February 2016 haul

[Shin Johnpv]

If I just want to play a bunch of ROMs, I've already got tons of ways to do that. That's not what I want.

Everdrives are a little different than emulation. You're playing the games on original hardware for instance, with original controllers etc. I've got somewhere between 100 - 150 SNES games, and just under like 100 Genesis titles. Any game with batteries are on the verge of having those batteries die (my Final Fantasy II battery already died). A few years ago I went ahead and bought a retrode and ripped all of MY snes games, game saves, genesis games, and genesis game saves to the computer. Now I play those games on an SD2SNES cart.

[NeoZeedeater]

Everdrives are also really nice to have for homebrew games. A lot of those get updates and it's much easier to upgrade the rom instead of buying/making a whole new cartridge.

[mollipen]

All the old games are getting so prohibitively expensive, it is really too much to start collecting now.

No, I've quickly become aware that I screwed up timing-wise. Still want to try to get a few things.

[kingoffighters]

No, I've quickly become aware that I screwed up timing-wise. Still want to try to get a few things.

Me too. I have a few games from way back, maybe 20-30 games and half of them are sports/crap games anyway. At this point, I am just holding onto them because I have room and don't need the money. Figure stupid collectors will pay more down the road.

[BonusKun]

The fact I own a copy of Musha I bought at retail gives me a lot of relief considering how stupid that cart is priced now.

[kingoffighters]

I sold MUSHA for a few dollars after getting Robo Aleste. LOL me.

[Yoshi]

MUSHA is on VC. I wish Robo Aleste were.

[Shin Johnpv]

Everdrives are also really nice to have for homebrew games. A lot of those get updates and it's much easier to upgrade the rom instead of buying/making a whole new cartridge.

That and fan translations. It's nice to have access to a lot of stuff that never came to our shores.

[NeoZeedeater]

A Japanese copy of Robo Aleste is pretty cheap compared to a lot of good shooters from that era at around $30 plus shipping. You can always run that through an emulator if you don't want to pirate.

[Fe 26]

Some people just enjoy the process. Jesus. No one here is poor. No reason to scrape pennies together. If moll wants to prop up the worth of these carts, let her.