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3217156 No.3217156 [Reply] [Original]

Is anyone on here crazy and rich enough to collect Neo-Geo games?

What's it like? What kind of experiences have you had collecting for it?

>> No.3217210
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I wish. Back in the early days of /vr/ I helped a guy negotiate a deal where he bought pic related from an older couple though.

>tfw I've been collecting for decades and have never found a deal like this

>> No.3217217

>>3217210
Fucking hell

How much did that little lot set him/her back?

>> No.3217228

>>3217217
He almost got it for chump change but he got too excited on the initial phone call and triggered them to check online prices but I helped him reign it in and use my tried and true negotiation tactics and he ended up getting it for around $600

>> No.3218083

>>3217210
That Metal Slug X alone is more than worth the price. Very envious.

>> No.3218104

who actually bought this stuff back in the day? were there adult gamers who dumped their entire paychecks into it? the children of the super rich? maybe some normal families that somehow made a boneheaded* decision and their kids only got one new game a year if they were lucky?

there aren't trustworthy numbers (or even estimates) of how many total they sold.

*not boneheaded if they held on to it. but way less fiscally responsible at the time than getting a snes or genesis.

>> No.3218112

>>3218104
Rich people and wasteful people. When your console costs more than most kids' collection for the other console...you fucked up hard.

>> No.3218127

>>3217156

Myself and a couple of others on this board have MVS cabs or consolized MVS.

>what's it like
It's like owning another console but you get to play some of the games you could only play on the arcade.

Owning a cab is a bit different from a console I think. There's just something about playing an arcade game on a real cabinet that you can't mimic.

It's gonna kinda suck though because I have a sunken living room that I'm going to raise when I redo my kitchen in a month or two, so I'm gonna have to move it and it weighs like 300+lbs.

>What kind of experiences have you had collecting for it

Bought my cab and 4 games on craigslist.
Everything else is eBay auctions because the likelihood of finding more MVS games in the wild is basically zero and my local craigslist is a total shitshow.

>> No.3218136
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>>3218104
crazy rich cool dudes with small dicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kFRiYFb6GI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhPItb-UNo

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>>3218136

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>> No.3218219
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>> No.3218241
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colorado friends

>> No.3218248

>>3218136
So, basically, rich douchebags and 2004-2006 era /b-tards.

>> No.3218257

>>3218248
>rich people are douchebags
What, do you think society should give unskilled, lazy people like yourself high-paying jobs? You're a fucking idiot.

>> No.3218260

>>3218219
Some say he's still dancing...

>> No.3218268

>>3218257
Goddamn, do you not know how the English language works?

>> No.3218346

>>3217156
CD systems are cheap and so are the games. You can also burn discs. I have a few consoles and maybe a dozen original games. I figure when the required mods become easily available this will be the best option. In the mean time if you can live with the load times and want the cheapest option it's the way to go.

MVS systems are also cheap and many games are "reasonable" You can also get multi carts. I've got an MVS as well. This is really your best choice if you can afford a little more.

AES game prices are just silly. I have an AES but only a handful of carts. There is really just no point collecting for this unless you believe prices will go up for ever and plan on cashing out at some point.

>> No.3218396

>>3217156
Is Neo-Geo CD worth buying?

>> No.3218473

>>3218396
if you can deal with unreasonable loading times in certain games, then yes. The CD prices are much much lower, though they've started to rise as of late.

>> No.3218484

>>3218473
You know the market is fucked when NeoGeo CD prices start to rise. The load times were absolutely ridiculous.

>> No.3218490

>>3218484
luckily, as another anon said, there's nothing to stop you from burning ISO's. It would be neat if someone came along and figured out how to rearrange the data (like on some Dreamcast games) to cut down on the load times a bit (not expecting a miracle, but it'd be neat)

>> No.3218493

>>3218136
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhPItb-UNo
So some guy that has enormous love for arcade games trolled a bunch of autistic fucks on his own turf while doing what he loves.
This guy should be an icon.

>> No.3218496

>>3218490
>to cut down on the load times
I think the uni bios does that.

>> No.3218503

>>3218496
CD-Z's have faster load times than regular CD's out of the box. According to the 3.3 change log, Uni Bios makes only some models of CD-Z's load even faster than stock (no way to tell what models are supported though)

>> No.3218510

>>3218503
Ok never mind then.
Now you got me interested to see whats the core difference in CDs for this to happen.

>> No.3218519

>>3218510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-tp2f_Pt8

>> No.3218565

>>3218104
lol we only got 1 snes game a year maybe

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>>3218510
it's not the cd itself its the drive speed.

>> No.3218606

>>3217210
Oh yeah I remember this thread. If that was legit its one of the luckiest gaming finds of all time.

>> No.3218621

>>3218583
Is there a technical reason why someone hasn't connected slim x16 CD reader like ones that are used on laptops or they are using proprietary hardware lock down?
which I think it can be avoided since there is open access to the bios.

>> No.3218882

>>3218565
I would get 1 game for my birthday, christmas maybe but generally not.

>> No.3219094

I just got 4 games on Wii virtual console to make it feel like the MVS.
Virtual Console and PlayStation Network are the best choices if you don't have a lot of money like me.

>> No.3219121

>>3219094
Or you have could just downloaded winKawaks,download any ROM you want,connect your playstation controller and save up.

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>>3217210

>> No.3219172

>>3218136
>>3218194
>>3218215
>>3218493
Dion is great. He's basically the devil incarnate, in the form of a guido "toughguy", to the nuts on Neo-Geo.com. His stunts like shredding original AES inserts to replace them with NGF "corrected" ones, and slapping NGF stickers on everything, are masterstrokes of trolling that drove the anal Neo community ballistic.

>> No.3219303

>>3218621
>technical reason
I'm sure there is otherwise someone would have just done it. But that doesn't mean the drive couldn't be replaced. People have done work on this but I think the fact that not a lot of these were sold makes it not that interesting.
Hopefully the trend of hipsters paying silly prices for drive replacements will encourage someone to actually make one though. A Neo Geo CD loading from a SSD would be amazing, and not just because it would totally shit all over AES collectors

>> No.3219323
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I have an MVS and AES and a few aes games i mostly collect mvs games which i play on my cabinet and my aes with a magic gate 2016.

Its the beat video game stuff I have.

>> No.3219325

>>3217210
>>> thats some dead son shit right there

>> No.3219345

>>3219323
>aero fighters
can i be your friend?

>> No.3219408

>>3218268
Lel dont talk to the retards anon

>> No.3219462

>>3219121
I'm not a big emu guy, but I'll consider it.

>> No.3219474

>>3219462
I usually am all for playing on real hardware but companies want to cash in on 30yo titles while using roms from the internet for their "virtual console" which is nothing but emulator itself.
I say go for it and dont look back.

>> No.3219478

>>3218346

Emulation is free and there's basically no load times. With Neo Geo emulation is the way to go.

>> No.3219486

>>3218493
>>3219172
I think his trolling rich guy personality is hilarious. Wish more people would fuck with collectors. He must have a huge hotdog compared to the collectorcucks.

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On the flip side of that, what's the cheapest system to collect for?

>> No.3219502

>>3219486
The collectors you despise do things like release prototypes and document shit. That unreleased MVS game was dumped and released by, get this, a collector.

Collectors are far more likely to contribute to the gaming community that investors/resellers/businessmen. I'm sure you'll respond with some "haha I don't care about that I just want my lulz," so whatever.

>> No.3219582

>>3219502
not that guy, but definitely there are collectors that hoard unknown games and seal them just to fuck around with people, if not, THEY DESTROY THEM ON PURPOSE!

like that snes socks the cat game.

it's good that there are actually decent people in the world like the Unr-NeoGeo game dude, but not all colectors are good people.

>> No.3219589

>>3219495
2600 probably.

>> No.3219647

Neo geo stuff are epic, i have a AES, MVS and CD

>> No.3219671

>>3219495
Xbox

>> No.3219732

>>3219647
Say your impressions.

>> No.3219787

>>3219325
>>3219325
No I think it had belonged to the man who bought it new for himself and then his wife was making him get rid of it since it had just been stored for twenty years or some shit. She was literally telling him something like $2 a game when he first talked to her on the phone but he was like suspicious it was a trap or they were bootlegs or some dumb shit and didn't jump right on top of it then that got THEM suspicious and they started trying to talk eBay prices with him. I told him he needed to go and see that shit in person with a BUNCH of cash and it worked out for him.

>> No.3219801

>>3219495

PS2 at the moment, probably xbox 360 a few years down the road

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>>3218241
Meanwhile in Maple Land this is the only Neo Geo listed in all of Toronto

>> No.3219872

>>3219582
But, again, you are more likely to get something (out of the goodness of one's heart, that is) from a collector than from someone who is in it for money.

>> No.3220358

>>3217210
I remember this, kind of pissed me off to be honest, I'm certainly jelly but I suppose I wouldn't turn it down either

>> No.3220417

>>3219478
Emulation is always the way to go if you're poor. With Neo Geo it costs so much that more people are poor, relatively speaking.