/vr/ - Retro Games

Weird that the SNES version is so expensive when it isn't even the definitive release of the game. What's the point?

>>9229006
video game collectors don't actually play video games for fun d00d

>>9229018
>video game collectors don't actually play video games

ftfy

>>9228990
Is that a factory sealed SNES game? Neat.

>>9229006
nostalgia and originals almost always go for more than a later re-relase, also the re-release being on a handheld is even shittier

>>9228990
even without emulation you would still have flash carts, repros, and the PS1 port.

>>9229056
They're not even collectors anymore. When it was just collectors the prices could be high but they were stable. The giant spike in prices is from outside speculators from other hobbies like baseball cards and comic books looking for the next big thing. There was an article about a dentist who just got into it and clearly has no interest in gaming as a hobby. They're independently wealthy people who are willing to drop thousands on whatever they think will appreciate in value, which is how you get a sealed Super Mario 64 selling for a literal million dollars.

>>9229086
>There was an article about a dentist who just got into it and clearly has no interest in gaming as a hobby.
link pls

>>9228990
I would buy that Chrono Trigger SNES if is factory sealed for $1500.00. I got the cash on me right now. I got used copy of Chrono Trigger SNES in very good shape that i play every few month for fun.

>>9229085
>even without emulation you would still have flash carts, repros, and the PS1 port.
This is still emulation.

>>9229197
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/dentist-nes-games-collection-1-million/?amp

Rich people are throwing fuck you money at everything they see now which inflated everything.

>>9229242
(you)

>>9228990
You fat pigs gotta get a job, even here in brazil $1500 is not expensive.

Is now the time to sell off my N64 and GameCube stuff or is this shit only going to get more ridiculous?

Sealed copies are for psychopaths.

>>9229313
I bet it's only going to get more valuable in the next decade, but you could be waiting a while.

>>9229313
If you have a factory sealed box copy it will only go up in value, but if you have a used copy of N64 or Gamecube games it going be only be low prices for long time. If you still play your used copy games just hold on to it. Only hardcore collectors who buy sealed copy games now.

>>9229338
>ywn see The Wizard in the theater and afterwards go to Pizza Hut and win a prize from the claw machine again

>>9229006
I hate you so much

>>9229279
>>9229197
He didn't just catch an interest in it as an investment, Eric Naierman is in bed with WATA games who are illegally artificially driving up prices of the retro game market.

https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A?t=1126

>>9229006
Enjoy your loading screens, fagass.

>>9229279
Ruining hobbies for everyone else.

>>9229441
>loading screens
>on a ds cartridge
Zoomies gonna zoom.

>>9229441
how fucking young of a zoomer do you have be to think ds games had loading screens

>>9229609
why hello, fellow DS Chrono Trigger supremacist. it was so good. those FMVs are great and the bottom screen was used very well. I didn't bother with the extra content; heard it was bad

Anyone know where I can get switch roms from?

Not only for emulators but also thank him for the internet and the great people who use their resources to offer games (old and new) freely available. I just got into video gaming recently (I only played League of Legends before) and I can't imagine playing as much as I am now if I was to pay for everything.

best way to play this is on mister or sd2snes using the MSU-1 hack that puts the ps1 fmvs on the snes

>>9229006
DS version is expensive too

>>9229279
Everything is a bubble now. FFS Obama and Prince Harry are running tech startups, it's over

>>9228990
Indeed, without emulation I probably would have never played Mighty Final Fight (pic related) and it's a great game.

Something I want to know is, who does this impress? Other people into retro gaming know it's a con, normies have other means of showing off cash flexes and/or money well-spent.

>>9229006
>Weird that the SNES version is so expensive when it isn't even the definitive release of the game
It's because the SNES version is rarer and in a more widespread language than the definitive Super Famicom version. And the DS and PS1 ports are so much worse that they're not worth playing

>>9228990
>>9230234
This is basically just the equivalent of your local game store having a copy of Battletoads behind the counter with a pricetag of $100,000.

>>9229313
>Is now the time to sell off my N64 and GameCube stuff or is this shit only going to get more ridiculous?
I sold all my expensive DS games last year because I noticed the carts starting to noticeably degrade.
hold onto your physical media for more money if you want, but keep in mind aging electronics and storage formats only have such a shelf-life before they become essentially pretty looking plastic trash.

>>9229682
its giving back.
people got to experience the games on real hardware and provide a resource for others born later, and then hopefully down the line the younger people who used emulators choose to keep them alive so people even younger than them have access to those games to.

>>9230234
>Something I want to know is, who does this impress?
post it on plebbit or /vr/ for ebin upvotes and (you)'s and thats pretty much it.
also, impressionable teenagers and tweens who are into gaming but don't have money and aren't old enough to realise how stupid prices for old video games are.

>>9230276
Is there any way I can preserve those games for those other generations? I pretty much only use archive.org to download retro games and I download a lot of them just to try them out (so I don't finish them if I absolutely don't enjoy them). But they're already in a good place on archive.org, right?

>>9228990
>buy it a $200 despite poorfags screeching its a bubble
>sell it at $1000 and buy other good games for the money
My hobby basically funds it self at this point. You poorfags will own nothing and you will be happy

>>9230321
You live with your parents.

>>9230472
not him but whats wrong with living with your parents? not everyone hates them.

>>9229720
>https://archive.org/download/SNES-MSU1-Arquivista/Chrono%20Trigger%20%28US%29%20%28MSU-1%29.7z
this

>>9228990
I'm playing this for the first time right now, about 65% finished.

I'm playing the PS1 cd.. then got the SNES version.. and I'm too far in to switch to the SNES version with no load times.

When I open a menu or go into a room, I times a 7 second load time. I feel by the end I'll have lost a year of my life.

However I will say, I now see what the hype is all about.

>>9230298
I think you're right in the sense that a lot of these games are already very well preserved. It's hard to imagine someone having much difficulty finding Super Mario Bros. or Final Fantasy VII because there are copies everywhere now.
However, if you do happen to come across a game that's at risk, do your best to help share it. If you got it from a torrent, seed the torrent. If you got it from a direct download, share the link with other people who might be interested. If there isn't a good place to download it, make one yourself, either with a torrent or a website like Mega.

To give an example of a game at risk, I recently managed to get my hands on a copy of an obscure freeware fighting game called 少女魔法学園. Few physical copies were ever made, it doesn't work on modern versions of Windows, the company that made it (Tinkle Bell) doesn't make games anymore, the official website is down, and it's so obscure maybe only ten thousand people in the whole world have ever heard of it.
I only managed to find my copy by digging through an archive of 5ch where somebody had shared one. I handed out a copy to every person I could find online who ever expressed interest in the game, from Youtube comments to Twitter to 4chan. It didn't take long, and hopefully it really helped someone out.
Another example is a Japanese company called Inside-cap that made visual novel ports. All of their games were short run and had really really nasty copy-protection. The copies we have in this archive https://archive.org/details/gbaunlicensedroms99759998 may be the only extant working digital copies anywhere.
If you ever find a forgotten game or an obscure version or a game caught in copyright limbo or that's illegal to play in some parts of the world, sharing that game with other people who are interested in it could make a big impact for future generations. This goes for other media as well, books, movies, et cetera.

>>9229389
This seems pretty doable actually. Find a theater that shows old run stuff, and then any pizza hut and you can live this life.

>>9229682
Yeah, I remember pirating PC games 20 years ago and you had to get a virtual drive, keygens and hacked exe files to make everything work...now you just grab a GoG exe off any site and you're good.

>>9231547
i was just trying to figure out how to download ff7 intergrade since i'm not buying a ps5 and it honestly seems more confusing than what you described in comparison to what i used to do 20 years ago.

>>9228990
>1500
enjoy your copy of the game genius

>>9231135
And what do I do if I have a Mega link? Do I just post it once on a board like this or how are people supposed to ever find it again?

>>9228990
>sealed box
>emulation

you can emulate having sealed product?
WOW

>>9231861
You can have the NFT link for an image of the game sealed for all I care

>>9231054
The Japanese PS1 version actually plays fine, but the American localization was an incredibly quick and sloppy rushjob where they just copypasted the old translation into the game and called it a day, which broke a bunch of optimized stuff and caused the massive load times.

>>9231861
nigger you can't even post an image correctly yet you give your opinion on technology

>>9230251
DS version is the best version of the game and you only would disagree if you haven't played it.

>>9229197
>>9229086
karl jobst did some good videos about some of the dodgy shit going on with some grading company that was linked to an auctioning company i think they got sued for marketing manipulation a few months later, the dude running it got arrested in like the 80s for doing the same market manipulation with coins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbuNwS-gaI

>>9232067
Are you making that up?

>>9232604
Yes

>>9232428
I don't like the new translation, but that's a subjective thing. I prefer SNES but NDS is serviceable.

>>9232419
>DS
I owned it and played it. No 240p analogue output makes it useless. The game is so much better on a good CRT, playing it on anything else for me is a waste

>>9229613
DS version would be better if the text wasn't microscopic and the music wasn't ruined. I don't care about the FMVs, I can just look them up.

>>9233386
Which tracks would you say are ruined? I noticed minor differences in the instruments but nothing major.

>>9228990
ROM = FREE = $0

I dream of the day I'll be able to find a copy of Skies of Arcadia for anything under $300.

Before I give up and emulate it, should I play the Dreamcast or the Gamecube version?

>>9235006
GC has fucked up music but rebalanced (better) grinding

Wanting a sealed copy of a video game, and really any entertainment media, is so illogical. The part of the brain that derives enjoyment from that is so utterly broken.

>>9228990
>Thank god for flashcarts
Ftfy, although for casual retro gamers emulation is also okay. Not everyone has the will and/or monies to play on real hardware.

>>9229006
>PS1
loading ways to call you a fag...
>DS
enjoy your worse audio quality and less fun script in the name of "muh accuracy"

Why wouldn't you want the stuff you have to go up in value as time goes on?

>>9236874
Because it's not just the stuff you have but everything else. What does it matter if you have a few games worth $1000 if it also means you can't afford to buy anything else?

>>9235592
>less fun script in the name of "muh accuracy"
What the fuck do you fags want?
>translation is inaccurate: "Fucking translators changing the script!"
>translation is accurate: "It's less fun!"

>>9236998
those are different types of people, but both share a love for complaining about games they've never played online
and while i don't mind the ds translation myself, they totally should've kept this line

>>9230997
I keep in touch with my parents and don't crowd up their house.