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game collecting tips

>> No.4666684

Buy games from the last two generations while they are still cheap. Right now PS2, PS3, Xbox, 360, and Wii are wide open. Gamecube has already closed.

Yard sales and thrift stores are not good sources. You want to go to a junk store. Some guy with a bunch of dirty dishes and moldy furniture sitting out in front of his shack by the side of the road. You go inside his shack he'll have a shelf full of PS2 and Xbox games for $2 each.

>> No.4666689

Don't be afraid to go the nigger route when everything is too fucking expensive including flashcarts.

>> No.4666690
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>>4666684
>he thinks games with 1M+ disc sales and digital rereleases will match pre 2000 collectabilty
You're cute

>> No.4666693

>>4666689
man, this is not b or pol. your in a different board. you can tell me you've been here years but you have not. You could have participated but instead revealed yourself to be a fool. you dunny krueger fool.

>> No.4666694

Ask local friends and family. I got an NES with a bunch of games (Including Dragon Quest 3) that way. Same for a Top Loader NES.

>> No.4666697

>>4666672
Honestly at this point I'll just wait for prices to drop and finally "settle". Give it 2-3 years and all normies and casuals will drop out of the retro meme; leaving only the most enthusiastic people like it should've been in the first place.

>> No.4666706
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4666706

If you ever find anything undumped, don't be one of those cunts that hoards and never dumps it.

>> No.4666714

>>4666693
>white knighting for niggers on 4chan
I hope you get mugged. Also it's Dunning

>> No.4666720

>>4666693
Dumb spic. Learn english!

>> No.4666723

>>4666672
Don't start. Buy flash carts or just emulate. Game collecting is no longer a poor man's hobby.

t. collector

>> No.4666726

>>4666706
I hate those faggots so much. They all deserve to get robbed blind.

>> No.4666779

It's too late to start now, unless you're after consoles nobody cares about anymore like Atari 2600.

>> No.4666785

>>4666723
This. There are lots of ways to very accurately recreate the experience of playing the games without spending all that money on the games themselves. If you want to collect, consider collecting the ephemera

>> No.4666789

>>4666690
I saw a MGS3 for 55 fucking dollars today. Didn't even bother looking through the NES/SNES stuff. It's hard to imagine people are paying the kinds of prices brick and mortar stores are asking, but they must be?

I mainly just rummage through the bargain bin stuff for the occasional common game I don't have. Picked up Pin Bot for $7 today.

>> No.4666790

>>4666697
Won't happen, unless gaming YouTube channels unexpectedly disappear. That is truly what is driving up the cost of retro games.

>> No.4666795

>>4666672
Collect consoles, not games. Games (ROMs) can be pirated, consoles, cannot, at least accurately. Save your cash and buy flashcarts for your systems.

>> No.4666834

Flashcart everything in sight, buy the games you really like if you feel the need.

>> No.4666841

Step 1: go to ebay
Step 2: purchase game
There you go!

>> No.4666849

>>4666672
If you want to save money collecting, don't expect to find only key titles or gems.
Collect passively and enjoy the hunt. Have a route of thrift stores, Goodwills, and Salvation Armies you go once or twice a week on the way home. Buy whatever interests you and you find along the way. You might not find something this week, but next week who knows?

I do my hunts this way and I find great stuff all the time.
NES Toploader: $40
F-Zero/Acro the Acrobat: $30
Mario Golf Toadstool Tour: $5
XBox The Duke and NES controller: $5
Super Scope: $10
XBox 360 HDDVD Player: $10
Bubsy (SNES)/ Star Wars Ep 1 Racer (N64): $20
I have quite a huge collection and I never play anything close to eBay jew prices. Sure some times I strike out, but other times I find gems

>> No.4666853

>>4666672
Save yourself some cash and download free roms off the internet. If you didnt grow up with these retro games there is no reason you should need to buy them from jewbay.

>> No.4666859

>>4666690
>he thinks games with 1M+ disc sales
He never said anything like that. Plenty of PS2/Xbox games never came close to 1 million sales, some not even 100,000. You're retarded.

>> No.4666863

Tip 1: Be rich, this is easy mode for game collecting.

Other than that, scour everything, garage sales (ask if they have old nintendos, ataris, segas, drop the big names). Facebook marketplace and craigslist. Marketplace at least here is drying up for people not knowing the value of what they have. It's getting more common to just be ebay prices now.

Know the value of your game on ebay and price charting because that's what game stores and a lot of even pawn shops use now. Know strategies for telling them why you should be able to haggle it lower than ebay prices. Don't be afraid to mention you have cash today and sitting on overpriced stock for years doesn't make cash exchange hands.

>> No.4666867
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>>4666672
Be discretionary when buying from mom and pop stores. 90% of their shit will be overpriced but you can occasionally find cheap stuff, don't be afraid to haggle.

eBay is your friend, fuck Amazon. Learn to develop a discerning eye for quality and detail so you can tell when a game is in good condition and worth purchasing. Pay close attention to every aspect of the item description.

Don't ever worry about buying anything on eBay. If it comes broken, you file a return. If it arrives and it simply isn't as good as it looked on the photos, tell them it doesn't work and file a return. eBay will always side with the customer.

Never be afraid to send offers to people on eBay, if they don't have a "best offer" option. They will almost always be willing to sell it to you at a lower than listed price because they want it gone. Could be a difference of $5 or $50, but every bit counts.

Take your time. Never make impulse purchases. If you can't find a game of in the range of quality and/or price that you want, wait it out. Chances are, new copies will pop up overnight.

Go to yardsales and flea markets. These places are a treasure trove, despite what anyone might tell you. Look up when your local community yardsales are happening, wake up early and be the first one there. These people usually don't have any idea what they have and will sell it to you for literal pennies.

Don't collect just to collect. Buy games you legitimately want to play and leave time to relish them. Don't turn into an obsessive hoarder that blows all of his money on decaying plastic just for bragging rights.

If you don't appreciate the hardware and aren't willing to give it proper care, maintenance and storage, buy a modchip or everdrive instead of physical games and save your money.

>> No.4666873

>>4666697

Face it, your once obscure hobby has been adopted by normies. It will never go down in price and you'll be paying inflated prices for the rest of your life. If you like playing games and not worshiping decaying plastic and cardboard, sell what you have now and don't play into the "collector" market. Flash carts are for people who play games, if you're an autistic "collector" you deserve to pay inflated prices. Think of it as a sanity tax.

>> No.4666880

>>4666863
>Tip 1: Be rich, this is easy mode for game collecting.
You could have a job working at McDonalds and have enough money to amass a gigantic video game collection over the period of just a few years.

I am a filthy ebay reseller. Every week I go to three thrift stores and see what I can find. Most of the time I don't buy anything because I only buy games that are worth more than $20 that I can get for less than $10.

But I know if I went and spent a mere $20 a week on video games at these places I'd soon fill my house if I were not picky about what I was buying. Most of it would be fourth generation and later stuff, but it would be a massive game collection nonetheless.

>> No.4666931

>>4666672
here's a tip: don't

>> No.4666937
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>>4666873
>US GAYMERZ THOUGH EXPECT US

>> No.4666971

>>4666867
>Don't ever worry about buying anything on eBay. If it comes broken, you file a return. If it arrives and it simply isn't as good as it looked on the photos, tell them it doesn't work and file a return. eBay will always side with the customer.

Way to get people to never sell shit on ebay again fuckwad.

>> No.4666978

>>4666971
Yes anon, I'm sure the entire eBay selling community is going to collectively stop selling games because of some advice given on a Chinese rice noodle manufacturing forum.

>> No.4667447

>>4666873
>normie
I seriously can't tell whether you guys don't realize this or are just trolling by using that word instead of 'normalfag'. It doesn't make you fit in here, if anything it shows how new you actually are so if you want to be taken seriously do yourself a favor and just call 'them' by their real monniker.

>> No.4667457

Just buy everdrives

>> No.4667546

>>4666841
Step 3: receive bootleg
Step 4: realize you just wasted your money

>> No.4667553

>>4667546
Not trying to defend him because his statement is a retarded oversimplification, but if you aren't able to recognize a real from a fake, this is not the hobby for you. Identifying a repro is easy as fuck if you know what you're doing.

>> No.4667557

>>4666849
>NES Toploader: $40
>F-Zero/Acro the Acrobat: $30
>Star Wars Ep 1 Racer (N64): $20

what horrible "deals"", why would you pay those prices? thats literally what thei go for at any videogame store.

>> No.4667585

>>4667447
>I seriously can't tell whether you guys don't realize this or are just trolling by using that word instead of 'normalfag'.

Being this triggered by fake 4chan cultural words. Autist.

>> No.4667617

>>4667585
>4chan
You don't actually believe the word "normie" has its origins here, right? Anyone who uses that word seriously (no, unironically is not an English word no matter how many times you newfags keep posting it) is definitely not from around here. Act like a visitor of 4chan or stay where you came from.
Also, good job making your own argument invalid by using even more meaningless buzzwords. That will teach that "autist", whatever that means to a mentally underdeveloped creature like you.

>> No.4667629

>>4667617

quit being such a controlfag / wordfag

>> No.4667639

>>4667546
>tfw started selling on ebay and some mong claimed the copy of 3D World Runner on NES I sent him was a fake
Seriously who the fuck would go through the trouble of making a repro of a super cheap common game? NO ONE.

>> No.4667663

>>4667639
N64 retro business is booming, and all the copies look real

>> No.4667739

>>4666971
>siding with people selling things that are misrepresented in photos

>> No.4667780

>>4667553
Someone just getting into the hobby is not going to know how to spot a fake.

>> No.4668025

>>4666672
Always buy Bébé's Kids

>> No.4668047

>>4668025
I wonder if anyone here actually owns a copy of that other than me.

>> No.4668067

>>4666672
Start 15 years ago

>> No.4668119

>>4666867
any tips on actually finding yard sales? I see signs posted on telephone poles or by the road maybe twice a year and don't know where else to look.

>> No.4668135

>>4666684
>Gamecube has already closed.
That's arguable. Most of the expensive games are $40 at most, barring a few stupidly expensive ones like Cubivore and Pokemon Box, and most games are $10-$20 at most. Was definitely better in the past decade or so, though.

>> No.4668139

>>4666672

Don't do it, just emulate. Saves time, money and shelf space.

>> No.4668145

>>4668119
Check the local newspaper and facebook groups.

>> No.4668159

>>4666867
>Don't turn into an obsessive hoarder that blows all of his money on decaying plastic just for bragging rights.

this, holy shit

>> No.4668891

>>4666690
Those consoles have a bigger fanbase than the pre 2000 ones. So, more demand.

>> No.4669454

>>4667739
In that case yes you should file

Don't just file frivolously though like that person made it sound like.

>> No.4669683

>>4666684
these games aren't fun tho

>> No.4669721

$50 for a game is not expensive you kids. $100+ now thats more like it.

>> No.4669890

>>4669721
It depends on the game and condition. $50 is expensive for a beat to hell copy of Madden 97. That's the kind of shit you run into at flea markets and such these days.

>> No.4670315

>>4669890
Lol, no.

Madden 97 is a 5-15 dollar game. At any place where im at. Sometimes i see for a buck or 2. Ps1 games are cheap as fuck, as for n64.. well fuck the n64 and all its autist fanbois. Shits fuckin way too expensive.

>> No.4670641

>>4666672
don't collect, buy games you like or you will forever be reddit cancer in my eyes.

>> No.4670645

>>4666789
BS, MGS3 is like 8 dollars at my local gamestore. PS2 games are dirt cheap.

>> No.4671136

>>4670645
Snake Eater is cheap, Subsistance on the other hand...

>> No.4671223

>>4671136
>Subsistance

That's only expensive if you get the limited edition. Regular versions are about $15.

>> No.4671283

>>4666672
Don't be one.

>> No.4671295

>>4667585
It's a Family Guy word.

>> No.4672210

>>4666672
honestly? don't
it's an expensive hobby that can get even more expensive if you get too into it

then again I collect guns as well so who am I to talk

>> No.4672348

>>4666873
Are flash carts that much better than emulation? Right now I'm running the same SHIELD tablet I've had for 4 years now and it's still fantastic. I don't have the money to buy carts.

>> No.4672358

>>4672348
No. They're for people who have a hate boner for emulation. Don't worry about it.

>> No.4672368

>>4672348
>better
>what did it mean by this?
They're the most flexible and accurate way to play on original hardware
But they have no filters and generally no or shitty save state support and don't have HDMI
Countless underage and poorfags see those disadvantages as a deal breaker

>> No.4672450
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I fell for the collectorMeme too I'm afraid.

Before that I just downloaded individual roms and played them on my PC with a keyboard. Then I got into real hardware plus real media. Then PVMs, then spending 11 hours at the weekend out looking for games, spending so much on crap I will never play. Then I got flashcarts. Then I got tired of fucking around trying to get all the settings right for each game. Sold it all and got my money back.

Now I have a media center PC my friend gave me for free hooked up to my TV with a frontend, full of roms and an xbone controller so I can sit back and play with a beer.

Honestly I think the normies are most woke. Just downloading a rom to play a game for fun, no OCD collecting or autistic shit, just enjoying a game for what it is.

>> No.4672456

>>4672450
People just need to understand that collecting and gaming are two separate hobbies. Sometimes and with some people they overlap, but not always and one is usually dominant. Also there's really nothing wrong with either one, except when people become convinced that their way of enjoying the hobby is the "right" one and someone doing otherwise is fucking up.

>> No.4672469

>>4672456
>People just need to understand that collecting and gaming are two separate hobbies

That's the best point so far. I did not get much pleasure out of collecting things, I just saw it as a bunch of junk I paid too much money for, I guess I got caught in the hype.

Still have 2 dozen big box PC games I like and 50~ gameboy games I actually play in bed.

>> No.4673845

>>4672450
>LARPing this hard because emushame
Keked hard

>> No.4675060

>>4671223
Maybe that one is the one I saw last time.

>>4672210
>then again I collect guns as well so who am I to talk
I would like to make a thread to know what /vr/ collects besides games.

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a few tips off the top of my head:

if you ever buy og xboxs, take out the clock capacitor immediately or only buy xboxs that already had that done.

always make sure to check out the pins on cartridge based games before you buy, if you are buying off of ebay or amazon ask the seller for pictures of the pins to see their condition.

clean the dust out of all your shit that you have already.

you can look at ebay prices via sold listings and judge how much you should pay for any given game, if buying at a store take off what would be shipping and ebay expenses to gauge how much you should pay at a store, realistically. them shop owners think they can pull some exorbitant ass ebay prices for some of their stuff sometimes and you gotta pull out the carfax and try to haggle them.

sega saturn is expensive. get a japanese saturn and an action replay 4m plus. it will cost the same as getting a u.s. saturn. so thats the best deal to get the whole sega saturn package, imports and extra memory and ram and cheat codes. do it. save some money.

dont buy disc only. dont buy stock imaged listings.

cool

>> No.4675201

>>4672450
>normies are most "woke" because I'm a fucking retard that couldn't resist buying a bunch of shit I didn't need
Yeah, no, fuck you, if you can't collect authentic hardware without turning into an obsessive proto-autist hoarder then that's your fault my dude. Enjoy the inferior experience.

>> No.4675203

>>4666672
Don't ever buy a game you dont want to play retro collections are a shitty investment

>> No.4675243

Are there any active communities specifically for trading games?

>> No.4675282

>>4666672
>game collecting tips
Don't even start. Its a depressing hobby that wont truly fill that void.
Unironically, get a hobby thats a physical activity at the same time, hiking, whatever. Just don't collect entertainment items.

>> No.4675293

>>4672450
>Sold it all and got my money back.
>Now I have a media center PC my friend gave me

it's people like yourself that make /vr/ a truly cancerous place to visit. you are dumb.

>> No.4675338

>>4675282
People need to understand that there's a fine line between being a real "collector" and an enthusiast who enjoys playing games. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a few consoles and every once in awhile buying a new game to enjoy and add to your collection. It's a fun and enriching experience that can be used as a good excuse for traveling and making new friends. The problem comes from trying to use collecting, as you said, to fill a void. It's when you stop caring about your other hobbies and do nothing but collect games. It's when you stop caring about actually enjoying games and start collecting games you'll never even play just for the sake of collecting. People who have these giant game walls filled with collectibles and hundreds of games have a legitimate mental illness, but there's nothing wrong with collecting games so long as it doesn't impact your living space, wallet and social life.

>> No.4675360

my version of collecting is that I have a list of games I want, and I go out and look for them

>> No.4675364

>>4675360
I do the same thing. I use it as a way to get out and explore. I'll look up a mall or something that's far away and take a little day trip. The game is the goal but the journey is the reward. Sometimes you'll even stumble onto something else along the way, like a cool restaurant or music store.

>> No.4675991

>>4666706
If i ever find something undumped that shit is going straight to auction. I don't care what happens to it after I get paid, because I got bills to pay nigga.

>> No.4676043

>>4675991
Dump it, sell the cartridge, release the rom online.

>> No.4676616
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>collecting original xbox

>> No.4676702

>>4666672
I collect games i actually want to play, rather than shelf candy. So lots of my purchases are disc only (ps1 collector, btw) so that saves a lot of money.

I also keep what i want in mind, and wait out the more expensive ones till i find a deal. Like, i got a copy of megaman legends 2 for under $30, because i didn't jump on the first one i saw.

I'll also go on buying sprees of cheapies. Like, i spent $110 on a bunch of $10 and under games. I just make sure they're ones i'll play. It's important to keep that in mind, since it can be easy to end up with tons of garbage, because it was cheap.

The important thing with a collection is to be able to either create a goal like a list of specific games, or admit to yourself that you're not willing to stop at a specific point and be honest with yourself about it. Why? Because if you really WANT a fuckhuge collection, but force yourself to stop after a specific point, you'll just make yourself miserable.

Also build your collection as intelligently as you can. Start out with your favorites, price allowing, and get the blind buys later on.

If money is an issue, then buy what you can when you can. No point in going on spending sprees if it'll put you in a bad place financially. If a $5 cheapie is all you can afford this week, then get one you like. Or save up that $5 until a later date and use towards another game. Whatever. Just plan ahead as needed.

That's all i've got.

>> No.4676719

>>4666672
Pro tip: When you pay money for an ancient game, the creators don't receive a single cent. Emulate for free instead.

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>>4676702

>ps1 disc only

>> No.4678434

>>4676043
it would decrease the value, if it gets dumped.

there are collector cunts that want to have the only one with it in there collection, and they will pay ungodly amounts of money for that bragging right.

>> No.4678438

>>4678434
>implying you can't rip, sell and then dump
Come on, use your brain.

>> No.4678443

>>4678434
Read what I said. Dump it, sell the cartridge, then release the dump online.

>> No.4679137

>>4666867
>yard sales

This so much

My mom frequents yard sales back down in SFL and she calls me all the time and snags great deals for me

Woman has gotten me liter all an entire SNES collection with Mario RPG, Link to the Past, Castlevania 4 etc. For literally a dollar a piece. Just got someones entire Xbox collection and a PS2 for like 20 bucks. Got both Jedi academy games, serious sam 1 and 2, oddworld, and splinter cell in there