/vr/ - Retro Games

totally fine
but collectors frown upon it for obvious reasons

If you don't intend to sell them, I don't see why not.

>>638173
All the more reason to do it.

>>638173
Fuck collectors. Games should belong to people who want to play games.

>>638569
Collectors play their games.

>>638569
why do you need reprinted labels to play games?

>>638861

So you can tell the games apart at a glance.

You could write on them with sharpie but that's ugly and takes longer to differentiate the carts you're looking at anyway.

>>638861
Why do you need to wash your car to drive it?

>>638908
>Washing you car

Just let the rain take care of it.

>>638932
Unless you regularly get hurricanes, rain isn't going to wash away dirt, dust, pollen, and bird shit that has been caked on for months.

Of course it's a good idea. Refurbishing games improves the quality of what would otherwise be a beat up, possibly ruined cart.

>>638861
You don't need to shower to leave the house in the morning. You do so in order to look presentable. (4chan, especially its retro game board, is probably a poor place to use this argument)

I'd rather reprint N64 boxes

>>638949
Works wonders for me bro.

And who even gives a fuck if it's a little dirty? If it gos, it's good.

They're a good idea if you want a reprinted label for your cartridge. Otherwise I'd say no.

I don't really see the harm in making your games look better, just don't pass em off as official if you sell em.

thankfully don't have any carts I'd want to reprint, my Earthbound cart comes close with a couple nicks on the crease of the sticker but its fine.

Would love a paper print for my Phantasy Star 4 cart to fit an old genesis case, no printer good enough to pull it off.

Yeah. I really want a few.
I'm not a collector, I just like games, so I don't mind a dirty or faded label but I've got a few cart where the label is just utterly trashed and it just looks like shit.
I'd love to at least have them not look vomit inducing.

>>638569
This. Fucking collectors killing the used game industry.

>>639095
Resellers like BGH are worse.

>>639095
>>639140

Both.

just post your games as "refurbished" if they have new labels or are repros or what ever. it isnt so hard

>>639140
>tfw probably 90% of the copies of EarthBound on eBay are being bought to be immediately thrown back up on eBay for a higher price
when will the madness end.

>>639462
Soon as people stop caring. Until then just get a flashcart or something.

>>638146
why is there a super mario bros 2600 label?

>>639462
Just emulate it.

>>639509
I was just about to ask that.
I'm well aware Mario Bros. was on 2600, but not SUPER Mario Bros. Unless I'm mistaken.

Reprint labels are a nice idea if you ask me. Sometimes you find that one game you've wanted for ages but the label is savaged. What do you do? Not like a half destroyed label is worth anything. Personally I'd replace it.

>>639509
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmlghxf-Ios

>>639140

>>638146
Seems like that is going to make it hard to differentiate between fakes and legit carts.

>>638838
"Collectors" tend to be too busy arguing over how NESes are an endangered species to play any of their games.

>>640075
I have never heard this argument. I am swimming in NESes. Collectors know NESes are a diamond dozen.

I collect.
I also play vidya all day erry day.

>>639462
I'm sure the virtual console release will help to push prices in a more reasonable direction.

>>640124

Not if they censor it further. People are just going to say "original unedited version! Super Rare!" even though the game was already censored just to be on the SNES in the u.s. the first time.

I hope you're right, but this is drumming up more attention and it gets people talking, which usually leads to price spikes.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Legend-of-Zelda-Ocarina-of-Time-Nintendo-64-Red-Cart-Cartridge-n64-rare-/171033204312?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item27d25f9658
TOP. LEL.
>some idiot actually bought this for $200

This is handy for dealing with people who do this to games

>>640084

>diamond dozen

Dude, it's DIME A DOZEN, implying low worth and high supply

>>640164
Usually anytime anyone makes a "mistake" like that, they're ironically referring to that one copypasta.

It's a doggy dog world, you know.

>>640164
I know.
I was saying diamond dozen because 4chan is a fun place to post things. Not because I am a super serious person who doesn't say things that are 100% accurate 100% of the time.

Diamond dozen
Feel free to take that one home with ya.
I am not the first to say it.

>>640180
Holland Oates

>>640175
>doggy dog world

that's a good one

>>640164
Weather or not you like it, people will say diamond dozen irregardless of you're preference.

>>640217
Please stop. I really don't like how hard I'm wanting to grab my red pen.

>>640217
Ha.
diamond dozen, doggy dog world, are turns of phrase. What you did is a commonplace grammatical error. There is a difference, best learn it now.

>>640234
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>640252

There is no reason on earth why ANYONE should have to try that hard.

>>640252

>>640231
I see no problem in comparing a turnip phrase to a grammer error

>>638146
Here's a better idea

DO IT YOURSELF, IS NOT THAT HARD!!, and at most you might be expending a buck if you print many images in one paper!.

the same for Custom Made Cases.

>>642323
$15 for those labels.......really?, and thanks to shitty photo taken, who can guarantee that is properly printed, maybe it could be like those old pix-elated de-colored common paper prints.

I have been seriously considering a label reprint for this game. The value is already decreased due to the torn label, so would replacing it with a reprint increase the value, or would it make no difference?

>>642392
decrease value, but I feel the actual torn label would be worth less then a restored label.

>>642392

To a collector or someone who wants the real deal; reduced value

For someone who doesn't care; either no increase or a slight increase in value

>>638172
I think it is quite the opposite. If one is to sell them then yeah, those labels, if correctly done or sold to average gamers, work. If it is just to have one's own cartridges labeled then that sucks imo; I mean, I couldnt really see them the same way as if they had the original label... they'd be stained.

>>642392
Don't replace the label. I'd only do it for IMAGE RELATED.

>>642445
>actually tries to take off the label
>gives up and writes the name of the game over the torn mess
oh my god

ITT hipsters that want beautiful games on their shelf to show off to their hipster friends

Draw your own!

>tfw webcam has no manual focus and all drivers are outdated and don't work on Win7

>>642472
Why do you have to be a hipster to like good looking things?

>>640164
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>642491

mint condition games are more valuable than games that have signs of age. however, putting some random label on isn't going to increase the value. the stuff i have i wouldn't replace anyways for nostalgia reasons.

it's like sanding off the patina of a vintage firearm, you just don't do it

>>642479

I'm totally okay with this

>>642492
English isn't your first language, you're the wittiest troll I've encountered, or you're stoned with two birds

>>642472
>ITT hipsters that want beautiful games on their shelf to show off to their hipster friends

Or people who aren't autistic and care about the label looking good and as the artist intended, rather than preserving MUH AUTHENTICITY for no reason other than satisfying their own neurosis.

>>642502
It's a copypasta.

>>642496
I didn't say I was selling my games...

>>642492

This copypasta still gets me. Mother's mating game... ah man, that's the good stuff

>>642468
It gets better. Same cart.

>>642496
Not the same. You can refinish firearms that are most definitely NOT museum pieces or have no sentimental value, but a rusted-up Remington should be re-blued if one intends to use it. Fucked-up video games should be fixed up if the process won't ruin any value of the game. Like, you don't spray paint Nintendo World Championship gold if the finish is wearing, but you also don't have to leave the Guardian Legend slathered in sharpie-sauce with a masking tape label.

>>642510
Phew - figured

>>642530
I swear to god, I will find the previous owner of this video game and he will pay for what he's done

>>642530
I never understood why kids put their names on their video games. I wasn't a perfect kid, and I did put my name on some of my stuff, but why video games?

>>642547
Also I understand that they aren't the cheapest toys, but it's pretty easy to get marker off...

>>642547
For when you lent out games to your friends.

This would be nice for all the games I bought that had writing DIRECTLY ON THE GODDAMN STICKER.

Just look at this horseshit.

>>642561
>Lending games to friends who might steal them
Disgusting.jpg

>>642573
>implying you knew any better when you were 7.

>>642323
You just need to get GOOD resolution and quality labels and print them at proper dimensions with no distorts.

>>642586
>tfw shitty printer

>>642537
Nah, it's silly. Also Ikari Warriors is fucking terrible. It's not like someone took a belt sander to say, Mega Man 5 and used an electropencil to carve their name on the front, scratch it out, then do it again.

>>642579
Yarly. The mind of a child is basically "I won't steal because stealing is bad", and an immature mind is not extremely suspicious. One would not think everyone else is a conniving, thieving shitbag by default. But we know better now.

>>638838
That's why their games are sealed in factory wrap.

>>639095
If all you want to do is play it just freaking emulate it.

>>640084
>All those betas and cancelled games we will never have thanks to collectors who refuse to "degrade the value" by allowing a rom dump so everyone can enjoy it.