/vr/ - Retro Games

>retro rerelease!
>it's literally an emulator and a rom
>200mb download and a 100mb patch
>achievement for pressing start at title screen

>nintendo games 4 sale
>Bass Fishin' - $25
>Super Mario World - $30
>Hockey 98 - $15

>n64 collection for sale!!!
>all games - $300!!!

>it's a fucking everdrive with an SD card

>>1672439
>200mb for a snes game
>195mb is achievements

>L@@K RARE CUSTOM NES SNES N64 PS1 RETRO RARE GAME BUNDLE!
>Mario + Duck Hunt
>$100

>>1672713
>L@@K
This pisses me off so much. How do you even pronounce it? Latatk?

>>1673063

>Laak

>>1673063
Latke

>"VINTAGE" "RETRO" "RARE"
This is not fucking Twitter.

>>1672713
I've half a mind to report these sort of listings for keyword spam and false advertising, but there's so many and nothing will come of it that it isn't worth the bother.

>>1673445
I came here to post this. Do they honestly think that people type in the search "rare vintage video games" like some kind of tool?

>Excellent Condition!
>has several Gamestop/Blockbuster stickers all over the cartridge

>"Something 64 - 5$"
>opens link
>game's actually $60

>>1673479
Except that is literally what people do. Older games are a status symbol.

>See sign about a rummage sale
>"Selling a TON of Snes and N64 games!"
>what the hell i'll check it out
>Every single game is either a sports game or SMW
>mfw

>>1672439
Reminds me of this.

>Very good condition
>Covered in sticker residue
>manual looks like they wiped the floor with it, if it's even included

>>1672424
Or even worse

Residen evil 2 -> 20E
Sheep Dog N' Wolf ->25E

Damm you speculator scum

I hate when people point out that they're selling an original black label release for a game that only received a black label release.

>>1673775

>>1673775
>our service
>implying there is someone else working with this neckbeard living with his mom

>11am-2pm
>implying this individual is ever productive for more than 45 minutes per day

>>1674224
The damn thing probably still works. The 2600 is a single circuit board with a bunch of switches and a cartridge slot on top. Anything short of snapping the fucker in half won't kill it.

>>1674224
>Condition: Good

About 14 years ago we bought an old japanese CD runner, not sure what to call it because it could run games as well as media. It had a CD with 150 or 300 retro 2D games, most of witch are iterated within the list but different number order. Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone knows what this device is.

>Craigslist garage sale listing
>"vintage games"
>arrive with anticipation
>very old, oversized Chinese checkers board
>nothing else

>>1672439
>faux-retro game
>has loading times
>filesize is in the MEGABYTES
>most retro games were actually within kilobytes in size, and that's including digitized samples

Has technology gotten better, or have we become too inefficient?

>>1674371
Retro-styled games are generally made with Gamemaker or C++. Retro games were generally programmed in assembly which significantly reduces filesize overhead, among other things.

>>1672713
>Mario + Duck Hunt
my local good will has this cart with a shitty label for US$6.99

i died a little

>>1673775
I don't mind the guy selling his assistance with clicking the install button on an installer, but he needs a good beating for trying to sell free emulators and pirated games.

>>1674224
That "Couple of games too" bit made me smile.

>>1674371
Some obvious ones:
1a. Statically linking tons of library code to work with some modern OS
1b. Using a language or OS which necessitates a massive amount of support code
2. Storing graphics as 24/32bpp truecolor instead of 2bpp or 4bpp paletted tiles
3. Storing music tracks in full rather than as tracks for a synth/sampler
4. Storing level data in full rather than using tables to look up common patterns
5. Not using compression on the finalized data (many Sega games use a LZ variant, for example)

>>1674419

A lot better than Alaskan gaming stores (Boscos in particular). They want $30 for Super Mario 3 and $35 for Super Metroid. $100 for their Super Nintendo.

Pawn Shops actually sell NES/SNES games at a decent price around here.

>>1673775
Does anybody else remember back in maybe 2002-2004 when earthbound was sitting at 180$ for a CIB mint copy and people were selling the "guide" for 12.99$ on eBay but in the description it was "The best part about this guide is that I will email it to you and you can keep it on your computer, it is not a physical guide but a copy that is written down" like what the fuck, it's worse than those stupid "Magnets" that are all over eBay and look like CIB games for cheap >:()

>>1673775
>selling roms

>>1675735
>pirating = stealing

>>1675741
That's actually not true.
If piracy was theft they'd be called the same thing.

>GBA/DS game bundle for sale
>every single one of them is some shitty movie or tv show or toy franchise game
Those poor fucking kids
They never had a chance

>>1674371
too inefficient. there's no actual limit for the filesize for the most part so why be compact and coded well when it can be big and cheaply developed?

>"Condition - Like New"
>"Disc/Cart only, no manual or artwork."
Yeah because I'm REAL fucking sure when the game was new it was cart/disc only too.

I suppose they operate on the same wavelength Gamestop does, in the notion to only the cartridge or disc itself matters in the end, but fuck is it annoying.

>getting games just because they're on sale

end yourself

>>1675865
>in the notion to only the cartridge or disc itself matters in the end

Well, that's completely true for people that just like to play video games.

>>1675893
But as a condition identifier for an item, its a lie.

Would you call a book missing its back and front cover 'like new'? You can still /read/ it, sure.

>>1675893
I suppose so for most people that just want a working and clean cart or disc they can stuff in a binder or resell when they're done playing. That said, the "Like New" descriptor implies that the thing should logically be the entire package it came with (possibly minus the health and safety pamphlet) and is in "Like New" condition as well. And given how many incomplete games get tagged like that, it forces one looking for a used copy that's complete and in that condition to have to sift through a bunch of incomplete ones.

>>1675896
It makes me wish Amazon and various other sites would at least divide the used section into "complete" and "incomplete."