/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10094756
A untested (broken) infrared receiver and controller for Mega Drive £18. Mode button was completely broken and someone had attempted repairing it in the past awfully (picrel) completely severing the x-y-z button traces. Fixed by exposing some trace and soldering a wire but the mode button is gone for good
Boxed Gunstar Heroes (no manual) Mega Drive for £12. Local listing, the best deal I've got this decade. Takes me back to 2009
Keio Flying Squadron Mega-CD CIB with a heavily faded front cover for £100. Not a great deal but it's one of my favourite games so I'm happy to have it

Got ff 9, ff tactics, gta 2 and mega man x4 last week for $5 each. Nothing major but it's hard to find anything at goodwill now so I was happy.

>>10094756
Eh my best find happened like 3 years ago, but some mexican dude sold his daughter's gba with games and it had pokemon leaf green, also I paid like exactly what a standalone gba is worth.

>>10094756
I can't find any good deals now. I live too rural. Last thing I got good was every resident evil and metroid game for around $100 when covid started. I doubt I'll ever get better than that.

>>10094756
I feel like I can think of more times I've passed up on good deals and realized how good it was after it was too late, than I've found good deals.

I refuse to believe the people chasing bargains save more money doing so than they would if they just spent the same amount of time doing extra shifts at their day jobs.

Bought a mystery SNES cart for about $10 which was a prototype of Pocky and Rocky.

>>10095443
Ask me how I know you're a workaholic.

Recently? Got a boxed 32X Afterburner for 30 from an online auction because some protosludge tried crudely cutting off the sides of the cart to I can only guess, try and stick it into a normal genesis. still works fine.

Earlier in the year got a boxed Odyssey from a little church flea market.

Traded two game displays I had from when I worked at gaystop for a Sega X'Eye.

Last year I got Bomberman 93 Special Version from an online sale because the store had it listed as the normal edition for around 12.

>>10094756
Use cleanrip on a Wii if you want to check the discs don't have any issues. Just cause the games boot up, doesn't mean the discs are fully functional.

I got this for £15 last month. Apparently people pay lots of money for it now because of course they do

>>10095456
Prototype of the original or prototype of the localization?

>>10095443
I can't do extra shifts at my day job, I'm salaried like all real adults.

>>10094756
>Pokemon Colosseum which alone is worth about $100
Lmao, it's barely even worth half that if it's CiB.

>>10096091
Did you just wake up from a coma? Or maybe you're European and too stupid to understand prices are different for US, JP & EU games. $110 is the average on pricesharting for a loose copy. CIB average is $150.

>>10094756
why is the game so slow?

>>10095932
I'm (mostly) sure it's fine. It looks perfect and the resurfacing definitely didn't get to the data layer.

>>10095872
>Sega X'Eye
I didn't even know about the X'Eye, but that's really cool

>>10096997
>why is the game so slow?
It was a different era. Back then even some children had attention spans longer than 30 seconds.

>>10095940
CIB Saturn Games are always hard to find. I don't even see the authentic cases anymore in my local game stores.

>>10095084
>I live too rural
Lurk on ebay and Facebook Marketplace more. Deals pop up. (pic related)

Speaking of which, I paid $120 for 40 some N64 controllers on ebay and 6 of them were Hori controllers, 4 of which are pictured here.

>>10094756
Only seeing occasional PC CDs or DVDs these days. Last good purchase I got was silent scope for the xbox. Only see maybe shit like FITA for seventh gen console NEVER see PS1 now PS2 becoming very rare as is XBox and non sportball 7th gen, NEVER see 2600 or other carts. Not that long ago you would always find a few games mixed in with used DVDs or whatever but all that's over. prices in 'retro games' stores are absurd even for 7th gen

>>10095986
Localization. Guessing somebody died or something because I found old photos of the very same cart, while it was in the hands of somebody who knew what it was.

>>10096003
Real adults work for themselves.

27 inch trinitron with component for 50, two 13-inch Trinitrons for 15 each

>>10096003
>real adults are salaried
lol
I'm hourly and I make $100,000+ yearly working in a medical lab.

>>10097418
>Localization
So it's worthless. Neat to have though.

>>10097720
I think it's still worth dumping, to see if there's some differences.

>>10097720
>worthless
definitely worth more than a standard release.

>>10094756
>ITT: Talk about great deals you've found on retro Vidya and share your stories.
My youngest brother had his at the time girlfrind/now wife's brother give him his GBA SP, pokemon Red and Leaf Green. Bought it off him for $10.

>>10097493
real adults dont post on 4chan

>>10094756
I recently played Gunman's Proof in n emulator and it was a lot of fun so after I finished the game I decided to add it to my collection. I could only find a few copies for sale and they were all selling for nearly $300 which is way more than I was willing to pay. I set some notifications, and a few days ago I got notified of a new listing being added. I grabbed the game for $120 literally only a minute after the listing went live. It just came in the mail and I opened it up and confirmed it's real (not that I had any doubts, but I always check just in case).

It's still expensive but $120 is a way better price than what it normally goes for. I'm happy.

>>10098845
I remember i got my copy for 50 just at the edge of time before I think a lot of people outside the smaller hardcore retro gaymer sphere knew about it. It was an auction too, so im surprised no one else wanted to go higher then that.

best deal of my life was getting wario ware, pikmin, scct for a buck each still in the 6th gen at the watermelom festival. Happiest kid in the world having been mesmorized by the bob and steve segments

>>10098845
I would've just bought this.
(Yes, I know it's not authentic)

but you did get a good deal.

>>10097720
Yeah, I know it's worthless, so I threw it in the garbage and demanded a refund.

>>10099665
If it's not the real thing I would rather just use a flash cart or an emulator.
I have a few of those Chinese repro carts but they're for homebrew games.

I wanna ask a question about buying/collecting older games, Is there a way to get scratches out of the plastic casing of GCN/PS2/Xbox game cases?

>>10101134
Unlikely, you can buy worthless EA sports games for like $2 if you need a replacement case

>>10101141
well shit. I've been eyeing a copy of REmake I saw locally recently, but the case is all scratched up and it's a two disc game so replacing it isn't exactly easy.

I bought Super Mario RPG cib a month before the remake announcement. At first I thought this was a bad thing but it's going for over twice the amount I paid for it.

>>10095443
You can just keep on thinking that, brainlet.

>>10095443

yeah but then you'd have to be at work for longer and who wants that?

>>10101162

Tiger Woods games were 2-disc so you could get a cheap copy of one of those

>>10100835
>If it's not the real thing I would rather just use a flash cart or an emulator.
I mostly agree, but I'd rather just get a fan translation on a cart if the game was never released in the states.
>I have a few of those Chinese repro carts but they're for homebrew games.
Same

>>10095443
>work more or spend time bargain hunting
Gee what sounds more enjoyable

>>10095443
It depends. Most of my deal hunting is idly checking sales sites on my phone and getting lucky that I happen to find something amazing. Now, if you're actively driving around to game stores, thrift shops, Goodwill, yard sales, and estate sales? Yeah, you're probably better off taking an extra shift or whatever, because for all that gas, time, and headache, once or twice a month you might find the $150 game for $5, but most of the time you're finding shit for ebay prices or having to drive somewhere at 4AM to camp out to beat the twenty other Craigslist vultures trying to snipe the good deals by hoping that grandma clearing out her son's old games doesn't realize that the loose Earthbound cartridge in the bottom of a box of sports titles is worth a couple hundred instead of $10.

>>10094756
Got this all for $25 from a garage sale right before covid hit. Ended up reselling it off Ebay for $250. Huge profit, but sometimes I wish I just kept it for collecting.

Neo Geo cabinet with Metal Slug, Turf masters, and Samurai showdown for $600 from a guy going through a divorce.

>>10103238
got dam

I actually feel bad holy shit but I’ve never gotten this lucky on marketplace

70 dollars for a Wii, 23 random games that I did not see, 4 controllers, and 4 steering wheels

There were GameCube games in the random bag this dude gave me

>>10096003
I make 140k/yr in a hospital. Get shift differential for nights/weekends and tons of overtime. Keep coping.

Is it just me, or has /vr/ become more Reddit than usual? And I don't mean in that as the typical insult "You like (x) makes you Reddit), I mean GENUINELY has become Reddit. Threads lately come off like threads you'd see on that site.
>Blog-tier OPs
>Bonus points if you took a selfie yourself
>Several dozen replies to a singular post
>Low quality quips/retorts

>>10103751
>be on /vr/
>people discussing an element of the hobby
>"WELL GEE ISN'T THIS SO FUCKING REDDIT"
kys or talk about retro games

>>10103739
That is an absurd deal. I'd feel guilty if I bought all that for just $70.

>>10103751

Oh no, someone made a thread I don’t like!

>>10103751
frankly if a mariogroid is pissed off, that's a good thing. So get fucked.

>>10103751
>someone making a holier than thou post specifically to elicit responses and not to contribute anything on topic.
>calling other people Reddit