow did you buy yours on vgm world? :mrgreen:
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Yeah I did mate, I'm well pleased with it! :) He was a very helpful guy and wrapped it like a tank! Literally, We're talking three boxes and bubble wrap! How cool is that!
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Yep I know the guy, it's funny, I think this item has been on their website for like a year or two, and I contacted him before I got my black sorter to negociate the price because I found it a tad too expensive at the time but oh well this item is getting pretty rare to find so you were right to go for it mate ;)
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Yeah he's a nice chap. It's good to know that I was right to go for it! I didn't really wanna let it slip away cos I know that once it was gone, I'd be gutted. The hunt for the white one is on! lol.
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Yes you're totally right and you never know when you might find another one. Few collectors own the sorters, maybe it's also because this item as been very poorly advertised at the time. Violentsnake told me that there was a hundred of these black sorters, so it's very very rare... (and I've not seen much white sorters for sale either, I guess these kinds of items are popping up thanks to the mgs hype).

As for the white one, keep checking on yahoo auctions, it will appear eventually I guess, like the black one (I've seen the black one three times this summer and the white one two times).
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For anyone who can't get enough of this little gem of a collectors item, take a look at the Black Sorter listing on my website:

http://jonathanpthomas.com/shadowmoses/ ... te-sorter/

I genuinely cannot recommend this enough, if you see it, snap it up immediately, especially if you like music and soundtracks, don't even think about it, just do it!!! lol.
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jonthomas83 wrote:For anyone who can't get enough of this little gem of a collectors item, take a look at the Black Sorter listing on my website:

http://jonathanpthomas.com/shadowmoses/ ... te-sorter/

I genuinely cannot recommend this enough, if you see it, snap it up immediately, especially if you like music and soundtracks, don't even think about it, just do it!!! lol.
Awesome! You could ad that to the Wiki aswell, some good info you got there.

But really, it's like $200-300... for a soundtrack? =D Damn it's worth it!
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