/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7890091
because of inflation, that's about half new price when it was new. But it's damaged goods so not acceptable.

Wow, he wants $60 for what's quite literally garbage. I could go to the modern AAA industry for that.

>>7890110
It's heavily damaged goods, even, it's not like the disc has just a scratch which you could buff off and then have it good as new, that's honest to god disc rot, ain't no fixing that.
I'm willing to bet the guy hasn't actually played it on a PS2, he just put the disc in to see if it would boot, ran the intro, then called it good, in reality it probably skips and stutters a lot, and may not even be fully playable.

>>7890091
Yes but this is a poor example since it's one guy on ebay.

>>7890091
No it’s still like $10 for games where I live. It’s only expensive online.

Buying games online is for lazy people and you pay extra convienence.

>>7890091
>has pricing on retrogames gone too far?
If it isn't a cartridge, new sealed disk or a special disc like a GayCube or that autistic PSP thingy they can kiss my ass.
A rotting disc has no collector value.
Get the ISO, MD5 check the heck out of it and burn it on a decent disk.
Go play.
Unless it's just for showing, in that case pay the price showercucks. Games are to be played.

>>7890091
Just avoid the junk cancerous sellers. They've always existed regardless of inflation.
>Not the droids we're looking for
>Move along

>>7890110
>inflation meme
tell me how much salaries have raised again

Imagine paying even $0.01 for a console game made before 2000.

I used to buy/sell retrogames in the early 00s, so I got a lot of games at a fair price and I also sold a lot. Everybody was nice and sane.
I tried to sell something recently and found out current collectors are hysterical dicks. I'd rather burn everything than sell to these fags. They're obsessed and crazy. Totally insane behavior.

>>7890369
gr8 b8 m8

>>7890091
No, they haven't gone far enough. I want to be a millionaire when I sell my childhood

god help me

>>7890495
Why do you want that game so much LMAO?

>>7890339
lucky. I live in some fucking dystopia where even people listening things locally reverse order search by highest ebay and set prices of their actual trash to the exact ebay listing cost. drives me crazy.

this site has absolutely FUCKED prices on everything, what the hell are these people smoking.

>>7890543
its only gonna get worse when zoomers wanna appeal to boomers and start stocking up on retro vidya

>>7890091
Yes but so has FPGA devices. Which is why I stick to emulation via PC.

>>7890368
30% or so in real terms. It's collapsed the last year a bit, we'll see how much that improves as things open up.

Though, that's not what inflation is anyway, inflation tends to be more based on goods.

>>7890592
I'M SORRY I HAVE TO ADMIT TO SOMETHING I STARTED REBUYING AND HOARDING UP MY CHILDHOOD CONSOLES. I COULDN'T HELP IT! I NEEDED MY NOSTALGIA! I EVEN WENT A BIT TOO FAR AND BOUGHT A CONSOLE FROM A GENERATION BEFORE I WAS BORN, EVEN WORSE I LIKED IT NOW I WANT TO BUY ANOTHER A GENERATION OLDER THAN THAT ONE! HELP!!!

>>7890643
>Though, that's not what inflation is anyway, inflation tends to be more based on goods.
True, which is why it's a meme anyway. You often see anons saying "yeah it's $100 today but that was like $40 before!". Like no nigga, you're still getting ripped off. And let's not get into the prices of real estate.

>>7890925
>someone bought eartbound for 700bucks today

Should have seen the 2015 prices for a new N64 game.

>>7891178
what a steal

>>7891192
Only paid 46 dollars for an unopened Rayman 2 game. The seller must have had no idea how old the game was.

>>7891210

>Buyers complain prices are too high for retro games

>Right after they complain they pay the premium because they're retards

>>7891192
Why would you buy those on Amazon?
Also that's probably the price for a factory sealed copy

>>7891192
>people who bought retrogames for pennies in the 2000s can now put downpayments for houses
fml

>>7891234
shiggy diggy

>>7891242
I've had things that I've purchased even well into the 2010s that are worth many multiples of what I paid. GameBoy protos for like $30, arcade PCBs like The Simpsons and Turtles in Time and Battletoads for under $200, official primary illustrations for games for under $200. I guess even normalfags have wondered into the niche markets and fucked those too, too bad I don't give a shit about selling so it is of zero benefit to me and only a problem.

>>7891632
Wandered. Fuck. You know what I meant. Either way it is crazy to me that normalfags are jerking off to candy cabs when they were the easiest thing in the world to get, even in the USA. I got a Neo Candy 29 on craigslist and the guy drove it to my house.

>>7890495
This game was fucking awesome when I was a lad, better than Crash and Spyro combined. It's a shame it costs you an arm and leg to get one copy now.

>>7890091
This guy on ebay overprices all his shit. I've bought from him before, awful seller.

>>7890091
Not nearly far enough

>>7890368
What salaries? For minimum wagers it's up a lot in many places. And for NEETs it's up massively. From $0 to $300/week. It's even up for many jobs that require an actual skill.

>>7890091
Nice redditcap.

>>7890368
Mine went up 2.86% this year.

>>7890091
Never change. Seriously.

>>7890091

That's disc rot right?

Imagine getting into collecting past 2015 or so. I'm glad I had the foresight to buy all the games I wanted before 2010

>>7890356
this

>>7890091
>doesn't just download the bin/cue
pay up, paypiggy

>>7891210
>Only paid 46 dollars for an unopened Rayman 2
>Sold by Always_Open
Doubt

For some japanese games, thankfully no. I found one reliable site that offered Super Famicom games at really affordable prices, especially since they were cartridge only. Those of course are the exception and not the rule.

>>7890091
Probably. But on another note. Is buying a Paper Mario 64 CIB for 80 Canada bucks a good deal or a rip?

>>7892868
considering ebay resellers have it up for $450 Canadian or more, yeah, that's a good deal.

>>7890091
I think I recognize that tile floor. There was some clown who was trying to sell a cracked Shining the Holy Ark disc for like $60 around 2018 or so. He had the listing up for years. He had almost the exact same tile floor.

>>7890091
All you have to do is not buy them.

>>7891829
Why the fuck would you buy his shit in the first place is beyond me. You deserved it I guess

>>7892969
You should never conclude that buying shit is a steal just because it's less expensive than what a fucking reseller would ask for said shit

>>7893023
Of course it's a steal. Paper Mario loose rarely goes under $100 even from legit dealers, CIB is a legit steal at that price.

>>7890339
I buy games online because I'm so rural that I don't have many shops that have good game selection. That and I want imported shit which just isn't an option in my local shops. Zero chance of me finding Famicom/Disk System, Neo Geo CD, or Japanese Saturn games at my local guy.

>>7892746
Yep. Even if the disc is (claimed to be) working now, it's absolutely sure not to work soon enough.
Take care of your discs, and this won't happen.

>>7892982
It's some shitty store in New York, I think.

>>7890643
Industry wise it's not good. There are alot of shortages on materials my company is 10,000 units behind because of purchase parts. It's going to be rough opening up.

>>7893032
>Of course it's a steal. Paper Mario loose rarely goes under $100 even from legit dealers
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265100347308?hash=item3db93647ac:g:kiAAAOSwMQ5ecjyi

>>7891809
wait, really?

>>7893032
Read again, I never said that it wasn't a steal.

>>7893313
discrot is a meme of poorfags

>>7894898
sorry to hear that your overpriced game listings on amazon aren't selling, wario

>>7890110
>game works
>this is unacceptable
????????

>>7894898
Disc rot is real, it's just most people don't treat their discs so badly that it ever happens, and disc manufacturing is seldom so bad anymore that you'll get sloppy ones which give up the ghost in a few years.

>>7894905
I would not take his word that the disc works as advertised, I would require a demonstration, assuming I was so fucking stupid as to pay $60 for a rotting copy of SOTN. For that matter, the rot, as plainly visible, means that the disc is almost certainly not going to last all that long anyway.

>>7894919
I just got done beating San Andreas again on my PS2 last week. The disc is scratched to hell and back because I was a stupid child who didn't take care of my discs.
Game still runs fine.

>>7894905
>gun works
>this is unacceptable
????????

>>7890091
woof what is that, mold spotting
once a game gets the mold of death i'll sell it only in non-working lots

i've been running into more discs with this sort of spotting, mostly from tropical areas
PS1 and PS2 games don't suffer from this a lot, strangely enough a lot of the 360 era "greatest hits" have a big problem with disc rot and spotting

i only see it though because i deal in bulk

>>7894928
Scratches is one thing, especially if they're tiny, but leaving the disc out in the open to be exposed to direct sunlight will be pretty bad for it in the long run, as will keeping it somewhere humid.
Your disc is probably fine, because you kind of need a pretty bad scratch to get reading issues, and a real bad one for rot to start, but personally I would get it buffed just to make sure it'll last, it's free in some places.

>>7894945
>mostly from tropical areas
Bingo. The air is more humid there, and it has a real effect on disc media like this. If any of you live in Louisiana, consider keeping some desiccant bags where you store your discs, perhaps tape one inside of a cover if there's space for it.

>>7890368

>>7894919

I thought Disc rot was inevitable and just keeping them in bad conditions speeds it up? Laser discs are starting to suffer from this, so there's a mad rush to capture them.

>>7894928
The only time I've had a PS2 game fuck up on me was a copy of DDR that would de-sync badly during Cartoon Heroes. I just took it down to the local CD shop and had them refurbish it for two bucks, then it worked great. (ironically, I think you can buy the game in good conditions for less than two bucks nowadays)

>>7890091
Faggots love capitalism until it makes the things they like more expensive

>>7894960
starts at hte edge usually, i've seen a lot of it in 360 era GOTY and greatest hits game

seriously like 6-7 of the last Fallout 3 GOTYs that i ran into had bad rot on the DLC disc part, dont know why this game in particular

>>7890543

What site is that?

>>7894960
Nothing truly lasts for eternity (nothing physical, anyway), but optical media can last a lot longer than people think. This can depend on the materials used, format, and quality of manufacture.
A lot of laser discs and similar formats from that era wasn't always manufactured in the best of ways, but there's disc media out there which should be able to last a century if taken well care of.

>>7894980
>i've seen a lot of it in 360 era GOTY and greatest hits game
Those in particular are known to be prone to it, so that's a matter of production quality. There's also a lot of HD-DVD stuff which wasn't made too well and degraded pretty quickly.

>>7890091
No if anything I want it to go higher and higher so I can make bank off some of the games in my collection I wound up not liking as much as I thought I would.