/vr/ - Retro Games

It's nice to look at, but what's the point in owning hundreds of games you'll never touch again?

>>4700160
It fills their empty void of an existence.

>they are all in english

>>4699161
>greatest hits
Gross.

>>4700375
>he's a blind shitposter

>>4699161
Saturn games in their original cases look so fucking cool. I wish they weren't "mortgage your house" expensive.

>>4699161
You need MK Armadgedon and Burnout for Xbox anon
But still very nice

Mine are average. Slightly cluttered, disorganized.

All my shit is sitting in plastic bins at the moment.

The shelving will happen eventually.

>>4700685
Might I recommend an alternate method to sorting those GB & GBA games...

>>4700885
Ha, that's neat. Never seen anyone put carts in a binder. Just discs, which is a really fucking stupid way to keep discs.

Good so far

1/2

Carts are under the tv

2/2

>>4700896
Carts kept under the tv

2/2

>>4700896
That's a pretty good set of Gamecube games there.

>>4700685
>The N64 end labels

>>4700904
Bonus pic

3/2

>>4700885
Damn. That's nice. Where can I get a binder like that from? I see it was meant to hold cards.

>>4700941
Thank you, and it's just a standard, 5" office binder that I got from Office Max.

>>4700896
Damn son. I mean I like my amiibos too, but is there any you DON'T have?

>>4700992
Only went for smash bros, zelda and metroid ones.

missing meta knight and gold mega man (has a smash bros emblem base, so i say it counts)

>>4700904
ah, those n64 cart storage boxes are cool af. i need to get 3 of them 12-cart ones like you have to fit all my n64 games.

>>4699161
My shelves look nothing like that. Thank god. Not a single one of my shelves is used to impress child/manchildren on the internet.

>>4701421
ok

>>4700685
Nice odyssey 2 games anon, something about complete odyssey 2 games is just more satisfying than ones for other consoles

>>4701421

>>4699161

>>4701603
my bad here's a rotated one

Wish I had more space to jam more stuff in.

>>4701639
I really want to get phantasy star iv

>>4701650
Overall I think it's worth it to play, even if it's just on an emulator.

>>4701693
Thanks, I will probably be playing through it this year.

What console are you guys gonna start collecting for next. I’m going for NES!

>>4701786

>>4701786
Currently piecemealing whatever I can get my hands on, as I started my collection somewhat recently. Having a bunch of consoles and no games is like having a PS3.

Living in a place now where for the first time in my life I can have all the games somewhere that isn't a pile of cardboard boxes.

Would love to post my collection but I keep my games in drawers instead of shelves and they don't look appealing enough to take pictures of. My collection is also a lot smaller than all that are posted here so far.

>>4702108
Collection threads are about what you have, not how they're stored. Also if you're collecting for size instead of collecting for games you enjoy playing you're collecting for the wrong reason. Collections of all sizes are welcome.

>>4702112
>i make the rulez here just like my mommy lets her special little snowflake do at home
Nope. lol

>>4701786
Not even a bad choice as long as you go for loose carts

>>4702112
>Collection threads are about what you have, not how they're stored.
No but if you make a thread about showing off your collection then it should be expected that it will be judged on several points like the way it's presented and I can already tell nobody would like to see a very dull presentation.

>Also if you're collecting for size instead of collecting for games you enjoy playing you're collecting for the wrong reason.

Where did I explicitly state that's the reason for me to collect? I was only writing that others wouldn't be impressed by how small it is compared to most posted stations/collections here on /vr/. That in itself doesn't say anything about my personal motives to collect, which is being able to say I own a few games I really love to play -not exactly a compelling argument now that cheaper alternatives are there but psychological reasons, you know.

>>4702568
I mean if you're afraid you're gonna lose some epeen contest here, I assure you nobody really gives a shit. Here I'll post my PS1 collection which is miniscule for /vr/.

I'd post but the only retrosoles I have are PSX, N64 and Gameboy Advance. Everything else is too new for here
Also no space, so the entire fucking thing's a mess and would take a while to photograph

>>4699161
Your xbox collection needs a little work, but
>operation genesis
damn son

>>4702689
Guess I should have pointed out I'm not the anon you were replying to. Just some random anon making fun of a fedora. Before you measured you epeen and came up short and all.

>>4700387
honestly kind of prefer greatest hits on some titles because buggy shit sometimes gets patched out.

>>4702825
That's okay. I make up for it in the regular peen department.

>>4701617
Heres some pictures of the actual games feel free to ask questions or whatever

>>4702904

>>4702905

>>4701639
>stacking your games on top of each other
get some better shelves

>>4702915

Where i live it gets very dusty

>>4701786
Working on the Cassettevision. Got four out of the 12 games.

>>4701639
This collection is hilarious.

>>4703309
Far as I can remember, my collection's literally a mishmash of anything I could find locally in bundles over the last two years, hence the shitty sports N64 games and duplicate Sega games. Plus, the cigar box on Sonic 2 is exactly the right size to hold my loose Genesis games, so it's weird as fuck.

>>4703319
You found a boxed Chrono Trigger in a local sale?

>>4703448
It's a repro box (same for Duck Tales, Zelda 2, and DKC2), but I did find the cart at a yard sale.

end me

>>4703319
That makes a lot of sense then.

>>4703770
Big pimpin I c u

>>4703770
Looks nice but why is that single SFC Bomberman game encased on the very left? Is this even an original picture? Looks like something taken from google.

old pictures; no interest in taking new ones at the moment

1/3

>>4704448
2/3

>>4704450
3/3

Missing for some reason are my ps1, dreamcast and gb/gbc games.

>>4704421
Eh babe *kiss*

>>4704429

Gold CoroCoro comic mail-in contest cartridge, bruv.

>>4704454

Nice Battletoads shrine.

>>4704679
thanks anon! it's rearranged now, but at the time I should have put all my battletoads games in there.

>>4702678
just post it pussy. your anon so who cares what others think?

>>4703770
>end me

Why?

>>4700685
Dark Cloud is the best PS2 game you own.

>>4700685
>the guy game
Pedo confirmed

most of my collection is on these shelves, save for a few other games
a lot of my collection is loose on that bottom shelf in generic jewel cases, and the rest of my games are on my chinese cartoon statue shelves
those games obscured by the figures on the top shelf are all resident evil games

>>4702568
>>4702678
>Make a positive, encouraging post because this is /vr/
>Get nothing but shit flung back at me
Go back to /v/ if you're going to be like this.

>>4705680
I should honestly sell some of this shit, especially some of them jap ps1 games

>>4701786
Collecting mostly Genesis and PS1 right now. Genesis has been sweet to collect for, its very hard to not collect CIB sega games.

>>4703770
Jesus dude. This shelf is worth like 2000 dollars. What the Fuck

Cool tho, I guess?

>>4705139
Ouch! I didn't look at his shelf up close but that's harsh.

>>4702689
>rollcage stage 2
based nigga

>>4704454
fuck me i had these turtles sheets

>>4702806
operation genesis is one of my favorite games. back in 2003/2004 when it came out i remember it being 30 dollars. its worth 100 now. but what other xbox games do you recommend? i got space for 10 more xbox games

You got doom and quake so I like it a lot

>>4701786
Gamecube. I'm a massive faggot who only wants CIB games, and I'm also a Nintenyearold, so it's the only reasonable option.

>>4701786
I'm currently looking for dreamcast and ps1 games. Yesterday I bought some dreamcast game called Time Stalkers. Its kinda mediocre.

>>4701786
I'm prioritizing Saturn and DC at the moment, though there's also a handful of games each that I'd love to own for PCE and Genesis now that I actually have a hardware way of playing them. Hoping to get a Wonderswan before the end of the year, though the above are a bit higher priority right now.

Other than that, all I'd really want would be to round out my non-/vr/ libraries and pick up some (S)FC and J-N64 games for giggles while they're still cheap.

>>4706181
>I'm prioritizing Saturn
Did the bank approve your loan?

>>4705682
You're replying to two different people. I only posted >>4702678.

>>4705874
had them ever since I was a kid. every time I look at them I remember a simpler time. good feeling.

>>4700160
The same reason people own 100s of movies they will never watch or cars they will never drive or tools they will never use. It’s a hobby.

>>4700160
>never touch again
says who? it's all about options my good friend.

>>4706008
Gamecube had some sweet ass games.

>>4705617
Ok, let me explain. I got a bunch of PS2 games in a lot at a garage sale all for 20 bucks. I saw Devil May Cry and bunch of sports games. If it hadn't been for Devil May Cry, I wouldn't have picked the lot up. I initially was going to sell the lot of games to make my money back, then I found The Guy Game. I researched the game and found out about it's history. That unholy grail will sit on my shelves until it meets the same fate as the Panesian carts.

>>4705772
I don't play a lot of the PS2 games, Someone is borrowing my GTA games.

>>4700685
>Dong 69

>>4700685
What's Silver Elbow?

>>4706618
Yeah, it's still barely in that range where most of the titles are still reasonably priced. There are a few fucking retarded Earthbound level games like Gotcha Force and Cubivore, but most of the games that are +$50 I either already have or just aren't worth getting.

>>4707521
Or until you get arrested for owning child pornography. Whichever comes first.

>>4707671
That's the cycle these things all go through. Don't expect low prices to last.

>>4707850
I don't, that's why I'm going for an autistically complete Gamecube collection now, while the prices on the games I don't have yet are low.

>>4707850
>>4707854
>collecting disc games
Especially gamecube games, those are ridiculously prone to disc rot. You're gonna have a shelf full of useless coasters in about 20 years.

>>4707936
At least I'm not paying 1k for Sega CD games.

Why do Saturn and PS have such indecisive cases? Some are tall some are fat others are normal

>>4707936
>this guy again

>>4707665
GoldenEye. I have no idea what went through my brain when I made those.

>>4707703
I am really surprised there isn't an Adults Only rating. Also these are sold on Ebay, so I don't think getting arrested will be a troubling matter.

>>4701786
Right now I'm prioritizing Playstation RPGs. When the Playstation was around I was a retarded kid into Crash Bandicoot and Gex so now I want to get into the stuff I would've been into if I were my current age then. Its hard even finding games like that in my area though, especially copies that aren't busted up.

I wasn't sure about posting, since there's about a thousand things some asshole anons can nitpick and complain about. Also, I know the room looks like shit.

The place I'm living in has no room for shit, simple as that. Hence why there's no cable management whatsoever. That's also the reason I'm posting the consoles, since my games are all in boxes right now.

I started collecting backwards, some would say. But I'm a hardware guy, I've always wanted the obscure and forgotten stuff.

>>4708240
is your room in the kitchen?

>>4708248

It's not even a room, just an open space near the corridor. At least it's big enough to have a good couch as well.

>>4708250
but why the tiles?

>>4708257

Good question, no idea. Maybe the people were on a budget when they built the apartment. I thought about getting a rug or something of the sort, but I don't plan on staying for long.

>>4708240
>thousand things some asshole anons can nitpick
This is the only reason I post here. I enjoy the feedback. You learn how to be a better person by hearing how much a failure these people are just by their hatred. Honestly, that looks crisp. I enjoy how your setup looks inviting. I would feel no trouble just grabbing a controller and playing something. Other people (myself included at times) have setups that seem more like museums and it is almost oppressive to people who see it and are too scared to even ask to play some vidya.

>>4708286

Thanks. Yeah, I try to make most consoles just ready to pick up and play. I consider myself more of a player than a collector. The only things i take extra care of are my rare stuff, like my Net Yaroze and the Pippin.

>>4702689
Ha, you call that miniscule? You are like a baby. Check this out.

>>4708336
Eh, you have Mega Man Legends 1 & 2.
You pretty much just need Metal Gear Solid and Xenogears, then you're set.

Only game i need in the collection

>>4708240
get some wood furnishing for your systems and tv or paint the walls and it'll be ight. wood flooring?

>>4706443
I realize that. That's no excuse for your rudeness toward a friendly, encouraging post. You're not being the poster Tre/vr/ knows you can be, and that's bogus.

>>4708718
>rudeness
How about you point out what exactly was "rude" about my original post? I only corrected you in the second part of my post and in the first part I explained why people wouldn't be impressed by a pic of my collection. I have no idea how that gives you the idea of me being rude.

Oh and by the way, I was on /vr/ when it was new in April 2013 and I've only visited /v/ a few times just to have an idea how bad it really is compared to how people complain about it so your earlier post >>4705682 missed the mark completely.

>>4702689
>Wild ARMS 2

>>4699161

>>4708336
Might be small but 10/10 quality titles

>>4708730
I stated that collections of all sizes are welcome and that these threads are about the love of video games. Your response was dismissive of that sentiment via your implication that collections aren't worth looking at if they aren't presented in an interesting way or if they're small. It was entirely unwarranted.

>>4708769
>I stated my shit tier opinion
Not the anon you're crying about but I'm stating that you're a sanctimonious little cunt. I prefer to state facts instead of into the trash it goes tantrums, err i mean "opinions"

>>4708769
>... that sentiment via your implication that
...
Well, sorry if you don't like my response not being in accordance with your feelings. I never stated that smaller collections don't have any value but I can't exactly see what's wrong with assuming something that is very likely to be the case.
I mean, this is more or less a general of people showing off their collection on an imageboard where people should talk more about board related matters instead of acting like they're on some subreddit or whatever screaming "guise look how awesome and unique I am" so you can't really expect from those same people to be humble in such a specific setting. And be honest, what would you rather see in a picture? There's a reason photography has become an artform.

>>4709030
>>4708956
>>4708769
>>4708730
>>4708718
guys...stop.

>>4708336
im salty i sold my mario rpg way back.....now i dont feel like buying it back because its expensive....dammit

>>4700192
This. That's why I keep buying guitars and amps even though I only gig 5 or 6 times a year these days

>>4708756
Let's see if you think the same after seeing the whole thing

>>4709667
damn guy...why even own an xbox....

>>4708736
As jelly as I am, I can never get over longboxes and the way they look on a shelf. It's the primary reason I can't bring myself to collect legit Sega CD and Saturn games. Not gonna lie and say ease of piracy on CD and price on Saturn aren't also contributing factors, but shelf autism is the biggest one.

>>4699161
It's a mess at the moment cause I just catalogued it. There's a decent bit that has been added since this photo has been taken. Have posted it before.

>>4708736
im torn over what to get....shining the holy ark, or dragonforce??

>>4709810
Dragon Force is one of the best games on the system; Shining Holy Ark is completely mediocre. How is that even a question?

I don’t really care to get cases for all of my N64 games.

>>4709923
oh yeah?

>>4709810
Actually both are pretty good. Dragon Force is more unique, though, while Holy Ark is fairly by-the-numbers old school JRPG. Still does it well though.

Custom cases are cheaper when it comes to the Saturn. Those long cases are too fragile.

>>4710393
The Saturn games' unique cases are a big part of their appeal as collectables, though.
If you're searching for cheaper games, you're collecting for the wrong system, friend.

I picked up a copy of Columns on Genesis today. It only cost me 2 bucks, and not only was it CIB, it also had this cool poster in the box.

>>4709617
Why would anyone stop making fun of such a stupid tool?

>>4709667
0/10 back to /v/

>>4709750
>myriad of NES games in their boxes.
How the fuck did you manage to do that?

>>4710414
They're not unique, they're just longboxes.

>>4711395
Please learn how to use the word "myriad" correctly.

>>4711446
but he did

>>4699161
how them shelves looking? quite nice. not that i'd share photos of my stash with you sad lamers. but thanks for asking anyway.

>>4709750

Good SNES collection.

I like the quantity of NES titles I see there, but I see a lot of shit in there too. Also several duplicates. Not trying to knock it though. I'd just do a little pruning.

>>4706201
>Did the bank approve your loan?
Nah, that's overkill for the way I'm collecting for it

>>4709730
>As jelly as I am, I can never get over longboxes and the way they look on a shelf. It's the primary reason I can't bring myself to collect legit Sega CD and Saturn games.
There's a way around that, though

>>4710414
>If you're searching for cheaper games, you're collecting for the wrong system, friend.
Anon's system isn't the issue, it's the region.

>>4711395
grandparents used to own a video rental store. When it closed, they didnt sell the games and let me and my 2 brothers keep them. We've had them stored up for the longest. So we kind of cheated in collecting. Right now me and my brother are trying to fill some of the missing games from boxes.

>>4711602
true, my brother would suggest some titles to my grandparents for them to start renting out. thats why there are duplicates as well. So I blame him for the crappy games

>>4711538
He didn't. Myriad means "thousands of." So to also use the word 'of' after it is saying "thousands of of."

>>4711721

Got a big retro game flea market in town next week. How do I not get scammed with fakes, etc.?

>>4712079
If you still care about getting "authentic" /vr/ games you might as well buy on Ebay or Amazon. Especially if you're going there for lower prices. It's not 2001 anymore anon. Even Playstation and Megadrive/Genesis games will be as expensive or even more than their online counterparts and if you're looking for anything from Nintendo or on MS-DOS/Amiga then you might as well give up on it now cause you're never gonna find those for actually low prices anymore.

>>4712073
myriad CAN mean thousands of
it can also mean an extraordinary amount of

irregardless, that's a very common way of saying myriad

how the fuck else would you put myriad into a sentence

>>4712079
There's some videos on youtube that go over the most common differences between real and fake games for most systems. The Gameboy/Color/Advanced is the easiest one to spot fakes on.

If you're worried about overpricing, just have a pricechart website on your phone to check.

>>4699161
Full of books, like a normal human being.
I don't belong here

>>4712910
The point is you just don't put "of" after myriad. It's wrong and any English teacher worth their salt will tell you the same thing.

Posting because I dont want the thread to die

>>4699161
Based Resi anon

Thanks for posting more of your sick room bro

>>4714052
>pop vinyl crap

I'm not going to judge, but honestly, why? Girlfriend's stuff or what..

>owning physical media in 2018
>not having the entire history of video games on a single ssd

>>4713072
You can go back to school, too. It's perfectly acceptable to use the preposition 'of' after the word myriad. The only grammatical mistake made was the omission of an 's' after myriad.

>>4714052
why no pier solar DC PAL copy brah?

also what region those DB sets bruv

>>4713049
Got some too

>>4699161
You need darkwatch for ps2. Also no nightfire? baka senpai desu

>>4714529
Never heard of darkwatch, what it be? And I’ve played enough nightfire over a buddy’s house for over ten years....im so good on ever playing against mr razor hat again

>>4714093
Resident evil is life my dude. I live it. Breathe it. Surround myself with it. I even hate it too. Re7. Fuck that game.

>>4714136
He's a Dragon Ball Pleb. They have no standards.

>>4714136
Got them back a while ago, for some ungodly reason I like them still. I accept that they are shit figures, have some SH on the way though.

>>4714378
They are the ntsc versions. I'll get round to getting a bigger dc collection.

>>4707936
>disc rot meme again

>>4709667
At least you're not one of those mentally ill who visit /vr/ and play modern westshit.

>>4717787
>disc rot isn't real meme again

>>4709667
>copy of lifeline
you're ok

>>4717787
You don't know that DVDs of all sizes can oxidize and wipe out their data?
Well, now you know.

>>4718658
not a problem unless you live near a tropical coast

>>4718835
Except the issue isn't caused by heat/humidity. Environmental factors speed up the process and exacerbate it but the issue is air bubbles in the aluminum data layer that were trapped during the manufacturing process. Not all discs have this (I've heard something like 20% of discs pressed around 2000 or earlier but can't speak to how accurate that is) but the earlier they were manufactured the higher the chance. Being stored in ideal conditions will slow the process but it's a manufacturing defect, the rot is going to occur if the disc was improperly pressed no matter how well they're kept. Sega discs seem to have rot at higher rates simply because they spent as little money on manufacturing as possible.

>>4719869
nigga i just spent 500+ dollars on my saturn games your telling me they are going to be among the first to go?

>>4719869
>Sega discs seem to have rot at higher rates simply because they spent as little money on manufacturing as possible.
I had horrible success with preservation of my Game cube games. Untouched and rarely used titles started the failure. I sold the entire collection with the system for a few hundred as-is. I had no idea disc rot was a thing until after it happened to me. They start by acting up, and having errors at random points, until you get to the point they stop booting.
>>4720114
>nigga i just spent 500+ dollars on my saturn games
Spend some money on a back-up playing system, and store the backups somewhere safe like a Hard drive or 2. Sooner or later all cd media will fail.

>come to /vr/
>oh nice a collection thread
>disc rotting paranoia
Now I remember why I left this place.

>>4720132
im oblivious to game preservation, (never looked into it). how would i go about backing up my games, say, on OG xbox or my resident evils?

>>4720179
>how would i go about backing up my games
You can back up most Wii and GC games to a modded wii & still play them. Same with an OG xbox. You can mod the system and run games directly from an internal HDD. I have all of my PSX game iso's backed up on my computer, and play burned copies. Cart games work great with SD carts. Others will chime in that you can play most of these backup on computer based emulators as well, but I don't know much about this & never fiddled with it.

Its a tricky thing however. In order to preserve the software, you need to alter the game system/software ESPECIALLY in the Wii or xbox.

Basically collectors and game hoarders hate people like me. I don't participate in the market. CD based games can and should be backed up. Formats vary. There is software that is free that will make a ISO or bin&cue format.

Not all disc game suffer from disc rot, and In my time, I have only found this happening on my game cube titles. If I had to guess, 1/3 of them started failing in the last 2 years.

>>4720152
>y-your discs are gonna r-rot
10 years later
>a-any day now!

>>4714549
Rate them, then. Hard mode include CV and Gaiden

>>4699161
I'm trying to make a habit of picking up new titles at least once a month now, but I'm quickly running out of room, what do?

>>4720714
here you go, of all the RE games ive played. i have re0 with the origins collection but havent played it yet so i cant rate.

CV>2>1>4>REmake>3>gaiden>dead aim>survivor>outbreak file2>5>revelations

CV is my favorite, although 2 is my most played and 1 is super nostalgic for me and is always a good play, never got boring to me, to just play the first hour of re1 over and over when i had some time to kill. i didnt like 5 and even playing co op felt like a chore with some of my best xbox buddies...and fuck 7. RE4 isnt resident evil and fucked the franchise with its sequels but its still a 10/10 game regardless. i hope i get around to playing zero soon, i just got pubg and ive been playing the dogshit out of it to bother with any of my other games.

>>4720776
>CV is his favorite
Do you shove emblems up your ass at regular intervals?

>>4720784
the metal alloys go in first :)

>>4720776
>Code Veronica above literally any other classic RE title.

>>4720718
I only buy games I know I’ll enjoy, and have sold all the games I found to be mediocre but kept anyways, or games I haven’t touched in ten years.

>>4720776
>always presents himself as some kind of bastion of Resident Evil in collection picture threads
>in reality has fucking awful taste

>>4709667
lol that's a great collection! I meant small as in the ps1 collection, total collection is very impressive

>>4709750
beautiful. the boxes have their own aesthetic, really nice

>>4720896
Nice try, but code Veronica is the true best resident evil. Nay-sayers are blind and will not survive the winter.

>>4720812
I actually don’t like choosing one over the other, 1, 2, and the real 3 (CV) are all equally 10/10 to me.

Pic related used to be the top of my game shelf