/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9522678]

Have you ever found any noteworthy things left from past owners when buying secondhand games/consoles? Unusual notes written on the cartridge or manual, bizarre Animal Crossing letters or Pokemon nicknames, etc.

[Anonymous No.9522680]

found an actual small nugget of poop stuck between two pages of a GCN game's manual once. also pretty sure i found an OoT cartridge that belonged to mac miller

[Anonymous No.9522728]

>>9522678
Someones rent in an envelope folded 1/2 jammed inside a ps2. One of the games from that bundle lacked a manual and had a bunch of tracing papers with that female skunk from looney toons on it with her tits out.
Ancient Furfag if you're out there I want you to know I remember you. Sorry I spent your rent on more video games.

[Anonymous No.9522747]

>>9522678
Found a letter in a nes game genie box sent out to Fun Club Members about rhe upcoming transition to Nintendo Power. Thought it was pretty neat, even signed by Howard.

[Anonymous No.9522765]

>>9522728
>spent your rent on more video games

basedo

[Anonymous No.9522815]

[Anonymous No.9522950]

Got Pokémon Stadium 2 with some great rare gen 1 Pokémon like Gengar or starters/legendary in level 100 with great movesets and stats. The guy I bought it from seemed like the type of guy who would manually train these.
Paper Mario cart has a girl's name written on marker on the top, and the save file has her name (with added heart symbols or something) and her game clear time was better than mine. I haven't deleted it.

[Anonymous No.9522960]

>>9522815
>Column Jackson

[Anonymous No.9523263]

>>9522960

[Anonymous No.9523327]

>>9522678
Not a console but I bought a Macintosh Performa 637CD from a yard sale in 2009. It had a bunch of files on it from the previous owner and was last used in 1999 by the looks of things. I went looking through the files, most of it was mundane stuff like letters and Quicken files, but there was also a small collection of Lord of the Rings themed short stories.

[Anonymous No.9523387]

I wiped Patolo from existence.
Hirotoshi shall meet the same fate.
Though that label might prove to be a challenge, I don't think these are laminated.

[Anonymous No.9523723]

>>9522728
We're they well drawn? A year or two back I stumbled across one of my old doodles of Trixie Tang in my Akira DVD case.

[Anonymous No.9523770]

Hardly retro but I bought a 2ds the other week and found a bunch of family photos on it. His mom was fucking smoking hot

[Anonymous No.9523772]

>>9522728
post it

[Anonymous No.9523814]

>>9522678
My copy of Medal of Honor Airborne apparently belonged to "Gage" based on the sharpee writing on the disc.

[Anonymous No.9523996]

>>9523770
sharing is caring

[Anonymous No.9524231]

N64 wrestling games filled with other people's inside jokes. Kinda fun but I deleted them to make room for my own.

[Anonymous No.9524298]

>>9523387
Dammit, Hiro. You got me.

[Anonymous No.9524361]

When I went to private school I had to write my number on all of my possessions in case someone stole something, school policy. To this day most of my physical retro games have the number on them somewhere and I sold some. So for whoever bought them they'll wonder why some retard wrote 038 on the cartridge

[Anonymous No.9524432]

>>9522678
Cockroaches inside a Genesis console

[Anonymous No.9524648]

>>9524361
I'd guess it's from a rental store

[Anonymous No.9524686]

>>9522678
It's always fun to check out old saved games on used carts assuming the batteries are still working. Kinda fun to see how someone wasted a bunch of hours of their life playing some old rpg and how you now have the power to erase their accomplishments forever if you choose

[Anonymous No.9524725]

I regret removing stickers from old stores or rental places on used carts I got.

[Anonymous No.9524742]

>>9522680
You found the hidden treasure, enjoy

[Anonymous No.9525619]

i always keep a file from the previous owner on a cart if possible, thanks Paulo for your copies of MM and OOT

[Anonymous No.9525845]

I found a working NES with the first Zelda in an abandoned house that got tore down

[Anonymous No.9525874]

>>9522678
I bought a copy of Rogue Galaxy the other day, and inside the manual I found a diagram of the controls written on a piece of the box of some cigarette tubes.

[Anonymous No.9525876]

>>9525874
swap guy

[Anonymous No.9525893]

>>9525876
There he is!

[Anonymous No.9525898]

>>9522728
>Someones rent in an envelope folded 1/2 jammed inside a ps2.
No you didn't.

[Anonymous No.9526132]

>>9522678
My CIB DKC2 still has the full 102% save file on it left behind from the previous owner. Great to know they played it to completion before passing it on.

[Anonymous No.9526140]

>>9522680
I will admit, I was a nasty person who didn't wipe and got shit over my gamecube manuals.
My SADX manual got it bad, I'm a lot better now.

[Anonymous No.9526169]

>>9522678
I haven't found anything noteworthy that's retro yet, but I do write my name in marker inside the game cartridges.

[Anonymous No.9526176]

Twisted metal that I got from the flea market had a flap of coke in it.

[Anonymous No.9526470]

>>9525874
this is cute, but who is this possibly for? was some poor guy with a traumatic brain injury and 5 seconds of working memory attempting to play rogue galaxy? I am baffled

[Anonymous No.9526476]

>>9526140
anon look I was a gross kid too, one summer I didn't brush my teeth even a single time, but not wiping is a little beyond the pale

[Anonymous No.9526505]

>>9524725
>accidentally stole Paper Mario from Blockbuster once
>both me and my dad forgot to return it and by the time Blockbuster were annoying us he had a "well fuck you man" attitude
>find the Paper Mario cartridge one day and realize we really hadn't returned it
>fuck fuck fuck
>completely destroy the entire label, just mutilate it with a knife to erase the evidence
>free Paper Mario
>the Blockbuster went out of business three years later and became a chinese restaurant then demolished entirely to make room for a Walgreens
>always regretted butchering the fuck out of the label
>lost it when moving and regretted that even more, Paper Mario is the shit
>now ex-fiance gives me in box copy of Paper Mario for my birthday the year before we break up
>funny story, still have Paper Mario
>fuck Blockbuster kek
>ended up intentionally stealing Banjo-Tooie from the local video store later on too kek
All's right in the world

[Anonymous No.9526591]

>>9522678
i used to have a ton of carts with names on them, but nothing weird or notable.
sometimes there would be receipts but thats about it

[Anonymous No.9526914]

>>9522678
A buttload. I buy shit in any condition. Don't pay much, but for a long time no one else would even touch it so at least they got something. So I've seen everything. Mostly shitty stickers. Lots of bugs and lizards. Must be thousands of GB camera pics.

[Anonymous No.9526951]

>>9522728
do you still have the drawing?

[Anonymous No.9526957]

>>9526140
That's grim, anon.

[Anonymous No.9526965]

>>9524298
Kek. What's it say?

[Anonymous No.9527231]

>>9526965
Just his name, Takeshita Hirotoshi, written on the top edge and bevel. Marker must've protected the plastic from some kind of exposure induced discoloration.

[Anonymous No.9527286]

>>9525898
im a treasure hunter and i find money all the time. inside clothes, books, tins, etc. Hardly a stretch to find money in a stash spot like that.

[Anonymous No.9527810]

I work at a retro game store and regularly trade out interesting Pokemon from used games we get in. I've probably got 5 PC boxes full across several games and generations.

I'll take good care of them

[Anonymous No.9527889]

>>9527810
That's really cool actually. Your preserving memories in a way.
>tfw my level 100 charizard and butterfree from pokemon yellow died because I traded them to gold, and the battery died

[Anonymous No.9528013]

>>9527889
Fortunately some of the 3DS's we've gotten have had some VC Yellow save files on them. At some point I'll do a playthrough with the Clefairy and Nidorans I've gotten from the rare Gen 1 save

[Anonymous No.9528227]

>>9522678
About a decade ago, I got a used Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow cartridge with save files named after racial slurs.

[Anonymous No.9528323]

>>9526470
it looks like it's done by a teenage girl or a stimulant abuser

[Anonymous No.9528340]

>>9526140
my jaw is ajar

[Anonymous No.9528341]

Link's Awakening save file with a girl's name, had like 250 coins and no sword or shield. Guess she thought the game was a town simulator where you just talk to people

[Anonymous No.9528545]

>>9526140
How did you get shit on your manuals? You had shit on your hands and then touched them I'm assuming? How do you even get shit on your hands? If you're not wiping you're not reaching down there while you're shitting so you're picking at your itchy shitty butthole afterwards I'm assuming? And then have shit nuggets just all over your fingers and then just proceed to flip through your game manual (which is something most don't even touch often at all, so I can't even imagine the things you would handle more frequently, such as your controller) I am actually in awe. How could you be so filthy even as a child. I can't tell if this is a troll or not. Kind of hilarious but fucking disgusting.

[Anonymous No.9529646]

>>9522678
I got a used Japanese 3DS that happened to have some home photos on it. Seemed like a rural Japanese home out in the country.

[Anonymous No.9529662]

>>9522680
> pretty sure i found an OoT cartridge that belonged to mac miller

What makes you think that?

[Anonymous No.9529726]

Found a small baggie containing about 6 off-white pills with a star logo stamped on them, inside the drug storage compartment of a 2nd hand PS2. I presume they were mdma but I was too smart/cowardly to ingest random pills so I binned them instead.

[Anonymous No.9529796]

>>9522678
I just got a used link to the past snes cart and the file names on it were KKK and KILLER. i think it was a repro cart tho cause it looks mint.

[Anonymous No.9530090]

>>9522728
You didn't happen to buy a used PS2 with a really great collection of games in Ontario did you? Hope you spent my savings on something nice shithead.

[Anonymous No.9531193]

>>9529726
You give them to your friends to try, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.9531556]

>>9528227
I had a copy of The Double Pack, and only the Aria game works. The other just glitches out. For the best, perhaps.

[Anonymous No.9531671]

>>9525874
pure soul

[Anonymous No.9531779]

Have an N64 game that still has a label from a regional rental store. Not the same one, but if anyone has a game from Mr. Movies in FM, I'd be very interested.

[Anonymous No.9532341]

>>9522678
Found the original receipt in the manual of a Sega Rally. They purchased that game and a gallon of milk from a local store in the summer of '95 irrc.

[Anonymous No.9533051]

>>9528545
Basically I didn't wipe my ass, I sat on the floor with no underpants while playing vidya, and I left a shit stain on the carpet. I hid it with a Sonic Adventure DX manual. Mom found out and yelled at me though.
Don't worry, I wipe now.

[Anonymous No.9533058]

>>9528227
Something metaphysically forces me to name all my Castlevania saves "ANALBAG"

[Anonymous No.9534503]

>>9522678
I always nickname all six of my Pokemon "NIGGER" before trading or selling a verison.

[Anonymous No.9535183]

>>9522728
Share please
Give us that vintage

[Anonymous No.9535450]

>>9533058
You never realized "analbag" is just "Gablana" backwards? You probably don't know, so let me just elucidate: "gablana", from ancient celtic, means "an opening from which [something] leaks". In occultism, that signifies loosening the bonds between your spiritual nodes, so your soul can reach higher dimensions, while still being able to come back to your body, after you're done or forced out.

My analysis: being "analbag" simultaneously the opposite of "gablana" and a jest, it probably means your subconscious is trying to tell you that childish behavior is pulling you apart from spiritual evolution, descending you further into a spiral of confusion (from which, if you don't get out, will bring you relevant harm). Castlevania being a game which draws from occultism is just a synchronicity the universe found to vessel your subconscious' words.

[Anonymous No.9535505]

Old but crisp 1985 series 20 dollar bill in a floppy disk holder. This was actually just Friday.

[Anonymous No.9535767]

I have gotten multiple SNES and NES carts with video store labels or markings on them. One of them from the video store I went to as a kid.

[Anonymous No.9535961]

dreamcast bundle that included a vmu and crazy taxi. there was a crazy taxi save file, all the names in the leaderboard were the classics, "CUM" "POO" "ASS" "TIT" "FAG" "GAY" but one of them was just "MAN". so odd it gave me a good chuckle.

[Anonymous No.9535963]

>>9535505
Ya got a rebate!

[Anonymous No.9537191]

a second-hand gamecube memory card i bought had over a hundred twin snakes save files on it, i guess the previous owner never figured out you can overwrite them

was a pain to clean up

[Anonymous No.9537196]

>>9523723
let's see the doodle, pornboy.

[Anonymous No.9538435]

>>9524432
I remember a pic of a PS1 full of fire ants from here that made me really uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.9539654]

I bought my Gamecube from a yard sale for a nominal amount, like $40 for the console and a half dozen games. This was in 2008. In 2011 I decided to open up the cover to the expansion port and discovered a small double-sealed bag of weed stuffed inside. Kid did a really good job hiding it, I had that thing for years and never smelled a hint of the Devil's Lettuce on it.

[Anonymous No.9541503]

>>9522678
I bought a copy of onimusha from a flea market a few years ago and it came with the original receipt.
It's very interesting to me to see how much this place was paying for dc game trade ins at the time especially seaman with the mic

[Anonymous No.9541510]

>>9529662
I made it up
I did actually find an OoT cartridge and the owner was named Mac and I don't live that far from Pittsburg, and that jewish wigger faggot did like playing N64 so I guess it's potentially possible

[Anonymous No.9541851]

>>9525874
this looks like someone that started playing games at an old age, or a kid that recently got a PS2 after playing on another console/controller for many years.

[Anonymous No.9541857]

>>9528227
that was probably me, I do this whenever a game lets you name things.

[Anonymous No.9541880]

>>9527810
>years ago find video of guy buying a ps2 HDD
>loads up ps2 with hdd
>has save games from the previous owner's time with it, that's been sitting there for like 15 years.
>deletes them right away without giving them a glance, not even a damn glance! or copying them to another memcard and check out what's in them later.
I had to stop watching, my autism couldn't handle it, it's so stupid but it bothered me so much.

[Anonymous No.9541949]

>>9526140
>>9533051
As a kid I wouldn’t even let my friends touch my controllers after they had eaten chips. I couldn’t stand having that oily shit from their hands on my console, so I used to force them to wash their hands before handling the controllers again. I once lost a friend because I got into a huge shouting match with him after he ate Doritos and got it all over my controller.

But you… I would have fucking murdered you with my mom’s kitchen knives, cut you up, and burnt what’s left in the wood stove. Jesus fuck how can a non-Indian human being be so vile and disgusting.

[Anonymous No.9542154]

>>9522678
When I worked at a retro games store a few years ago, there was a copy of SMW that got traded in with the words "(kid's name)'s number one favorite game of all time" written on the back in sharpie. Broke my heart.

[Anonymous No.9542660]

>>9522678
saw some gameboy games on ebay earlier today that had the owners full name, address, and phone number written on the back in sharpie

[Anonymous No.9542671]

>>9528227
I made that mistake fairly recently. A few years ago I sold a Link Between Worlds 3DS I had and forgot to delete the secondary user, which was "OY VEY" and the mii was essentially the merchant.

[Anonymous No.9542673]

>ywn smell Tony’s poop

[Anonymous No.9542689]

>>9522728
> One of the games from that bundle lacked a manual and had a bunch of tracing papers with that female skunk from looney toons on it with her tits out.

[Anonymous No.9542691]

>>9542689
>posting discord emojis
cringe

[Anonymous No.9542931]

>>9526140
You shouldn't admit that.

[Anonymous No.9542954]

I appreciate this on my Goodwill find.

[Anonymous No.9543105]

>>9542954
Incredible show of brand disloyalty from Aaron