/svidya/ - Strict /v/

>>16390

Are they on the cases themselves, or (hopefully not, but I've seen it happen) the manuals?

>>16397

What I use for getting adhesive off my cases is some paper towels, a bit of Goo-gone (stores like Ace Hardware sell it), and rubbing alcohol: the former to remove the residue, and the latter to clean up. Works extremely well in my experiences (even old, yellowed stickers that have been caked on for years come off with it; just takes a bit more time and force). Just remember that a little bit of Goo-gone goes a long way. No need to overdo it.

I suppose you have other options too depending on how long the stickers have been on. If they're not real caked on, try removing them as best you can and then use the adhesive from the back of the sticker you removed to get what remains off the case.

Probably some other options too, but those are what I do.

>>16390

>>16397

>Green label

How much did it cost you m8?

>>16414

black label. black labels are the original releases and are thus scarcer

>>16416

That's why i asked you, how much is the green label due to prices

Last time i checked the jews spinners kicked it to 35-40 bucks

Crash is at 50 CIB

>>16414

>>16417

Not him, but where I live, the Spyro and Crash games go or about the same for complete copies, be it original label or Greatest Hits. Crash is maybe $20 for the first game, $5-10 for the second, about maybe $10 for the third (throw in another $12 or so for CTR). Meanwhile with Spyro it's about $12 for the first game, $18 for the second game, and $14 or so for the third. Prices aren't a huge issue; it's mainly just trying to find them locally. The Spyro games in particular tend to be somewhat uncommon in getting traded in (for a really well selling game, anyhow) and sell rather fast.

Not sure where you live, but those games should not be as high as you're seeing, especially if they're used copies.

>>16418

Around my place there isn't a lot of PS1 games because they weren't sold officially, so we only get the used import copies, about the same prices as you said, but generally they all cost 12 with any label

Problem like you saidis trying to find them, if not then we go to eBay, where those are the prices of hell

Seriously, i know the reasons but i still don't understand the gouging of prices since 2012-13

>>16419

A good amount of older systems are prone to seeing at least some of the games in their libraries get price hikes these days (I think at least some of it stems from people that owned those older systems when they were young having a decent amount of money to spend now and willing to pay at times unreasonable amounts of money to play classics they either grew up with or missed out on, with a lot of resellers being only too happy to take advantage of that). In particular, the SNES and Gamecube have seen a lot of their "must play" games shoot up a good bit. Even worse with games that were already kind of hard to find and/or seemed to have gotten popular all of a sudden.

From what I've heard about the situation and PS1 games (admittedly for a while I was left without any decent used game stores where I live since Gamestop drove everything out locally and it took a few years to really find anywhere good in neighboring towns, so I'm not entirely sure of how the situation played out with the PS1), they're mostly at a reasonable level these days, barring some notably rare games (like Suikoden II, Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Persona 1 and 2, Tales of Destiny and Tales of Eternia, etc). If they did see big price hikes the way the SNES did, they've since gone down at least somewhat. Maybe the PSN allowing for cheap digital distribution of older games has helped reduce things somewhat.

But yeah, when it comes to games on older systems, I generally try to avoid ebay and Amazon if I can help it (with some games though, I have had to set that aside if I just don't see them locally at all for an extended period of time). Chances are I can find it a fair bit cheaper locally with some patience and luck, and probably in better condition than I'd get at the same price online.

>>16422

The thing is that SNES games were always somewhat pricey but it blew out from 2012-13 according to our friend PriceCharter

Well, not just SNES, any "old" system other than the OG Xbox has seen important rises in their used games

Even the Saturn games, which were dirt cheap since the day they came to the U.S. are now expensive, a Virtua Fighter 2 will cost 15 to 25, Astal from being a normal 10 buck game is now 60 and let's not even mention Panzer Dragoon Saga

Even exceedingly normal games are expensive as hell, like Marvel vs Capcom 2 for the Dreamcast, 60 to 80

These spinners guys just go to your popnmom store or thrift store, hoard all the good stuff and resell it, they dont even like video games.

Very infuriating

>>16426

>Well, not just SNES, any "old" system other than the OG Xbox has seen important rises in their used games

The bulk of the PS2's library's still pretty reasonable too, though maybe not to the same degree as the Xbox.

Panzer Dragoon Saga at least has the excuse that Sega really didn't bother shipping many copies west (think it was about 30,000 or so after only three prints, from what I've read on it) and then managed to lose the code for the game. Still not a game I'd pay the $300+ places ask for it.

>Even exceedingly normal games are expensive as hell, like Marvel vs Capcom 2 for the Dreamcast, 60 to 80

The fact that Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 goes for like $60+ disc only (even more complete) baffles me, especially since it sold well enough to get a Greatest Hits print as well as the original label one. I suppose that with some of these fighting games, the demand's simply high enough that asking $50 or more for them isn't an issue for some people though.

>These spinners guys just go to your popnmom store or thrift store, hoard all the good stuff and resell it, they dont even like video games.

What few small business game stores remain where I live tend to charge too much for that to be feasible for resellers to trawl (now, whether or not they're charging too much when it comes to regular customers is debatable; there's one place here that seems to manage to hit the sweet spot of too much for resellers, but still pretty damn reasonable for regular customers, other places here can be pretty ridiculous in general though). The pawn shops, thrift stores, goodwills, etc though? I've been thinking for a while there's likely resellers buying anything worth doing so from them, considering how I never find anything good there. Either that or people just use them as a dumping ground for sports games, movie games, and shovelware normal game stores won't take.

>>16414

7 dollars. That including the shipping.

>>16430

Also before someone points it out, the sticker on the CD isn't what I paid for. It's just there, when it arrived. Really, it's 7 dollars.

>>16435

That happens at times. At least this time you actually paid less than the previous owner I suppose. I've ordered games before that cost a lot more than the old price tag listed on it (which the previous seller never removed). Maybe it's just me, but it makes me think that the least some of these people could do is not rub in the fact you paid a lot more for the game than they did.

>>16427

>DBZBT3 60 bucks the disc

Really? i paid 15 for a complete copy and i felt ripped because like you said there's maybe 5 million of them

I think we became too used to cheap prices, but really i would think that's what it would cost, brand new games that aren't being bought cost 20, used copy should go for 10 and really good mint for maybe 15 (and maybe)

And with some games it's not like there's people who dont want to buy it, that's the thing with spinners, absurd prices are because there's demand and you want to get the copy of someone, that someone asks for a lot because it's your job to take it from him

Spinners very rarely keep games, they just unload them to any website and charge full demand price for it like there wasn't people selling it or if they didn't want to buy it. And everyone does that so it artificially rises the price, more so because people eat it up

The modern mainstream video game industry is in trouble, quality-wise due to not very good consumer practices and standards, but also the used copy market, rich daddy hipsters and nostalgia old men are inflating the market steadingly, and they base their judgement with your typical LIST OF HIDDEN GEMS, UNDERRATED GAMES, TOP 10 GAMES YOU MAY NOT KNOW, etc and almost every game of those lists went to extreme rises, like Tomba and Klonoa, both 80 bucks when in 2010 they were max 25

Cathering to the mainstream audience ONLY really has damaged the hobby because i can't really think of a good perk from all this ordeal, but i can come up with 10 reasons

>>16430

But this is great, that's really cheap

>>16466

>Really? i paid 15 for a complete copy and i felt ripped because like you said there's maybe 5 million of them

That $60 is what it costs on average where I live (The PS2 version, anyhow; think the Wii one's a bit cheaper), and for such an apparently common game, it rarely gets traded in. In general though demand seems to be just that high for some of these games. Normally the amount of copies available would make you think they'd be pretty damn cheap, but demand has remained to the point that there's enough people willing to pay those prices that they tend to stay at that price (Super Smash Bros. Melee is another decent example, being a very common Gamecube game, but in high enough demand that people don't seem to think twice about throwing down $50-55 for a used copy; personally I'd just wait until I find a cheap mispriced copy, but that's one of those games everywhere seems to know how much it's going for and how easy it is to find a buyer for).

>like Tomba and Klonoa, both 80 bucks when in 2010 they were max 25

Haven't had any luck with finding a cheap copy of Tomba, but it makes me feel pretty good to have found a complete copy of Klonoa for only $35 a while back if $80's been the average for a while. But yeah, while it's nice to see some underplayed games getting more time that they deserve, it would be nice if prices didn't get so jacked up in reflecting that (though I suppose that's to be expected from an increase in demand when no more physical copies are being made; at the very least some games do see cheap PSN and VC releases if one doesn't particularly care either way between physical or digital, but not all of them have).