/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7763240
If these hipster manchildren would stop paying stupid prices for this shit, it wouldn't go up so much. Some fool paid $200 for one of these and now every seller is going to be asking that.

Pay up buypig

>>7763240

Oh hey I have one of those lying around somewhere

>>7763240
just use a shitty emulator box

>>7763268
Yep, same thing happened with Megaman 8 on Saturn. Used to be the cheaper of the two US Megaman Saturn games, suddenly some $125 BIN listing on ebay sold while there were $35 and lower listings available and suddenly it got marked as uber rare and worth $125+ on pricecharting sites and it shot up overnight.

>>7763240
Just get a $4 XenoGC and a $2 SD2SP2 and stop being a faggot

>>7763240
I've seen listings on ebay that include that entire console, player, and disc bundled together for less than $200. You just have to be quick. I even saw one newly listed today that I would have bought if I were still in the market.

Whats crazy is people spend more than this on stupid shit like mister and tink or what the fuck ever

>>7763278
sell that shit. It's one of the most valuable non game discs around

>>7763298
Does this let you use gb/gba carts on the tv?

>>7763240
just get a wii and you can boot an iso of it off an sd card

Friend gave me him gamecube and I want to mod it with the SD loader but even the gameboy player is rising, shit used to sell for $20, though oddly the disk has always been higher on account of shitty kids losing the start up disk

>>7763309
>>7763308

>>7763279
You mean this ? I watched a review and the guy said it plays gameboy advanced games in slow motion.

A good thing to do is have a gamecube with the sd card reader then you can load the gameboy player start up disc iso.
There is also that gameboy advance adapter for snes but its rare and expensive.
Also the gba consolizer but its rare.
What other options are there for gba on tv.

>>7763326
you can still get gba consolizers custom-made. I'm looking to do so soon. It is really expensive though. I think the super gameboy only plays up to gameboy color games, but i could be wrong. Is it true that you don't need the disc if you can load the iso from sd card? You just need the player in that case?

>>7763334
original super gameboy doesn't even play gameboy color games.

>>7763326
This device is currently garbage. The gba compatibility is technically in alpha and they are basically waiting for consumers to fix it themselves by modding the firmware

>>7763334
There is this one. Not made by Nintendo that plays gba games. Cost $200.
Yea it does work if you have the card reader installed to your gc then run the iso.

https://streamable.com/hyi9n6

>>7763268
>unload worthless plastic on manbabies for grossly inflated prices
>play the roms on emulators

>>7763396
Rare pepe

>>7763268
eBayers realized that price charting and other sites use eBay data to make up game prices so they've been engaging in price fixing "buying" each other's listings to artificially inflate the prices.

I've been eyeing up a few games and conveniently they keep coming back up with the exact same pictures on different other high feedback profiles for the same inflated prices or more

>>7763240
>tfw had to force myself to buy it back when it was $50 because I knew I needed one to play the Game Boy Player I already had
>tfw it's like $200 now
wew i won bros

>>7763410
Yep, I witnessed this with Saturn stuff. Sonic R suddenly jumped from a $35 game to a $200 game because someone kept listing the same stock image with a BIN price each week, and then at the last second it sold, only to then be relisted with a higher price. Last I saw it was at $200 being listed again.

>>7763415
Barely anyone online is talking about this I wish I had actually tracked this data properly so I could make an article or video or some shit about it to expose these fuckers

>>7763434
I wouldn't be surprised if the pricecharting sites are doing it themselves at this point.

>>7763434
Please keep track of more of this stuff. I would help if I knew exactly what to look for.

The disc is useless, though. Just use Gameboy Interface via SWISS.

>>7763283
>suddenly it got marked as uber rare and worth $125+ on pricecharting sites
Thats not how price charting sites work. At all.

>>7763303
You dont even know what those things are, yet they make you angry. That's fucking weird, bro.

>>7763240
>Action Replay Gamecube
$20 or so
>SD Gecko
Less than $10
>Memory Card SD Adapter
Less than $10
>GameBoy Interface or GameBoy Player Disc .iso
Free

Tell those greedy eBay niggers to get on their knees and suck your cock because you don't need their overvalued frisbee.

>>7763475
Well that's what happened. There was a BIN listed at a stupid high price, was up for months, suddenly it sold and that site put it in their database as evidence it was rare and said it was worth that much. Over night the game shot up in price as everyone started listing at around that price.

This was years ago, like around 2010-2012.

>>7763474
soul, soulless

>>7763483
>>SD Gecko
>Less than $10
>>Memory Card SD Adapter
>Less than $10
Can you provide listings that are actually those prices?

>>7763497
https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Adapter-Nintendo-Gamecube-Console/dp/B06Y23VX9R/

https://www.amazon.com/Deal4GO-SD2SP2-SDLoader-Nintendo-Gamecube/dp/B082VBMQ2B

>but they're not muh high quality Krikzz good goy peepee poo poo bullshit

I bought em and confirmed they work. Beggars can't be choosers.

>>7763474
What is gameboy interface?

>>7763240
Thank you for making me aware I have $200 sitting in my unplugged gamecube. And I have the case and manual in good condition. I love scalping now.

>>7763240
Just because someone is asking a 200 dollars for it doesn't mean someone is actually going to buy it at that price. Just keep lurking and eventually you find one for 30-60 bucks. I personally avoid using ebay.

>>7763489
Price charting sites list the median value, the average of what it sells for. You can even verify the median by looking at the auctions, because the sites show you said auctions that it uses to calculate.

If the website calculated 4 listing that sold for $35, and 1 listing that sold for $125, it would tell you that the game is worth $53. It would say a price even lower if more that 4 auctions ever sold at $35 or lower, like you say.

>>7763508
Free software that replaces the official gamesube GBA boot disc

>not using GBI

>>7763334
>you can still get gba consolizers custom-made. I'm looking to do so soon.
>It is really expensive though.
you might want to look into gbaHD instead.

>>7763497
lmao how useless are you?
shit's all over ebay for $5 including shipping

>>7763240
This disc has been sitting in my gamecube in my closet for over a decade now. Must have got it for $20 with the player itself back in the day.

Can't wait to hook it up again someday when I have the space and play some good ol GB on the tv

>>7763240
Oh shit, you needed a disc, didn't you? Fuck.
I've known where my GB Player is since forever ago, but for all I know my disc is sitting under my bed somewhere scratched to hell.

>>7763548
>I personally avoid using ebay
Where else are you going to find it? Out in the wild? If so then fat chance unless you live in a city area and even then normies are starting to know these things go for a lot now

>>7764117
do you really think ebay is the only place on the internet where you can buy stuff like this

>>7764134
You don't have a lot of options, that's for sure
>ebay
>craigslist
>facebook market
>niche BST forums

Can't think of much else

use gbi and make poorfags seethe

considering there are probably as many discs as there are GBPs, and GBI being a free and better open-source alternative, why is the disc offered for so much? shouldn't be more than 3.50.
and why are they sold individually anyway? the disc is useless without a gbp.
stupid.

>>7764304
Just look at this thread. People are so fucking stupid, they're telling op to burn the gameboy player boot disc on a DVD, instead of telling them to use GBI, which is the same fucking think, but not shit.

>>7764304
>considering there are probably as many discs as there are GBPs, and GBI being a free and better open-source alternative, why is the disc offered for so much?
Not everybody is as savvy as you are. It isn't even about stupidity so much as ignorance.

>>7763490
It's not soul if it shits up a blurry 480i signal to your crt you fucking idiot

>>7763240
Just imagine all the likes people will give you on Instagram for holding that disc in your finger while having your mouth wide open. Isn't it worth it?

>>7764304
it's easier to lose an 8cm disc than a big piece of plastic that screws onto the bottom of your console.
not sure how i lost mine as i remember it being stored near my gamecube games for a long time. i theorize its small case that's different from a US gamecube game's was mistaken for disposable packaging and someone stupid binned it while cleaning.

>>7764383
>they're telling op to burn the gameboy player boot disc on a DVD
zero posts have suggested this. someone suggested buying a modchip because burning a disc with swiss or GBI is faster than booting with an action replay or exploit game.

FYI, if you really, really thought there was something wrong with GBI and you wanted the original software instead (you're retarded if you do), you could still setup swiss and just pirate the ISO of the start-up disc, it's like 4MB and will fit on any SD card.

What do?

>>7763240
>ragefuel
Why are poor people always raging? It's $200, McDonalds pays $15 an hour everywhere now. If you work a mere 13 hours you can afford it. Unless you're not American, it could be a month's salary but why are you doing anything but emulating if you're not American? You can't fucking AFFORD to buy vintage vidya unless you're American. Nor is there space in your flat or whatever you call it.

>>7764756
the text on the disc being tilted at different angles greatly upsets me.

>>7763240
Just use the Game Boy Interface.

On a real topic: Who the hell are the faggots who lose essential components to their expensive things.
There are millions of Gyromite carts, but very few ROBs (and fewer with the tops). Lots of Wavebirds, but few receivers. Many Game Boy Players, and hard-to-find startup disks.
Keep track of your shit.

>>7763268
You are literally crying about supply and demand.

That being said, certain collectibles do fall prey to price fixing, when stores/sellers create false scarcity by accumulating a controlling share of the supply. Thats not whats happening here. The discs are expensive because they're old, hard to find, were not valued in their time, and are easy to lose.

>>7763272
exactly
hurry up op, only one left

>>7764795
>and hard-to-find startup disks.
Not every mom selling off their dead kid's old stuff is going to be able to tell that game disc goes with some accessory that was on his Nintendo

>>7764806
Are that many discord trannies really offing themselves?

>>7763415
I just looked on ebay sold listings and don't see anything like that happening

>>7763283
Nice story, but make up better nonsense elsewhere. That isn't how that site or ebay works.

>>7763353
Have one of these, works beautifully on a crt, the issue is one of the layers is bunged, often the 4th layer from what I can see, usually affects games that use weather effects such as the snow level in dkc 3, most of the time its fine, if it wasn't for that it would be perfect for me, even the composite is good quality.

I keep seeing lcd kits with tv out.

>he didn't buy wiis when they were flooding thrift stores
Shame. If my retard monkey brain can hack it anybody can. Best thing I ever did for old games.

>>7765024
GBA emulation on Wii was pretty meh last time I tried it

>>7763240
I'm glad dumb motherfuckers inflate the price of this shit. Before the pandemic started, I got a GB Player in great condition for 15 bucks because it didn't have the disc. They didn't even have them out for sale, and I just asked if they had any anyway, and they had like 3 with no disc. They didn't want to list them without the disc.

And now I have a GC Loader installed, with Swiss, and I couldn't give two shits.

Seriously, hardware for a while there was cheap as dick because every moron was overvaluing the software. Bought a lot of cheap gear in great condition there, but now a lot of it is starting to shoot up.

>>7764760
I know your not american cause you said flat.
>>7764795
Ok. I think i know how to run gbi.
You just put the files on the sd card.

>>7764760
But what about all the other stuff i want to buy too

>>7764304
>considering there are probably as many discs as there are GBPs,
There aren't though, thats the whole thing, its just like the situation with loose carts vs cib. Most kids threw away their boxes just like most kids lost their disks. The gameboy players were cheap for a long time because they didn't come with disks.

>>7763240
use an action replay you tard

>>7764105
yeah honestly I consider this thing to be totally worthless garbage that I'm too lazy to bother selling, so I feel sort of bad for people who can't get it... but on the other hand who gives a flying fuck about playing GBA on a CRT "like the devs intended" (not) with the GayLube's garbage controller

>>7765109
>I'm too lazy to bother selling
How can you be so fat and worthless you won't even put in the utmost minimum effort to get an easy $200? The fact you'd rather keep it and still talk trash on it for anonymous internet points instead.....just lmao

>>7765168
>just lmao
I mean, it's only going up in value while you sit there and seethe about not being able to cough up $200 for something you really want

>>7765192
The post he was replying to said he already owns it

>mfw I have the GBA Player, disc, and cable to use SNES controller

>>7765279
>not owning a unopened hori pad
>and another one for playing
ngmi

Who cares, just get GBI on a hacked memory card. It's better than the Gameboy player in every way.

>>7765329
>GBI on a hacked memory card
If you really have to boot from a memory card, you should put Swiss on it instead and launch homebrew from an SD card.

game boy player is a shitty meme

>>7763240
Wow and I thought paying £20 for one was too much

>>7764801
The obligatory "i knows economies 101 xD" edgelord. Every time. Every damn time. Like clockwork.

You're also the obligatory brainlet who doesn't know how to use the word "literally". And the obligatory faggot that equals to "crying" or some other infantilization every criticism to something you're particularly sensitive about.

>>7763829
Maybe now they do, they didn't back then.

>>7765065
Good idea mate

>>7765593
not him but why are you upset

>>7765109
>>7765168

I fear to sell things on ebay because the person will tell me its broken when its not

>>7766416
so? just ignore them.

>>7763298
Why not just drop the cash on a chink GC Loader at that point?

>>7765279
I have this piece of shit. That was supposed to let you use ps1 controller on n64
But i think it only works for a race wheel.

Get a job or get an SD loader with Swiss and GBI.

I've got four people watching my BIN listing. What the fuck are they doing just standing around and waiting for, just buy it already, my listing is $50-70 lower than than the other two for the same CIB game

>>7763506
What the fuck are you talking about? Krikzz doesn't make any of this shit.

>>7764304
Because using Swiss and GBI requires a chip or a swap disc plus a SD reader. It's not intuitive to a lot of people and they need their hands held to figure it out. Also, a lot of the GBP boot discs were lost, which is why the disc is so expensive.

>>7766493
>It's not intuitive to a lot of people and they need their hands held to figure it out.
Even in the age of youtube?

>>7763240
Shitcube player sucks 480i blurry shit. Stick to super gameboy or homebrew wii. Dont pay jewbay prices for novelties.

>>7763240
All the more reason not to play Game Boy games on a Gamecube. Besides, Game Boy games are meant to be played with a handheld, not a console.

>>7763474
right looks like shit

>>7765279
same here except i sold my disc for about $150 and bought a GB Player bootable memory card for like $10 that boots from Wind Waker
v. comfy

>>7763278
it's within arm's reach for me. haven't used it in over 7 years

>>7764179
Well I'm european I mostly use my own country's online flea markets or local game stores that have retro games category on their website

>>7763240
https://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Game_Boy_Interface

I use this. It only needs an action replay and SD card. it has better rendering and performance as well.

>>7763318
>>7764801

Other shit has weird stuff going on with the prices, but this is basically the thing here. The fact that it needs the player and the disk to work (action replay/GBI aside) , and people didn't really give a shit about this thing back in the day and lost the disk makes it more expensive.

I have a profound hatred for the rest of humanity, so I'll be taking a hammer to this crap later.

>>7764801
You are literally projecting emotions while admitting in your own post that your argument is not valid

>>7766425
they don't boot shit from the sd-card

>>7764795
>Lots of Wavebirds, but few receivers

I have 6 receivers but only 2 working wave birds. Not sure why the controllers keep dying on me

>>7767516
Post evidence with a hand written timestamp or go neck yourself for being a lying ass little bitch

>>7766678
Yes. Otherwise explain why retards are paying hundreds for these fucking discs

now I'm temped to sell my disc and player
I'd even throw in the gamecube

The disc is the shitty part of the gameboy player.

Anyone with a copy of wind waker and a wii can use GBI easily without buying anything else.

If you don't own a wii they are the cheapest console you can get right now.

Much smarter than paying out the ass for a blurry 480i presentation with an unremovable border

>>7767783
>Post evidence with a hand written timestamp or go neck yourself for being a lying ass little bitch
You're so angry. Did you not get to deep throat your old man today? Aw, diddums. Never you mind, window licker.

>>7767851
>If you don't own a wii they are the cheapest console you can get right now
For now. Prices on retro hardware is retarded!

>>7765593
I bet you think inflation is also a grand conspiracy, goober

>>7768239
Why cant they just reset inflation at some point
Like turn it down then let it build back up again. Its not even real. Its just something humans made up.

Once you have Swiss installed on your memory card, can you read files an SD already? I have no action replay, I just used GCMM to get swiss on my memory card.

>>7768317
You still need something that will run Swiss, like a save file exploit.

>>7768324
I have it. Using my WW save exploit, I boot into Swiss, am I golden from there?

>>7768328
Yep, once you're into Swiss you can boot games from an sdgecko or sd2sp2 or use homebrew like GBI.

>>7763240
This is what I did
>Buy a gcloader for $100 and whatever full size SD card you want
>Load up Game Boy Interface
Bam, now you got a far better game boy player boot disc AND the ability to pirate all GameCube games on real hardware for half the price.

>>7766485
Just providing an example in case anon bitches about it not being from whatever the original manufacturer was.

>>7768335
Coomlectors can’t be reasoned with. They want cardboard and plastic, not money.

>>7766416
Just show photos of the game/disc in action in your listing then. Then you have some photo proof that it works.

I do this whenever I sell stuff on ebay and I've never received complaints

>>7766416

Just explain everything to the best of your abilities, and comment to clarify that the item is being sold as-is and you cannot guarantee there are no defects.

Or just straight up list it "as is" and say it's untested

All of these options assume you have a gameboy player to begin with! The gameboy player rose like 4x its asking price from four years ago. Fuck I hate it! I have a GameCube and everything I need to use boot isos except the gameboy player and it costs more than what I paid for my original gamecube. Not even worth it, I don't use my gamecube for anything now that I use a wii, so paying $90 just to play gameboy games is ridiculous.

A challenger appears.

>>7770116
W I D E
B O Y

>>7763483
Enjoy not having a legitimate collection.

>>7770135
Using a Gameboy Player disc puts you at a disadvantage. Its literally only for kids who dont know how to do anything extra

>>7770135
The boot disc is literally objectively inferior. It's only useful as a frisbee.

>>7766425
>why spend $6 when you could spend $70

>>7763240
Don't listen to these retards suggesting buying hardware. There are was for your GC to boot up homebrew, look it up. That's a much better way to use the gameboy player attachment, because the software on that disk actually butchers the game

>>7770116
I vow to all of you, that I will purchase one of these when my Noront stock reaches $10

>>7763483
You do realize that a North American GC Action replay disk now costs about $200?

>>7770206
Look if you want to collect every single GC game you need this in your collection. No ifs or buts.

>>7770283
Who the fuck would want to do that.

>>7770283
>>7770294
lmao you're right, i've never heard of anyone trying to get a 100% complete gamecube collection. i guess it would be neat merely for the novelty. plus you'd have to get all that weird ereader stuff.

>>7770294
Ironic how /vr/ love collectathons like DK64 over Toki yet when it comes to collecting games they think it's a waste of time.

>>7770308
>>7770305

Building your own physical collection of games/series you like is fine. Autistically collecting the entire library of a system though is retarded. Just download that shit. You're gonna end up with so many shitty games.

>>7770308
But /vr/ hates DK64. You just described me instead and I don't like it.

>>7770281
A xeno modchip, SD card reader and a Swiss disc cost less than 10 USD shipped.

>>7769036
Doesn't matter. Just say it doesn't work and eBay will always side with the buyer.

>>7767926
Deep throated your mom instead for raising a lying little bitch like yourself

>>7770308
>>7770283
Game? the startup disc is just a glorified key. It's not even a good interface.

>>7770335
>Deep throated your mom
1. Why are you deep throating penis-sized clits?
2. Is it because you're a massive faggot?
3. Why would you admit to such deviancy?
4. Why haven't you killed yourself yet? I mean, anyone in such denial really should. You'd better get on with it.

>>7770281
An offer for "SD Media Launcher" is currently up for $28 incl. shipping.

>>7763415
>>7763410
Thought I was going crazy but I've noticed this with ps1 games. Word for word you described what I saw. What good could reasonably come about by telling normies?

>>7763396
>emulators
cope more zoomzoom

>>7772564
I don't know. I had a Not For Resale Zelda for GBC. They were pretty rare, but I guess that's because no one was paying attention to them. I listed mine for $180 when no one else was listing any, but since everyone found my listing they've been putting cheaper and cheaper prices on them to the point that they're barely worth a hundred dollars even now.

>>7770135
>>7770283
Don't care, I'm not autistic and piracy is based.

I also play my games on the GB Player through an EZ Flash IV.

>>7770283
It literally isn't a game, so no, you wouldn't. It's coincidental that the spergs who would collect every game released for the console in their region would also have a GBP and its startup disc, as they probably liked playing video games at some point before they started collecting.
If you wanted to say you owned every game and be pedantic about it, demo discs would surely be higher priority, since they have GAMES on them.

>>7772753
Nintendo world championship carts are the rarest and most expensive games which are basically demo's so yes they also need to be collected.

Maybe you and the emulator boys like using back doors to boot games but for the authentic collectors out there we do it by the book.

>>7770135
Who gives a shit about legitimate "collection"? I want to play the games authentically, and the official boot disc is fucking aids.

>>7773706
Nobody respond. This is a falseflagging troll post made by an emulatorfag to make everyone else look bad.

>>7774443
cope

>>7770923
I want to fuck your mouth-pussy until you call me "daddy".

>>7774741
If you want to lose that pathetic excuse for a cock, then that's one way of going about it, tranny. Also noticed that you want to, rather than you're "going to." That's right. Because you know I will beat the living shit out of you, you pencil-necked pansy faggot bitch.

>>7764756
>GTA style font on a Gamecube loader disc

>>7774760
Your homophobia just makes my thick Algerian cock harder. I'm going to stretch your asshole out too if you keep this up.

>>7775684
>(somehow) stretch your asshole (with my thimble for a dick)
Cripples can't stretch anything - and a cripple is what you'd become if you ever had a set big enough to come anywhere near me. But you don't. Laughable little fag.
>muh homophobia
Why would I be scared of a gay "man"?
>Algerian
Oh, so you're not even human? Right. That explains a lot. Why does all of your food look like half digested alien vomit? Stop talking to me, Mudslime. I only shoot the shit with actual human beings, and you're clearly nothing of the kind.

>>7776549
Once again, your weak, cowardly, subordinate mind resorts to petty racial insults and homophobia. I'm strong, 195cm in height, beautiful golden skin, and my thickness would leave you in pain for weeks. You wouldn't be the same after I was finished with your manhole.

>>7768239
I don't, but it is.

>>7763240
FYI you can use a gameboy player without the startup disc by using homebrew called Gameboy Interface. It's easier to install if you either have an SD reader or a softmodded Wii in order to put it on your memory card.

It's superior to the startup disc software in every way. 240p support, less lag, no frameskipping, etc. I have my original startup disc but I haven't touched it in years.

>>7777027
Enjoy being sued by Nintendo

>>7766493
No it doesn't. All you need is a memory card with the GBI software on it, as well as a way to access it, like a hacked save file. I used my Wii to copy both of these things to a memory card, simple as. So when I want to use GBI, I use my SSBM disc, go to name entry, and that automatically boots the gameboy player.

>>7777042
This still requires a way to get the exploited save onto a card, as well as a game that supports the exploit. Exploitable games aren't cheap, and not everyone has an easy way to get the save onto a card.

>>7777039
I'll greatly enjoy it.

>>7777039
>Enjoy being sued by Nintendo
How? Why? You're an idiot.
>>7776642
Wow, you're a massive faggot. Disgusting.

>>7777385
Who doesn't own a Wii?

>>7763240
There is a good (even better) homebrew replacement for that.
https://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Game_Boy_Interface

>>7777027
thanks for mentioning it for the 25th time in this thread

>>7770135
>Enjoy not having a legitimate collection.

>>7765030
mgba standalone is full speed on everything, I actually prefer it to the gamecube player at this point

>>7763272
>>7764803
/tv/ crossposters are consistently the worst part of every board they infect.

>>7778403
I can't imagine why, GBI/GBP are just interfaces for the Game Boy Player. Not emulation.

>>7778949
>Not emulation
exactly. there's pro's to using mgba, but you're clearly too retarded to see why

>>7763240
This reminds me that I lost the fucking disc for my Game Boy Player, as well as the Hori SNES-style controller I had.

Fuck.

>>7763240
Just buy the cheapest GBP you can find, and run an exploit to launch Game Boy Interface. You'll get a much better experience.