/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1626353
Also with this lot, I got the NES Satellite receiver, and this mystery adapter. Its not the Super Scope receiver. It is for NES

>>1626356
The mystery adapter is for something by Acclaim.

>>1626358
Second haul of the day was the 2nd gen lot.
An intact Intellivision II with all cords, tested and working.
A shit ton of Intellivision games with most of the controller insert cards! Sweet Jesus!
The keyboard and Voice module peripherals, though the keyboard isn't complete.
A bunch of the manuals for the games
A random assortment of Atari 2600 games
>Find a Colecovision/Intellevision/Commodore 64/PS2
>It has 40 Atari 2600 games with it
>every time

>>1626365

Last one I went to I got a Dreamcast Steering Wheel for £5 and a Saturn with no cables and three controllers for £10.

>>1626372
there are these 2 mystery carts as well. Anyone know what these are? They are too big for the Intellivision, and too small for the 2600.

They look like maybe rewriteable carts to me. just because there is handwriting on the labels.

>>1626374
thats a pretty decent deal on the saturn.

>>1626391

One was the original Saturn Controller, the other one was the one with the God Tier D-Pad and the third one was a third party one that isn't that bad.

Too bad I have nogaems for it.

Not /vr/
Picked this all up for $4
thrift store was clearing out all DVDs for a buck a piece.
So I got these.

/hoarding

>>1626356
>>1626358
Looks like the receiver for the Acclaim IR wireless controllers.

>>1626427
>Acclaim IR wireless controllers
seems about right

>>1626353
I can never fucking find any garage sales by people who don't know what vidya is any more. All the people doing garage sales around my town seem to think vidya is solid gold.

$100 for a dreamcast? Fuck you lady.

I hate you guys

>>1626384
Looks like a C64 cart.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39491&sid=d15330ce66ed5028a2f17600e544363b

>>1626412
>3 shitty games and 1 good game

Eh, it's cheap. I'd get them too I guess.

>>1626412
Enter the Matrix is a complete tragedy
such a good idea, such horrible execution

>>1626661
>ROM maching language monitor
I was close. Hey thanks Anon!

>only flea market near me isn't a real flea market, it is a coalition of antique dealers
life is pain

>>1626353
Reseller thread?

mario 64
dr mario 64
super mario world snes
dragon warrior nes
blaster master nes
trog nes
sega dreamcast controller
an SNES non-yellowed with controller and av cable
Found these at more of a junk pile with a roof over top rather than a pawn shop. (I had to sift through rusty saw blades and useless scrap)

Paid $18 total. Hazards galore but worth it.

>>1627070

Also I found one of these for no extra charge.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff253/TheDrakon/nes%20to%20famicom/famicomtones.jpg
Not sure if I'll ever use it but i grabbed it anyways.

Visiting my local market for the first time tomorrow. Hoping to find some Gamecube or Gameboy games.

The market opens at 6:00am, should I arrive as early as possible or wait until it picks up? I can't imagine many people getting up at 6:00am just to sell some old games.

Also, how long do you guys spend looking around? Do you hang around most of the day and wait for other sellers to arrive?

I saw this stuff for sale in a local ad listing page. How much do you think it's worth?

The list below is the games in the stack.

>>1627414
My initial reaction says he could get maybe 200 dollars on ebay. Maybe more.

I love these threads though, it's fun hearing your stories.

>>1627384
Reseller here. I always get to the big garage sales, estates, and what have you 15 minutes early. Get there early, or resellers WILL buy all the good stuff before you get in there.

>>1627414
>>1627449
I think $200 is a little high. I would call this a $120-$150 lot on eBay currently. The NES and SNES are on the decline finally. The N64 is on the way up.

>mfw finding this thread

>>1626353

Is there any trick to finding games at yard/garage sales? Certain things to look for, etc?

I've gone out for the past few weekends and found no games so far, is that to be expected?

>>1627537
look on your local classifieds website, mine is KSL.com
Make a list thursday of all your garage sales for Friday, get to the multi-family ones about 10-15 minutes early. Call ahead the night before if they list "video games" in the listing, and ask what they have.

Just make a list, GPS it, and have fun. Its about having fun with friends, about the fun of the hunt. Not about anything else.

>>1626523
>stop at community yard sale this morning
>ask about retro games
>one of the old ladies in charge says she has console, 3 controllers, and 40 games that she was trying to sell on craigslist
>get optimistic for SNES or N64
>it's an XBOX

Just hit my local car boot sale and got this lot for £5...I already have the 2 sonic games in there but getting 10 games, 9 boxes, a carry case and a replacement power supply was p. sweet

>>1627550
Better pic of all the games.

Sadly I don't have my GG (it's in offsite storage) to test them.

>>1627449
>>1627519

I offered him £80 which is around $135, but he turned it down.

Glad to see I was in the right ballpark though.

>>1627543
x-box is hard to emulate so you'll be in the good for future retro collecting

How often do you show up to a sale and find nothing at all?

>>1627585
If we include Wii and last gen games, then I see SOMETHING at least 80% of the time.

I've been garage saling specifically for retro for the past few years and its gotten more and more disappointing each year. I even walk up and ask specifically if they have any games and when they do, its PS2 or PC (which are always meh games).
Feels like I should have started this 10 years ago for nes, snes, and genesis carts. I keep trying though.

>>1627640
I have personally started collecting the less popular systems. Like PS2, Wii, and Genesis. There is bounty, and plenty of games out there. You have to adapt. Nintendo games are drying up.

>>1627537
Craigslist is good for finding garage sales, they have their own search tag for it.

>>1627640
>>1627743

My area is almost all PS2 sports or Wii singan games.

Feels batman, but I find deals on retro now and then.

>not a yard sale guy normally
>This morning a massive neighborhood has a community yard sale
>visited easily 60 different houses/people on the street selling stuff
>one vendor had some toddler Wii games
>one had maybe 12 PS2 games, all FPS
>Not a scrap of retro vidya to be found all day

How do you guys manage to score anything at all? I'm so jelly/frustrated right now.

>>1627834
Persistence. Go to OLD NEIGHBORHOODS!!! No new subdivisions, no homes built AFTER 1989.

Can't stress that enough.

How do you find out about garage sales early enough?
Every time I see an ad for a sale on Craigslist, it's always placed on the same day of the sale, and I find the ad a couple hours after it was placed. I'm sure everything good was already taken before I was even aware of it.

I live in a small town and don't really know any other way of finding out about garage sales. They aren't listed in the paper and I never see any signs. I can only guess that everybody knows everybody except for me, and I'm just out of the loop.

>>1628093
There's a local one held every Sunday where I live.
It's pretty big.

>>1628093
You do realize you can set it so that it only shows you garage sales listed for Saturdays right? Or any day of the week for that matter.

>>1627515
>Get there early, or resellers WILL buy EVERYTHING vidya related before you get in there.
FTFY

>>1627585
There's usually some form of vidya at family garage sales, but nothing really noteworthy.
Then again, I don't buy anything at 90% of the garage sales I hit up.

>>1628295
there are lots of resellers here that aren't scum bags, and a few that are. BGH is a cool guy, and so is PPTMS

Today, all I found was a complete in box copy of Sonic 2, and a sealed Nancy Drew DS game which apparently sucks so much I won't be bothering to open it, for $1 each. Both of those were mixed in with the VHS tapes at a Lutheran Church sale.

>>1627898
Most everything around me was built in the early 60s and pickings are slim, too many dead retirees having estate sales. Oh well some of them have laserdiscs at least.

I would be looking for either neighborhoods built in the early 70s to mid 80s, or historical neighborhoods near colleges.

>>1628440

>BGH
>cool

I wholeheartedly disagree.

That said I was at 15 garage sales today, but no luck. Didn't buy a thing. Only things I came across that would be buyable were:

-Big Box PC games
-007 Nightfire disc only for Gamecube
-An endless supply of Xbox and 360 games, all shapes and sizes

I passed on the PC games because even though a lot of them seemed in good shape, the games themselves were shitty. There was one that caught my eye (A Might and Magic game, don't worry, not 2 or 3) but I felt it could go to someone else who might enjoy it better. I'm not a reseller, and luckily resellers are rare in my side of the city, so hopefully it finds a good home. The 007 game the guy wanted $5 for it, which I couldn't justify for a dirty, scratched up, average, disc-only game. I also don't play Xbox games.

That's how it can be though. A couple weeks ago, I managed to snag 4 great GCN games for $5 a piece, so the summer is looking good overall so far.

I'm getting worried though. Even old women seem to be aware that games are worth something now. How will prices proceed from here?

Garage sales are pretty much illegal here.

>>1628554
What shitty country do you live in where people aren't allowed to sell their possessions?

>>1627537
Go there buy games it's not difficult

Anyone here in South Florida? Where do you guys go? There's yard sales here on Saturdays in various random houses but its never vidya. I don't want to go to Carol City or Hialeah's flea markets either...

>3rd weekend in a row of JACK SHIT

At least it's giving me an excuse to leave my house and get some exercise (my only transportation is a bicycle).

On the plus note, I'm down 5 pounds in the past month.

Still, I'm starting to get really discouraged. The worst part is whenever I'm shooting the shit with people, it's never a situation where I just wasn't there on time, it's just they never any vidya to begin with.

>>1627537
It's very common to find no games. Most of it is absolute luck. Just get there at the crack of dawn.

Check craigslist or whatever you use in your country. Make a list the night before. Try to plan it out so you can hop to hop to hop.

I put the Craigslist notifier app on my android.

I use craigsnotifica (which was removed from play store a while ago). It scans for keyboards every 15 minutes, and pops up a notification if there's a hit.

I've picked up the vast majority of my retro finds on craigslist from this app. I've had better success with it than garage sales.

Also, if the garage sale has my keywords (nes, snes, n64, etc), I know to visit them.

>>1629395
sorry, a few beers, etc.

You get the idea.


The app is below. It's a bit buggy sometimes, but it's fantastic when it works. I set my keywords really broad so it picks up anything by nintendo. Most of the time it is people selling their old DS, but if you don't mind a few false positives, it works great.


http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/app/craigsnotifica

>parents have a yard sale
>tell them to advertise that old video games will be sold
>bring over a couple old Madden games
>mfw I get much joy from wasting the time of all the reseller scum who show up hours early

>>1628601
You can sell your stuff, just not publicly you'd need all sort of permissions that takes months to get and costs a lot.

>>1626365
It's not uncommon. Both Colecovision and Intellivision had Atari 2600 game adapters, as I recall. You could play the games on either system.

>>1628507
Is there something important about Might and Magic 3? I just bought a copy myself. Some box damage but everything else is pristine.

I didnt buy anything but I saw someone asking $15 each for defender of the crown, Blaster master some pinball game cart only and $80 for a N64 console.

>>1629504
I actually stock up on madden and other sports games just to do this.

Usually get them for like $1 complete and I use the cases for other games and some of the cartridges as donors for repros.

Just got back from a car boot sale, wasn't able to get there early so I found nothing I wanted.
Some things I considered buying:
>A bunch of great PS1 games; Abes Oddysee, Spyro, Crash 2, Tomb Raider 2, etc. Don't own a PS1 so I didn't bother asking the price.
>LOTR: Two Towers for PS2 in a pile of shovelware games labelled "50p each". If I was a reseller or owned a PS2 I would have bought it.
I was really just looking for Gamecube or Gameboy games but all I found was PS2, Xbox, Wii, and a handful of DS and PS1 games.

>mfw wading through a sea of pakis to search through piles of shovelware and leaving empty handed
I'll try again next week.

>searching through a box of PS1 games
>$2 each
>see the word "Klonoa"
>HOLY SHIT
>beach volleyball.

>>1629557

It's just a crazy good game, that's all

>>1629395
It's been months since I've seen anyone actually advertise retro games in their Craigslist garage sale listing. (That was an ad for boxed NES and Famicom games, and I bought everything the guy had except Top Gun.) No, most of the time all they ever mention is baby clothes.

Just picked up a ps1+dualshock controller+memory card for 15$.
SCH-9001 model, (october 1999)

They had some some of the older parallel port models but won't bother modding if I just do the swap trick.

How well did I do?

I just bought Kirby's Adventure 2 for GB for 10 bucks.
Just game, no box.
Am I retarded?

Anyone else having trouble finding retro games in their area? The only retro related thing I've found over the past two months at yard sales was an Ice Blue N64 I got for $15.

Otherwise every video gaming related thing I've found has been PS2/Xbox/newer shit I usually ask the people running the sales if they have any old games but I'm always met with simply "No" or "Yeah I had a huge tote full of them but I sold them all for dirt cheap years ago"

>>1630347
Yeah, I got the same problem.
Because I live in shitty Yuropean country...

>>1630090

You can look up its value. Stop asking this stupid question.

Resident evil on playstation, 2?, not working. shit.
Almost got mad when I saw that old snes for 60?.

Not /vr/, but yesterday I picked up a Wii with all the cables for $10.I know the Wii sucks, but I needed it to fill out my Nintendo console collection, and it's the first time I've any good video game stuff at a local garage sale. Pretty happy with it, even if I have no games.

Got two controllers, a working SNES, and Super Mario World & ActRaiser all for 10 bucks. Such a great deal, glad to have back up SNES if mine bites the dust.

This is now my 3rd copy of SMW, and my first copy of ActRaiser. Never played the game before, but can't wait to soon.

>>1630329
Mean Dreamland 2?

And not a bad price for the game, it goes for around 10-15 bucks on fleabay. You can't resale it for mcu more, but if you wanted it you payed the right price for it.

>>1629624
>Don't own a PS1

You know PS1s are super easy to find, right?

Abe, Crash 2 and Spyro are like $15 games complete, you should have bought them anyway.

>>1630832

Wii kicks ass Anon. Most of the good JRPGs of last gen and NMH are on it. Also GC on component.

>>1631042
I have a pile of PS1's in my closet.

>>1631292
Do you have this many though ?

Not retro, but I snagged a blacklit model (101 model) GBA SP for just 30 bucks today. I never see those things going for cheaper than 50 normally, and I've been needing an SP because I'm now backlight spoiled and my regular GBA isn't cutting it for me to play classic GB and GBC games.

>>1631301
You are smalltime.

>>1631387
I'll trade you 4 PS1's and a 2600 for that clear one.

>>1631390
A Skeleton Saturn is worth something like ~50 PS1s.

>>1631395
4 PS1's
4 N64's
2 Gamecubes
a PS2
and a 2600.

Your move, cunt.

>visit my small hometown for the first time this year
>see they have a new retro game shop
>check some of the prices online
>$55 for a used snes
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand nope

>>1631407
>$55 is just UNDER market value
fug

>>1631402
Saturn Karaoke Commander.
It's a karaoke machine with internet connection, hard drive, clearest video and audio output of any Saturn, native S-Video, multiple audio and video outputs to drive like 14 screens at the same time, and it also plays Saturn games.

Original retail price: ￥1,385,000

>>1631421
the japanese truly are the ubermensch

>>1631387
Are you selling any of those?

>>1631410
I know that feel, I almost shat my pants when I seen this for 10 bucks.
>>1631007

Finally bit the bullet and picked up a PS2 debug unit with everything included (even had a HDD with a hard drive labeled specifically for that unit) for $75, pic related
Also grabbed a CIB copy of Altered Beast from my LGS for $6

>>1631479
>Are you selling any of those?

And ruin the perfect Saturn mat? No way.

>>1631806
Nice. I love variant consoles and dev units

>>1631806
You really paided $75 for the word test to be printed on the console

>>1627640
The PS2 will become officially retro next year, better start hoarding them now.

>>1629515
Let me guess, some EU shithole? I know your pain.

It's really hard to find games in my area. Almost fucking everyone looks on ebay before selling and finds the most expensive one and prices their copy accordingly and they won't budge. Man your SNES is not fucking worth 100$ stop trying to price it that much.

I picked up an NES with 30+ games for $80 at a garage sale. Several of the games go for $20+ on ebay right now.

It was a 55ish year old woman. She said her kids moved out of state to college and "they are into the new ps3's and xboxes".

I checked the games. They were immaculate. Not a single damaged cartridge. I quickly paid and boogied out of there. She has my phone number because I texted her during the week asking if she had any old games (dunno why she listed it in the CL post, but she did).

I feel pretty dirty. Her kid is going to find out what she did and flip the fuck out. Hopefully it's not for several months so I don't get a panicked series of texts begging for the games back.

At least they went to a good home with me and not some reseller scum...r.r.right guys?

>>1631857
Don't feel dirty. Even if she was aware of the prices they go for, most people put things for sale at a garage sale to get rid of stuff without having to do it themselves and maybe make a little cash. I've been to a garage sale one time where a lady wanted to sell a fridge and when I said no, she offered it for free because she just simply didn't want it anymore.

She's not gonna text you back for the games, she probably won't remember the number anyway because she won't care anymore. She'll most likely deal with her kids on her own if they make a fuss, older parents are pretty firm on things like this.

I got 2 Playstations with 6 controllers (4 dualshock and two original stickless) a liughtgun and 6 games for £10 with a bunch of av cables, and since a generic power is used i just plug my dreamcast or ps2 ac into them and they both work fine

last saturday i bought a gamegear for a fiver as the gameboy i was looking at was a tenner without a game even (i have gameboy games and a GBC i just thought it would be nice to have an original GB but not at that price)

as i guessed the game gear (which came with a sega 4 in 1 cart btw) didn't work (the woman selling it said she couldnt test it or didnt have the time but with game already in it she just needed 6 AA batteries so i smell BS)

the start button wouldnt work so i disassmbled the game gear and scraped and cleaned at the start buttons contact until a connection could be made and now it works, the system wont turn on with batteries only AC and the speaker doesnt work but i ca get sound with headphones

i think i did good with the playstatino but im not too sure about game gear, itys not working perfect att the moment but it looks like i might be able to get it running just right

I bought a NTSC NES without any cables at a local flea-market. I live in Europe so I am wondering if I can use a PAL ac adapter for it? or do I need to get a American adapter and a step down converter?

>>1631857
I got a N64 and a pile of games for $25 a few weeks ago, I'm sure they thought they were scamming me because it didn't work when I tried it the first time. One cartridge slot cleaning later though, it was just fine.

Also got an original Game Boy for a dollar because it wouldn't turn on, just had lines on the screen. That was because the batteries in it were 20 years old, but of course I didn't tell them that.

>>1632253
If PAL adapters output 9 volts AC and have the same tip, you can use it.

>>1632265
I think it had the same tip, but doesn't the NTSC NES use 9 volt DC?

>>1631821
Not to mention the benefits of region free and no copy protection

>>1632265
That is a very good point. I thoroughly cleaned every connection before I tested anything out.

The old NES with loose connectors now works better than my replaced 72connector NES

>>1632518
No. It uses 9V AC. The American NES power supply will fuck up most other electronic devices you plug it into.

The season just started here... My first weekend wasn't that good, I usually search for older stuff but I had to buy that for the price it was... I paid $100 for all of that. The nes work number one, its the second "perfect" nes I find so this will be my backup...

>>1632520
Could have just bought a modchipped system cheaper

>>1633523
Do you have any idea how much those debug consoles will be worth when the retro wave hits that generation?

>>1631806

If I had a vagina it would be moist right now.

>>1631940

You need to recap the GG.

It's not too hard and it only takes about 90 minutes.

Got these for $23 today. Not mind-blowing, but I'm pretty pleased considering they came from a booth dedicated to selling games.

My boyfriend also got a Gamecube with all the fixin's for $25.

>>1633776
Grill on /vr/ i don't think so

>>1633790
Ignoring the fact that women do come to this website

>implying boys can't have boyfriends

>>1633776
Goof Troop is goat. SRnR is grrrrreat

>>1633792
Not him, but saying you are a girl or saying you have a bf is bait on here regardless of if it is true or not. There are hundreds of frustrated virgins who will see your post as trolling.

Don't do it. Its best for you, me and everyone else.