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| starwindamada:
I know they're fake but I don't care. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a 30-year-old game cartridge. I'm not buying to build a collection that may be worth money someday, I'm buying to play. You can't buy carts of these games anymore so no one is being hurt by it. I'll pay someone money for an unauthorized copy of copyrighted work because it's obsolete. Twenty bucks a pop where I get them from (not ebay but I'm not saying where). I can get four games for the price of a brand new modern game today. For just a little more money I can get a repro box. My shelf looks like it came straight out of the 90s with all the repros of Genesis, SNES and N64 games, plus a few GBA titles. Maybe in 30 years I can buy a repro Blu-ray of Indiana Jones & the Great Circle. |
| bikingjahuty:
Honest question, but have you ever heard of Flash Carts and ODEs? If all you car about is playing the game on authentic hardware, there definitely the most economic and practical solution. Instead of just one game or maybe a few if it's a multicart, you can have an entire console's library + demos, + hacks + fan games + more or less everything on one cartridge. Nearly every retro console you can think of has either a flash cart or ODE made for it which will allow you to do this. Sure, most are fairly expensive out the door, but you can buy most of them for the same price was 5 or 6 repros. Just a suggestion if you're not into the collecting aspect of the hobby. If flash carts had been available back when I started collecting in 2008 I may have never got into the hobby personally. Like you, I was just wanting to play the games I grew up with and maybe a few that flew under my radar back in the day. One thing led to another and before I knew it I was stricken with the collecting bug, and it consumed a large portion of my time, money, and life for the next decade. I didn't start to wind down my collectorism until around 2017 or so. By then, flash carts had come a long way, and compared to now that still seemed like the dark ages a bit when it came to what modern flash carts can do and what systems they can work on. |
| axiomenterance:
If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? |
| dhaabi:
--- Quote from: axiomenterance on December 28, 2024, 03:39:40 pm ---If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? --- End quote --- Who said that's the purpose of this site? There are also sorts of reasons people create accounts here and all sorts of ways they decide to catalog their information. At the same time, there are far more things the database tracks besides "legitimate" games. |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: dhaabi on December 28, 2024, 05:04:12 pm --- --- Quote from: axiomenterance on December 28, 2024, 03:39:40 pm ---If I can ask then what is the point of even being on a site like this which the sole purpose is to catalogue legitimate games which in turn is to make sure the user knows their worth of their collection? --- End quote --- Who said that's the purpose of this site? There are also sorts of reasons people create accounts here and all sorts of ways they decide to catalog their information. At the same time, there are far more things the database tracks besides "legitimate" games. --- End quote --- This. I barely consider myself a collector anymore. I'm just here for the community and the 52-games challenge mostly lol. |
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