Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

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Baraka Obama said:
Use Buyee or Amazon Japan (ordering in batches makes the shipping very reasonable), don't use ebay.
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Huh. Is that true for other retro components? Not something I need, but I heard basically all PSVitas and Memory Cards were gone.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Huh. Is that true for other retro components? Not something I need, but I heard basically all PSVitas and Memory Cards were gone.
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At higher capacities, the Vita Memory cards get unreliable to use and unreasonably expensive, it's better to mod the console and use SD cards instead.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Huh. Is that true for other retro components? Not something I need, but I heard basically all PSVitas and Memory Cards were gone.
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A few years ago (~2020) you could get a brand new PS Vita in the color of your choice for around 12,000 yen, of course this was back when the yen was strong so that was around $120.

You aren't going to find that anymore. So from that perspective they are "gone." There are some listings for new ones but this far out it's likely it's just a very, very nice condition used one someone has put back in the box.

Now you can expect to pay 15,000 to 20,000 yen for a used one, depending on color and condition, which in today's exchange rate is $95 to $126. This isn't particularly expensive IMO, it's just not what it used to be. It's not like they are unavailable.

What's actually shocking is what has happened to SNES and Game Boy prices. Most stuff is 10x what I paid last decade.... but at the time PC Engine and desirable SHMUPS were 10x what people had paid a few years prior, if you put it into perspective you have to remember that there's a time aspect to all this stuff. At some point in time PS3 and Xbox 360 games will be valuable, right now they cost nothing.

Pepe Cortisona said:
At higher capacities, the Vita Memory cards get unreliable to use and unreasonably expensive, it's better to mod the console and use SD cards instead.
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I guess if you really want to use physical copies on a 2000 I can see the appeal but yeah it's not a good buy these days.

A 64GB card has always been expensive, at a glance they cost less used than what I paid to get one new in person in 2014.


Edit: another thing that's changed is in-person shopping. It used to be you could go to a junk shop (it's like a thrift shop pawn shop combo) in the suburbs of Tokyo and clean up with cheap purchases. Nowadays all those shops "know what they have" and the vintage video game hardware and games are all priced accordingly. But even that was a big change from let's say 2008 where you could go to one street in Akiba and buy everything for 100 yen.

It's easy to think the glory days are gone but there's always something that's a bargain compared to a few years from now. AFAIK Wiis are still worthless.
 
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Baraka Obama said:
I guess if you really want to use physical copies on a 2000 I can see the appeal but yeah it's not a good buy these days.

A 64GB card has always been expensive, at a glance they cost less used than what I paid to get one new in person in 2014.
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Give it some time. Someone came up with a way to put SD cards into a PSP Go by using the same Memory Stick M2 slot with an adapter.

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I'm sure someone autistic enough will do something like that for the 2000 and the non 3G 1000.
 
Pepe Cortisona said:
Someone came up with a way to put SD cards into a PSP Go by using the same Memory Stick M2 slot with an adapter.
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Yeah it took a really long time though. I have two in my two PSPgos, but I suffered through having the stock 16gb + an 8gb card for a long time on my first one.

I'm sure it will happen eventually. Meanwhile my idea to tack a PSTV onto the back of a portable monitor w/ a battery bank strapped on doesn't seem so stupid.
 
Baraka Obama said:
It's easy to think the glory days are gone but there's always something that's a bargain compared to a few years from now. AFAIK Wiis are still worthless.
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It floors me how a Wii, which can do literally everything a Gamecube can do minus Game Boy Player support and whatever limited amount of Gamecube homebrew exists, is consistently cheaper than a Gamecube.
 
Two Dollars said:
It floors me how a Wii, which can do literally everything a Gamecube can do minus Game Boy Player support and whatever limited amount of Gamecube homebrew exists, is consistently cheaper than a Gamecube.
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that's not really surprising, the wii sold 100+ Million units compared to GC's 20 million.
 
Two Dollars said:
It floors me how a Wii, which can do literally everything a Gamecube can do minus Game Boy Player support and whatever limited amount of Gamecube homebrew exists, is consistently cheaper than a Gamecube.
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Gamecube supported the broadband adaptor, which can be used to play a handful of games online, or LAN.
 
The best way to play old 3D games isn't on a CRT. It's by running it at 320x240(or native resolution for consoles) while cranking up SSAA to some ridiculous degree. Now it looks like old pre-rendered cutscenes. That's what I used to do and it looks cool!
 
Herman Throwaway said:
There's a shitload more abandoned Wii units out there than there were GameCubes sold.
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That's because the stock WiiMote is basically a Playskool toy with adult electronics inside. My grandmother would never be able to handle the asymmetric chonk that the GC came with but she and my 3 year old neice can Wii Sports half the day together with no problem.

Wii had an audience the GC could only dream of.
 
Cpt. Stud Beefpile said:
That's because the stock WiiMote is basically a Playskool toy with adult electronics inside. My grandmother would never be able to handle the asymmetric chonk that the GC came with but she and my 3 year old neice can Wii Sports half the day together with no problem.

Wii had an audience the GC could only dream of.
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I see, so the Gamecube had a serious hardcore gaming controller for mature adults only (no casual babies allowed)

hmm I dunno man
 
Calandrino said:
I see, so the Gamecube had a serious hardcore gaming controller for mature adults only (no casual babies allowed)

hmm I dunno man
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More or less.
I distinctly remember that me and my small friend group needed practice to properly use the GC controllers vs with 8/16 bit game consoles.
 
Calandrino said:
I see, so the Gamecube had a serious hardcore gaming controller for mature adults only (no casual babies allowed)

hmm I dunno man
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Idk, I remember playing Sonic Adventure and Mario Kart Double Dash when I was 7. They’re not that difficult.
 
Its still funny to me how the Wii is viewed as worthless because everyone had one when they are more powerful than the gamecube and even are fully backwards compatible up to having 4 controller ports for GC controllers on the top of it. Though I think hardly anyone ever used that feature.
 
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