/vr/ - Retro Games

You want something that's getting increasingly scarce, the only answer was to do it much, much earlier than this if you wanted it to be affordable. It's not wise or worth it to start now unless you have 'frivolous real estate purchases' amounts of personal income. If you want to play the games just do so.

>buying Super Nintendo games
>in 2022

>>8774885
>Is there something I'm missing?
A time machine.

Just get an FX Pak Pro. If you’re that obsessed with getting the carts then you’re not getting them to play them, you’re getting them to covet them.

>>8774906
Or even better, you can play snes games from the device where are you posting right now

>>8774885
Stop being poor?

>>8774885
stop being a retard and just emulate them

depends what you mean by "on a budget". There's still plenty of some of the best snes games that go for 15-20 bucks and that's ebay prices. If you can't afford that then you might as well give up on collecting for now.

Buy Japanese games for your shelf and a flash cart if you cant read Japanese.

>>8774885
Buy a bunch of golf and baseball games

Or just fucking don't.

>>8774885
Just buy a one cartridge per month, after a few years you'll have a solid collection. Every day take $1 or $2 to a piggy bank and in the end of the month spend that moneys for a SNES cartridge. 2 years = 30+- SNES cartridges.

Unironically buy Bitcoin, OP, and you'll be able to afford whatever snes cartridges next decade. Or even better, realize that plastic won't make you happy and what you really cherish is your memories with the games and just emulate the damn games so you can keep hoarding ever-appreciating rare money instead.

>>8774885
You are too late, or just learn jap and buy cheap jap versions

>>8774885
Why does the logo look like a Slovene jersey?

>>8774885
>Is there something I'm missing?

Yeah, nobody buys old games to play them anymore. It's just resellers reselling to resellers.

Yeah you're missing the fact you're 10 years too late

>>8774885
Just emulate like a normal person

>>8774928
Yeah, compared to TG-16, Saturn, and probably now GC, you can still build a nice little library on 100-120$
Personally, if you cannot build a nice library of 5ish good to great titles (and while I like the Power Rangers game for example, it's a poor showing if your library is 5 Power Rangers equivalent), then it isn't even worth getting + a flashcart, just emulate then

>>8774885
collecting isnt for you. just download the complete rom set

>>8775517
Try 20.

>>8774910
Thats worse, not better

>>8776561
In what way? Why do you feel this way? Serious question. You can play SNES games on the Raspberry Pi and detect zero difference. If you're broke, you don't have a choice.

>>8774885
A small number of boomer whales control the retro market. Emulate or pay their prices fag

>>8774885
just make fake physical games, sell some in the market too while you're at it
normalize crashing this god awful shit

>>8774885
>on a budget
You don't. Prices for SNES and retro games are forever fucked save for Atari shit, and even some of those games have questionable prices at times
I'd say just consider investing research in software emulation or MiSTer but if you demand OG hardware, just get an FX Pak Pro and call it a day

>>8774885
>build a SNES library from scratch
>on a budget
buddy, it's 2022. all carts are overpriced now because so yboys bought out all of them during corona. even most common ones like Donkey Kong or Mario are overpriced now. you either emulate / get a flashcart / repros, or you prepare to shell out a lot of money. don't expect $5-10 carts unless a) it's an unknown game that hasn't been shilled by youtubers yet b) you get extremely lucky and buy it from some unassuming soul / in goodwill / on garage sale / whatever.

>>8777902
I'm trying to do the latter. And I just want to play the games, I'm not gonna buy anything in not gonna play, fuck that.

>>8774926
/thread

>>8774885
>Is there something I'm missing?
money. stop being retarded and pirate them

>>8774885
Buy games that you will actually play.

>snes collecting
>expensive
only /vr/ is something where you're spending $20 a week on a hobby considered expensive.

>>8774885
buy reproduction carts or get a flashcart.

I sit unfront of mercari all day and have it on a 5 second refresher, got a LOT of good deals this way.

But its not fun.

>>8774885
A time machine is your best option

>>8775170
Actual good advice

>>8778119
It's not a hobby. It's grotesque consumerism.

>>8774885
>How the fuck do I build a SNES library from scratch on a budget?
travel back in time to 1999

>>8774885
Aliexpress still has the games for cheap, but you will forfeit your personal information to the CCP. Notice how even your controller icon is tilted just to fit the upward trending zigzag line.

>>8778810
Whatever you want to call it.
MTG players drop $30-100 a week on their game and still consider themselves to be budget players.

Flashcarts or repros.

>>8774885
Hope

>>8777993
If you’re doing the latter, know that it is very, very unlikely you will build a collection in that manner. What you’re essentially trying to do is to get lucky, before someone else, about 30-40 times. I’ve found MAYBE four or five “good deals” since the retro craze started around ~2018. Of those, one has been since the start of COVID.

Personally, I built a large SNES and N64 collection comprised partially of my childhood games (30%), but mostly made up of cheap acquisitions in the 2006-2017 period (60%). I also built a small GameCube collection from when the GameCube was seen as old news and a joke (2008-2017). Only 10% of my collection has been built up since 2017, because prices were just so outrageous compared to what I used to pay. Last year I acquired the final solution to the SNES/N64 problem when I picked up an Everdrive 64 and an FXPak Pro. I sold almost everything that wasn’t a childhood memory. The only “modern” acquisition I kept was Earthbound, and honestly if I didn’t have the box and manual (which are cool for their own sake) I would probably sell that too. I realized that it makes zero difference if you are playing the games. Insisting on physical copies is just an autistic obsession, because the Everdrives are better in every conceivable way. Even the physical cartridges are very, very well built, and will probably last longer than the original game cartridges, which are now pushing 30 years old. Aside from that it’s just extremely convenient and you aren’t beholden to the nonsense of the retro market.

I wish there was something simple and straightforward like that for the GameCube, because with even common GC games pushing $80, my collection is not going to expand much.

>>8779189
>buying Aliexpress repros
Just buy the Hohol flashcarts ffs

>>8779949
MTG players are unironically the biggest group of idiots I’ve ever seen. I played for a while and had fun with tabletop Magic, but the people who were hard into the game were almost exclusively cringey, narcissistic pseudo-intellectuals who whines about how stupid everyone was while they worked 3 minimum wage jobs to support their Magic habits and their need to constantly update their decks. What a worthless, vacuous hobby.

>>8774885
Buy a flashcart or buy a Super Famicom and Japanese games instead.

For what purpose? To impress strangers on Reddit? If you didn't have a SNES growing up and you weren't there for the games, why is it so important for you to build a library now? These are all questions you have to ask yourself.

If you actually care about playing the games, which it doesn't sound like you do, just get a flashcart, Mister or emulate on your PC. You missed the boat. It's just plastic on a shelf.

>>8776561
Higan/bsnes is cycle-accurate. There is literally 0 difference between that emulator and a real snes.

>>8774885
Dude, just get the SNES mini. It’s as official as the carts and has all the best games.

>>8774885
you pirate them because fuck scalpers and fuck paying for games that are 30+ years old

>>8774885
Stop fetishizing tech you're too young to have any genuine nostalgia for and just emulate the games like everyone else. If you're still insistent, then get a real job.

>>8781653
Gamecube games are actually really easy to play. If you have a Wii that is. Softmodding it takes 10 minutes tops and you can just run the games through Nintendont. As far as actual Gamecube hardware I'm not sure if there is an easy way to do it without physically altering the console.

>>8774885
Make a list of must haves. Be honest. What will you actually play? Then procure one. Play it. Enjoy it. Chip away at your list over time. This way, you can save for the expensive must haves that will be a one off crazy purchase. Or focus on the less expensive options on your list. Either way, don't do it all at once, or you will spend a fuck ton. I kept my childhood collection, and added to it here and there at different points of my adult life. Feels good. I play here and there. I love retro games, but I have to adult to survive.

uhhhhhhhhhh bros?

>>8783000
>There is literally 0 difference between that emulator and a real snes.
Except a fuckton of variable latency

>>8784504
>variable latency
This guy gets it