/vr/ - Retro Games

I just bought two Model 2 megadrives, one Model 1, and a Saturn on ebay... for $50.

It feels like a heavy price, but I've been getting desperate for a Saturn, and the Model 1 is a nice bonus if it works. If so, I can sell the extra model 2s and my existing model 2 for something like $15 to $20 each, depending on how many complete sets of cables, extra controllers, etc. I have for them.

i picked up the following at the local flea market last sunday...

2 platinum licensed gamecube controllers, 100% functional, no loose joy sticks or sticky buttons) for 5 bucks together.

about 10 random filler NES games, with batman being the only notable one. guy wanted a dollar a piece, so, i grabbed 10 and he agreed on 8 bucks for them all.

a few sega genesis games. Bubsy, Lion King, and a couple others. 3 bucks each.

dragon Warrior 3 and 4 on the NES for..... 5 bucks a pop from some random ass guy. fuckin' DEAL. he wanted 5 bucks a game and had a table of quite a few, but those two were mixed in, and, NO SHIT i jumped on them.

oh, also, while I was at the flea market, I saw a Sears Tele-Games intellivision console that came with about 20 games and all the inlays for them.

I have NO information at all regarding the sears telegames systems... he wanted 40 bucks for the lot, and yeah, maybe I should have done it, but I decided not to, mainly because my focus point of collecting is NES games, and I'd rather spend 40 on a rather uncommon game than on a console that'll just sit around.

Got Street Fighter II' at Goodwill yesterday for $3.

Thinking about taking up a craigslist offer with:

>NES in bad condition
>SNES with video cable.
>SNES games: Ken Griffey Baseball, Hole in One Golf, Pro Quarterback, John Madden 93, NCAA Basketball
>Sega Saturn games: Madden, NHL, Quake, Virtua Fighter, Virtual Cop, Daytona USA Racing
>Virtual Pinball for Sega Genesis
...and some unsellable old madden/baseball/whatever games for 360 and PS2 and such, including one of those movie UMDs for PSP (ha!) and a 360 HD-DVD player

For $30, all together, as a set. I want to ask the guy to split off the useless stuff (I only want the Sega and Nintendo stuff, obviously), but I have a feeling he knows it's worthless, so I doubt he'd be willing to come down a little bit for leaving that stuff out, since he'd probably just throw it away anyway.

Should I offer him $20 for "just the Sega and Nintendo stuff," or do you think that would make me seem desperate?

Got some pretty decent scores lately, my camera's a shitty vivitar, only things that are tough to make out are the top left title, which is the Japanese two-disc soundtrack for FFX. Next to that is Tales of Legendia. Below that are some boxed Genesis titles, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the NES, and Legend of Mana. Bottom right is a Japanese four-disc soundtrack for FFVII (they could fit the entire game on 3 discs, why 4 for just the soundtrack?) and below that are some equally Jappo Evangelion soundtrack discs. The barn I got all this from had lots of old imported anime soundtrack CDs, there was stuff Patlabor, Battle Saber Marionette, Gundam Wing, and Ranma ½. I picked up the Ranma ½ soundtracks, wasn't really interested in the other stuff.

Altogether I spent about $40 on this pile.

>>972870
$50 for 4consoles, w/e, it's the shipping that kills your wallet

>>973916
Shipping was free. Otherwise I wouldn't've shelled out for it.

>>972981
Ok, so I made him the offer, and he said to just take all of it for $20, I guess because he knows all the outdated sports games for xbox etc. are worthless.

So, uh. I may be going to a car boot sale tomorrow. Any advice on how to get some vidya, also for someone in the UK.

From what I know, act cool, go early (I can go earlier at 6am, instead of 9am, but it would cost £2 for entrance fee, is it worth it?) and if they don't have any video games, ask?

I've seen it before, but I've never gone, they had tons of tables and stalls, mostly clothes from what I saw, but I never know.

So, any advice.

Anyhow, on topic. I bought Spiderman for the PS1 for £1.50 (I know, but it was for someone else) and a Dreamcast Fishing Controller for £1.50.

>>972823
>tee hee ha ha ha, I made an acronym that spells out fags. So edgy and funnie
go back to /v/ or /b/ or where ever it is you come from

>>975103
aren't most car boot sales stolen goods?

>>975138
Go check the archive hon.

Just got this today and was waiting for a FAGS thread lol. I got everything for $80. I have some up close pics too.

up close of the NES games

>>975138
>being this sensitive on 4chan
go back to reddit or wherever you came from

The yobo doesn't fit NES, Genesis, or SNES games. I don't know what the hell it fits. Maybe Famicom?

>>975249
>Gun Nac
>Tomb & Treasure

You Lucky Bastard

>>975256
probably, that's the exact same shape as my famicom's cartridge port

I got all this for 154 one of the fat ps2 is a japanesse debugging station

>>975538
you got a steal with the way people sell pokemon games for 30 per cart.

some guy i know is gonna have a tg-16, turbo express and games this weekend. what would be a good price for just the 2 systems, sans games.

Here's the pic

>>975246
Impressive; been looking for a copy of Gun Nac. Also grats on the Jaguar.

Best haul I got so far this summer; about a few months old now, haven't gotten anything on this level since.

>>975256
Nope, I'm 95% positive those are Atari Jaguar carts.

>>975256

Those are Jaguar Carts. I remember someone was doing a video on them.

>>975458
>tombs and treasure

Why does /vr/ seem to like that game so much?

>>975103

Anything guys?

>>975143

No, these are just like flea markets.

>>975757
>>975776

He was wondering about the little black console in the bottom left, not the carts

Anybody in the Twin Cities looking for a sweet NES deal. I'd consider it, but I've already got one w/box.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/vgm/3984927229.html

>>975931
I have an NES box and, I believe, the styrofoam. I'd prefer not to sell the NES that came in it though, because it was my parents'. Would people be able to tell or even care if I just put another NES in the box and sold it? (I have three now..)

Like the box doesn't have the SN on it or anything, right? Also, how low does a serial number have to be to be considered a low number? Like, does it have to be in the 6 figures?

>>975757
>>975776
I know the 4 games are Jaguar games. It says on the bottom left hand corner of each cart "Jaguar 64 bit".

>>975914
Yes. The Yobo. I'm starting to think that it's the Famicom version. The model number is OT-8008. The tops are flipped from all of the versions I've seen if that makes sense. The straight end on the top where the games go is facing toward the back, where it's reversed on the pics I've seen.

bump

Got this today for $2. Slow day, but at least I found something. Sage for not retro, but thought I would let you guys know.

Got me a DC keyboard for $3, Hey You Pikachu boxed complete for $5, and a Superpad 64 Plus controller for $1.

Also got Diablo II for free, but it's missing discs.

>>975538
>Megaman Battle Network 3
That's a really underrated gem there, one helluva game.

>be australian
>Never see any 2nd Hand Video games
>When I do it's usually ricky ponting cricket or AFL live 2006.

>yesterday went on day trip to major city 2 hours away (I live in relatively the middle of nowhere)
>google retro vidya stores, find a place
>website says hobby store specializing in model building, card games and retro vidyor gams, 5,000+ sq ft
>suite.bmp
>go 40 minutes across metro area to bad part of town
>go in, look aroud, board games and awkward teens playing Magic everywhere
>actually kind of cramped even with the floorspace, optimistic for their selection
>Hey where can I find any video games you might have?
>"Oh we don't carry those anymore."
so that was a disappointment

>>979050
Are you serious? You actually have cricket video games? Why haven't I ever heard of this?

>>979046
Not that guy, but I still have my box for it. Lost my game years ago though. That was the one GBA game whose box I didn't throw away it seems.

>>979065
>You actually have cricket video games?
I have one at the Vinnies I work at.
I'll grab a picture

Scored me a Genesis today with 6-Pak for $15. It may look rough, but it still works. Never had one before, so I'm enjoying some Sonic right now.

>>979030
If the key for diablo ii is valid, who needs discs. Just pop it into battle net and download

>>980427
I didn't even think of that. You're right, though. I was able to add it successfully.

Thank you mystery man for your useful suggestion.

>>979046
Not part of the finds discussion; but i thought MMBN3 was pretty great, 2 was already great and 3 made it even better in some aspects, Navi customiser a few continuity nods here and there....surprisingly they didn't overdub the Japanese aspects of the game.

Didn't like the whole socialization aspect, trading exclusive NCParts for others, the after-quest definitely felt more substantial compared to 2's, something seems off about it and i'm not talking about some of the overpowered chip combos such as anything involving FlashMan...


Though with 4 being pretty infamous, makes you wonder how much of the series games are known because they're good, or if they're bad, 5 felt slightly chunky but less so than 4, but Liberation battles just felt long winded, never saw 6 in stores...how would it compare to the rest of the series, ignoring the removal of Boktai-related things?


Other note, a few years ago i got loose copies of Banjo-Kazooie and Final Fantasy Tactics advance for about £8, would ebay count? otherwise i also got MMBN3 White, Wario Land, Warioware: Twisted and Azure Dreams (GBC) for £25. only MMBN and Twisted had their boxes though.

My only regret recently was that i didn't pick up a loose copy of the GBA Pokemon mystery dungeon, nor picked up a boxed Pokemon Black at a costconverters or a priceconverter or whatever they're called for £9...

they also had a Pikachu N64 with Bugs' Life and Clayfighter for something like £60 >,>.

>>979046
>BN3
>Underrated

Are you fucking serious? Have you not participated in a single Mega Man thread that involves the Battle Network series?

>2x SCPH-1001 $2
>Ps1 memory card $0.25
>Medal of Honor Underground $0.25
>Gran Turismo 2 $0.25
>Oregon Trail $0.25
>GoW $1
>Rayman3 $1
>Viewtiful Joe $1
>Lost Kingdoms $1
>Lost Kingdoms II $1

>>980908
I don't touch any non /vr/ threads, sorry. I meant underrated in a sense of "Most people don't know about this game" not in a sense of "People who know about the series".

>>981256
Is there anyway to use S-Video on the 1001 while using the RCA out for the audio?

>>981306
just for shits and giggles im gonna hook it up and find out but i dont see why not

>>981306
I would assume so, given S-video doesn't carry sound.

>>981306
>>981320
yeah it works

>>981325
I'm assuming if you plug in through the av multiout that the playstation might think to only output through that.

>>981334
Awesome. Thanks.

Picked this up today for $25. It was my last yard sale for the day too.

The family had two DS games on a table for 25 cents each so I asked them if they had any other kind of games they would be willing to sell. The guy just said: "You wouldn't be interested in old Nintendo games would you?" I just smiled and told him yes, and he ran inside and brought out a box with all of this in it.

He said he couldn't get the system to work anymore so he just asked for $25. I happily paid the man and we talked for a few minutes about old video games. He claimed to have a big collection of old games (100+ PS2 games, and maybe some others) in a storage unit that he didn't play anymore either since he has kids now and they play more with the newer consoles together. The lady with him also mentioned she thinks she has some Atari games. They asked for my contact info and said they would be looking through more of their old stuff soon and might call me if they find anything.

I went home to try out the system. Didn't read games like he said. I peeked inside the slot and saw something in the back. Turns out there was an old sticker that was caught in the 72 pin connector. I carefully pulled it out with a needle and cleaned the pins with alcohol.It works fine now.

>>981429
Jesus christ. So the rumors are true, some people really just don't think it's worth it to put their old video games out.

I kind of hate asking people anything at sales, other than exchanging pleasant greetings and such, because I don't want to seem too interested only to back out later, but I guess if it pays off like this, it's worth it. I've got like a dozen consoles piled up here, but I can't find cartridges anywhere!

Damn. I feel like I should've tried this at the sale I drove 20 miles to today because they said they had "video games" that turned out to be a huge stack of PS2 games I wasn't interested in

>>981451
>some people really just don't think it's worth it to put their old video games out.

That's actually what the guy said. He didn't think anyone would want this stuff so he didn't put it out. Coincidentally, on my very first trip retro hunting, I met another lady who said the same thing to me as she brought out a box full of pic related. She sold it for $20 because she also didn't know if it worked (which it does and is the one I play on now. Maybe it's just a trend where I live. I dunno).

But anyway, the lesson to be learned here: Don't be afraid to ask for video games. Worst thing that can happen is they say no. That or they have do some, but they're priced ridiculously high or they're not games you want. Just remain calm and collected. Show them you are interested but don't act over anxious either and don't be afraid to just walk away if the deal isn't what you are looking for.

Another tip I found to be useful is to just bring a game with you. It's a great talking point and gives the person an example of the kind of games you are interested in buying (who may not know too much about retro games or doesn't understand what type they are. I asked for Nintendo games once and they brought out Wii games. I polity declined, and went on to the next sale.)

got this old red toolbox for a buck at the flea and need ideas for a paintjob (or leave it)? Not sure yet, just got it!?!

>>982096
(outside) little damage

>>982096
>>982101
What are you going to use it for? Tools, then no paint job. Games, then might as well. Maybe a company logo or something on it.

>>982096
What's with that junk inside of it? Throw that stuff out.

>>982146

>>>/v/

So I went to that Car Boot Sale I mentioned in >>975103 and pic related was all the stuff I found that I wanted.

They had other retro vidya as well, but it was mostly shitty PS1 football and racing games.

Still, it's nice to find consoles there.

(Not Pictures, RF Switch for Mega Drive)

Just picked up F Zero (SNES) for 7€
did I overpay?

Also how much is reasonable for a NES/SNES/N64?

Some guy wanted to sell me MGS +VR for 15€ but I didn't like him and I thought it was too much

>picking up LOZ:ALTTP and Boogerman for the SNES at a local mall
>when I meet the guy he's got his GF with him
>she obviously doesn't want to be there at all
>staring daggers right into the back of his head
>they aren't even shopping there
>mfw he dragged his GF along just to sell two SNES cartridges

He wasn't even the first faggot I've seen do this, either. I guess they really enjoy sleeping on the couch.

>>982840
>not beating your woman into line
Its my bed. She can sleep on the couch.

A neighbor of my grandparent's gave all this to me today. She knew I was into old games, and she had this sitting in her basement for years. Only problem is she gave me a Pong console, thinking it was the Atari, so I have to track down an actual Atari to be able to play them. Still pretty neat. There were two paddle controllers, and a normal joystick.

>>983767
Here's the Pong console. It's pretty beat up, I did a bit of cleaning on it. There's no power cord so I can't really test it. It can run on 6 C cell batteries, but fuck if I have any of those. I'm not even sure how to connect this to a TV, I really don't know anything about it.

Picked this all up today at some yardsales.

$10 total.

I'm going to get up early next week, thatway the good stuff isnt all gone. I didn't actually start looking for yardsales until 1pm.

Just won this today on eBay, but I'm picking it up next weekend.

All I know is that it is a working custom-built 486, and it appears to be a late model.

>>983880
Are people actually interested in buying these kinds of things? Because I have dozens of them that I really need to get rid of. I threw out the monitors on "hazardous waste amnesty day" at the dump (I kept a couple for myself), but I have a huge stack of 486 and Pentium era CPU towers with keyboards and such to go with.

How much did you pay for that? Was the bidding pretty competitive? More importantly, why? What are you gonna use it for? Playing DOS games without an emulator?

>>983886
Retrocomputing collectors like myself love that shit.

I was the only bidder, because it was local-pickup only in Indiana, but fully working 486 systems regularly go for $100+ on eBay. I paid $15.

Pentium IIs and newer are pretty easy to come by, but anything older is getting harder to find.

People use the machines for DOS gaming, general nostalgia, BBSing, and just general collecting.

There are communities like VOGONS, VintageComputer, and YouTube personalities like Lazy Game Reviews and Ancient DOS Games that talk a lot about the subject.

Here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxMXJd4GDyc

Playing DOS games on DOSBox on an LCD isn't the same as playing them on a real 486 with a real CRT display. The emulation isn't perfect, either.

>>983906
Wow, this is nuts. I collected this stuff when I was a kid, which was around the time when every middle class household got their first windows XP computer and threw out their old beige box. I built up a huge collection of machines ranging from 486 to Pentium II, and I never paid more than $10 for any of them (a lotta people just gave them to me for free because they thought it was nice to make a little kid happy I guess?). I never knew they could be sold for any substantial amount of money today!

I also saved up a ton of components like soundblasters and 3dfx graphics cards. Can I sell those for top dollar too, or is it better to just install them in the boxes and say that the PCs come with (like how consoles complete with controllers and cables often sell for more than the net price of those things bought separately)?

Most of the machines are also not exactly in working order, since a lot of their harddrives fell victim to my early experiments with Linux. Are the people buying these things tech savvy enough not to care about hardware, or would I be better off installing windows 95 or DOS 6 or whatever on all of them? They'll work fine after a format and with an OS installed, I'm sure.

This is pretty exciting! I can't wait to tell my parents that all the crap I've been keeping in their basement since I was 12 is actually going to pay off!

>tfw you will never own it

It hurts.

>>983948
>This is pretty exciting! I can't wait to tell my parents that all the crap I've been keeping in their basement since I was 12 is actually going to pay off!


I'm happy for you, anon.

>>983948
Well, certain things are more valuable to collectors; it really depends on rarity, as well as demand.

A SB16 is pretty common, you'll probably get $10.

A Roland MT-32 or Gravis Ultrasound? $80+

3Dfx cards go anywhere from $15 to $100 depending on the model. Last week I paid $30 for a Voodoo 3 3000 to put in my Pentium II machine. VGA cards are pretty cheap ~$15, but SVGA cards can fetch quite a bit more.

Also, Aureal Vortex 2 sound cards go for at least $25 a piece.

I would recommend wiping Linux and putting the most appropriate Win 9x OS on it. So, a 386 should have 3.1, a 486DX 3.1 or 95, and anything better than a mid-range Pentium 1 should probably be running 98.

>>983767

Nice little gift, fortunately 2600s are relatively cheap and easy to find in the wild if you do some searching. If you have the time/money though, i'd recommend trying to find an original 6-switcher

>>983862

Can someone identify this Link figure for me?

If has kung-fu action.

>>983950
can't possibly be as bad as
>tfw you pay that much for vidya

>>983968
This is insane! I can't believe this stuff is actually worth money! I mean, I should've guessed, since retro console gaming is a thing, but...

The only problem is that it's going to be a lot of trouble to pack all this stuff up and sell it online. I guess that comes with the territory. Maybe I can do it over Christmas holidays or something. Either that, or find somebody to buy it as a lot? I know I'll get less money, but it might be worth it for the work it would save (and the fact that I don't really know what is worth what).

>>983979
Yeah, whenever /vr/ was first getting started, at least 50% of the threads were retro PC gaming. It's still a pretty big thing.

>>983862

Is that a PAL VMU?

I assume you live in America, since you have a red Dreamcast swirl.

>>984041
>PAL VMU

How can I tell the difference?

>>983862

That's a legit deal dude, I'm happy for you.

I got these on Friday. I traded some extra copies I had of Sonic 1 and Sonic Triple Trouble I had for them. Arcade Classics is actually a pretty hard game to find (only 2 on ebay right now, for measure). Even though it's hard to find it is admittedly a pretty cheap game. Still, I made a really good trade so I'm happy.

>>984061

There is no difference. VMUs are region free they just come in different boxes depending on region

>>984073

I find sooo many GG games, but I have a hard time finding a working GG unit.

I mean, the blown capacitors I can fix, but I keep finding units with water damage, or dead pixels. Shit sucks.

I currently have Streets of Rage, Sonic 2 and Triple Trouble, and I'm looking to get the two Tails games.

>>984082

Yeah, I like GG because the games are plentiful and usually cheap. People have a hard time demanding high prices because demand is next to zero.

I've yet to see a GG in my area with any of those problems, some still work with original capacitors too. Some are of course dead though

The Tails games are always expensive, even the Japan-only Sky Patrol.

>>984061

Blue Swirl, although upon checking my VMU's. We don't have that swirl, so I assume it must be American.

I live in the UK, and our Dreamcast's had a blue swirl due to some German company named Trivola.

America and Japan had Red Swirls, while Europe didn't.

Is it bad that I kind of feel like I got a good deal?

Only paid a buck.

lady had previously sold over 30 really good playstation games, Wish I would have gotten there earlier.

>>984778
I was going to post "Yes. I wouldn't pay more than $15 for that game."

>looks up ebay prices
Well then.

>>984778

A fair price, not exactly a deal but i wouldn't say you got ripped off. If i reeeeally wanted it and didn't already have a couple of copies i would

>>984778
I wouldn't say you got a deal. But you did get it for what its worth at current retail. So I guess thats ok.

>>984778
Did you buy that from a Disc Traders/Disc Replay? There's one by me and they always shrinkwrap the more expensive games like that, regardless of condition. I don't really understand why.

got it for 8 bucks for both

>Kickmaster goes for 25 dollars the cheapest on Ebay
>ULTRA RARE tag on Ebay

Kickmaster was 6 dollars along with many NES games, got it for 10 along with Sky kid.

SWEET!!!

20$ bretty good

>>984868
sorry for the contradiction, it was 8 dollars for both, i said 10 later because it was 100 pesos in money conversion, i didn't make my story.

>>984846

Just some local place that sells used vidyas and movies. Mega Replay I think it's called.

Got it all for $20 at a yard sale.

>>984778

Hey pal, you aren't from Evansville Indiana, huh?

>>984895
I don't believe that sheeeeeit

>>984935
That was only the tip of the iceberg that day.

>>984973
That's just obscene man.

I got both of these for 12$ and then ran away from the scary Mexican infested flea market.

>>985026
>Scary mexican infested flea market
I´m a mexican and I feel offended

All I found was Zelda II for the GBA for 3$
It's hard as hell, and it still feels like Zelda. I love it.
>>975538
>dat GBA SP
I know it's just a sticker, but I want it so bad.
>>985032
I'm white and I feel offended. It's just not right if I can't but a video game, a live goat, and a pair of leopard print underpants within shouting distance of each other.

I picked up this DC keyboard with all the online disc, cost me $2NZD so like $1.5USD

>>985058
>Scary mexican infested flea market
nah he means you're generalizing mexicans as threatening. most flea markets i've been to in texas have a lot of mexicans there ok. Never had a problem. Some of the outskirt flea markets here are often a mix between a farmer's market and a flea market.

Picked this up in New Mexico for $20 from a thrift shop that had a rattle snake pit out front. 64 works great came with a busted third party controller.
Mario Kart
Pokemon stadium
Tarzan
Earthworm jim
Banjo kazooie
Donkey kong

>>985563
Is it a busted controller or non working controller port?

I bought a Dreamcast from Gamecrazy once and I had assumed my controller was broken too. Luckily I had other controllers that I knew worked. And still they didn't want to work with that Dreamcast. Turns out the ports were broken.

Lifelong Nintendo Gamer, but this weekend I happened upon a guy at a car-boot sale selling some Sega gear. Got a HD Megadrive version 1 and Game Gear with about 20 games for £20.

Still haven't got around to hooking them up, but I'm excited. Strider was in the collection and Sonic 2.

I'm thinking of buying Streets of Rage, Castlevania Bloodlines and Phantasy Star off eBay, worth it?

Any Sega 8 bit and 16 bit must haves?

>>985563
Earthworm Jim 64 is a colossal shit fest. Also, Michael Crichton sucks a goat ass. He always has these impossibly over-educated and stupendously athletically perfect main characters, who then act like complete idiots and make dumb decisions until the end of the book. The other books are rad though.

>>975252
TI-99 games. Nice! Not worth much, but that was a great computer.

cosmic carnage, star wars arcade for 32x, and kid icarus, all for $15 at goodwill.

>>986906

Bloodlines is awesome. Easily my favorite game on the Genesis, and I liked it better than SCIV.

>>986945
A church lady gave me a TI99 and a buncha games when I was younger. I don' tknow if it was broken or I just couldn't figur eout how to load the games, but I never did get it working.
It didn't come with any manuals, so I'm figuring I just never figured out how to load shit.

>>986906
Dynamite Heady and Rocket Knight Adventures are incredible and not too expensive.

>>975204
Great, so the dumb anon who tried pushing the term "FAGS" before is still trying to push it now.

That is so fetch.

>>983880
Why

I picked up a Zapper the other day for $2. Passed on an in box commodore vic-20, but unknown condition inside (I didn't open it). I had no idea what they were worth, and I didn't want to low ball the lady with the $15 I had left in my wallet just in case she knew what they were worth and it was way more than that.

>>987795
What's wrong with making an offer? You honestly didn't know what it was worth, so if your offer was way off and she actually knew better, she'd just think you were uninformed and politely say "no, I can't do that," and you'd be on your merry way. If you're worried about pissing someone off while you're trying to purchase other items, just wait until you've already purchased the other items and then add in "Oh, by the way, I see you have a [thing]..."

Of course, when you can get away with it, isn't it generally better to ask people to name their price and THEN you make your offer? Because sometimes people offer way less than you were planning to pay in the first place.

>>987809
Yeah, I guess I could have done that. Maybe next time.

Oh, I also just remembered I stopped off at a yard sale on sunday too. Asked the guy if he had any old video game stuff and he said he had a NES and games. I told him if they were for sale I'd be interested in looking at them. He goes in the house and brings out this shoe box with a NES in it. The NES is filthy, it looks like someone spilled soda on it. It doesn't have any video cables, or a power cable, so I offered the guy $15 for it. He was PISSED. I ended up leaving as he was yelling at me for trying to rip him off.

>>987838
Should have egged his house for being such a fucking spaz. A NORMAL person would have just laughed at your offer.

>>987854
The damn thing was dirty, missing power and video cables, and he couldn't tell me if it was working, let alone the last time he had used it.

>>983778
That RCA looking cable is actually RF, It expects you to have one of those TV/GAME boxes to plug it to but you could probably make an adapter from the end of a junk coax cable but it appears to be missing its Player 1 controller

>>987838
>>987854
That's the exact condition I got my top loader in.

Price? $8

Year? 1998

>>988047
The one controller was originally plugged into the left side. There's a cord that's not pictured, I think it can hook up to either side. I'll see if I can track down one of those boxes, or some kind of workaround.

When someone puts up items for sale, pulls out an arbitrary price, and then calls it "firm," what does that really mean? Is it an intimidation tactic? Is there any harm in offering less? I mean, if I see the same offer going up on craigslist week after week, with no one buying it, don't you think the seller might be interested in cutting me a deal just to finally get rid of it?

>>989287
It means that you're dealing with an idiot, and it's not going to be worth the mental anguish you'll suffer during the transaction.

>>989485
Pretty much this. "Firm" usually means they don't care about you or your business and are just waiting for an uninformed/idiotic customer to buy it at their price.

>>988057
Shit, damn lucky find, even for 1998.

My local retro shop has a NES-101 with controller and cables for $112

>>985563

Great find! And Asimov, great taste.

>>990596
thankxs

>>984871
I don't understand how you could get it for $20.

That's way too low for anyone who knows what it is, but way too high for anyone who doesn't. It's not Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda, so it wouldn't fall into the always $15~ range either.

Not a bad deal, but seems very arbitrary.

I always like to try going to garage sales, but I find nothing. It's always people selling all this crap that they should've just thrown away, or like they needed cash quick and grabbed some things in their house and threw them in their driveway. The last cool thing I found at a garage sale was a box of K'Nex when I was like 11.

Anyway, just leaves auctions for me. They're so boring, though; sure I get better deals, but there's no sense of adventure. I can find any game I want (mostly) on eBay, but it won't match the feeling of my heart skipping a beat finding a big box of 25 cent NES games at 6am on somebody's lawn.

>>994152

Also, I live in a college town so nearly every single ad on Craigslist is about Xbox 360s or PS3s. Anything else is overpriced.

Gonna go to the CBS I went to in >>982808 hoping to find something good this time around, and not just the same people as last time.

Still, a few guys said that they'd be there next week and they'd bring vidya, so hoping for the best.

>>983862
I used to have two or three different versions of that knockoff g.i. joe, same mold, different colors. One of 'em was a white, redheaded guy.

I think they were called 'HardC.O.R.P.', or something.

Nice haul, though.

Yesterday I traded two of my old atomic purple N64 controllers + a boxed copy of Pilotwings 64 for a model 2 Sega Genesis with a controller and 12 games, all CIB to some guy I know from Facebook.

How did I do?

bump

Latest purchase was R-type for the Gameboy for €3, and Yoshi's Island for €14.

Got this today for just less than 10 bucks

>>995904

Cracked jewel cases make me upset

>>996139
If it's the front or back, replacing them is no big deal, but for some reason finding a replacement that has a clear tray is harder than it has to be.

>>996148
Yes, so very hard to go to K-Mart and buy a stack of clear jewel cases.

Not sure if anyone remembers, but I was the dumbass a week or two back who thought they scored this along with Panzer Dragoon 1 & 2 CIB for $100. I'll be posting pictures of what I got, not too detailed because I don't want to totally spam this thread.

So it took almost 2 weeks for the damn thing to get here, and it came in a pretty damn beaten box. It got passed back and forth between a couple post offices, they had no clue what they were doing. I normally wouldn't post a picture of the box, but goddamn, look at this sad thing. I cringed when I saw it.

>>996196
uh ooooooooohhh

Good news: Everything was packed in about an inch of bubble wrap. Everything was there that I expected. Here's the games on my shelf, pulled out ones are what I got. Yeah, taken with a potato.

I've checked the discs, they're all in working condition. Clockwork Knight was the first thing I popped in, and I played that for about two hours non-stop. The game kicks my ass, and I love it. Secrets, puzzles, awesome music, I'm really not sure why this game didn't spell success for the Saturn. It's basically the Toy Story game I always wanted.

Anyway, here are both of the controllers. The 3D Controller hasn't been used more than one or two times, just had a little dust on it, and otherwise looks like a brand new controller. The standard pad is actually kind of weird, the A B C buttons are a lot shallower than the US controller I own (Model 2, the one that's supposedly identical to these Japanese models). This makes what was an already comfortable controller an even more comfortable controller. It's my new favorite Saturn pad, by far. I can't find any reason why the buttons are shallower, but they are.

But I'm not done yet...

>>982096
/diy/ here, depending on your abilities at painting at stuff, but you can sand blas it and repaint it. During this process you can also paint logos, characters etc. cheaper and easier option would be just add some retro sticker to it.

>>983886
>>983886
>>983886
any IBM model M keyboard on that pile stuff that you dont want

>>984881
>>984881
100 pesos carnal? donde estas vatow?

Last bit here. The guy said he was going to throw in some Dreamcast stuff too, but didn't send any pictures. It's not /vr/, so I'm saging it. Considering that I didn't have these games, even though they're common, this kind of sweetened this whole bad experience for me. I thought I was getting ripped off, but in the end, I just got a shitload of stuff I wanted for $100.

Last note: why the hell is Sonic 3D Blast so... mediocre? Long load times, mediocre music, floaty and bleh controls, why the fuck did Sega let this game be made, and then port it to the Saturn in lieu of a real Sonic title? I ended up playing about half an hour of it and shelving it after the second special stage.

>>996256
>It's not /vr/, so I'm saging it.
:)

>>996262
Captcha fucked up, I messed up there. Sorry.

>>996256

I could be wrong but I don't think it's that horrible of a deal for 100. Western Saturn games are pretty expensive, aren't they?

I got a copy of THPS1 for the N64 today for $3
Today was an alright day

>>996315
They are. I was iffy about it mostly because it started as a deal with Panzer Dragoon 1 & 2 on ebay. $46 for both, but after a lot of back and forth about ebay postage problems, the guy unloaded all of his stuff on me for $100, but said he wanted to go through paypal. I thought I was getting ripped off because 2 things could've happened: 1 I get the games and discs are missing, scratched, or the cases are broken in transit, or 2 The guy straight up scams me. Neither happened, so I'm pretty damn happy considering that I've had shit luck with the USPS as of lately.

If this was done at a garage sale, it'd be an OK deal, but the fact I got this crap online and didn't have to pay shipping ($23 apparently), I'd say I did pretty well.

>>996449
Aren't the Panzer Dragoon stupidly rare and valuable?
Or is it just Panzer Dragoon Orta?

>>996480
Some are. Orta isn't. You're probably thinking of Saga.

Just got this in the mail.

Not really /vr/, but is a complete in box Dreamcast worth $50?

>>983862

^that was last weeks haul

This is today's haul. Got it all for $6 at a yard sale. First time seeing boxed SNES games in the wild.

Getting up at 8am to get all the good picking. Wish me luck!

>>998732

I'd get it if I didn't already have one.

>>998762
pic related

>>998732
>>998762
>>998767
I would fucking jump.

>>980880
6 is easily my favorite. Right up there with 2 and 3.

>>998732

Yes, and it must be a model 0, so you'll be able to burn discs for free DC games if you don't have any money to buy any.

I hate the people that bid at the last second on eBay. And that only used to work when everybody had shit internet anyway, you can outbid them before they you.

just got these for $5 a piece today from a guy I had purchased Castlevania 2 and Ninja Gaiden for $7 a piece a few weeks ago.

>>1000556

The copies of Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania 2.

Got some genesis games for $6 total. No idea if they are even good, but I figure a $1 might as well scoop them up (Flea Market).

Ex-Mutants
Growl
Rocket Knight Adventures
The Adventures of Mighty Max
Global Gladiators
Comix Zone

>>975138
NO U

>>1000603
I don't know about you, but it's pretty dumb and forced.

>shopping thread
>haul thread
>pickup thread
>gamehunting thread

penesis.

Since they probably won't get here for a month anyway, I'll post my recent eBay haul of JP Saturn games:

Quovadis - $0.99
Donpachi - $26
Sexy Parodius - $45
Puyo Puyo 3 - $7
SMT Devil Summoner - $7.04
Atelier Marie - $13.20
Puyo Puyo 2 - $8.80
Devil Summoner Soul Hackers - $7.04
Tokimeki Memorial - $4.40

I'm pretty happy with the prices, especially Donpachi. Sexy Parodius would've been lower but some guy ran up my max bid at the last minute--which was 15 dollars higher than my original bid at $30. I was going to get Biohazard and Tactics Ogre for pretty cheap, too, but most of the auctions were ending around the same time and I was most concerned about winning Parodius and Donpachi.

Shipping from Japan is a fucking killer, though. It's not like I didn't already know it was awful since I order so much from there but it adds up. I hope that I'm refunded, since they had cheaper shipping the more you buy.

>>984871
if i remember,PSO is still active

>>1000624
That's a pretty nice price for DonPachi. I sprung on a cheap copy of DoDonPachi, and while it's not in great condition, I'm still damn happy about it.

My game hunting finds from 2 weeks ago.

GTA London $3 - Goodwill
Hydro Thunder $3 - Goodwill
Game Genie $3 - Goodwill
Super Mario Galaxy Official Soundtrack $3.25 (mint)- local Pawnshop
Heroes of Might & Magic $3.99 - Halfprice Books
New Super Mario Bros (complete) $14.99 - Halfprice Books

>>983886

You do realize that your logic could apply to all of the systems and games in this thread, right?

>>1001415

>Halfprice Books

I visited my sister in Richardson Texas and she took me and my Mom to some giant Halfprice Books warehouse. It was amazing, there was so much stuff. Didn't find too many video games, but I love the store so much. Shame we don't have one here.

>>1001453
I'm in Dallas. Last week was my first visit to my local Halfprice Books I was pretty surprised by the variety of games that were there. It had NES, SNES, Sega, Game Boy, GBC, GBA, PSP, PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, 360, PS3, & loads of PC games. The prices there were decent too. Some were a bit high while other were below what you'd pay on Amazon or Ebay.

Around the Philly area, looking for resources to get info on yard sales and flea markets.

I popped into a goodwill today, found spider-man for pc...didn't even bother.

Would an area like this be picked clean or am I not looking hard enough?

Halp.

>>1001440
Yes, but I have known lots of friends and acquaintances who have been interested in collecting console games, but few aside from myself who have collected "retro" PCs and PC parts.

I mean, by your logic, it's conceivable that someone collects toenail clippings, but I would still be surprised if someone offered me good money for my own.

>>1001528
If it's picked clean I suggest going online. Join a video game trading site, better yet join a retro video game group on Facebook (preferably in your area). That'll raise your chances of getting older games for cheap. Game collectors like helping each other out. Most all have doubles of games. My friend & I are collectors & we give each other games if the other needs one.

I'll go on ahead & suggest jjgames while I'm at it. There's also Pawnshops, Antique stores, Craigslist, Amazon, & Ebay. If you want to get good prices online check daily. I've gotten Alot of games for $3-$4 (free shipping with Prime).

>>1001560
Antique stores? I would have never even considered that.

I know of a few pawn shops in the area...really trying to feel out the thrift stores first.
Craigslist is very hit or miss...there's a dude who has a massive collection selling stuff at retail ($30 mega man, $25 legend of Zelda, etc.)

>>972823
Just found these in dumpster earlier today
>over $200 worth

Friday game hunting find. Paid $40. The screen is kind of hard to find now a days. Considering it goes for $80-$90 I think I did pretty damn good. Been wanting one for a while. Works great. Going to game on it for a good while.

Got these Genesis games for $3 a piece. Extra Innings on SNES was also $3.

Friday's finds were all at Goodwill Computer Works.

>>1002690
Will that screen work with the PS2?

Found Miracle Piano at a local thrift shop the other day. They were asking $70, which is definitely more than I'm willing to spend for a game that I'll never end up playing. I am a musician, though, so it'd be pretty cool to somehow rig up the piano as a MIDI controller..

Got these at a pawn shop for $12. They had a space invaders table like the one on the screen. They wanted $450 for it.

>>1002753
I would've been so tempted by that Space Invaders cocktail cabinet. I've wanted one of those since I was a kid. Good finds!

>>1002715
It's not designed to, but it should technically work if you make an extension cable and set your PS2 to RGB. There are probably people using it with PS3s too for all I know, though the screen is 4:3 and not hi-res.

>>1002714

Is it normal for Genesis games to have really dark almost rusty looking area around the pins. I got some Genesis games really cheap. The pins look fine.

I wish I had a Genesis to test em.

>>1003008

>paid money for Genesis games
>doesn't have a Genesis

>>1002731
I've always hoped someone made some kind of sequencer for the NES to use with this.

>>1002731
If it's still there, go for it! The piano alone sells for upwards of $100 and it can be used with midi programs outside of the NES

>>1003115

Why not? They were a $1

Would you rather I just not buy them off the old gentlemen and let him throw them back in his garage to be destroyed? I also plan to buy a Genesis soon, since my old one I had as a kid was destroyed relatively recently when the house was cleaned out.

Thanks for your contribution.

>>1003168
You're welcome.

No pic, but here's what I get get get get got got got got from the pawn shop just now:

>SNES
ActRaiser
Joe & Mac
Spanky's Quest
Taz-Mania
Ultraman

>PSX
MediEvil II

$15 total
First time that shop's had anything that isn't MADDEN MADDEN MADDEN for the SNES in a long time. Glad I decided to go today.

>>1001415
>Hydro Thunder
>Mario Galaxy OST
I envy the fuck out of you.

>>1001338

Yeah, I'm surprised somebody didn't try to run up the bid at the last minute, it's a great price from what I've seen. I would've liked to get DoDonPachi, too, but wasn't as lucky--my budget couldn't handle it either. Cave games are so expensive.

>>1003754
>Mario Galaxy OST

But those are ridiculously cheap. They were pack-ins for the Wii for a good number of years and are dirt common.

>>1003768
Well:
>I never got one with my Wii and didn't even know that was a thing
>he mentioned his was mint
I also fucking love Koji Kondo, so it's a bit of personal bias. I need to go and get an OST myself one of these days.

>>1003782
Haha, that is true, it was kind of an under-the-radar pack-in. It came with the Wii around 2011 when they were bundled with New Super Mario Bros. It's one of the benefits of working at fucking Gamestop. People would sometimes bring in their systems complete and, naturally, nobody ever bothered opening the soundtrack up or cared about trading them in with the system, so they're free for the taking.

It's very, very good. I was shocked to find out that it's the legitimate Japanese soundtrack. I figured it would just be a cheap sampler with only a few tracks. You can probably find a copy on Amazon or eBay for less than $5.

>>1001415
>>1001453
I fucking love Halfprice books. Got me an SNES, in perfect shape nevertheless, two controllers, SMW and Mario Kart, and Mario Golf for N64 for a total of $20

Went garage saleing and to the flea market last weekend and didn't find shit. How do you fuckers pull this off week after week?

>>1006195
It's not that everybody has a good week every week, it's just that everybody who DOES have a good week posts their haul in this thread.

Me, I've been completely dry for like 3 weeks after acquiring 6 consoles for virtually no money over the course of about one week. The gold comes and goes, you know?

>>1006220

M-Muh patience though. Honestly I live in a small southern town and don't expect to ever find any good hauls but I still go out every weekend.

>>1006195
You assume it's the same anons every week.
It's not, and the the few that are, are crazy dedicated to where they are going out of town to find yard sales and what not.

why

>>1000626

Indeed it is, though you need a gamecube Broadband Adapter to play it online.

Speaking of which, got one for $5 up in Columbus, which isn't a bad deal in the slightest.

Master System controller for 50 euro cents.

I saw a NES with 2 controllers/ RF switch (no cable and adapter) and some of the edges are chipped for 5 bux. should i get it?

>>1006549
>12% off

Megaman collection for gamecube. 3 gba / gba sp bags, a ps2 carrying case. All for $25.

>>1008064
Absolutely. If it's not working but fixable, you could have it up and running with composite for $5 more. If it does work, then you're golden.

>>1006256
>>1006195

IMO, even more so than going early, the best trick is to not go hunting with huge expectations.
If you go out thinking you're going to find Panzer Dragoon, Earthbound, and Conker CIB for $5, you're setting yourself up for disappointment and later despair.
The hunt rewards patience and persistence, stay strong.

>>1008682

My expectations are that I'll find anything at all, and even those are dashed.

>>1008767
It takes dedication and time, my kind sir.
One does not find a treasure overnight.
Do not let the reseller scum put you down.
There's gold in them there sales.

Not all but man, this shit pisses me off: http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/vgm/3961729235.html

Fucking re-sellers are the cancer of video games, they deserve to die in a fire.

>>1011760
It's a generic wanted ad. Calm your ass down.