/vr/ - Retro Games

Do I really need to pay this much to properly play 64 games?

>>5317045
>I am wondering if any n64 owners can tell me some good games to get for the n64
Save your money and get an Everdrive 64. You can store the entire library of official N64 games on a 8 gb flash card, and possibly even a 4gb. Most of the better games would fit nicely on a 2gb. It costs the same as 2 of the "premium" titles that resellers and collectors drool over. You never need to give these people money ever again. Buying a used cartridge based game is asking for trouble in this day and age. You may be buying a counterfeit or non working. Batteries may be dying at this point, risking your save games. If you plan on buying more than 2-3 titles, the everdrive will save you money.

I am a HUGE collector: Pic related.

My friend loaned me his RGB modded N64 with the Everdrive 64.

He has every US game ever released on it and man, this system is just so terrible.

Other than the handful of good games *(F-Zero X), everything else is either boring, extremely blurry, or has very poor performance.

Are we sure we beat-up the n64 enought?

>>3495958
If you see a good price on something you want then go for it, but the hobby is going through a transitional phase that a lot of people will have to get used to. Eventually there will be no point in trying to build a shelf because the prices will be so astronomical that no-one can afford it except Youtubers.

On the other hand though, the system hardware itself is still readily available, and flash carts and modchips are fast becoming the way to go if you want to actually play games. It will be a really sad day when the physical copies of the games we love are all gone, but we can still enjoy the games on the original hardware for the foreseeable future. It's just that the software side of things is increasingly moving to all digital, because there are a lot more consoles than there are copies of each game.

Naturally, the cost of the consoles is creeping up too, but if you're not burdened by having to spend hundreds of dollars to build up a game library anymore, then those rising costs will not be so bad in the short term.

Eventually there will be no affordable options left except emulation, but emultation is getting a lot better. We may even be at the point soon where FPGAs can accurately emulate systems like the N64, which could open up an entire market of plug n' play FPGA consoles where all you need is an SD card full of ROMs to play nearly hardware-accurate versions of thousands of classic games.

Nothing beats playing original cartridges on original systems, but it's beyond our control. The boom in retro appreciation is unfortunately killing the retro game market, and I worry that it will eventually kill my favorite local game shops with it. Rather than mourne the past though, I'm looking more towards how I can transition towards the future of the hobby, whether that's flash carts or emulation. I've already managed to accumulate a shelf that I can be proud of, and if I have to settle for repros, flash carts and emulators going forward, so be it.