Buyfag/collector thread - Christmas 2016 Edition

What have you bought this year, Holla Forums?

This thread is not only for Christmas presents, but also for all of your purchases in 2016.

Whip out them e-peens, boys. Time for measurin'.

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I bought not a single video game entire year, since they all garbage and i coudn't even find a job.

Life is pretty great.

I have the rare copy of the Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition!

Just to let you guys know, Amazon's warehouse deals is having a 25% off certain video games right now, just bought a ton of gamecube games for a decent price.

There's actually only one game i'm currently looking for: Kirby Super Star Ultra.

I don't give a shit if it's used, and if it's missing everything BUT the cartridge, as long as the cartride is original.
But getting a copy is proving to be more difficult than i was expecting.
If i had a car and a license i'd be able to get a fucking copy right now for a reasonable price and it's driving me mad.

I might have bought a copy of Halo: MCC but that could have been last year.

Day 412 since personal collecting stopped
Games are way more expensive than before, and with an actual scarcity kicking in
Saw F-Zero for the SNES, damaged, for 35 bucks
Dear diary, please let all jews/scalpers disappear

Is yakuza5 worth 10 britbucks?

I haven't bought any physical games all year. I've been buyfagging manga, anime figures, and some movies and anime I really like.

I bought myself a ps4, Bloodborne Ultimate Ed, King of fighters XIV Premiuim Ed, Nitroplus Blasterz, God Eater 2 Day 1 Ed, Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Collectors Ed, Senran Kagura Estivial Versus Endless Summer Ed, Exist Archive, Project X Zone 2, Steins;gate Collectors Ed, Steins;gate 0 Collectors Ed, and Disgea 5 Launch Ed.

I think that's about everything, might have forgot a game or two. I also have a 2TB SSHD coming in for the ps4 as the 500GB standard was too small. I spent around 5-6 hundred for all of that.

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If it's all physical and in dollars, it seems standard to me, good if you actually squeeze them all

I bought a SNES with Starfox and Super Mario All-Stars (both unboxed) earlier this year, so I'm hunting for more games for that now.

I have realised that I am somehow way better at Super Mario Maker than I am at actual Mario games I'm on World 8 of Lost Levels though. The controls are much tighter than I remembered.

Not bothered picking much up. Just been burning games to play before just resorting back to lurk here.

Everywhere I usually go for old vidya now, the prices are either a scam, or there's nothing interesting there. I've tried Kijiji, but nobody ever responds back when I ask them about what they're offering.

Collecting is sad to see. I wish you would stop wasting money.
The saddest is people who collect dvd's or blu-ray. They will just make a new one for ultrastingray HD in 5 years. Then supermondodisc HHD 5 years after that.

I'll take a few pictures later since I'm still waiting on something in mail (got to love when it arrives in town but too late in the day to ship to your actual house). Hasn't been the best year for pickups compared to prior ones, but still not that bad.


I think this whole year I only bought like three or four actually new games (and none of which being for current gen home consoles either). The rest have all been preowned ones.


You're actually having trouble finding one? I recently saw a complete one (or at least case/cover/cart) around where I live for maybe $20-25.
I can understand not having a car, but how do you not have your license yet? I mean, you're not the only one that doesn't (a friend of mine is older than me and doesn't have one), but it makes trying to search for stuff a lot easier.


Are you just trying online, or locally as well? While a lot of places do tend to go off ebay prices, some local places I know of around where I live don't quite know what they're getting in at times. The multimedia places are especially prone to that, though it does work both ways (they don't know what they're getting in, and either ask way too little or way too much).

I'm trying both, but haven't been able to find anything interesting from either online or locally.

Ah, I know what you mean. Last few years were really good for finding stuff where I live, but this year there hasn't been all that much; not sure if it's mostly that I've had less to be on the look out for, or stores wising up. Actually, lately I've been having better luck with anime boxed sets than vidya (like Baccano! for $16, or Wild Arms: Twilight Venom for $6 with discounts). Anyhow, I'd still recommend putting more effort into looking locally, simply because there's still a better chance you might come across a place that's not adhering to the idea of charging the same scalper prices everyone online is. Also, maybe it's just me, but I fucking HATE having to sift through tons of "Like New" condition games on Amazon and the like, only for 90% of them to all be cart or disc only (as if when the game launched it had no box or case or anything).

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Guess I need to take a chilly walk to the mailbox.


You don't have space for a shelving unit or two? I've got a pair of them that I use (one probably about 4.5 feet wide, the other 1.5 feet wide, both with six shelves) for mine, and they really don't take up that much room at all. Still, I suppose it depends on just how many games you're talking about.

And there's nothing in the mailbox despite tracking saying it was delivered, because of course there isn't. Fucking USPS.

Don't worry, I'll still try locally. Even if some places are pulling shit like a used copy of Mario 64 for $50 or Pokemon Emerald with a dead internal battery for $40.

You want ridiculous prices? One of the hit or miss stores I know of priced Kuon a while back for $160. To be fair, that was the average for a used copy online too, but they priced it that way in the store itself, and apparently still managed to find a buyer.

That game was so expensive you couldn't even use discounts on it (they give -20% vouchers if you do surveys, but they only work on games from $1 to $60).

Whoops, forgot I still had do not bump on.


Some stuff never sees rereleases, be it games or movies/TV shows. Just saying.

I hate when that happens

Have 2 furnitures like pic related and and one old big ass furniture full of vidya from PC boxes to PS4, books, mangos and special editions games.

Oh wait, guess it shipped to my old address because my new one still hadn't gotten cleared as the default on Amazon. Fucking damn it.


It's just weird that they so readily do that, yet every so often I can find a $50+ game for half, if not less. I'm really not too sure what the logic there is.

Well, that doesn't seem too bad spacing-wise, though I'd wager it depends entirely on the size of the room in question. I mean, my old shelves were a tad cramped at the old apartment I was in, but in my current room I could probably fit another two or three.

All physical except Bloodborne. All of them were heavily discounted and games that made me want to buy the ps4 in the first place, so i think i did pretty damn well.

Yeah, for SOME reason, most ps4 games are cheap as fuck, even the shit that'd normally be expensive as fuck, like anime shit and jrpgs that aren't imports are around 20-30 bucks. Hope you didn't spend too much on bludborne though, walmart was selling brand new copies off for, like, 15 bucks not too long ago.

Anyways, i bought a ton of shit myself, no consoles, but four hundred bucks got me Shadowgate 64, Aidyn chronicles the first mage, Bio Freaks, Star wars Episode 1 Racer, Smash bros Meele(no manual and the cover's a little fucked, but for 30 bucks i won't complain), X-men Next Dimension, Rouge Squadron III, Godzilla Destroy all monsters meele, Summoner: Goddess Reborn, RE 0, Star fox adventures with some kind of E3 promo, Pokemon Coliseum bonus disk, Hashtag FE special edition, Sengoku Basura, Ar nosurge PS3, Killzone 3, BlazBlue Continum shift, Mei-Q, 2 Exist Archives, Stranger of Sword City, SAO lost song, Shinen the wanderer, and Sub Terrania
Most of it complete.

Might as well dump my recent pickups. Wild Arms was $25 (both WA1 and 2 have been going up a bit in price recently), Demon Gaze was $20, EOIII was $18 (had store credit, so all I had to pay out of pocket was $10), Ys: MoC was a gift (friend somehow got shipped a PAL copy; hoping NISA just reused XSEED's work and didn't botch the English script/code somehow), Tsugunai was also a gift, and both sets of FMA were $70 altogether (given that Funi didn't renew the rights and claims they won't be printing anymore copies, the sets go for a good more than that these days from what I've seen). Also had a 2005 boxed set of Kino's Journey for $20 that I accidentally had shipped to the wrong address and now need to find the best way to get into my own hands.


JRPGs do tend to hold value a bit higher than some other genres of games, though of course there's various factors that can make the difference between if they do or not (FF-tier sales, amount of demand, whether or not it got reprinted, etc).

Why would you even drop money on that? Or was that all some bundle and you didn't have a choice in it?

I bought it because it was complete, 25% off used, and i want to both be mad, and have something to sweeten the deal when i eventually sell my fucking wii u.

Just purchased a consolized NEOGEO arcade board. I'm banking on the Flashcard that's being developed to keep the cost down. God help me if I have to buy too many Arcade Cartridges for this thing, they're expensive as shit.

Also now have the entire main series for Wild Arms, plus the entire anime as well. I suppose it's easier for anime to come west than manga (at least back then; Twilight Venom was originally aired in 1999 in Japan, but only came west in 2005 if ACF having the first episode as a promotion of the anime is anything to go off of), but it seems a bit weird that every game as well as the anime came over, but the standalone manga, Flower Thieves, didn't and had to be scanned and fan-translated.

Similar thing happened with the Golgo 13 manga, they published two stories for promotion of the NES games then that was pretty much it for almost 20 years. Meanwhile all of the anime stuff was dubbed, even the 80's movie.

I could understand if it was some really long work, but Flower Thieves was a simple two volume affair, and it's clear that despite not having Final Fantasy level popularity, Wild Arms was clearly worth their time to bring over (to NA anyhow; PAL got shafted on WA2 and ACF) in other formats since they kept on doing so.

Shin Megami Tensei 3
Stalker trilogy

I am an American citizen by birth, but it really sucks not having Wild Arms 2 where I live now. I liked the first one.

On the off chance you've not played it, it's a very good entry in the series, but the translation could have used more editing for better text flow. Though, I suppose that lack of editing might have been what allowed some things to slip through that would have otherwise been culled. Would be nice to have it properly retranslated someday; shame I don't know moon and have no idea how easy it would be to rip the script from a PS1 game.

Pretty awesome user. It's cool to see somebody dedicated to a franchise. I might be posting my Maxis collection sometime soon; including SimEarth for the TurboGrafx; evidently something that's rare and isn't available in ROM/ISO form (I haven't looked that hard anyway).

Slim pickings for this month where I'm at, my neighbor gave me a Casino FunPak for the Game Gear; and I bought Tarzan, The Ape Man on LaserDisc.

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True, I won't argue against that, and these days I'm fine with just doing that for really expensive past gen games, or in some cases entire systems where the library is just too expensive (at the very least it makes for a good "try it before you even consider buying it" method). I'm just saying that some shows and games simply aren't in line for being given the blu-ray treatment, let alone rereleased or reprinted. Which is annoying for stuff that's actually pretty good but either failed to sell well, or simply didn't have a chance do to a low amount even being shipped out.


Thanks. Here's Shadow Hearts as well. The good news is that neither series was all that expensive to pick stuff up for, though it certainly helps that I found ACF and Koudelka cheap, while SH1 was a gift.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, so I'll wait until I go back. There's a lot of JRPGs I missed due to ignorance.

I could probably handle the text speed anyway. There are a few moments in the first game in which it was slower than usual.

Go back to visit or move back? You can always get it on the US PSN if you have a PS3 or Vita set up with a NA account (think it's like $6 or so normally, but occasionally gets into NA flash sales), or if you have a CFW PSP, you can always just toss an eboot on there. It's not the easiest game to find an actual copy of (though I'd say it's more uncommon than actually rare), but prices are still pretty reasonable, likely due to critics back in the day not exactly liking it that much. Prices on both WA1 and 2 are creeping up though. Really, I'm still not sure why WA2 didn't reach PAL areas.

Same, though it was more a mix of not having access to much in the way of games at all when younger, and not getting into JRPGs until maybe five years back.

I didn't mean a text speed issue. It's that some lines in the English script just aren't written that well and can require multiple passes to really understand; there's also one puzzle near the end that was translated so poorly that no one will fault you for just looking up (it's pretty much real world trivia anyhow). On a related note, I'm not sure what, if anything, could have been done for Liz' dialogue to make it both intelligible in English and still retain the manner of speech. That gecko uses some sort of very Japanese centric double-speak in Japan from what I hear, but he comes off as a gibbering non-sequiter spouting lunatic in English (which I've seen some western fans say they're okay with, given that he and Ard are alien lizardmen), giving the world such great lines as "Gentlemen don't like violence, but love the violence of words. Prepare for word torture! I can't keep quiet. I'm full of dangerous phrases that should be censored."

They actually gave away the fucking game away for free at one point, along with some PSP shit though they didn't advertise it.

Well, you asked to show off for this year OP. Here are my rarest pickups for 2016. The Pokemon Gold is sealed.

Hope you didn't have to pay too much for all of those.


Free? Best I've seen them do was both WA1 and 2 for $.99 each in that twentieth anniversary flash sale a while back.

Ehhh, only real good deal was Pokemon I got for $50.

That's a shame (I myself have managed Yakusa 2 and Fire Emblem: PoR for about $12 and $10 respectively in the last few years). Hope you get your money's worth though.

Oh yeah, I am getting value out of this stuff for sure. And if anything, unless a big crash happens none of this is going to go down in price. And even if a crash happens I'll be happy anyway as everything else will be cheaper.

Yeah, it was very quiet though, IIRC they did it during a flash sale and didn't really advertise it, only reason i knew about it was because i sorta kept my ear on the ground for vita news at the time.


Even if a crash were to happen i don't think it'd change much, people aren't just going to suddenly hock off something they paid 50+ bucks on for mere pennies, and some games are so rare anyways that it wouldn't change a thing.

Yeah, it's always a it funny to see stuff you picked up at prices you may not have been feeling quite that good about at the time just keep going up. Personally, I don't particularly want to become a filthy reseller, but it feels good to look back and see how much you might have saved in retrospect. I bought a copy of BKO a few years back for $25 complete (store I went to had just gotten in it maybe an hour before I got there, and the manager said that was maybe the third time he'd seen it in the last few years), and now it averages like $50+ around here. Hell, I've seen one store manage to sell a copy at $100. I have to wonder if XC Wii had something to do with the price creeping up more (as opposed to general Gamecube price hikes and BKO selling rather poorly anyhow).

As for a crash, it would depend on the nature of it. A "modern vidya" crash would perhaps affect current systems and games, but I don't think that would do much to affect demand and prices for older stuff (IE: the issue to cause the crash would be complete loss of faith in new releases). A retro crash though could affect prices of older games, but it strikes me that unless the market gets flooded, or the average plebs wise up to how much of a markup scalpers are asking compared to what a game averaged when current was, I don't see that happening that much. Especially when you've got a lot of people that grew up with various systems and are now adults with more access to money via jobs that either don't notice or don't care about the markup on games they grew up with or missed out on.


For some reason I just can't picture them giving it away for free. I mean, some companies have made stuff absolutely free for a short time (Mirror's Edge comes to mind), but still.

I honestly can't remember the last time I purchased a physical game. Maybe 2006ish?

Yeah, thats my thing, once a game goes into my collection I never sell it. I play through everything or at least try and I could never bring myself to get rid of stuff. I never resell of scalp stuff, hell I've tried and I'm awful at it anyway so why bother.

But I mean a crash more in that the hype of retro games dies down and the people who collected the game for just nostalgia end off selling it off once it isn't "cool" anymore. Having been around for all the Superbus threads it seems Japan is already there with games being really cheap, minus the crazy rare items. Majority of stuff seemed to only be a couple dollars. of course there may be other reasons such as no one has space for physical stuff etc. But you get the idea

Guess I could add El Shaddai to this since a friend got a PS3 copy for me; sealed one too. Feels good to have that one off my list of things to look for since there's been no local copies in a long time (nearest ones being a good 50+ miles roundtrip to Gamestops around the state capital, and most likely just being disc only.


Yeah, I'd certainly like prices to drop back down to better levels, especially for some systems. However, I think that if anything it's just going to get worse. And it's not just the scalpers, or even the people that buy their shit and justify their prices, that are to blame. Where I am, the sheer amount of Gamestops drove out every other used game focused store in town (IE: not the multimedia places), to the point I still have to go into the surrounding towns to find much of anything with a theme of older vidya. And what that in turn has done is make stuff that's really fucking common become that much more expensive, because as far as local options to sift through, there's a lot less open than there used to be. Of course, the surviving stores in the other towns know about the notion of localized artificial scarcity (as I've come to call the situation), and will happily mark stuff up even ridiculously common games as if to have a "we're one of the few places that still carry this" fee. Hell, I recently saw Crash 2 and 3 at a bookmans for $25+ each; that stuff is so common, that I could find Crash 2 for $5 complete maybe two years back at one of the multimedia places.

I've heard in the past that the way they handle the aftermarket is a lot different than the west. Differences in physical treatment of copies of games, keeping stuff more readily in circulation, not acting like the SNES/SFC is scalper heaven, etc. It's worth noting though that for genres/subgenres that may not do so hot in the west in sales, depending on the game, they can do much, MUCH better in sales there than here, resulting in stuff like Mother 2 being a lot cheaper than Earthbound here (though, I suppose maybe there's a difference in fanbase out there than here as well; actually still need the give the Mother series a go, but I've heard the western fanbase can be pretty cancerous and may have purposefully inflated the prices for Earthbound on their own, or something).

Nah, Baten kaitos was always considered one of the rarer games for the console along with stuff like cubivore, some basketball game, and fucking Rave Master(Shitty power stone kind of game, that rare, but still somewhat cheap because nobody cares) so it's only natural that it'd go up with the other shit.


Can't say the same myself, though i just trade/sell off the shit i don't want for some new games, and not because for Handrubbing.png
That's just because nobody wants to read or learn jap, but if a game happens to be english friendly(For example, Sin & Punishment on the n64, or IA/VT on the Vita), then it'll have some value to it.

Say, the LRG Skullgirls release starts shipping next month, right?

Just bought Sonic Generations, DMC3 and Rocket league on PC. Played the first 2 before but want the PC versions. Rocket league seems fun but needs larger teams.

Ah, found an article explaining it. archive.is/DB5rI

As long as LRG actually gets all the stuff together in time. They always end up complaining about manufacturing issues. I personally dont expect it to ship until february.

I see. Not sure how I didn't hear of it. Maybe I didn't have a Vita at the time.


I know, it's just that as of a few years back it was still kind of cheap while a lot of other stuff had already shot up. I'm just wondering if there's an actual cause to pinpoint, like how you can trace a massive spike in the price of PoR back to Fire Emblem: Awakening coming west and getting ludicrously popular.

I got Bloodborne and the dlc for 20 bucks on the psn store, they were on sale. Normal price of the dlc by itself is 20 dollarydoos so i think it was a great deal. I'll still buy a physical disc as it's as cheap as 7 smackaroos near me.

Man this fucking sale, complete copies of WA2 for 15 bucks, KoF evolution on the dreamcast for 16 bucks. I may or may not have fucked up on the dynasty warriors game, not sure.

Pokemon Snap for $10, yay or nay? I wanna ask you guys for advice.

That's a pretty good deal, yeah pick it up.

Doesn't sound too bad, but do be aware of what you're getting into.


La Pucelle has a PSP port that's been fan-translated; not sure if it undoes the censorship I hear the game has though (something about a religious themed game having religious iconography removed because the publisher didn't feel leaving them in would be safe to do).

To the people who think japanese games are cheap as fuck, may i present to you the wonderful world of gamecube imports. Not pictured: shit like the Component cables, the aussie trying to hock off a sealed copy of Jap FE path of radiance for 3k
It's crazy though alot of the jap versions seem to hold the same value as their US counterparts, if not moreso in some cases, like right now baten kaitos origins is 55 bucks, but the original is almost 58 bucks! that's more than twice what the US version costs.

You can get complete copies on ebay all day long for $25 range. I doubt you'll find better irl unless it's from a normalfag who doesn't know what they have.

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That's probably the best price you're going to get unless the current Pokemon craze fizzles out.

I just wanted to cuddle with my waifu.

That's awful, user. Only time I ordered from the middle kingdom was an LCD screen from Hong Kong, and it came to burgerland just fine.

I wouldn't ever order something straight from mainland China.

the cotton games are sort of iconic. They have amazing music, excellent game play, great visuals…and cost an entire pay checks worth to get a hold of. All but one is Japan only, too.

Got my sixteenth copy of Sonic 2 for SMS, Predator 2 and Ghostbusters for SMS, and Tomcat Alley for Mega CD. Might pick up some DC games soon.

They removed all the crosses, smoking and toned down a brutal scene because reasons

Oh, it's worse than I thought.
>Been charged double the price

A lot of them already have to some degree, thanks to Gamestop trashing the cases and manuals for what used copies they had; occasionally you'll find a Gamestop that still has a small selection of complete preoenwed DS games since the official policy to trash them has ended (it's how I found KitN for $7 complete), but if they need more space in their display cabinets, into the trash they go.

Note that the price hikes mostly apply to non shovelware games that have some amount of actual demand and didn't see reprints, and the harder to find ones suffer the biggest price increases (like Avalon Code or Endless Frontier).


Why? You trying to become the next Legendia-user?

I want to make a chair out of them.

Found a complete copy of Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled earlier for $18. From the sound of things I saved a good bit on it (seems like recently it's been close to $60 complete online). Do wish whoever was responsible for the game manual was smart/diligent enough to have obtained high res official art to use; instead it's like they took thumbnails and blew them up to larger sizes (which doesn't look good).

I hope to move back eventually, since my stuff is still locked up other there. My parents plan to move back sometime soon, but it may be a while for me.

Ah, I misunderstood you when "text flow". My bad.

I can probably handle that anyway. I might just emulate it until I can return State-side and find a physical copy. There's plenty of collection-worthy PAL stuff in the meantime anyway.

This probably counts as "reddit spacing". I didn't realise when I was typing.

Yeah, it's still a great game any way you play it, just that the western script has some issues. Shame that it got rather panned out here, and some people at places like IGN wound up just calling Wild Arms "Sony's filler RPG series", like there was no value in playing the games other than as a way to blow time between bigger profile JRPG releases like Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts.

Also, having since popped the cartridge in to test the game, and finding three save files with characters ranging in level from the 80s to 99, I feel safely reassured that this copy is playable from start to finish rather than glitching into unplayability as I've read some people say happened to them before. Was a bit worried that I might have to track down multiple cartridges until I found a properly working one.

I asked this in the PS2 thread, but I'll ask here as well. If I wanted to collect fighting games, which system would be best? The OG Xbox or the PS2?

Bought on Steam
>Hive Jump to play with bros personally know creators since Im from STL

Physical retro
>Wild Guns want to get the Rearmed but no PS4
>all repros from Ali Express, I just want to add them to my collection, not spend $200+ for one of them.. fuck..

Dude, just get one of the 1XX-in-1 carts from Rakuten or AliEx. I have a 33 in 1 cart, and it has all of the Metal Slugs, and enough NOT-KOF-GAMES to make up for all of the KOF hacks on it.

I really don't see much of a point in buying repro carts. At the very least, the ones I've seen locally for the more popular fan-translated games (Fire Emblem, Star Ocean SFC, Tales of Phantasia SFC, etc) are all a good $50 each and not even the real deal. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there's still warning screens on the carts about paying to play a fan-translation. I like my physical stuff, but I'd much rather emulate in the cases where a game (or system overall) is too fucking expensive, or for fan-translated or otherwise out of region games, where someone involved declared your region wasn't worth bringing that particular game to. About the only game I've really considered a repro cart for (and a fan translated one at that) has been Mother 3, mainly because from what I've heard, playing it emulated winds up causing issues for the rhythm aspect to battles (which I hear isn't make-or-break, but I do like to be able to fully experience a game). Just my thoughts on it though.

Oh snap, i just picked up Nintendo Puzzle collection, Smash bros DX() and Mr Driller for the gamecube


The real Xbox one has better video quality, and cheaper games, but there's nothing exclusive-wise that's spectacular, and it's library pales in comparison to the PS2, off the top of my head, all it really has is Cap vs SNK 2, MvC 2, some weird shit like Kung fu Chaos or Kabuki warriors and the mortal kombat games.


Well, the first one did have a low budget feel to it, so i can't really blame them, no idea about the other 4.


Really, you should just pay the 100 or so bucks for a flash cart if you're just going to buy repros. Only reason i have any at all is because GBA flash carts are shit.

Media.Vision didn't have much of a development history at the time of Wild Arms 1 being in development, and their prior efforts at getting into the video games had been Crime Crackers and Rapid Reload, the former of which was Japan only and the latter of which did come west but only for Europe, and EU critics didn't exactly like it. I didn't exactly feel WA1 was low budget, but there is a noticeable difference in polish of the combat and especially the 3D graphics, even between WA1 and WA2. With Sony being the rights owner, maybe they were more willing to give Media.Vision better funding after WA1 was well enough received (not having FFVII out at the time and how most PS1 JRPGs afterward inevitably got compared to it might have helped), or perhaps Media.Vision simply got more of a feel for something they could turn into an actual series? I suppose they're certainly not a big budget dev the way, say, Squaresoft or Namco Tales Studio have been; they strike me as more of a AA mid-budget sort than actually low or high budget. Either way, the idea of calling the main series a company has made and become known for, that actually for a while defied Sony's trend towards abandoning franchises after a generation (if not merely a single game or two), as just being "filler" rubs me the wrong way.

Speaking of Media.Vision, looking through what all they've worked on before, most of it seems reasonable (Rapid Reload even seemed to have elements of it repurposed into WA1), but then you have fucking "Sneakers", an Xbox game about a war between mice and rats or something, which just seems completely out of left field for them.

I've considered it for the SNES/SFC, but I suppose first I'd have to get a system and possibly a CRT if the wires aren't the sort that could be hooked up to an HDTV (or routed through a splitter box) and set to 4:3 display. I mean, my Vizio's has the now standard HDMI ports, but is old enough to still have sockets for composite and component cords in the back.

Trails of Cold Steel 2, Project Diva X, and Nier. I mainly chipped away at the backlog this year

No shame in that, especially given how current gen's been (at least as far as consoles; I suppose handhelds are a bit of a different matter). It's what I mostly do, and it's nice to able to play an enjoyable game for the first time. Only real downside is that there's next to no warrant for discussion of them a this point, especially so for games that weren't all that popular even at the time they released.

I'm looking to buy some Japanese versions of the GB/GBC Pokemon games. What's the acceptable price range for those games? I don't particularly care about sealed/unsealed or whatever, just having the box, the game, all the manuals and other shit that came with it is what matters.

Right now japs are selling all 7 pokemon games for 37 bucks
www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-GameBoy-7-Pokemon-set-Green-Red-Yellow-Blue-Silver-Gold-Crystal-GB-GBC-/272251592797?

I would prefer to have them with the boxes and the manuals and shit.

Would it be particularly difficult or weird (or more expensive) to grab the games that cheap and buy that other stuff separate?

>try in on my sister's 3DS, it works fine.
Godamnit

The only thing I bought this year was a used copy of EDF for my bloodbourn weeb machine and A fictional hard bound 275 page lore book about a MMO I play

You are disgusting and your physcial garbage that has accumulated on your body has now fucked up the connectors on your 3ds. Take a fucking shower and clean your room for god's sake.

Depends on how readily available such stuff is to buy as standalone items. I try to only buy complete myself, at least as far as games that had actual cases (trying to get complete copies of games with cardstock boxes would be both a pain and expensive), but I'll occasionally make an exception if I find a good deal on something incomplete and can find a readily available manual for sale online.

You might want to check locally as well if you know of anywhere local that both stocks older games and is willing to take imports in. I know of a few stores like that around where I live, and they're even a small chain that can call up their other locations to check for stuff and then have it shipped to whichever location is closer to you. Import copies of stuff aren't a big focus, but they do take them in, especially if the system was region free and/or the game readily available to play without needing to know moon.

Also had another pretty decent find today as far as post-Christmas deals go. Multimedia place had Tales of Zestiria PS3 priced at $12, and I managed to get it for under $6 with discounts. While I suppose whether or not the game being worth a buy is up for debate, but it certainly beats how Fucking Gamestop wants $30 for their copies (having bumped the price back up from $15 to $30 a while back).

Given I know to have the benefit of post release analysis, rather low expectations due to that, and paid practically nothing, I'm assuming this will be a case like Wild Arms 4 was for me, where at worst I know firsthand what I'm talking about in ragging on the game, and at best stand a decent chance to at least get my money's (what little I paid) worth from it.

Checking locally is probably a dead-end pursuit, but I will take a look. The two shops I know of, one doesn't import, the other is gouge-central when it comes to anything not 'current.'

I feel like buying complete is probably the best route, given the only people who would sell standalone Jap boxes, manuals etc, are Japs in Japan itself, where I'm not.

Yeah, I assume that things would be much easier for you if that one exporter user was still active here, but he's been gone quite a while.

So would this be overpriced?

ebay.com/itm/1-2-week-GB-Nintendo-Pokemon-Green-Red-Yellow-Silver-Gold-Crystal-Boxed-Japanese-/112248969048?

Would have to know what the generally go for out there, but it seems like that lot averages out at about $22 per game.

I got an SD2SNES and a GBA Everdrive X5 because I got sick of hipster prices. I'm pretty happy, I can completely ignore the current year game industry and effectively never run out of shit to play. I'm also impressed enough to get flash carts for my other consoles eventually.

If you need more to add to the SNES one (assuming it also handles Japanese game files and romhacks just fine), Glory of Heracles IV just came out in English.

cursory glances at sold listings puts Red/Green at $30-40 a piece, Blue at $40-60,
Yellow $20-30, and Gold/Silver/Crystal $20.

Based on eBay, seems like a decent price.

Up to how much you really want them then, I'd say. You looking to just add them to a collection, or actually play them? Personally, I find it a bit redundant to have more than one game in an iteration of Pokemon, but that's just me.

Sure glad I still have my copy of HG, outer box and Pokewalker included.

Just kinda want to have them to have them. I might whip em out once in a while and play them, even though I can't speak moon.

I got 35 dollars in steam gift cards left. What should I buy? I've almost beat Super Meat Boy and It's one of my all-time favorites.

Well, I've heard that at the very least, stuff like Pokemon and Dragon Quest make for good ways to test knowledge of low level moonrunes. Still, that's a lot of money to drop on something just the have it, especially if you're not actually going to be able to understand stuff without outside help.

$23 per game, Pocket Monsters and not Pokemon, original Japanese with all the good shit that came with the original language, I would say yes. I would actually pick that up if I could afford the $160, but I'm broke because of fucking Christmas and will be broke until March. Oh well, there's always emulation.

I think Odin Sphere was the first physical thing I bought all year. Bought System Shock 1 of gog earlier. Been a real emulation heavy year for me I guess, got a free DS flascart.

Who buys so much vidya like in the OP but opens the shit? You can't even crack into most of that vidya if you have the means to afford it unless you're a trust fund baby or something.

GBA and PSP games are like the few consoles that DON'T suffer from hipsters.

Yeah, I only buy a handful of actually new games a year. Usually maybe two or so, but this past year's had a bit more of interest between the tail-end of the PS3's releases and a few Vita games.

Speaking of DS flash carts, anyone know of a good one that would work with a DS Lite? I saw a few cheap R4i: Renovation V2.20T carts around recently, but I really can't find any information on that type (doesn't help that the website address on the box is fucking dead now).

Bamp.

I have this year's spoils to post, but first photography to take.

In the meantime, what else have you picked up, Holla Forums?

Neat, LE Mana Kehmia and Shadow hearts from the new world for 21 bucks each.

Also think i just got the first season of DBZ Kai for free from walmart along with some clearance amiibos.

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Mana Khemia 1 is generally rather reasonably priced regardless of if it's the LE or not where I live (as a heads up, if you're looking for completeness, the soundtrack's "cover art" unfolds into the poster that the game came with if I remember correctly). It's MK2 that gets pricy; not sure if it sold poorly or simply not many were printed up out here, though I suspect either way it has to do with being a rather late PS2 release, two or three years after the PS3 was already out.

Still, nice job on both, though you might want to hold off on playing Shadow Hearts FtNW until beating the prior two games (it's a side game, but is set after and references events in Covenant, and it's not like both SH1 and SH:C aren't enjoyable games themselves).

With the PSP, it's understandable that not much is expensive to buy due to the nature of UMDs (though a few games like Crimson Gem Saga are surprisingly expensive for PSP games; baffling even in that case, as having played that I found it to be a disappointment, and certainly not worth dropping $30+ on) not having all that much demand. With the GBA though, while much of the library is indeed reasonable in price, there's a handful that are above $25 or so cart only, either due to hipsters or low sales, but even then only Ninja Five-0 is all that expensive at like $80-100. Certainly still better off in price than, say, the Gamecube's library (which got hit by scalpers the worst of the sixth gen libraries if you ask me).


Makes me feel lucky to be where I am, between knowing of one good chain (I just wish they had a closer store) and a number of multimedia shops that fuck up the pricing.

My collection items for this uear include Trails of the cold steel lion heart edition

The rest came from a guy who quit playing games.

Super Mario All Star limited edition
Kirby's dream collection
Legend of zelda Skyward sword limited edition,
Metriod prime trilogy limited edition. (Never opened)

Funny how there was more effort that went into the Kirby collection than the Mario one, in that it includes more games as well, extra stages, a "Kirby Museum", a soundtrack selection disc, and even a physical art folio or whatever.

How is it? I've always wanted a NEOGEO.

The only other thing that came with the all stars collection was a soundtrack and an art booklet. They should have had all the Mario games, up to the n64 in it. It would have made it more popular and less of a reason to do a limited run of it.

Perhaps there was some thought process of being able to charge more for less since it's Mario? Or maybe Sakurai just cared more about making sure the Kirby one was both a worthy buy and celebration of the series (which sadly didn't help, I remember copies rotting on the shelves until Best Buy and the like marked them down to $8, at which point they sold like hotcakes, most likely for the purpose of reselling online)? But yeah, certainly a bit lazy they didn't even bother to include any that weren't on the NES/FC.

I think it's the case of Nintendo getting a bit lazy and missing opportunities. Just like how they create limited supplies of things that get snatched up by scalpers. They sometimes think too much short term.

I remember the utter bullshit was XC Wii's NA release being shortprinted because "there's not enough of a consumer base to justify more" or whatever. Cue used prices shooting up to $100-120 for a while. Glad I dodged that bullet and bought it while new copies were still $50 or so. Really enjoyable game, but I'm not sure I'd have been able to say I got my money's worth had I had to pay double.

SHOULD I BUY ROCKET LEAGUE?

Bought a new GC & PS2 memory card, GBA SP AGS-101 mod, Pokemon: Gale Of Darkness, Advance Guardian Heroes, AstroBoy: Omega Force, and a replacement backwards compatible 60 GB PS3. That's all within the last two months or so.

Hope you didn't have to drop that much on all that. I rarely even see Astro Boy: Omega Factor around where I live; think the only copy around here is still a boxed one no one particularly feels like dropping $40 or more on.

no, i played if when i had PS+ i don't understand why people like it

this guy arrived last night. Currently figuring out how the Y/Pb/Pr signal works.

What game were you testing there? Been hard to make out from the photo.

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Could always emulate if you want to play it that badly. And with some luck you could possibly find it cheaper than $40. Saw a copy a few days back where I live for $25 (actually about the average price I see it for where I live), and I've managed to find my own copy of it for $12 a few years back.

Where you the guy in my CotM thread? That thread kinda reminded me Aria existed.

I can't remember the last game I bought. I find that vidya takes up way too much room and is essentially a waste, I mean all you get nowadays is a plastic box and a disc you can easily convert into an iso. I also find that old consoles and vidya is a waste too since the majority of them you can emulate with even more precision than the antiquated systems themselves, not to mention all the blatant exploitation of hipsterdom and normalfag nostalgia on ebay and such.

Probably. If you live in central AZ, you can check if the Fallout Games in Tempe still has that copy of AoS. Though, I will warn you, they're a pretty busy store and with people having gotten money for Christmas, I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone by now.

That's panzer dragoon zwei i was testing, one of the best sega Saturn games ever. Loving the shadow mask compared to the aperture grille I'm used to.

Not so lucky. To add to it where I live is flooded with 90s kids, so the stores scalp the shit out of their games now. A game that was $8 3-4 years ago is $25 today. The only real upside is that expensive games haven't really gone up, just the cheaper ones for some reason.

I bought NHL 17 and a vita for free gaming.
thats all of my purchases this year.
Its not that i don't have money, its just I don't want any games.

Ah, that sucks. I think similar has happened here, though it's only some stores that are all too happy to scalp. That one I mentioned up there is one of the better ones in my experiences; they might start at online prices, but usually shave a bit off that so what they stock is priced below average. Even stuff like Suikoden II or Earthbound, which are always going to be expensive, can be a good $20-30 less than when I've seen them at other stores around here. And unless it's a game on the SNES or Gamecube, if it's something common and popular, chances are it's still going to be pretty cheap there.


Ah, never really looked into the Saturn too much. Mostly because some of those games are expensive as shit (I'd love to look into Panzer Dragoon Saga, but it's like $350 at a low price here, and my computer is a toaster). Not even too sure how much the system itself goes for these days on top of that, since I never see them.

disc replay is like that.
I payed $15 for the orange box on 360 (I didn't play PC, just xbox at that time) and right now its about $30.
retro gaming market is full of scammers and scalpers, along with those who are dumb enough to waste money on it.
nes, snes, N64 and any game boy are all cancerous markets. shit like that makes me hate gaming.


saturn isn't really a great system tbh, I don't know but I think you can play pirated copies of games but I have never learned about pirating for that system.

I think the best thing I can do is hunt online and see if I can find that random deal where the person is just selling the shit without the price. Local is fucked.


It's funny cuz I was talking about disc replay. The only other retro-game store around here is up by my friends house and I know the owner matches his prices online, so it's the same shit.

The GBA library is still generally less than $25 or so for the bulk of cart only games where I live, leaving only a handful that goes for more than that (most notably Ninja Five-0 as the upper limit at $80-100; even the other above $25 don't come anywhere close to that). Can't speak all that much for the original Game Boy and GBC though.

the disc replay near me (by a small sized mall) is asking something like $350 for a super metroid with a shitty box.
I picked up NHL 2K (big hockey fan) for DC for only $3. typically i refrain from buying retro games anymore but NHL2K cd-r's have had a very difficult time with my system.
I've been to many many retro stores and either you get some people who actually like games, or you get scheming fucks.
I picked up Shenmue 1 (right when 3 was announced) and the owner tried to charge me $10 more than was listed on his site.
I've noticed minorites (like mexican, or some sort of east asian) open up stores to cater to anime fans and gaming fans at an unusual rate. Most of them close anyway within a year.


GB games can get REALLY expensive. I've seen them charge anywhere from $30 to $60 for a pokemon game. I've also seen stores that charge $40 for FF7 despite having at least 10 copies of the game.

Depends on where you live. Unless you're checking craigslist or something, I'd expect most online vendors just go off what other online vendors sell for at minimum (with maybe some slight undercutting) since the prices for comparison are readily available and no one wants to feel like their underselling their product and losing potential profit. In my own experiences I stand a much better chance of finding something locally much cheaper than online. That requires knowing your local options (which ones are better or worse, which might trend toward fucking up prices in the customer's favor) and having a lot of patience though, but it'll save your wallet a good bit. The Fallout place up there seems to get that a happy customer is a repeat customer, and as such ask less than average in the hopes of one becoming a repeat customer (and they're a pretty decent store in general from my own experiences), and a particular multimedia chain here doesn't know exactly what they get in at times (while sometimes they sure as fuck ask way too much, other times they've got stuff marked absurdly low), and I'm not all that sure how often they consult online prices.

Still, I am left wondering how some of the stores around here even stay in business, considering how I never really see customers in some of them, most likely due to poor selection or absurd prices (like $50 for a GH print SotN that the better stores here only ask $25 for). At least one of them has the excuse that while they sell games, they also rent the backroom out as a console arcade, and on weekends when I've been there they have a LOT of people back there.

Where I am the most expensive Pokemon games (main series, anyhow) are HGSS at like $70 complete, and at least $40 cart only; Gen II nostalgia + Gen IV mechanics are a powerful thing, I guess. The old Game Boy and GBC ones have been pretty cheap (cart only, I mean; of course complete ones are pricy) from what I remember of them though; seems there's more depend for the remakes on the GBA and DS, and the prices have reflected that.

Where exactly do you live, out of curiosity?

Yeah, I got Astroboy for $25, but Gale Of Darkness complete was almost $40. Wish I could have used the money I spent on the new PS3 to upgrade my near toaster tier PC, or an Xbox original or even a Wii-U (Haven't gotten around to playing a single Wii game yet).

And fuck collecting Dreamcast games; Berserk and Draconus better be worth the $60+ combined I spent on them. Turns out I'm stuck with the Dreamcast model that can't play burned games. Do you know anything about loading DC games from a USB loader, or something?

I bought 3 of these mystery boxes from Limited Run games hoping to get a disc copy of one of the shantae games, I got 3 pieces of trash. I guess that's what I get for having a gambling addiction.

I would prefer not to exactly say but I'm talking about stores either in Detroit or an hour away.


many stores can't stay in business, it's sort of like the comic book store, a niche that is slowly being phased out. Many people don't have good business sense which leads them to their failures. Also, they get people to come into the store by providing a sense of community through stuff like D&D events or tournaments.


I bought berserk for ten bucks and ended up using a cd-r version anyway. you can try gd-rs and a sd card but don't ask me how to do that.
worst comes to worst, buy a new DC. I've seen them for $30, which is well worth it if you can play burned cd-r's

The Disc Replay by me use to be cool as fuck. They use to have Judas Priest posters and shit up, they would be playing random music that was either garbage or ok (thing was it didn't feel like another generic store), and everytime I went I'd always leave with like 3 games minimum. Now I go there it's not even a retro game/music store anymore. It's basically what you said the minorities are doing, except with "Nerd culture". Walking dead bobble heads, new dr who stuff, nes shaped flasks. They have this huge thing in the middle where they're selling amps and guitars. It feels like it's slowly becoming a nerd-themed pawnshop.


I've occasionally seen games for half the price as the other ones (guess someone didn't want to hold onto it). I haven't really checked craiglist though. Local is fucked, maybe 3 years ago you could find stuff $10 cheaper than online, but everytime I go there the selection is entirely random shovelware games minus a handful of classics for $50 or more.

As far as staying in business. Here at least, it's the only place you can find used games local that aren't flea markets or craigslist. The 2 stores I know of are like an hour apart from eachother. Also disc replay sold the fuck out, and theres always at least 6-8 people there when I go. The other one usually has 1-3 people.

I'm honestly a bit surprised that Colosseum and Gale of Darkness have shot up the way they did. I mean, sure, it's Pokemon and both suffer from the Gamecube tax (or so I've taken to calling it), but it memory serves series fans were more than a bit divided on them. I assume some were expecting Colosseum to be Stadium 3 and found the lack of minigames to be a turn-off. I remember when they used to be about $20 each.


Ah, you're in a different part of the country than me then.

Well, you're right that independent video game stores have become harder to find (where I live, Gamestop drove all of them out of town), and the good ones even fewer and farther between. The people that own my favorite one seem to know well what they're doing though. They offer games at cheaper prices with the notion that a happy customer is likely to become a repeat customer, have a professional grade disc and cart cleaning/buffing machine, are willing to transfer between locations, and a while back also took up buying and selling used Lego on the side and seem to have also done pretty damn well on that end too. They're always busy, so I don't have any real feeling of them going under any time soon. Might also help that they're in a town (across from mine) that has a lot less Gamestops to deal with.


What did you wind up getting, that YIIK filth? And yeah, that's why I never go for mystery box crap. You might actually get something good, but chances are a lot higher that you're not.

I got Xeodrifters, the Zombie skin for Breach and Clear and Thomas was Alone, at least I didn't get the hipster RPG, that's something at least.

Still strikes me as a bad sad that indie shit can manage to secure physical releases like those (not that every last indie/low budget game is bad, but a lot is), and yet various publishers still refuse to do regular physical releases for much higher budget games, despite knowing there's a market out here.

yeah, I think for some reason disc replay really started changing once more casual people started coming in. prices also started getting higher as well, rather than being independent of GameStop they just undercut them by a few dollars.


They have a smart strategy, to keep the customer coming back. I've seen game store after game store come and go because of the failure to appreciate the customer and to respect them. I went to a video game rental store (where you go in, pay for an hour, and just game) with some friends and I was treated very poorly by the staff. they had only one staff member who went back and took a 45 minute phone call for some reason. They didn't have a bad location either, they were right by a big high school. they never got in new games and only really focused on PC game stuff and tabletop games which is a very niche market to try and rent to.
they closed just this year after being open for about 4 years and losing money for at least 3 of those years.
Funny story about legos, I remember about four or five years ago I was really really into that kind of stuff, I mean I was spending like a hundred bucks on brickarms, and they were a pretty booming site too at that time. Lego was really big then and now its kinda dying.

I think they saw where the money was.

Pirated everything this year, every new release is fucking 70 dollars if you include DLC. Doesn't help that the prices of food, rent, and literally every necessary to live keeps shooting up every year with no end in sight. I make well above minimum wage and I can still barely afford a new console or PC upgrade. Fucking Shitcago.

Doesn't really help Lego themselves that they charge so fucking much. Plus, I'm not a fan of how they went from how you could use more standard pieces in the older sets to create a simulacrum of what something looked like (and thus be able to easily reuse the pieces for building something else), compared to how now there's so many specific parts that fit their role well but ONLY fit that role. Plus, maybe it's just me, but I think they've gotten even more expensive (they were always expensive even as a kid, but still) while the pieces per set has gone down.

Still, even if Lego's been going down in popularity, whenever I go into that shop there's usually people rummaging through their bins of loose pieces, filling up buckets to buy of them. And hell, last time I was in there, the store was getting in forty big boxes of loose brick, so they're doing something right.


I saw that thing about Chicago and "shooting up" and was reminded of this.

Gotta pay off the pension abuse somehow.


It's sad how true that img title is.

lego's issue has something to do with I think the oil they use in manufacturing the parts along with the amount of new pieces + colors, not to mention all the licenses that have been agreed on.
new sets are far to expensive and I feel honestly bad for kids who might not ever be able to afford legos at their current prices.
maybe I'm just remembering them differently.
legos used to be nowhere near as complex though,

Doesn't it ave RGB ports on the back. You could just go Full BNC to Euro scart & pull rGB from it if that's the case.

That's exactly where that quip is from, actually. Gerard's a traveling vendor (he basically stalks the party for their money; MC of the prior game even calls him out on it), and that's prohibition-era Chicago. I suppose what changes between then and the present is just what sort of gangs are shooting at each other.

Did you really buy those because of me? God damn dud, those are like $300 cups.

Hasn't come in yet. When it shows up I can post some images.

I would rather just own the carts. There's like 10 NEOGEO games I actually want to play, & half of them are metal slug games.

Thank god I got Gundam Breaker 3 and Digimon Story: Cyber Sluts already. I should order that one Gundam game on Vita that comes on two carts for collection purposes.

I usually see saturns for up to $60 or $70 online. They are pretty cheap all things considered, i could never afford the games i want on it, so i use the pseudo saturn method for back up loading. Its honestly a marvelous system. If you love arcade style games especially, but there is a lot to discover for it. It's become my favorite console, a real shame how it was handled back in the day. Still, the library especially once you get into the japanese games has a ridiculous number of great titles, absolutely worth jumping into. And if you have rgb available it's honestly the king. Rgb for saturn is remarkable.

So just no more reprints or are they cancelling all the ones they're about to release like SRW V/
Also speaking of LRG, soldner x2 is getting a asian english release via play asia.

Is Play N Trade decent? Or are they just like every other used game chain?

I heard there being something about playing off of burned CDs to be damaging to the laser and compression quality/space problems if the game is on multiple discs or over 700mb, but I'm not entirely certain.

There used to be a decent one by where I lived, but they went under between not being able to secure shipment of the CE for Skyward Sword despite a lot of preorders (distributor told them to go fuck themselves since they weren't a big chain) and the owner of the corner they were on refusing to let them advertise. Since then I haven't seen any around anymore, so I can't exactly say.

No reprints. Also, I've already got Soldner ordered along with Gravity Rush 2's English Asian release for dem sweet, sweet first print blurays.

Interesting, have you tried LUMO, it's a decent isometric platformer only came out physically in europe though. Also it's pretty exotic compared to the rest of the vita library

well, I've never heard of it being damaging to the disc reader. The compression issue can be fixed if you have a 99 minute cdr or something like that. They're impossible to get without going to some Chinese seller.

Yes, cheapo CDRs are said to wear on the laser, you fix that by using Taiyo Yuden cdrs or something of that quality.

How does anyone find those sexy Ikegami CRTs? There are barely any on eBay, and they're all security monitors anyway.

I live in the middle of nowhere so Craigslist and garage sales aren't really an option.

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I'm so fucking glad I was able to snag one for MSRP at Anime Expo.

Geez, That's like Ar Nosurge Plus LE tier pricing, though I think ANS+ went up higher even faster.

I wonder if I could get a trade going for ANS+ with my copy.

Are you that same user that has STILL been trying to find a copy? Just wondering.

Nope, I'm not that poor soul. I've only really been getting into Vita collecting recently since I've reached over 40 games and I figured I might as well try and make it a "collection" at this point.

Ah. Well, good luck with that. I'm not sure if the print sizes for the LEs of Ar Nosurge Plus, Atelier Escha and Logy Plus, and the soon to release Atelier Shallie Plus are all the same, but ANS+ shot up pretty fast post-release, and as far as local stuff goes, I've only seen a copy once (it was at $90; still expensive but about half as much as online at that point). Shame that TK doesn't have their own online storefront (opting instead to just use NISA for distribution; thankfully they can't touch the script or code for Gust's games at this point) or feel that regular retail store or online releases for Gust's Vita games are viable, resulting in them being LE and download only here.

I'm not worried about Shallie+… it's got a standard release in EU.

are you a nigger or something?

Are there any websites that sell ps2 at a pretty reasonable prices?
without getting conned at least?

That still seems odd to me that it would get a regular retail out there, but not in NA. Not that PAL doesn't deserve a bone thrown their way every so often (given how many times they get outright fucked out of games entirely) and the Vita itself is region free (though, it might be worth noting that if you live in NA, any NA patches/DLC won't work with a PAL copy to my knowledge), but it still seems strange. Maybe TK has a standing agreement with NISA that in NA any physical release for Gust's Vita stuff has to be done with NISA as the distributor?


Do you not have any local stores carrying PS2s, or are you just looking for a potentially better price on them?

I am happy.

Nice, and I thought I'd done well in regards to finding G.U. volumes 2 and 3 for like $10 each complete (vol 3 needs a replacement cover though). Did they come with just the games, or also the Liminality OVA discs, and how long had they even been available for before you purchased them (strikes me as odd that they might have been sitting around real long, between those prices and reputation as scalper gold)?

Completely as new. Some woman selling her sons old crap in his attic, just scrolling down ps2 games and saw these and could not believe the cost. These are £182 each at my local CEX.

well I do have a goodwill near me but they don't and the ones that do are 2 hours out of town,they're website have them but its most an auction house but they do ship from what I heard and im trying to find a ddr pad for the ps2 at best.

Personally, as far as local options go, I'd rather spend a little bit more buying a system from a better store that actually tests out and/or fixes what they take in and make sure it works (helps that one out here will even give you like a year length warranty on systems) than buy from Goodwill, Savers, pawn shops, etc, or just some random vendor online, but that's just me. PS2s are rather common though, so whether you buy local or online, it shouldn't be too hard or expensive. But do be aware of what you want to do with it, and what models will achieve that for you. Not all PS2s are made the same, and while most of the disc compatibility is the same, there are some games noted to have issues playing with particular models for whatever reason, both PS2 and PS2 discs.


Damn, that's a really nice find. You should keep the receipt, if there was one, as a trophy of sorts, which is also nice for if someone wants to call bullshit on particular find.

If you haven't played them before, it might be worth your time to watch Sign first. From what I've heard of .hack//IMOQ (admittedly I still need to play IMOQ; only got my PS2 drive set up for that recently), while the games don't expect you to watch Sign first, Sign will add to the worldbuilding and overall lore if you care about that sort of thing. I watched it already and found it really enjoyable, but I suppose it's not for everyone (the show actually understands that a lot of what happens in MMOs is player interaction, and as such is rather low on action and high on dialogue). It's got a really nice OST as well, but Kiketor Entertainment doesn't want anyone in the US to be able to listen to it off Jewtube.

I just lucked out completely. Managed to find someplace still taking pre-orders for the Asian English LE for Gravity Rush 2… it comes with a digital copy of the soundtrack, the game, and a bluray containing the anime that they made that tell the story between the two games. This shit sold out almost immediately on Play-Asia, thank god for Heavy-Arm. Fuckers earned my money today.

I need to find some shelves for my consoles and games. Most of them are packed in moving boxes I have not opened yet.

I got a pair of shelves as a gift some years back. Think they were from a Fry's Marketplace and were on some clearance price, marked down from their usual $30 each. They even have some holes in the top and bottom of the sides, so you can put dowels in them and stack them, or use them as two smaller, individual shelving units.

PS2 Slim or a Sega Genesis Model 3? Can only pick one.

PS2 Slim. Only been discontinued for around 2 years IIRC, whereas the Genesis is in far less demand and unlikely to rise in price.

Savan from page 10. This ain't over yet.

Got myself a Dreamcast, made sure it supports burned cds. What should I play?

I've never played Fatal Fury, so can you tell me the name of the guy on the right? I hope to God he's not just a generic no name character.

Some reverse searching and deductive clicking through Fatal Fury wiki suggests "Hopper". Granted, I haven't played Fatal Fury, so I'm not sure if he's all that much of a character there, but he does seem to have a name.

Thanks. Sorry for not doing it myself. I remember trying a while ago and not being able to find it.

Remembered that I picked up Super Mario Sunshine and King Of Fighters XIII with its poster, art and 4 music CDs. I think I bought EX Troopers from Play Asia this year as well as Nier.

How much did you have to pay for Sunshine?

Picking up a lot of SMS games. Got Robocop vs Terminator and Tom and Jerry recently. Don't know why they suddenly became common.


Sonic Adventure International.
Frame Glide translated.
Chu Chu Rocket.

Gun Bird 2, Tech Romancer, Project Justice, & Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. In that order user.

Some of my haul from the last month, most of it's blu rays, but whatever. Fucking amazon is bipolar as fuck, they sent me the wrong version of some games, then sends me a brand new copy of hashtag fire emblem straight from fucking guam.

I dunno much about ~all~ the games I bought last year but aside from a near-mint copy of rule of rose for $100 and a complete copy of haunting ground for $80, nothing else was that interesting

I did however gamble my luck with gamestop's retro flash sale and got these for about $38 altogether

Ah yeah.


Not too bad, considering where I live PEII alone goes for nearly $30 (meanwhile Parasite Eve I is only about $12; not sure what's up there).

I got them for about less than half of what they're actually worth.

I do like that 2 of the 3 games I ordered were 100% but I didn't like that they gave me the wrong tracking code and I had no idea where my package was or if it had even been shipped out

Nice, but that does make it a bit of a crapshoot I suppose as to what condition you're getting stuff in. Honestly surprised they didn't just send you those in paper sleeves, really, given how much they seem to push for more storage space and just trash cases and manuals.

I don't order from, let alone go into, Gamestop that often, but somehow that sort of screwup doesn't shock me.

Good find, fun game though fuck Torpedo run is hard. At least it has the best song. And absolutely no porn.

I got a copy of Einhander for like 40 USD, disk only, Drakan: The Ancients' Gate for 15 USD, and 20 USD for Medieval 2 (no booklet).

How's Draken? Seen it around fairly often before but never gave it a lot of thought.

I remember playing the first as a kid and liked it, and got the PS2 sequel on a whim. Hesitant to play it though, because I want to find a physical copy of Order of the Flame first.

DAY 535
DEAR DIARY: SCALPERS ARE SONS OF CAIN, EXTERMINATE ALL

I'm pretty sure the game store I got them from marked up the prices too, I just got a discount because I was friendly.

$25 (complete) I think. I really hate that I didn't pick up PSO and Melee for my Gamecube much earlier. At least PSO for the Dreamcast was under $20.

they actually sent the games in paper slips on top of the cases

but even if you get a single disc, their games are usually cheaper than you'd get the discs from, say, ebay or amazon

surprisingly good service for gamestop

I'd say at $25 you did pretty decently; averages maybe $35-40 where I live these days.

Yeah, Phantasy Star Online Episodes I & II for the Gamecube, especially the Plus version from what I've seen, can really go for a bit. I was a bit shocked when I found my copy of Plus for only $35 complete a year or so back. As for Melee, no real need to get that since it's not like people come over to where I live and would play it (and as an aside, a friend still has a copy of it himself).

Meele is also one of the few jap gamecube games that comes with a english translation, right up there with Star yiff Adventures and, i think, Viewtiful Joe.

WHY

Okay, but wasn't the Gamecube region locked? At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for why I've seen a few of those swap magic style discs around for the Gamecube where I live?


Maybe he wants to fleece dipshits down the line? Just making a guess.

The game's rare as shit and i got it at a pretty good price during that sale amazon's used store had? Don't need much more of a reason than that.


All you need is an action replay and you're golden, it's 20 bucks last i checked, but it's pretty useful.

Just because something is rare, that alone doesn't make it good (unless one is a scalper). I'm just saying.

I have to wonder if one of those would even work with the Wii via disc backwards compatibility. But again, that's a game I've kind of written off wanting to add to my shelf anyhow because it's not like I'd be playing it with anyone over here.

Either collecting for rareness sake or a scalper
Buddy may God have mercy on you

Didn't say it was good, just want to see it for myself

I have to wonder if one of those would even work with the Wii via disc backwards compatibility. But again, that's a game I've kind of written off wanting to add to my shelf anyhow because it's not like I'd be playing it with anyone over here.
It should, Wii's idea of BC is to just become a gamecube whenever you put a GC disc in.


Or, you know, it could just mean "i wanted to get it while i had the chance so i don't have to deal with scalpers later". Why the fuck are you so worked up over it anyways, it's not like i gave NoA the money for it.>Just because something is rare, that alone doesn't make it good (unless one is a scalper). I'm just saying.

Not the same lad, plus i didn't think of the idea you might like it as it is a bad game in its series, hence scraped the possibility of "insurance buy"

Been a while since I've posted. My collections definitely expanded since then though. Not pictured here however are:

That black binder thing on the second shelf contains all my vidya soundtrack discs; either from limited editions or from just buying the soundtrack outright. I've got:
> Soul Calibur V the one that comes with the LE

And today I ordered pic #2 and the KOF XIV Limited Edition with that beautiful 3-disc OST.

I heard that you either need to physically mod your Gamecube or get a Freeloader/Action Replay disc + separate memory card to play region free, right?

Because I did manage to snag rare Zoids games for $40 combined last year and I've been meaning to really try them out.

Yeah, the memory card is because jap GC games don't like memory cards with US/PAL saves on it, and supposedly formats the card. Also for some reason some jap games display gibberish at times, nothing too bad, it usually happens whenever the game asks about saving or when you check your save files

Are there even all that many Japanese only Gamecube games that would be worth looking into that wouldn't require a translation patch (to my knowledge the only one in the works was for one of he SRW games, and I never heard anything as to if half/m/ ever finished it)?

...

Collecting is just organized hoarding.

Not a TON, but i can list off a few:
Nintendo Puzzle Collection
Naruto path of ninja 4
Battle Stadium D.O.N
Mr Driller: Drill Land
Radirgy(US release was planned but fell through because it was 2007 and nobody wanted to sell GC games anymore.)
Most of the Hudson Selection stuff, stuff like Lode runner, Star Soldier, Bonk and Adventure island
Dream Mix TV
I was going to say stuff like Ikaruga too, but a copy of one of those is actually more expensive than the american version, go figure.

Were those collections of older games, or were they getting new entries at the time?

Weird. How does the JP Gamecube version compare with the Dreamcast one in price?

*It's cheaper, not amazingly so, but it goes like thisnot counting sealed shit: USA ~30-60, JAP 60-80+, Dreamcast 100-130
Fuck i need to go to bed.

Got this in the mail today.