/vr/ - Retro Games

The former

>video game collecting is degenerate
>so what video games do you guys have
8/v/ is in another tab bro

I pirate all the games I can because my space is limited and I move a lot and also I think from an early age I was taught by my parents that video games are disposable wastes of time not worth treating with respect so I have an instinctive fear that anything I collect will deteriorate no matter how much I consciously value them.

So anyway, I collect the hardware and still feel like there isn't a soul in my life who thinks this medium is relevant so I feel like the weirdest one among my friends.

>>5155430

im same but with 600+ steam games and emulators, havent bought consoles since the xbox

I decided not to bid on Napple Tale because the game looks like shit, it went for half its usual price.

>>5155428
its not degenerate. Just don't be the guy in the image

>>5155416
I don't collect games. I have everdrives and chipped consoles with multiple stacks of high quality CDs and emulate the consoles I don't care enough about to own.

>>5155456

REEEEE NOT AUTHENTIC

>>5155416
>multiboard shitposting

>>5155456
We must be the only people still buying CD-Rs anymore.

you're just jealous i have the fortitude to scour fleamarkets and garage sales. There are timeless pieces which would be lost in a garbage heap if I hadn't saved them.
You people are goddamn lucky I care enough to release some of it on ebay.

>>5155471

the bubble will burst when zoomers grow up

>not pirating all your retro games

>>5155416
I don't collect old games at all, I just play them.

>>5155472
that's what they always say. turns out they were wrong, and videogames are bigger than ever.

>>5155416
Former. I may pick up a game I don't have much intention of playing if it's cheap and it's expensive on ebay or something, but otherwise I typically buy stuff I plan on playing or that looks interesting.

I just buy games to have them. I'll get like ten games at a time and then beat none of them. Usually go back to replaying a game I've already played

YAY! Another thread not about retro games!

>>5155471
>>5155480
Whatever you say, reseller. Have fun with your investments when 3rd and 4th generation nintendo games drop in value dramatically. But hey, you're always welcome to enter the world of emulation.

>>5155416
Enjoyment/nostalgia. My PS2 isn't even hooked up right now, and I still haven't gotten around to playing the copy of RE2 that I bought in 2017.

>>5155494
>emulators
lol. that shit sux.
emulation is for people who can't afford the real thing, because people in the know have the real deal.

>>5155416
My e-pen becomes engorged to more enormous proportions with each piece I add to my collection. You poorfags will never understand. Keep trying to convince yourself that your shitty emulators are worth playing games on. You'll never understand why true connesiurs insist on the real thing.

I don't collect and have given away most of my games in time. But at one point I did have hundreds of games built up over years of buying things to play.

>>5155491

but it is, cant you read

>>5155467
I'm glad I stocked up on Taiyo Yuden discs before they got bought out by trash CMC Magnetics.

>>5155513
>emulation is for people who can't afford the real thing

Emulation is for people who don't want to bring girls home to a room full of baby toys.

Oh look, another social posturing thread. Shouldn't you be on /v/?

>>5155513
>he isn't aware of modern emulation that's more accurate and needs more modern computers that are more expensive than original computers and consoles
But hey if you yell "lol poorfag" all day while being mad at others who don't autistically insist on what was made originally makes your shitty day any better then feel free to continue.

Are there seriously still hardcore collectors? I thought that reached its peak a few years ago. Internet manchildren really made it stop being fun a long time ago though. I've moved to emulation almost fully, because the novelty wore off. I'm not going to sell my stuff, though.

>>5155416
The former?
I only limit my physical retro vidya to those I played when I was a kid. It keeps my memories alive when I replay them, and keeps my collection small.
Even I think my +120ish retro games is excessive
imo people who collect for the sake of collecting are crazy as hoarders
and they need to seek professional help

>>5155531
there are some rich idiots out there who WISH they could emulate what I do without even thinking about it.
They spend thousands of dollars on machines to spew out ugly crt shaders and stutter and hiccup even with g-sync monitors at every turn.
>>5155521
>baby toys
my collection has track-lighting rgb sensors which illuminate when you take a title from the shelf. It's pretty sophisticated and wets the panties of every girl that sees it.

>>5155416
This thread is bad.

this was how i rolled towards the end of the 90s, i liked it simply because it was quirky and while not having a personal desktop at the time saved me a lot of hassles being able to rip carts to a stack of 3.5" floppy

its still in my gramps loft after i left it there for my younger cousin to play.. think its worth something anon?

https://segaretro.org/Super_Magic_Drive

>>5155575
>nah. you could probably sell it for a few bucks at a garage sale if you're in the portland area though.

>>5155571
and you should feel bad

>start a youtube channel
>dont have games on a shelf
>dont have posters on a wall
Should i just give up? Will people think i am a hack regardless of what content i make?

>>5155521
cringe

emulation is cool and all, but nothing compares to inserting a cartridge/disk into its desired console.

I collect because I'm a hoarder and there is a psychological thing going on where I can finally buy all the shit that was denied to me as a child but also the scarcity of video games has fried my brain so I feel like I have to get it before it's gone forever.

and I love it too.

>>5155520
I just buy Verbatims.

>>5155416
Emulation is now more accurate than original consoles were. Enjoy your shelf of inaccurate pieces of plastic while I enjoy games the way the devs intended.

>>5155521
>not dating people with shared interests

I got into retrogaming about two years ago.
I mainly did it to replay some NES and Sega games from my childhood.
I figured a raspberry pi loaded with a few classics would be enough.
The games looked kinds shit on my hdtv.
Then I started coming here, read that games look better on a CRT.
Buy an rca cable for my pi and hook it to my consumer TV.
Image still looks like shit, nothing like I see in the CRT thread.
From there on o just went deeper into the rabbit hole.
Ended up buying a wii, modded it, get component cables and a PVM, things finally start to look good, replay some old games and get a taste for it, started going through the snes library and want to try other games I didn't play at the time.
Got myself a ps2 and modded it to play ps1 classics and an actual ps1 that I later chipped.

All in all I didn't spend more than 200 or 300€ on all of it so I'm considering myself lucky.

So far I didn't buy too many games, only consoles.
My next one will be a megadrive probably because the one I had as a kid ended up thrown away by my mother.

/blog

I had considered collecting hardware and then just using chips/everdrives for playing games, but honestly I'm still trying to downsize what few possessions I have that aren't video games. Probably just going to continue emulating. It isn't as good as the real thing, but I have more important shit to spend that money on.

At some point down the line I might pick up a SNES and a copy of the All Stars/SMW combo cart. The SNES was my first console and that cart was my first. Super Mario World is my favorite game ever. My partners favorite is Chrono Trigger and they still have their childhood copy. It's be more of a decorative decision than anything else, but it would be nice to play SMW like I did when I was a child.

>>5155416
>spend hundreds of hours and dollars searching around flea markets and garage sales to find games slightly less than ebay prices

Fucking hell, this is so true. That shit ain't fucking worth it when people either don't have jack shit but shovelware, or they're selling stuff for ebay prices anyway. In which case, what's the fucking point of me spending time and money coming out here physically shopping when I could've just sat home in my underwear ordering on ebay instead?

>>5155706
I still like going to flea markets and browse stuff.
Of course I'm lucky the flea market here is a 10 min drive from me but usually yeah, eBay prices everywhere.
100€ for a snes that looks like a war relic and with no games or controllers.
I hope this retro craze will pass.
Or maybe it will carry on and in a few years I'll see ps2's or GameCubes spike in prices too.

>>5155416
Enjoyment. Most of the stuff I buy is undumped or potentially undumped, though.

>>5155792
It will pass when people wise up to flashcarts. Only fucking idiots are buying carts at 500% price. that were produced in the millions.

>>5155416
internet cred

>>5155809
I have no experience with them.
But I will most likely buy one if I get myself a sega genesis or an actual NES.

Plans for the future.

>>>/v/

>>5155518
What retro game is being discussed here? None, just another meta-thread about people and not fucking games.

>>5155416
This image seems a little personal.

>>5155965

it's based off, I think it's called, The Game Collectors. YouTube channel of two collectors from Texas who go to flea markets and try to find good deals. They usually end up buying Ninja Turtle figures.

Enjoy some epic OC I made some time ago

I stopped actively collecting a long time ago. I stopped giving a shit about trying to get my SNES to work well with my HDTV. I just built a PC, installed an X86 variant of Retropie.

>>5155965
After working for multiple retro video game retailers and having been collecting for over 25 years, I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt, that this is not only 100% true, but this is literally 3/4 of retro collectors out there.

>>5155416
Enjoyment. As part of my job I tend to do a lot of travel so whenever I land in a new city I like to stop by whatever game stores are around and pick up a game as a souvenir. Sometimes it'll be cheaper shovelware that I'm still fond of, other times it'll be more expensive games I've had my eye on for awhile.

Plus I enjoy talking to the various store owners to get an idea of their history, why they setup shop and so forth. I've talked to a few owners that had CEOs and major figures from Japanese companies stop by (with business card proof) and find out all kinds of stuff I never knew of. Some of the stores gouge their prices while others are pretty competitive with online sources.

If I collected just for the sake of collecting then I'd be picking shit up off the internet. But I like talking history and even collecting games that aren't 100% pristine because every game has a bit of history behind it.

>>5155671
Which ones? Normal Verbatim branded discs ended up with FMV skipping and sometimes hangs on the Playstation logo screen for a longer amount of time when I tried them. I could just have a shit burner, but TY discs are always fine.

>>5155416
I like to play older games for enjoyment. I can't say I purchase old games for cred since I never post my collection and I don't go out of my way to add to it.

Personally I just feel retro games were more creative. As a child I'd imagine my own lore for some shit which is what always attracted me for some reason. Also, a lot of retro was designed for couch co-op. I absolutely loathe this new internet culture where everything needs to be "retro" to be "hip". Every fucking tryhard milkdrinker keeps sporting all these Nintendo 8-bit accessories like they're unique. They aren't.

I'm not trying to shame my hobby, but jesus christ this "I'm a gamer look at me" elitism bullshit has got to go.

>>5155416
Did Mike Stoklasa make this meme? The art style is not iconic and is that of a hack fraud.

>two meme images that mention Luna Games in one thread
I Googled it and it looks like it's just one local store in San Diego, what makes them so notable that we're memeing on them now?

Also I swear I'll never get what drives people to collect full sets for any console except maybe the short-lived ones that had under 100 games released for them, does anyone really want to play Caesar's Palace for PSX?

>>5156065
No idea about Luna games. Never heard of them.
But as far as to what drives people to collect the full libraries it’s either one of two things:
A- literally just bragging rights. See post>>5155984

B- someone really likes that game system. If you have a stand out favorite retro system in which you like a vast majority of the games on the system and you are on the hunt for more hidden games that you u never knew existed and that you hope you like, it makes sense at the time. But in reality like you said, no one really plays all the shovelware.

>>5156069
Personally I could see getting a full set for a system like NeoGeo Pocket that only had around 100 games in its lifetime and a tiny minority of them were shitty, not so much when it comes to a system like NES that had over 800 titles released and only about 50 that anyone would actually want to go back and play today

>>5155563
>my collection has track-lighting rgb sensors which illuminate when you take a title from the shelf. It's pretty sophisticated and wets the panties of every girl that sees it.
My sides are now gone, holy shit

I collect for enjoyment!! :) like, that shrinkwrapped copy of Um Jammer Lammy I picked up a few months ago is mine forever, I'm never gonna sell that. I just wanted to have a hard copy of one of my favorite games.

I buy them to play. It's mostly not even Nintendo games games anymore, it's mostly all Japanese stuff.

>>5155575

I'll buy it bro. Looks neat.

>>5155416
Both and many other reasons as well. The cred is less important to me than butt blasting bandwagoners.

>>5155416

>do you anons collect old games for enjoyment or internet cred?

Neither, I sold all my game consoles when I turned 15 and I have no regrets. The correct answer to preservation is to make ROMs legal, not to pay artificially inflated prices for outdated media that was purposefully designed to only work on one specific piece of hardware and to have a limited shelf life.

>>5155971
Really a shame what's happened with the PVMeme craze. They're great monitors and I wish more people were able to pick them up for cheap, but scalper kikes had to ruin it for everyone by snatching up every PVM in a 200 mile radius and hoarding them in their basements trying to sell them off for ridiculous amounts.

I fear the day when the redditfags will eventually cause things to get so bad that you can't even find decent consumer CRTs without paying some meme price when they should be free or almost free.

>>5156159
Some brand TVs like Sony, B&O and others are already sought after enough that they cost somewhat more than most consumer CRTs. Then again, maybe it's because those things have always been in more demand and lower supply because some models like Trinitrons were much more expansive than the average ones (and TVs used to cost as much if not more than the ones produced today!).

>>5155571

>struck a nerve

>>5155456
Are you me?
>>5155467
>>5155520
I bought what must be the entire remaining stock of JVC/TY CD-Rs in my country. 600 discs at 0.20usd each.

Feels good man.

>>5155471

>look all this plastic i own

>>5156003
I've never had problems on my Saturn, but sometimes FMVs in PSX games will skip on my PS3 slim. I've been meaning to troubleshoot that.

>>5156163
>B&O

As in, Bang & Olufsen? For some reason I didn't know they made TVs.

>>5156219
Yup, that's my CD-R-buying face.

>>5155416
I emulate old games on Wii, PS3 and OG Xbox. I used to collect but sold it all once I realized it was just a good way for fags to waste money and take up space with hunks of plastic. muh """physical experience"""" is vastly overrated.

>>5156360
What speed did you burn at?

>>5155971
The thing is it's hard to build a collection when you're 7 years old and poor. You can do small jobs as a teenager but then you have less time to play or study. It's now a "trend" because these 7 years old kids, now 20-30, are making enough money to spend it on games.

>>5156434
Depends on what you mean. I never sold any of my games going way back. So while I've purchased stuff in recent years, the vast majority of the games I own are all things that I've had forever. For systems that I didn't own as a kid like SNES, Saturn, or Dreamcast, I just get an everdrive/modchip if applicable and play pirated games instead.

It really comes down to whether "collection" means having bookcases upon bookcases of games and memorabilia like those youtube faggots, or if we're talking a normal amount of stuff accrued over the years like a normal person.

>>5156417
8x

yeah this is why i quickly lost interest in collecting old games myself. was able to pick up most of the games i want before prices got too out of hand. it's not even the prices that get me so much about retro collecting as it is the entire community around it; no doubt in my mind that this fanbase is definitely one of the worst out there.

>>5156485
to add to this, i remember trying to have a conversation about build quality with another retrofag, and instead of contributing to the conversation he went on his own multi-paragraph autistic tangent about how no one apparently treats their hardware right, accusing me of abusing and breaking my stuff

the nigger hadn't even touched a soldering iron in his life, fuck this god damn hobby so much

>>5155705
Good thinking, /vr/o! I'd should probably do the same.

I collect for fun which is why i stopped collecting games. I mostly collect accessories and controller variants now, since no one seems to give a shit or think they can be worth anything. I found a ps1 Dual Analog (not the Dualshock) yesterday in a junk bin at a flea market for $2. That hit all of the boxes for what im looking for when i collect. No idea what it was and wouldn't have thought to seek it out, cheap as shit, and will actually get some use instead of being a shelf warmer

>everdrive
>real stuff

which one wins

>>5156737
God tier: stuff you've had since the console was current and never got rid of
High tier: having a bunch of games for a system you've had since it was current, along with some games you've bought recently that you missed out on as a kid
Mid tier: buying an everdrive for a system you've never owned before and not buying anything else for it, so you don't have to deal with the headache of collecting in [current year]
Low tier: buying anything nintendo
Shit tier: buying a console you've never owned and then going full collectorfag with it and trying to buy up every game ever on the system

>>5155705
>my partner

>>5156772

>buying a console you've never owned and then going full collectorfag with it and trying to buy up every game ever on the system

poor are you

>>5156475
Likely the problem. 8x is slow by today's standards and works well enough in most cases but sometimes it's just not slow enough. If you can find a drive capable of 4x speed I guarantee you'd run into less FMV stuttering.

>>5156789
Yoda you aren't

>>5156789
Ah yes, the "if you're not needless spending dumb money on bullshit then it's just because you're poor" nigger-rich mentality.

>>5156772
>God tier: stuff you've had since the console was current and never got rid of
the problem with this approach to life is it encourages hoarding since we can't tell 20 years prior what things we'll reminisce about or will have increased in value. that something "might end up being important" is textbook #1 hoarding rationalization.

I made the choice years ago that i'd be okay with getting rid of things i later want, since the 1% of the time i'd regret it isn't worth keeping so much other crap.
>the things you own, end up owning you

>>5156801
Or stop being a retard and burning discs all together. Using ISO and CUE/BIN is the way to go.

>>5156809
It's not even just "nigger-rich" people (aka cashed up bogans, "trash with cash", etc). The inability to delay gratification and spend carefully is a hallmark of most types of social and economic poverty. I mean the richest suburb in my city is full of giant mansions with relatively cheap cars parked out front.

Every time i see people online boast about their spending i can't help but imagine someone who grew up socially lower-class and is now bolstering their ego with the fact they are earning a median wage.

>>5156823
>the problem with this approach to life is it encourages hoarding since we can't tell 20 years prior what things we'll reminisce about or will have increased in value. that something "might end up being important" is textbook #1 hoarding rationalization.
Not exactly. There are plenty of people who don't go through a cycle of interested - bored of it - nostalgia, but rather maintain an interest in it from day one. Sure, maybe they don't play it every single day, or even every month, but plenty of people hold on to stuff and go back to it every once in a while (if not even regularly). They know they like it and know they will eventually use it again. I know even as a kid/teenager I would continue to ask for older game consoles and games for gifts even though they were outdated and I had newer consoles at the time. I think I got an MSX2 in 2002 or 2003, and a Saturn maybe a little before that (or after). I don't consistently play everything I own all the time, be they new consoles or old, but they don't take up much space and it is nice to have them accessible to play whenever I want.

>>5155563
>my collection has track-lighting rgb sensors which illuminate when you take a title from the shelf. It's pretty sophisticated and wets the panties of every girl that sees it.

So you can play NES Popeye feeling like a boss

>>5155416

whats game chasers?

>>5155792
Yep. This was better 10 years ago when things were sold at normal prices (20 euro for a mega drive let's say). Now with the hipster "craze" you won't find normal prices anywhere.

I buy games very infrequently so that's how I justify the hobby. I still don't have a massive collection of anything though

>>5156937
you could always buy out the dollar bin at gamestores and artificially increase your collection with literal trash

>>5155416
I buy stuff I want to play, but only PS2 and PS3 era stuff, because I can emulate everything older than that. Though I'll probably get certain PSX games just because they don't emulate right, like Silent Hill.

>>5156953
haha I wouldn't want that now would I?

I have a nice collection of NES games, N64 games, some Playstation 1 and two classics, and some not /vr/ games. I'm pretty content with what I have.

>>5156801
Are you talking about the PSX games I mentioned? They're all in .img or .bin and being streamed from a Firecuda. The last game I tried was an English patched SotN and the FMVs skip like crazy.

My Saturn games are all burned at 8x and run flawlessly.

>>5156924
10 years ago I was a PC only fag and didn't care much for consoles.
Wish I knew better.
Then again I didn't have the money to waste on them like I do now so there's that.

>>5156823
Hoarding, shit. I kept my games because my family was poor so if I got rid of them, I'd be without till my family could get the next system cheap. Has nothing to do with value, just wanted to play games, and my family could not afford a PS1 till after the PS2 came out.

>>5155894

>t. butthurt collector

>>5156823
Who the fuck is talking about hoarding? You sound like some sort of shitty speculator. I'm just talking about not selling off your entire set of games every generation to gamestop for pennies like so many kids sadly did.

>>5156836
That's what I picture as well. Either that or a 25 year old boomer with his first real paycheck who spends it on frivolous crap instead of thinking of the future. Actual smart money types don't do that shit, regardless of how much their income is.

>>5155416
I don't collect old games, too expensive and I now have the means of pirating them all. I have a decent "retro" collection of a few hundred games from the ones I bought on release.

I'm not in any social media or other platform to show off my collectiono, so it's just for my own pleasure. But I do have to admit I sometimes enjoy playing old games if they're on steam for that sweet game tracking time which gives me sweet nerd cred. Not that it makes much difference because I don't have many steam friends.

>>5156003
the DataLifePlus ones are great, the retail ones you posted are the shitty ones, its not your burner

>>5157052
The idea that keeping possessions even after they are used regularly is often related to hoarding. Poster mentioned "never got rid of" is god-tier, but by fetishising the idea of having kept original stuff for 25 years the person is mentally weighting 'keeping things just in case' higher than they otherwise would, stunting their natural emotional progression. It's not absolute, hence why i used qualifiers, but it's certainly related. That was the point of the post, perhaps you have english as a second language?

>>5156836
>all that projecting

>>5155416
> do you anons collect old games for enjoyment
hell no. I own what i enjoyed years ago and pirate everything today.
>internet cred
suicide is the only solution for these people
>>5157373
you made an interesting point but it degenerated into a superiority complex that's cringe worthy at best. I think you're a wanker and not very smart at all. your level of retardation would work well on reddit, but not here.

>>5155416
Fedora damnit. I wish Metaljesus and his console fags would just die.

>>5156219
>I bought what must be the entire remaining stock of JVC/TY CD-Rs in my country. 600 discs at 0.20usd each.
sure you did. totally believable.
>>5156003
don't blame the brand, blame your dying drives you cannot be bothered repairing.
>>5155467
yeah, just you two geniuses are the only people in the world to justify why companies still making recordable cds. well done.
>>5157406
>I wish Metaljesus and his console fags would just die.
sooner the better. those people are human garbage.

>>5157373
>heirlooms are hoarding
Fuck off and go back to /r/psychology you armchair wank.

>>5156983
same

>>5155575
excellent device, but it's not worth a great deal. DO NOT sell it, faggot. hold on to that shit. they're not very common.

>>5157414
>heirlooms

>>5157414
I'm pretty sure it's the same one faggot who has a few times come in talking about "hoarding" like he's obsessed with it. People only ever used the word "hoarding" for like rare games or something like that, this shit-for-brains just thinks anything that is old is "hoarding" and it's some kind of mental illness because he read about it in a book. Absolute fucking nutjob.

>>5155416
I collect games that I actually want to play. I prefer physical copies because using steam and emulators over all these years has got me tired of digital stuff. I know its autistic but I just like swapping out the game in the console (probably nostalgia), and a physical copy of a game feels more valuable to me for some reason.

>be kid
>get games
>keep the boxes and manuals, granted some now in better shape than others
>keep Magic: The Gathering cards, namely Mox Emerald
>still like having them now, but even if I decide I don't or if an emergency arises i have easy sales of a few thousand just sitting around to fund something else
>takes up virtually no space
It sure is tearing me up that I hoarded things that could fit in a couple shoeboxes and storage bags.

>>5157452
I sold my alpha jet to pay for my honeymoon

>>5157413

whats wrong with metaljesus

>>5155705
>partner

You two own a law firm together or something?

>>5155416
I only buy games I’m interested in playing, or games I wanted as a kid but never got. Sometimes I’ll buy a game if the box art looks cool.

But I don’t care about collecting complete collections of libraries or even series.

>>5155480
The Elvis collectors and Dukes of Hazard collectors thought the same thing. 90’s Atari and Comicbook collectors, and late 90’s dot com investors thought the same thing.

All bubbles burst, all of them.

If you are smart what you do is cash out before the crash, then rebuy anything you were actually interested in post crash.

>>5156003
If the logo is hanging and FMVs are skipping, it’s because the laser pot needs adjustment, it needs to be moved closer to the disc. The problem is your hardware is starting to go, your discs are fine.

There’s youtube videos that show how to adjust the laser pot up.

>>5157939
everything is wrong with him. he's an attention whoring leech that knows absolutely nothing about anything except e-begging and collecting money from google.

https://youtu.be/Sfl0W4WLDKI

>>5157452
>be kid
>get games
>eat Apple Jacks
>dad: "it doesn't taste like apples"
>me: eat what I like

>>5157949

Thinking of doing this with my Sega CD collection. I have pretty expensive titles like Snatcher, Keio and Marko's Magic Football.

Good idea?

>>5158038
knocked off

>>5157373
Holy shit, all this projection. Get fucked, kike

>>5157431
Yeah, apparently having your stash of N64 carts from back in the day is the same thing as being a legit OCD hoarder who feels the need to buy up every video game cart he lays his eyes upon and has entire rooms used to store crates and crates of stuff.

>>5157431
Hoarder here. I have no problem with the word and use it all the time. Mostly to trigger poor bandwagoners. That's almost as much fun as rubbing my dick on factory sealed games or even playing them. It actually gives me a semi to see a faggot chimp out when he learns I have boxes full of dupe meme games for the sole purpose of keeping them out of his hands.

>>5156775
What's wrong anon? :3c

>>5158239
> compulsive lying this hard
a totally unbelievable story. 0/10.

>>5155971
>there's no such thing as "hipsters"
They ALWAYS say this lmfao. If you accuse a normal person of being a hipster they'll simply say, "No, I'n not." Accuse a hipster of being a hipster and be prepared for a diatribe about how, like, hipsters aren't even, like, real, myaaaann (I don't fit into your little box, DAD)!

>>5155428
Tfw you live to see 8/v/ become as bad as 4/v/

i don't collect shit, i pirate everything

lmao imagine being this much of a bootyblasted poorfag that you make a mspaint image and still get replies

>>5155547
A man of culture, intellect, and the middle road.

Godspeed, fellow traveller.

>>5156065
There's 2 Luna Games in San Diego, 1 is in El Cajon and the other in Chula Vista. I live in Chula Vista and OP's image is correct. I go to Luna every now and then, but if you go Saturdays or Sundays you will run into people like OP' image. Some of them make YouTube videos nobody watches. Also Luna's prices are kinda shit, basically ebay, just in case anybody wanted to make the pilgrimage to it like Pat and Ian have mentioned on their podcast.

>>5155416
fucking hate collector fags

>>5155472
>disc rot, scratches

serioously what game is out there that's worth playing that isn't some obscure rom dump of some basement made game that won't run on a fucking emulator?

>>5156159
>tfw 4k and 8k hdr microled TVs with filters can accurate recreate the glow and scanlines of old tvs

>>5156870
its a youtube channel where these guys go to flee markets and hunt games, but its nothing like OPs picture. They all have jobs, children, families, they just do it when they have time, it's honestly really good

guaranteed the average collectorfag hipster owns this fucking thing

>>5158317
>8/v/ 4/v/

What is this cutesy shorthand for? Do you mean (eight)chan /v/ and 4chan /v/?

Fucking stupid fucking spam filter keeps catching my motherfucking post fucking fuck you

>>5155563
>my collection has track-lighting rgb sensors which illuminate when you take a title from the shelf. It's pretty sophisticated and wets the panties of every girl that sees it.
Your mom must change her panties a lot anon.

Every game I buy gets added to my backlog, and I swear I'll get around to playing each one eventually, but the fact is I gather games at a faster clip than I play them, so at an outward glance it appears like I'm just collector scum.

>>5158593
Obviously.

>>5155705
>my partner

>>5158732
Never seen a homo online?
Or a tranny? ;3

>>5156775
>>5158732
It's a girl

>>5158850
>partner
>they
Nah.

>>5158850
nice cope, but t-girls are not girls. Nobody but faggots uses the term "my partner" unless they're bowling.

>>5158862
Or cops.

where do I go to escape butthurt internet politics lads?

>>5158885
Outside.

>>5158885
reddit

>>5158862
Of course I'm a girl :3

>>5155416
I am currently in the middle of collecting all Dreamcast games and accesories. For one I really liked the games, especially Dynamite Cop. You can't play that in the arcade and DC emulators are never good enough.

I also do it out of a weird sense of respect I have for SEGA. They're not the best, but I still love them regardless.

>>5158896
reddit and normalfags love politics though

>>5158301
There's my chub

>>5158913
My man.

>>5158862
>t-girls are not girls
Yes we are.

>>5158505
>Some of them make YouTube videos nobody watches.
Now you've tempted me to become the first person to watch them out of morbid curiosity, where do I start?

I just buy old games if they are cheap and i actually like the game. Unless its a rare/expensive game and i found it super cheap. Otherwise i just use a flashcart or in some cases emulate on Wii/PSP

>>5159658
"No!"

>>5159658

>PlayStation is not a Nintendo product

Yes we are.

>>5159658

>>5159860
Wrong pic anon. That actually is a Sony, one that just happens to play SNES games. Had this been released it would’ve been packaged as a Sony PlayStation.

The addon for SFC would’ve been the Nintendo SuperDisc. Which would’ve been the Nintendo branded one.

There never was a “Nintendo PlayStation”.

>>5159868

Please don't tell me what my identity is. I identify as a PlayStation Nintendo.

>>5155456
>high quality CDs

rofl. What fucking year is it? If you are gunna pirate at least do it right.

>>5155575
Make sure you remove the save battery, they leak over time and can break traces on the board.

>>5155416
Enjoyment. Helps if you have a friend who buys shit for really low prices form poor people and resells to you with only marginal interest.

If you don't use flashcarts, you're gay and so is your mom.

>>5159658
GET BACK IN YOUR CONTAINMENT!

>>>/lgbt/

>>5160906
Why are flashcarts for old system so expensive? I can buy a nds flashcart for $5 but these super nintendo flashcarts cost up to $200 that's insane.

>>5161304
hipsters

>>5155456
>I don't collect games. I have everdrives and chipped consoles with multiple stacks of high quality CDs and emulate the consoles I don't care enough about to own.
This exactly. I found that Staples brand 700mb CD-R work great for PSX, and are cheap and readily available.

>>5155458
>REEEEE NOT AUTHENTIC
You can't tell the difference where it matters. Plastic junk collectors can kvetch about it all they want. "Collecting" as an investment is dead. Gamers don't need to be collectors to enjoy entire libraries of games.

>>5155456
>>5155467
Muh nugget.

>>5161304
brainlet, but unironically.

>nds being an active system at that time, millions of devices used, mass-produced and rather simple
>flashcarts of retro-consoles handmade by hobbyists, done by reverse-engineering ancient tech, can only sell small batches for a niche-market

>>5159658

>>5161897
This. What I don't understand though is why people are willing to pay out he ass for stuff like his GBA everdrive when GBA flashcarts were already readily available and being produced during the lifespans of the GBA and DS.

>>5160906
>needing every game
does your mom know you're gay?

>>5161838
>all those sour grapes
Wew lad. I play backups as well. Why would I want to open a sealed game, scratch up discs or put wear and tear on carts and consoles? But that doesn't change the fact that my originals are a great investment that has increased in value many times and continues to increase. Only assmad underage bandwagoners need to tell themselves shit like that. And that's fine. But when you have to tell others that it becomes truly pathetic.

>>5155513
>lol. that shit sux
Yeah but with emulators you can
>Improve framerate
>drastically reduce load times
>fast forward through grindy RPGs
>render 3D games internally at 4K
>use any controller you want

I dunno, anon. Seems like emulators have some serious advantages over real hardware.

>>5155643
So long as you have something of value to say, it doesn't bloody matter. Honestly at this point not having a bunch of game crap as your set will set yourself apart.

>>5155643
On the contrary, I turn 360 degrees and walk away whenever I open a youtube video and it's some neckbeard talking to the camera with shelves of games and plastic toys behind him.

>>5155456
Same. I don't collect physical games but pirating shit that is hard to find torrents for is pretty satisfying too. I enjoy tweaking my battlestation setups.

Isn't pirating collecting? In that you're building your vidya playing experiences and immersion into the gaming world? Finding new >hidden gems
and whatnot?

>>5162531

IT NEEDS TO BE PLASTIC REEEEEEEEE

>>5155971
Is buying a PVM on ebay really that bad? I paid like 200 bucks for mine (including shipping) and it should be here on the 21st.

>>5162614

>200bucks for an old tv

anon what the fuck are you doing

>>5162658
I like to play on original consoles and being spoiled by the graphics on emulators I wanted to treat myself and get one. I live in bumfuck Idaho so there isn't a way a in hell I could find one locally.

>>5155416
because i grew up with them and i like them

the (((NES))) is a meme system anyways. most of my old games are for the 2600

>>5161931
You forgot
>user super cool filters like hq4x
>pretend they have less lag
>use them on a memeberry
>relate to people your own age
>shitpost daily about your insecurities

>>5162614
Yeah, it's gotten bad. It's hard to assess just how bad prices have gotten without any sort of pricecharting equivalent to look at, but for a typical 20" PVM we're talking like 500+shipping at this point.
Luckily I picked mine up years back before the meme took off, I would never ever pay the prices for these things now, and I'd just stick with a component consumer set.

I'm assuming the one you got is probably 13-14", right? Sadly 200 is probably the best you're going to get for one that size on ebay nowadays. People tell me you can still get deals if you find PVMs in-person, but good fucking luck with that unless you live in SoCal or NYC.

>>5162898
I'm still happy I picked up my minimally used NEC XP29 from craigslist a few years ago (I live in Texas, so I was a bit surprised to find one show up), I think it was $300 or $350, and now it looks like one recently sold for over $2,000 on ebay. Crazy.

>>5162910
Very cool. One of those rare large-size PVMs truly are the holy grail. You get the quality of a PVM with the size of a cheaper and more common consumer set. Those 13" PVMs that are most common among the retro crowd just don't cut it IMO. I guess they're good for having on your desk or nightstand or something, but I want to be able to sit on my couch. Even 20" is just barely acceptable for couch gaming.

That's why I keep my old 32" consumer set seated right next to the PVMeme, so I can choose between picture quality and size. Especially if I'm playing fighting games or other multiplayer games with friends. And I really do recommend anyone just getting into CRTs to stick with consumer sets. The extra quality is nice, but for the price and hassle these days, it's just not worth it.

>>5155535
Try more subtlety, anon. You might get the (you)s you crave

>>5161915
aren't they all shit?

>>5155416
That picture is literally nintendrew

>>5163706
Has he bitched about resellers? I know Pat does that, but I don't remember that out of Drew.

>>5159658
fuck off faggot

>>5155416
This picture lacks one line:

>emulators just don't FEEL the same man I tell you it's like your not playing the game bro, and this has nothing to do with how much money im spending on the real thing

>>5163709
Why does Pat bitch about resellers when he obviously is a reseller himself? He's not fooling anyone with those flea market videos. Yeah, like he's just picking up his hundredth N64 and 50th copy of mario party just to add it to his collection.

>>5165374
Doesn't he even sometimes run a selling booth at conventions? Or am I dreaming that? Now that he's gotten into the book making scene, maybe he doesn't.

Enjoyment. I only collect ROMs though.

I'll save my thousands and thousands of dollars and spend them on other things I can't get free off the interbutt, thanks.

Enjoyment. I only collect ROMs though.

I'll save my thousands and thousands of dollars and spend them on other things I can't get free off the interbutt, thanks.

The only physical or digital copies I pay for are new to newish games, to support the devs. I'll buy old games I like if they are re-released on Steam too.
Blowing a bunch of money on used, overpriced plastic discs, shells, and PCBs to some secondhand seller in China or bumbfuck whoknowswhere off ebay doesn't do that.

kek

>>5165374
Can't fleece people when too many people are aware of the worth of things. Can't buy something well under what it's worth either.