/vr/ - Retro Games

Thats what i started doing 5 years ago and the only games im missing is the GoGo Ackman trilogy, but they have come up in price in the last few months...

>>6987885
If you dont care about having a foreign version, you should just invest in a flashcart for your console.

Is Super Mario World really that expensive in the US or Europe?

>>6987896
Metapod here is right.

>>6987897
No, but it's about maybe 75% more. There is this also this big culture of "I know what I have no lowballs" people in America, and then you finally get it and it looks like someone took a dump on it or there will be roaches in consoles. Everything I buy from Japan is in scary good condition.

>>6987897
This goes for a lot of hardware too though. Most super famicoms in really good condition, and even 1 chip, will be on sale for lower than a shitty condition SNES with some kids name written in sharpie on it or yellowed to shit. It's like people just don't want to import at all or don't care.

Of course

>>6987921
Now come on, Sega games pre-Saturn isn't a good comparison, everyone knows that the prices are wild because of how it sold there. This thread was mostly intended to showcase the difference between over-hyped nostalgia bait shit like SNES and N64 and stuff, you know the kind that "Retro YouTubers" quadrupled the price of. I guess I should have specified.

>>6987885
Emulation. Flashcart if you are autistic about playing the real console.

>>6987931
Sega shit is not immune to that. The only reason I'm not selling my japanese Saturn collection is because it keeps doubling in price every 2-3 years. Megadrive games also have bullshit prices, like any of the Streets of Rage titles, or Alisia Dragoon, or X-Men 2 and that's just from the top of my head. A fucking famiclone sells for $50-100 nowadays.

>>6987921
Mega Drive versions of popular Genesis games are still cheaper.

>>6987980
such as

>>6988004
MUSHA. Has a better cover, too.

>>6988010
>Musha
>Popular
The game sold like 50 copies, hence its current price.

>>6988016
I'm talking about games popular for people collecting for Mega Drive. Though, anyone doing so now missed the boat and I'd advise to just use a flashcart.
No one cares about collecting Sonic 2 or Madden 94. I don't think I even paid for my copy of Sonic.

I buy games to play them and I can't read japanese.

>>6988019
Ok, but in that case Musha is more or less the only example in the entire library aside from games requiring Japanese fluency. And the Japanese version of Musha is far from cheap; it's still $200.

>>6988030
Train has left for buying Sega in general. Mega Drive MUSHA used to be like 60 bucks.

>>6988028
Unless it's an RPG you probably don't need to be able to read the text in a game to play it. Back in the 80s and 90s pretty much every game was either in English or Japanese only and people all over the world still played them.

>>6987885
No

>old item that was made in limited quantity sells for less than it retailed for some 25-30 years later
>overpriced
A 1963 Corvette sold for about $4,000 back then. With inflation, that's the equivalent of $34,000 today. Today a used '63 Corvette will go from $40,000 for the most basic model to over $100,000 for the upgraded models. Taking inflation into account, it costs more today for a used copy than it did back then for a new one.
A copy of SMB3 sold for $50 when it launched in the US in 1990. That's about $100 with inflation. You can get a loose copy for less than $20, or a CIB copy for $60. Taking inflation into account, it costs less today for a used copy than it did back then for a new one.
If old videogames is an expensive hobby to you, stick to emulation because you can't afford to spend money on this.

>>6988428
Lol yep, people beg Rolex to let them spend ten grand on an easily forged watch, and then you have people on this board whining about spending $100 on a video game.

Plus some Japanese games cost 11,800 Yen back in the early 90's which is almost $200 today.

>>6988428
Or you could stop being a retard and use a flash cart.

>>6988428
That's cool and all but the point is no one wants to pay 3x the price for a piece of plastic because some onions youtuber made a video about it or called it a HIDDEN GEM
Your final point about emulation and all the flash cart talk in this thread just proves the point about these hunks of plastic being overpriced, they are depreciated the and the point is these are being hoarded by people that don't even play the games half the time, American "collector" culture is aids and that's also why the topic of Japanese video games being an alternative is something to talk about

>Not content with ruining their own market, the Burgerstani journeys to the Land of the Rising Sun, so that prices may rise along with the solar life giver.

>>6987910
thats not metapod thats metapod

Nope, because you have to pay for DHL shipping until further notice.

>>6987885
Anyone know what the Scandi PAL version of Mr/Gimmick goes for in comparison to the Jap version out of interest?

For some reason there is a stock of japanese n64 cartridges already imported in Brazil. They go for less than half the price of american games, but unfortunately some have parts cut off so they can play on other n64s.

>>6987885
>Is buying all your games from Japan the only hope to not pay the overpriced western "collector" tax in current day?
always was.

>>6989076
A simple google/ebay search will solve your problem. No need to thank me!

>>6989305
That doesn't answer my question

>>6987885
is using a term like "collector tax" a way you cope with being unable to participate in the current market of game collecting?

>>6989309
There’s only one copy of the PAL version on eBay and it is $3500. Japanese copies look like they go for a median of about $500.

>>6989317
Thanks. Didn't realize it was that rare in Japan

i live in japan and i just emulate everything LOL!

>>6988224
library is still incomplete with this and super everdrive

just poach carts of what you cant run

>>6990837
>library is still incomplete with this and super everdrive
SD2SNES can play everything but Far East of Eden and some shitty Shogi games nobody will ever want to play.

>>6987885
Collectors who complain about how "other collectors" are driving up the cost of games they want to collect always make me laugh.

You're not stuck in traffic, doofus. You ARE the traffic.

>>6987885
You could emulate or use a flash cart.

>>6990915
>you never become older
Based

>>6990915
>you never become older
Based video game elixir

>>6990915
it's people only buying games they're interested in versus redditors buying every game for a console to get a complete set

>>6988428
This. And you can just use a flashcart on a game that's more than its original price. Im okay with spending 30 bucks on an old game since its less than when it was new, but no fucking way am I spending over 100 for one.

>>6987885
Japanese MegaDrive game prices are insane.

>>6992073
Yeah I just bought this last week. I didn't pay that though

>>6987931
yeah for SNES & N64 going Japanese is the better option, the US copies are retro youtuber bait so now you have the riffraff of all their viewers scrambling to get copies to show off on redd*t for “le retro gamur cred”

>>6987885
I would recommend emulation. The next option would be flashcarts and ODEs. Old Japanese console games were pretty cheap, since I am used to seeing those loose carts in junk bins for ¥100JPY. So those Mario Worlds and Yoshi's Islands have appreciated 1200%.

>>6992043
OP here, this is what I basically mean. I only started noticing the prices because of searching 1 chip famicoms and japanese n64s. I flashcart but sometimes I have the urges to pick up really iconic carts like mario 64 when I see the japanese versions so much cheaper than american ones.

>>6993550
If this is yours, what are your favorite import sfc games? I downloaded stuff like super aleste to try because I heard it's a part of the series that MUSHA is in, which I have on my mega everdrive.

>>6988428
You see it a lot with musicians as well.
Fender, for instance, will sell "pawnshop" variants of mustangs and jazzmasters for several hundred bucks to cater to the indie rock crowd, despite the fact that the indie rockers only bought them because guitars at pawnshops usually go for a couple hundred at most.

JP ebay sellers have raised their prices because people caught on.

text heavy games are still very cheap, and if you are going to japan the game stores still sell the common "most wanted" games for a few dollars.

>>6988028
unless it's a RPG you don't need to be able to read Japanese

>>6994601
That's half the SNES library

>>6994097
are you talking about the brand new guitars that they intentionally scratch and fade the finish of, to give off the look of being a vintage heavily used guitar?
ahahahahahaha easiest money Fender ever made, it's like new jeans with holes in them

>>6994609
then don't play those games? or learn Japanese?

>>6994609
>>6994614
or, get a romhack patch that translates the game to English, any JRPG worth its salt has a fan translation out there

>>6987885
thats what i started doing 30 years ago

>>6993650
My favorite Super Famicom game is probably Chrono Trigger. The pacing, story, art, and music are top notch. Aside from that, you can't go wrong with games from Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, and Square on the Super Famicom as it is hard to decide favorites because they are all so good.

The Aleste series is amazing. I would recommend looking into the MSX, Game Gear, and PC-Engine if you are into the series. Dennin Aleste on the MegaCD is pretty good too.

>>6990837
>the library is incomplete
? pull the list of the exact 8 or 12 BS-X games it cant run because the roms don't exist for it, fucking faggot loser.