/vr/ - Retro Games

Depends on how much disposable income you have. 200 bucks is a shitload of money, and even though it's a ten out of ten game, I'd never buy it for that much.

>>343498
yeah, im piss broke 90% of the time anyway, it just seems like a cool game to have in a collection you know?

>>343509

Yeah, but again, unless you're really big into collecting, it's just not really worth it. Most I'd pay for it is 100, personally, which still feels unreasonable to me.

I didn't buy it when it was released, why the hell would I buy it now

If you have money, 200 bucks is overpriced but not entirely asinine. For that, see people trying to sell Snatcher for 400 dollars.

>>343559
Hipster status

I started it last night on an emulator and have fallen in love already.

That being said, I'm still glad I didn't shell out the cash for it. If I ever see it under $80 or so, I'd probably splurge on it though.

I dunno, I replay EB once a year on cart and now I have a handheld emulator that I play it on every few months too. I would call it my favorite game.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT THAT PRICE!
I FUCKING LOVE EB BUT DO NOT BUY FOR OVER $100

YOU WILL BE WASTING MONEY

>>343486
Believe or not, I bought it when it came out. The big box was up on the rental shelf at Blockbuster, pretty hard not to notice it. I already had played a few SNES rpgs and it looked fuckin neato. I was right. Saved up my lawnmowing money and bought one for $50 a couple of months later.

I sold it on ebay in maybe 2002(?) or so for around $100, whenever it was that the Starman website starting getting popular.

I picked up another CIB copy with guidebook in a trade with another collector maybe five or six years ago. I traded him Tengen Tetris for Earthbound and some cash.

It's overhyped but that doesn't erase the great experience I had first playing the game and not knowing a damn thing about it. I experienced that final battle not knowing that "Pray" was going to work. Used it as a final option after Jeff and Poo were dead and after a couple times, when it starts doing the cutscenes... I get shivers thinking about how holy shit of a moment that was. And then you get to walk Paula home with everyone saying thanks. Still one of the best endings of any game ever.

Plus the soundtrack is totally god tier.

No, it isn't. Never go above 100. Try to find one that's about 80. Everything else is just scam

>>344429
he raised the price, unbiribaburu

>>344620
Looks more like he bought it, and is reselling it. He could have at least replaced the label.

>>344397

Don't buy any game at over 100, over 60 really. I've been collecting games for a long time now and the prices on good games are always artificially inflated. It's "demand" but don't accept the price, its already ruined the market enough by people confirming the game's worth by spending 100+ dollars on it. Tell sellers to fuck themselves. A lot of the shit that people want (like earthbound, snatcher, dracula x) aren't even uncommon. Just in high demand once people understood they were good games.

>>344697
Exactly what this guy said. There's a few things I've paid around and above $50 for, but it was because I had to go through a Japanese auction escrow type service for some obscure PS1 and Famicom games on Yahoo JP auctions.

Everything has been ruined now by ebay and dipshits who actually pay >$100 for Ikaruga or Panzer Dragoon Saga or whatever. You can't even find stuff in resale shops or flea markets anymore because every fuckin dum-dum thinks any old game is $$$.

Emulate and wait until you find a deal on the games you want.

Back in late 2000, I bought a used copy at Gamestop for $35 with a somewhat beatup box and player's guide. The guide was still usuable, just the very last page had about 1/6 of the corner tore out. A few years later, I bought a near-mint, fully complete copy of the game for just over $100. Came with the cart, the guide, the box, the cardboard filler, the little plastic bag the cart came in, all the ads and warning books, etc.

Honestly if it were me I wouldn't pay more than $20 for the cart, $40-$50 for the cart+guide+box, or $100 for a complete copy of the game all in great condition.

>>344421
>sold on eBay
>2002
>$100

Wait, was yours in super good condition fully complete?

We should turn this tread into a discussion of why Ebay Resellers and Pricing inflation and Capitalism in fact, has damaged the Retro Game Market.

>>344854
Yep. It was the one I bought originally, and I'm obsessive about keeping all boxes and everything together and nice, even as a teenager. I even had one of the scratch and sniff thing you could send away for. I'd show you a picture but that was a long time ago, many computers ago.

Earthbound isn't even rare, the price is only like that because of the immense hype surrounding the game. Don't buy unless you really-REALLY feel you have to own one.

>>344958
Well Capitalism and ecomonics are just working naturally, the real problem is the nature of the collection community itself. When you want to watch a movie you just buy it on iTunes or whatever is easiest, you don't concern yourself tracking down some out-of-print DVD unless it has rare footage on it. But with Retro games many people would rather have the original than downloading off Virtual Console or PSN/XBLA, and those carts aren't getting made any more so of course supply only goes down while more people start gaming and demand goes up.

>>344959
Ahh, you mean the one where you could guess what the smell was to win an air freshener? Then I don't think you are the one I bought my copy from. I recall paying $102.50 on the dot for my copy. Dunno if you remember the price from that far back.

>>345006
And then there's the fuckers who are flashing NES and SNES EEPROMs and scamming. Those people deserve a special sort of hell.

>>345006
If that's the Case, Emulation should be REAL LEGAL then.

or Reggie should stop making excuses and just fucking Release EB on VC.

heck, the japanese will do finilly release it on VC there.

>>345023
Did yours ship from Olympia, Washington?

buyearthbound.com is the reason

fangamer is the reason

It's nuts that I found mother 3 for under 40 dollars but earthbound is fucking 200 everywhere

>>345045
Can someone give me a short explanation as to why it's not on VC? I mean, it was a Nintendo published title, right? Just fucking put it up there. How hard can it be?

For that matter, why not just pay the Mother 3 english crew a few thousand bucks and put that shit on VC? They did such a good job with that, really was worth all the years.

>>345068
>buyearthbound.com
oh my god, that is a real thing. D:

>>345079

some say that it's due to the pop culture references...?

others chalk it up to nationalism

Oh and let's not forget about the common dirty trick tactic ebay sellers use.

The RARE Tactic.

>bought a copy online around 2008 for like 40 bucks after hearing friends talk about how great it was

>fast forward a few years. it's now retardedly overpriced cause of brawl

>cartridge is somewhere buried in one of my closets.

>>345095
>30 listings for bare cart alone
>rare
i don't think so.

>>345093
I'd say it's lazyness and just dont feeling like doing it.

they never specified which ones were those issues with pop culture references, i even remember hearing taht they were other games with just equal references and they got released on VC.

why it always has to be the US copyright law so fussier and cruel, why we cant have a more fair use and unified copyright system.

>>345079
>why not just pay the Mother 3 english crew a few thousand bucks and put that shit on VC

because then they would have to admit they aren't as good as amateurs.

Imagine what would happen if they did release this on VC with no changes made.

So many scalpers panic selling this game... The price would plummet, if only for a short while.

Ahaha, I didn't even know about this. Bootlegged copies have the funniest copy protection:

http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/

>Copy Protection Layer #3
>makes a LOT more random enemies appear for the entirety of the game.

Pic related. Fucking 10/10 trolling on the dev's part.

>>345124
Is Mother 2 on JP VC?

>>345171
It is.

$50, Wal-Mart.
1996.

>>345045
I know Mother 2 is on the japanese VC for Wii U, so I don't really understand why they won't put it on the western.

>>345079
>>345093
>>345124
It's the same dumb attitude that fucked them in the ass when they could have actually sold some copies of Xenoblade. They have a serious misunderstanding of a significant niche market that they could be selling games to.

>>345136
I don't know, collecting psysical carts is so popular that lately digital releases of games haven't been driving the price down. I was really excited when Tomba hit PSN because I thought the price of the disk would lower, but it hasn't.

>>345130
>amateur
the guy that translated it used to work at funimation
he's a professional

>>345226
>significant niche market that they could be selling games to.
>significant niche market

I think you are far overestimating the effect people like us with taste have on the market.

Besides, Xenoblade was an order only game. They made copies for people who ordered it online or preordered at GameStop, no more. To make several thousand more units just to sell to the stragglers who would buy it later on would have been absurdly wasteful.

>>345229
Capitalistics Extorsionists

that's the reason, they just can't get their damn heads in the game.

I paid $10 for mine at a flea market before retro games got cool. I've never beat it and rarely played it. I fucking hate first person combat. But as a collector, I cant bring myself to sell it.

>>345124
I always assumed they meant Earthbound when talking about issues with pop culture references since there's a lot of references to the Beatles.

>>345264
You should blame the people who are willing to pay absurdly inflated prices without caring that they're getting ripped off. That is the real danger to any capitalistic market.

Besides, most of these are auctions. It's the buyers driving the price up, so you can't really complain about price gougers.

>>345259
I always HATED the idea of selling copies for order thing.

it was a very heartless idea, because you bet that they only left the game for awhile, and what then?.....

Emulation and Piracy should be the only option, and people in the US want to put you in jail along with killers and rapist for that.

and this is not me being gross, that's just the damn truth.

>>345272
Just sell it already if you're not going to play it.

>>345229
Earthbound's case is a little bit different, since a lot of the buyers are only buying the SNES cart out of necessity. Also, when prices are this high, many of them would rather download the VC version.

Whatever the case, it will cause panic amongst many sellers, which will drive the price down substantially.

>>345305
Pirating video games isn't legal, but I can't think of a single case that someone got put in jail for downloading them. The only games people actually care about punishing pirates for are the AAA new releases like Mass Effect and Call of Duty, and no one here gives a shit about those anyway.

>>345259
I said it's a niche market, so yeah, it's small but significant. They (we?) are the kind of people who will buy these games.

With Xenoblade, it was already translated for PAL. All they had to do was release a few thousand physical copies for US NTSC. The whole ordering thing was a retarded way to sell the game. If they had actually put the game in stores and done a tiny bit of marketing, a bunch of people who had a Wii (there are lots of them) and who play RPGs on other systems (check) would've picked it up.

>>345052
That I don't remember, but it's possible. Did you ship it to somewhere in Illinois by chance?

>>345363
Fuck man, I don't remember at all. Who knows. Do you still have it?

>>343486
fourteen bucks.

i might buy another one though my idiot relatives lost my players guide.

I got mine for $5

After beating it, I would easily spend $30-40 on it, though for $200 you might as well just emulate it.

>>345403
You bet I do. Since I've got nothing better to do, I think I'l snap some photos of it. I'll be back shortly.

>>345336
>got put in jail
That's because it's generally a civil matter more than a legal matter and results in massive fines rather than jailtime.

I originally bought mine for $35 in '95 or '96 from Funcoland.

While it's easily one of my top five SNES games, it's absolutely not fucking worth $200 in practical terms.

>>345447
the truth is, NO ONE SHOULD PAY THAT MUCH FOR A GAME THAT IS NOT REALLY EVEN UNCOMMON.

I don't have Earthbound but I do have Mother 1+2 and Mother 3 carts that I bought for cheap when they were almost new in Japan, so I think I'm set. I have no desire to buy Earthbound unless I can get a miracle deal on it.

Some games are legitimately high priced though. For example Misadventures of Tron Bonne. That game actually is rare and it doesn't emulate properly.

>>345486
In the case of that one, it's not so much that it's rare (there are many physical copies out there) but obscure (in terms of the reseller market for it). There's fewer people looking for it than Earthbound. Keep checking dem thrift stores and what have you, I got one for $4 at a Goodwill.

>>345447
Did you buy a cartridge cleaner also? Man, they used to push those on people hard.

You can't really blame sellers solely for this. You gotta partly blame the buyers who are willing to fork over tons of money for a game that's not even rare.

Look at this bid history for just the box to Earthbound with nothing else. Keep in mind that the seller started the auction at $5.

>>345537
Really, People had This lack of Dignity?

>>345532

Nah, just the cart and player's guide. Fuck that noise.

>>345551
>>345537
Capitalism would work perfectly if the people who have absurd amounts of disposable income to throw around just acted like intelligent consumers instead of having a "let's just throw money at it until it works" mentality.

>>345537
>$154
>for a box
I don't have an image that related to how this feels.

>>345583
>Have cart no box
>Acquire box and manual
>Value is now greater than the sum of its parts
BUT NOT IF YOU PAY 150 BUCKS!

>>345403
http://imgur.com/LtzOCuI,5KRdW4Z,BppzyKv,8Q7c6Bn,q6Gfm3x,OSu9R2u,37kT2tm

Well, here it is. The order of the images is a bit random but you get the idea. Maybe you might recognize some of the wear and tear on it, like the remnants of a price sticker on the upper right corner of the box, or the corners of the guide? Haha. Also, I remembered in it the little ad for the game that came in Nintendo Power and a mail-in coupon. Is that what you were referring to?

This is for an Earthbound cart with a slightly damaged label.

Bidding started at 1 cent.

On the topic of Earthbound, anyone know MOTHER Vocal Album?

I'd pay a fine sum for an original 1989 CD pressing. All you can find these days is the 2004 reissue.

>>345647

This is the cart they bidded on

>>345537
blame starman.net they are organizing a campaign to buy the game like this.

>>345583
>>345616
I hope when that dingus got that package in the mail, opened it up, then held an empty Earthbound box in his hands he felt a sinking feeling inside him as he realized what a complete jackoff decision he had made. I hope he never gets the cartridge itself, and just has an empty box for the rest of his life.

Plus I hope it was full of spiders. Fuck, maybe I'll fill my EB box with ladybugs or something and sell it on ebay. Almost worth it to troll that hard.

>>345678
fill it with dead brown recluse spiders and ship it out.

>>345639
>that image.
Feels good, man. I got mine in my basement in storage (air tight, it's all good) but I can see the side of the box from my couch where I game, and it's nice.

Yeah, you had to guess what the smell was, it was pizza, they sent you an air freshener. There was three different ones, apparently one is rarer than other, I don't know. Those are on ebay, too...

>>345647
Jesus, maybe I should just sell mine and buy something else I really want. I like having it and all, but I've played it a zillion times, last couple of times on a Wii emulator. But then I'd be contributing to this shit, eh?

>>345639
But no, no way of knowing if that was mine or whatever. Good on you though. Cheers.

>>345737
Well, if it was, thank you kindly for the many hours spent playing this game. EarthBound means a lot to me because childhood etc.

>>345734

Y-you can sell it to me or we can trade....

I don't know what the deal is, but hipsters and teenagers really latched on to Earthbound in a serious way. They will pay out the nose for it.

It's a great game and I remember playing it a lot when it was still brand-new, but they take it to a weird place.

How much you wanna bet someone would Sell/Pay a fortune for this copy.

>>345932
It's a self-perpetuating cycle of "it's great, so people want it. People want it, so it's great". Thus it's fairly high in demand, and keeps it's value - like most rpgs regardless of their rarity.

Lel, decided to check eBay yurop for it, only found this one...

>>346116

Was Earthbound even released in Europe?

>>346127
Nope.

>>345932
Because, at one time, EB actually was obscure.

>http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Games/Mother2/HEY-STOP-OVERPRICING-EARTHBOUND
>got locked by ponyfag mod
welp

>>345932
The *only* reason it's sought after is because they introduced the characters in Smash Brothers. Otherwise it would just be another ~$50 snes cart.

>Game is featured on AVGN/Game Grumps
>Price triples

That's it. I have a shrink wrapper at work. I'm selling this shit to some idiot for $300.

>mfw the price for Duck Tales on NES skyrockets because of the trailer for the new remake it's getting

I saw a copy of that game at my local vidya shop for $9

Better get it before it's too late.

>>346159
That, but it was really Starmen.net, Earthbound Zero, excitement over Mother 3, etc.

>>345079
Because some beatles reference which was actually romhacked by fans and nintendo still doesn't care, yet they release SUPER MARIO BROS 3. WHICH IS CHOCK FULL OF REFERENCES TO THE DEVIL AND IS ANTICHRIST AS FUCK.

Infact I think nintendo has a huge conspiracy with Earthbound. It was released the same time there was a plastic shortage and when a new console was being hyped... same as Mother 1... and same as Mother 3, which was released when the DS was at its HYPE ages with the new Mario Kart games... along with the games VC demo on SSBB being removed

>>346159
While maybe that contributed to it, that's far from being the "only reason".

>>346228

Same shit happened with Mega Man Legends during the whole Legends 3 thing.

>>344429
I love the "Acceptable" tag

>>345979
120 bucks, Good condition

I hope that price rasing cycle will kill itself soon. There will be a point when people will stop paying those prices.

>>346284

It'll never stop. Retro gaming craze will never end even after the nerd fad is done with.

>>346232
>nintendo has a huge conspiracy with Earthbound
They are exactly like this one stubborn bitch I used to date for a couple years. Never admitting she was wrong, would never cop to anything, was right about everything. The only reason I stayed that long was because she had big tits and the sex was good. Fuck you Jonnie and fuck you Nintendo.

bought Mother 2 for 20 bucks, complete with box, manual and all. The most I've ever spent on a retro game.
Protip: If you're a poor retro gamer, just learn Japanese. You'll save so much cash

>>346232
Last I checked, Christianity doesn't have a trademark on The Devil©.

Pretty much the only thng that would lower the price of a retro game is if they found a hundred copies in a warehouse somewhere.

>>346327
Also SO MUCH THIS.

>>346319
>she
>Jonnie
okay.

>>346232
>Beatles reference
>romhack
Uh, what? I first played earthbound on the SNES itself and it had the YESterday reference.

>>346159
It's because of Starmen.net making the Earthbound fanbase in to a massive one, but all while making it feel like being a part of it is still an obscure underground movement because a lot of people there who are ignorant teenager hipsters that think "HURR DURR NoA HATES IT FOR NO RAISIN!!!!".

>>346232
>Because some beatles reference which was actually romhacked by fans
Ha ha, no, it was in the original.

>>343569
i hear this, i found a sega CD for under $50 last year and once i found out it has no copy protection that was the first game i burned for it

>>346439

>call parents while away at school
>they tell me a family friend remembered how much I liked his sega genesis and dropped off all of his games + sega cd
>mfw Rick is the best 40+ bachelor ever
>remember that he had Night Trap and boxed copies of Leisure Suit Larry
>get a little creeped out

damn shame I'm not going home until July or so...

I bought mine around 2000 at a blockbuster for like $5. There was also a copy of Final Fight Guy and, I think, that one rare Clay Fighter game sitting right next to it, but I didn't buy those because I was a very poor 13 year old who didn't even have enough money to make a proper Pokemon deck.

I can never get further than 2 hours before I lose the will to play, shame cos it looks like it picks up later

this and chrono trigger are the only nintendo classics i've had that problem with

>>345029
On this subject, does anyone know if sellers making copies of EB and selling them are common? I'm afraid of something like this happening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmyoV1bkXNI

>>346962
I hope they do. The realization of bootlegs alone will make it's value drop

>>346991
I know there's a lot of people who do repro carts of other games. EB is going for ~250 right now, I'm surprised people haven't started doing it. A shitty sports game donor cart is only a couple dollars, there seems like a lot of profit to be made there.

>>346962

it's really easy to circumvent the anti-piracy measures these days, as it was just a check of the available S-RAM. You can find more about it on tcrf.net

i was fortunate enough to get mine for free, along with all the best SNES RPG's from a great friend. when he heard I collected retro games, he gave me Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF3, mystic quest, EarthBound, and a few other random games. the SNES is the only system i don't just buy any games for, I ONLY buy A+ gold titles, or favorites, so, my SNES collection is all god tier grade A stuff

I got it for $20 in a K-Mart discount bin back in 1999.

It's a pretty great game if you ignore the hype. Otherwise, you'll be incredibly disappointed.

>>344797
What about games like Hagane, and the other Blockbuster exclusives?

$60 CIB

>>345171
It only got added about two weeks ago, and only on the Wii U's VC.

Nobody has any fucking idea why they waited that long to do so.

>>345223
They aren't going to give it to us for thirty cents regardless of whether they give it to us or not. If they ever decide to sell us EB on the VC, they'll do it at full price. Not like $8 is all that much.

Although, I wonder how many people would go out and buy a Wii U just to get Earthbound on the Virtual Console.

>>345583
>>345616
Really, if you figure $200 for the cart, $150 for the box, and maybe another $150 for the manual, it's still ~$170 cheaper than the lowest Buy it now option up on Ebay for all of it together.

I bought it for $80 yeeeeears ago. Even at the time i knew it was bullshit and thought i was getting ripped off, but after emulating it a million times i had to own it.

aaaaand now its double that on ebay. I love the game to death but the eb fanbase are seriously some of the biggest faggots ever and the price is reflecting that atm

>>351213
>I love the game to death but the eb fanbase are seriously some of the biggest faggots ever and the price is reflecting that atm
So glad people finally share my opinion. I've been saying this since the cart was going for $100 on average.

>>351137
This. Going into it not really knowing what to expect at all is the best way of going into it.

>>345156
Is there anyway to tell if the game is a bootleg beyond playing it?

>>343486
>I'm just curious on how/how much did you get your cart for
Pawn shop, opened, slight ware to the guide shortly after it was released. Think dad paid $30 for it, as was most used SNES games at that pawn shop.

Logical solution is to emulate Earthbound, and buy the japanese version.
Actually I own it twice: Super Famicom and GBA.

>>345734
Sell it at a fair price through here if someone lives near you or on craigslist or at a flea market, and set up a table selling just it.

>>351719
I kind of want to get a Mother 2 cart turned into a Repro of Earthbound's US translation.

But I'm afraid it would trigger the antipiracy and then I'd be out only half the cost of the official release.

>>351705

when you start it up, an anti-piracy screen will pop up

I bought one off of a flea market vendor for 7 bucks. I would feel bad but I bought it for my collection and not to rip off other gamers. I can't stand how overpriced shit is getting.

So a franchise of used electronics places has two stores with Earthbound in them in my area. $200 for each one, but apparently they are both in box. Really am tempted to buy one, but I don't want the game for collecting I want to play it.

Was talking to a person who worked at another of the stores to find out if there were any Earthbounds in the area (not one of the two with the games) and we ended talking about how ridiculous the price has gotten for the game, and how it is a shame that people who actually want to play the game can't get it for a decent price.

despite really wanting a cart of this I have decided not to shell out the cash. If I ever come across an extra copy for a reasonable price I will sell it for ~50, like it should be. One person isn't gonna stop inflation though. :[

>>353616
>>353648
Having the cart is nice and all, but seriously just emulate it if you want to play it. SNES emulation is pretty much perfect at this point. If you don't want to play on a computer, there are SNES emulators for every console out there. It is incredibly easy to do on the Wii and Xbox, I don't own a PS3 so I can't vouch for that. Playing it on a emulator, sitting on the couch with a controller in your hand -- it is exactly the same experience as playing the cart.

Except you're saving yourself >$200.

>>353880
I'm opposed to emulation though, plus I don't mod my consoles, so emulation is out on them. Plus I want to use a controller, not the keyboard.

I kind of want to sell mine just to cash in on this crazy bullshit. I could really use 200$ right about now.

>>354154

>selling your games

You're despicable

>>354165
I'm just getting old and running out of space... Hard to justify attachment to something that just sits on a shelf all day.

>>354182

I can't comprehend your train of thought, honestly.
But, if you wanna be that guy who sells his games, go for it.

>>354182
Where you at?

>>353945
>I'm opposed to emulation
Whatever.

>I don't mod my consoles
Soft-modding a Wii or Xbox 360 is incredibly easy, takes not even a half hour. There's plenty of tutorials on youtube and elsewhere.

>I want to use a controller, not the keyboard.
2013
not having a USB gamepad
ishiggydiggy.jpg

Your problem is that you are just lazy.

I think EB is worth $200 in memories...

>>354193
Like >>354182 says, at a certain point your non-gaming life starts to creep in. I'm married, have a house, a job, a dog, no kids (yet). I like my collection and all, but it has less value to me. Might as well let some of it go, someone else can enjoy it, I can have some money to buy more games I'll never play.

There's tons of games I will never get rid of because of emotional attachment. Like going through my games and seeing Tekken 2 and remembering all the good times I had with my best friend during college, or my Umihara Kawase Shun and thinking of the summer I spent playing that with my girlfriend at the time. But eventually you can retain the memories without the objects themselves.

Meh, sorry for getting bloggy. Oldfag here.

>>I'm opposed to emulation though
Even in arcade games which haven't been released to any console? And japanese videogames which haven't been released in west but translated by fans?

>>354673
Ignore that guy, he clearly lacks the willpower to get his shit together enough to play a vidya game.

>>354293

>falling into the trap of the old ball and chain

Man, I'm sorry for loss dude.

>>354697
It is what it is. Like any life decision you make there's pros and cons. You do a cost/benefit analysis and go with it.

She's a ball and chain but I think in ten, twenty years I'll be happier with her than all my vidya all the time.

>oldfagging: the thread

Bought mine when the game came out for $70, which was about the freaking norm for "packaging"/SNES games back then. Is it worth $200? Not really.

>>354796
Welp, personally I'd hate to be in your shoes partner, but if you think you'll be happy then good for you.

But, considering I'm a socially inept manchild, I don't think I'd fare to well with the ol' ball and chain.

>>355238
>Is it worth $200? Not really.
No console game is worth $200. Arcade cabinets are another story...

Bought mine for the equivalent of 15 bucks, then I gave it to a friend that was with the hype. in all honesty the game is your average rpg and the 200 tag price is not worth it.
That being said I despise the hype over it, it's not only ridiculous but cringeworthy since there are way better games in the SNES.

>>356083
>way better games in the SNES.
such as

Its easy to get an earthbound cart

>De-solder the EEPROM off of a SNES game
>I chose battletoads, you chose whatever you see fit
>use an eeprom eraser to fuck that fucker off
>use a burner to split the SNES rom in half then burn it onto eeprom
>solder it back on

>>356184
Chrono trigger.

>>356282
> EEPROM off of a SNES game

You are so fucking retarded.

>>356184
>>356321
>opinions
They're both good games. Earthbound gameplay is pretty Dragon Quest dated but it makes up for that in abundant charm.

Chrono Trigger is definitely the second best JRPG on the SNES, right behind FF6.

>>356338
http://snesdev.romhack.de/som2.htm
dildo destroy

earthbound from what i understand takes a little more work reproducing than other carts. I found a website that tells you how to make soem other games and Im going to try it soon. watch ebay for a flood fo $30 EB carts

>>356457
>>356365