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7688105 No.7688105 [Reply] [Original]

When did these things get so expensive?

>> No.7688121

When demand went up.

>> No.7688153

When they became the foundation to Pokemon collecting, since you can hatch a pokemon and with each successive game after, send it all the way to SwishSwoosh.
Or, you would if the fuckers hadn't gimped the Pokedex.

>> No.7688393

>>7688105
>ruby
>sapphire
>emerald
Those are all precious gemstones, these cartridges were probably expensive to make.

>> No.7688415

I feel like I should've bought Emerald. I've had Ruby and LG since when they were new, at least.

>> No.7688417

>>7688105
both games got very bad remakes and it made the gba versions more desirable

>> No.7688465
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>>7688105
>could have bought sapphire for $25 online in 2017
>chose to buy superstar saga instead like a retard
damn it...

>> No.7688472
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>>7688465
Glad I didn't I didn't hold back in 2017. Got these for between 20-30 each. Got a copy of sapphire that a sibling is currently borrowing.

>> No.7688507

>>7688105
biden's stimulus-cash

>> No.7688627
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7688627

>relented recently and finally just sucked it up and rebought crystal for 110$ after never being able to find a good deal
>check out emerald prices
>it's even worse

jesus christ and here I thought crystal was the meme overpriced game. Thank fuck crystal is the only pokemon game I missed so I'm just done with this series, I can just look at my jolly rancher cartridges in peace now.

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7689398

Cheap enough on Mercari. Is the price surge just a US thing?

>> No.7689461

Ever since covid a lot of nintendo games have skyrocketed in price. I'd wait until after covid to pick one up as precovid prices were not all bad

>> No.7689481

>>7689398
A majority of old nintendo games in japan are far cheaper in price even when cib the price is drastically lower than the US versions

>> No.7689495

>>7689398
It makes me wonder why they don't have the same thing. I know scalping happens in Japan but maybe retro game flipping isn't a thing there

>> No.7689601

>>7689594
Do you need proof that scalping happens in Japan too? Because it does.

>> No.7689606

What do you guys do when the "Internal Battery has run dry" starts to appear?

>> No.7689760

Pokemon autists have always overpriced the fuck out their games

>> No.7689774

>>7689606
Run the cartridge under the sink

>> No.7689797
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>>7689774

>> No.7689826

>>7688465
why do you think of a $70 profit over 3 years in a video game as a huge loss? you could have invested in stocks or bitcoin and made way more.

>> No.7689928

A lot of people are buying gba and modding gba and watching YouTubers do the same. Its not to play games, it's for nostalgia. And they usually have nostalgia for a pokemon game. So there is demand, and because these people are literally only buying one or two games to complete their nostalgia, they don't mind paying a lot.

>> No.7690158

>>7689398
Japanese people are retarded and refuse to emulate, so they need to actually buy games to play them, therefore no one has any reason to hoard or be jewish with prices. People only buy things to collect in US so of course the value is going to actually fluctuate

>> No.7690159

>>7689495
>maybe retro game flipping isn't a thing there
The retro gaming market is bigger here in Japan than anywhere else I'd wager. Any vidya store you walk in to will have several shelves full of retro games. I think the real reason is that the supply for retro titles is huge.

>> No.7690174

>>7689606
buy a soldering iron and some tabbed batteries off ebay and get to work. It's really not hard at all to take care of that.

>> No.7690251
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>>7690158
Yes. It's the people who play on original hardware because they aren't poor babies that are retarded.

>> No.7690260

>>7689826
>he thinks people buy games just to sell them

>> No.7690326

>>7690159
and them having no space in their 1-room-apartments to store all that stuff

>> No.7690336

>>7688472
I bet those are all fake

>> No.7690365

>>7690336
they all have the imprints on the cover-sticker

>> No.7690378

>>7690365
Good thing that can't be replicated

>> No.7690484
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>>7690365
zoom zoom

>> No.7690494

>>7689594
How naive.

>>7690260
There are people who will do that.

>> No.7690558

All Pokeshit goes up on the aftermarket.

>> No.7691981

People are bored and depressed cause of rona

>> No.7691985

zoomstalgia and nintendo tax

>> No.7691996

>>7689481
>>7689495
>>7690158
None of these
>>7690159
This.
There are many more copies of these games in Japanese, they were made for Japan. They're cheaper and more common. Simple economics.

>> No.7692205

>>7690336
Are there any pokemon bootlegs that have 1:1 copied the original circuit board? The only bootlegs I've seen personally just use the classic blob processors since it's cheaper.

Worst case scenario they were only 20-30 for him so who cares, especially if they work fully.

>> No.7692420

>>7690336
If they are fakes they're at least pretty good fakes. I've managed to trade to the GC games and transfer to the nds titles

>> No.7692546
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>>7691996
>There are many more copies of these games in Japanese
That's not true. At all. The ratio of some Pokemon games sold overseas compared to Japan is almost 10 to 1. The majority of overseas sales are in the Americas and most of those are just US copies.

>> No.7692556

>>7692205
>Are there any pokemon bootlegs that have 1:1 copied the original circuit board?
No.
>Worst case scenario they were only 20-30 for him so who cares, especially if they work fully.
I have seen people buy and sell fakes for the same price as real versions. The ones that anon posted are real however.

>> No.7692568

>>7690378
Stamped codes are one of the best ways to spot fakes without seeing the circuit board because they are not found in mass produced reproductions. If you have any images of reproductions with stamped codes feel free to post.

>> No.7692582
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>>7692568
Sure. Here are a handful of fake bootlegs with stamped codes.

>> No.7692917

>>7688393
>firered
>leafgreen
How did they manage to encapsulate fire? And does the Leafgreen photosynthesize?

>> No.7692951

I'll buy reprints without shame. I don't care. Much more cost effective.

>> No.7692960

Ok chicks, if I'm a fuckhead who stopped playing Pokemon after GS, will RS entertain me all these years later or will it be soulless?

>> No.7693129

>>7689606
Replace the battery?

>> No.7693135

>>7692582
How do you know they're fake?

>> No.7693158

>>7692582
HOW MUCH DID THOSE COST THOSE FAKERS

>> No.7693261

>>7692960
RS are great games but compared to GS anything will feel soulless. You will hate the lack of day/night cycle, the GBA sound, and the standardized sprites. The GBA Pokemon games are still my favorites despite their flaws because they perfected the gameplay. RS overhauled the whole stat system that would become mostly standard for the rest of the series. RS was basically the overhaul the series needed to overcome the archaic mechanics the series started with. Unfortunately the flaws I mentioned are due to the GBA. The GBA sound is a downgrade and the night cycle was abandoned because it would look bad on the GBA screen. The final flaw I mentioned is the standardized sprites. Before RS there was reference material but no real obligation to pose Pokemon in a specific manner. With RS came the demand that all Pokemon look exactly like the reference with none of the flexibility that allowed for the amazing sprites of before. The standardization that makes the sprites worse do wonders for the gameplay. For competitive it sucks that getting the best Pokemon is a time sink. For single player however, abilities and natures make each species feel different and unique from each other. The only thing that keeps me from playing RBY or GSC more than once is the Pokemon storage. RS doesn't get any credit for totally fixing the ancient storage of the previous games. Mechanically, RS is so polished I find it impossible not to dive into it deeper than any other game in the series.

TLDR: /vp/fag here, play Emerald, it will entertain you but anything is soulless compared to GS

>> No.7693610

>>7692582
>>7688472
you think you're being cute, huh

>> No.7694187

>>7689461
Silly fool, the price is not going back down anytime soon. Its only going up. The generation with the most nostalgia for these games is becoming more affluent. And we are all manchildren, even the ones with children.

If you try to wait for the price to go down, you will only have to pay more.

>> No.7694227

>>7688153
The transferring stopped at Gen 7 didn't it?

>> No.7694456

>>7694227
There is no longer 100% forward compatibility because the new game has most but not all the old Pokemon.

>> No.7694503

>>7688417
>Original is shit
>Remake not as shit
>Thinks people wanted the original shit

>> No.7694514

>>7689495
>>7690159
>>7691996
Wrong.
They literally can not collect when your entire living space is the size of a children bedroom. They sell fewer copies of games that other places by far and they all end up in stores because no one can store them in their postage stamp rental.

>> No.7694516

>>7692568
>Thinks chinks wouldn't spend 20seconds stamping fake codes to get more for games from retarded cucks like you

>> No.7694519

>>7694503
i'm talking about ORAS being shit compared to emerald, and the lets go pikachu/eevee thing making people want to play the gba remake

>> No.7694521

>>7694503
The originals are good and the remakes are bad. Everyone wants the originals.

>> No.7694604

>>7694516
>still hasn't delivered hard proofs

>> No.7696286

>>7694604
That's some serious cope you've got there kiddo

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>>7694516
>can't get the E right
>can't get the font right
>can't get the foiling right
>can't get the art right
>the chinks will totally bother with barely perceptible factory codes
I have never seen someone so vocal and confident in their absolute ignorance.

>> No.7697117

>>7689398
i saw gba pokemon games at hard off a week ago for less than half this price.

>> No.7697215

>>7696286
says the person incapable of delivering hard evidence

>> No.7697551

>>7697215
I'm not the anon you're coping to kiddo. Just a random dude who saw a dumb kid coping and laughed at it. I'm perfectly capable of delivery hard evidence. But why would I do that? How does any benefit from you not making a fool of yourself in every GBA cart thread by shitposting your ridiculous delusion that it's difficult to stamp a number on a label?

>> No.7697763

>>7697551
>blablabla

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>>7697551
>waaaaaahhh

>> No.7698376

>>7688105
They are? I have Sapphire, Emerald, and FireRed laying around somewhere. How expensive are they now?

>> No.7698483

>>7698376
Each cart is over a hundred leafbux on ebay, with some listed close to two hundred.

>> No.7698497

>>7688105
If no one buys this shit the price will drop but fags keep wasting money on stupid shit

>> No.7698501

>>7698376
>Sapphire, Emerald, and FireRed
>$64, $150, and $99

>> No.7698504

>>7697551
For a second I thought you did have proof but refusing something so simple is all the proof I need.

>> No.7698526

are these really that expensive? I find CIB american emerald for 21€

>> No.7700409

>>7698504
Watching you seethe and cope is all the entertainment I need. How does it feel to be so retarded you think it's difficult to stamp a number on a label? Does it hurt when you try to remember how to tie your shoes?

>> No.7700521

>>7688105
Why would you even care about the box for a handheld game? Even if it costs $60 loose, that's nothing for at least 20 hours of fun.

>> No.7701412

>>7700409
Still no proof.

>> No.7701680

>>7701412
Still stupid, seething, and coping.

>> No.7701697
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7701697

>>7688105
>have all original cartridges; 2 rubys and leafgreen even
Feels good man. I should learn to change the timer batteries though, and get a working gba + link cable to get the full gen 3 experience where I can connect them to each other and the gamecube games.
I always wanted to do a full "100%" of emerald legit where I use all of the games to fill the whole pokedex fair and swuare, but never got around to it, and the notion of essentially playing the same games 2/3x sorta scared me off of it.
One of these days...

>> No.7702998

>>7701697
Same, I've also got Colosseum and XD, with a GC to GBA cable.
I'll get around to completing that dex someday.

>> No.7703573

>>7702998
I'm still missing colosseum personally. I would have liked to get the jirachi disk too but checking now Colosseum is as expensive as the bonus disk was last time I checked it.

>> No.7704084

>>7701680
>coping without proof

>> No.7704252

>>7694456
Home has support for all of the old Pokemon

>> No.7704283

Just wait for covid to die and things should go back down. Not all the way back to where they were pre-pandemic, but down nonetheless. Almost all desirable games made before like 2008 have nearly doubled in the last year, look at the sold listing prices for Chrono Trigger right now, it's not even that rare of a game. Considering I got it for $70 a few years ago from a store, where you're obviously going to pay more, the current state of retro game collecting is insane.

>> No.7704302

>>7688105
When scalpers figured out they can be parasites

>> No.7704308

>>7689495
They also have super limited space. An apartment in Kyoto is like the same of one American room and somehow they still fit a washer oven sink bathroom.

The only people hoarding over there are Otaku with mental problems but even then they need room for their coomer shit

>> No.7704315

>>7689928
That's true people who actually play games just use a flashcart because theyre not after reddit upvotes

>> No.7704319

>>7690494
There are people who unironically buy baseball cards to try to make money

>> No.7704325

>>7694187
Nobody is waiting they're just buying Chink carts or Ukranian flash

>> No.7704332
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>>7704084
Yes, when your teachers tell you to read the text book instead of spending hours trying to prove to a dumb kid that 1+1=2 it's totally because they're coping.

>> No.7704782

>>7702998
>XD
fucking kys

>> No.7705319

>>7704332
Where's the book? Where's the proof?

>> No.7707163

>>7705319
https://www.google.com/
https://www.google.com/

>> No.7707379

>>7707163
That's just the library. What book? Where's the proof?

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7707783

>>7707379
>SEETHING
kek

>> No.7708110

I only ever owned Pokemon Yellow, I think Silver and Crystal. Grew out of it after that.