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8117901 No.8117901 [Reply] [Original]

>try to buy WarioWare Twisted
>US version starting bid is $80 plus tip
>Jap version is just $23
>look up other games
>other old Japanese games are cheaper than their US counterpart

Why did no one tell me about this?

>> No.8117994

>>8117901
>amerisois obsessively drive the price up
damn i didnt realize until now how badly i want non english western releases

>> No.8118094

>>8117901
more people speak english than japanese

>> No.8118212 [DELETED] 

>why is [item less in demand] less expensive than [item more in demand]

in all fields

>> No.8118410

Because most people don't speak Japanese, and Japan has a more throwaway culture when it comes to media compared to the West. I feel it also has something to do with them taking better care of their stuff. 80 bucks buys you a loose cartridge of FF3 US, or boxed copies of 4, 5, and 6 for the SFC. Could probably get even better prices if you buy from Yahoo auctions through a proxy, since you won't have to pay the filthy gaijin tax.

>> No.8119393

I actually did tell you man. All my collection was imported games.

>> No.8119427

Imports are always cheaper
Here in my chosen european shithole NTSC-U games are cheaper than PAL versions and NTSC-J games are basically worthless
A decent amount of jap imports are fully playable even if you don't speak japanese

>> No.8119429

>>8117901
>why do americans only want games in english? It's really weird isn't it

>> No.8119439

23 dollars is insanely overpriced for cart only of that game. That's a healthy gaijin tax right there.
If you haven't started learning Japanese by now, you're probably too late to take adequate advantage of this. The market will be made retarded soon because there are a lot of people discovering this fact now that American prices are truly untenable.
That said people will definitely be buying Japanese games just to have them with no Japanese comprehension, making the games even more likely to rot on shelves unplayed than American coomlector copies.

>> No.8119457

>>8117901
what are some other games that are unemulatable? I want to see if all the prices are insane

>> No.8119461

>>8119457
Boktai, or Pokemon Pinball which had rumble in the cartridge.
Technically both games are perfectly "emulatable" but I know what you're getting at.

>> No.8119463

>>8119457
Boktai? Technically emulatable but no sensor. Also, Kirby tilt b rumble.

>> No.8119464

This is why I always tell people to buy consoles from Japan and use flash carts or mods on them. Helps if you're also willing to open them up and do some repair work too.

>> No.8119470

feels good to have picked up the US one for $20 just a few years ago

>> No.8119484

I'm unironically opening up debt to buy this stuff at this point.
I'm buying

>> No.8119490

>>8119461
Pokemon Pinball is emulatable. You just wont get any rumble feature basically forcing it into a perminant rumble turned off.
>>8119457
Boktai along with Kirby Tilt N' Tumble (Both have already been said in this thread.)

>> No.8119745

there are patches for all those gimmick-games.

>> No.8120069

Do GBA flashcarts let you play this and yoshi?

>> No.8120179

>>8117901
>playing game in some language I can’t read that costs money is preferable to emulating the english game
fucking retard

>> No.8120183

>>8120179
Notice that big thing protruding from the cartridge like a tumor? People like you shouldn't post.

>> No.8120219

>>8120179
You can't emulate this

>> No.8120225

>>8120219
You can if you want to dump a barrel of cope on it and use the patch. Then you get to spam inputs on your keyboard instead of playing the game how it was intended to be played and post on /vr/ about how anything else other than emulation shouldn't exist and how your inferior experience is actually better.

>> No.8120234

>>8120183
>>8120225
It's called a phone, dipshits. It's as close as it gets to the actual experience.

>> No.8120235
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8120235

>>8120234
Close but still a load of cope and no cigar. Have fun with your Angry Birds machine, child.

>> No.8120256

>>8120235
Do you store your epic memes created by the so called zoomers on your failing plastic as well?

>> No.8120263

>>8120256
If my plastic housed consoles fail I fix them by replacing parts. Just like you would do with any machine you run emulators on. Just like the piece of shit I'm typing this on lmao. It's due for some repairs but it seems Asus parts aren't that easy to get. It's literally easier for me to fix my fucked up 15+ year old game consoles than it is for me to fix my computer

>> No.8120317

>>8117901
>Why did no one tell me about this?
This has been common knowledge for like 20 years now. not even just on /vr/, its just common knowledge on any video game board.

>> No.8120319

Please don't start directing coomlectors to the Japanese market. You're gonna ruin it even more for people who actually play games. I'm already seeing prices spike for platformers because you don't need to know Japanese for them.

>> No.8120994

>>8120319
too late, youtube-fgt-dudebros already did

>> No.8121431

>>8120069
They boot. I don't know any that have a sensor. Back as a teen I emulated it on the Wii and used the Wii remote as the sensor

>> No.8121438

>>8120179
>needing to know Japanese to play WarioWare?

Are you really telling me you can't figure out what you need to do in these games without text, you fucking brainlet?

I understand some Japanese anyway. All of the Hiragana and Katakana, plus about 400 Kanji. Get wrecked, nerd

>> No.8121890

>>8119490
>You just wont get any rumble feature
Huh? Sameboy supports rumble

>> No.8121936

>>8120319
Lol get a flashcart faggot :O

>> No.8121937

>>8121936
Expensive

>> No.8121943

>>8117901
Because you need to be 18 to get told the truth

>> No.8121998

>>8119457
>unemulatable
Bro, use your phone. I just did a playthrough of this game on my phone and the gyro worked flawlessly.

>> No.8122002

>>8119429
For a lot of games, language barrier isn't a problem. The term import-friendly exists for a reason, lots of games aren't text heavy, and a surprising number of games are entirely in English in their Japanese release.

>> No.8122003

>>8117901
>look up super nintendo on ebay
>$200-$250
>for a 30 year old computer
I hate collectors so fucking much its unreal

>> No.8122007

>>8120319
I knew it. The "don't buy Japanese" crowd just wants to buy the games for themselves.

>> No.8122046

>>8121937
You can always get the cheap Chinese clones until you stop being broke.

>> No.8122050

>>8122003
Get a super famicom and a flashcart instead.

>> No.8122054

>>8119457
kirby tilt n tumble
And if someone has found a way to emulate it please tell me

>> No.8122139

>>8121936
No, I'm not a poorfag. It's more an inconvenience than anything.

>> No.8122195

>>8122050
I am retarded and didnt even think of this. These things are like $200 less than an SNES. Nostalgia isn't worth that much holy shit

>> No.8122212

>>8122195
I did it before the prices got jacked up because I've always thought the snes was ugly and I never liked the feeling of the power switch.

>> No.8122424

>>8119439
How's your waifu pillow holding up?

>> No.8122449

>>8122054
I'm pretty sure a 3DS or Vita can do that. They're a tad too slow for WW Twisted, but GB should be no problem.

>> No.8122461

>>8117994
They made less of them than in Japan, you fpwp "female".

>> No.8122465

>>8122003
You could always aim for stuff collectors don't want, like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124748532501?hash=item1d0b978b15%3Ag%3Af00AAOSwy%7EtgrDhS&LH_BIN=1
I got my SNES and NES in a bundle for 20 bucks because they were dirty as shit. Both cleaned up fine, though. Came with controllers, too.

>> No.8122780
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8122780

Take the PAL pill

>> No.8122809

>>8119490
GBA emulators let you control the sunlight sensor

>> No.8122819

>>8122809
That's not the same as actually playing the game as it was intended. You're just gamesharking your way through it so your pasty face never has to see the light of day.

>> No.8122836

>>8122780
But I don't WANT to play games at 50 FPS.

>> No.8122845

>>8122819
You could just program a phone emulator to use the camera to detect sunlight.

>> No.8122874

>>8122845
Go ahead and show me the source for the plug-in you wrote for that.

>> No.8123013

>>8122139
How is that an inconvenience?

>> No.8123126

>>8119439
>That said people will definitely be buying Japanese games just to have them with no Japanese comprehension
This is the saddest part. I'm guessing RPGs will probably hold out the longest from price increases, but it won't take long before they're on par with the burger prices.

>> No.8123171

>>8122780
I hate Europe too much, only pal game I have is picross 3d 2

>> No.8123186

Japanese games have kept their value pretty well, even through the pandemic and every 18 year old spending their Biden bucks on video games. It has gone up some but people are going to want the versions they grew up with so I think the Japanese versions will be fine.

>> No.8123219

>>8122836
A good number of them give you the option to play at 60hz
http://www.benoitren.be/60hz-palps2.html

>> No.8123224

>>8122780
man even pal versions are getting pricey I bought that 5 years ago for 25 bucks