Want to own original retro games

>want to own original retro games
>your most beloved games are 200$ each

Sometimes I feel like crucifying people like MetalJesusRocks

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>mfw used to rent games from Hollywood Video/Blockbuster instead of buying them

Just buy an everdrive, faggboi

Why do you wanna own them? They're virtual entertainment. The plastic casing that contains it is meaningless if you're not appreciating the game directly.

Get a retropie m8. I bought one the other day I love it

Why didn't you keep your games you fag.

This

Enjoy your input lag.

Caleb choked hard as usual

*ahem*

emulators

I live in an Albertan town with a sweet-ass retro game store that sells them for around 20-30 canadian bucks

>worked at vidya store long time ago
>got old school stuff cheap
>passed up some games thinking I'd just buy them later
>looking them up now

I really can't believe some of these prices. Wish I would've just bought more shit back in the day.

It doesn't lag at all lmao

buy PS4 games now

you'll be a trillionaire in 20 years.

>Mom took me to retro game stores during that time when SNES/NES games were a couple of bucks
>Got all kinds of rare games without even realizing how rare they were/how expensive they would be
>Still have a Mega Man X with a 15$ sticker on it, Earthbound with a 25$ sticker, etc.

I'm still missing a decent few of the good SNES games, but I'm really lucky I own a lot of the more expensive ones still. Wish I could get a Mega Man 7 or Harvest Moon, I'll be damned if I pay that much for a video game.

I built mine a couple of days ago too. What games are you playing? Have you had any issue with MAME roms? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Not their fault you're late to the party.

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input lag.

I've seriously considered stocking up on PS2 and OG Xbox games since you can get them for next to nothing right now. It's like N64 and SNES games were in the early 2000s.

>Go to flea market just for shits and giggles
>Browsing the SNES alley to laugh at the ridiculously exhorbitant prices these scalping faggots are willing to put up.
>A link to the Past, a super common game, is 70$
>Look to the game right beside it.
>Another ALTTP cart with a sticker written "Reproduction" on
>It is also exactly 70$

I was talking to a guy I know who owns a retro shop where he collects and sell nothing but top maintained games either boxed or not and even he explained to me that the prices everyone sells old games for are inflated a sfuck and nowhere near representative of the actual value of the game. It's just a bunch of scalping faggots who inflate prices so they can sell a damaged cartridge at twice its full value just because they're the onky ones still selling these games.

I built mine Saturday my buddy is suppose to send me his game files. Right now I just have the two snes power Ranger games. Nes metroid and final fantasy. Also have Fire red and a hacked fire red room (sweet version)

I started to do that recently, been actively buying some of the "rare" and "classic" PS2 titles for like 10-15$ where I can find them.

Sell repros and you can feel the gift of giving.

This. especially bundled games released for the system that slipped under the radar

:3

It's ridiculous, and even worse that people pay these prices for this shit. I literally just went on ebay this morning out of sheer curiosity to see how much Harvest Moon on the SNES was going for. There are these fags selling it for like 210$ with half the label ripped off.

Just emulate them man, what could be the difference?

t...t....that's impossible.... those stores they.... they look up on ebay the general prices and adapt so that customers only save the shipping....

man if you weren't from Sup Forums I'd ask you to ship em here and I'd pay you but I can't trust an user, not anymore

*ahem*

Doesn't matter unless you're a speedrunner in which case you should think about fixing your life

>tfw when my friend sold me a SNES with 7 games including Earthbound for 40$ and I actually made money off that deal by reselling that SNES for 100$ since I already owned one

I'm going to hell

ITT people who don't understand collecting
>lol y wud u buy original spiderman issue 1 u can read it 4 free online

I just bought a mint copy of Chrono Trigger for 180$ CAN

did I do good? I hope so

Just get the Japanese versions of Mega Man X2 and X3. You don't need to read text to enjoy them

They're pirates. Realistic pirates can be had for $7 online and you can jew gamestore employees who can't tell the difference

I guess that's reasonable enough

Collector fags are just mindless consumers with no self control, there's nothing to get. Surprised that they're not all fatties.

I'd say get a flashcart but X2/3 use a special chip so you're boned on that end

This hurts. I bought a nice copy 7 years ago for $30, sold it two years later for $50... now it's that fucking much?

user, just go on ebay, your mind will be blown

>tfw I own Steel Battalion in mint condition

Only played it Once for an hour or so

the game fucking sucked and I regretted my purchase back then,but consider it a decent investment today

You just gotta camp out and monitor auctions and wait for the deal to spring up, if it isn't one of the crazy priced ones like EVO you can generally get a fair priced auction within a week as most of these games are in high stock and only inflated due to the market brute forcing its prices. There's a shit ton of auctions of Crash Bandicoot N Sane going for the retail of $40 but there's a few trying to force $60 for example.

Keep an eye out for high auctions that have been sitting with Best Offers and try to make them budge 20%-30% (I've gotten people to drop 40%-50% for high cost items) or auctions with slight unnoticeable flaws or low activity. Ideally there's two or more running low cost auctions as the one that ends sooner will attract the most aggressive buyers and distract from the other. I also recommend going for CIB games as sellers think their carts are worth gold and barely discount from complete sets and they'll be that much more collectible in the long run.

Retail game locations are a hit and miss, most of them charge crazy prices but I supposed if you made friends with one they might give you fair deals. Everything went downhill when the amiibo crazy hit (got worse with NES mini) and it's just a matter of surviving in this collecting market. I don't ever see the prices going down from here although they'll stabilize a bit as people won't have enough money to pay the prices if they go any higher.

>tfw on a reproduction cart binge because I'm making good label images
Terranigma is on the way, red cart shell

>mfw I have MMX and MMX2

It's actually bittersweet because I want MMX3 to complete my collection and the longer I put it off the more expensive it becomes.

Typically I emulate or use a flash cart but sometimes I just want to own a physical copy of the game.
How much is the x collection? I bought the disk on ps2 a few years ago for $20.

$20 brand new on PS2, like $40 complete on Gamecube if I recall

Why? just buy a fucking flash cart?

>lol y wud u buy original spiderman issue 1 u can read it 4 free online
Why would you?

>mentioning Steel Battalion around here

user STOP

I got X for 50 but it's like 300$ for X2/3

I can't buy this without feeling completely irresponsible and regret it even though I would outplay the fuck out of those games and always try to aim for original games

it's just too much

Was it just the cart or a complete box set? AlttP boxed is going for $110-$150 minimum now. It's only going to get worse once SNES mini comes out.

Pic related for the label on Terranigma

>wants a business
>gives the consumer complete access to every game
Not thinking straight, goy.

>POST THE FIRST FEELING YOU FELT WHEN YOU PLAYED THIS VIDEO

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>tfw I used to rent wild guns on snes and now it costs more than Earthbound

1. I like the idea of having fan translations of games and the like merging with my official collection.
2. Getting a flashcart would probably kill any desire to collect games.

As a actual jew not even memeing here I'll call that guy a fucking idiot. You can buy a flash cart for the price of two or three repo carts.

I bought Megaman X3 boxed for FIFTY FUCKING BUCKS back when I was 13 years old in 2004. Now a boxless cartridge with a badly damaged sticker goes around for 380 bucks. You can't tell me that in the span of a mere 14 years the value of the game has fucking tripled? How do you justify this? How do you justify selling a reproduction cartridge for the same price as an original? These are all issues part of having to deal with retro game sellers nowadays. I remember one of my friend bought the rarest game on SNES, apparently being Aero Fighter, for 180$ at an Ebay auction and back then, we both thought it was a lot of money for an old game and My rarest game, being Megaman X 3, is worth the double of that ammount a mere 10 years later.

Fuck off underage frogfaggot.

Flash cart owner here, I bought a copy of EB for $220. Not true, just means you actually like games. I'll play a game on a flashcart, if I love it I buy a real copy.

>Underage

Fun fact faggot there are people whos first console was a 360/PS3 who can post here now. I dont think someone who knows snes games fits under your underage category anymore

Some day, eh?

But user PS4 has no games

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I think people just like having a physical cartridge to relive the old times. At least that's why I buy physical sometimes.

It's worse, it didn't triple in 14 years it tripled in about two years when a mixture of Amiibo scalping, NES mini scalping, media hype & youtubers drew attention to old games as profit. I have a copy of Metal Storm I've had since I was a kid and I remember being pleasantly surprised it was worth 50 bux a few years ago. It's now worth in the hundreds.

Fair point.
Guess I'll just cap off the repro stint with SMT2 and then just stick to flash carts from here on out. For some reason I can't help but like having copies of these games as if they were authentic. But yeah, if I were to go full repro I'd generally be funneling money for no real reason, especially since some games keep getting new translations, like Fire Emblem 4 (which still isn't finished)

I would say just buy a real jap copy and play them via flash cart for English. I own some jap games that are text heavy, don't play them but I like having a real copy. Repos are just a huge waste of time to me.

>tfw had a snes when PS1 was the rage
>like 15 games, all gud gems DK1, DK2, DK3, Mario Kart, Mario RPG, Wild Guns, SF2, Top Gear, Super Metroid, Sparkster, Bomberman 2, Killer Instinct, DOOM (kek), Joe and Mac 2, Mario All Starts.
>use to trade games with a friend
>school was a public shithole
>games from my backpack would go missing
>fuck, sorry bro, I guess you can keep my game for it.
>it happens again
>like at the 4th time I say fuck it and check everyone's backpack
>find my game (my other friend's game) in the backpack of the stupid retard of the classroom
>"- told me to keep it hidden"
>the motherfucking nigger stole my fucking games and then had the nerve to pretend we were friends.
Motherfucking piece of shit nigger

>end selling the rest of my snes stuff
>get almost enough for a ps1
>mom got no moni, ask me to give it to her
>never see the money again
>end without snes nor ps1
TRUST NOBODY, NOT EVEN YOURSELF'S ELF

>ESRB rating
>on an SNES box

MEGA DRIVE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
>phantasy star
>streets of rage
>golden axe
>shinobi
>shining force

Yes, and?

Boxed shining force 1 instore near me for 60 bucks

Worth?

Mostly thanks to mortal kombat, it was basically why ratings came into play.

I bought Snatcher complete with the light gun for $80-90 years ago and thought it was expensive then. Checked the price today and I actually said 'what in the fuck' loud enough that I woke my sleeping dog. Jesus christ.

Nah, okay price but a bit high.

I'd love a Terranigma reproduction, but I don't know how to guarantee it would be the NTSC-patched English ROM and I'd want it to be on a normal gray cart.

I lived in a family where whenever I got a new console I had to give up my old one + games to a cousin or something. Luckily for me we somehow managed to keep all my old SNES & N64 games. I don't have anything particularly rare but I do have all the staples. Marios, Donkey Kongs, Zeldas. Based on the prices of the local classic vidya shop I realized I have about $700 worth of classic vidya.

Point being if there's 1 game I'm missing I don't mind spending some cash considering my collections are pretty much complete already.

Contact the site in question beforehand.
I was able to get the SMT1 ROM with Orden's bug patch and the automap hotkey

In Australia the same carts as the NTSC are used, Terranigma was released there. A official NTSC Terraningma exists, just rare.

I'd probably get one from AliExpress, which would be cheap but asking the seller would mean asking someone with a limited grasp of English.

I'm not risking traveling to Australia and getting killed by snakes and spiders just for a video game.

I had friends that had EVO Search for Eden among a lot of other games that skyrocketed in value. When we hit our teens I asked them what happened to all their games when we moved on to Playstation/n64 and they said their mom gave them away to some baby cousins.

I can just imagine those games getting shipped to South East Asia and rotting there somewhere.

That's exactly what I think of sometimes man. It sucks but I'm glad to have most of my old collection back at least.

>Finally start working
>want to own physical copies of all the games I loved as a kid, but which I couldn't have due to living in a PAL territory (Earthbound, etc.) where none of that good shit got released
>Earthbound at this point costs $160
Factor in shipping to Australia plus exchange rates and holy fuck this hobby is expensive. Luckily this was a few years ago now so it's not as bad as if I were to buy everything at once, today; but still. I think if I buy anything else for my SNES it'll be an Everdrive because games like Megaman X3, Lufia, Pocky and Rocky, Hagane, Gargoyles Quest, etc. are just ludicrously expensive. I play all these on a HDCRT with an RGB-modded SNES mini and OEM controllers so it's otherwise as close to the genuine experience as one can get.

My god, just use the emulator, there's no reason today to have the cartridges, only enthusiasts will buy

>only enthusiasts
Hmm, it's almost as if you're on a forum meant for the discussion of videogames...I wonder...

>retro gaming in Australia
wew lad might as well collect rolex

>I hate other people because I was irresponsible with my own games

>tfw megaman 7 and x3 are going for $200+
>tfw have both

Holy shit, MAME works on those?

What's the most valuable game you own Sup Forums?

Sup Forums is mostly casuals or just lazy people, /vr/ is for collector autism

R-Type III, Pocky & Rocky 2, or Space Megaforce. Dunno what their exact values are but I've been told they're expensive these days.

>tfw i literally have no idea what happened to my n64, or genesis, and all the games for it. or my legos

seriously at some point in my early teens i had a gamecube and all that stuff disappeared somewhere

Big box Earthbound. Got it from my cousin when we were kids for about 30$.

Harvest moon back to nature

Too many to list, but I own Pocky and Rocky, Wild Guns, Sunset Riders complete, Monster in my Pocket x2 complete, Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure complete, etc.

You can see a bit of the collection in this pic.

>Have a bunch of old games and systems
>They're stuck at my Parents house after I moved out because they're too annoying to ship out especially when I plan on leaving this area soon
>No time to play them because of work anyways
Being an adult sucks.

While technically a game system and game etc., I have the Mother 3 Game Boy Micro bundle complete. A friend in Japan bought it when it came out and sent it to me as a Christmas gift.

same thing happened to my GBA SP and metroid fusion

weird thing is i still have the manual for zero mission

>parents want to move far east
>i dont want to
>i find a job
>i live alone
>find out mom sold off all my old vidya for liquor money

>having a shit family

feel bad for you fuckers.

ssshhhhiiiiiittttt niggah

when the fuck did you get SMASH TV?

can't really remember some of the collection are from my childhood and some are before the retro craze.

Reminder that repro grey cartridges don't look like the actual grey cartridges.

I'm getting an SD2SNES for every game that will work on it, to play at 60Hz. I still have my PAL copy of Yoshi's Island, at least it was PAL optimised.