/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5414531]

which one of you fuckers is mad enough to buy one of these?

[Anonymous No.5414557]

>>5414531
You seem incredulous about the fact that SNK fanboys are accustomed to spending stupid amounts of money and that confuses me.

[Anonymous No.5414570]

>>5414531
>he doesn't want to be a real hot dog.

[Anonymous No.5414581]

>>5414531
Why not, when some games go for thousands of dollars already, seems like a good alternative to me.

[Anonymous No.5414602]

>>5414531
what's 600 bucks compared to a library that costs100x that amount?

[Anonymous No.5414603]

>>5414581
This. As far as flashcarts go compared to the genuine product, this is the most logical one anyone can go for.

[Anonymous No.5415052]

Would be nice to play hacks on, though it seems to detect a fixed library of games by crc instead of just running everything you throw at it?

[Anonymous No.5415057]

>>5414603
Second most would be N64 since the cost of 3 big-name titles gets you to the cost of an Everdrive 64 by itself.

[Anonymous No.5415076]

And now we wait for China to clone it and sell it much cheaper!

Instead we got the sequel to the 142in1, the 167in1, now with 50% more boss hacks!

[Anonymous No.5415082]

it beats emulation thats for sure

[Anonymous No.5415098]

>>5414531
If you want one, you better buy it quick before the absofuckinglutely insane NeoGeo autists buy as many of them as they can for the sake of destroying them.

[Anonymous No.5415105]

I'd rather emulate and overclock at ridiculous amounts. So many Neo Geo games have slowdown that can only be fixed with extreme overclocking.

[Anonymous No.5415142]

>>5414531
It's pricey but it'll eventually pay for itself considering trying to buy even a handful of worthwhile AES games will cost you a nut and then some. Even the once cheap MVS games have gone up in price over the years.
And don't even get me started on the shit-eating conmen selling conversions at prices of the originals.

[Anonymous No.5415557]

>>5415105

The shitty metal slugs.

[Anonymous No.5415568]

>>5414531
Seriously:
Neo Geo is the most overrated system ever.
All games are basically asset swaps and play exactly the same. There are only like 3-5 good ones, after those you really played them all.
Though still better than buying all the original prices to totally inflated retard prices.

It always was and is THE Hipster system just to brag with.

[Anonymous No.5415572]

>>5415142
You are still better with a all in one collection for PC/Switch, than a flashcard.

[Anonymous No.5415891]

>>5414531
Why the hell do people still care about this system? It was always not worth the money. It seems like the only reason to own one is to say that you own one.

[Anonymous No.5415902]

>>5415572
Why? With a flashcart you play all of the real games on original hardware. PC can never beat that.

[Anonymous No.5415906]

>>5415568
I consider Turbografx to be more of a hipster system desu. Neogeo has KOF, Samurai Shodown, Last Blade and Garou. Enough fucking said

[Anonymous No.5416009]

>>5415906
PC Engine sold better than the Mega drive...

[Anonymous No.5416031]

>>5414531
Its a deal

[Anonymous No.5416220]

>>5414531

I'd totally buy one if they had them in stock anywhere. Has anyone heard anything about when they'll get a new shipment of the MVS ones?

[Anonymous No.5416225]

>>5415082
>neo-geo.com
one of the few websites which make 4chan look sophisticated.

[Anonymous No.5416258]

>>5416009
In Japan, not in the west

[Anonymous No.5416279]

>>5414531
Just got my pro. Shit is so ca$h.

[Anonymous No.5416315]

>>5415082
That first post looks like something I'd write if I were incredibly drunk.

[Anonymous No.5416325]

>>5416279
nice anon
nice soap also

[Anonymous No.5416327]

>>5414531
I was thinking about getting one of these when I get rich but then I tought, hey almost all of these 2D SNK arcade games was trashy. I would pay so much money to easly emulated system and to games that are not even so good in the first place. It's way better to invest in another consoles and evercarts.

[Anonymous No.5416335]

>>5416327
>when I get rich
It's only $500, you can make $2,000 a month working minimum wage

[Anonymous No.5416364]

>>5415568
This. There are a lot of Neo Geo games I like but not enough to pay 1000s of dollars for. I’m fine waiting for furrtek’s Neo Geo core for MISTer.

[Anonymous No.5416374]

>>5416325
Thanks bro!

[Anonymous No.5416383]

>>5415568
What's it to you what people have an interest in? Neo Geo stuff has always had an allure. It was heavy duty tech for it's time and there are more than 5 good games. Jeez man, you all are a bunch of butt mad Debbie downers on this board.

[Anonymous No.5416384]

>>5416335
This man does not have children.

[Anonymous No.5416386]

>>5416364
isn't furrtek also working on a SD loader for the Neo-Geo CD?

[Anonymous No.5416405]

>>5414531
Why is it so expensive compared to other flash carts?

[Anonymous No.5416414]

>>5416405
It has an ARM processor in addition to the FPGA. Plus all the SRAM. It's a lot more complicated than your normal flashcart.

[Anonymous No.5416417]

>>5416384
Why would I?

[Anonymous No.5416505]

>>5416414
>SRAM is expensive

lol

[Anonymous No.5416520]

>>5416405
It's the Neo Geo tax.

[Anonymous No.5416539]

>>5416417
They're a common result of having sex, not that an incel such as yourself would know

[Anonymous No.5416596]

>>5416539
>he doesn't know how to pull it
Lmao

[Anonymous No.5416854]

>>5416384
You say that like it's a bad thing. I think it's admirable that despite all anons many failings he's wise enough to remove himself from the gene pool and not pass those traits on to his spawn.

[Anonymous No.5416875]

>>5416539
>incel
did you learn that word on reddit? because that is where you should fuck off to ASAP

[Anonymous No.5417521]

An MVS board in a fucking TV stand is apparently worth $10k because "muh rarez NeoGeo progear spec!":
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/323715312343?ul_noapp=true

[Anonymous No.5417532]

>>5414531
Just wait for that furfag to finish his open source FPGA core for free.

[Anonymous No.5417535]

>>5417521
i could use a neogeo microwave

[Anonymous No.5417552]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all AES games also on arcade, thus emulation through MAME is possible for them?

Why do people flush money down the toilet? Did no one considering these things have parents that taught them money management skills?

[Anonymous No.5417573]

So, you could put that prototype Dungeons and Dragons 2D fighting game in this, yeah?

Speaking of, has that game been restored yet?

[Anonymous No.5417613]

>>5417552
Neo Geo has been emulated forever - neoragex could run well on couple 100 MHz pentiums back around the year 2000 even.

Most of the good games are high $100s - thousands now on AES, MVS is also bad. An idiot paid over $30k for an AES cart that would have had nothing but a paper label/insert to distinguish it, and it was a bootleg in the end. Pirates are making complete AES carts from scratch in China, boards and all, and boots/conversions are so good it makes AES a joke. The neo-geo.com drama by perpetual adolescents (along with their antichrist, Dion and NGF).

Emulation is a very good idea.

[Anonymous No.5417664]

>>5417613
It seems to me that people who spend so much money ON ANY SYSTEM like this are after some kind of fool "prestige" of owning what they perceive is rare, valuable goods, rather that the experiences that the goods can provide.
>look at me, i have a rare $500 game!
Yeah, and? I mean it's not a McLaren F1. It's not something that required top engineers and materials scientists to design and build, and it's not made out highly valuable materials, and the experience isn't hard to come by. They're not even really preserving the games since any good ones worth playing have been rom-dumped.
I guess preserving the systems is fine, but when capacitors start blowing on these things, frying other components on the boards, the systems too will be gone.

Electronic goods are bad things to invest in because of their nature. Buy ammunition instead.

[Anonymous No.5417756]

>>5417664

You're an idiot. Nobody does what you just described. You just sound like a jealous cunt.

People buy games, expensive or not, because playing on authentic hardware is fucking fun.

They do it because its fun.

It's not complicated. It's not a fucking conspiracy.

[Anonymous No.5417770]

>>5417756
I think he's more taking issue with the at times extraordinary amounts people exchange for these things.

[Anonymous No.5417785]

>>5417756
Hey man, far be it from me to stop morons from parting with their money.
They're going to hate life when their investments go bang, though.

>you're just jealous!
Not really. Too much maintenance and risk to be jealous of. I mean, you take the flashcart in OP's post. Has it been thoroughly engineered and tested on the original hardware to meet requirements for power tolerances, EM emissions, etc? If it sends the wrong kinds of signals into the AVS, even rarely, that can cause damage to components over a few years.

Electronics are fucking stupid investments. That's why the overwhelming majority are disposable shit within a few years of manufacture and there's entire cities in China dedicated to stripping out the metals from the shit to be used again. The few pieces of electronic HW that aren't disposable are used in high-end science, engineering, and extreme luxury goods(such as the CPUs inside of exotic cars).

[Anonymous No.5417794]

>>5417785

>investments
You keep using that word.

Yes, you're right they're a bad investment, because they aren't a fucking investment to begin with.

Nobody buys videogames as an investment. They buy them to have fun.

You absolute trog.

[Anonymous No.5417894]

>>5417794
Haha, good one

[Anonymous No.5418242]

>>5417794
I buy them as an investment. I have a huge collection that's easily worth >10x what I paid for it. It's certainly not wise to jump on the bandwagon now but people who bought the right stuff 10-20 years ago made a very good investment.

[Anonymous No.5418478]

>>5418242
By that logic, buying bitcoin when it was worthless and cashing out would have been exponentially better in returns. If one is wishing for such foresight, may as well go big - with that much return you could have bought complete sets of literally every classic game to put next to the garage full of supercars.

Videogames are not, and will never be, an "investment". We are not talking about buying a Basquiat painting when he was some crazy street artist and flipping it for $20M. Especially Neo Geo games - their authenticity is so badly compromised on the AES front that it's a fools game for fools like neo-geo.com.

[Anonymous No.5418484]

>>5415057
What 3 n64 titles?

[Anonymous No.5418512]

>>5417785
>Electronics are fucking stupid investments. That's why the overwhelming majority are disposable shit within a few years of manufacture and there's entire cities in China dedicated to stripping out the metals from the shit to be used again. The few pieces of electronic HW that aren't disposable are used in high-end science, engineering, and extreme luxury goods(such as the CPUs inside of exotic cars).

If I was going to "invest" in electronics, for such reasons it would be things that were handcrafted, machined, and super expensive to start with, for such reasons. For instance, Nagra tape recorders like this were hand made in Switzerland and featured lots of hand machined work. The electronic equivalent of a Patek Phillipe watch, ones like this Nagra T cost tens of thousands new - different from mass produced rom chips. Still used in ultra high end analog audiophile setups as well for listening to tape dubs made from the masters (very expensive hobby, that).

[Anonymous No.5418528]

>>5418484
Lots of combinations, even for once common shit. Mario Party 3, Starcraft and Conker for example.

Also when did Ebay get flooded with so many N64 fakes / relabels holy fuck

>>5418512
Looks like something from an old spaceship. Neat.

[Anonymous No.5418560]

>>5418512
>>5418528
They even made a pocket sized version. Machined from a solid block of metal, SNST was designed under CIA contract in the 60s. Nagra reissued this hifi stereo version like 10 years back for $15k or so.

[Anonymous No.5418629]

SO IS THIS NEO SD AES THE BETTER FLASH CART ON THE MARKET?

I remember there was an alternative flash cart by a different maker.

[Anonymous No.5418642]

>>5418512
>>5418560
I nearly picked up an SNST with matching speaker a couple of years back. It was just under $1k.

Really regret not pulling the trigger, they're fucking gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.5418646]

>>5418629
this?
http://www.saveyourgames.it/index.php?route=product/product&path=89&product_id=166
>https://www.highscoresaves.com/darksoft-neo-geo-multi-aes-cartridge.html
>$567
lol wow.

[Anonymous No.5418658]

>>5418646
>this?

lol yes. I wonder when china will copy these and sell them for 50 USD a pop

COME ON YOU CHINK BASTARDS

[Anonymous No.5418662]

>>5418658
isn't neogeo too niche even for them?

[Anonymous No.5418667]

>>5418662

Almost 500.000 AES consoles were sold worldwide back then. I think that's enough to make some quick money.

[Anonymous No.5418676]

>>5418667
how many are still working and in use?
dunno, took em over four years to clone the gdemu, and that's for dreamcast, which had millions of sold units.

[Anonymous No.5418698]

>>5418658

They'd never do that, they seem convinced that 161in1 multicarts (90% bosshacks) are what the consumer wants.
Personally I'd enjoy some AES bootlegs of the more expensive games like Metal Slug 3 and Samurai Special.

[Anonymous No.5418708]

>>5418478
>video games will never be an investment
>some sloppy nigger grafitti is
Opinion discarded.

[Anonymous No.5418771]

>>5416539
>common result of having sex
Begone, Christfag.

[Anonymous No.5418773]

>>5417756
>People buy games, expensive or not, because playing on authentic hardware is fucking fun.
But you can do that with a flash cart and save loads of dosh.

[Anonymous No.5418790]

>>5418773
how do you legally acquire the rom-files to use on a flashcart?
checkmate.

[Anonymous No.5418792]

>>5418790
Who cares? Buying a second hand cart from someone on ebay isn't financially supporting the dev any more or less than piracy is.

[Anonymous No.5418810]

>>5415057
Is this a N64 thread? Or a "1st, 2nd, 3rd" thread?
Wow. It aint autism that floods these boards, its a.d.d.

[Anonymous No.5418816]

>>5418708
Ink thrown on a canvas with the right artist is worth 10s of millions - 100m. Damien Hirst puts dead animals in vats of formaldehyde, and has 100 million dollar auctions. Not saying it's right, but it's the way of the world. Bankers and various high finance types use this garbage as a handy way to store wealth, and as investments.

I collect video games and generally detest contemporary art, but I'm under no illusions that my $5 Snatcher from a flea market counts as the sort of investment found in the art world.

[Anonymous No.5418819]

>>5418708
Ignorant in more ways than one I see.

[Anonymous No.5418824]

>>5418698
There have been a few totally counterfeited AES carts found, pcb and all. The ng community was very concerned about this. Presumably Chinese work.

They really need to ramp up production and offer a full selection these new AES games alongside the rest of the chinkshit. Shit, make a new AES as well at chinkshit pricing.

[Anonymous No.5418843]

>>5416384
You said it. Havent been able to sleep good ever since.
Protip: dont have kids

[Anonymous No.5418845]

>>5416596
Yeah cause thats a surefire method

[Anonymous No.5419059]

>>5418773

People find the authenticity of a legitimate cart in the console to add to the entertainment of playing the game. Some people just think it's weird.

I have a flashcart for the NeoGeo Pocket Color, and I'll be getting one for the VirtualBoy soon, but I really prefer playing on physical carts due to performance enhancing chips.

Burning discs for disc based consoles doesn't bother me one bit, however. And I wouldn't mind the SD leaders for disc based consoles, if they didn't replace the disc drive entirely.

[Anonymous No.5419280]

>>5418478
>i'm too young and dumb to have got anything when it was cheaper
>my opinion means anything
By that kidlogic, lol

[Anonymous No.5419428]

>>5418816
If it will make you 5-10x what you paid for it in the future then it's an investment. Most stocks on the S&P 500 can't even bring you those kinds of returns in a lifetime.

[Anonymous No.5419450]

ITT: t. poorfag shitting all over other people's hobbies cause they're jealous.

[Anonymous No.5419459]

>>5416505
Well that's not at all what I said. When you add up ALL of the components and consider all the functionality. It's fairly price appropriate.

[Anonymous No.5419493]

>>5419280
So, you mined enough bitcoin to own a private jet? Otherwise, you should just kys because by your own logic you were too "young and dumb" to into crypto when it was worthless. The paltry return on some old games is not an investment.

A shitty piece of investment grade art is worth more than an entire game collection considered impressive. So, why didn't YOU buy something by the next big artist when it was cheap? Too young and dumb? Sorry, but a pile of old games that may make you "5-10x" profit (likely not even enough to buy a modest car, in the case of a collection more substantial than most here would likely have) would be laughed out of a room full of folks with adult tier investments in tangible things.

I bought my copy of Snatcher for $5, so that must make me a great investor and financial wunderkind. I'm so proud.

[Anonymous No.5419674]

>>5419493
Look at all the seething assmad spewing from this kid. All those sour grapes. And the kidlogic. Oh lawd, the kid logic. The deep rooted hate that can only come from knowing that you're a complete failure and that your only hope for inner peace is to imagine that everyone else is as much as failure as yourself. Filling the board with shitposts to compensate for his empty life, empty soul and empty wallet.

[Anonymous No.5419721]

>>5419674
>Filling the board with shitposts to compensate for his empty life, empty soul and empty wallet.

Thats a good description of anons in general,, lol.

[Anonymous No.5419732]

>>5419674
Don't forget wasting their time making fun of people for owning retro games...on a retro games forum.

[Anonymous No.5419739]

>>5418662
>isn't neogeo too niche
then why make multicarts?

[Anonymous No.5420108]

>>5418824

Yeah the chinks have been surprisingly lazy when it comes to AES, they just don't seem to understand that the retro collecting boomer gamer (add own buzzwords) just prefers 1on1 copies.

Chinks be like "You want 4 dollah Avengers 5 MD cart? you want Pandora Box 23? you want mini arcade cabinet with famicom clone inside?"

No.. just Samurai Shodown Special AES repro please, And with the correct unfixed romset you dumbass chinkfucks! (somehow a repro with the wrong romset was made once)

[Anonymous No.5420153]

>>5419674
>kid,kid,kid,kid
>projecting this hard
I'm 39 years old, punk. How old are you? How about addressing the utter btfo you've suffered, instead of "muh ad hominemz, kid!"?

I paid $10 for a Vectrex some years back - an underage punk like you likely has never seen the setting where such a thing would have been found outside of the "muh eBay" baby tier hunting.

I'm under no illusions that the pile of crap I've amassed from flea markets and on site auctions is some pirate's treasure that will worth millions - but go on thinking mass produced items artificially inflated in a few manipulated sales (e.g. cases full of Stadium Events hidden DeBeers style to control the market, the utterly pathetic "slabbing" and grading of games to make them into baseball cards, with shills buying "ultra rarez" smb thus packaged).

Jacking off to a pile of VGA graded "investments" is no way to go through life, KID. Get out of the house and live a little, and lighten the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.5420241]

>>5419450
lol I was thinking exactly the same thing

every single one of these unskilled retail drones and uber drivers would own and collect neogeo if they weren't poorfags

[Anonymous No.5420294]

I feel like someone is trying to sell me something.

[Anonymous No.5420306]

>>5414531

Can you run rom hacks on this?

[Anonymous No.5420308]

>>5420153
Top kek kid. The fact that I'm 10 years older than you isn't really relevant to anything other than your pathetic insecurity. But if you really are a 39 year old seething like and angry little NEET it's very relevant to your mental state. If you bought a vectrex for $10 you'd know that was a good investment. And talk about projecting. I had one when you were in diapers. You've kind of painted yourself into a corner there sport. You're either LARPing like a mother fucker or a seriously disturbed individual. Either way your best option now is to stop shitposting and seek professional help.

[Anonymous No.5420350]

1. I'm not one of the feuding anons.

2. I often see this stuff being called "investment" but is that really true? a lot of this stuff is pretty much dying (i'm recapping my Mega CD as we speak) so I honestly have doubts that any of this stuff is an investment, who are you gonna sell your AES copy of Metal Slug to in the future? a grown up 40 year old zoomer? why would he want to buy your Metal Slug for $5000 when he can just emulate that stuff with his VR phone/glasses in 2040.

Honestly not trying to hate here, I just don't understand why people think that these things will be worth something in the future, if anything we're currently at the peak of what this stuff will ever be worth.

[Anonymous No.5420357]

>>5420153
>>5420308
This is fun to watch unfold.

[Anonymous No.5420585]

>>5415105
you can overclock real hardware

>>5414531
I want to get one, I have the 160 in 1 and the crappy rom hacks are annoying

[Anonymous No.5420706]

>>5420108
The thing is there's a big gulf between the chinkshit companies churning out things intended to deceive and those trying to more 'legitimately' service the niche. The companies still churning out famiclones and knockoff Gameboys aren't the same ones making FPGA flash carts and actually adequate quality new GBA clones.

[Anonymous No.5420718]

>>5415082
>threw 350 dollar arcade controls away behind a pep boys
Actually angry.

[Anonymous No.5420778]

Okay, this is epic

[Anonymous No.5420887]

>>5420350
>look up definition of "investment" in dictionary
>the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage, or the money, effort, time, etc. used to do this
>read thread to see if anyone put money, effort, time, etc. into their collection make a profit or get an advantage
>receive answer

[Anonymous No.5420928]

>>5420718
judging by definition, it's the x-arcade, and it belongs in the trash.

[Anonymous No.5421962]

>>5420350
>I often see this stuff being called "investment" but is that really true? a lot of this stuff is pretty much dying (i'm recapping my Mega CD as we speak) so I honestly have doubts that any of this stuff is an investment, who are you gonna sell your AES copy of Metal Slug to in the future?

Optical discs can rot, and longterm life is anyone's guess - coasters, anyone? We generally think ROM chips are safe, but once more this is an ongoing experiment. The bathtub curve for IC failure is a big question on the right side - stuff like static sensitive cmos, excess heat will take a toll. In the worst case, carts will wind up paperweights and a terrible investment.

[Anonymous No.5422198]

>Buy Neo Geo AES game for $500
>hehehe gonna sell it for big bucks in the future!
>Nobody wants it anymore cuz zoomers don't have any emotional attachment to expensive old electronics
>Die
>relatives toss all your old "video tapes" in the trash.

[Anonymous No.5422584]

>>5414531
Shouldn’t prices of those be going down since NeoSD Pro hit the market?

I want one, but it’s a little too pricey for me to prioritize right here and now at the moment.

[Anonymous No.5422596]

>>5420153
Are you one of those people who won't go out with friends for lunch because the $10 you spend could have brought another vectrex. I was like you but I had to accept that the $10 vectrex was very rare occurrence and it was just luck. Stuff is more expensive now, you can't get games for $1 anymore and if you do its because the seller doesn't know the value, its the exception not the rule.

[Anonymous No.5422698]

>>5422198
this seems like a sound argument until you attend any one of a number of retro gaming conventions and realize that half the audience is under 30

[Anonymous No.5422751]

>>5416279
Post your experiences for us.

[Anonymous No.5422771]

>>5416539
>he fell for the kids meme
>the rest of his life will be considerably worse than it other wise would be
anyone can have kids, anon. even the poorest, ugliest people in the world have kids. you fucked up big time

[Anonymous No.5422808]

>>5419739
because people are willing to pay $500+ for them

[Anonymous No.5422810]

>>5420153
>>5420308
Imagine growing up and being like this

[Swift S. Lawliet !!VIQsbxF6xwO No.5422823]

>>5414531
Me.

[Anonymous No.5423083]

>>5414531
Okay /vr/, against your better judgement, you've plunked down 600 dollary-doos for a NeoSD Pro. What four games do you load on the flash slots to always have at your fingertips?

[Anonymous No.5423091]

>>5422823
Honestly I would've REALLY liked to see a Jared Leto focused suicide squad. It was looking really good but in typical DC fashion they had to go and fuck it all up

[Anonymous No.5423118]

>>5423083
Windjammers and 3 identical copies of Twinkle Star Sprites

Because that’s just how it be