/vr/ - Retro Games

Collector vs emulator thread #7588888844

>>5565903
I have them on cd or minis.

In the heat death of the universe everything will be gone.

>>5565903
i only collect games i want to play. that doesnt seem weird to me, like i would be willing to play them at the time of purchase. usually the desire to play makes me seek them out in the first place.


i dont want to own the entire snes library because unless i was truly rich, like millionaire rich, it would be a giant investment for the sake of showing off on a youtube video? or reddit?

i want to own stuff i want, not stuff "i would rather own than not own". i think that must be the problem hoarders have.


but even if you love the snes enough to have its entire published collection thats a great sacrifice whether it gets burned to bits or not. if you cant afford it twice then you probably shouldnt have tried to collect it at all.


you know damn well those people with the fucking decorative shelves full of nes games never fucking play more than 12 of them.

I love old games but it's pathetic hoarding them like that

>>5565920
>i only collect games i want to play

You still need a functional console, a way to display it in a satisfactory way and a functioning copy of the game and even if everything goes right you would still have a worse experience than the guy that simply downloaded a ROM online.

>>5565932
if youre 12 and you saw an episode of The Epic Banana Gamer and he made retro games look cool you can suck my balls. if you want to play old games you can emulate them, if thats the case.

you should only want to buy for original hardware if youre already old enough to own it. if youre 20 and suddenly decide youre a retro collector and the golden age was before you were born and your collection bankrupts you, that makes you a stupid zoomer.

i thought you were talking about 40yo hoarders who want a complete collection of their childhood pasttime. youre actually talking about something MORE pathetic.

I only collect sega stuff I find in the wild or the rare times I have a hair up my ass and want to waste money on ebay and I don't even have that many.

My collection was bigger but I've been selling more than buying.

>>5565932
>ROMs are superior because muh poverty
Why don't you emulate someone who will actually love you so you can contribute to a thread thats actually about retro games?

>>5565903
FYI OP is leading a propaganda campaign. He just wants retro prices to fall so he can be the exact collectorcuck he pretends to hate. He's not half as sneaky as he imagines is he?

>>5565989
Unironically BASED.

I stopped collecting things when I was 13, when I lost my mtg collection. I had to start a gain, simply buying what I needed and going to local tournaments.
Saved money, and actually got better at the game.

>>5565906
player vs "player" argument

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
Nope, it's fun. And I don't collect for anyone else, just me. My friends know I love games, but only closer friends who have been over to my house know about the size of my collection. It's not something to brag about, it's something to share.

I only collect SNES stuff, and games that I would actually play. You've got to put into perspective what is a hobby and what is a luxury

>>5565932
>you would still have a worse experience than the guy that simply downloaded a ROM online.

lol thanks for the laugh, dude.

>>5565903
I'm done. I have my childhood games and consoles for sentimental reasons, but I mainly use my hacked wii now. It's hard to go back to original hardware without being able to save and quit whenever I want.

>>5565903
poorfags. lol

it's the scarcity that fucked me up. they only release games for a limited amount of time compared to movies and books. i have to have it before it's gone.

storage is a bitch but the pleasure of experiencing the crap I brought is still there. it adequately fills a void at this time.

>>5566035
this but ironically

>>5566645
>storage is a bitch
Each and every game I own is in one of a few large plastic tubs in my attic. Flash carts and alternate media is the way to go. It keeps your game space clean. I hate decorating a room with game garbage because you have to.

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
Yes i stopped some time in the 2000's when i worked out i can emulate on a CRT in the original resolution/refresh rate in RGB.

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
Yes, but I imagine when I start making money those thoughts will go away.
What honestly makes me have second thoughts is when I make a cheap-ass purchase like of a commodore that is untested and I end up not getting the exact value I was expecting/hoping for and have to spend even more money on the system to get it running until eventually I feel like I would have saved money if I had just spent the extra money in the first play and bought the commodore that was tested and working.
Maybe that's just a different feeling all together, but I feel like it stems from the fact that if I can't get what I bought to a presentable state, I wont be able to even sell it for the price I paid.

>>5565903
You post this a lot and you're kinda gay but hey that's cool man.

>>5567937
>i was born some time in the 2000's
FTFYK

>>5566042
the hoarder mentality is something very unhealthy for a man

>>5565903
What if I collect but also have everything backed up via emulation?

>>5565903
The extra stuff in the game box is more important, we already have infinite copies of the programs

>>5566645
>. i have to have it before it's gone.
What happens if you don't get it?

>>5567106
what motivates you to collect plastic ?

>>5569004
>>>5565903 (OP)
>The extra stuff in the game box is more important, we already have infinite copies of the programs
Why is that important? Curious.

>>5565903
>get original hardware and accessories
>everdrives/ODEs for them all
>don't have to spend absurd amount of money while playing whatever the hell you want

>>5566609
non-player collectors. lol

>>5569004
All the other stuff is scanned/photographed on many people's computers, not to mention digital copies most publishers retain. Are collectorfags so delusional they think they're the only nerd who cared enough to preserve something published by a huge gaming company, just because they can't find it on the surface web with a google search?

the game prices are so absurd, some of these carts where produced by the millions, theyre not that rare or uncommon, yet still people charge 30bucks for a loose copy of mario kart 64 and Earthbound goes for hundreds of bucks, i cant imagine the mental physics people go for when they spend over 100 bucks for a decades old videogame

>>5565903
>second thoughts about collecting retro games?
Sometimes. I sometimes look at my shelves and think that I could spend the the minute amount of energy it took acquiring all of it doing something else but then I realize I like what I like for a reason.

>Let's be honest it's expensive
Not really. It doesn't have to be if you don't want it to be. Some people go overboard but that's there thing. What's wrong with it if you can sustain yourself without harming others?
>huge pain in the ass to properly set up your consoles, especially if you are looking for the best possible picture
Not really if you're not a retard and are willing to compromise.
> It takes space
The horror.
> it's not something that you can show off or brag about in the real world
so? I don't do what I do for bragging rights.
> it doesn't teach you any particular skill either.
again, so? It's a leisure thing. I don't do backbreaking manual labor in my free time either.
>Most of your systems and games are collecting dust anyway.
I keep mine that are not in use in plastic bins too keep them clean (^:

Honestly I find it's just a preference thing. I'm not opposed to emulating stuff if it's more convenient but I just prefer using real hardware if I have the option. I think emulation is great for preservation and letting everyone play games in a convenient way is amazing.
It's honestly a case of "you do you" and "let bygones be bygones."

>>5569010
>BRO material possessions are bad mkay

>Why is that important? Curious.
Manuals and other goodies. That stuff, in my experience, hasn't been archived very well.
>what motivates you to collect plastic ?
Nothing does. It's the hardware that matters.

>>5565903
>second thoughts
No. I'm financially capable of sustaining my hobbies, but family will of course have always priority.

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
Yes, my room is filled with dozens of retro consoles and hundreds of games. I also have one (1) HDD with all the nointro sets... Yes I do have second thoughts about collecting retro games. It s a waste of space, money and time.

Reminder that your family and collection deserves special protection, so consider installing a fire suppression system around critical spots.

I had an Inergen-based system installed in my house and garage 5 years ago for under $10k. Compared to old Halon-based system, Inergen is perfectly save to use in civil environments, since the oxygen amount never drops to critical levels for humans, but is sufficiently low to extinguish fires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_qEJJHEImI

Also, consider taking courses on fire safety and fire suppression.

Nah OP, I'm pretty happy about it overall. I'm satiated.

>Imagine inviting someone over and their internal reaction as they realise the man child you really are. Kek.

OP's picture....god that fucking sucks.

I enjoy having the tangibility of ownership, however I do know this all won't last forever. I tend to get backups of all the games especially the too monstrously expensive, or ones I play all the time, but going to be shifting to backing up completely because I'm a disc-fag. Most of the consoles I still play are disc-based and especially for systems like the Playstation, there is a wealth we simply didn't get in the states I love and emulate.
>pic related: Mad Panic Coaster, playing the shit out of this lately
I have started to have second thoughts since getting sucked back into buying and have a nice little setup for light-guns and their games, space is starting to become a premium.

Why do you care, OP?

>>5570239
He doesn't, he's just shitposting and samefagging for (YOU)s like he always does on /vr/.

>>5565903
Yes, I realized how autistic the hobby was. I still game, but I no longer have video games all over my room like a kid would. Would you date a girl who had a room full of childrens books? Hobbies are cool but it's really sad at a certain point when it goes too far.

>>5570250

This. Having a couple of games on a shelf isn't the same as having entire rooms full of games.

>>5565903
I got into collecting in 2013. I gave up and sold most of it off in 2015. Now I just download everything.

Feels good.

I swore off collecting after trying to date a collector who thought he could collect me and got upset when I got another bf (with his knowledge) who was willing to do more than absolutely nothing with me. That's not hyperbole. My mom is a better boyfriend.

>>5565932
>You still need a functional console, a way to display it in a satisfactory way

I mean I still have my consoles and TV from childhood, the only thing I need is the game

>>5565903
the thing anon, about getting second thoughts on buying retro stuff, is that anytime I actually did regret it I could almost instantly sell it for the same price I paid or higher.
Also, I only buy games I actually play once in a while so they don't really collect any dust, or take up all that space.
I set them up in the same TV I had been using since I was 7 (my parents were glad to part with it when I asked them for it) so that's not a problem either.
I also don't feel the need to brag in public, and have plenty of time to learn skills from other sources.
To put it plainly, if any of the problems you described are actual problems to you then maybe you're the problem and not the hobby. Try getting a higher-paying more respectable job and set your gaming priorities straight, you won't have to worry about any of that.

>>5573905
You're doing it right. The wrong way is trying to imitate youtube parasocialites with entire bookcases of cartridges.

>>5565903
>Game companys:
>Archiving by use of 'rom collections' and 'iso's' is no excuse for what we deem pirating. also no video game footage or 'lets plays' allowed ever, please. and thank you.

the memory hole is real folks as op's pic proves

>>5573905
>I also don't feel the need to brag in public
While also saying
> ... the same TV I had been using since I was 7
Pretty sure you're contradicting yourself here.

By the way, parents who 'gladly' give away their close to new family TV to their 7 year old son so he could use it in his room? Unless your parents were scandalously rich and didn't give a damn about your well-being it seems extremely unlikely to me. My family was well off and not even my own parents would've EVER allowed me to use a television in my own room at such a young age, especially when you consider how god damn expensive some of them were like B&O, Sony, Philips or LG high end models. At best my brother was allowed to keep a smaller AudioVision television that was around 20 inches wide at best and he was already around 14 or 15 by then.

>>5565903
I know I can always sell the stuff for the same or more as I got them so it's good.

>>5565989
Savage.

>>5573945
Most Nintendo tapes have been getting cheaper, because the one-time demand from nostalgic adults is mostly fulfilled by now, so they're being downgraded to a curiosity.

>>5573930
>LG high end models
>CRTs
lol, just lol

The trick is to buy games you genuinely want to play at a price that isn't ridiculous. Liking authentic games is fine but collecting for the sake of it (or worse, for the value) is nothing more than vapid consumerist trophy hunting.

>>5565903
>He has to “set up” consoles
Just leave them hooked up you retard

>>5575628
They don't come hooked up out of the box genius

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?

My thought was to sell them and emulate, it worked perfectly.

>>5578410
>my thought was to LARP

I sold my small 64 collection and bought a SNES and everdrives for both consoles, also a PS2 with HDD and a fat PS3

I don't play any of that though

>>5565903
I wish I could get rid of them and sell them all, but I want a few more games a little more.

>>5569646
MPC looks fun
*checks ebay price*
I guess I'm not gonna own that

>>5569502
Thanks anon, this is one of the cooler things I've read in my 11 years on this site.

i use to collect, but i stopped caring when i discovered emulation. why even have a physical disc when everything is becoming digital anyway? pretty soon physical stores are going to be obsolete

>>5565903
No, I had a lot of handhelds and sold a lot of them off - very satisfying feeling, hoarding/collecting willy-nilly isn't a good state of mind and you should learn moderation, don't live a utilitarian life but save some of your money for actual real life

TOASTY!

>>5565903
No, because I have more than enough in my savings to replace my 300+ games. Even then, I've lost interest in collecting, so if anything, I'd just replace the disc and find the manuals and artwork online. I've been relying more on emulation lately. It's amazes me how well most of these games run.

>>5565903
I want to sell everything, but when things start selling, I get sad and stop. :(

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
I don't collect for the sake of collecting. I buy games I want to play in official or non-emulated form. Space is a consideration for me, so I currently have it setup like this:
>Sega corner with the 4 main systems and Game Gear
>PS3 60GB to play games from 3 generations in one console
>Wii U to play Wii and Wii U games and the odd VC/eShop game
>SNES, N64 and GC are in storage as most games I like from those systems are ported to others
>Gaming laptop
>Nintendo handhelds where I can play NES, SNES and N64 ports to fill that gap
>Other handhelds like Atari Lynx and N-Gage
>An Atari 2600 and ZX Spectrum

I love handhelds and they take up much less space and are less of a hassle so I only have the consoles if really need be.

>>5565903 (OP)
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
I don't collect for the sake of collecting. I buy games I want to play in official or non-emulated form. Space is a consideration for me, so I currently have it setup like this:
>Sega corner with the 4 main systems and Game Gear
>PS3 60GB to play games from 3 generations in one console
>Wii U to play Wii and Wii U games and the odd VC/eShop game
>SNES, N64 and GC are in storage as most games I like from those systems are ported to others
>Gaming laptop
>Nintendo handhelds where I can play NES, SNES and N64 ports to fill that gap
>Other handhelds like Atari Lynx and N-Gage
>An Atari 2600 and ZX Spectrum

I love handhelds, they take up much less space and are less of a hassle so I only have the consoles if really need be. Game compilations are also handy to save space.

>>5565903
>Do you ever get second thoughts about collecting retro games?
I don't collect for the sake of collecting. I buy games I want to play in official or non-emulated form. Space is a consideration for me, so I currently have it setup like this:
>Sega corner with the 4 main systems and Game Gear
>PS3 60GB to play games from 3 generations in one console
>Wii U to play Wii and Wii U games and the odd VC/eShop game
>SNES, N64 and GC are in storage as most games I like from those systems are ported to others
>Gaming laptop
>Nintendo handhelds where I can play NES, SNES and N64 ports to fill that gap
>Other handhelds like Atari Lynx and N-Gage
>An Atari 2600 and ZX Spectrum

I love handhelds, they take up much less space and are less of a hassle so I only have the consoles if really need be. Game compilations are also handy to save space.

>>5565906
/thread

>>5565903
I like playing games on original hardware and only buy the ones that I like enough to want physical copies of. Emulation/everdrives/burnt CDs are fine when it comes to the rest of them. I also personally don’t like boxes and disc cases out on display because it makes a room feel like a cluttered store.

>>5565906
>stale shitposting thread #7588888844
FTFY

I'm more worried that at some point if I want to get taken seriously or get married I'll have to retire the whole thing to a box

>living in houses made of kindling

>>5583268
That's all of 4chan

collecting plastic is one of the greatest pastimes

here's what I picked up today

>>5586759
looks like a pile of shit to me. good job loser

>>5586990
I was getting it off the streets so I can responsibly put it in a landfill

>>5565903
Nah. I'm doing the world a service. I'm gonna die someday but I can keep them in good condition while the inevitable end comes. How many do you think are gonna still be there in 50 years. Or a 100

>>5587023
good man

>>5587029
I will eventually give my thousands of games to a museum one day. 50 years sounds reasonable.

>>5587059
You should shove them all straight up your ass so that you can be buried with them

>>5587081
Rude.

So just throw it away? I dont get it.

they work. they were cheap. a tv and a console with a bookshelf doesn't really take up THAT much space unless you live in a closet. and an arcade cabinet most certainly is something you can show off to most anyone. If you were going that extreme nerdy route.

I always found collecting old PC games to be the "classy" thing among game collecting. Maybe it's the fedora tipper in me, but there's just something very cool about collecting software. Collecting software. I'm a software collector. Oh, this? Yeah I just got this delivery of vintage computer software, pretty neat huh.

>>5586759
>larping is one of the greatest pastimes

The correct way to play retro is to buy the original hardware and mod them or buy a flash cart and play backups

>>5566105
Same, I got all the consoles and games i need. About 400 games total across a dozen systems. And now I mostly use multicarts or my hacked SNES Mini with 200~ games on it across different systems. I still like owning some actual hardware and games, but seeing them upscaled on a big screen and being able to save and load whenever you want is just better and more convenient.

>>5565973
I started collecting around 12 after watching AVGN for a few years. I was born a year after the N64 came out.

>>5587029
>Nah. I'm doing the world a service.

You're only doing the world a service if you dump and release the backups, otherwise all that plastic you have hoarded will go to waste, even if you donate it to a museum it won't benefit the general public.

>>5589045
Hasn't everything been dumped already? Except maybe a few prototypes and unreleased games.

>>5589045
I dumped hundreds of PS1, Saturn and PCE CD games around the turn of the millennium up until 2003. I still see some of these dumps floating around on emulation sites.

>>5589582
Is your name Scott? Because some dumps on emuparadise have the full windows user path inside .cue files

>>5589539
Many Japanese region games don't have verified dumps.

>>5589734
>verified dumps
lol. So everything has been dumped?

I spent a lot of my childhood reading game magazines because a subscription was cheap. Owned an Atari 2600, nes, and og Gameboy, n64, and Playstation. Rented most games, only owned a select few. But by the time I was 12 and making some pocket money I did everything I could to get all the cool-ass vidya I read loads about in Nintendo power, egm, game pro, etc. Never really stopped. Play everything I obtain though, whether it's immediately when I receive it or later down the line I do get around to it. However in recent years I'm finding most modern titles not worth owning and mainly excited for switch ports of the few things I managed to miss out on or just replacing titles all together if it's on a cartridge as opposed to the original disc version. No regrets. It's all about enjoying the games.

Anyone else don't buy physical games because they're a tight arse?

I mean I'd love some of my favourite consoles and copies of my favourite games, but pricing just the N64 shit up on ebay... like £600 for what I want and my favourite game on N64 (Harvest Moon 64) was not even released here in the PAL region. By time I'm done with only my favourite consoles and games that's like £5k sitting on my shelf... I can get a real good experience without clutter playing with a wireless xbone controller on the small form factor PC in my living room.

And before people say "I bought my collection for one used condom 10 years ago so it wasn't a waste of money", it's still worth many £1000s on ebay today, that's a fuck ton of money sitting on a shelf.

>>5589734
Miles Edgeworth 1 for example. The Japanese version has no good dumps.

>>5589734
Nope, I generated all cue sheets as path-independent.

>>5592814
>Anyone else don't buy physical games because they're a a poorfag 3rd worlder?
Yes.
A thousand squid is not a fuck ton of money.

>>5565903
>Not having house insurance
>Not insuring that room at a higher value just in case.
Costs literally nothing to add enough insurance to buy back all you lost. What a dildo...

No regrets on my collection. But now i only buy games i want. I also plan on getting rid of games i am not attached to.

>>5593246
The point was about loosing the contents of the room not room itself or room itself. inb4 b-b-but you know what I meant. Because you mean to talk about something you don't understand.

>>5593761
Did you have a stroke or why can't you form coherent sentences?

>>5593761
>why don't you speak zoomer
Because I'm not a zoomer

>>5565903
My goal is just the console's and flash carts or any flash solution for all of them collecting games are niche and expensive i just simply want to play the original games on the native hardware

>>5587105
>an arcade cabinet most certainly is something you can show off to most anyone
yes, buy expensive large things to show them off, not to use. fuck off dickhead, video games were made to entertain, not be display pieces. collectors, such miserable fucks

I've probably invested a couple hundred bucks in "collecting" and then stopped. I realized I didn't want to spend money on what I could emulate and I didn't want to have to line a room with shelves to hold something that, again, I could emulate, no space required.
I'm an emulator fag because it doesn't make sense to me to invest money and space to something I can do for free and without having to give room to at the sacrifice of the smallest degradation to its visual and audio quality.
It's the same for streaming movies VS having to buy the DVD. Fuck it. Why would I do the latter?

why people do this

>>5594556
>I'm an emulator fag because it doesn't make sense to me to invest money and space to something I can do for free
illegally

i lost all my emulation in a computer accident, but I'm pretty lucky because I can just dump them again. Thank god I have a warehouse full of arcade pcbs and thousands upon thousands of carts, discs or other hardcopys.

What are you emulator-fags gonna do when an emp hits your city? CRY- that's what.

>>5594564
If it doesn’t work, eBay usually will force the seller to refund even if stipulations are laid down. That being said, that disc is garbage and so is that price.

>>5595354
Oh no, the ebay resellers are going to starve.

>>5565903
That's what happened to my collection.
I rebuilt it for a little while into 2012. Almost every Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft console out up until that point and a ton of games. Then I looked at all the clutter, said fuck it, and started selling everything off or giving it away.

I have a beat up Model 2 Genesis with an RF cable. That's about it. I still buy games for it occasionally.

>>5595745
>I still buy games for it occasionally.
i have an original sonic the hedgehog(pal) and golden axe(us ntsc) I'm selling on ebay for 200euros (min price) a piece. They're (near mint) but if you want them, we can arrange payment and I'll pull the listing.

>>5595354
>illegally
ohs noes. teh cyber police gonna throw me in the party van

>>5595756
kek thanks but i already have non-pal versions of sonic 1 and golden axe

>>5565903
I collect games that have some kind of value to me. Having multiple versions available, like an original cart for simulating the nostalgic experience and a rom on the computer for playing hacks both have value to me. Whether I want to go through the trouble of owning a physical copy depends entirely on how much I enjoy devoting time and effort to a game. My collection isn't impressive, but I have very little regrets.

>>5590783
It's pretty much all of it for cartridge-based consoles. No-Intro is also retarded as they won't include console homebrew on itch.io and elsewhere, but they have a .dat on the bottom of the page listing the entire site as "IBM-PC." They don't bother with official PC game disc update patches from official sites, but all the groups have 99+ people scrounging for redumps of shit that's already dumped, demos and prototypes instead of working on PC. There's still previously undumped Japanese PS1/2 games on Redump showing up, but that's pretty much all that's left.
I won't be pleased until I see Tanktics & Bumper Wars show up on Redump's PC section, though.

>>5569263
>All the other stuff is scanned/photographed on many people's computers
I find this is often not the case with more obscure games. It's a particular nightmare with flight simulator style games where nearly every button does something.

Not arguing in favour of being a collector, but for those who've already got a collection it's nice to scan and share to keep things backed up.

>>5597182
>Not arguing in favour of being a collector, but for those who've already got a collection it's nice to scan and share to keep things backed up.
Collectors are fucking stupid and think "preservation" means keeping a physical copy of the books.

To me, preservation means scanning that shit and then doing whatever the fuck with the physical book, whose energy has already been extracted and is but a husk now. You may keep it and enjoy reading through it or burn it. It doesn't matter.

>>5565903
I'm more into collecting hardware than games, thanks to stuff like flashcarts, modchips, optical drive emulators, etc.
I like buying new consoles, controllers, add-ons, accessories, CRTs, up-scalers, etc. Then instead of spending lots of money on games, I'll buy a flash cart or mod the console to play games for free.
It's still a moderately expensive hobby to get into, but once you've got a few consoles and a good CRT or up-scaling solution, you don't really need to spend much more money. At this point I don't really see myself spending much more money on my setup, unless I happen to find a console I don't own at a fair price.

>>5597253
>You may keep it and enjoy reading through it or burn it. It doesn't matter.
So what about people who just want to play their physical games, if "it doesn't matter" to you? You sure talk like it matters to you.

>29. room is a mess
>stacks of games everywhere. most are wrong versions of things I want to play or are scratched and won't work
>when i do feel like playing, don't want to set everything up. just emulate on laptop
>rarely feel like playing. more interested in building a collection
>no motivation to clean up my room to get a girlfriend. occasionally smash cuties from tinder, try to go to their place when possible
>keep ordering games from ebay i'll never play and will just donate to goodwill anyways
>have enough money it's not even worth it to resell them
>don't care about anything

>>5565903
I started emulating in the early 00s as a kid, and dealt with some really terrible emulators. Didn't know any better.
Now I've gone back to it, it's so much better.
I'm in the UK, I downloaded a ton of PAL roms. Realise what I was missing out on with 60hz.
I feel like there's no reason for me to buy physical PAL Mega Drive games.

Everything rots.
Games aren't the investment I thought they were as a kid. They're not really worth that much, for the ballache.
I enjoy the art and stuff, but I just try to find good scans. I buy digital collections, I like what M2 create. I want to support the people doing good work.
I refuse to get obsessive about it all. I have bits and pieces lying around if it's a good find.

Having a lot of family die in quick succession changes your outlook on things when you're clearing their homes. I used to collect comics, games, toys. For what? What's the end goal? It's just stuff you, or someone else has to deal with getting rid of in the future.
Let things be enjoyable and not a burden.

>>5598951
When you realise selling a couple of fairly hard to get games have the same value as rent and bills for a month, you realise they're not really worth a great deal.

Responsive, fun to play games that still stand up are enjoyable.
Hardware is important. Good feeling controllers can help.
I have a universal fight stick, and using that for mame makes them feel a thousand times more fun.

>>5592814
My ex was mad about Harvest Moon.
She'd buy every iteration as it came out.
Pretty good going for how hard that would have been in the early 00s to order without how online shopping is now.

If I can recall correctly, you dodged a bullet with Harvest Moon 64.
It was her favourite, but I remember the convertor or whatever she used to play NTSC had problems with that game.
It would sometimes play for 30 mins and crash, data corruption and stuff.

>>5586759
American carpets always look grey and stained, and soiled like there's fucking oil splotches or someone spilt beer somewhere.

That combined with the grubby cartridges is making me feel sick.

>>5565903

Here is what i think. In the nineties i used to sell my old games in order to afford new ones. Hop from 16bit to 32bit and so on. Most people did that. Then came a time, kind of like 10 years ago where i really missed my games. So i bought most of my 16/32bit favs again. And this time i will be taking them with me to my grave. No regrets.

Should I put a HDD in my PS2 or sell it an use PCSX2?

>>5598992
while PCSX2 may be tempting it's not remotely ready for a replacement for console any time soon. it needs an miracle and a completely dedicated autist to make a rewrite that just werks like when PPSSPP happened

>>5598976
my last house was all hardwood I really hate carpet personally I just can't vacuum each time I knew it would trigger someone

>>5598979
>In the nineties i used to sell my old games in order to afford new ones. Hop from 16bit to 32bit and so on. Most people did that.
There's a lot behind this, enough for a heavy-handed article about the story of the battle to defend consumer rights (literal legal rights) to engage in this practice. But since this is 4chan, the words would be wasted here on the self-destructive "I don't know how things work but everything I want should be free to me" crowd.

>>5599213
How hard are the old silver PS2 models to mod these days?

>>5575997
Wow I can't take a literal 30 seconds to plug something in

>>5565903
I just use flash carts. Free McBoot and USB-GDROM. All I really need right now.

>>5601536
>wow i literally only have one hdmi only console
zoom

Just buy a everdrive. Best of both worlds

>>5598976
>pet bowl
Those aren't oil splotches.

Just buy the games that you want and can afford. Best world of all.

>>5569010
> playing with shadows
Wouldn't pretty much doing anything in reality qualify as that, given the argument being made there? That just sounds like nihilism. And maybe there is no meaning to anything we do, but you, but then you have to make meaning, unless you're just going to sit around waiting for death with no expectations of anything to follow. Questions like:
> what motivates you to collect plastic ?
Can be asked of anything if you want to rob something of the meaning people have given it. I could ask something like:
> Why do people form long-lasting relationships with one another and have children, if there doesn't seem to be any point to reproduction and evolution as a whole?
But then I'd just be behaving like a nihilist trying to suck all of the fun out of life by questioning the value of things that have no proven purpose in the grand scheme of thing (which is anything if you take the search for meaning deep enough).