/vr/ - Retro Games

>is now the time to start

Nigga the wave is long gone by now. You better star hoarding wii-u games now, or vintage funko pops.

how about learning how to dump the rom/bios or learn skills that would help preservation instead of hoarding?

>>8225265
everything's been dumped already. You can literally download the fullset of roms for pretty much every console.

I'm basically a neet failure with nothing to my name but all my childhood games and I need the dosh to keep a roof over my head.
Is it easy to sell off old snes games and get the cash fairly without some scum fuck scamming you?
I would be devastated if I shipped them and the dude tries to charge back and fuck me over while keeping my shit, it's literally all I have at this point.

>>8225265
i'm thinking about this more of in terms of if I can get a better interest rate on video games than bank savings.

>>8225275
Use Facebook Marketplace and only deal in person with cash.

>>8225275
Yes, sell them to me. I love my super nintendo :).VS4S

>>8225283
I tried twice with a cib earthbound but the issue is I live in a pretty poor area so best offer I got was a dude wanting to give me 500 bucks and a trash bag full of clothes for it, I don't expect to get full value but I don't want someone that's cutting profits by over 1000 dollars.

>>8225310
Well, I guess your only other option is to seal it in plastic, lock it away for 10 years and hope your quality of life improves.

>>8225276
So let me get this straight you created a thread to become the thing you complained about? Are you really that much better than the "collector"?

>>8225274
Prototypes, cart revisions, among tons of still exist. There are still lots of other things you can learn to help preservation efforts. RE, understanding emulator architecture/design. I'm not sure why you think emulation is a solved problem at this point

>>8225328
yeah prob

>>8225369
No one cares about that shit other than archivists. The vast majority of people want to play the full game, not some pre-alpha version that doesn't even run properly and is far from complete.

>>8225241
nigga never heard of emulation???

>>8225362
>So let me get this straight you created a thread to become the thing you complained about?

I just want to make money

>>8225254
This. Mark my words, Wii-U games are going to be FUCK EXPENSIVE in the future because of how few people owned one.

>>8225241
>now
dunno if "hoard" but if you want to have retro stuff you're already late.
best time to do it, if you haven't already owned it since the 90s, was in the early 2000s. I feel late 2000s things already started going more expensive and everything exploded in the 2010s and even more in 2020.

>>8225241
Look at Atari 2600 games.
They're still around but nobody cares about them.

>>8225474
I bought and sold MASSES of stuff from and on ebay from 99 to 2004. It would make you guys weep the shit i had and have. Either way, the little group of dilettantes that you all are is cute. I don't think more than 3 of you here are over 35 which, when it comes to the current state of retro, are the only ages that should even pretend to act like they know a thing or two. To the rest of the under 35s: the best time to be in to this stuff was when it was bespoke. The second best time was 2000 to 2010. You're grasping at the shadows of a time you don't and can't understand because you've grown up in a parody of childhood. God damn i feel sorry for you little fags.

>>8225418
ehh possibly but most those games are on the switch also, i think it could go either way. its possible no one will even remember the console. rn no one wants the wii u. they could become the next atari games like what >>8225483 said and end up in bins for decades.

im gonna maybe box mine up and keep it incase it does go up in value but rn i dont think i could even give mine away. gamestop offered my friend like 25 bucks for his like 3 years ago.

>>8225492
cringe

>>8225515
Your reply? Yeah it was but the banter on this board is at an all time low. You're evidence and probably a cause.

>>8225492
I don't even get why you're so mad, but ok, nice larp blog I guess, didn't read all of it.
But I agree 99-2004 was the best time, "retro games" wasn't even too much of a concept in most people's minds.

>>8225275
i've sold ~$600 worth of games over the last couple months on eBay and haven't had a single purchase go bad. most of my stuff is $10-$20 game boy and ps2 games though, so i don't know about more expensive stuff. i've heard eBay trends to side with the buyers and not sellers when things go wrong, or when customers pretend it went wrong to get a refund, but a tracking # on your shipped item should help your case if they try any funny business.
unironically reddit has some active buy and sell game subreddits and people have reputation levels for all their successful trades. the issue there is that even though eBay trends to succeed with their customers and not sellers if things go wrong, on Reddit you've got no recourse if someone does fuck you.

>>8225492
im around your age but you should literally kys

>>8225523
Yes yes tldr yawn

At least you agree.

>>8225715
Why are you like this around Truth?

>>8225593
I’ve been selling since early 2000s and only had one buyer fuck me over. I sold an Xbox 360 which I never had issues with. Used maybe 20-30 hours max, I bought it for vesperia, a week after the guy gets it he opens a ticket saying it arrived broken. I refuse to give him a refund because it sounds like bs and he has no pictures. He escalates to eBay and changes the story to red ring and he acts like he doesn’t know what it is. eBay gives him a refund from my pocket and doesn’t make him return it.

right now is the time to hoard cheap ps2 and ps3 stuff
what, you wanted older games? that window was 5 years ago, if not more

>too late to get into it
For games, sure but I have a way to make massive profit off consoles. I’ll post it here since it’s a bit of work and I doubt the average reseller kike would bother.
Japan has a very different retro market, of course not if you’re usijng sites targeting foreigners (eBay Japan sellers), yahoo auctions for example has dozens of gamecubes go without bids ranging from 900-1600 yen. While the same GameCube would sell for 100+ on eBay.

Japanese consoles are inherently less valuable but if you buy in bulk from Japan and individually mod them to be region free you make a huge profit on eBay selling to lards. The easiest to flip is the n64 which just needs some tabs cut out.

List as seller refurbished and people will pay top dollar.

>>8225241
I don't really care. Everything I ever want will be preserved forever and I can enjoy it on whatever device I want.

>>8225241
pft if you think that about retro games just think about fucking crt's. destroyed like jews at the holocaust and whoever is left holding them essentially has gold

>>8225751
nice PVM crack den

>>8225241
>is now the time to start hoarding this crap?
That depends entirely on what you believe is going to happen down the road. You understand that everything you wrote was true for many years except for the bits about the non-collectors, right? And you understand that during that period games were cheap as fuck, right?
That would have been to time to start hoarding. I certainly did. And if you believe that eventually only collectors will have games then wouldn't prices then return to the levels they were before bandwagoners like you drove them up?
Another deranged poorfag bandwagoner sees bogeymen everywhere, except in the mirror where the only real one is.

>>8225593
>>8225729
This is my worry, my collection is literally all original boxes CIB with all carts functional, some of my boxes are almost in mint condition.
My father would buy me games, carefully slit the side of the plastic wrap to open it up to remove the cartridge then he would immediately store away the boxes in a massive protective container.

>>8225369
You need to collect these to dump them and its pretty much a different hobby at this point. I concede to you the point about learning the emulation architecture tho

>>8225241
in 10 years zoomer games will be expensive and no one will want old boomer games from the 90s except them which will make the prices collapse

>>8226975
people have been saying this for a while but NES games are still expensive as shit, and by zoomer standards, NES is prehistoric.
I feel like 3rd gen onwards just keep being relevant, doesn't matter the generation.

>>8226975
I agree with >>8226989. I think retro gaming as a hobby is too intrinsically linked with that era of games for the value of them to ever go down.

>>8225276
Your rate of return on retro gaming stuff might surpass a savings account, granted that isn't much. But it will take many many years. You'd be better off investing in almost anything else to surpass a savinga account. Or get a high yield savings account like Ally bank or something.

If you wanna make fat stacks buy crypto or some shit. Don't bet on retro games maintaining their value. They might not even hold their value relative to inflation.

About a decade to late. Dont worry though, give it a few more years and this old stuff will end up at the thrift store again right next to the boxes of old records and Elvis collectables no one gives a damn about anymore. Its only really the 1-2 generations that are about to age out who care about physical media.

>>8225241
Only people who buy/sell shit at yard sales anymore think theyre the fucking pawn brokers or american pickers and overprice shit

>>8225715
same

>>8225241
i think this has already happened with 5th gen and before and is starting to happen with 6th gen.

>>8227332
see: >>8226989

>>8225483
Yeah, but people don't care about 2600, is the difference.

>>8225492
Fuck this cowardly fomo bullshit. There are still so many great nes, snes, gb, gbc, gba, and ds games you can get for ten bucks or less.

I guess it kinda sucks that certain games are so expensive, but there is still a lot of great retro stuff that is easy af to get.

Fuck fomo and fuck thinking that the best days of buying retro are behind us. If anything, the fact that gay pokemon games go for so much is making people dig out and sell their entire collections, which means a ton of other games are also easy af to get online for the price of a cup of coffee.

>>8225241
>the turning point where retro games are going to disappear from the wild almost entirely
this will happen when the last private owned hard drive dies and only streaming games remain

>>8225418
>uncommon = valuable
Smooth brain take. 3DO games are uncommon and sell for fuck all. And you can count good WiiU exclusives on two hands. It all got ported to Switch.

>>8225492
Holy cringe, you want me to think I have the bad childhood while you grew to become this?

>>8228649
I honestly don't see the collector appeal and this is coming from someone who has a massive collection from childhood, I always found shelve surrounding video game display rooms ugly as fuck literally on the same tier as faggots with toys and dolls showcased all over the place or retards who think they have to be walking billboards (tats/shirts etc) for multi billion dollar franchises because X game gave them the feel goods in their brain when they were 10 years younger.

>>8225241
The time to start hoarding was 20 years ago.
I was born in 1995 and my family couldn't afford newer consoles so I grew up playing on my older cousin's hand-me-down SNES and Game Boy. I remember I went to a used game store around 2004 or 05 and bought Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Super Mario All-Stars for 15 bucks total. I just looked it up on Ebay and Mario's around 40 and Kirby is a whopping 150 minimum now.
I still have my old games in the garage somewhere, and I'll keep them for sentimental value. But I'm not going to pay these extortionate prices to collect old games, especially when I can just emulate everything I missed out on from my childhood.

Every time I think about the games I traded in to G*m*st*p in my idiotic youth, it makes me sad. I don't have any interest in re-selling, but I want to play some games I that used to physically have in my retarded little hands that now cost 400 bucks on secondhand sites.

>>8225265
let me guess, you pay for "steam games"

if you don't have a lot of the heavy hitters that you want, you're gonna have a bad time.