The absolute state of retro gaming
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what if you got a 3d printer and make fake valuable stuff, left it out in public and beat up anyone who stole it
those idiots deserve to be milked, I made a $100 on a CRT I found at the dump
I feel dumb for not doing that. A ton of shit I would see being thrown out ive seen autists post in their CRT threads
Trust me, it isn’t much better in Japan either
this is due to multiple factors
1) these fricking reseller scumbags going to japan and buying up stock
2) the weak yen
3) inflated prices around popular tourist areas in tokyo (super potato comes to mind)
4) nips being aware of westerners desire to play/resell/collect old games.
So japs are just as disgusting, good to know.
Stay out of the main touristy traps and you'll get better deals in Japan than anywhere else.
Recently alot of Vtubers have been buying up retro games in japan for their streams since Japan has these honor code of never doing emulation.
>Japan has these honor code of never doing emulation
usually these weeb myths are bullshit but I believe this one.
God they gotta chill.
I mean if you don't believe me I could just post like 5 big time popular vtubers I know that have played PS1/PS2/PS3 etc games on real hardware
No, I do believe it. It sounds like something they'd do.
Weebs do often come up with ridiculous claims about the yamato people though.
>vtumors play on original hardware
no shit, that's not because they respect the hardware that because they want to avoid possible lawsuits from the console owners. Their agencies also explicitly ask publishers for permission to stream games to avoid any possibility of a lawsuit over copyright issues.
japan is such a shit hole
>download a ROM for a let's play
>get cancelled with a video made publically shaming you and calling you out for your "crimes"
kek, do nips really?
japs are the perfect cvckolds, they are a faithful american doormat for nearly a century for a reason
i'm fairly certain the large nip corps successfully lobbied in nipland and unlike in America emulation is legit illegal in japan.
>worse in Japan
>shares pic of prices being cheaper
You find me a working N64 for $90 in the west.
check your locals/craigslist/fb market, it can be a goldmine for shit like that
CRT TVs also, i got one for free last summer from there
>worse in Japan
That isn’t what he said.
All the entertainment/gaming trade-in stores in my area sell N64s for $100.
i bought mine for $70 locally (3 years ago albeit)
I have one in my closet but I don't have a television to work with it (I haven't owned a television since 2008).
I got a N64 for 4000 yen about six weeks ago in Japan. There are still some bargains around. I went to a place in Utsunomiya. But apparently that place used to have a lot more stuff so perhaps it had been recently cleaned out by some bargain hunters.
Japan used to be the place to go for super cheap old games/electronics but they eventually realized they can get more money selling stuff online so most of those old deals are long gone.
Japan used to be SO good for having cheap retro stuff until people caught wind of it back around 2015, causing retro gayming havens like Super Potato to quintuple their prices.
I'm going in a couple months to Japan and have next to no clue what places are good to shop for retro stuff besides thrift shops way out of Tokyo.
I reckon if you go to a Book Off in any regional city, you're still going to see a tub of game cartridges for 300 yen each.
But it's just literallywhat famicom shit isn't it? Where's all the really spicy stuff
>Where's all the really spicy stuff
Good point, I don't think I saw anything super spicey, but I wasn't looking hard. I bought a loose Custom Robo cart for 500 yen, but I don't think that's anything special. I assume there is stuff out there though. Be prepared to go well away from Tokyo. I think I saw one MSX cart somewhere, but don't remember what it was.
You've got me. I bought the first three Dragon Quest games CIB for $60 total a month ago. Popular games certainly but still.
those prices are moronic, literally three times higher than usual, you are probably at a mall or some other moronic tourist trap
You might get better prices in non-touristy areas but I really think Covid changed a lot. I asked the staff why the inflation and all they gave me were vague answers like “everyone wants to game”.
My photo is Hobby Off in Akihabara but basically all of Akiba is a tourist trap. Things used to be a lot better. When I was there in 2019 it was still quite reasonable since the assumption was “Everything’s in Japanese so it’s useless outside Japan.”
Unironically now, you get better deals online. Stay far far away from Akihabara
This, Akihabara was fun to windows shop and browse, but dont buy shit there.
>mfw I went to that GamePanic specifically to try FGO Arcade
>the card machine ate my money and then broke
I have zero interest in FGO or Gundam or music games so I didn’t do much in the arcades I did play the Rider game ones and I wish I knew more Japanese to enjoy this enough to spend a day playing it
Honestly I had more fun in the classic arcade across the street. Should've spent more time in there than window shopping elsewhere, honestly. Also wish I'd actually tried the machines on the top floor at Nakano Broadway. Nakano was super nice though.
Sounds like you got dicked by vinci.
they were doing you a favor for trying to play shit games
fricking figures, I'm always 6 years to late
>When I was there in 2019
I thought the place sucked ass in 2017 except for @BEEP.
Nakano Broadway was cool though.
The prices are pretty much the same all over now.
BookOff used to have random prices in all locations, and hunting cheap stuff out on the countryside was a lot of fun, but now they use databases and standardized pricing everywhere. The same goes for the other chains. All the little independent stores soon followed suit.
And OP's pic isn't?
Price gougers: 🙁
Price gougers, Japan: :O
>Went to Japan in 2017
>Cheap retro shit everywhere
>all resellers had huge bins full of GB/GBC Pokémon games, all for 100y each
>Went again in 2023
>Even scratched up and stained copies are behind glass, with price tags STARTING at 5000y
Not even funny how bad it has gotten.
I thought I'd buy a copy of one of the NDS Castlevanias, but couldn't find any below 20.000y.
At least cels are still dirt cheap
I only ever found three places selling cels in Japan. One was at Nakano Broadway and I'm 110% sure they were fake (could see the artifacting). The other was again at Nakano Broadway but was insanely expensive because it was Sailor Moon and a couple Ghibli ones. The last was in Mandarake in Akihabara in a small box in the corner of the manga room that cels from god knows what animes but they were like 200 yen a pop.
Where did you go?
Nakano Broadway has a few stores up in the innermost corner of the top floor. The first three have just a few on display in big glass cases, but the one furthest inn has piles and piles in large crates. It was fricking paradise leafing through that stuff. Huge amounts of original sketches, animated sequences and watercolor backgrounds too.
The famous stuff was obviously more expensive, but all the noname stuff from the 80's was dirt cheap.
Also bought some bomberman ones in one of the stores in Akiba.
I'll keep that in mind. Severely regretted not spending enough time in the broadway, missed out a frick ton inside and practically everything outside (totally my fault as I was confirming my Ghibli museum tickets in the Lawson with the manager who didn't speak english so we google translated everything in a mind numbingly slow process)
I went there three days in a row, just to get through most of the cels and sketches. Would probably not have done so if I had less time, but I had already been traveling in Japan for a month by then.
The first time I went (with friends) we didn' FIND the weeb shit. We thought we had gone wrong place. So my wife just browsed kimonos in the basement the whole time.
>pic related is the only expensive cel I bought
Can't believe this shit isn't in a museum.
Holy shit, what a find. You'd better get that framed and hung up homie
Yeah, but I realized cels are ruined by UV light, so I need 99% UV protected "museum glass", and I can't seem to find it anywhere. I have found a local frame carpenter(?) who will do it... for twice what I paid for the cel.
I guess I'll just have to save up.
Frick I forgot about UV light. Yeah that would destroy the colors and yellow the paper, bad idea.
Anyways here's the only ones I own. Absolutely no clue what anime they're from.
>UV protected "museum glass"
uh what? all you need is a sheet of plastic polarized against UV's wavelength
or something prefab'd
https://www.amazon.com/US-Art-Polystyrene-Thermforming-Protection/dp/B078QCHB26
https://www.amazon.com/LCFILM-Blocking-Security-Protection-Adhesive/dp/B09QST5MW1
and for a plastic sheet with polarization i describe, im an engineer not a technician, presumably you just layer this over regular glass but idfk
UV polarization should let visible light pass through just fine but its been a while since ive been in an optics class
Thank for the tips, but there's no way in hell I trust the protection my cels to some thin acrylic sheet which is just mentioned to be "UV resistant" as a throwaway notice in the description, with no further spwcification.
Acrylic is by default somewhat UV resistant. That does NOT mean it counts as UV protection.
Hobby lobby has museum glass. Not only that but they frame it to size as well. I have gotten several cels and prints done there.
I wonder how these got out in the first place. You would think something like vampire Hunter D cels are locked away in some animation studio basement, especially since the studio that made it still exists.
Yeah, that was exactly my thinking too.
They even had two cels from Ghibli (Kiki and Totoro), as well as one from the opening of GiTS. How do they not end up in the archives at the respective companies? Or at museums?
I once went to a museum exhibition in Tokyo where they showcased background paintings from Mononoke, so it's not like that's unheard of in Japan.
Anyway, those were of course insanely expensive. Over 1 million yen for either one.
But the first image I posted was just 2000y, and included sketches and background paintings.
Cool!
I really like how the colors on cels pop.
They had one more in that store, with sketches and all, but it was 35.000y, and I simply couldn't afford it.
>How do they not end up in the archives at the respective companies? Or at museums?
It kind of reminds me of how so many video game developers constantly lose the source codes for their games. I guess the company's making them just don't really care about their work as much as the fans do. To them, it's probably just a job. It's not like a construction worker for example cares what happens to the house he built either.
Generally anime studios don't really like to keep cels around because they take up a LOT of room and don't really have any use for them after the anime/movie is done. Remember, for each 12/24 episode anime or movie there's an entire room dedicated to filing all of the sketches/backgrounds/cels until it's done, so afterwards they need that space for project number 2. A nice studio will just give back some of the cels to artists or hold some kind of inhouse auction/gift day where everyone can just take home what they want, other times like with Trigger they just sell them directly to whoever wants them either online or in person at an event. A goodish studio will store everything in an offsite warehouse they own, typically managersan's garage, for future reference to teach new artists. I think Kyoani did this from what I recall. A really bad studio will incinerate or bin their cels but this is extremely extremely extremely rare, like only done because the film is illegal or resulted in business forfeiture.
very cool. I'd love to have an authentic cel from bloodlust.
looking at these pics just makes me miss when anime was handdrawn with good quality
Yeah, that just makes it even more crazy to think of how cheap they are. Considering this is now a "lost" artform, which will basically never be made again (aside from some indie niche art projects or maybe Studio Ghibli).
i almost bought one of the felcia cells i saw at asen many years ago, but i felt id ruin it if i did. its just wait holding soming so vital to somthing i grew up with
pic not related
Not sure about Felcia, but they loads of Capcom and Street Fighter stuff.
>but they loads
they HAD loads
milk
It's YouTubers' fault. It's always fricking YouTubers' fault.
It reminds me of a video I watched about some guy who wanted to build a gaming PC using a Hot Wheels PC as a base, he was finding all of the parts for very cheap, including the monitor, until he called out some other moronic youtuber who didn't bother on making the smallest amount of research, who went out and said that he'd pay $2000 for the same PC, singlehandledy causing all of the components' prices to skyrocket overnight on ebay. You could hear how upset the guy in the video was.
That's why you gather all the parts first before you do any building. Rule number 1.
From what I understood, that's what he was doing, he was in the middle of parts hunting and had already managed to find a tower for very cheap before the other idiot made that claim.
>500k yen for a 3DS
Holy shit, even that Pikachu print is disappointed.
Feels inevitable, honestly.
Any kind of collectable item eventually reaches a sor of scarcity horizon, at which point the speculation vultures move in. Just a little additional interest in some kind of collectibles market can massively drain the availability of stock that previously did not move much, at which point shit goes out of control.
Compound that with the inevitable war on physical media and it was easy to see coming.
Pretty recent phenomena with soi facing gaijin YouTubers buying suitcases worth and taking it back to the states to resell
I saw two foreigners making some sort of youtube video at a Surgaya in Tokyo.
The woman was filming the soiface while he kept spouting moronic shit like
>THEY HAVE ORIGINAL ZELDA AND MARIO IN BOX, IT'S RIGHT THERE, I'M LITERALLY SHAKING RIGHT NOW
No wait, that was in Osaka.
Also
*Surugaya
you will never be Japanese
you will never be white
Pictures of me exist in front of a sign for squaresoft near that famous intersection with masses of pedestrians you've seen photos of but in my defense it was way early in 2003 and we didn't know how shit they were yet.
Yesterday I saw a webm on Ganker of some Japanese social media goon who'd come all the way to Manchester of all places and bought some random bits from a frickin Greggs of all places. It was actually kinda funny seeing how amazed he was at the quality of things that seem mundane to me like a sausage roll, steak slice, and a yum yum. The latter item blew his actual mind.
>I'M LITERALLY SHAKING RIGHT NOW
I fricking hate people who talk like that.
>I'm literally screaming
>I'm actually dying
>oh my god can you believe it guys im literally crying rn
Throw them all into the fricking sun.
>they found out about surugaya
i fricking hate the explosion in popularity my hobby is getting
Honestly, i went there this summer and was expecting to find some great deals. Guessing it's because of morons over here inflating the prices so much even the nips have started paying attention. What a bunch of c**ts.
Japan is far from the retro Shangri-La every YouTube gay makes it out to be. It's just a country sized museum where you get to poke around and see old rare shit but never buy any of it because they finally wised up after spending the better part of two decades getting raped by bargain hunter gaijins. What you have left are the scraps.
>Japan is far from the retro Shangri-La every YouTube gay makes it out to be
It literally was, just a couple of years ago, before the fricking youtubers.
I bought two pristine gameboy colors there for 600y each, and four Wonderswans at 200y each from a "Junk" pile (they work perfectly still). And piles and piles of games for 100y each. I got SOTN for PS1 for 700y. Grandia for 300y. Links Awakening DX for 600y, For The Frog The Bell Tolls for 400y, Belmont's Revenge for 500y.
All of those prices are 10x increased in Japan now. It's sad.
>before the fricking youtubers
They will raise the price, even without those YouTubers. The number of tourists like you, or bargain hunter gaijins, as the other anon described them, who go to these stores to buy a shitton of old things will keep on increasing anyway. Sellers will notice it eventually and jack up the price. You are part of the problem, anon.
Well, of course, but back in 2007, I was alone in being that (very, very small) problem.
Local resellers didn't even want Japanese versions of games.
my dusty old N64 is worth over 100 bucks?
If its in good condition and complete you can get around there
No? Not a single N64 there is over 100. 11,000 yen is 70 dollars.
sorry, I wasn't aware the yen had collapsed.
damn I love capitalism
people just taking as much as they can from each other.
very human. very sustainable.
Maybe you should try being successful instead of crying on the internet
yeah. don't wanna get killed? just kill people lol
homie, they wouldn't be selling it if people weren't buying. Too bad tendies are moronic
It's all speculation, almost no one's actually buying retro games at these prices. If they were I'd be selling off my collection. Just a bunch of dumbass hoarders and scalpers who charge 10x what they bought it for knowing some idiot will eventually buy it hoping they can resell it for even more money. It's a fricking speculation market at this point and it sickens me.
Same. I don't even want money for my games, I like my collection. It's fun. Which is what makes the speculation so terrible, there's no joy in it.
Yeah capitalism suck
>same price for a blue xl as for fricking switch
the frick is this robbery
This is all relatively cheap.
10,000 yen is only like 60 bucks.
Are Mother II Earthbound SNES cartridges still being sold for over 100 USD?
Don't mind the pet dander, cleaning this room up over the weekend since it's been a couple months or so. I got really lucky on Earthbound like 20 years ago or so. I hate that the sticker is on the label, but it's good to see what kind of nonsense some of these games have become vs what they used to be. To answer your question, I just looked and it seems like it is over $100 still, but nowhere close to where it was a few years ago.
>seems like it is over $100 still
Those are usually chink repros and the actual cartridges with pictures of them opened are well over 200 at this point. NES and SNES cartridges in particular are almost impossible to buy anywhere else but brick and mortar stores due to the flooding of chinkshit on places like ebay.
>I got really lucky on Earthbound like 20 years ago or so
20 years ago I remember when my cousin had lost his copy of Super Metroid somehow and was able to go to the used video game store and get a copy for like $15-20. EarthBound for $25 in 2003 would be probably considered overpriced for the time.
>Bought The Misadventures of Tron Bonne for $10 at a LAN cafe during the early PS2 era
>Bought Solatorobo at a GameStop, brand new, for about $15 clearanced out during the early 3DS days
Shame those days are pretty much over since vidya these days suck.
Do people even play with these or do they just take pictures and post online?
I don't ever post my collection online, but people with huge collections find buying them more fun than playing them.
I still do play some games but I don't kid myself thinking I will play a fraction of them.
>I don't kid myself thinking I will play a fraction of them
So you don't play any games?
Conversion Rates:
N64 - $73.60
Switch Pro Controller - $44.16
Super Famicom Mini - $66.24
GBA SP - $147.19
3DS - $183.99
Those are actually great prices for tourists, but bad for Japanese wagies.
hardwaregays are actual cuckolds, holy shit.
>collectorgays are actual cuckolds, holy shit.
FTFY
THANKS BOB WULFF TELL MORE PEOPLE HOW GREAT AND CHEAP THE RETRO MARKET OF JAPAN IS!!
>convert prices
>they are actually good
yeah I don't trust you
Isn't that super cheap? I think 27k yen is only 40 bucks or so. I swear some of the figmas I bought were that price.
Anon, my beloved...
Frick, I knew the Yen was weak but dang. I'll have to spend a bit more when I head over next month.
I got a sega saturn for $40 at a book-on in nippon. The games were mostly just horse betting simulators and VNs though.
Looks like someone doesn't know how to read yen prices.
Are you calling him a liar?
I got the Nocturne collectors edition for 20 bucks in Akihabara
I got a refurbished limited edition 3ds xl directly from Nintendo for $129 back in the day when they actually had sales
>roughly $110 for a n64
that's no so ba-
>$220 for a goddamn gba
On what fricking planet?!
>67€ for an N64
>in top condition
Fair deal.
Isn't the retro gaming market actually decaying really rapidly
Only "graded" bullshit
even if i cared about mint condition sealed collectables, i wouldnt want to display them inside an ugly acrylic case.
Two more weeks
You're telling me a still factory sealed, brand new, 15 year old, limited edition console is expensive? Guess I now have to buy a non-sealed one for 100-150 bucks.
>factory sealed
look at the corners of that box. at the very least they could shrinkwrap it to protect it.
you should have a nice day asap
Weird post to seethe at when he speaks the truth. You brand new factory sealed morons have some kind of brain rot.
>it's ok to jack up the price and frick over normal people because well um some rich whale will pay it
you deserve to have your head caved in with a ball peen hammer
Relax bro. Who cares what he does. Emulation is available to anyone and we are fortunate to have it.
Factory sealed is a market specifically for loaded morons. Sure if open box units are rare enough, they start to reach the moron price because of scarcity, but at that point you're not a "normal person" because you're actively chasing a rare, discontinued item for the sake of vanity.
Why would I choose to get less money? Do you go to work and tell your boss "please lower my salary?"
Anon, you have to understand: he's angry that you'll be able to actually sell it at that price, that the demand exists, not that you're personally selling it. Unfortunately, his rage caused him to sperg and drop his point, so he just told you to suffer/die/kys instead. Happens to the best of us.
Does supply and demand really anger you that much?
Should've bought it when it was originally being sold for MSRP. Not my fricking problem you either weren't born in time, broke as piss, or weren't into whatever it is you want now. Why don't you find an actual hobby instead of collecting mass produced dogshit if you're going to b***h and moan like a toddler?
Oooooh, edgy. Here's your (You), don't cut yourself with it!
Yes let's diminish what others say simply because of a few swears on a Mongolian basket weaving forum. I'm sorry you have to cope with either being 1. A zoomer 2. Broke or 3. A secondary, or maybe you fall into all 3 categories. At least you can change being broke so go make that money if you want some shit you could easily emulate or a handheld you could buy a knock-off shell of.
I own over 300 physical vidya because it's fun, homosexual, I'm fine. Death to scalpers, emulation is based.
>scalping a product that's 10+ years old
I should have known I was speaking to a moron.
>
Why would I choose to get less money? Do you go to work and tell your boss "please lower my salary?"
i don't play retro games and if i did i'd just emulate them still doesn't mean pokemon poop 'n fart edition is worth $20000 never opened because some fat chinese new money kid will pay it
But that's exactly why its worth that
40 DOLLARS FOR TONIC TROUBLE
A few years ago (pre-COVID) a Tonic Trouble cart would be closer to $10 or less.
everything is worth what is being asked for it
I have 20 years in working with these kinds of people on collectible trade and antique resale businesses and bruh, lemme tell ya - retro gaming was a powder keg waiting to go off. Combine the already stupid schmucks idea that old intrinsically equals value and then multiply it by the already known reputation of 'gamers' being willing to spend on anything pandering to their hobby, then add the grading scam headlines and I'm honestly surprised it isn't worse than it seems to be.
Some dumbass pseudoboomer gets on his phone and searches the shit on eBay, sees a big asking price (not even a sold for price) and slaps it on. Then it sits for years as a showcase piece or another idiot buys it. That or some smartass kid tries to trick you by pretending he knows jackshit about how this faded out low consumer grade CRT works to improve the latency and tries to dazzle by authority so you'll buy something for 200 bucks that he literally picked up for free.
"I know what I got." Isn't a meme, it's their credo. It's ridiculous.
250 bucks for a chunky 3DS thats modded. Something worth less than 50 bucks plus something you can do in 30 minutes on your own with a YouTube video. Frick me. The worst part is that when I got that stuff I wanted to let it go for fair price because it's niche and I know only certain people want it but I couldn't because I didn't know if they were gonna play, collect, or take my Tecmo Bowl for 59cents and sit it on their shelf for 59 dollars. I don't want to contribute to that latter bullshit.
>pirate all the games
>PLEASE DON’T TOUCH!
>behind glass
>"please don't touch"
really homie?
Please stop typing like this
What's a good way for me to sell some old stuff? Is there a vidya equivalent for a site like reverb.com?
>basic ass hacked 2ds
>$250
god damn what a deal
It’s free on PC with an emulator, if you want to spend thousands of dollars on plastic that’s your own stupidity
>b-but you don’t actually own digital
And you don’t own physical, not at that price tag.
Buying used is worse than pirating.
I got a Vita and 2DSXL in near mint condition for really cheap off of Ebay and hacked them. Meanwhile all those coomlectors scrounge the web for collector editions lmao. Even sadder seeing all those 35+ man children trying to sell their Tendie shit for a premium.
Vitas are still cheap but that's mainly due to a lack of demand
It's our fault for caring too much about playing video games and not enough about protecting video games.
The only good place to buy retro things in the UK are charity shops, they're so undervalued it's criminal
our charity shops are all shit though? it's just dead old lady clothes and tat.
I went to a charity shop yesterday, all the had were Kinect games and FIFA.
Have you been to one recently? Everyone's caught onto them and they're only left with shovelware now
copy's of Fifa football in every charity shop
I have to wonder if we could recycle or reclaim the plastic wasted.
retro gaming involves playing games not paypigging for some autistic amerimutts
>mario game and watch still msrp
It’ll be worth something someday right bros…?
Just use a flashcart, Black person.
I kind of enjoyed Tonic Trouble on N64, even though it was the inferior version.
Beautiful art, mediocre gameplay, very good level design.
>people complaining about retro game prices
>people didn't just buy these when they were new
Fricking band wagoners. My protip is that piracy is almost universally a better experience.
>piracy is almost universally a better experience.
Honestly can't think of a scenario where it isn't until we get into stuff you can't pirate (physical components). At first I thought Pokemon (transferring up through games) might be hard, but now that I think of it, transferring pokemon between emulated saves is far easier, and you can even skip generations.
Pretty much all handheld devices are better physical than emulated.
That's especially true for weird Nintendo shit, like the dual screen consoles.
GB, GBC and GBA all just look better on the the grid screens too.
>all handheld devices are better physical than emulated
Nah, wrong. I can make the screen much bigger than on a physical device.
I am way more prone to play/finish something I paid for than just having a file on my PC. Some games that have reached 200+ or whatever I've tried in emulator to see if it's worth it. If a game I'm interested in is only $30~$50 though, odds are I'll just buy it to play on original hardware.
>piracy is almost universally a better experience
Nah native is always better
Guaranteed non of those are original games and just hacked cartridges. Not a bad business model tbh
and Black folk (shills) say that piracy is le bad
how much of this problem do you think is caused by people realizing most modern games suck?
zero because it exists only in deranged mind of morons that have no job playing videogames
Has anyone else ever sold a huge collection?
I want rid of mine and am debating selling it all myself or getting 40% of value selling all at once to a reseller.
1000+ games over 50k going by price charting apps.
I have the same issue u got like an 80 k collection and every time I try to sell to someone they will try to severely undercut me.
honestly the only people who will buy it all at once are resellers. It is a pain in the ass to sell that much unless you are setup for game sales.
>Buy Clock Tower 2 from a flea market for $1.
>Flip it on Ebay for $700 because it was all intact and I used my disc machine to repair any scuffs.
>WAAHHH MUH RETRO MARKET!
Good, I want it to get more expensive, some fricking dipshit buys a pokemon card off me for 10g? FRICKEM!
Eat shit.
Nerds with money is hilarious.
>$50 for some shitty LCD game that came from some random garage sale
And gets what happens when prices are based on what the absolute highest a hypothetical person might someday pay. Video games have always had a fanbase that easily falls victim to such flimflams.
>gets what happens
Is this the new diamond dozen?
Idk I could spend my money on hookers but that's a waste of time yet again I'm paying my money to b***h on here so that's a waste of time.
But all honesty the da could be less like 700 or some shit 2000 ain't worth it unless you're loaded
The sealed special edition consoles are extra funny due to the fact that their batteries are fricking worthless already
Dude shit I worry about this, I have a sealed new 3DS, is the battery fricked?
It's not likely to explode like a used ipod due to factories not fully charging them before shipping them out when the device is new, but you will absolutely have to put in a new battery if you want it to hold a charge yeah
Right, fortunately Nintendo still sell the batteries, gonna get one. Cheers.
Don't buy one until you're ready to open it
The nature of rechargeable batteries necessitates regular use
Alright, thank you. Do I have to worry about the one already in there do you think?
oh so that 3ds battery I bought 'just in case' I should probably start using then? I thought I could just keep it in storage till the one in my system started to go
Lithium ion batteries degrade fastest when they are fully charged or fully discharged. And if you leave it in a box over time, it will slowly discharge until it's empty.
So leaving it in a box is about as bad as regularly using it.
>I thought I could just keep it in storage till the one in my system started to go
Nope, welcome to the world of proprietary rechargeable batteries. Hopefully there will be a good aftermarket manufacturer, but probably not. We didn't start getting quality SP batteries until the past couple of years from Helder. I don't think there are good options for Micro batteries to this day. I expect my small n3DS will never get good aftermarket batteries either, though the n3DS XL probably will.
guess I'll just throw it in my system then. Thanks. It was a new official battery I bougjt in July so it should be ok right?
>Helder
Any site in particular for this? I really need a few SP batteries. My wife wants to play the Oracle games for the first time.
As far as I'm aware the only bubble that popped so far is the graded sealed market because it was a fake bubble in the first place.
>Any site in particular for this?
As far as I know, he only sells them direct: https://heldergametech.com/product-category/batteries/
I bought that ds some years ago for $100. Who the frick would pay $2000 now?
simulation
>The absolute state of retro gaming
Flashcarts, MiSTer, emulation, disc-drive replacement... etc. It's never been better to be a retro gamer.
The only thing it's bad to be is a coomlector.
Yeah, though there are still good things to collect out there at reasonable prices... but as usual, you need to focus on the stuff that is too old to be considered new~ish, but not old enough to be "collectible." Like 360 games are cheap as dirt right now, and there are still a lot of games on the 360 and PS3 that never got ported to PC, or have PC versions that suck (Deadly Premonition). I recently picked up NeverDead, an awesome game developed by Rebellion and published by Konami, and I only paid $3.00 Things are starting to shift though, and some desirable titles are starting to shoot up in value (still within reason, but we're talking like $40~ for something like Splatterhouse). Wii games not published by Nintendo also tend to be cheap.
>I recently picked up NeverDead, an awesome game developed by Rebellion and published by Konami,
you have my respect anon
great game barely anyone talks about
Not a 1 to 1 version, even flash carts cause the game to behave differently than an official version
Like 99% of emulation and flash cart differences from an original game fall squarely in the 'who cares' territory, especially considering what the alternative is
>even flash carts cause the game to behave differently than an official version
Name 10 examples
In the Ace Attorney games the screen flickers while saving on flashcarts.
Literally unplayable.
Maybe on those cheapo Chinkshit carts, 99.9% of games run flawlessly on good flashcarts like the latest Everdrives.
it's still not the original, even the slightest bite change won't make it genuine, Why play if you're never going to play how it was intended to be played
>anon makes completely unfounded and moronic claim
>when questioned, cannot actually bring up any evidence whatsoever
Many such cases!
If you're not playing on the original development hardware that the devs used then you're not playing a genuine version the way it was meant to be played.
Glad we can agree on something
Yet ROM-hating people still gobbled up the Nintendo mini consoles despite being average emulation.
These games are not important enough to be this autistic about it.
Simplify your life.
Row your boat gently down the stream.
yes but getting told you're always wrong about how you play games starts to drive it into your head after so long
That's mental illness. Nobody who is well actually cares what shitposters on a venetian basket weaving forum think about how you enjoy your self.
it's like being unwelcome in your own home :*(
My Everdrive64 says frick off.
haha
I have a fricking EZ Flash Omega DE and the S71 chip is like.. not soldered properly and can legit be "fixed" by me putting 6 pieces of paper behind the chip in its case to jam it down, so fricking annoying.
I ended up buying a Everdrive X5 Mini to replace it so I can just play my fricking games without wondering if the chip just falls off one day
Yeah, I really only have that EZ flash because it can be swapped into a smaller case that can sit flush in a DS Lite. I never really use it since I play GBA games either on my GBA or Analogue Pocket.
how do you like the analogue pocket? I was considering getting one eventually, though the way the games just kinda sit on the back barely in there always weirded me out, like I've seen videos of people bumping the carts just using the shoulder buttons
also the EZFlash having a Rumble was super cool for games like Drilldozer, I wish more carts had that
>how do you like the analogue pocket?
The screen and speakers are really nice, and a distinct upgrade even over a customized GBA. That said, I've seen several people say that they get their Pokemon saves wiped. I don't play Pokemon so I wouldn't know.
>though the way the games just kinda sit on the back barely in there always weirded me out, like I've seen videos of people bumping the carts just using the shoulder buttons
I thought the same thing, but in reality it has never happened to me. Even with my GB flashcart.
>also the EZFlash having a Rumble was super cool for games like Drilldozer
I don't think that mine has rumble, though Drilldozer is one of the few GBA games that I do have. Got it on clearance at Walmart for like $10.
Sweet collection. I always wanted to try Drill-dozer but that game is so expensive. And I swear early copies of Yoshi Topsy-turvy had to be defective though, my Mom got me that game as a kid because I was absolutely obsessed with the Yoshi's island GBA port but I could never make Yoshi stand upright, the sensor was fricked no matter how I held my GBA.
Had no idea Drill Dozer was worth anything. I've got a complete box, lightly used. I remember it was fun, but I don't think I was compelled to finish it.
>I always wanted to try Drill-dozer but that game is so expensive.
You can go try it, and even play it in its entirety, for free right now.
what's funny is that this shows you had to buy 3 gba flashcarts before they stopped fricking up
Nope, they all work, but the first Everdrive GBA that I got was oversized so it stuck out. So I got the EZFlash Omega, which was also nice because you can swap it into a different shell and insert it into a DS Lite and it will be flush with the system. More recently I got the new Everdrive that is the same size as a normal GBA cart. It's not functionally different from the other Everdrive though, it's just smaller so it doesn't stick out on a normal GBA.
I have the omega de but I’m waiting for one with Gyro and UV sensor, though that’s probably not likely
Even official versions differ from other official versions because they are physical items subject to variances during production.
Still feels wrong to me.. Idk I wish I could enjoy games without being so autsitic about it
Lol, LMAO
You’re a special lil fella aren’t you
>uhm ackshully it isn't a perfwct experience
Who gives a shit. You play one of a million games for two hours. You beat it. You move on to more important things.
holy cope lmao
I'm lucky to have a lot of working old hardware and big retro software libraries just from all I collected growing up at the standard prices. But really emulation is the king.
got more or less priced out of retro games over a decade ago, i occasionally pick up something obscure when i find a good deal but that is not often.
kinda miss doing it but i can't justify paying the prices people ask for these days. need to actually setup the stuff again at some point but i don't want to put it back down in my basement.
Kino steel batallion controllers
i had a 2-player setup going for a while with Line of Contact.
Any tired collectors here? been collecting pedal to the metal since 2014. Reached about 1000 games with like 200 LEs. But now as im older i just want to actually fricking play them. Doesnt help this new gen of consoles is pozzed as shit with no games. Past few months ive just disconnected myself from game news and releases trying to get control of my finances again.
I'm more of an action figure collector. I got out of game collecting years ago, though I still pick up a cheap game here and there, and occasionally buy new hardware. I'm trying to bail on action figure collecting too, I've just got too much shit and it's not making me happy anymore, so it's just turning into hoarding unopened, very expensive figures. I cancelled the bulk of my pre-orders and only kept the stuff that I really want (like my two Guyver figures that are coming up...)
As for vidya, I'm mostly playing old games now. New vidya fricking blows. It's not like you need to go back to the 90's to find good stuff, there were still good games being made around 2011~ or so, but there was a distinct drop in quality as time went on. Works for me though, my gaming expenditures are damn close to $0.00 at this point.
>Anime figure comes in the mail
>my mother sighs and says "Another doll?"
i know i gotta stop this shit soon, shes right especially since my life priorities are not so straight
Yeah you need to prioritize getting out ya mommas house my homie
I still like collecting for Switch. There are so many weird games on it. I think it may be one of the last great consoles to collect for. Sure lots of games are not all on cart, but plenty are and are made in low numbers.
I get the burnout though. I have been collecting since 2008 or so. I got the majority of my retro collection for pennies and it just isn't fun paying hundreds for it now.
if switch 2 isnt phyiscally backwards compatible, it would just end my collectan days. I have like 100+ physical switch games and i just cant do it over again
Same. I think its about 50/50 if it will be or not. The remaster/remake money had to have them considering if the goodwill is worth losing out on it.
damn. I bought some rare 64 games for less than $20 like 15 years ago
I thought the bubble burst?
The bubble won't burst until the economy collapses, even then it might stay strong. It's not just vidya, during muh varus all collector's markets went absolutely apeshit and never normalized.
>50 dollars for a loose tiger eletronic handheld
hahahahaha
>$200 gameshark
lol lmao even
It's weird seeing how expensive they are now.
I think they were $20 new, and I still have mine sitting on my book shelf.
My GBC one (Pokemon Yellow had just been released) was like $50 from Walmart.
During the 360/ps3 era you couldn't give those things away like guitar hero controllers now even that's coming back
>DSi
>retro
what's the retro cutoff?
dsi is retro but PS2 isn't. I dont make the rules.
morons here will tell you these gamecube era figures are retro but seethe uncontrollably when told the gamecube itself is retro
The people making the rules are the scalpers who do their utmost to convince you to buy their overpriced shit because they know it's all just a stupid bubble and SOMEONE is gonna be left holding the bags.
With diminishing returns, I'd say by sheer units the cutoff is 6th gen consoles, 7th gen handhelds. Some may argue for Wii or early 360, but I digress
According to the market, 3DS is already "retro".
The prices are soaring.
I hate e-celebs so much it's unreal
>all these posts
wtf is a cel? concept art printed out?
That's what animators draw in to make animation.
For $200 I recently netted - Pkmn Platinum, all 3 DS Castlevania games, Chrono Trigger DS, Fire Emblem shadow dragon or some shit, and Parasite Eve 2. All CIB. How good of a haul is this minus Platinum?
I just want to play A Link Between Worlds again and maybe the three DS Castlevania games again. I won't do any on my chinkware nor on the 'eck though. Maybe one day.
I have a modded 3DS, but seriously the best way to play these games is on Melon DS using an android tablet in portrait mode and a decent telescopic gamepad and the included stylus.
it looks like a shitpost the more i look at it
>please dont touch (behind glass)
>throws a ($200 wtf) gameshark on top of a damaged "sealed" box
>garbage tiger lcd game for 50
>dented up 2ds for fricking 250
its unreal how deluded sellers can be
I just want the Silent Hills in a modern, playable format. No remakes. No HD versions. Just the classic games playable on modern hardware with no fricking ten page pdf of "how to either get this running or summon the fricking devil" bullshit. Just turn it on, put it in, play. Konami are so fricking moronic. Places like Etsy are fricking full of homemade Silent Hill merch. It would be printing money for them.
funniest part is it's all free to emulate but they'll never do it and hardly even play the games they buy. It's funkos for early millenials
>$40 for some shit game, unsealed
$50 Beauty and The Beast chinese shit handheld
A few years ago I would be so jealous of anons who could afford to visit Japan for months at a time but it seems now that YouTubers and tourism will kill any enjoyment I end up having if I ever get to go.
Popular destinations in any country will suck for similar reasons.
Honestly I enjoyed my trip in sept and I highly suggest it, but I enjoyed Osaka and Kyoto way more than Tokyo.
Akiba is dead, and the japs themselves have been badly influenced by Facebook, Twitter and Hollywood.
But there are still authentic experiences to be had. Go far out on the countryside and talk to old people, and all kinds of adventures await you.
We were almost assaulted by an old woman and her husband, who wanted to tell us all about their lives and hobbies and gave us (expensive) muskat grapes and tea. She also tried to give me pictures of her granddaughter, who supposedly was an idol in Tokyo, but my wife stopped me from accepting them.
Would have been an awesome souvenir...
But yes, Akiba is dead, so if you're stuck in Tokyo, go to Nakano Broadway instead. They close shop there between 18:00 and 20:00, so get there early. Still mostly overpriced stuff, but much better than Akihabara.
>We were almost assaulted by an old woman and her husband, who wanted to tell us all about their lives and hobbies and gave us (expensive) muskat grapes and tea. She also tried to give me pictures of her granddaughter, who supposedly was an idol in Tokyo, but my wife stopped me from accepting them.
Kek this is so much fricking bullshit. Listen if you want to visit Japan just visit it, do the things you want to see, ignore losers larpers like this who want to pretend the equivalent of going to backwoods Appalachia is better than seeing a major city, the people on Ganker are not a collective of outdoorsy frickers, we are loser Otaku.
Tthe big cities are fun too, but you should fully expect to just be a tourist there. No one will talk to you, unless it's related to buying or selling something. No one will have a genuine conversation with you or invite you to their home, or take you out for ramen. No one will show you their secret little outcrop or garden, or invite you to try pottery with them or carry the shrine for the festival, or polish the brass and ring the bell at the temple for new years.
I just find that, sure, in the cities you can have fun drinking and exploring, but for the most part it's just shopping. And most things can be bought online now for the same price anyway. The countryside is way more fun, and feels like actual adventuring. As long as you understand some nippongo of course.
Before, it was also where you could luck out and find rare, cheap games, but that has all changed now.
>No one will talk to you, unless it's related to buying or selling something. No one will have a genuine conversation with you or invite you to their home
That's the case for literally every big city in the world. Even your own, if you live in a city
Of course. Which is why it makes more sense to seek genuine connections out on the countryside in any country.
Its the case in the backwoods as well, Come down to where I live in the mountains of TN and see if some random old man strikes up a convo and ask you into his home on a whim.
Same. I come from a tiny town in the mountains of southeast Kentucky. If some random person tried to wave me into their house I'd assume that I was about to be chainsaw massacred.
>No one will have a genuine conversation with you or invite you to their home, or take you out for ramen. No one will show you their secret little outcrop or garden, or invite you to try pottery with them or carry the shrine for the festival, or polish the brass and ring the bell at the temple for new years.
one I dont think this is the experience most want here and is bad advised and two, I dont know why you dont think this happens in Tokyo, I had a got invited into a guys apartment to see his game collection like my 3rd night while at a bar in Shinjuku.
>like my 3rd night while at a bar in Shinjuku
Yeah, alright, I've also been dragged along by drunk salarymen. Which can be fun. And I guess the country isn't for everyone.
I like it, though. Especially abandoned/nearly abandoned villages.
>And I guess the country isn't for everyone.
Its not for most people on Ganker and is bad advise to give a bunch of nerds lol.
That's just if you're a tourist. You gotta go on business and the Japanese will be hospitable as frick. I just went with my unit for a joint military exercise and they had a thing where families volunteered to host americans involved for dinner and this dude took us to the toys r us he owned and then his sweet ass house for sushi and kobe beef, I think they were not showing off but just wanting to show us the best, their daughter (not attractive) did a tea ceremony for us as well. Then our counterparts in the ground self defense force did all the shit. took us to Ramen, took us out for drinks and karaoke, they saw we were watching a sumo tournament on tv all week and took us to the actual event for the last day and then to a old-fashioned sukiyaki restaurant after and I got to eat horse. Shit was tight, find a reason to go for business.
>No one will have a genuine conversation with you or invite you to their home, or take you out for ramen. No one will show you their secret little outcrop or garden, or invite you to try pottery with them or carry the shrine for the festival, or polish the brass and ring the bell at the temple for new years.
Japanese people don't even do this with each other, what makes you think they'll want to hang out with some fat otaku who's just there for 2 weeks? Like the other anon said; if people don't do XYZ to you in your own country, they'll never do it in Japan.
I always have to ask, what do anons like you do for a living? I just started working a proper job with salary and benefits in my early twenties (office engineer type job) and I don't understand how I can ever get to a point where I'd be able to live/own a home in Japan or meet a japanese person period.
Im in IT operations so like a combo Sys Admin and Support for a small company. I grew up in extreme poverty so this was my first trip outside the US my GF surprised me for my 40th.
based Japan trip surprising gf. A .hack fan so no wonder you're a proper oldgay.
congrats, anon. You're a hero
I went in exchange as a teenager. My oarents paid for that, because they wanted to get me out of the house.
Now I'm a watch designer for a small company and have wife who works fulltime in a bank, so we have enough to save up for trips once in a while.
> Sugarmommy wife vibes.
Kek, nice job anon.
No, we earn about the same, since I do some teaching on the side too.
It's not much, but we don't have children or anything.
>big picture full of free, readily available games
What's the problem here exactly
I already own the ROM for all these on like 5 different HDs
Everyone posts expensive old games. Never explain why its bad other then, "I want it >:[".
Guess what, so does everyone else. Its called demand. A whole lot of people want old games, and you get mad at them about it. But when you're also one of those people, you feel justified for some reason. Explain how you're not a part of the problem.
Its collectible. You don't need it. ROMs are free. Flashcarts are mostly cheap if you want an authentic experience on original hardware/CRT. Why should retro games cost less?
It's bad not because we want it, but because it's laughable that the market thinks it's "worth that".
I brought up Earthbound being the most absurd.
Earthbound was not a rare game, it sold like shit but it was never rare beyond a collective memory hole of N64 millennials having shit knowledge of the SNES backlog and learning about Earthbound solely through Smash.
It's widely available on virtual consoles, everyone and their mother has played Mother by now. Yet vendors believe that there is a supreme market for it, hoping that some moronic Zillenial undertale furgay is willing to cough up 250 dollary doos to play the le hecking Mother of all quirky rpgs.
It's simply not worth that much, retro games should not be worth that much.
It's funny when the price very obviously has nothing to do with the quality of the game itself too. Etrian Mystery Dungeon was creeping into the $125-130 range for a good while and like, why? The game itself is fricking dogshit. People are buying plastic they will never play just to say they have a complete series
You are fighting a losing battle trying to explain "supply and demand" to these morons. They're convinced that they're the only "true gamers" in the world and everyone else is just pretending.
kek anyone who doesn't just emulate older games are full on stage 4 morons. "collecting" plastic is the dumbest thing I swear.
I had that exact Pokemon Black DSi bundle. The screen quality was shit and it can't play GBA cartridges, so I sold it.
Also, Gen 5 Pokemon will never be retro or good.
Retro game collecting is so gay. Possibly more gay than collecting stamps.
Get a hobby that doesn't solely revolve around buying things. Get real.
This,
>Sorted by alphabetical
I kneel
Switch games would be basically impossible to sort through if I didn't do this, what the hell was Nintendo thinking with those stupid red spines
>what the hell was Nintendo thinking with those stupid red spines
>you'll collect anything, goy
>anything stupid or poorly thought out from the company that brought us the Wii U.... IS A CONSPIRACY
homie calm down, geez
Yeah, I'm pumped up after
Don't ever call me 'homie' again, shitskin.
Hobbies are consumerism to the fullest, lack of hobbies is anti-consumerism as you refuse to consoom and just choose to let the economy rot grow further, lol.
Tell me of a hobby where you don't have to pay $50-200 starting kits.
People here like to project
They think better of themselves when they dunk on others
You are working under a severe definition of "consumerism" if you think buying $50 of tools to start a new hobby counts.
This, I love fishing and entry level Ugly Stiks and a Daiwa reel is like $50 total. With tackle and shit maybe $100. If that's consumerism than I'm a huge bawd for it
>Tell me of a hobby where you don't have to pay $50-200 starting kits.
Body building, whittling, drawing, writing, tabletop game design, to name a few.
Well that’s bullshit, all of those absolutely have starting costs
can you read?
You said that didn't have $50 - $200(+ assumed) starting kits.
Pencil and paper are free if you dumpster dive behind office max or staples, and those are all you need to draw, write and design games. Body building only banks on your diet and some heavy rocks. Unless you planned to starve instead, the cost is nil.
Stop being a whiny homosexual and get a hobby.
>rocks
>dumpster dive
Yo get this Section 8 homie outta here
If you're worried about money for a hobby, you're already worse off than any Black person.
I literally spent close to $1,000 buying new fishing reels (just the reels, not even the flouro), money isnt an issue. Cheaping out on something you care about is peak nig
All that and you still can't get a reel job.
>reel
he can't become a fisherman
I didn’t say anything
I’m not that anon, I’m just saying you’re full of shit
>I'm not that anon, I just jumped in to be wrong and an attention whoring homosexual.
ok lol
>I didn’t say anything
And nobody said those hobbies have zero starting costs.
>drawing
dude i fricking love buying art supplies and books
He must think all it takes is a number 2 pencil and some printer paper kek
Also body building is on that list but last time I checked a jar of protein is at least $50.
This is a funny post because you're calling out that anon for his ignorance about drawing as a hobby, while revealing you don't lift.
Any artist you can name started with pencil and printer paper. You have no reason to be spending real money on supplies when you’re just starting something like drawing.
>he needs books and "supplies" to draw
Sounds like you're afraid to try anything without a guide.
Please stay out of the gene pool.
been there done that
if you want to "git gud" alls you need is shit and a wall to smear it on.
but when its your HOBBY?? buying shit you can actually use is way too fun
ok but that anon was asked about STARTing hobbies.
well thats stupid, you dont need money to start anything. all i was saying was that as soon as anything becomes your "hobby" it'll turn you into a nasty consumer
>well thats stupid, you dont need money to start anything.
ok now you're saying its stupid, and while also agreeing with that anon's point.
all i ever said was that i loved buying art supplies
>as soon as anything becomes your "hobby" it'll turn you into a nasty consumer
As soon as you love anything, the threat of its absence or destruction can be used as leverage to make you do stupid shit well worse than whatever related to consumerism.
Just don't be weak bro.
>two main characters in frame
>good expressions
>keyframes (A29)
>very well known series
>one of a kind
>artform which is entirely deprecated commercially
>handmade
For a measely 320 dollarinos?
I don't think you have any clue how undervalued these things are.
I mean for sure in the future theyre gonna be worth even more. But I just get extremely jealous of those people who were there in the beginning copping grails for under 50 bucks
Well, aren't we all.
But consider this:
You paid as much for that original art piece, as a copy of a used Switch goes for right now. Hell, even a New 3DS in good condition goes for that much.
Or a Castlevania game.
While those are all cool as frick, they are also mass produced. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of the same product floating about.
Yours is a one-of-a-kind, which will never ever be made again. It's so insanely undervalued that I don't have words to describe it.
Don't ever buy retro from a storefront, they will rip you off. MOST of those places get their shit from literal garage sales, people bringing in shit they "found in the attic" and dump them for pennies on the dollar. The store then jacks up the price.
Go to eBay if you want to find reasonable prices.
This anon sells retro shit at 1000%'s markup on ebay.
2000% you putz
two thousand is included in thousands.
emulation is amazing
Physical retrogays are mentally ill.
I can emulate all their shit flawlessly on PC.
Why the frick would I want to play a billion times worse version?
Being a pirate is actually morally good because it is good for the environment. Imagine the CO2 footprint of shipping a game out to you vs the one of just sharing. If you buy games you HATE mother Earth.
it's amazing to me to see something worthless being priced so high
It's a kind of conflicted feeling, prices for physical retro stuff are so crazy right now, but between flash carts and emulation, there's never been a better time to actualy play these old games. Imagine if emulation didn't exist, all these games that might as well be myths no one ever got to play.
I miss when i could import cheap ps2 games for pennies. Now something that i used to get for 5 bucks is like 25 right now.
No one heard of 187 ride or die
If I gave a shit id just buy repros or a flash cart
Yeah I don't have that problem.
homie talking smack while wasting $200 on chinkshit instead of just using his phone lmfao
That's why I stopped going to shops, they all based their prices off ebay then add like 30%
>Prices rising on finite supply of retro collector hobby only in recent years
>By definition, that means this price hike only affects band wagoners and secondaries
Should have already bought the games you wanted anon. Gatekeep early, and gatekeep often. This is only an issue if you're a bandwagoning zoomer.
Are CRTs going up in price, too? Those are more of a pain in the ass the transport.
yes and no, many people will give them away free but if they have heard of the grift they will be $100+ and advertised as retro gamer tvs.
no one is making any more of these ever so it will be interesting to see what the future holds on them.
when searching local markets for CRTs i find using words like "old tv" or "box tv" rather than "crt tv" yield a lot more boomer results just trying to free up some garage space and will give you a 30" toshiba for $10 or free
Use both. A lot of good and cheap listings will have "CRT TV" in them anyways.
>all these emulator gays itt
I cannot fathom playing touch screen games like pokemon ranger or TWEWY on a PC. You'd get a wrist injury before the first boss. DSi XL is BY FAR the best way to play those games. That DSi in pic is still overpriced though lol, I recently got a mint one for a tenth of that price.
Emulate on a touchscreen device then, grandpa. You can emulate anything on anything these days. You can emulate Time Crisis on a virtual TV in a VR headset and use VR controllers to shoot
you didn't beat the game
I'll beat you if you don't shut up
or you can even get a drawing tablet or something. i played a bit of TWEWY on a wacom intuos i got for like $40 and was surprised how genuine the experience felt. not 1:1 obviously but super functional
> Wrist injury.
Nah bro, maybe you got like chicken leg sized wrists and weak limping hands, I've played OSU with a mouse and haven't broken my wrists yet, just use arm movement with lower sensitivity.
>I cannot fathom playing touch screen games like pokemon ranger or TWEWY on a PC
ok so you just imagined a scenario in your head to be mad at, because no one said this.
You can emulate DS games on your phone and use the touchscreen.
>Rare thing that isn't in high supply is le expensive?????
If you buy retro games you are a moron.
Reasonable prices.
Bought lately new 3DS which looks like brand new with box and all for $120 but yeah things become expensive compared to what it was 2-3 years ago.
Wanted to get whole Berserk LaserDisc set when they were around $100 and now they go for over $500.
>retro gaming
I can't think of bigger cucks than retro gamers who play on original hardware. There is no reason to do it when you can just fire up an emulator, torrent the games you want and enjoy objectively better experience playing old classics.
Ok, you do that
$200 dollars, consumer slave.
>an image from Simpsons, mocking the price of cels
>the cels from said mockery are now worth tens of thousands
lol
:^)
To be fair, they may have destroyed all copies in existence except that one.
Before any morons take the bait, it was a charity purchase hosted by some Milwaukee slobs.
Either destroyed or sold off long before I die because these kinds of wordly possessions should hold zero significant value, I could make an exception for like 1-2 games you think impacted you in some way. Same goes for any mass produced media really.
I still have both HG and SS with working Pokewatches (or whatever they were called) in the original packages. Are those worth something?
lose copies of both are like 75 to 90, so the CiB with Pokewalkers is easily 150+ It varies so much it's not even funny
Pokewalkers alone go for like $50-$60.
Just emulate
It's a bubble, don't worry.
I already got everything I wanted back in 2010. Oh you want my copy of God Hand after watching a youtuber cover it? That'll be $130+tip.
No need. My PS2 can read burned discs 🙂
Yeah I got mine setup with freemcboot ages ago. It's pretty nice being able to play most games off LAN.
So my sealed Zelda Nintendo Ds consoles are worth 10k ?
IT'S A GOOD DEAL BRO
Players choice sunshine being same price as the Zelda collection is frickin me up
>bought a copy of Suikoden 2 10 years ago for $75
>thread makes me check the price
>see this
whew lads
>eshop title
>rare
nice try my friendly israeli merchant.
Thats what confused me, SK2 is on PSN last I checked so why would the price increase so much, unless this one listing I found is vastly overpriced
It's been expensive for a long time. Use to regularly move for $250 plus. I bought a copy back in '02 from a pawn shop for $10 and got offered $200 for it months later. Never sold it, though.
wow a whole 130 dollaroos
i spend that on my daily liquor and chicken wings
Why are you bragging about being fat online?
why are you poor
made a whole 130 bucks in 10 years
thats a whopping less than 0,00001 cents an hour
What do you mean made $130? I still own my copy, still play it, and won't sell it. That's not my listing, this thread made me search the current price listings for that game. That liquor is making you moronic anon, learn to read and go to an AA meeting
nice try gaslighting me gay, that 2k retro collection of yours is what i spend on my socks
Richard Pryor had some great bits on drunks and winos you should check out, a nice look in the mirror for you to stop being the way you are lmao
Since these threads tend to be good places to ask, What's your solution for booting up a Japanese game on an American gamecube/as a burger? I bought my gamecube action replay disc back in 2015-ish on Amazon when you could still buy them sealed for cheap, but Thanks to Datel's shitty paper packaging the disc was scrathed fresh out of the box and it finally bit the dust, so I can't use the region swap feature any more. They're $50 MINIMUM on ebay now for just the loose disc. I have a XenoGC mod chip, but it's not nearly as reliable as the region swap feature. Music doesn't work and the game can run for about 3 minutes tops before crashing. I want to play my japanese copy of Wario World, I loved this game as a kid and I want to fight the better version of the final boss, burgers got totally shafted on that end
I know its a pet peeve when people don't answer your question and try and convince you to do something else, but I really am curious, why not just use a modded Wii?
Video quality is a lot worse on the Wii, I actually own a homebrewed Wii but my Gamecube is a DOL 001 model with an HDMI adapter, the picture is SUPER crisp. Plus I don't need the dumb Wiimote to navigate the home screen either. I guess If I really want to I can go dig for it, a bit annoying to set it up for just one game, especially when Wario World is only about 4 hours long but I do really want to play it.
I've never used a modded Wii to play import gamecube games before, what do you do to get it going?
I love seeing those boxes, you should seriously get some protectors so they stay nice. Retroprotection is great, I've bought hundreds of dollars worth of their protectors and every single time it's been good. You get savings buying in bulk, too.
>I love seeing those boxes, you should seriously get some protectors so they stay nice.
im not a collector.
I mean, neither am I really. I only buy games I want to play. I just like keeping them nice. Box protectors are glossy so they make the boxes look newer and shiner than they actually are, which is nice
Why insist on using a disk....? There are a bunch of ODE (they're not all literally ODE's but you know what I mean) solutions for the gamecube that are dirtcheap....
ODE? Not sure what that means...
Optical (disc) Drive Emulator
Oh wait, disregard my first reply. Does that stand for Optical disc emulation? I suppose I could, I've been mulling over getting a second cube to insert a WASP drive into. I just happen to have a big collection of disc games I bought from 2012-2015 when they were still really cheap, so I'd like to actually use them if possible. Better than just having them rot on the shelf. I'm too sentimental to sell them all either, I love dorking out over an actual collection and discussing games with people
Not all of them replace the disc drive, they use some of the other extraneous ports on the gamecube
I tried one of those SD card readers that go into serial port 2 after waiting a month for it to ship from China, but they made the circuit board too thin and it won't fit into the slot without just falling out. Quality is super inconsistent.
Also I still need a boot disc, Action replay WORKED, past tense but the disc shit itself
There's an ODE coming out soon that doesn't sacrifice the disc drive. https://twitter.com/ChrisPVille/status/1691790280674922513
Gen X greed and moronation, same with boomers and vinyl discs
Meh, already have all original hardware softnodded or with ODEs and flashcarts plugged into a 28” CRT
Currently playing a retranslation of Secret of Mana
I’m good
>Owned the Fire Emblem Awakening Special Edition 3DS
>It got damaged
>Sent it in for repair on the promise that they can send me back the same 3DS or the same model
>They try to send me a black generic one
>Call them and freak the frick out, told them I was assured by customer service that I could expect to get back the same model 3DS
>They cuck and send me a new/refurbed Fire Emblem Special Edition
Was pretty jazzed about that. Other than people who have sealed ones, mine is probably in the best condition of any that got opened and used since it was basically factory fresh in 2017.
Also later on
>Mother has foot surgery and is laid up in recovery
>Asks if there's any games she might enjoy
>I suggest Phoenix Wright and lend her my 3DS
>She destroys it by accident while zonked out on painkillers [also she didn't enjoy the game]
>Returns it to me without realizing it looks like it was put in a toaster oven [I think she left it by her laptop cooling vent for a day or something]
>Flip out and give her shit
>She guilts out and offers to replace
>Call local retro store
>SEALED IN BOX New 3DS XL Monster Hunter Generations Special Edition in 2021 for $350 moose tokens
>Buy it with her money
>3DS and portables become hot shit shortly afterwards
Feels goodman
>40 smackers for an opened and used copy of whatever N54 game
>fricking black version DS for 2k
>FIFTY FRICKING DOLLARS FOR A BEAUTY AND THE BEAST TIGER ELECTRONICS HANDHELD
yeah frick that shit emulation is the savior of retro gaming and who cares what CRT gays think.
I have a net worth of at least $15,000 just from being a jobless aspie because my Nintendo collection is worth THAT much, it's so fricked on multiple levels
How do these dumbass mom and pop stores even stay in business? Who's buying this shit?
Coomlectors with disposable income? What exactly are you asking about.
he doesn't realize people are dumb and will happily pay $69 for a loose Zelda Spirit Tracks cart.
You'd have to pay me $69 to play that piece of shit game again, both the train track "overworld" and the flute sections were horrible
Yeah sure but the point is the prices people pay for shitty loose carts are dumb. I went to a toy show in October and the stalls with games were all insane jokes. All the CiB was priced at moron levels and the loose shit was somehow worse.
The dumbest coomlector on Earth is not buying a fricking $50 Tiger Electronics handheld or a $2000 DS.
hours on Ebay search
>inb4 that doesn't support my position, so its fake.
This is literally money laundering, you fricking moron.
You and I both know your only evidence of that is because you want it to be true really really bad.
You and I both know you're a retro game money launderer who is trying to cover his tracks.
Seethe. There are morons with more money then you that are raising the market value. Continue coping by coming up with more fictions in your head about me.
Cope. You know I'm right.
Samegay.
Yes anon, its called a conversation.
You are now not allowed to respond to this post, since that would be you samegayging, according to your logic.
>New 3DS themed after ancient GB titles
>emulated versions INCLUDED!!! (wow!)
3DS era was pure brainrot.
They rarely sell the shit behind the glass unless it's an actual million-seller game. That's mostly to get customers interested in the store. Most of the business relies on selling the cheaper games, accessories, trade-ins, community events, and repair/refurbishing services if they offer them.
>trade-ins, community events
These are the big ones, but even with that I don't see how they can even sell games in this climate. They all basically just look at eBay and tack on another $10 anyway.
>pokemon black dsi has a shorted charging port
>bottom screen has a bad dent
>still use the pouch that came with it
>mfw
R8 my DS collection 🙂
Most of it was bought at MSRP back at release, the things that weren't I bought at MSRP back in the day and sold the cartridge but replaced the cartridge later. Felt pretty frickin' good buy Izuna 1+2 loose and then making up the value of the entire purchase just by popping the Izuna cart into an Izuna box.
>No (You)s
:')
That's okay., all you would've done is call my collection gay anyways.
Fairly solid. If you like Izuna, Shiren 6 is coming out in two months.
Yeah I'm interested for sure. Izuna 3 was announced too though.
True. It's a good time to be a roguelitechad.
Absolutely.
>Be euro PAL gay
>Prices are based on American NTSC market
Fricking wot
I dont think any of these besides Pokemon and DQ are worth anything. Ignore the 3DS and PS4 shit.
I'm 90% sure Corpse Part is one of the rarest 3DS games you could possibly own.
I think $40 for fricking Tonic Trouble is less justified than $2k for a brand new sealed DS with a game.
>$50 for a used shitty tiger electronics game
Those things were a ripoff for the $20 stores charged back in the day and only got away with it because of clueless parents buying them for kids.
Who the hell's gonna buy that POS today for more than a nickel?
>hasn't seen all the gay youtubers talking about Tiger Games
When you die, where will your collections go?
Onto the funeral pyre with me
Government auction. It'll make some scalper really happy.
OKONOMIYAKI
I would say that game companies should just rerelease physical, but then I remember Yugioh and the TCG and how they price rarity by card release date and how releasing card does jack shit to curve the pricing.
TCGs are a totally different ball game. They're basically just legal gambling for kids.
>for kids
Kids are the ones who buy booster packs, yes.
Bro... I've been in a shop when they do events, kids don't show up. The people buying this crap are in the late 30's and over, and they buy boosters by the box.
Those are some stupid fricking grown men. Even as a YGO playing teen I bought singles.
I remember a few months ago I was in a retro game store that also does tabletop stuff, and they do tournaments on the weekend. I was buying a PSP 2000 and this 30+ year old neckbeard walks up to the counter and says,
>Uhh... I'm here for the Pokemon tournament.
Girl behind the counter looks at him and says,
>Oh umm... that was like three hours ago? Sorry.
Neckbeard got all redfaced and huffy and then stomped off. The girl and I got a good laugh out of his reaction once he was gone.
Great story, bro. You're so much cooler than him because you're 25 and you were buying a PSP (cool urban shit).
Yes, buying a handheld is cooler than playing the Pokemon TCG, objectively, especially if you can't tell time and get mad at other people because you showed up to a tournament hours after it was over.
Your epic story never happened, but if it did, you are still a grown man buying a PSP for nostalgia purposes.
>B-b-but Pokemon is cool
>It's not weird to play a children's card game
>Oh boy, slam attack!
I don't play TCG's, but I really hope that the Magic the Gathering goobers bully you.
This entire back and forth was about TCGs being a moneypit for morons who don't know that boosters are predatory. You then made it about how much cooler you are than TCG players because you bought a PSP one time? You are a moronic fricking blogposting Black person, and you should take your own life.
Like am I talking to the guy who threw a tantrum because he missed the Pokemon tournament right now, or did that story just hit too close to home?
You are clinically moronic. I only said that TCG booster packs are gambling because it's predatory. I never made a value judgement about the game itself or its players. Then you chimed with your blogpost about how you are the coolest guy in the retro game store.
>I'm definitely not offended because I can't behave myself in public just like the guy in anon's story!
>I'm just mad because...
>I'm not mad!
The israelites murdered JFK, bombed the USS Liberty, and bombed the Twin Towers. Then they injected half of the world with poison. Then they bombed a bunch of Palestinian hospitals.
Anyone who buys this shit shouldn't be allowed to vote. Or drive.
>Or drive
Chances are, they don't have a driver license. Haven't you heard? Kids don't like driving these days. Its the same reason why racing game is dead.
No way that's true. Your first car is one of the biggest moments in a youths life, it practically shapes who you are in burger culture. I guess they're helping put money into ride sharing pajeet poop crusted hands.
Cash for Clunkers and uber happen. Cash for Clunkers destroy any chance of getting a really cheap car for a teenager and uber is much more hip.
Bros, over Thanksgiving my parents told me they found a container full of all my old N64, Playstation, PS2, Dreamcast, etc. However, it may have been in a shed in Phoenix. How fricked is it? I don't care to sell it, but it would be neat if it worked. I didn't have time to test it.
N64 should be fine, that thing is seriously durable from the cartridges to the console. Nearly everything is user-repairable if you have a gamebit and modest soldering skills. And 99% the problem an N64 has is genuinely just "lmao, it's dusty". Q-tips and 91% isopropyl alcohol fixes everything.
Dreamcast games are fricked but the console itself should be salvageable, Playstation is a coin toss
Frick yeah I was most concerned about the N64.
only other thing you're gonna want for the N64 are new thermal pads, they connect the main chips to the heatsinks.
Those things are definitely melted after two decades and are going to have sub-optimal heat transfer. Considering the N64 can run a little hot, it's good to make sure its thermals are in top shape.
Report these guys for selling modded consoles. Nintendo doesn't mess around with this stuff.
They can't keep people from openly selling bootleg cartridges, what do you think that they will do about this? Jerk off and cry about it?
>this money launderer just can't shut the frick up
>this can all be mitigated by buying a cheap HDD and a basic PC and emulating
Used Wii U can do every Nintendo other than Switch. Deck can do everyting until gen 7 consoles and used Decks are easy to get now that OLED Decks are making Deckers resell.
>use literally anything other than the Switch, goy, i'm begging you. go buy a used nintendo system from the last generation, ANYTHING to not give money to Nintendo, goy. Did I mention that I am unbiased and not a shill in any way?
Anon, buy a Switch if you want but it's not good for emulating games from before 2001.
It's the best emulator system on the market, period. Wii U and Vita still chug on fricking Yoshi's Island without overclocking. have a nice day.
>can't emulate 360
>can't emulate Wii U
>can't emulate PS3
Nope. Deck is better. Wii U is good enough for the rest of your Nintendo needs and anything Wii U can't do, Deck is there for.
I love Nintendo. Buy TotK. It's super good.
All of those systems are garbage, and are not worth emulating.
Whatever you say shit-for-brains. You already got wrecked. Switch is great, I like mine. Nintendo fans get a bad rep because of morons like you
>Switch is actually good, and you proved it, but you're moronic
I accept your concession, you pissant.
That's not what he said.
>he
Samegay or discord buttbuddy.
Nope
Yep.
Wrong again.
I guess we're at a stalemate. b***h troony.
You seem upset
You seem transsexual.
>hurr troony
You seem low IQ
You got me. Only low IQ people hate trannies.
Only low IQ screech about trannies over an argument about plastic toys. You really are a b***h.
Transsexuals are demonic implants who rape children. They (You) need to be callously shot in the back of your head and dispensed into a mass unmarked grave.
imagine getting this upset and deranged because anon said his plastic toy was better for emulating than your plastic toy. genuine autism.
No, it goes deeper, and your inability to understand this will be your undoing.
There's nothing deep about it. You are simply moronic and falling back on the tired and same tired rhetoric over muh trannies because you lost an argument.
What was the argument? Where did I lose? have a nice day, transsexual communist scum.
take your meds moron
some years back I bought an N64 with a few games for $150, and felt like such a waste of money
now I can probably sell each of those games for that price
Unless you have something actually valuable like Bomberman 64 2, Stunt Racer, Snowboard kids 2, NFL Blitz special edition, Ogre Battle, Bangai-Oh, or Worms Armageddon no you can't lmao
Zoomers hate the N64 and the millennials that wanted one got one
retro doesn't just end at 1999
Emulator gays are the Vegans of gaming, they absolutely CANNOT shut the frick up when people that just like buying and using physical media are talking
>Emulator gays are the Vegans
every time with this moronic non-argument. emulation is based and redpilled, one because the preservation of information and the subversion of the israelite construct that is copyright, and two because you're likely to be playing something that's more challenging and less pozzed. Your asinine plastic-worship is cringe and gay because it focuses on the external manifestations of old video games rather than the challenge and technical skill that they present to the player. Wash your ass and go outside homosexual.
Emulation is fine, what I don't like is that emulator homosexuals cannot leave us the frick alone. If you love emulation so much than go make a fricking emulation thread you stupid Black person, we want to talk about a separate topic.
>waaah leave us alone don't post in my thread!
This isn't your safe space b***h. Get your head out of your ass
Emulator gays in every single collecting/physical ownership thread
It isn't a separate topic and you will never ban emulation from these threads about price gouging collerctorgays. Cry more.
As if, you saw a thread about people talking about physical video games and thought "Oh boy! Time to spread the gospel of good ol' emulation, something completely different!"
Eat shit, nutlicker
>waaaaah you can't mention emulation in my thread about collectorgays price gouging physical games.
No. Black folk tongue my anus.
Aww, is the poorgay crying and coping that his computer can TOTALLY play Super Mario 64 if he tinkers with setting for several hours? How precious!
Thanks for confirming you're actually upset about emulation and not just people supposedly posting off topic. Hypocrite piece of shit.
>if he tinkers with setting for several hours
It's funny that you actually believe this. Collectorgays are fricking morons.
Oh we're just going to call people we can't adequately refute poorgay now, are we? Better that, than admit we might have a misconception about our precious, precious physical copies... how dare that anon EVER imply they might be... gasp!... overpriced! He's such a bad, bad man! Why, my delightful, wonderful arcade games weren't designed to be played at all! They were brought from the heavens themselves by benevolent angels who only wished to see our delighted faces as we preserve them for the purpose of price speculation! This bad man has besmirched my beloved physical copies for the LAST TIME!
That post is barely 100 words, the fact that you can't read it says more about you than it does about them
That image applies more to physicalgays whining about threads like this full of posts mentioning emulation
The price isn't justified especially because of emulation.
>Check the prices on a few of my more niche retro bits
>Each of them goes for multiple hundreds of dollars on eGay now
Glad I got in early. Only problem is that now I can't get a controller for my Vectrex because they're going for twice what I paid for the console itself.
>Paying money for retro games in 2023 instead of downloading roms and emulating
>same prices 14 years ago
You saw this thread and instead of actually talking about physical games you decided to proselytize about how people who emulate are vegans because you're triggered by the fact people can play these games without paying obscene prices for them. No one's buying your wah wah leave us alone act.
you saw this thread talking about people talking about physical vidya ownership and you have to b***h and argue about the fact that some people like having the original copies even when emulation is an option. No one's buying your toughened hardass act, you're obviously joyless and insecure about others having a different hobby from you
Saying the same thing but reversed doesn't make you any more convincing. Especially when you're projecting and accusing people who talk about emulation of the exact same behavior you're doing, ie b***hing and arguing about the fact people prefer to emulate instead of paying gross prices for physical copies in a thread about gross prices for physical copies
>you're obviously joyless and insecure about others having a different hobby from you
This applies to you more than anyone else here. Plastic worship is cringe and gay. You're a joyless and insecure b***h whining about people who enjoy games for what they actually are.
then PLAY your fricking vidya if you want to so badly, for fricks sake
Take your own advice you fricking moron.
I'M TRYING TOO, I WANTED TROUBLESHOOTING FOR HOW TO PLAY MY JAPANESE GAMECUBE GAMES