As to not interact with the bait thread, I don't understand the notion that "retro gaming" is unaffordable if you'd prefer not to emulate. I saw a video of someone claiming this recently and his evidence was the fact that Pokemon games on the GBA are expensive. Which yeah, no shit? I don't think the most popular media franchise ever with a notoriously awful secondhand market is a representative sample. My 170 or so physical games going from NES to the previous generation cost about $2500 in total, not even $15 per game on average. And it's not random junk, I have games like Perfect Dark, Castlevania III, Zelda 1 and 2, UMK3, God of War 2, Ace Combat 4, Circle of the Moon, Earthworm Jim, Final Fantasy VIII, and so on for sometimes well under $30 each. If anything, there's a silver lining to the fucked prices of ultra-nostalgic games in that they pushed me to broaden my circle of interest and now my all time favorite games come from genres and eras I didn't touch as a kid. And with the new normal of 500+ dollar console and 80 dollar games, I'd rather spend that amount of money on a console a fifth that price and a lot more games with legacy that are cool to own and will retain value, rather than the newest bing bing wahoo that has no legacy and is already 40% off on eBay. I thought paying $86 after shipping and fees for Symphony of the Night was a lot. I still think that, but I don't feel bad about it anymore
tl;drit's unaffordable if your favorite games have been memed to death by retarded youtubers, possibly affordable otherwiseshit thread btw
>>12031737My Fina fantasy disc stopped working on my xboxone installsasas one time and the next day the discs cannot be read but that shit is istalled
>>12031737I just emulate. If I was rich and had the space I'd go physical but I'm not and I don't so I go with emulation. Not even sure what that nigga meant by it being for cucks, no one on YouTube gives a shit if you're playing on original hardware or not.Tangibly related but does anyone here use RetroArch? If so, is it worth it? I just emulate my shit the way I always have, organized in folders. Does RA do anything special?
all the screeching about prices here just shows how many of you are poor
>>12031791RA is just a pretty and convenient frontend that wraps up all your emulators and paths into one nice application. Probably worth setting up in the long run
>As to not interact with the bait threadIt's /vr/, every thread is bait
>>12031795I decided to look further into it and everything I've seen says it's a clunky, ugly piece of shit. Were you fucking with me?
>>12032097No, just your mom
>>12031737The fact that pokemon was always incredibly popular should make the games cheaper, not more expensive. There ought to be metric fuckloads of inventory out there. Yes, there would also be fairly high demand but there can't possibly be more demand now than when the games were new so unless people were just throwing carts in the fucking trash or something the demand should not outweiigh the current supply to the extent that prices are through the roof. This is manufactured scarcity caused by hoarding
>>12032150>demand but there can't possibly be more demand now than when the games were new so unless people were just throwing carts in the fucking trash or something the demand should not outweiigh the current supply to the extent that prices are through the roofIt shouldn't, but does. Way more people now are into Pokemon than were when the GB-DS games were new, so demand for the old games has grown while supply can do nothing but shrink. Nostalgia bait Youtube content revitalized interest and people started paying more than 10 dollars for old games, and more on top of that, and it snowballed into a bandwagon where everyone lists their personal copies for high prices because that's what's on eBay. And you'd be surprised at what happens to old games. They're forgotten in a corner, go through moves, get thrown out with old clothes they were left in, go through house fires, end up in a bin with random stuff that's put outside, are given away by old people who don't know what they are, etc, so while good condition carts are objectively not rare, there's a surplus of demand for them. It sucks, play Splinter Cell or something. You can find it in a free bin
>>12031768I don't know who started this shit, but for some reason all youtubers pushed this narrative that every GC game under the sun is somehow "super rare" and "worth a whole lot of money" because it sold less than the PS2 or some shit like that. So now Wind Waker is worth $80USD (disc only) and pic related, which isn't even that good of a port to begin with, is hitting these numbers in the speculative retro market for some reason. Only games that haven't jumped up in price are Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike. I don't know why.
>>12032150>This is manufactured scarcity caused by hoardingIt's worse than scarcity, it's straight up gold rush era opportunity seizing. People really want the authentic copies because then their legit mons can be used for official events. There's literally no way that the world has somehow run out of copies of any generation for that market, but the resellers understand that they can jack up the second-hand prices and make a shitton of money by exploiting the perceived demand for legit Pokemon games. Other resellers see them selling at a higher price and raise their own to match, and suddenly you have tidal wave that continues to swell up as people in the market test just how much they can charge for this shit.Keep in mind this is still extremely niche for fans outside of content creators who buy this shit for their monetization. Everybody else just emulates or uses piracy carts.
>>12032413TTYD has about halved in price since the Switch remake dropped, so that's something. GC controllers are also obnoxious for ones that have been tested to work for sure. I went through 3 before getting one that wasn't fucked up in some way
>>12032424>>12032413The problem is the huge amount of FOMO buying caused by the retro market being so fucking fragile, where one YouTube video or Twitter meme can cause prices to spike overnight. Catch early wind of a possible fad? Better run out and buy. Get a hint thay maybe this game is secretly rare or a HIDDEN GEM? Buy now, before those $50 listings become $200 listings!There's also the heavy reliance on ebay for pricing and/or supply evaluation, like with that Piglet videogame. The game became a meme, people ran to ebay to buy it, ebay supply was quickly drained, and prices spiked. The relatively limited supply on ebay was actually not due to the game actually being rare, but rather due to the game not having been valuable or desirable enough for a lot of people to bother listing it for sale in the first place.Prices calmed down, but never returned to the $15 it is probably actually worth, relative to the supply and non-memetic demand.
>>12031737>I don't understand the notion that "retro gaming" is unaffordable if you'd prefer not to emulate.I want resident evil director cut version, resident evil 2 dual shock version, silent hill 1, resident evil 3(the original one), dino crisis 2, killer instinct gold, kagero deception 2, mach breakers, evil zone(the uncensored version), thrill kill, motor toon grand prix 2 and galaxy fight they all avaible on steam so i can buy them, BUT the problem is they are not avaible on steam. So the problem is not the money, the real problem is they are not avaible on steam.
>>12032505Wasn't this game's status predicated on nothing but the out of place Silent Hill level?
>>12032518who gives a fuck about steam,on GoG you can at least get the resident trilogy.silent hill 1 was only ever released on PS1 and i doubt konami still has the source code since they dont have 2 and 3 (probably 4 too ?) so it would be emulation even if it was on steam.and to answer OP also,i started buying retro games again around 2013 since most modern games werent really to my taste so i thought why not play games i missed out on since i have disposable income now. i bought and played mostly PS1 and PS2 games like the resident evil,silent hill,metal gear solid,parasite eve,final fantasy and many more.but then came 2020,slowly but really not that slow,i saw the price of many games i had or wanted jump up. i paid 50 bucks for a mint CIB copy of silent hill 1 and now i was seeing it sell for 200,i paid 25 for parasite eve 1 and it was now a hundred. i dont know how to explain it but it kinda made me reconsider the hobby and like 2 years ago i decided to sell everything since i wasnt playing as much as i used to and have other hobby i value more so i used the money for that.anyway nowadays i mostly play retro pc games like cRPG and adventure games/point and click,emulation isnt perfect but for the majority of console games i want to play its good enough.
>>12032554Yes. DOOD Y DIS PIGLET GAME GO SO HARD, LIKE SURVIVAL HORROR FOR KIDS taking off on social media was all it took for everybody to suddenly want to buy this game that nobody had given two shits about for roughly 20 years
>>12032097>everything I've seen says it's a clunky, ugly piece of shit.Its UI is exactly that, but its actual functionality is great, once you've beaten your head against it long enough to make it do what you want. I hate it myself, but I recommend it nonetheless, although there are certainly other options in most cases.
