There is something oddly nice about buying used vidya with the signs from previous owners.
Not talking about half-torn labels and dog chewed cartridges, that's shit. But something small like pic related is incredibly cute.
You can only imagine what life story this game had before ending up in your coomlection and what did its owner look like.
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I actually have a dog chewed cartridge that I really enjoy. It's a Game Boy Camera, and it has some light teeth marks here ant there that signify the owner accidentally left it in a spot where their dog could get it. The best part here is that on the Game Boy Camera are photos of the guy's dog, so I presumably have photos of the culprit.
Hope you're doing well, Rook
Are you sure it's not Riik?
never heard of anyone named Riik
Kinda related but I always leave the save data from previous people. If all slots are full, I will delete the one with least progress / time and use that one. My copy of Secret Of Mana had 3/4 slots used. 2 boys names and then "Dad". This family's save data is safe with me.
Okay, certainly not retro, but I've bought Tomodachi Life cart for 3DS once and there were Miis which were most likely made to resemble previous owner (girl) and her friends.
I didn't need them as I wanted to create my own but I just couldn't bring myself delete them completely, so I've made backups for Mii gallery and now they live there.
Also I have Secret of Mana's cartridge with someone's saves too, but note that if battery's old it may be erased after a while, unless you'll find a way to make backups somehow.
Yeah if the batteries die that's fine. Nature taking it's course. But they certainly won't be erased willingly by myself.
I must be on my rag or something because that hits pretty hard.
Got this a few months ago at a second hand shop, the guy had it on the bottom shelf hidden away because no one was showing interest in it. also a bit cheaper as the speakers a bit crackly.
From the angle I saw it I thought it was just covered in stickers at first, so I was going to get it to modify.
Kinda sad that who ever put the effort in eventually sold this.
Kind of the same, any used games I get I always back the saves up on my PC. especially games like Pokemon.
that's delightful
Holy mother of soul
prob from etsy
I would touch it up and clear clear coat it.
Pretty cool that someone named Shaking My Head drew that.
You people seriously need some human interaction. This is just sad.
I get my daily dose of interacting with random trash here on this board. Don't really need extra one irl.
I have a wonderful wife, a small circle of friends and fun hobbies. I think I'm all set anon.
My girlfriend told me she bought a used DS once and the boy had taken a bunch of photos of his wiener and never deleted them haha
I have a Links Awakening DX with a save named Tori that has 21 deaths and never got to the tail key. Some girl must have thought it was a town simulator game where you could die.
Need to find it as I ripped his save just out of interest but a few years back I bought a used copy of Sapphire and it went
>Battery is dry
>"Oh well, that's pretty common these days"
>His save pops up
>600+ hours
>1 or 2 badges
>Low Pokedex count
>Saved in the contest hall at Verdanturf
>The absolute mad lad had spent fricking 600+ hours playing the Pokemon Content over and over again
people fall asleep playing
i did this often during the xy generation
i would pass out breeding after class & before my shift
i racked 200+ hours but i doubt it counts as "playing"
Most of my play times in game's are heavily inflated due to playing in bed and just zonking out lol.
Yes but on a GBA the batteries would have died during the night and Sapphire would not have auto-saved, so that time spent asleep would likely not be recorded.
>Yes but on a GBA the batteries would have died during the night
Yes, there have times I have lost much progress and I've dropped the game because of it. my AGB-001 is no longer powering on now, though, but my SP, DS, and 3DS all last the night and I can recharge them while playing if I need to.
My point was that you wouldn't hit 600 hours from falling asleep while playing the game. The system would likely run out of battery power by the time you wake up, and Pokemon didn't have autosaving until many years later so the game would not have been auto-saving your time either.
Even IF that was the case, people on average sleep around 8 hours. That would be a shitload of falling asleep, being lucky enough to have the system still have battery power when you wake up, and choosing to save to get to over 600 hours.
you're not accountingfor how that guy could have just left the GBA plugged into the charger
that pos would overheat and die
the gba is the shittiest version of gb
the previous freak owner put in the hours no way around it
Not if it was an original GBA which uses non-rechargeable batteries. The charger cable was also not very long and if you toss/turn in your sleep would get unplugged since it didn't clip into the charging port that strongly.
What do you think is more likely? That the previous owner of that game fell asleep while playing, had a GBA:SP or DS connected to a charger, the charger did not manage to become unplugged until they woke up, and then when they did they decided to save their game that was running doing nothing..... and then had this happen somewhere around FIVE DOZEN TIMES to add up to that kind of playtime.
.... or that the previous owner just simply played that section of the game a lot?
Acquiring a lot of playtime makes sense if we're talking about something like Steam where the system would not be running on batteries and records how long you are playing as you play, not so much for a battery-powered Nintendo system from two decades ago with a game that has no auto-save.
>God welcoming you to his right-hand side in heaven for this deed
S O U L
this
my copy of Lemmings for Genesis still has a MAJOR VIDEO sticker on the top of it.
>There were people who didn't rewind their cart when finished
disgusting
ABSOLUTELYDISGUSTING.GiF
I sometimes save these pictures from ebay of gameboys, well used with lots of old Pokemon stickers. I find it so charming. It makes me a little sad someone's going to refurbish this and remove all the history.
>previous owners
current occupants
I have a ton of dupes so usually don't remove stickers unless I need to use or sell it. Not even a homosexual feels thing. Often removing a sticker leaves a bright patch that looks worse than any sticker and is even more work to remove.
stop we already have a roach thread
im so fricking paranoid about this type of shit
Say goodbye, Patolo.
I kind of wish I had more games like this. My only game with a name on it is a preowned copy of pokemon Blue belonging to one Brandon G., but the text is really faded I think the store I bought it from must have tried cleaning it off.
Maybe I should just write my name on all my games to start the cycle anew
I always get rid of markings.
you fool that was signed by Donkey Kong himself
150%
i cannot stand when collectors get salty over the condition of their game cases. i love when there's used price stickers on those, does none of those collector homosexuals like soul?
No everything has to be pristine wata mint, looking pretty on a shelf collecting dust and never used.
there's no reason to have a clean white case unless you're going to sell it, it's fake like porno
i like when a game case tells a story.
Frick off, frog posting moron.
too easy
my N64 cart has a girl's name written on marker and in one of the files that I haven't deleted. She beat the game faster than I did, btw.
Paper Mario btw
My buddy stopped by with a girl I hadn't met last year, I hopped on the backseat and in the flor next to a trash bag was the booklet for Paper Mario. I asked if I could have it and she said "oh yeah the game and the box are back there too, I'm just throwing out some trash for my aunt" That's like a 250$ value and she was just tossing it out. Popped it in and the only save file was BROOKANN, so I guess her cousin is named Brooke Ann. She didn't even get the first star though, I bet she was too little to read when she got it.
Speedrunner troony. Many such cases
>it sovl because Jap man write on my cartridge
It can be any man though. Even you, hobo
Just make it look nice and accurate
Not retro but I bought a bunch of DS games from Japan and a DS Lite also from Japan specifically telling the sellers to delete any save data, most of them came wiped but the girl I got animal crossing from told me she didn’t know how and sorry. Ive refused to delete it myself especially after seeing her, her mom and her sister shared the game. I walk around the town and make sure it’s all clean and try and make sure no villagers leave. One time a villager asked where the mom has been, made me sad.
What villagers they got?
>One time a villager asked where the mom has been
Timber knows.
I somehow got my little brothers old grey brick gameboy from my mom, it has his initials gouged in the back with a knife so we could tell which one belonged to who.
I have no idea where mine went.
>Not talking about half-torn labels and dog chewed cartridges, that's shit. But something small like pic related is incredibly cute.
No, it isn't. I hate that shit.
>You can only imagine what life story this game had
Got shoved up his ass to hide it from his mom probably.
Is there any easy way to get rid of permanent marker? What I've done before is just replace the back part of the shell with a clean one from another game.
>Is there any easy way to get rid of permanent marker
dry erase
you scribble over it and then erase with alcohol or acetone
do none of these. just apply alcohol and let rest, scrub or wipe with a paper towel, repeat.
it works anon
it also removes stubborn dry erase that has been left on for months
acetone is the final solution and should obv be avoided
>buy used game on amazon
>it comes with a handwritten receipt
cute! cute!!!
only females and homosexuals like to cover their stuff in sparkles, drawings, stickers and other bullshit
t. very serious adult with 28cm dick
I save every fricking Pokemon I find.
Cute
I'll nakadashi so much in Saki that there'll be a kawa streaming out if you know what I mean.
hey Devin I have your DMG-01 it's still in great shape
yeah i agree man we need shit like this so we can pretend we have japanese girlfriends when the incel police comes to interrogate us
kek
my used ps3 fat came with photos of an underage girl and her puppy/prom dress
i set her as the wallpaper
not really a sexual thing just kind of endearing
My mom got a used Pentium III PC from her friend once and asked me to "configure stuff".
Knowing that her friend has a daughter of same age as myself, I immediately went to check document folders and browser history
Of course I found hardcore bukkake websites and double penetration porn.
Nice larp
You think women don't watch porn?
They watch even cringier shit than us
No but it seems like you do since you're the only one who suggested that.
I can confirm that they do
it's literally the first page
aka shit tier
Learn to read.
During uni I shared an apartment with a bro and some random girl, and being the certified Ganker anon that I am, one day I went to her unlocked room and in a USB stick I found nudes of her sad tiny boobs and pngs of vanilla hentai saved alongside uni stuff, kek. What a shitter.
Love this kind of stuff, I have a couple SNES games with markings and stickers on them, my favorite is one of those family stickers (the types you'd see parents put in children's books) but it's aquarium themed
That's from cartridge cartel in Fremont, Cali. Is that a good retro store? Always wanted to go down there and check it out.
Damn. Saki Nakagawa with a star for dot on the "i". Hope she's following her dreams over there in Kanagawa or wherever.
I used to buy used games from blockbuster. Nothing more infuriating than half my N64 games being ruined by those fricking blockbuster stickers.
Even my gamecube games I bought from them, they put the fricking games in DVD cases with a "NOT FOR RESALE!" cover made for rentals instead of the original boxes. I have several gamecube games like this and it never makes me not rage. Metroid prime is one of them.
I saw this gem on Facebook Marketplace a year ago and I regret not buying it.
Absolutely based, I remember doing this sorta thing with label-less cartridges too when I was a kid. A friends once brought me a bunch of cartridges without plastic cases, just the bare stuff. A lot of them weren't working, I only found one with Yoshi game, got a spare plastic case and taped my own paper label on it. I don't have it anymore but it looked kinda like this.
hahah that's awesome!
one of my friends did that with a ds cart that the label had worn off of, just wrote MARIO HACKED where the label was
got a pokemon red cart with a trainer named Pest, near the end of the game, also had a magikarp named Magicrap
> also had a magikarp named Magicrap
His rap skills are magical
The original GBA had a power adapter (it just powered it on) not a charger.
No, the GBA had no power adapter. The older Game Boy models did, though.
They sold this goofy thing that fit into the battery compartment
People complain about needing a dongle for headphones on the GBA SP but I think this aspect of the original GBA was worse
What's hilarious is that Microsoft still does that shit even with Series X controllers.
If that said "Pete Smith" you'd be throwing up. I fricking hate you weebs.
I got this Nintendo Kôsenjû SP gun from japan not too long ago, and it has these cool era appropriate label maker initials from the original owner.
kept it there for the soul.
> "get out of here old man, this place is ours"
> a bunch of arrogant young outlaws trying to bully a man sitting next to bar table
> he doesn't say anything and keeps drinking
> "so you're not just old but also deaf? we said get out! do you know who we are?"
> "a bunch of soulless punks, for sure"
> his quiet but confident raspy voice makes youngsters slightly confused
> "w-what? No, we're famous Fortniters gang!"
> "that's what I said"
> "uhh, so you want a beatdown after all, get him boys"
> anon stands up
> "and one thing i'll make sure is that bastards like you will have some of that soul"
> tips cowboy hat
> pulls out a Nintendo colt
> "N-no way!"
> "I-is that a legendary SOUL GUN?!"
> "Damn right it is, now start counting up your sins zoomie"
> intense music starts playing
>not giving them fortnite ner fungs
lol, did you really write all that? and then reply to yourself? put me in the reddit screencap! xD
I just saw the label and smiled cause it reminded me of those things you used to see in the library, and how it ended up looking kinda elegant with the placement on the gun.
the sort of thing that tells a story just by looking at it.
but nice schizo fueled rant, i can see that "Ganker humor" at work!
>nice schizo fueled rant
Your post is definitely that
I just made up random shit on the go without intention of being offensive
Gun is actually looks cool by the way.
>makes jokes at someone else's expense
>puts words in their mouth because they used the word "soul"
>backpedals
Well, sorry for being a bad clown on this very serious website. Maybe public entertainment is not my thing and I really should think about changing profession although honestly, my life doesn't offer many career choices.
nah it was a pretty ebin troll. I just took the bait lol.
lets bury this hatchet
don't engage with the schizo
>poster number isnt going up
hey man, you're a gigantic homosexual. you use this board to talk about your personal anecdotes then turn around and mock people for caring too much.
I get that, and I see how it came off that way.
but thats kinda the entire point of this thread, and I just got a bit triggered with the whole fortnite kiddie implication.
but yeah the joke was harmless and honestly creative I should have just laughed it off instead of being a gay
donk kikon, my favorite
got a PS2 memory card that has some guy's saves from the early 2000s on it
please show the class
Almost never find anything interesting on those myself.
I have bought a lot of used memorycards from thrift shops and garage sales when they are just a few bucks since I have been collecting retro games and need a lot more memorycards for my saves now. I always check them out to see what is on them out of curiosity before wiping them.
It's almost always packed with nothing Call of Duty (or something similar) and Madden/other sports games saves, and sometimes a single random unexpected game that clearly was only played a little bit and then discarded/returned.
Latest one was someone selling a whole PS2 system with the cables, a memcard, and two (crappy third party wireless) controllers for $25 at a garage sale. The memcard was just COD and Madden like usual, and one Dark Cloud 2 save.
I like buying memory cards. PS2 memory cards ALWAYS have a GTA SA save on it but I have never seen one that actually has any progress