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Still buying Pokemon Emerald

>>733263003
Or you can spend 0$ and play it on your phone or PC or even original hardware with a cart that can take roms

>>733263003
>Who's to blame for this?
speculators have ruined every second hand market
just use a repro or flashcart at this point

>>733263097
kek

>>733263150
>>733263194
That's illegal

i had 2 copies of emerald for some reason, one with a box. I sold them several years ago for about $140 for the one without a box and $200 for the one with the box.

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>>733263251
>That's illegal

>>733263251
nintendo and other companies tried to illegalize reselling in japan too btw

>>733263251
Whoa, thats an unbreakable concrete barrier standing between you and childhood gay nostalgia! Oh well, guess you better just put in more hours making money for the shareholders of your company. Maybe if you work extra hard theyll let you be a good boy!

>>733263251
I don't remember agreeing to those laws, sound like nonsense, also doesn't apply in every country.

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>UGHHHH NEW GAME BAD OLD GAME GOOD
>WTF WHY OLD GAME EXPENSIVE? GAME OLD! WHY NOT FREE AND CHEAP I AM GOING TO STEAL IT
literal niggers
all of you
you are all so fucking stupid and brown

>>733263251
Shut up you're a Faggot and a Nigger

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>>733263003
Resellers wouldn't keep prices that high if people didn't willingly pay that price. What is it about retro game collecting that makes people such consoomers?

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>>733263003
>Who's to blame for this?
You for not keeping your copy from when you were a kid.

>>733265720
You're mentally ill

>>733265923
Perhaps, but at least I'm not poor enough that I have to sell my own games.

>>733263003
Emerald Legacy Romhack is fun and I cannot go back to vanilla Emerald after playing it.

>>733266203
>Emerald Legacy Romhack is fun
Redpill me on this and Smith's other legacy romhacks, please.

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If you liked the game that much, why did you sell your childhood copy
If you liked the game that much, why didn't you buy a copy 10 years ago when prices were cheap?

>>733265720
I still have all my pokemons but at this point selling them sounds better than keeping them since the series doesn't interest me anymore and if I can scalp some fag out of a few months' utility bills worth of money it's more worth it than the game sitting in a GBA carrying case in my closet somewhere. kept all the boxes too hell yeah

>>733266401
Diamond hands, nigga, they're only ever gonna go up, digital only rereleases don't affect prices at all.

>>733264440
>>>/vt/ranny

>>733263003
Supply and demand.

>>733263251
It's not illegal unless you get a knock on your door the day after you click download.

>>733266470
>digital only rereleases don't affect prices at all.
They absolutely do. Earthbound prices cratered when its VC release happened.

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>>733263003
prices were fine before covid, when people still bought used games to play them, rather than collect. But then scalper retards got their filthy hands into the used game market, and now it's fucked beyond repair.
Also notice how this only happened with the popular games while XY and beyond remained unaffected.

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>>733267146
that's a fucking lie

>>733263003
for me, emulation is fine, but i get the appeal of wanting the physical system in your hands with the original look and feel.

what i will never get is feeling the need to do so with actual cartridges. it's a huge money sink, it takes up a ton of space in your house, and flash carts are objectively better from a convenience, cost, and functionality perspective.

>>733263003
boomers (the most kiked generation)
and their offspring millenials (the second most kiked generation)

>>733267440
XY onwards didn't get affected because you could still buy them on the eShop. Can't buy out and scalp a game with infinite supply.

>>733267440
>Also notice how this only happened with the popular games
Depends entirely on the series really. Even mundane stuff like Afrika and the PSN Vol. 1 shot to the moon for no reason because of assholes who made Youtube videos about them during Covid. Now they're like $280. Same deal with Boxboy JP since it came with the Amiibo and all three games. Same deal with Rhythm Heaven Fever just because it had a smaller run than usual on the Wii.

I am not a fan of Youtubers during the Covid era who talked about video games, they genuinely ruined the physical space in general because of how much attention they brought to certain games.

>>733267508
Look at that massive dip in 2014. Wii U Earthbound released in mid 2013.

>>733267440
Even the 3DS game have gone up a bit recently

>>733265720
>Buying both versions of every gen as a kid
Don't lie now.

>>733263003
I remember I thought it was all plastic junk once it could be emulated kek

>>733267701
My wife and I played the games together. I played the second version and she played the first version. And the extra copies of Red/Blue/Sapphire are from friends who decided they were "too old" for Pokemon.

>>733263251
Nintendo gets zero dollars whether you download a ROM or pay $300 on the secondhand market.

>>733267440
>>733267673
I'd nab some cheap 3DS titles now. You never know with these scalper retards if they decide to move on from fucking the DS market to the 3DS market.

>>733267440
>Also notice how this only happened with the popular games while XY and beyond remained unaffected.
Or- just maybe. The 3DS games onward have mainly been unaffected because they were shit compared to what came before?

>>733263003
just emulate, they're purely for collector autists now
>t. going to sell all of my carts to tiktok zoomers this year

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>>733267146
>Earthbound prices cratered
>cratered
>>733267653
>Look at that massive dip in 2014. Wii U Earthbound released in mid 2013.
>massive dip
I'm sorry nigga but a $20 dip compared to the all time high is neither "crater(ing)" nor is it a "massive dip"

>>733267891
So it's your copy and your wife copy who happen to be different every time? Why lie? Just admit you buy games as an adult anon

>>733263003
I've got two cartridges at home, probably won't sell them as I loved the game. Felt wondrous at the time, playing something that was so different to what I was used to.

>>733268078
yeah, it's mostly people endlessly dicksucking the same 4 games what made the costs soar to retarded numbers.
And also, affecting RS, DP, and BW on a smaller scale, but still inflated.

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>>733268379
EoS too for the exact same reason.
>this is almost $200 usd

>>733268563
It doesn't even make sense, just play those games on flashcarts.

For those that want to transfer to Bank and then Home, that can be done with unofficial games as well, so there's legit no benefit to using the official Pokemon catridges.

Obviously if you have it, that's cool, but I sold my Emerald since I didn't even have a system to play it on, still have X and AS. But really if I didn't, my modded 3DS can still play those games just fine.

>bought one of those rewritable game boy flash carts
>put a QoL Silver hack on it that just fixes broken shit like the balls not working, etc.
>bought a shell and a new sticker
>even works with Stadium 2
Paying for a old Pokemon game in 2026 is retarded

>>733268563
EoS is so funny because Time/Darkness are like $20 and the vast majority of people aren't going to do the added EoS content anyway, and it's the same exact game otherwise.

>>733269416
I legit want to do that for Gold/Silver/Crystal because the battery only lasts for like ~7 years and some of the single game flash carts actually save the game to flash memory while having an optional battery for the RTC, and that sounds fucking perfect. I've been wanting to do that for like 10 years now and I just haven't, because VC GSC happened.

>>733263003
Emulators are better anyway

>>733269553
>Emerald
>it's 95% the same game as Ruby/Sapphire
>but it has LE HECKIN BATTLE FRONTERINO
>that is a huge fucking drag and a tedious grind that your adult ass can't be assed to play through

Some people really have nostalgia over shit that was only "good" when you were a kid with nothing else to kill time with.

>>733269947
Emerald is basically both ruby and sapphire in one dumbass, it is why it's the superior version
Battlefrontier is a nice plus to have

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>>733263251

>>733269947
Emerald is VERY changed compared to EoS. Nearly every NPC trainer roster is different, all of the Gyms have a different layout, etc.

EoS just has the extra stories that don't have any actual reward or reason to do them other than lOrE!!!11!11! and you can get both Mewtwo and Celebi.

>>733263003
just use the cartridge you bought back then

>>733263003
Just buy a reproduction you tars. Its literally the same

>>733263251
Sharing your copy of a video game with your friends or family members is also illegal.
Nobody cares, nigger.

Actually insane that zoomers are mentally incapable of emulating, how have we regressed so much in just one generation?

>>733263251
Stop poisoning the well for anti-emulator people with moralfaggotry

>>733267532
It goes boomers, then gen X, then milennials.

>>733273619
doesn't matter, you're all kiked faggots and deserve to be exterminated

>>733263003
Are zoomgoloids REALLY deathly afraid to even try and emulate games?

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>>733263251
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Which Pokémon does Emerald not have? I know one of them is Zangoose because I wanted him on my team but he wasn’t available where you catch Seviper/Swablu/Lombre in Emerald so I had to catch him in my chipped copy of Ruby and trade a hatched one to my Emerald at the start of the game

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Resellers are out of their damn minds.

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>>733263003
If I had a mantle, I'd want this on it.

>>733268671
It will never make sense to poor people

>>733273931
That's unironically child traficking behind it.

733263251
its because of shit like this that tendies need their own containment board

>>733263251
oh no!
anyway...

>>733263251
lol the seethe at this post

>>733274092
It's obvious bait. Most tendies pirate.

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>>733273931
Don't forget the "OR BEST OFFER" part.

The large number (in psychology) is called "an anchor" - designed to make you think that if the first number you see is a very large number, you immediately think that the thing must be very good or very rare or very unique or very desirable to command such a number. So you immediately attach the thing to high value. Its a marketing trick designed to prime you to spend more than the thing is actually worth. It's also why ebay (quite shadily) "hides" the "completed sales" search function. EBay makes more money when you sell items for higher prices because they get percentages, not flat fees for listings. They have every reason to let this anchor number nonsense proliferate.

Zoomers for being trend chasing retards and boomers/gen x'ers being predatory resellers.

>>733273931
Like >>733274030 said, that's almost certainly some sort of money laundering or other sketchy shit.

>>733274279
https://www.aol.com/news/logan-paul-makes-16-4-040735688.html

>>733274397
???

are there any sites besides shitbay to get games from with shipping?

>>733274776
Zoomers and trend chasers let a pokemon card be worth 16.4 million dollars. A YouTuber and an auction house were happy to let it happen.

This is why we can't have nice things.

>>733273885
>Surskit (Can be obtained by mixing records to send a Surskit outbreak to Emerald)
>Masquerain
>Meditite
>Medicham
>Roselia
>Zangoose (Ruby only)
>Lunatone (Sapphire only)
And then from FRLG:
>Kanto starters
>Caterpie line
>Weedle line
>Pidgey line
>Rattata line
>Spearow line
>Ekans line (FR or GoD)
>Both Nidoran lines
>Cleffa line
>Paras line
>Venonat line
>Diglett line
>Meowth line
>Mankey line
>Growlithe line (FR or GoD)
>Poliwag line
>Bellsprout line (LG or GoD)
>Ponyta line
>Slowpoke line (LG only)
>Farfetch'd
>Seel line
>Shellder line (FR or GoD)
>Gastly line
>Onix line
>Drowzee line
>Krabby line
>Exeggcute line
>Cubone line
>Tyrogue line
>Lickitung
>Chansey line
>Tangela
>Kangaskhan
>Mr. Mime
>Scyther line (FR or GoD)
>Smoochum line
>Elekid line (FR or GoD)
>Magby line (LG or GoD)
>Tauros
>Lapras
>Eevee line
>Porygon line
>Omanyte line
>Kabuto line
>Aerodactyl
>Legendary birds
>Dratini line
>Mewtwo
>Sentret line
>Togepi line
>Hoppip line
>Yanma
>Murkrow (FR or Colo)
>Misdreavus (LG or Colo)
>Unown
>Dunsparce
>Qwilfish (FR or Colo)
>Sneasel (LG or Colo)
>Swinub line
>Delibird (FR or Colo)
>Mantine (LG or Colo)
>Legendary beasts (1 per save roaming Kanto or all 3 from Colo)
>Larvitar line
>Celebi (JP Colo bonus disc only)
>Jirachi (EN Colo bonus disc only)
Ho-Oh, Lugia, and Deoxys are all in Emerald, but they require event items. Otherwise Ho-Oh is Colo only and Lugia is GoD only.

>>733265720
This. I, too, have a small fortune on my shelves

>>733263251
Buying secondhand is worse than piracy as someone else is making profit off Nintendo's game instead of them

>>733264440
No! I am not brown! Post your listing right now and I'll prove to you that I'm a rich white male!

Why are poor people so obssesed with buying ludicrously expensive things they can literally get for free?

>>733274279
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/117032707845?_skw=pokemon+ascended+heroes&itmmeta=01KHQMBFBR7ZH0AK58S6BXYM8M&hash=item1b3fb16705:g:tqwAAeSwIyhpjUqc&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA4GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xCSZyUGbqnMCFNF%2Fgjy4jX%2FOqUT1ppXz%2Bjrq3fDdmKiPtGeW8NPTi2emYtZZjWSlFO3JiT6hBFSqRu3nY6pq%2FyUQVt1J35BSUF325gkmd3%2FcolH3i%2FvLxy57GLDzHv11uHdfwWXRzuGcboiq74qnZR9dAsiY4zWSp9UnqPKFdqB%2FP2iQASxVkV2xHV8bzbBOU%2B6kzqgr41IxWPH2h0esf02LOisxKcppbkVFxRXo4f4%2BLsDwSZ80TbbBQF%2BEsCZKXgHVW5wPVvwoKUd%2FVSjtckW%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4D2rfSNZw

It's been out less than 3 weeks. If this isn't trend chasing and reseller cancer, I don't know what is.

>>733275174
legally?

I bought all mine on release. No scalper faggots have got 1c out of me post convid.

>>733275472
No, you can get the entire nes, snes, gb, gbc, gba, n64, ds, 3ds and even switch library in less than a minute and there is NOTHING nintendo can do about it. Quite a cultural shock for gen alpha, i know, but it's actually real.

>>733275571
But it's not legal, right?

>>733275668
Mindbroken cattle.

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>>733268671
>For those that want to transfer to Bank and then Home
While I don't know the exact process of how to go about doing the moving to Pokemon Home step without an official game, I like that the process of genning mons is pretty simple outside of that. I learned how to make a shiny legendary from all of their home games (including event ones where applicable) so my brother can have a complete collection, with his own OT and making sure everything was as legit as possible while being as close to perfect as possible.
It's a fun exercise trying to make mons that pass the legal checks, in some cases anyway. Most of the time you can just grab a wild spawn sample of the shiny mon, make it shiny and crank up its IVs, and even the most strict variant of PKHex will not know the difference.

>>733275713
Criminal scum.

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>>733263251
anon....

>>733275472
Legality is kind of a moving target. Aside from the "if buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing" mindset, every country on Erth has different laws on the subject. Who got what where and how did they do it and why did they do it makes a very big difference. Nintendo can't sell for damages if no money changes hands when an emulator or coder transfers base code. Nintendo didn't patent the scripting language they used, they themselves licensed it. And so many fan edits and remakes and fanfic games exist because Nintendo has no legal ground to stand on: between freedom of speech, freedom of expression, parody, fair use, social commentary, etc, everything is covered one way or the other.

Nintendo, unfortunately for them, are in the legal predicament of having to PROVE real and actual losses.

If n emulator is designed and invented by a person on their own time, with their own equipment, and they release a thing that other people can get all without any money changing hands, Nintendo never lost out on potential revenue because nothing was sold and nothing was purchased. No money changed hands.

If Nintendo makes no effort to make older games available to newer players, things like #stopkillinggames happens and its their own fault.

They've been losing the PR war of morale and goodwill for years. Think I'm kidding? Tell them you want to host a smash tournament and get back to me.

>>733275747
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>733275742
What you're describing is about as fun as paying some Chinese sweatshop to print high resolution proxy cards when you could just buy a pack and open big hit cards.

The "fun" of doing it the "official" way is that it is "real". The product is authentic. You enjoy the thrill and the experience of buying the game or the pack of cards, playing the games and opening the packs and enjoying the surprise of getting great wild catches or rare cards.

When you can approximate that, or generate that in some mechanical, purposeful way, you diminish the overall experience. You cheapen it for yourself.

It's like comparing the victory of going to a bar, meeting a gorgeous girl, talking her up, taking her home, and banging her brains out VS driving to a street corner and paying some crackhead $40 to wobble your knob. The end result is sort of the same, but the experience is WAY different.

>>733276057
We're equating a shiny Mew to dating a hot chick? Alright, I guess.

>>733276231
I'm drawing a contrast between doing things the "official" way vs the "unofficial" way.

Playing the video game, fresh from the box, as intended and coming across a wild shiny is a cool, fun thing.

When you can just go to a website, click a few buttons, type a prompt and wait for machine to go BRRRRR and you have a filled pokedex of shiny hundos, you didn't play the game. You didn't explore. You didn't watch the story unfold. You didn't adventure. You didn't trade. You didn't battle. You didn't earn anything. You didn't experience the highs and lows. You didn't fight your way through a team draining swarm of wild pokemon and make it to the boss fight and catch the hundo, or the shiny, or the legendary. You didn't do any of the things that make playing the game fun. You cheapened all of it by skipping to the end by manufacturing an outcome that no one in the community sees as legitimate or real or authentic or earned or won.

The kid who saves up allowance for a year to buy themselves a booster box of card packs for their birthday present to themselves, to spend the time carefully and gleefully to open each pack and ooh and aww over every pull, to dedicatedly put them gently and lovingly into sleeves and binder pages and build a collection has something that another kid spending $10 on aliexpress or wayfair or temu to buy 100 printed copies of base set first edition shadowless Charizard cards to put in a binder doesn't.

>>733263003
Just get a flash cart it's LITERALLY, LITERALLY THAT FUCKING EASY

>>733269671
I ended up getting the shit from insidegadgets. You can get the cart as well as a thing that plugs into your PC so you can write to it, but you can also backup any other GB, GBC, and GBA game you already own.

>>733275797
>Tell them you want to host a smash tournament and get back to me.
Insane that Smashfags and people like Hungrybox would get up on stage and beg for Nintendo's involvement. I bet they regret that shit now.

>>733263251
Legality and ethics are 2 different things.

>>733265720
Nigga I left it on my grampas dresser and hell i dont even know if he gave it away he's forgetful sometimes.

>>733275472
>>733275797
>>733277518

It's really an environment now similar to "what mommy doesn't know won't hurt her".

Big mommy Nintendo gets cranky when the kids have too much "unregulated" or "unsupervised" fun.

So we neglect to mention these things to big mommy Nintendo.

>>733263003
Genuinely why buy this aside from as an investment? emulation is 10x as enjoyable and F R E E

>>733277895
Stop being poor :)

>>733277895
>Connection with other gen 3 games
>Connection with the Gamecube games
>Connection with the e-reader
>Connection with gen 4 games for Pal Park
>Connection with FRLG for the wireless minigames for FRLG trainer card progress

>lend sister the 3DS
>forgot that she’s completely corrosive and somehow peeled off the rubber coating of the stick
Are there any replacement part for the rubber coat of the stick?

>>733278065
You can do the same with any flashcart out there. Lol

>>733263003
Thats the same price as when it released adjusted for inflation

>>733278126
Sure, if you're a fucking weenie. You'll never get it.

>>733278112
What, the stylus? You can just buy replacements.

>>733278178
I have much more plastic than you my man, I am just pointing out you are completely wrong

>>733278261
>I have much more plastic than you
We can tell.

>>733278279
I accept the consneedssion have a good one :)

>>733278178
It’s the left joystick, though I’m retarded and google just showed a ton of results even for the hardware itself not just the rubber cap.

>>733278331
Don't sit on your own balls on the way out!

>>733278361
Yeah, there's plenty of spare parts. The trick is actually assembling it yourself, Nintendo uses obscure fucking screw types so you may need to order some specific screwdrivers to open it up.

>>733263003
Pirate and emulate, there is too many games I've got for <10$ that are now at three digits to say anything respectable of the second hand market.

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>>733263003
>Who's to blame for this?
Western resellers trying to get a quick buck by buying old games and reposting them at 5x the price. This is not exclusive to vidya though, they try to pull that shit with every single collectible/hobby.
You can get the same games with a 3x/20x discount in japan, the only caviat being that you actually need to know japanese.

>>733278178
>stylus
Poser has no clue lol
>>733278361
Both are one piece, if you buy a cheap one it's smooth plastic. Feeling is different from the original. If you buy a slightly more expensive one (7euro?) It's rubber. Changing is kinda of a pain

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Nintendo is unironically winning. Younger zoomers and gen alpha are just incapable of using a search engine and setting up emulators.

That being said, everyone on 4chan already knows how to use this shit and you're arguing with bad faith arguments from brown people.

>Wanting to play video games the good old fashioned way
PS3's are dirt cheap. Aintnoway you unc enough to have GBA as your childhood

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>>733265720
One time I let my older brother borrow my Heartgold version because I'd already played it to death and years later I ask him for it back and learned he'd traded it in to GameStop for a discount on a new PS3 controller.
We are not a black family, btw.

>doesn't have a n3dsll with every gameboy/ds/3ds game loaded on it
Actually ngmi lmao

>>733263003
You
Get a job poorscum

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https://youtube.com/shorts/CXUkvwyW7ZI?si=ownFRWiHbs_W8wx5

>>733278738
Lol.

I remember using stuff like ePSXe, VBA and Snes9x to play stuff old stuff FF, DBZ:LoG and Pokemon Ruby Version on WinXP. That was back in early 00s. Unless we had an equivalent to Horus Heresey, I do not think all of it was lost.

>>733278846
Coolroms removed Samus pic from their website after nintendo went after them that one time.

>>733263003
>Who's to blame for this?
>muh original experience, muh morals
People like you. Emulate.

>>733278949
My childhood friend Nintendo doesn't allow that though?