/v/ - Video Games

Fucking forgot SWAT collection as well as Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 for PC.

>>8779884

> XK3Y 360

Is it worth getting a modded 360?

Recent acquisitions?

>two ISA Soundblaster cards

>one ISA and one PCI Trident video card

>one ISA ethernet NIC

>Hewlett Packard 66XM 486 DX2 66MHz with 32MB of RAM

>Packard Bell Legend 300CD with a dead CD drive, 586 60MHz with 8MB of RAM

>16MB EDO SIMM RAM (2x 8MB) for the Pentium system

>VGA splitter with no AC adapter

>Crash & Burn pinball [DOS], new in (beat up) box

>Playstation Underground 2.2, complete

Beyond the PS Underground disc set, nothing for consoles, as I have almost every system, and I almost never see games or accessories for anything older than the Xbox now.

>>8780146

It's depressing really. Shit like Mega Drive carts used to be common as fuck, and it's rare to even see a sports game for the system let alone anything good.

Did find some SNES carts today though. Yoshi's Island and shit. Still there, but dunno if worth picking up since never owned a SNES.

>>8780037

I got it mainly for multiplats and the few good exclusives so yeah for me it was.

>>8780891

Touch fuzzy, get dizzy. That is all.

>>8779090

Still no pickups lately. Been debating about whether to get the Vita or PS3 version of Odin Sphere Leifthrasir later this year and have been saving spending money for that.

Reminds me though that I need to update my collection images, and with it still bright and sunny out right now I might just do that.

>>8780891

If they weren't asking too much for it (fat chance given its a game on a system that's a favorite for marking prices way up on, but who knows) and you like platformers, I'd say to maybe grab it while it's there.

>>8781029

If you mean a universal selector, I've got a nice pelican brand one for my systems. has enough sockets for inputs of five systems and one output to the TV, and you just click the buttons on the front to choose which is the system being displayed on the TV screen.

Just picked up an xbox, 4 controllers and over 30 xbox games for like, 100 bucks. Fucking amazing how cheap the damn thing is right now.

>>8781290

Believe it's £8 a cart or something. Still haven't got a console to play it on, but since the prices, it's still a consideration. Only Nintendo console I even have set up anymore is the Wii for Nintendont/USB loading.

>>8781314

Oh, and here's the games

blackstone magic and steel

Blinx the time sweeper

Crash Twisanity

Crimson skies

Destroy all Humans

Deus Ex Invisible War

Everything or Nothing

Family guy the game

Far Cry Instincts

Full Spectrum warrior

Gunvalkyrie

Hitman Blood Money

Iron Phoenix

Lego star wars the original trilogy

Malice

Max Payne

Mechassault 2

Medal of honor frontline

Midnight club 3 dub edition

Outlaw Volleyball

Panzer dragoon Orta

Phantom Dust

Project Gotham Racing 2

Shellshock Nam 67

Splinter cell double agent

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

Test Drive

The Godfather

Timesplitters 2

Whacked

Whiplash

>>8781290

I mean a universal plugin for my gamecube, PS3, PS2, Wii, Xbox etc to HDMI. Send me a link of what you use, and if you find anything like that?

>>8780891

Hipsters with trust funds ruined the hobby by paying kings' ransoms for shit just because it was old, so anything that was really good now sells for $∞.99 Or rather, sits around forever until some neo-hipster buys it after it falls out of favor of the first ring of hipsters, to further incentivize overpricing of classic games.

>>8781290

>If you mean a universal selector, I've got a nice pelican brand one for my systems. has enough sockets for inputs of five systems and one output to the TV

That's just an AV switchbox. A universal AV cable has connectors for multiple proprietary AV output ports, all going to one set of s-video.audio/composite plugs. Useful in preventing a tangled rats' nest of cables.

As far as "everything to HDMI", that's going to cost a lot of money, or a shitload of time at the drafting table with a calculator and a soldering iron, then waiting months for the cables and connectors to arrive from China.

>>8781447

>As far as "everything to HDMI", that's going to cost a lot of money, or a shitload of time at the drafting table with a calculator and a soldering iron, then waiting months for the cables and connectors to arrive from China.

Well shit. Guess I should just do it individual. I'd just like access to my gamecube, and Xbox really.

>>8781491

Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox to s-video is easy enough to come by. Component for Gamecube is bullshit, because the video encoder is in the cable itself, not the system. Use a Wii to play GCN games in component video mode. A Wii is cheaper than the fucking Gamecube component cable, and cables for the Wii are almost free.

>>8781393

Not a bad collection. May want to install CFW on the Xbox as well as upgrade the HDD to install stuff as well. Download games to try before bothering looking for them.

>>8781447

Depends on the console really. Nintendo are scalped to high hell. SEGA seems to be rather lax in comparison, with either 'known' titles going for high prices, or games with names linked to Nintendo (Ex. Contra, Castlevania). Other consoles are probably locked down tight by their niche (pretty sure PCE market is fucked entirely).

C64 and shit are cheap as fuck. About 50p a game really. Could have grabbed a whole bag of Spectrum games at one point for £5.

>>8781447

>>8781422

Yeah, I suppose I meant a switchbox. Still, it helps when you want to not have to constantly fiddle with input channels or have limited AV slots on your TV (I'm stuck using an HDTV due to lack of space for a bulky CRT, and I think there's maybe just one or two sets of AV input on the back).

>>8781393

Maybe you should look into the Otogi games? I hear they're pretty good, if rather hard to find (though last I remember, demand for them wasn't high, so while rare they should be too expensive when you do find them).

>>8781579

I own a component cable. Was just wondering if there was one to HDMI.

>>8781592

I have no TV, so I have to use my monitor.

>>8781589

SNES, N64, Gamecube, many PS2, and even classic computer games are being sold for bullshit money online, and by hoarders at flea markets. Especially for stuff like GEOS and Amiga Workbench and Kickstart pairs.

>>8781592

I have two AV switchboxes. One s-video, one component, and even a pair of HDMI switchboxes, though I've only taken one out of the package, and the component switchbox only gets used when I hook my TV up.

The s-video switchbox goes to my VCR, which goes to my capture card, which goes to my HDMI switchbox via the rest of my computer, which then goes to my monitor. It's a lag-inducing mess.

>>8781665

Amiga is fucking retarded in price. The accelerators alone make it a high barrier for entry.

Anyone here going for a complete set of anything?

I am trying to do a Vectrex set

I don't think I would ever try anything bigger than that though

>>8781677

I personally don't think going for complete system sets is worth it, especially if it means you'd wind up with a lot of shovelware, sports games, and licensed garbage taking up space and eating further into your wallet beyond what the actually worthwhile games have already done. Which isn't to say that the occasional sports or licensed game can't also be a good game (such as The Warriors), but I'd rather pick up games I'm honestly interested in. I suppose with a system with a really small library it's not as big an issue as trying for, say, all the games the PS2 saw.

I suppose it shouldn't have to be said, but collect games you actually like and want to play (or replay) rather than collecting for the sake of collecting.

I finished getting the mainline Resident evil games on ps1 except for dual shock directors cut and the light gun game

>>8781677

FUCK a complete set. If anything, get a system, all the documentation you can find (in digital form, natch), all the controllers and accessories you can find, and get a fucking flash cart/mod chip/other solution. That way you can still buy games as opportunities arise, but won't EVER be tempted to throw a car payment's worth of money at some rare Sega CD title or something. There is a flash cart or two for the Vectrex, and newly-produced games. Same for Atari 2600.

>>8781677

I've considered it, but the amount of shit I'd wind up with would be completely pointless.

>>8781677

A complete set of games for a console?

Fuck that, the majority of most console libraries are filled with crap, and with PC, forgetaboutit. Either that, or you're stuck paying 50 bucks for shit like JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL or mortgaging your house for Magical chase.

>>8781592

>Maybe you should look into the Otogi games? I hear they're pretty good, if rather hard to find (though last I remember, demand for them wasn't high, so while rare they should be too expensive when you do find them)

Yeah maybe i will pick that up, i remember seeing that game around on Ebay, it's expensive compared to the other xbox games, but it's still pretty cheap.

>>8781868

Most Xbox games aren't too bad in price last I checked, barring a few like Conker's Live and Reloaded, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, and Metal Wolf Chaos (if you import anyhow). I think the last time I checked Otogi was maybe $12-15 complete and Otogi 2 was about $20-25.

>>8781868

Steel Battalion and its controller can go for fairly high amounts.

Metal Wolf Chaos is absurd.

>>8782136

May as well, since it'll be less of a pain in the ass when you want those extras later.

So i found Alisia dragoon for 15 bucks in the case just looked it up on jewbay and it's 100+. got lucky

VITA

Virtue's Last Reward

XBONER

Killer Instinct Combo Breaker

Forza 5

Haven't had any luck finding too many retro games locally. Late last year I got lucky online and had a few nice finds, getting some gems in excellent condition, like Sonic 3D Blast for the Saturn, Dino Crisis 3, and the Limited Edition versions of the Devil Survivor games for the 3DS.

>>8782293

Nice, only time I've seen a complete copy locally it was $65.

>>8782391

It's pretty sweet but no manual tho.

>>8782279

It's just the fact unsure how well a chip performs compared to what a standard softmod does. What's the extra benefits.

It's £139 with an 800GB HDD already installed. It's moderately tempting.

Tempted to get Ace Combat 1/2/3 imported new. Shit's cheap.

>>8782553

Those SMT games aren't likely to go for that much anymore unless they're a special edition. Atlus has reprinted all the PS2 games aside from the basic Persona 3 at this point to my knowledge.

>>8782751

Yeah, I know. DDS is a special edition with art book, the others are the basic ones I think.

I got some PS1 era weeb rpgs still new too like Valkyrie Profile and Tactic Ogre. I was kind of a collector back then. Time to move on.

>>8783070

>Hearts R

Shame Namco didn't care enough about the game's western release to keep 8-4 on as short a leash as they had with past Tales localizations (8-4 having handled all the releases since Abyss PS2, most of which were pretty good quality in my experiences).

Good luck on finding a cheap copy of Quarantine if you're trying to complete that set.

>>8783175

Ive got a friend who has everything BUT the game, which Ill be able to buy off him. And finding a lose copy of Quarantine shouldnt be too bad, and a lot less expensive.

>>8783376

Yeah, it would certainly be easier on your wallet if you could chimaera a complete copy together from the parts. I usually don't buy incomplete games unless a quick search online shows that there's a cheap manual and/or case to be found (in which case, I'm not passing up dropping $15 or so total on a game that normally goes for $60+).

Also, good luck with the G.U. games if those are always ones you're interested in. Managed to find Volumes 2 and 3 for about $10 each complete last year, so hopefully some other anons looking for them can still get lucky finds of stuff like that.

>>8783783

Not sure what it's at these days, but I got a copy a year or two back for $22 or so complete, so if it's in good shape and complete, I'd say you didn't do too badly.

I got Animal Crossing and Discworld for $2.99 and $1.99 respectively

>>8783858

Yeah, the Gamecube seems to have become the next SNES as far as most of the worthwhile games shooting up in price, in some cases simply for being on a Nintendo system (for example, Timesplitters: Future Perfect is roughly twice as much on the Gamecube as it is for the PS2). Meanwhile as far as other sixth gen systems go, the PS2 and Xbox libraries are for the most part reasonable, though some PS2 games have been climbing.

At least I can still get lucky occasionally with cheap-ish Gamecube finds, even if not nearly as frequently as the PS2. Path of Radiance for $10 ($15 counting having to order a manual online), Twilight Princess for $30, PSO Episodes I and II Plus for $35, Pikmin 2 for $2, with all of them going for at least twice as much normally where I live.

The DS has also seen prices for games increase a fair bit, at least as far as complete copies go (the ones that haven't seen reprints, anyhow), considering Gamestop happily trashed the cases and manuals to make space for apple devices and accessories.

>>8783070

I mean all those which got out in the US, including Devil Summoner 2 still boxed with the Jack Frost plushie.

>>8783843

well then I fucked up. It didn't come with the manual, and there was sticker residue from the price tags. The main reason I bought it was because it was a gamecube game that wasn't $60 canuckistan dollars.

>>8784209

As long as the sticker residue is on the case and the not the cover art itself, it'll come off with a bit of goo-gone, elbow grease, and rubbing alcohol for clean up (that's what I use for every game with an actual case I have, gets it off 99% of the time, though in some cases it'll take a lot more effort and time; worst I ever had to remove was stickers on a PS1 game case that had been on there for likely close to two decades, and that took an hour).

But yeah, you might have slightly overpaid for it not being complete.

Most recent stuff I picked up;

>PC Big Box

Slave Zero

Caesar III

Master of Orion 2

A bunch of Disney Infinity stuff sold most of it off and kept the good shit

Crackdown 2

Pokemon Ruby, Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, and Sapphire bundle on the GBA obviously.

>>8784506

How much did you pay for Emerald?

>>8785017

It was 50AUD for the bundle. So 10 bucks.

>>8785092

Not exactly sure how roobucks compare to US dollars, but that doesn't sound too bad. Think Where I live Ruby and Sapphire average about $24 each, FRLG about $28, and Emerald about $32-40 in good condition (cart only of course).

Kind of wish I still had my old copy of Emerald since I still have LeafGreen, but there's always emulation since I don't feel like dropping $40 on it. Maybe next time I see a copy that a store's mis-priced for $20 or less I'll grab it, but all the cheap ones I've seen lately have been in rather poor shape, and I'm not sure how ORAS has impacted demand or availability of the GBA Hoenn games.

>>8785134

>Not exactly sure how roobucks compare to US dollars

Think Cucknadian money, only even weaker

>>8785134

It adds up to about 7.60usd

>>8785157

Aren't they dead even right now?

>>8785161

Wow, that's pretty damn cheap on an individual level. Were all the carts and labels in good condition too?

>>8785229

Emerald and Fire Red had some light fading to the label and the edges were a bit scuffed. The others also had some scuffs to the corners of their labels.

I'm not sure if they all save at this point, I haven't had a chance to test them yet.

So obviously collectors gotta have crazy stories

List some of yours

>In Highschool

>10/10 Teacher does draw for his M1 Genesis and games (Sonic 1-3,Spinball, Jurassic Park, Aladdin and Taz-Mania, all in case though Spinball's looks like it was mauled by a dog in one corner)

>Friends and I enter

>Friend wins

>Looks at me

>"Anon, I just entered for shits and giggles, I didn't think I'd win"

>Congratulate him anyways

>He hands me the bag

>Seriously.jpg

Never found out what happened to him. Teacher's also the one who gave me my first Resident Evil for $5

>>8782136

It's more reliable and nigh impossible to brick.

I was hoping to collect some rare and obscure Xbox 360 gems, but the thread from a few days ago seems to have 404'd. :( Can anyone revive it?

>>8788349

Found a copy of Lunar 2 for Sega CD with box and manual at a Goodwill for $2. Played it until my Sega CD died (hot damn, I'm glad I pulled the disc out before shutting it down!) and sold it on eBay for $56.

N64

- Exitebike 64

- Not a pickup but i found san francisco rush in my storage room after some years

PC

- Rollcage

- GTA 2

- GP legends

>>8780891

Pretty much. most of the mega drive games i have are from the active years of the console

>>8779090

>360

good goy

>>8788379

Worth going for then?

>>8789015

Same.

>>8788349

>At high school

>Teacher finds a GBA SP(the rare expensive backlight version) in one of the desks

>Try to get it from them, but they want me guess the name of the game inside

>Just tell them super mario because it was a safe bet

>Few weeks later they give it to me because nobody else came close

>>8788349

Only stories I have are of really cheap finds, along with one or two of games that wound up being in really shitty condition. Might as well share one, if people want more, I'll be around again later.

>Few years back.

>Not sure why, but had decided to check out used multimedia store.

>Had never found anything but overpriced games there before, but I guess I was desperate for any options on older games at that point since Gamestop had driven everywhere else out.

>Start digging through the racks of PS1, PS2, and DS games finding nothing good (or at least well priced).

>Dig through Gamecube rack.

>Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance at the back of the first row behind everything else.

>Why isn't this in their display case?

>Check price expecting to see $60+ tag on it.

>Turns out they want about $10.

>Not even copying the old Gamestop sticker on the front for nearly $30, they wanted practically a third of that.

>Take it up to counter and have them check if it's complete; also serves as a way of seeing if they see anything wrong with the price tag like some stores do.

>No manual, but found a cheap one doing some quick online checking, and apparently they didn't notice any issue with pricing it as low as they did.

>Pay and leave happy with a new possibility as far as stores go.

I started to go back there once or twice a week when I have spending money and have found other great finds there. as well.

>>8788349

I have one that I truly fucking regret to this day.

> On break around town.

> Go onto the flea markets to see what's around.

> Find a Mega Drive model 1 with manual and controller for £10. Great condition as well.

> Pick that up since was HDG model.

> Go around the 2nd hand stores next.

> See a pristine fucking NES, complete with leads, 2 controllers and 2 zappers, all for £40.

> Glare at it for a while and ignore it. Never played an old Nintendo console at that point and thought they had fuck all worth of value.

> Think back to it nowadays and cringe on how I let that chance go because of a fucking retarded reason.

>>8791571

What were all the other guesses, Pokemon?

What was the cartridge anyhow, something the average person wouldn't guess like Swordcraft Story?

>>8788932

Some people just want to get rid of their stuff and either don't know what it's really worth or need cash faster than selling it online. Considering the price I found Path of Radiance for, I wager that store only gave the previous owner $3, maybe $4 maximum for it in trade in value.

>>8792451

Man, I really want to find a copy of that. It sucks that FE almost seems to be the Gamecube's Earthbound.

But as for stories, how about one that didnt turn out so well.

>at a flea market

>find a guy selling vidya stuff

>prices seemed pretty good to me at the time

>sega genesis with model 2 cd

>sega dreamcast

>Both were $30

>got the genesis + cd and was assured it worked

>already had a genesis but whatever

>bring it back to where I was staying

>notice it only has one set of cords

>genesis boots up fine, but no clue on the cd

>finally get home and grab my other set of cords

>sega cd doesnt work

>the guy thought the whole thing was one system

Pains me that the CD didnt work and that I may have botched up the repair job on it, but I got a Genesis model 2 and parts for $30, which actually was a gift too now that I remember.

Anyone have an archive of that Obscure Xbox 360 Gem thread from a few days back? :'(

>>8794597

>Man, I really want to find a copy of that. It sucks that FE almost seems to be the Gamecube's Earthbound.

Keep searching, you might get lucky like I did, and it's not like I found my copy all that long ago either, maybe two or three years back at this point when it was already getting high up there in price and demand. If Path of Radiance is the Gameucbe's Earthbound in price/demand, does that make the even more expensive Gotcha Force the Gamecube's Hagane?

>>8794629

Im running out of shops near me to check. Unless I start venturing into pawn shops, but those freak me out a bit.

And maybe gotcha force would be a better earthbound example, but it works for Hagane too.

Im more so ticked about the GCN price increases since between my brothers and I we have a majority of all the good games, but it is across all of us. Once we all start moving out Im worried Ill need to rebuy everything. My brothers were the ones that lucked out and got the more obscure and rarer gamecube stuff that is now going up in price. Custom Robo, Phantasy Star Online I & II, etc.

>>8794624

I wish we had a regular working archive here. Even the ones from back in the day at halfchan (stuff like chanarchive and the like) have all since died, taking with them a fair bit of history of years past.

>>8794629

Another story, I guess.

>Start looking at that store frequently.

>Most trips I come home empty handed, but every month or two I manage a really good find (which every so often are made even cheaper through the store’s point card system as well as 20% off vouchers for taking surveys).

>Occasionally manage to find some really nice hauls in the same sitting.

>Checking location (store’s a chain with six locations, with two in reasonable distance) in a different but still nearby town around close to Christmas with some leftover birthday money to potentially find something for both myself and a christmas gift for a friend.

>Wind up getting complete copies of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC), Suikoden V, and Shadow Hearts: From the New World all for just slightly less than $60 total.

>At the time that all would have cost me roughly $125 elsewhere going off the average prices for them.

>Also found complete copies of Yakuza 2 and Metal Saga a few weeks later at the closer location for about $20 total.

It might not seem like it, but Christmastime is a good time to go looking for vidya. While people are prone to be hunting around for stuff to get friends, it’s also a time when people also trade in decent stuff to be able to afford gifts too. Big thing is to find a place that either doesn’t ask ebay/Amazon-tier prices, or if they do, occasionally fuck up in favor of the customer. With this place you have a half decent chance of finding some of the more niche sort of games at lower than average prices, and even the occasional mainstream games can wind up lower as well.

>>8794868

Gotcha Force doesn't have quite the same demand as Path of Radiance, hence why I'd still say the latter is the better comparison for Earthbound.

Custom Robo at the very least hasn't gone up too much to my knowledge; you can probably still find it for $25-30 complete (and I know one store around me that only wanted about $15 for it last time I saw it in there). Meanwhile Chibi-robo had shot up towards $60+, at least for a while after the 3DS game was announced; not sure what it's at anymore.

It's not just the expensive ones to be on the lookout for reasonably priced copies of. There's also a number of lesser known Gamecube games that can also be hard to find, but thankfully aren't horribly expensive. Stuff like Lost Kingdoms I and II, Baten Kaitos, and Baten Kaitos Origins (if you live in the US anyhow, PAL Gamecube owners got shafted on a JRPG again with that one).

>>8793821

>What was the cartridge anyhow, something the average person wouldn't guess like Swordcraft Story?

Crazy Taxi, not completely unheard of but you'd never think of that as a gameboy game.

>>8794868

Pawnshops are great, but the only thing about them in my experience is they charge way too much for popular stuff like SNES games, but other than that it's pretty fair.

>>8795231

>Crazy Taxi

No one guessed Mario Kart? I'd have thought that would at least be closer than a platformer.

>Pawn shops

Not sure what the case is around where he lives, but where I am they have jack fucking shit for worthwhile games. People just use them, Savers, and Goodwill as a dumping ground for yearly sports titles, movie games, and shovelware nowhere else wants.

>>8795997

>TG16 with 1 controller, complete, at the creepiest yardsale ever, $10

What made it creepy?

>>8796135

Imagine Lurch, but 16, and Morticia, but after nine hundred cartons of Marlboros, not saying a single word, staring at you on a dim and foggy morning as you looked through Bruce Lee posters and books. It was awkweird to say the least.

>>8779090

Nice Megaman X3 I was gonna get off Amazon but it was a lot. (Def over 100, maybe 2)

Just got

Xbox:

Conker live/reloaded - $30

Futurama - $45

SNES:

Acro the acrobat - $7

Aladdin - $10

GBA:

FF 1/2 - $22

Demikids light version - $5

Onimush Tactics - $30

>>8795261

>No one guessed Mario Kart? I'd have thought that would at least be closer than a platformer.

Most of the kids in my class were either nerds or nigs, so their guesses were shit like pokemon or just shit like madden.

>>8796287

It still surprises me that Futurama manages to pull such high prices for a western licensed game.

>Most of the kids in my class were either nerds or nigs, so their guesses were shit like pokemon or just shit like madden.

I'd have thought the nerds would know more of the less popular games, but maybe they opted to guess a more mainstream game since chances were higher it was Pokemon or something.

>>8796308

Threadly reminder i want to kill all hipster collectors and retro kids

And i obviously don't mean you guys, i want to quit but i have come far, i just need a job to end it all

By chance i got Wild Arms 3 and 4 in good conditions for 10 bucks, don't really know RPG's so i dont know if it was good but i remember the PS ones are pricey

>>8783070

What's the name of the vidya with Metabee in the cover?

>>8796308

>>8796365

Didn't meant to reply

Thou it oddly falls into category, Xbox Conker for 30 is outrageous

Futurama too but i have to give it credit, i have never seen it personally

>>8796371

Think it's Medabots: Girls Mission (think I remember nichegamer having a few articles on it), but I could be wrong.

>>8796365

$10 for both? Not bad. 4's an odd one though, and a lot of fans dislike it for being overly sci-fi rather a more balanced sort of fantasy/western/sci-fi mix like prior ones.

Also, to my knowledge, the Playstation ones aren't too expensive; I know a store that asks about $20 or less for WA1 and 2. It's Alter Code F and WA5 that are the pricy ones; the former was delayed so long hype wore off and it sold poorly here, and the latter just seems to fluctuate in price strangely, going from $30-60 or so from when I've looked.

>>8796396

I've seen Live and Reloaded going for a good $40-50 where I live. Just saying.

>>8796308

I think they just hoping for a free copy of pokemon or something, since even for the time pokemon was pretty expensive at places like gamestop(20-30 bucks for the cart IIRC)

>>8796396

Futurama is actually ~70 bucks normally so it's actually a pretty good deal.

Conker i gotta admit i didn't really look up all that well, i just remember passing up the original 64 one for 5 bucks at walmart and regretting it ever since.

>>8796412

>Just saying.

I got lucky then, bought it for 10 too, twice

I bought the Wild Arm games as retro kid bait, but i liked the idea a lot so i got interested

Might as well sell 4 for your suggestion, fame and i read it was another story altogether

Some dude offered me WA1 for 50, and he said it was cheap, but i wasn't interested

Pre-Gen 6 collecting is getting very painful

>>8796308

>It still surprises me that Futurama manages to pull such high prices for a western licensed game.

Licensed games that gen were actually pretty good, Stuff like simpsons hit and run, spongebob, chronicles of riddick, the godfather and scarface were all really solid games. Also it doesn't help that the game seems to be genuinely rare and isn't likely to be remade.

>>8796548

Yeah, I'm not saying that all licensed games are bad or anything, but usually they tend to be pretty cheap regardless of quality (though some of the better ones, like The Warriors, can be a good $20 to buy used still).

What happened to cause the Futurama game to get shortprinted?

>>8796561

There's plenty of reasons why, but i think the main one is they just lost faith in it, the game came out just days after the final episode and the show wasn't really doing all too hot in the ratings plus gaming rags were giving it lukewarm reviews.

Bumping with more stories, I guess.

>Few months after that Path of Radiance find, but before the Christmas deals.

>Still been searching the store every so often, but hadn’t had any good buys.

>Maybe that was a one off thing; had been getting disappointing seeing things like Metroid Prime 2 priced at almost $30 used when I knew a place that only asked $10 or so for it themselves.

>Check back there once again.

>No it most certainly wasn’t a one off.

>Super Mario Sunshine for $12, Koudelka for $12, Xenogears for $5.

>All of which original label (not that it Koudelka sold anywhere near enough for a Greatest Hits print), complete, and in good shape apart from the PS1 cases being a bit scuffed and cracked.

>Leave happy with cheap games again.

>>8796709

Ah, I see. Maybe they ought to have worked on making one earlier in the series (original) lifespan?

>>8796371

Medarot Girls Mission Kabuto Version.

I ordered it for the stupidest reason. Saw an unboxing thread and the anon said it came with an artbook and the game has clothing destruction like senran kagura. And I was drunk one night and figured why the hell not?

I should actually start it up soon to practice my moonrunes and see if I made a huge mistake or not.

Also, how often do people go to flea markets or tag sales? Besides pawn shops, these also weird me out a bit. I think my overall issue is going somewhere where it is just in the store looking at stuff. Just being watched as I look around, and then dont buy anything.

I need to invest in some shelf for my vidya, right now I am using an enclave thing that my room has, it has shelves and shit but it has stupid dimensions and I have to jam ds game boxes above/below all my ps3 games to make them fit properly, It's a sorry state of affairs.

I have like 300-400 ps2/3/4 games that I need to move to proper shelves, anyone know any good ikea shit for video game storage?

>>8800382

Noice shelves, I'd show my situation but I have no camera.

Heres the cards, print and play on standard a4 and use highlighter marker pen on the side bits to make the ps3 camera pick it up more easily.

http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/48MyDIzy/file.html

>>8800450

Yeah I know. I've started on a few of them (which are net to the Vita games there) and I have a lot of spare old model DS cases in a box in my closet. Main issue is that I don't have that good of access to a color printer right now, and with some games, such as Boktai 1 and 2, I'll need to actually modify the cases themselves as the carts are oversized.

For now, I don't let the carts sit out and get dusty though. Office Max has these nice little clear containers that fit five GBA carts perfectly in them (and for $1 each they're great), so that's what I do for storing them. Only got them out like that to take the photo of all of them.

>>8800440

Thanks. If you're thinking of those kind of stacking shelves, I think a family member picked them up at a Fry's Marketplace for half off (maybe $30 each) some years back. Not sure how much use the information is a this point though.

Is a Jtag 360 worth picking up? I've never even bothered looking into what they could fully do.

Where do you even get 360 games?

>>8800377

Shovelware can be fun shit for a few hours. Long as it was a decent price.

>>8800463

>>8800510

One more story before I had to bed I suppose.

>Same chain, different location (this time being one a good 20 or so miles away since I was out that way with family).

>Sift through racks of stuff for worthwhile finds.

>Find .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce buried among the rows of PS2 games.

>Marked at $10 or so.

>This is a good sign; pretty much the only .hack games I’ve seen at this chain before have only been Infection which is the really common one, and with this being the middle entry, maybe they traded in the entire sub-series.

>Ask at counter if they can check if it was a complete one (it was) and if anymore entries got traded in recently.

>Cashier says they should have some since they pretty much got them in that morning.

>Comes out with a complete copy of Redemption marked at about $20 and says she’ll keep looking for Volume 1.

>She never finds it even after about forty-five minutes of looking and remarks that it was pretty odd that it would have been gone already since it had never been put out on the shelf, but tells me to possibly have my local location give them a call in a week or two since they were going to be doing inventory soon and perhaps could find it and ship it down my way.

They never did find that copy of Volume 1, but I got Volumes 2 and 3 for $20 or so total (using store points to drop the price on Redemption) and later ordered a complete copy of Volume 1 online. Normally I’m not keen on paying $55 for a PS2 game, but I’d gotten the other two games so cheaply anyhow, and still wound up only dropping about half or less the average price on the entire trilogy.

>>8800710

You got overpriced anime shovelware on the cheap, good job I guess.

>>8800463

Keep checking Slickdeals.net. I bought a color laser printer for about $120 a few weeks ago, and the print quality is amazing, even with shitty paper.

>>8802276

>done being a fag now

Somehow I doubt that. :^)

Anyway

>paying for ROMs

Flash carts, friend. Only spend money on physical things, if you must spend money at all. If nothing else, you can sell it when you're done with it.

>>8802276

All pretty good stuff, but please tell me all of it is complete.

>>8802358

>Only spend money on physical things

This. What happens if your system bricks or you get locked out of your account and cant redownload games?

I curse my best friend for introducing me to Steam years ago and wasting money on digital stuff. Thats never happening again

>>8802422

All of my RPGs and PS2 titles are. These are all games I hunted down either used at every small store within 100 miles of my house or new Games4Less copies. I take pride in all my Etrian and (almost) complete SMT collection.

>>8802358

I know it sounds retarded, but I like buying good games, even if I can emulate them. I like to think of it as "well that was nice, here's $6, you guys earned it".

Now I have considered flashcarts for next year when I go on that 10 month deployment, just in case I ever somehow manage to finish my 3ds backlog. After 5 months of sea I think it'd be nive and ready for custom firmware and some homebrew.

>>8802579

Breach and Clear, plus Saturday Morning RPG.

Im hoping to pick up copies of those soon. Kind of wanted to go for a complete vita collection for how obscure it is, but figured I would start with the really rare/good stuff first incase I decide not to continue on. At least that way I wont just have piles of shovelware.

>>8802422

To be extremely charitable, there's nothing so much wrong with Steam if you remember never to pay full price for what is essentially a rented game. G2A and other key shops can help with this. The less you spend, less it stings when shit goes pear-shaped. Steam becoming shittier than ever is why I bought a PS3, and I may consider a PS4 or Xbone when they each have massive libraries to cherry-pick. Maybe. But that will be a long time from now if it happens at all.

>>8802818

Good idea, getting the gems before they shoot up in price.

>>8802818

>Im hoping to pick up copies of those soon. Kind of wanted to go for a complete vita collection for how obscure it is, but figured I would start with the really rare/good stuff first incase I decide not to continue on. At least that way I wont just have piles of shovelware.

A complete vita collection, like, including imports? Forget about it, you're already too late to that party if you haven't been snapping up the asian english imports from play asia. Also it's too late to get Breach n clear for any reasonable price, shit sells on places like ebay for ~100 bucks while saturday morning RPG sits at around half that.

>>8802934

>Good idea, getting the gems before they shoot up in price.

Problem is the vita market at least in the US is so small few people bother to make standard retail releases anymore, it's all Limited Edition(few thousand copies at best) no reprints, no real advertising and if you want it at a reasonable price you're going to have to be quick because the resellers often get to them in minutes

>>8803126

>minutes

You so silly. They get them in milliseconds with automated purchasing. Ask /toy/ about the Masters of the Universe bullshit from Mattel. Resellers were INSTABUYING THE WHOLE STOCK the very same second the shop went live for each new figure.

Early morning pick ups. Was awake browsing at 2-3AM a couple weeks ago & snagged these. Got both Jojos for $64 a piece shipped both complete in mint condition (left manual has a few Ripples but opens just fine.) Project Justice was $96 shipped complete like new.

Considering Jojo's goes for $100 complete (steadily rising) & Project Justice goes for $150 complete (rapidly rising) I would like to think I got some good deals. These are doubles & triples by the way. I bought Jojo's & Project Justice together back in 2013 for $50 from a friend. I may trade a few for Saturn or PS1 games later don't know just yet.

>>8802135

>Does Virtual shit count?

In my opinion, not really, though these days it's not as if some companies give you much in the way of choice about if you want physical or not. Still annoyed Sega couldn't even do a limited physical print of Yakuza 5 here.

>>8802249

How's that Wizard of Oz RPG? The fact that it was developed by Media.Vision has had me curious about it for a while, as they've made some pretty good JRPGs in the past.

Also, a heads up if you like SMT: The second Raidou game has been reprinted much like the first, so if that's of interest to you, it shouldn't be anywhere near $60+ used the way it used to be.

>>8802568

I still get why Sony opted to have not one, not two, but THREE variants of style for original label PS3 games. I can deal with the original Spiderman font and the first revised one, but those blue tabbed ones would annoy me.

How's Rogue Galaxy? I've thought of looking into it myself, but I've heard rumor it has issues playing on certain PS2 models, and I'm not sure if the 50000 fat falls under that or not.

>>8806253

Most dreamcast games are just arcade crap that you'll be able to play regardless of language, so it doesn't really matter which one you pick

>>8806277

>I still get why Sony opted to have not one, not two, but THREE variants of style for original label PS3 games. I can deal with the original Spiderman font and the first revised one, but those blue tabbed ones would annoy me.

it's actually 5 if you count the Greatest hits variants, thankfully the blue tabs were very short lived since sony realized how stupid making the ps3 games look almost exactly like ps4 ones are.

>How's Rogue Galaxy? I've thought of looking into it myself, but I've heard rumor it has issues playing on certain PS2 models, and I'm not sure if the 50000 fat falls under that or not.

Doubt any of the fat models have problems with the game, slims are the one with compatibility issues, and my ps2 slim plays it just fine

>>8802271

>He actually bought both versions of FE Fates

>Paying 80+ bucks for what should have been a 40 dollar game

Fucking why?

Just picked up Dungeons and Dragons Heroes for the xboxhueg for 7AUD.

I plan on doing 4 player bro-op with it tomorrow.