It's just a Hang Out: Can you please stop whining for five minutes?

[Sheik]

Yeah, I picked up a clone system and a few loose carts when I was in America recently. Mostly just stuff that back home would be stupidly expensive, region locked or just hard to find. Though the best solution I find is to buy Japanese carts any time the language barrier isn't an issue. More often than not they're literally half the price of the English versions.

Because English is the language of Gods
But if I researched more, I could've made headway on my budding collection.

nope, working ones for all of these on eBay with seller 100% feedback over 100 sales.

Good Luck.
It'll definitely be needed.

[Stark]

poop

[Sheik]

Nah. If all you want is an old arcade one with no hard drive it would only cost you 50-60.

Would be worth it for modding, but then I would still have to come out with a hard drive.

[GunSlinger Boy]

Yeah even a damaged PS3 will run around $100 or more.



Nah. If all you want is an old arcade one with no hard drive it would only cost you 50-60.

the HDDs are nice and cheap on eBay, as well as the fact that you CAN just get two 16GB flash drives.

[GunSlinger Boy]

Would be worth it for modding, but then I would still have to come out with a hard drive.

can you mod it to run N64 emulators?

[Slacker Magician]

Sometimes you can get a working 360 for $2.50 .

[Milady]

PS3 emulator.

[Gypsy]

Because English is the language of Gods
But if I researched more, I could've made headway on my budding collection.

Sometimes JP versions are double or more. Stuff like Tech Romancer and Bangai-O. I did however pay very little for my JP copy of Powerstone when the US release was going for $40. No clue what it's going for now, I'm sure the PSP release dug into the value.

[GunSlinger Boy]

PS3 emulator.

dafuq?

[Cosmic]

@Cosmic: One of those fc twin things? There are a bunch of them I lose track.

They really helped bring the value down on NES and SNES consoles though.

Yeah, I did look for an American SNES while I was there but couldn't find one for a decent price so I picked up a Retro Duo. I'm pretty happy with it. Outside of region locked PAL titles that wouldn't run on an import console anyway I've only encountered one game that doesn't work properly so far.

[Sheik]

poop

Sup.

[Stark]

Sup.

Sup

[Gypsy]

PS3 emulator.

HELLO, mY nAMe is ZHAMFIR HABIBI. I WAS WONDERING IF MY COMPUTER COULD RUN PS3 EMULATOR. THESE ARE MY SPECS.

*list specs from 15 year old computer that should be recycled*

[Drageuth]

Blame greed, but yeah, it is pricey to start and/or finish an SNES collection.

Blame nostalgia. People are willing to pay more for a game they remember from their childhood. Mix that with a bunch of other people looking for the same game, and the prices can go up fairly quickly. Rarity really only comes into play for the extremely rare titles - games with a run of 2-10K, for example.

^

Definitely. Price setting/fixing league of evil is all over the SNES.

Part of the reason I picked DC to collect (besides just loving the console for no apparent reason) is that the average price per game isn't all that high.

One of the reasons I love the NES is that, on average, the prices are reasonable. For around 500 of the games for the system, they generally go for around $5-$15. Then maybe another 100 or so go for around $20-$40. It's those handful of extremely rare titles (Stadium Events, Surprise at Dino Peak, Bubble Bobble 2, Duck Tales 2, etc, etc) that make me regret collecting for my favourite console ever sometimes.

[Slacker Magician]

dafuq?

I run one on my supercomputer all the time.