/vr/ - Retro Games

Prices will normalize or the market will crash. Either way they're coming down soon enough.

Why would you think an encapsulated sub-market based around a non-renewable flow of goods would obey laws of actual markets?

>>7300958
>>7300961
There is no reason why they'd come down. Accept that you missed out.

>>7300958
Some prices will drop as more casual gamers move away from the hobby but the rare or more sought after titles will hold value.

>>7300958
It's only going to get worse with more covidbucks and newfags like (You) that are willing to pay $150 for Symphony of the Night. Thankfully I already have everything I care about.

>>7300969
>based around a non-renewable flow of goods
non-renewable technically sure, but supply is substantially higher than demand for 99.9% of games.

>>7300958
If you don't want to pay, then emulate or get flash carts/ODEs. I doubt prices will go down for a long time.

As long as people are willing to pay those prices, they'll stick around. You could also get lucky with garage sale sites and people trying to quicksell their collections to get certain games for cheaper. Guy at my job sold me Silent Hill and Resident Evil 2 for 50 dollars total because he needed rent money.

>>7300958
Prices will never "come back down" but maybe some day they'll find a cure for the kind of retardation that makes you incapable of finding games for less than $100.

>>7301020
this
prices will probably plateau after all this lockdown shit is over with and people want to go outside again but i doubt they'll ever really significantly fall
gen 3 and gen 4 game prices already pulled back a bit and then stabilized so I don't think those are really moving, and then gen5/gen6 games outside of the PS2 were never as common so its a bit unlikely prices will pull back
every year that goes by though there are more ways to play old games

>>7300961
People have been telling me this for a decade.

>>7300970
I guess I should get them while they are only a hundred before they hit $500 then.

>>7300958
All games in this pic for 100 sounds about right or 100 for just that do want game?

>>7301003
Probably, but obviously each title has to be considered individually. The fact that you can't sell a FIFA20whatever for shit doesn't drop prices for a big box Earthbound. Market saturation applies game for game

>>7300958
Check garbage containers, you can find some amazing dealz from time to time there.

>>7300961

I love how its been a fucking decade and people are still saying this.

>>7300958
unless you have a new system, that you don't want to lost online access, pirate every single damn game for older systems.
you don't want to end like this hobo losers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZ3fhLdIII

>>7301171
I know the context behind this video.

Afro"1000 games in my collection"gamerdude is talking shit about Radical "hoarder and living and filth" Reggie.

I don't plan on hitting 1,000 games, or even 100, or getting off my cleaning schedule. What is the purpose of this? I'll totally buy PSIO now?

I’ve gotten about 6k worth of games in my collection since September and have made money on it selling what I don’t want or duplicates. Just look at Facebook marketplace for cheap deals. It all started with some GameCube bundle I bought for $100 and made $400 on. I never spend anything on games except this

>>7300958
What are those cover arts? Non-US or self printed?

>>7301257
feelsgoodman.png

>>7300958
Do people really? I just went to 4 or 5 thrift stores the other day and got loads of games.

>>7301257
Based I sold probably half of my collection last year

People actually pay these rape prices? You're just encouraging them. Why would the sellers lower the price if people are still paying for it?

>>7300970
>There is no reason why they'd come down
Global economy is shit right now. That's a reason.

>>7301262
European.

Why is it so hard to just make copies of these games that don't require modding to play? Well I get cartridges, but what about disk.

>>7300958
only thing driving prices up is yuppies getting into hoarding, scalpers rise the price because retards pay it, theres also stimulus checks going around, eventually they are gonna be sitting on a hoard of beanie babies.

>>7300958
>Will game prices ever come back down or should I just get used to dropping $100 per game?
Only if you are truly, certifiably, legitimately, mentally retarded. But hey , you do you, is funny when emulator chads have more reason to laugh at you

>>7301135
>he thinks bandwagoners are people

>>7301310
Dang I really want a white Wii Sports case. The only actual case we have in US is Nintendo select

>>7301135
only selected games ever got so pricey 10 years ago, i know, because i used to buy and sell. And the games that were costly back then were things that legitimately were limited print and not many were made or were not popular in their day, right now they want earthbound prices for fucking mario bros kek, any game no matter how common it is and how much bigger the supply is to demand, there are millions more of this things in the world that people interested in them. So yeah, it will crash pretty badly.

Gamers who want le "classic retro experience" can just get repo carts for cheap or used burn cds. Its only coomlectors who only care about the plastic who are rushing to buy overpriced shit and accept the fleecing.

>>7301003
ODE's are for faggots, learn to do a simple modchip and be on your way.

Never pay more than $100 for a game. No game is worth that. Valkyrie Profile is in my top 5 all time but I'll never own a copy because I'm not fucking insane.

>>7301359
I love neopolitan mastiffs

>>7301310
PS2 spines look fucking ugly.

>>7300958
How about you just not pay exorbitant prices.

>>7300958
If the price doesn't come down you don't have to drop $100 on the game. Literally every console has a hack/flashcart/optical drive emulator

>>7301114
This, I'd say about 8/10 trash cans that I dig in I find a box of NES or PS1 games

>tfw kept all my games since childhood
>never had a mass sell-off of my old games and was told by parents that I had to get rid of the old system to get a new one
>in junior high all my friends were getting into PS2 and Xbox and I was buying up their NES/SNES/genesis games for next to nothing
>was given multiple boxes of games for free in the mid 00s from friends/family saying "hey you like these old games, right?"

Things worked out pretty well for me

Retro video game prices never decreases, its value is infinite, like real estate, bitcoin, gold, and oil.

>>7300958
When people that collect for a certain machine start dying or when they finally decide that its not worth owning loads of unplayed games and sell them.

>>7301881
>its value is infinite,
>like all these things that have had bubbles burst, some in very recent memory

>>7302535
fake news

>>7301364
I don't even know how many of those I have. Flea markets here were literally littered with the things for under a buck less than 10 years ago. Now I see one going for >$100+$30 shipping on ebay. lmao.

>>7300958
You should get used to using Flashcarts/ODEs.

>>7300958
What do you mean?
Which games cost 100 dollars?

>>7304115
God Hand, Silent Hill, Einhander, Espgaluda 2, Lunar are probably the ones I'm getting next.

The dollar is worth less every day so probably not.

>>7301054
>All games in this pic for 100 sounds about right
Nope. SoulSilver, HeartGold and Metroid Prime Trilogy are each about £50-60.

>>7300958
>Retro games
Ok zoom zoom.

>>7301519
Pal always gets the short end of the stick, its not the PS2's fault

>>7304465
thats not true at all, £30 tops, only more if you want the pokewalker then its £70-£90

>>7300958
You can get Atari games for under $5 a pop.

>>7304927
>overpaying for 2600 games
>calling 2600 games "atari games"
zoomed and yikespilled

>>7304927
I enjoy collecting 2600 stuff for this very reason, only thing is most games get boring after like 15 minutes at most.

>>7304305
>he doesnt already own silent hill.
Zoom zoom

lol people that think videogame prices are bad have never collected comic books.

>>7301030
Please don't tell me you think that 50 dollaridoos is a steal. Those are 20 dollars max

>>7306252
Why would they be worth less,than the price they were going for brand new or at least half that.

disk drive replacements and flash carts are rapidly improving as game prices become more and more insane

>>7301114
all I found was a Hamburger and some Bottle Rockets

>>7304485
>£30 tops
"No!" £50-£60 are the average prices on pricecharting, and you can get more than £30 cash just trading each of those games into CeX, where they sell them for £60 each.

>>7300958
Prices on a lot of stuff just shot up this month, those will come down. I'm not paying $40 for $25 games.

>>7306592
Because they're old shit and emulators exist. I have no idea why the moment emulators became a thing, the value of those games would disappear. It really is just collectors ruining things for people who actually want to play games. It sucks that I don't have a PC capable of emulating 6th gen so I still have to buy games, but if the prices don't come down, I'll take my coronabucks and get a new PC instead of buying PS2 games ever again.

>>7308005
How the hell do you not have a PC capable of emulating 6th gen? Never upgraded from Pentium 4?!

>>7308005
>because theyre old shit
Try buying an old car in good condition for cheap and come back,this apply for all sort of old things that just increase in value.

>>7308010
ipad baby

>>7301813
How do you dig through trash without getting a weird look and where do you look?

>>7304927
God I wish that was my half price books. Mine just ends up selling bootlegs for the same price as authentic games.

>>7304305
Aight I'm sorry man but for real there is no reason to be paying for any PS1/PS2 games anymore. It doesn't even matter which route you choose to take there's a smart person's option for everyone. PS1/2 are among the easiest systems to mod, and PS1 emulation is both well developed and accessible to pretty much anyone who has a
decent computer from 2002 or later. The most challenging thing I see in that list is getting your 360 modded and idk if that's even really super difficult, never dug deep into the topic

20% of all US money was printed last year. Biden is about print another 3 trillion.

Videogames are not getting more expensive, the dollar is getting weaker.

>>7301365
>there are millions more of this things in the world that people interested in them

Charts disagree.

>>7307990
>those will come down

Sure anon...I'm sure they will.

>>7301002
>$150 for Symphony of the Night.

LMAO... fucking retarded prices... and to think i got my greatest hits version for 10 locally, and my black label from Ebay for $35 3 years ago...

What the fuck happened? is this really caused by the covid incels that only get their satisfaction from streaming on Twitch to 3 people a day? it has to come down after this fucking covid psyop ends... right?

>>7308005
If you are OK with playing piated games... why not going for a modded PS2? FreeMcboot, a 1TB drive with 300 games, and play via ethernet... good times, and you et the bonus of playing on real hardware.

>>7311362
>What the fuck happened?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

>>7300958
you should spend the investment to modify your consoles so you can play backups. Will help you save money.

>>7311387
my quesition was.. what happened that triggered that demand in 3 years...it feels artificial.

My bet is the autists wnting to be ecelebs streaming retrogames on twitch.

In the end the price of a flash cart and n64 will keep priced down. People will pay extra for the real deal but at some point they'll settle for close enough.

>>7304938
I hear old geezers call 2600 just atari. Stop pretending like you know what you're talking about.

>>7311076
Mine is all EA and Ubisoft. Prices were alright, but this was before a US pandemic shutdown.

>>7311351
b-b-but i want i want i want

>>7311397
>i hear voices in my head
Might wanna get that checked kiddo

>>7311385
That's too much of a pain in the ass. I want a simple solution, not something that requires me to buy a bunch of stuff and install harddrives. If I can get the right DVDR's, I could attempt the DVD exploit, but that also has to be able to work on my model, which it doesn't yet.

>>7311351
These are only prices for pre-6th gen trash, I emulate all that and don't give a fuck. Show me 6th and 7th gen, the stuff I'd actually be buying.

>>7308010
Pentium 4 is the best CPU I had in my 2004 desktop, but that fried and all I have now is a 1.80ghz single core in a laptop, a 500mhz dual core in another laptop (so 1ghz total) and a small box thing with 2.40ghz. The Pentium 4 was 2.80ghz.

I haven't had anything more than $100 at any given time since 2004, and that was free money for college from the government from being super poor. So I don't have money for a new PC, I just get whatever old trash family members don't need anymore.

>>7310428
Old cars in good condition have been matienenced over the years to keep them that way. Games only deteriorate over time until they stop working, you can't replace parts on a CD.

>>7305138
The best way to enjoy atari is to set a whole tub full of games next to you along with the console, then switch out the game every 10 minutes or so. Pretty comfy.

>>7312275
That stuff is cheap as dirt as nobody cares for 6th/7th gen shit unless its Nintendo. For instance, I picked up vice city, God of War, GTA 3, MGS2 and Kingdom Hearts all for less than 10 bucks the other day.

>>7300958
Imagine what will happened to current retro games 20 years from now.

>>7311362
You can just burn the saturn version for free

>>7311362
Its just that game thats expensive and the first resident evil and the first silentl hill but not the later ones.
Its just iconic or first games are expensive.

any good sites to find prices on this stuff? i am selling my collection currently but the ebay prices are all over the place. like 300-400 AUD for klonoa ps1, surely that's not right? i only have the disc and the manual not the case. should i purely base my sell prices off of the other currently available ebay auctions and just undercut a bit ?

>>7312442
>currently available ebay auctions
You check the prices of ACTUAL sales, you retard.

>>7312467
like sold auctions? i did that but there was only like 6 results overall, ever. which can't be right so idk unless ebay only shows sales history going back a year or something

>>7312442
>klonoa ps1

>>7312478
i'll check out that site thanks. pretty excited to get some cash from these old games, i'm a huge fan of ps1 emulation in particular so if i can get enough cash from these games to get a new graphics card around march i'll be super happy. my 1060 6gb died (i bricked it accidentally by letting a live audio jack touch the gpu board while pc was on) so i'm using an old gtx 560 from 2011 now lol.

>>7312478
seems the prices are less in australia, maybe the game sold more over here than in the US?

>>7312478
>Was worth nothing before 2013, now $300
In just 7 years, this is why emulation is better

>>7300958
No they'll never go down and anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling himself. Games that are mid to low tier might see a drop in prices when the boomers who cared about those all die off, but "high tier" games will always have an artificially high reference price because of retards who can't into actual investments. I still remember people at PCEngineFX (rip) in 2007 discussing that someday turbografx games would drop in price again. It's 2021 and they couldn't be higher, and the games you'd find sealed on ebay for $20 are nowhere to be found at sub $100 prices anymore. Remember $50 euro new in box turbografx consoles? Good luck finding one for that price now.
Just take the JAP pill and buy japanese games if you must have a copy since they're usually cheaper even on ebay, otherwise emulate, burn a CD, use an ODE... fucking CIA niggers.

>>7312474
Then you're doing something wrong, since I'm getting more than 6 results. And disc only seems to sell for around $150.

>>7312586
>new in box turbografx consoles
I remember buying one new years ago, either 40 or 50€. It works with the Turbo Everdrive I bought a while ago, even if 50hz might be a deal breaker for some. Still a nice item to have, dunno how much it goes for now.

>>7312603
Congrats, I was actually convinced by retards it was worth nothing at the time so I didn't buy it. I think you can mod it to 60hz but you might have to dig a bit deeper into google to find how to do it.

>>7300958
just buy shit with proper timing, if you're not buying stuff that's about 10 years old/considered old junk now, then you're fucking up.

Just emulate or flashcart/ODE anyway, 99% of the games you can play that way, and if you really care enough about that specific 1% then you can just buy it outright.

>>7312593
i'm in australia fyi so it's probably different results

>>7312586
OP here.

I've just accepted I'll be paying $100 a game. But hey, at least I got them before it hit $300 right?

>>7313452
>But hey, at least I got them before it hit $300 right?
Don't put words in my mouth you retarded negroid.

>>7300958
What games are you fucking buying? You can get Wetrix for under ten dollars.

>>7312364
I found a handfull of games that shot up $15 just this month, so $25 games are going for over $40 now. There's plenty of more obscure stuff that's cheap, though since no one cares. But I'm not sure why Champions of Norrath of all things is now going for almost $50 when it's not rare and only a 7/10 at best.

>>7300958
They won't be coming down, but you don't need to suck Jew cock to enjoy retro vidya.

>emulate consoles you don't have and can't afford (or don't have a good way to output video from them)
>buy flash carts/Everdrives for cart-based consoles
>softmod to play burnt discs or buy ODE's for disc-based consoles (get a hard drive in the fat PS2's case, and an SD Gecko with Action Replay in the Gamecube's case)
>get the hang of using a soldering iron if you need to do hardmods (very likely in the PS1's case)

>>7312364
I bet they were just loose scratched discs and not CIB.

>>7313538
What are some good PS2 games under $100?

>>7313551
Ace Combat 4
Timesplitters 2
Way of the Samurai
Armored Core 3
Disgaea
Persona 3
Devil May Cry
Gauntlet Dark Legacy

Hell, these should all be under $20.

All the Silent Hill games shot the fuck up to almost or over $100 this month. I guess this is mostly just affecting mainstream games as sellers try to milk as many coronabucks as they can, because literally a month ago they were all around $20.

>>7313592
Timesplitters 2 is on Xbox and Gamecube
Devil May Cry is on fuckin everything, including Switch.
Gauntlet Dark Legacy is on Xbox and Gamecube.

I guess I'll check out Way of the Samurai though looks fun.

>>7312291
This is why poor people stay that way.
>hey /vr/ games are so expensive, damn
>hey anon just mod or emulate
>I'm extremely broke
>i guess I'll just keep buying $100 plastic

>>7313632
The "HD" versions of Devil May Cry have some messed up graphics and they did shitty edge enhancement on all the textures. It's not game-breaking but the PS2 version is better.

>>7312642
This. I bought stuff ages ago, had my fun, and sold most of it. I was late to the party of old computer hardware and still got most of what I wanted by waiting and stalking eBay and Facebook marketplace. Flash carts are a godsend.
Now I mostly collect Japanese Saturn games that are complete per the listing on Satakore and only if I really want to play the game/peruse the art in the manual. Most of the stuff in this category has sat at current prices for well over a decade, even with how hard it is to get anything from Japan right now.
The only other games I collect are Shin Megami Tensei and Postal related. The only really expensive ones I'm missing are US Jack Bros and the ancient Japanese Gauntlet-like MegaTen games. Even if shit continues to climb in price I have a good salary and a great savings rate.
If your hobby is more than a drop in the bucket compared to your life, home, and career, you need to adjust your priorities. Please, I'm begging you.

>>7312642
This. Buy 360 and PS3 ASAP. Although GameStop is giving lesser deals on gen 8 games. They’d usually be walls of 2 dollar games

Game prices will never go down unless you want to buy tattered shit - in that case it fluctuates. Even then, these games have a price floor and it keeps rising over time.

>>7312474
>only like 6 results overall, ever
eBay only shows completed listings from the past 3 months. There's an auction ending for the game in 3 days anyway, just watch that and see what it goes for, and then price your listing similarly.

>>7312642
Good advice. You all should be cleaning out WiiU titles right now.

>>7311362
Hyperinflation is starting.

>>7300958
Are you trying to buy sealed copies or something? Retro game prices are high, but most of the popular games are still in the double digits. I hate it, but I begrudgingly justify it since games today would cost about the same if you bought new and added a season pass

>>7300958
I rub my balls on your fear. Lick my ass pleb nigger. I hope you get piped by a sasquatch ayyyyyy lmao.

>>7314138
i don't think Wii U will have much second market as all it's shit is getting ported to the Switch.

>>7313551
like...99% of the whole ps2 library is under $50.

Its just those low run, niche or sought after games that are expensive.

>>7306252
Silent Hill by itself averages $100 on the resale market, so $50 isn’t terrible by comparison. More than it’s worth? Sure, but a good deal nonetheless.

>>7312291
You're either putting us on, or you are EXTREMELY retarded. You can buy a Thinkpad, Optiplex, or some HP workstation 4th gen i5 for nothing. Just stop buying stupid shit, I hate you so much.

>>7300958
Don't like the prices? Do as I do, pirate. I'm not giving money to some neckbeard that thinks Zelda Ocarina is some ultra rare game worth $100 or something like that.

>>7304465
>tfw got SS on a perfect box, with a pokewalker for $20 about 5 years ago

>>7315021
>or sought after games
thats the stupidest part, games that are common as shit and sold millions of copies which are still around are being sold for rare item prices.

>>7300958
Of course, they sky rocketed because people cant or didnt want to go out and hunt for games because of covid.

>>7315028
It will be worth 10$ in another 5 years, converted for inflation at least. Just wait until zoomies loose the nostalgia for it

>>7315032
Because not everyone wants to sell shit on eBay, they'd much rather throw it out or donate it or just give it away than deal with shipping crap to someone's house on the off chance they don't just claim you scammed them and get a full refund.
Millions of copies laying around in an attic that people don't care enough about to make 5 bucks off of. The people that do are the people who want to make big money off of it.
Buying retro games is fucking retarded and the only times I do is when I find a decent copy at a thrift store or pawn shop for a not retarded price. The only retro things worth paying for are flashcarts and real hardware.

>>7313641
I never said I buy expensive games. I'm complaining because I refuse to buy overpriced games or a new PC to emulate. I just buy whatever is less than $20 and play that, mostly PS3 games at this point since all the 6th gen stuff shot up.

>>7315013
What do you mean for nothing? Unless I can get a new gaming laptop for $100, I'd rather not bother, since the only money I'll ever have is the new coronabucks.

If we keep getting $2000 checks and I build up a stockpile, then I'll probably get something, But I still don't have an 8th gen system and that can't be emulated, So I have to prioritize those consoles and games first.

>>7315875
basically anything 6th gen and before can be emulated on toasters
shit i have and oldass 3rd gen i7 dell laptop that's more than enough to emulate those. if you have a toaster already you're good

>>7315895
What kind of specs? Because with like 1ghz of cpu and less than 2 gigs of ram, nothing ever runs right. I can't even get SNES games to run without sound crackling or huge slowdown because of how bad the cpu is. I managed to get Champions of Norrath to boot, but there was no sound and the game ran at 1fps.

>>7300958
OG Xbox games seem to be the most affordable for some reason, don't know why that is.

>>7301257
the market in california is disgusting for used games. everyone thinks their fucking loose copy of some random sports game on the ps2 is worth 20 dollars each. whats that? you want a snes with literally 1 or 2 average games in poor condition? 200 dollars nigga

>>7311392
Due to covid and this excess amount of time on peoples hands and the mind wanders. After sitting and being mad about how I couldn't go and boot up Pokemon Colosseum without an emulator as poor little me was raped by gamestop, I decided to jump back into collecting the games I once sold to get newer games I don't even own anymore

>>7316038
High production rates, all the best games can be downloaded off XBL for cheap, all Xbox consoles can run them so everyone has kept their games over the years keeping demand low. That's what I think at least.

>>7315904
What os are you using? Maybe you could try old Dos games or early windows games

>>7300958
Too many hipsters bidding up games to put on a shelf for their hip nostalgia collection.

I would get used to it.

>>7314941
You would think that way but nostalgia's a powerful marketing tool. Apparently even GameCube and its games have some after market value nowadays even though all the games work on Wii.

>>7301298
the fed will just keep sending everybody more free money

I usually buy them from my local thrift stores, usually they end up costing me around $5-$20, have fun paying $300 on a ps1 game faggots.

>>7316240
Vista or 7, but PC games aren't the issue, I can run most low end games there like Darkest Dungeon or Terraria. Emulation is the problem.

>>7319740
>garbage pc on garbage os, probably using the oldest version of emulator
>Emulation is the problem.
pleb

I just want to browse for Super Nintendo stuff since I wasn't able to when I was a kid but noooooo all these jew fucks have to blow the prices up because "muh nostalgia big money"

>>7316971
true, some are not even scalpers, they are just wasting money and using the games as heirlooms on their shelfs right besides their Funko pops.

>>7319193
theres no hipster retro scene in my country, i can buy shit for 5 dollars and sell it to fat american retards for 100$ then watch them come here and brag about their purchases and how everyone else is poor. Its beautiful

>>7314047
gen 8 is too new anyway, you need to wait for either gen 10 or gen 9.5 (so like a PS5 Pro)

>>7319161
yes, GC is prime nostalgia cash-in point right now, people paying 50-100 for some games even when you can run the game right off an HDD on Wii or emulate it flawlessly in Dolphin. I cashed out a while back on my GC and bought the consoles I never had back in 90s/2000s, it's pretty nice to see what I missed.

The other real lesson is, if you want to buy to sell, do it with Nintendo, because their brand doesn't depreciate. Nobody gives a fuck about Sony or Sega or Atari or Microsoft, they are just game box makers to the collecting crowd. You ask a playstation collector and they will more point out the specific devs they like/collect, whereas you ask a nintendo collector and they basically lap up anything that has their brand on it, and at much higher prices too (obv there are exceptions but they tend to be outliers).

Wii U I think will have some value just from people hyping it up. Someone somewhere will convince people it is worth it to play Nintendo Land and Xenoblade X.

>>7319759
Shouldn't have been a zoomer. Too bad

>>7315875
Dude just get a fmcb card for your ps2 or whatever and shut the fuck up god you're stupid

>>7319759
snes prices seem pretty cheap in comparison to n64 and gamecube games which are super inflated currently.

>collecting gen 6+ games
enjoy your collection degrading to nothing in 10 years LMFAO

>>7320062
the nostalgia fad for those gens will fade away much much sooner than that.

In years prepare for "will ps3 and wii prices ever come down ???" "No, they will keep rising forever!"

>>7320040
it was the other way around 10 years ago because millenials were after the snes games, now they are over them and zoomers only care for 5th gen onwards

>>7320090
Theres a lot lost in later gen games because a lot of the killer apps in the ps/xbox era were mainly online multiplayer games. You can purchase Modern Warfare again but you cant purchase back the multiplayer community which made it such a hit in the first place.

>>7320105
I'm more concerned about the servers for patches being up in the coming decades. Games started to ship in a pretty sorry state around 2010.

>>7320105
>omg omg omg a mint copy of demon souls, 600$ please
nah, there's gonna be enough bullshit to go around

>>7320108
Thats also a good point. It feels like theres a hard line as to where game preservation is basically impossible. You buy SM64 for instance and you're getting the complete package guaranteed and that never changes. As games slowly become more and more live service bullshit that gets discontinued however there is more content lost that cant be preserved.

>>7315893
holy shit ur fucking pooir
lol

>>7319756
I've got the newest version of SNES9x. And you don't know, but using older software on older hardware is what you should be doing as long as things keep working. New shit wasn't made to handle old hardware, but something made 20 years ago was.

>>7320014
I could make one of those with my Codebreaker disc, but then what? I still need a way to get the games to the PS2.

Ethernet method requires an ethernet port on the PS2, I don't have that.
FreeDVDBoot autopatcher requires firmware 3.10 or 3.11, I have 2.10.
USB streaming would be too slow.
No PS2 harddrive.

Give me a method that works with what I already have on hand for no extra money.

>>7319760
>theres no hipster retro scene in my country
Well I live in the U.S. where the hipster scene is in full swing, lately though, I've began to notice a number of upper middle class folk coming down from their ivory towers to the poorer parts of the city just to rummage through any surrounding thrift stores, surprisingly the prices for games, media, and all other items for that matter, haven't increased much in price, but god forbid you're actually trying to buy a gaming console, a used ps2 can go as high as $200 in most places. I honestly don't see nostalgia bait dying down anytime soon, which makes me glad I never sold my ps2/gamecube/PC/etc. games, seeing as how they'll probably increase in value as time passes, hopefully by the time I'm 30 (currently 22), the prices will have sky rocketed and I'll be able to live like a king, but that's just wishful thinking on my part.