Buyfag/Collector Thread

Picked up pic related for 5 bucks at a thrift store this week, pretty good game, I just need another Dreamcast controller and someone to play it with

I wish we could be friends user.

They have one for the atari lynx too but i have not bothered trying to get one of the three I have working yet. I did pick up some replacement fuses for my sega cd and an atari 2600 cap/rebuild kit and both of those projects turned out well.

I've had a few Game Gear systems, but I never liked them enough to justify spending so much on a replacement screen. Yeah, it would look nice, but the games aren't worth the effort required to perform the replacement.

I bought a pile of PS2 and PS3 shit, with some Atari 2600 games. Waiting on an AV mod kit for my fucked up 7800 to arrive, and then I'll get cracking on making a new 7800 gamepad when I confirm that it works properly. Already ordered the etching acid, have a few boards, and some of the shit I need for masking the traces.

This isn't Holla Forums. gore does nothing for people here, you newfag. Go the fuck back.

What a waste of dubs. Let motherfuckers talk about their collections they build, because they are autistic and let them tell insane stories about scalping.

Went shopping IRL and have seen some not so good changes. One second hand shop away from main street has closed, another one has a lot of stuff but nothing I am interested in. The latest development with buylander is the banishment of Buylander figurines for 5€ a dust collector in favor of overpriced copies of SNES games with official game guide.

Got myself a physical copy of Frozen Synapse, and EDF 2 for the Vita from there.

I'm planning on getting an analogue NT mini since I realized how much money it would save me from actually getting a proper RGB setup for so many consoles. Money isn't a problem for me, it's something I can just toss around in a month or so - but man it's become very enticing. Would look amazing on my Ikegami too.

I'm also eyeing a few more pro monitors but not really eager to jump on anything yet. Just a few watches. I think I'm gonna start focusing on 15"+ ones as I have quite a few 14 and below.

Maybe, but who the fuck isn't on here? I'll tell you who: normalfags and/or Redditors.

Anyways, is skylanders even still a thing, seems like it was becoming Activision's new Guitar Hero if you know what i mean. Also got a launch genesis, the one with a headphone jack and the perfect genesis audio(whereas later genesis models have issues).

The analogue NT only does NES and JapNES, both of which can be done on an NES. Now if you're counting the price of an upscaler fair enough, but really the NT is way more than you'd pay for an RGB modded NES/Famicom and even a flashcart for them. Still, it's not a bad option if you just want to throw around money, though personally I don't like it because it doesn't look like an NES.

Limited Run's physical copies of PS4 Astebreed sold out in less than nine minutes today.

Just a bunch of Neo geo games. I think I have most of what I want now. As I get older I seem to be selling more & more of my collection, but I keep picking up weird stuff like this. Before I know it the only games I'll own are laseractive discs.

I only collect Hudson and Sunsoft games nowadays, I get what you are saying.

Damn I'm jelly as fuck

Don't be jealous, they're MVS games I made custom boxes for. If I had the $1000 a piece for AES games I wouldn't be posting here.

I probably still would

Getting some games for my newly acquired Xbox HUEG. Have the Dead Or Alive Trilogy, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Otogi 2, and GunValkyrie so far. Got a Freeloader for my Gamecube and waiting on a copy of Odin Sphere Leifthrasir in the mail now.

Neat

Was a slightly better month than most. Found a preowned, yet unopened CE of Yomawari for $25 (NISA doesn't get a cent from me directly on it, which is also nice), a complete copy of Trinity Universe for $20 (some other user I was speaking to in another thread said it was pretty good in his own experiences; while initial checking seemed to suggest the only copies of it were a good 40+ miles roundtrip away from me, a week or so later one was apparently traded in to a much closer store), and a fan-translated reproduction cartridge of Mother 3 for $10. Normally I wouldn't have gone for the latter, considering it's not a legit copy, but it was cheap (I was honestly expecting it to be at least $20), and I'd heard the rhythm aspect to battle doesn't exactly work that well on emulators.

Depends entirely on the game, though if it's not something I never fucking see around (like Lost Kingdoms II, as an example), I'm content to be patient and lay in wait for a copy to show up locally that's only a fraction of what it normally goes for, as one local chain tends to fuck prices up in both directions. Usually though $20 or so is my limit unless I know something usually costs a lot more, or have seen enough in my own research on the game to feel content paying a bit more. I don't buy many new releases either, which also helps.
$90 on a complete copy of Tales of Eternia (Tales of Destiny II in NA) for the PS1 in excellent condition, and no, I don't regret it. Played it with a friend as we're both fans of the series and had a blast with it. Still holds up pretty well too, English voicing aside (and even that I find more charming than outright bad).

Actually wasn't even aware of this thread's existence prior to the hack, or I might have posted sooner.

Good luck finding a copy for cheaper than average. As a game with only a limited physical print run (as for whatever reason, TK either doesn't seem to feel there's enough of a customer-base here to warrant retail physicals for Vita games, or just like to have more control of profits made), that price shot up fast, to the point of being a good 3-4 times the initial LE price. Granted, I've seen it once for about half the going rate at the time, but even if $90 is considered "a good deal" on the game, it's still ninety-fucking-dollarydoos.

Makes me glad that the best store I know of manages to both not be in any apparent danger of shutting down (they're always busy once school and work start letting out for the day), and know that a happy customer is liable to be a repeat customer, and thus shave some off the average price tags a bit. Shame they don't have a closer location to where I am at now though. Had a pretty good conversation about a series I'm playing with one of the staff last time I was there; it's nice knowing a store with knowledgable employees.

Nice job on Otogi 2; those don't seem to be the easiest games to find on account of poor sales, but there also doesn't seem to be that much demand for them either, so prices haven't gotten high either. If I had a hueg myself I might pick up this copy of the first game I've seen locally for $12.

Have fun with Odin Sphere Leifthrasir. Might want to break it up a bit though; fun game, but you do visit the same locations a lot, albeit with different map layouts and playable characters.

Xbox has the stigma of being le dudebro console, so most games on it are pretty much treated like any copy of madden(that's not on the turbo grafx, anyways). You have to have an especially rare game for it to be worth any kind of value on there, and even then it's nowhere near snes prices.

Also, anyone notice that vita games are fucking expensive now? Like just last year you could find plenty of games for 20 bucks easy, but now it seems like they're reaching 30-60 bucks a copy. Even shit like Sly cooper is almost 30 bucks and the PSTV hasn't lost it's value at all despite being utter trash.

I thought about getting an AVS but it only does 720p and the dude running the company seems like a hipster faggot that doesn't quite seem to know what he's doing. A friend of mine got one and he's been having trouble with the cart slot, honestly it seems no better than the other Chinese made shitboxes.
Analogue NT mini would have been great if they didn't charge $500 because they make the fucking thing out of a solid block of aluminum. I wish someone besides a pretentious fuckwad would make a decent NES clone.

I bought a new AMD card to go with my NVIDIA card, they're best friends.

Yeah, that's probably true if even some of the poorly-selling yet worthwhile games are only $20 or so. Though, there's a few outliers like that Conker port (or was it an out and out remake?) that I tend to see going for $40-45.

Not exactly out where I live, but then again, outside of Fucking Gamestop, I don't tend to see stores making that much of an effort for stocking for them. Pretty hit or miss out here (and much of what I do tend to see is either Gravity Rush, Little Deviants, and Farming Simulator), but prices seem to be about what they've been, limited print games aside. More of an issue just trying to find something worth your time and money to actually pick up a copy of.

Considering how some people are looking into them as a secondary device while using their Vita itself for pirating (the required firmware for using them like that locks people out of newer games post 3.60), that could have something to do with it.

AMD's friend is an arsonist.

Straight up remake, they changed shit up to fuck with people who played the original.

Oh no, over here vita is persona non grata, only place that had them was walmart, which wasn't too bad, they had shit like freedom wars for 15, tearaway, toukiden, and sly cooper collection for 10 a pop, some MLB game for 5 bucks, etc, but other than that i've never seen a store sell them, even the obligatory gamestop.

That's what the water cooler's for user!

Out where I am, most Gamestops will have a rack or two of them, though how full they are and if they even have anything decent seems to vary, and in some cases pretty much everything they have left are cart only with black and white covers printed. Or at least, that's how it was at the last one I went to; it was on the border of another town, while the ones closer to where I live I've seen much more of a selection, and with actual covers (I don't make a habit of going to Gamestop much though, unless they've got something listed as available locally that I can't find at any non-Gamestop place around here; Demon Gaze, for example).

On that note, I'm not even sure if they'd take preowned copies of games that didn't see a physical retail release. Last I'd heard, they didn't have the likes of Ar Nosurge Plus in their computer database, so I'm not sure if they'd give it a decent price or just try to scalp them if they got them, let alone if they'd even let people trade them in. Bit of an odd time we're in now where a notable number of games are clearly meant as digital-only out here, but still see limited print runs through online vendors.

I almost bought a PSTV when they were $20, but some of the games I was interested in wouldn't work on them, so that killed that idea. I'd get a Vita, but with a hacked 3DS, I'm fine. I'll have to look up a recommendation list for Vita games to see if there's incentive in picking up a system designed from the ground up to NOT be the Emulation Super-Station that was the PSP.

There should be an image in the OP of the current Vita thread. Bear in mind though that it's one people here borrow from halfchan's VitaGen, and as far as usefulness isn't as much "here's what's recommended" and more or "here's what the system has". Though you could always note what looks/sounds of interest and ask around for opinions.

the analgoue nt mini does every 8-bit console. the analogue nt is a different system.

Thought this thread died.

How is Yomawari? I'm looking at grabbing the CE at one point myself. Shame it's so expensive. It's not really a noteworthy game to scalp either, which is hilarious in all honesty.

If it's on 3.60, connect up a powered HDD, load up with PSP games and play away. Also can install maidumps and shit. I only use my 3.60 Vita to play PSP games. Pleasant to play on the better screen.

Haven't started it just yet. Needed to double check if my unupdated Vita could even play it, and am currently in the middle of another game. Going off comments I've seen on Wololo, the NA one only requires 3.60 and thus can be played without updating pst that, but the PAL release apparently asks for 3.61, and would require updating past the ability to use CFW or whatever (at least as of this point; makes me glad I live in the US). Anyhow, I've heard decent things about it and its predecessor (Yomawari includes The Firefly Diary on the same cart as a bonus) before, and haven't heard much, if anything, as to NISA having fucked either up (not that that warrants giving them money; that fucking company will never learn a damn thing). The CE I have seems to be the standard CE (IE: The one without the drink tumbler that NISA exclusively sold on their site) and comes with the games themselves, a pair of English artbooks (one for each game), a soundtrack, and outer collectors box (which according to some comments on Amazon it sounds like some didn't ship out that carefully, causing damage to the box). At $25 I really didn't mind picking it up (store I got it from tends to fuck up on prices in both directions, this time with them asking much lower), but considering the current prices on Amazon start at $125 new (with no preowned CEs up there) I'm not sure I'd consider it worth dropping an extra $100 on. Ebay's slightly better at the moment with an opened CE at $100, but that's still a lot of money to drop.

By the look of things, the game was at the very least not an "LE/CE physical print only" thing like various other Vita games get slapped with (I think the prior release of The Firefly Diary on the system was even one of those). Seems that it also has a standard NA release with just the game bundle. Seems to be holding its price close to $40 though, and Amazon once again only has new copies. Not sure how easy it would be to find just the standard version at brick and mortar stores, though Fucking Gamestop does seem to have a page for it in their system, and ask $30 preowned if they have it.

Reading a few comments while I was debating on picking it up myself (was trying to glean what all it came with, considering it was an unopened CE and I wasn't sure if The Firefly Diary was a same cart bundle or if it was just a voucher to download it off the PSN; thankfully it's the former going from what I read), some people on Amazon were speculating that the game and especially CE might see more demand down the line as the game gets better known with time. Granted, those comments were dated from last October around launch, and with the game being multiplat with PC, I'm not sure how apt it might prove.

You're right though, in that it's certainly not like Ar Nosurge Plus and other "Limited Print Only" sort of games, where I'd wager a large part of the price being asked is both the low print size and being the ONLY physical releases of those games on the system. **Wish TK would do standard retail releases, or at least open their own online storefront rather to cozy up with NISA as distributor).