/vr/ - Retro Games

Tony's poop smells good

>>10641301
> kintsugi edition (very rare)

>>10641301
I'd drop $5 on this solely because of how ridiculous it looks, but $20? No way.

Whenever I play a game where you have to collect a bunch of pieces of something, this is what I imagine the final product to look like

>>10641301
does it still work?

>>10641301
>Condition: Acceptable

>>10641301
Final Fucktasy

>>10641301

>>10642039
Its time for another episode of ebay: money laundering or genuine retardation?

>>10642062
How is that money laundering? You use words where they don't belong here?

>>10642039
This is reasonable through

>>10642087
How naive are you?

>>10641301

>>10642138
>Condition: Like New

Saw this on ebay a while ago.

One terrible one I saw on ebay was a virtua on arcade machine but the screen was crudely cut out and replaced with a poor lcd tv and the game was replaced with an xbox and controllers sticking out.

Another dumb one I did is I wanted to play import snes games on my pal snes so I widened the cartridge flap using a soldering iron to melt the plastic. It was many years ago but I still own it and the system had the black screen issue a couple of years later.

>>10642181
this looks like either an AI generated image of an Atari or one that was used to cook burgers on

>>10642087
>I definitely sold this broken nes game for a grand
>it wasn't drug money, honest
>just because I'm also the buyer and using a burner account doesn't mean it's not legitimate taxable income

>>10642087
It's about camouflaging

>Can't use this money freely yet
>GB KIRBYS PINBALL LAND VINTAGE R@RE, $1000
>SOLD!

>>10642039
>>10642015
when youre selling video games on ebay, 'acceptable' is the lowest condition you can pick.

>>10641968
I'm going to be doing the same thing now, you bastard.

>>10642229
nigga are you aware of how much a copy of little samson costs?

>>10642039
>18 watching
lol

>>10641301
condition "acceptable" lol

>>10641301
>condition: (used) like new ***MINT*** ***NO REFUNDS***
I KNOW WHAT I GOT

>>10642530
>"What, it's just an NES mini with a memeberry pi"
>"wait a minute"

>>10642530
I know multiple people who bought functional/repairable retro consoles then gutted them to put a rpi inside because a youtuber told them to

>>10642453
This is fucking retarded when the game this is from wasnt even on a HuCard.

>>10642621
>dude, I can even play it on this CRT television I massively overpaid for on ebay, check out these sweet graphics!
>image scaled from some arbitrary hd resolution to 480i causing it to both shimmer and have horrifically uneven pixels

>>10642630
>480i
>implying

>>10641301
Damn, that game went through hell and back

>>10642530
This will become increasingly acceptable after many more years of price increases.
I got an arcade game that just is not going to get another original monitor and I don't care to try to locate one and pay out the ass for it, so I will be adapting a consumer CRT for it and enjoy life.

>>10642674
>This will become increasingly acceptable after many more years of price increases.
in 5 more years people will have nostalgia for rpi abominations and you'll see VINTAGE GAMER MOD NES selling for thousands of dollars

>>10641301
it's obsolete packaging for a ROM and the damage does not affect its ability to sit unplayed on (You)r shelf

you'd get one flash cart exactly once if you wanted to play games instead of jerking off to stickers

>>10642621
in the 00s we'd destroy our NES to put a mini-itx with a VIA C7 inside and emulate very inaccurately compared to now

>>10642725
>we'd
I don't know anyone who did that and I was very into the emulation scene. I'm sure some people did it but without some YouTuber giving them the idea and spoonfeeding them I'm sure the number was miniscule.

>>10642719
If you can't appreciate finding good games for cheap then flash carts are your best option.

>>10642696
That'd be rad.

>>10642453
SOUL

>>10642460
/vr/ is full of poorfags that can't cope with the modern collector market so they convince themselves it's all a huge scam/conspiracy.

>>10642743
Collecting is a mental illness, not a scam. And the sellers are the poorfags. Nobody with a stable income would even dream of trying to eke a living from sharking broken NES cartridges for $20.

>>10642674
there was a guy with a website and phpbb forum to spoonfeed them and it made it into an issue of egm

One guy from my city is trying to sell this PS1 for 20 EUR as "untested." I have a spare PS2 controller and composite cable so I asked if I could go to his place and test it using his TV before buying it, but he said no lol.

>>10642750
yep. the shop i go to has stuff priced lower than pricecharting, and it stays on the shelves because no one who goes there can be bothered. it's in the city and doesn't have its own parking lot, making it effectively nonexistent to most with that kind of mental illness

>>10642181
Deflated inflatable Atari 2600 lol.

I like the ones on ebay that are listed at like $5 dollars with $100 dollars shipping, guessing you can't contest shipping costs when they sell you broken junk

>noooo stop destroying your own property that you own and paid for yourself

>>10642809
I live in Europe and shipping costs make it so that it's not worth buying anything from US sellers on eBay, even if the item price itself is very low. Japanese sellers usually have free shipping or much lower shipping costs at the very least. I thought that it was this way because Americans don't have to pay nearly as much for shipping inside their own country and those Japanese sellers have to compete on that front because the are still selling mainly to people from the US, but I guess that's not always true.

>>10642814
noone is saying that

>>10642814
If they don't get mocked while fucking their own stuff up they'll eventually think they're good enough to work on other people's stuff.

>>10642819
I'm talking domestic shipping. I'm not sure what you mean about Japan, last time I checked buying from Yahoo auctions can easily run you in the hundreds for shipping for even moderately sized items

>>10642809
I think by putting most of the cost of the item into "handling" they evade paying ebay their full cut. And yeah, probably also tax evasion and NO REFUNDS shit.

>>10642827
I meant buying from Japanese sellers on eBay. I could get a working Dreamcast with a controller, VMU and S-video output cable from Japan for $85 with free shipping if I wanted to right now. I could get a Japanese copy of Soul Calibur for $6.50 with $10 shipping. The cheapest working playable set from a US seller is $95 and it includes two controllers (one official, one third-party), a VMU, an unofficial memory card, a copy of Demolition Racing and presumably also some kind of AV cable, but the seller doesn't specify which one and it's hard to tell from the photos. If you only consider that $95 price tag, it's not a bad deal at all. The problem is that shipping to Europe costs an additional $56 in that listing, so Japan wins hands down here.

I know that using Yahoo Auctions or proxy-buyer sites like Sendico are a rip-off too because while the items themselves are often much cheaper, the additional costs completely kill those savings. I personally think that sites like Sendico operate in a really scammy way, because they will not tell you the real full cost of the transaction until AFTER you've purchased the item, when it's already too late to pull out. All they give you at the beginning are estimates, and those can vary a lot from the final cost. I've never used Sendico and likely never will for this reason.

>>10642453
The slot is in her slot, nice touch

>>10642827
Japanese sellers on ebay usually have cheap/free shipping. Ordering from Yahoo Auctions through a proxy will 100% fuck you though. Honestly I don't think it's even worth it.

>>10642719
Sounds soulless as fuck, but thanks for your input.

>>10642819
The opposite is also true. I am a burger and wanted to buy stuff from various euro ebay listings and the shipping prices are usually triple or more over the actual item price. If its something Japanese originating, I will just try and track that version down instead.

>>10642860
I remember i used one of those proxy sites once just to try it out. I won an auction for 1 yen for a Pikachu edition Sega Pico(with free shipping to the warehouse). The actual shipping and proxy fees though ended up costing me close to a 100USD.

>>10642821
Drakon, I forgot about that guy and his hilariously bad mods that look like a diseased hyena vomited hot glue and wires all over anything he touched. Saw several videos of modders who actually know what they are doing having to undo his garbage to actually FIX the now messed up system.

>>10642181
And here I am, all my life thinking the Atari 2600 had an actual piece of wood at the front.

(Of course, I have never seen one IRL)

>>10643029
Weren't some wood and some plastic? or did I make that up.

>>10643079
Doesn't seem like that. In my head, I also believed that maybe the first units had particle board and it was quickly replaced with a fake wood vinyl over the plastic.

But if it was real wood or particle, we would probably bee seeing an Atari 2600 full of termite holes right now.

>>10642813
>VGA port
Gets me every fucking time

>>10642168
>Sealed

>>10642629
its even more hilarious that they had to port the game to genesis and dreamcast, even though its supposed to be a tribute to pce games

>>10641301
I remember buying that in mint condition for the same price in 2002

>>10643839
SOVL

>>10642087
I'll give you a hypothetic example, things are actually more complex: you and me sell drugs. We just got $1000, but it's dirty money. You grab any game cartridge and put on eBay for $1000, I'll "buy" it from you. Now, we have "proof" that the $1000 (a little less, because of taxes and tip) came from legal means, and we can use the money in accordance to law. Things become like this:
>Wow... You're pretty well off. What do you do for a living?
>M-me? I just sell rare retro games... Haha... No big deal...

>>10642814
>pay for extremely rare original van gogh painting
>destroy it
>"What? my money, my property, my rules"

>>10643828
I could be mistaken, but aren't the Sega versions different games and feature a MegaDrive girl that was a rival in the PCE game?

>>10642181
This shit looks like it got bombed

>>10644036
reminds me of those Gemini Freak Controllers

>>10641304
The classic

>>10644123
Emulation can never recreate Tony's poop's smell.

>>10644123
Who is Tony?

>>10644235
One of /vr/'s earliest members.

>>10644016
genesis version is a rushed buggy port with only 100 copies manufactured

>>10644249
>oldest member
>MMX and Mario Party 3 for $11
>Majora for, I think, $25
yeah no kidding

>>10644123
You could clean all of that with some isopropyl alcohol and a magic sponge and make that cart look much nicer. Unless you think that childish carelessness is "SOVL".

>>10642087
>>10642087
yea the other guys got to it before me
i personally know several kids who used to pretend to buy/sell /vr/ on ebay to move drug money around
it was pretty common back in the day, idk about now
i remember that was actually how we bought 2CE the first time, before we learned about the silk road

>>10642039
>W/ board Pics

>>10644268
If you "clean" that you're not a true preservationist.

>>10644268
It's not about soul, it's funny. You don't have to get it

>>10644123
I almost just shit myself laughing at this, thanks anon.

Who wants to rent a crane?

>>10644235
The lad whose poop smells good

>>10645372
...and a time machine?

>>10642530
To be fair, the motherboard of the "donor" NES could have blown a fuse they couldn't fix or something

>>10645372
>>10645385
Boomers are fucking insane
>Yep, this old barn is a good place to store my electronics for sure

>>10642039
Is this the cart that came with the other pieces of plastic as an addition? lol

>>10642621
Ok? It's their property. Millions of these waters wastes of plastic were made anyways.

>>10645419
Who's to say that 40 years ago when those electronics were first stored in it that the barn was in pristine condition and a perfectly acceptable place for storage of such items?

>>10645608
An outdoor barn is never an acceptable place to store electronics of any kind, no matter what condition

>>10645385
That's too bad it's either going to fall or has already fallen because that most likely could have been restored on a budget of no more than 50 bucks.

>>10645628
This. Even a heated garage can be a gamble.

>>10645628
So what you're saying is, I should take the Atari ST out of my unheated shed?

>>10645419
>Boomers are fucking insane
>>10645628
>An outdoor barn is never an acceptable place to store electronics of any kind, no matter what condition

There's no such thing as an "outdoor barn". According to the story, It was a barn/medium sized storage shed that the owners stopped doing maintenance on (for whatever reason) and allowed to it fall apart after many years of neglect. When it was first made, it was fully enclosed.

>>10645649
NTA, but you should give it vitamin C, tuck it into bed and pray that none of the chips went moldy.

>>10645653
For them not to notice the roof going on it they must have had some serious shit go on for decades because that's how long that would take.
It reeks of laziness, though.

>>10644298
faackk

I remember seeing another even worse one of a portable GC using a PSOne LCD screen and just fucking melted the screen's plastic into a gamecube controller

>>10645653
Have you ever seen an indoor barn? Because I have, and it's called an illegal rabbit farm. Everything melled like shit and rabbits died practically every day. Good source of meat though

>>10645653
I have seen an indoor barn, it's called an illegal rabbit farm. Everything smelled like shit and rabbits died practically every day. Good source of meat though. Anyways, an outdoor barn is where those shitheels should have been, in a wooden box outside with doors and a lock. Barns are basically two story sheds with animals.

Is this Gore or Hardcore?

>>10642814
You're free to destroy your own property.
We're also free to laugh at you for it.

>>10645909
If it works it's fucking hardcore, if not it's gayer then a village people concert.

>>10645925
You can see him playing Banjo Kazooie on it at the 38 second mark

>>10644123

>>10645656
Don't EVER give vitamin C to your electronics. I lost two consoles doing that.

>>10645998
It's like Firebrand himself is talking to me

>>10645658
>For them not to notice the roof going on
They noticed. But they just didn't care. Houses/sheds/barns/etc actually need periodic maintenance. Little problems will lead to bigger problems. A cracked window will let in rain which will ruin the interior slowly which causes rot. A domino effect.

The owners didn't care about this barn or the shed. It was built next a log cabin in the middle of a forest. The owners only visited the cabin a few times a year. After decades The story is they sold the cabin and barn to a new owner. New owner then sold the cabinets to collectors. But the collectors had to get it themselves. So they used a crane to get to the 2nd floor.

The machines were from the 1960s and 1970s. Very rare. Unfortunately All the machines were in horrendous shape. The roof was gone and the machines were exposed to the elements and rain. Any arcade machine made of wood had been rained on and rotted. The rotted machines were actually holding up the remains of the roof.

Except that 2 "Computer Space" machines were saved because their had a fiberglass and thick plastic case which protected the machine for the elements (see pic). The saved both Computer space machines. And both of them ended up working. The CRT even fired up too. Their fiberglass case acted as a shell protected them.

So they some 2 out of maybe a dozen machines.

>>10645909
This is the only way you should be playing N64 games

>>10645998
why not clean the sharpie off with ipa first

>>10646170
>Except that 2 "Computer Space" machines were saved because their had a fiberglass and thick plastic case which protected the machine for the elements (see pic). The saved both Computer space machines. And both of them ended up working. The CRT even fired up too. Their fiberglass case acted as a shell protected them.

Ha! I knew it. Good to hear they survived, but too bad about the 1960s stuff. I'm guessing electro-mechanical wonders. Damn.
Thanks for retelling the story, anon.

>>10645909
Why though?

>>10645653
>There's no such thing as an "outdoor barn".
The barn is literally located outside of an indoor environment. It's not insulated and the gaps between the wooden planks that make up the walls provide little to no shelter from the elements. It would never be a good idea to store anything electronic inside of a place like that, no matter how new or old it is.

>>10647287
You two should get a room. It's just a barn. Whoever said it was "an outdoor barn" made a simple grammatical mistake, no big deal.

>>10645998
imagine paying $999.99 to borrow a game

>>10647312
*semantic mistake

Not necessarily vidya, but I saw this a while back. For reference, played is basically decent condition, probably a few minor bends or scuffs.

>>10644268
It's probably worth more with it on it at this point. At auction it would be advertised as the Tony's Poop DKR

>>10647417
Tony's Poop DKR must be worth a million dollars. There's only one in the world

>>10647287
>The barn is literally located outside of an indoor environment

Outside... Of an indoor environment? Intriguing.
So the interior of the barn would be located on the inside of an outdoor environment...
Where does the entirety of the barn itself exist spatially within our universe?

>>10647475
The barn is a void where you're both inside and outside at the same time it seems...
Truly an enigma...

>>10647485
remarkable

>>10647485
The barn is actually a metaphor for the human soul: inherently internal, but constantly searching for an external connection, the mutual feeling of love, acceptance and comprehension, in which internal and external make a whole. When I look at the barn, I'm looking at me, and I can't help but to shed a tear.

>>10642015
That's the lowest condition you can choose for some reason

>>10642621
Find me one youtuber that says to do this. Just one.

>>10645976
wtf, how did I miss that the first time...I 'ink I habad stooke...

>>10647760
Wojack's Retro Gaming Shack

>>10647849
Dude's BitHead1000. I remember he was pissed off because YouTube flagged this video because of "dangerous activities" or some retarded shit like that. His other custom cases are also cool. Unlike most faggots that try custom cases, his are interesting because he actually knows how to work the materials and has the tools to do so by virtue of being a Long Island redneck.

>>10647724
If that pun was intentional I applaud you sir

>>10645909
You can get the same experience having four players throw an N-bomb at the same time.

>>10642621
I did this to an NES. No regrets, it’s been getting steady use for nearly 10 years and I did a good job on it presentation-wise.

>>10641301

>>10645909
Gwar 64

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nvr9Gb0Cbsk

>>10641301

>>10648867
Being rich was a mistake for them.

>>10645909
based Bithead1000 poster

>>10648821
I laughed.

>>10648920
Official yellow...

>>10648920
This is what plastic would look like if it was a heavy smoker.

>>10649446
No, that's how every beige Dreamcast controller looks like if exposed to sunlight for a long period of time. The plastic they used yellows when exposed to UV rays just like old PC cases and peripherals. You can use hydrogen peroxide to restore the original color but I've heard that the yellowing comes back even stronger after a few months and that it also makes plastic more brittle, so I'm not sure if it's worth it. My Dreamcast is very yellowed and I just left it as it is, it doesn't really bother me much.

>>10648920
>(Yellow)
well, he's not wrong...

>>10648939
i can't watch his content. he rambles on and on about literally nothing. it takes him 5 minutes just to make a point

>>10641301

I bricked our family's perfectly functional ps2 because I wanted to do a breakdown and clean it

>>10653060
I don't think that counts, the gore is on the chair (which probably isn't retro). That PSone seems to be in good condition, but the camera quality is so atrocious that I'd have to see it in person before buying from that seller anyway. Oh, and the controller is obviously mismatched because every PSone came with a DualShock, but it still seems like a genuine Sony controller so it's not as bad as it could be.

>>10653086
Ooch. This is why I don't bother taking apart consoles that are older than 1996.

>>10653116
PS2 launched in 2000, retard.

>>10653095
I work in IT a lot of small biz, a few meat facilities etc. One place had a bunch of 486s and a big old Pentium Pro server. Everything stopped working. Opened up the server and it was a solid mass of dust, with a greasy grimy, old cigarette smoke smell. I took all the filth out. Fired the PSU separate from the motherboard. No problem. Plugged the PSU in and fired it up. Heard a hissing noise, no boot. So gave it a visual, all of the caps were popped, there wasn't a single cap that wasn't popped. So I skimmed ebay for the same mobo couldn't find it anywhere. Asked them how important it was? They said it was he heart of their business system. Ok, so can you afford $5000 for data recovery, new server and installation services? Oh no, we can't afford that. Ok see ya.

>>10653192
No kidding. That's why I said not to bother with ones that are OLDER than 1996.
1996 is older than 2000, oh genius.

>>10653280
I know that you are probably trolling me, but oh well, I don't have anything better to do anyway.
1996 is further back than 2000, but nothing made in 2000 is older than 1996. A console made in 2000 is younger than a console made in 1996. The only consoles older than 1996 are consoles made in 1995, 1994, 1993... and so on.

>>10653337
You are seriously stupid. everything I said made sense in every way, but you are twisting it completely around either because you're stupid, underage, or doing the trolling the you project.

So if you are not trolling while accusing others of same, I will explain once how you are wrong.
As time goes on using numbers, as in, 1996+anything, you say OLDER than 1996 because the come later as we age, not YOUNGER which is what you are arguing and makes no sense at all because I am using 1996 at the cut off. Get it? No? Too bad.

>>10653242
>Ok, so can you afford $5000 for data recovery, new server and installation services?
Asking them $5000 for all of that is a ripoff, HDDs were probably fine so describing that job as "data recovery" is bogus. All you needed to do was buy a Slot-1 motherboard with a CPU (could be the shittiest Slot-1 Celeron, even those are faster than a Pentium Pro), some RAM and another PATA hard drive for maybe $75, install Windows on the new hard drive, install all of the necessary software, move important data over from the old hard drives and voila: server restored. Sure, it would be some work, but not $5000 worth of work. I wouldn't take more than $1000 for a job like that. Ofc if it turned out that HDDs were busted the cost would increase.

>>10647370
>congratulations_you_played_yourself.webm

>>10650697
I stopped watching when he started smashing up stuff from brands he didn't like. I'm trying to hear a jaded middle aged man tell stories growing up as video games did and how the years have broken him and this is one of the few things that still make him happy.

>>10653375
Go do the job then, you will need to travel back 15 years. I was a kid who thought I could skrimp and skim. But I couldn't keep my business going. Got hired by someone that could keep payroll paid. Guess what they didn't run it the way you suggested. They wouldn't let me offer a recap for $1000, why? There were other customers in queue, they will pay more for skilled work that can be done quicker. I moved on and I am making more money in a very stable position. But through experience I learned.

>>10650697
That sounds like almost all youtubers to me, I don't get the appeal

>>10653695
Friend simulators.

>>10653375
Oops, nope nevermind you are dead wrong. Don't ever work in IT. If you have a business that has this old weird application, with a slightly obscure OS on a slightly odd piece of hardware, with an unheard of piece of software. That was sold by a business systems company that stopped existing a decade ago. You better tread lightly.

>>10644298
Tragic and sad really

>>10642138
>>10642181
>>10642039
How do people even let their stuff get this bad, you have to be trying to break it