/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2505168]

Have you ever bought a repro cart?

Do you stand by or regret your decision?

[Anonymous No.2505175]

Was that game made from a gutted Maximum Carnage or is that just a shitty photo?

Also no, no I have not bought a romhack. Ever.

[Anonymous No.2505178]

>>2505168
Beats me, just fetched it off Google.

[Anonymous No.2505181]

>>2505175
probably you know snesfags dont give a shit about anything that isnt a jrpg

[Anonymous No.2505183]

I bought Alien Soldier and Monster World IV. Unfortunately, the latter doesn't keep a save.

[Anonymous No.2505190]

Stand by. Not that thrilled on the label but don't know many that have the game so pretty happy.

[Anonymous No.2505195]

Only a Mother 3 fan translation since I don't have a GBA flash cart. Price was right, label looked nice and I like to play Game Boy games on the real thing. I'll probably end up getting the Everdrive GBA once that comes out unless there's a better solution out there, but all the ones I've seen so far have been mixed.

Don't really see the point of bootleg carts anymore when flash carts are so prominent. Star Fox 2 is the only exception I can think of and that just requires too much to sacrifice to justify making one.

[Anonymous No.2505226]

Sorry for the crappy photo quality;

I enjoy having unreleased games in my collection. I've ordered a few games and have another order coming in the next month or so with some other games I can boot up my NES for. Yeah, there's emulating, but I always thought this was more fun. And if you're done with them then you can make an easy 40-50$ on kijiji.

[Anonymous No.2505235]

>>2505168
way to waste a maximum carnage cart, faggot

[Anonymous No.2505267]

>>2505235
could be the shitties port of doom

[Anonymous No.2505291]

>>2505267
But the cart in question isn't a Genesis one.

[Anonymous No.2505361]

>>2505291
snes doom is unplayable...

[Anonymous No.2505391]

Bought Tales of Phantasia for $75 and Secret of Mana 2 for $45

I haven't even touched SoM2 yet, and ToP is my favorite game, so thats been played at least 4 times since.

I'm thinking of getting Live-A-Live next.

[Anonymous No.2505605]

>>2505391
Wtf? Play Seiken Densetsu 3 immediately. It's fuckin fantastic. I like top for it's awesome graphics and sound, and interesting battle system, but overall found it a lil on the tedious side. Some would argue SD3 is repetitive too, but I've never gotten bored with it in 8+ plays.

[Anonymous No.2505641]

>>2505168
>gutting a doom cart to put in some retarded JRPG weeaboo shit

[Anonymous No.2505663]

>>2505641
Nice b8 you dumb fuck

[Waterworld Box-Chan No.2505828]

I got a few repros myself, definitely standing by all of them.
One of these days, I'd also like to get Starfox 2, SMB2J, and Castlevania 2: Redaction

My personal rule of thumb when it comes to repro carts is to make sure its a game that was either never released or not distributed in that region

Pic related

[Anonymous No.2505848]

No.

why would I pay someone else to emulate.

[Anonymous No.2505852]

I'm honestly surprised that repro carts cannibalize existing game carts.

Isn't that what things like Shapeways and 3D printers are for?

[Anonymous No.2505856]

>>2505852
It's not so much the plastic housing as it is the PCB, Anon-kun.

[Anonymous No.2505862]

>>2505168
Never, I've not been interested in any unreleased games or romhacks on a console before.

I always figure if I really was interested then I would buy a flash cart.

[Anonymous No.2505886]

What's with all the retards in this topic that thinks the word "reproduction" applies to romhacks and homebrew games? How could those be reproductions when there was never an original production?

[Anonymous No.2505889]

>>2505848
running an exact copy of a ROM on the original hardware isn't emulation, retard

[Anonymous No.2505927]

>>2505235
Maybe they they wasted a Chrono Trigger cart and painted it red.

[Anonymous No.2506123]

>>2505175
Either that or a Doom cart. Those were the only red Snes games. If you ever see a repro in a black cart, then you know they gutted a Killer Instinct for it.

[Anonymous No.2506294]

>>2505168
Never bought a "repro". Bought plenty of bootlegs though.

Stand by and and happy as fuck with my decision to not pay 10x more for a bootleg because it's called a "repro"

[Anonymous No.2506315]

>>2505927
>Maybe they they wasted a Chrono Trigger cart
please kill yourself

[Anonymous No.2506610]

I do my own repros, never sold one

[Anonymous No.2506627]

I have a Mother NES reprocart. Works great and I'm very satisfied with it.

[Anonymous No.2506634]

If I could do it myself, I would, but everdrives and emulation are far easier and higher quality, usually.

It's fun to have a cart that's just one game sometimes, but paying someone an extreme fee to gut another game and put bootleg roms on it just feels wrong.

[Anonymous No.2506659]

I have ordered
Vampire killer
Twinkle tale
Panorama cotton
They were only ten bucks each and I want to play these on my own megadrive but will not pay the crazy prices for them, one was like 250 on ebay.
I'm thinking about flashcarts but they seem to be unavailable sometimes.

[Anonymous No.2506664]

>>2505168
Chrono Trigger SNES version never got a EU release, so i'm finally playing the official Chrono Trigger DS Pal version on my new 3DS XL

[Anonymous No.2506668]

>>2506664
wow, didn't know that. Enjoy anon, that's a great version.

[Anonymous No.2506772]

>posting romhack repros

I buy repro carts only for the purpose of being able to play the JP games I love on real hardware, but when it comes to hacks I wouldn't get repros; fuck that. It really is a great feeling to play these on hardware now, and having it boot like a normal game rather than emulating or having a flash cart boot from a list of games is also a much better feeling.

>inb4 nice waste of cash

Fuck off poorfags. When I'm able to pay for my mortgage and all other expenses and have cash aside for entertainment, I'd use it on this kind of stuff.

>>2505226
>earthbound easy

Really dude? I don't want to seem like an self-entitled elitist prick but grow some fucking balls. I never knew about the easy version until after I bought a repro of earthbound zero and went through literal masochistic hell to beat it. git gud nigger. I can't believe anyone would be fucking proud enough to show that off. Filthy fucking casual.

[Anonymous No.2506774]

>>2505889
technically it's hardware level hardware emulation since you're using eprom instead of maskrom. semantics bullshit

[Anonymous No.2506778]

>>2506772
>I don't want to seem like an self-entitled elitist prick but grow some fucking balls.

You don't want to and yet you do. Not everyone wants to grind their way through everything. People who give other's shit over the specifics how they enjoy their hobbies are some of the most irritating anywhere.

[Anonymous No.2506829]

>>2505828
I wanted to buy a gray cart Mr. Gimmick repro from RetroZone, but when I had set aside enough money for it, they didn't sell it anymore. I was heartbroken.

[Anonymous No.2506910]

>>2506772
>fuck that
>Fuck off
>grow some fucking balls
>git gud nigger
>Filthy fucking casual
MOM, LOOK, I'M POSTING ON THE 4CHANNEL

[Anonymous No.2507232]

>>2506772
try harder

>>2506774
>semantics bullshit
Got the second part right. Replacing a ROM with an EPROM is no more "emulating" a ROM than replacing a higher value resistor with a few lower value resistor is "emulating" a resistor. I am aware there are autisits on the internet who disagree.

[Anonymous No.2507249]

Neo Geo AES conversions come with a certain degree of guilt, as they require other AES carts die for sacrifice. Still, if I were to get into the Neo home system conversions would be appealing: thousands for Metal Slug or Blazing Star versus a few hundred, tops, for a nice looking conversion? Neo conversions, done well, are all original SNK chips boards etc and just new paper (label, insert) so they are almost identical to the real thing where it counts.

[Anonymous No.2507252]

>>2505889
>running an exact copy of a ROM on the original hardware isn't emulation, retard

You're still not supporting the developers and you're not collecting an actual copy of the game.

[Anonymous No.2507267]

>>2505267
Still a waste.

3D printed carts are the future.

[Anonymous No.2507280]

>>2507252
>You're still not supporting the developers
Because any money you'd spend on Conker's Bad Fur Day N64 nowadays would benefit the developers.

[Anonymous No.2507281]

>>2507252

For fuck's sake. You're not supporting the developers when you buy a retro game to begin with.

[Anonymous No.2507284]

>>2505168
I own Bahamut Lagoon, Terranigma (ntsc-uc), and Seiken Densetsu 3 (labeled as Secret of Mana 2) that have english translation patches or in Terranigmas case just running ntsc. I like them, they're some of my favorites and its a neat little thing to have.

I would never buy a shitty romhack though. I have played some (Crimson Echos is garbage, Parellel Towers/Worlds or wahtever Zelda is filled with extreme bullshit and genuinely unfun)

[Anonymous No.2507287]

>>2507249
If I owned an AES or MVS I would buy reproductions without question. Hell, in the cab you don't even see the fucking cart.

[Anonymous No.2507294]

>>2507280
>>2507281

There's still no advantage beyond you being an OCD twat you wants to jam things into your console slot.

Especially since thanks to USB controllers Emulation is exactly the same fucking thing

[Anonymous No.2507312]

I would rather stick needles in my eyeballs.

The meaning of buying the original cartridge is because 1) it's legit and the intended legal way, 2) you're a part of something 3) people find meaning in it, to have the original. I've never even found it that compelling, but I at least understand it.

It's like having a famous painting. A repro is like photocopying it and paying for that. It's just ridiculous and a joke (imitation paintings listed as such are obviously very different, they're art in their own right).

It's not OCD, it's like someone who doesn't understand anything at all about why they are even doing what they're doing.

[Anonymous No.2507319]

you guys need to stop giving a fuck what other people spend their money and free time

[Anonymous No.2507329]

>>2507319
>Spend money on something stupid
>get called out on being stupid

[Anonymous No.2507338]

>>2505828
clock tower looks interesting. worth finding a ROM?

[Anonymous No.2507339]

Yeah I have a Terranigma cart and I also have a cart with a SMW hack I picked up cheap for a novelty.

Don't regret it, they're fun. Probably wouldn't buy another romhack cart though, just games that never got an official NA release

[Anonymous No.2507342]

>>2505828
>That Clock Tower cart
I kinda want that. I've been considering getting a Mother 3 cart lately but I'm not entirely sure how the quality on these things is. Are there any issues with saving or anything like that? The closest experience I have to reproduction carts is accidentally buying a bootleg copy of Minish Cap that deleted my save file after an hour, and I never wanna deal with that shit again.

[Anonymous No.2507349]

>>2507329
but that's the point, it's not stupid to them or else they wouldn't have bought it. I've seen people do way worse with their money, these carts are only a few dozen dollars.

[Anonymous No.2507373]

>>2507252
>le epic supporting the developers maymay

>>2507267
>3D printed carts are the future
We they certainly aren't a viable alternative to traditional production processes now. Or any time soon. So yes, most certainly the future.

[Waterworld Box-Chan No.2507616]

>>2506829
You can easily find a grey cart Gimmick repro on eBay for around $60-80. I recommend getting the one with the extra Famicom sound channel (you will need to solder a resistor to your NES expansion port to be able to hear it however) it sounds so damn amazing for a NES game.

>>2507338
>>2507342
Absolutely! It's an amazing and surprisingly still scary game after all these years. It has so many randomly triggered scares and multiple endings, definitely worth it!

Also for >>2507342
My Mother 3 cart is version 1.2 of the English fan translation (it's the exact same Japanese version just with a language patch). I've never had a problem saving/maintaining files on my carts. I guess all I can say is: be sure to buy from a reputable dealer I got my Clock Tower, Mother 3, and Gimmick carts from RetroGamerRyan on etsy

[Anonymous No.2507618]

I'd pay for a Cutman's Bad Scissors Day cart and I don't even own an NES.

[Anonymous No.2507624]

>>2507294
>Especially since thanks to USB controllers Emulation is exactly the same fucking thing

There's 100% perfect N64 emulators now? That's great news! What's it called?

[Anonymous No.2507634]

>>2507624
yeah that was a ridiculous thing to say. However it doesn't take away from the fact that repros are 100% pointless if you can play it on a flashcart and the people doing it shouldn't be allowed to have money.

[Anonymous No.2509838]

>>2505391
Why would you play the snes one when you could play the better ps1 version.

[Anonymous No.2509849]

>>2509838
>Live a Live
Is that "Lihve a Lihve", Layeve a layveve" or what?

[Anonymous No.2509939]

>>2509849
Live as in "alive", that's how the Japanese is pronounced.

[Anonymous No.2510039]

>>2509939
>that's how the Japanese is pronounced.
it clearly says raibu·a·raibu

[Anonymous No.2510045]

>>2509939
It says Live A Evil there.

[Anonymous No.2510079]

>>2510039
Yes, b/v are homophones in Japanese. "raibu a raibu" basically sounds like "live alive", at least to the Japs.

[Anonymous No.2510494]

>>2507312
Maybe I don't care about having "the original," and just want a Van Gogh that I like on my wall.

[Anonymous No.2510505]

>>2507312
>A repro is like paying for a copy of a painting. Which people do all the time. I'm retarded.
That's what I hear you saying.

[Anonymous No.2510640]

whats a good site to buy repos?

[Anonymous No.2510806]

>>2510505
See as how you're just straight making up what I said in what you're "hearing", that's okay with me. I can't help everyone with their delusions. The whole idea is STUPID, it just fucking is, no ifs buts or clauses, and it's wasteful.

[Anonymous No.2510813]

>>2505605

At a certain point, wouldn't it make sense to just by an SD2SNES?

[Anonymous No.2510960]

I have always wanted to get an overclocked starfox and 2

[Anonymous No.2510964]

>>2510960

[Anonymous No.2510982]

>>2510960
>>2510964
it's still the same unplayable mess, just 1.5x faster
it's actually harder that way

[Anonymous No.2511185]

>>2510964
You can actually properly overclock the FX2 chip and play it with a higher FPS in Retroarch now.

[Anonymous No.2511189]

>>2505181
as a SNES Fag, I totally agree

sad but true

[Anonymous No.2511542]

>>2510806
Really that's what your autistic rant sounds like to a normal person.
If you can't help your self I don't expect you to help anyone else.

[Anonymous No.2511992]

>>2506772
>dank memes
How about no
Also, do you even know how much of a fucking grind EB0 is? It isn't a good challenge. It's just a slog.

[Anonymous No.2511998]

I'm way too tempted to get repros for Mother 3 and the first two SMTs on SNES, but I keep backing away when I realize a flashcart makes more sense

[Anonymous No.2512018]

>>2511998
Yep. I would've bought repros a few years ago, but it just doesn't make sense to me anymore to have fake English versions of physical games.

[Anonymous No.2512398]

>>2505183
Maybe change the battery?

[Anonymous No.2512860]

>>2511185

explain

[Anonymous No.2513020]

>>2511542
So your comeback is that my argument sounds bad "to a normal person". Please stop being wasteful, including people's time here, and just try to listen to other people and use some semblance of logic in life. Just try. We are telling you it makes no sense.