/vr/ - Retro Games

I own earthbound, but it's really not that rare

I used to have a buddy that used a game boy plugged into a distortion pedal and a cheap guitar amp, he would just play games while his buddy would smash things with a giant wooden mallet. it was funny as hell. i used to book them before bands that were assholes so they'd clear the room.

i always wanted to get into chiptune but could never find any equipment for it

Who the fuck cut that piece out of that Game Boy cartridge? Did they have Parkinson's or something? Terrible cut. Also, the chip looks like it doesn't even stick out of the cartridge at all. Why not just leave the cartridge intact? If the chip produced a visible bulge, then just cut a notch into the plastic where the chip goes, making the plastic thinner.

What shoddy workmanship.

>>1441051
that's probably the point

>>1441051

Shoddy workmanship indeed, but good enough for physical homebrew soldered together in his kitchen. The chip is flush with the outside of the cart plastic, so would not fit under the "dip" in a standard GB cart.

Got a boxed Famicom Micro and a boxed NES SP, probably my two favorite pieces.

>>1441058
>The chip is flush with the outside of the cart plastic

Then they should have just cut a hole where the chip is so that all you can see is the chip itself and not the circuit board. Terrible.

>>1441114
it looks like it was done with a hot razor, calm down

I have this old SMB ball-in-maze plastic toy. It's a cheap piece of crap but I bet you won't find many of them today.

Castlevania Legends for GB boxed

>>1441049
>but could never find any equipment for it
That's because you're supposed to make your own.

>>1441049
i laughed thanks for sharing haha

I own a handful of prototype carts, some I know are different from their retail versions. I don't think some of them have ever been dumped before either.

>>1442827
Are you ever going to dump them?

I have a prototype of Shaq Fu I found at a thrift store. It's still terrible

>>1442849
Most likely. I need to buy a Retrode and the GB adapter so I can dump the GB and SFC ones, and I guess either get a CopyNES or something to dump the Famicom ones.

>>1442860
You (considering the game I will preface this with kinda) lucky bastard. You always wonder how stuff like that makes its way to a thrift store of all places.

Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire for the 32X.

An almost complete copy of Swordquest Waterworld (no box, sadly)

Definitely the pride and joy of my whole collection, pic related

>>1443212
>Factory reconditioned
What did they do to it exactly ?

>>1443225
Quick Google search implies it means it's refurbished, but by the original manufacturers. Or possibly just taken out of its never-opened box, tested again, and put in a new box.

>>1443225
I'm not quite sure, but it's got the heavy sixer hardware (with Sunnyvale label still intact) and was put inside a light sixer frame.

Besides that, probably just new parts and stuff, the switches do click a lot smoother than my other four-switcher

I have an American style SNES, BUT its PAL! It works in 50Hz and has weird european ac adapter(that for some reason has "Nintendo of America" printed on it). It has slightly different colored purple colored buttons on the joypad.
Inside, some additional components are soldered on the default American board. I think this is the "proto" PAL SNES, distributed or showcased in some stores before the official launch of the Super Famicom style SNES in europe.

Apart from that i have a bootleg cart of the Street Fighter 2 Turbo for Mega Drive. SF Turbo does not exist on this system, and this is actually a beta version of Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition. It has some differences, most notable are unfinished endings, and different(and somehow better) soundtrack.

This game isn't all that rare, in and of itself. Check eBay right now and you'll find a bunch of copies for prices that are well within reach for people on this board (more CiB than loose carts, oddly enough). But it's certainly uncommon to find Japanese games in a North American's N64 collection.

If there's anything legitimately "rare" about this game, it's the price tag. I paid $40 total for this, and I've never seen another CiB copy go for less than $50 + S&H.

I also picked up Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 for $10 last week. Again, not rare in and of itself, but not common to find over here. (It's basically just WCW vs nWo: World Tour. with more to it.)

I don't know what it is exactly, but I seem to own Playstation programming tools.

I bought them for a £1, and I don't even know what they're for apart from programming.

I'd dump them, but I don't know how, or where to, or who would want them.

>>1443503
Doubt just sounds like a modded American snes

>>1443527
My mom bought me some *sealed* NES games for under $40 each.

From K-Mart.

In the 80s.

Yeah, I opened those shits, cuz I'm a player.

Not sure if this qualifies for /vr/, but I own this.

DTL-H50002

I guess the most expensive game I own is probably Doki Doki Panic. Seems like it goes for over 100 bucks pretty regularly on ebay. Got it for 17 because the seller misspelled his romaji and I guess nobody bothered with it. Other than that I would say just owning a Famicom and Disk System in general is pretty uncommon outside of collector populations in communities like /vr/. And I have a mint condition copy of Palutena no Kagami.

I have a Randnet Kit.

>>1444318
Snes itself is modded, but the mod is pretty big, there is an entire additional board soldered onto it. Although the snes is modded power adapter deffinetly isnt, and its basically a pal power adapter for american NES, that is completely different from ordinary pal adapter. Then there is the joypad which is also a bit different, and doesn't look exactly like the original. I can take pics if you want.

>>1444431
I have one of those. I also have Magical Chase for the TG-16.

>>1444438
I love that game. I got a new/sealed one many years ago, but of course I've opened it and played the hell out of it.

>>1446590
Same model as mine? That's pretty cool, Anon.

I've been trying to get my hands on what I believe is the Korean model which reads "TEST PS2", just because of how fucking awesome it looks.

Pic related, far right.

>>1447394
Mine's a DTL-H500001.