RegularGuyGamer

Damn those PAL N64 games look so much better than the NTSC games. Less 90s flair but a much cleaner presentation of the artwork.

A ton of work went into the final release of the ROM hack of Pokemon. Lugia2009 stood more on the shoulders of giants than stole their work and claimed it was theirs. Someone made a huge list of the changes made. Apparently beat the game too. And now I think my game didn't break but it was actually that the routes I thought I had to take didn't exist. https://smashboards.com/threads/pokemon-yellow-nes.432925/

A couple years before that, I played the Pokemon yellow demake and it broke like 15 hours into the game and found out no one actually played the game last the 5th gym at the time lol I still have the game and might give it another shot one day but what a bummer.

@OptOutofficially the only person to ever play a homebrew game they bought?

What do yous think -- should the case go as a set?

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I've played a decent amount of platformers with deaths that stack up quickly and this is one of the few that feel like it progressed the story in a meaningful way. One of the others was the Steeemerz homebrew where similarly you climbed up a building to stop the baddy and then back down to stop him again.

I rounded up. It's easy to recommend and actually delivered on he hype. Nothing wrong with this game for me. I enjoyed the whole way through and the story was actually a story to tell. Gameplay was tight but i would recommend it on a console that has a dpad.

You can easily buy the backwards compatible PS3 on eBay for the PS2 HDMI and a Wii U for the Wii HDMI

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I'm pretty sure TimeWalk was the only repro company that cared about the integrity of the cardboard and got the closed of any repro maker maybe to date to the original look and feel of the cardboard. From what I remember of my TW games, it wasn't even close between competitors. Edit: here it is. Open any of your other repro or homebrew boxes and I will wager none have this color inside.

@Galdiusis the premiere Brazil collector.

I wouldn't be interested in new hardware but I would enjoy games for existing hardware. Particularly the NES or Famicom. Especially if those games were developed by the same guy who made Starkeeper. That would be a big success.

To a seasoned auctioneer with the ability to advertise, it really shouldn't be a problem. I went to an auction that my neighbor hosted that had everything from commodore and apple computers to Rolex watches, to NYC Subway signage and even old vw bugs. It was all from one collector who essentially has a warehouse for his stuff. Hell, there was even around 30 accordions. Everything brought within 10% of eBay prices or up to 20% over eBay prices. People drove from 200 miles away and it was on 3 live auction sites. People under estimate the ability auctioneers have to drive traffic and bring above market prices but it happens all the time. Granted, my neighbor is a legend and has been doing it for 30+ years but I see it may more than I ever thought I would. The issue with game stores is they beat you over the head for 30-40% on their purchase. Auctioneers charge the buyers so you get a lot more bc buyers never consider the buyer premium into the price. Nothing wrong w getting 30% but to have an auction house come and prepare everything, and get top dollar is a luxury most people don't consider.

I think I'm out this round. This year was probably my worst pick up year in a decade or maybe ever. I don't have any interesting things to contribute. Hopefully it'll change by next time the train rolls around.

I hate to say it but it's one of the things I look for when buying CIB. Unless I'm going to send it off to get graded, I won't buy dead mint games online. I always look and settle for some wear on the items.

Do you have any friends? My best friend is more than willing to help liquidate my collection of my wife wasn't able to or didn't want to. However, I did go through and itemize everything I have once my first kid was born. Even my Pokemon cards. Price charting let's you scan barcodes or take pictures to make it more convenient but it was still a process and i had less than 1k items. However, I think you have to have it itemized and not just in a spreadsheet on your computer. It needs to be tied to some visual representation of the valuation of the games. When they can see by logging onto your price charting how much your NES collection is worth it will at least give them a starting point. My neighbor is an auctioneer and what happens realistically is this stuff just goes to auction. He did a collectors estate that has over 10M in collectables with Rolex watches and all. The kids didn't want the stuff, just the cash. So it goes to auction and they get a lump sum, buyers pay a premium and everyone is happy. I would reach out to local auctioneers and maybe get it in your will that in the event of your death that the process will start.

Interesting to think about a collection being about other people. I don't have any friends that come over to game. Any time people see my collection, they typically just walk up and say that's a lot of games then continue with the tour of the house. Outside of my Switch and 3DS games, my collection is largely for the kid in me. It's the games I had or wanted to have as a kid. Or it's games that the kid in me is drawn to. It's a ton of fighting games, platformers, arcade sports titles and shooters with odds and ends thrown in. My collection is distinctly mine. Anyone looking at it would know exactly the kind of gamer I am. There's no shame in the sports titles I have since NBA Live 2005 has a unrivaled dunk contest and Fight Night Round 2 gave me the longest win streat at my friend's out of any other fighting game. Even 3DS and Switch selection reflects that was the era where I was first in my career and could buy any game and CE console without having to worry about the cost. I respect other people's collecting style, I really do. Full seters and dank collectors alike. I just started collecting that way initially and it didn't do anything for me so I went my own way. It's one of the reasons I think the number of full setters and dwindling. The cost of entry for the last couple games isn't worth taking the journey and coming up short. Even a collection with only the dankest games are deterring potential collectors bc the "all killer" style of collecting is more popular than ever which squeezes supply of the dank. The market also sees these games as being more desirable than "rare filler" titles so they're willing to pay an inflated price based on the perception alone. Look at titles like Chronotrigger w 2.5M copies sold and it commands an easy price tag of $250+ for cart only. Trends like that point to people straying further away from full sets and towards killer. Although I don't think the pendulum will swing back, I think it'll continue to swing in the favor of the dank.

I think having a collection that large puts you in a spot where full set collecting makes less sense. It's easy to have a full NES collection when you only have 10-20 games for the other systems you like. But if you're going for 200-300 games per system, the full set logistics start to get squeezed. The market has spoken though. The "killer" games for each console have only risen, some of which are best sellers. So not only are there a ton of those games in circulation but they're also expensive. Just goes to show that the avg buyer right now would rather have killer than filler since the filler game prices are largely stagnant.

If it's 30 frams a second and the input takes 6 frames to make an action on the screen, that's 166ms. That's an insane amount. 4 frames under that condition would be 130ms

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I think you're thinking of it as output lag thinking 1 second per 10 mins. The input lags don't compound the way an output lag would. The untrained eye can't allegedly discern less than 20ms of lag. However, 100ms is .1 second which pretty noticeable. So somewhere between 20ms and 100ms is a pont where basically everyone will notice and the closer to 100ms you get, the more likely a goomba will kill you. 10ms is one hundredth of a second so it might look on paper like it's a lot but there's not way you can input 100 button presses per second. Breaking a second up into 100 pieces and having players be able to thread the needle into one of those slots isn't something most games will ever do. Even 20 Ms of lag takes of lag means it takes 1/50th of a second to go from the input to the action on screen which is objectively tiny.

Seeing this serval times in the thread, I don't think I've ever seen anyone in here beag about having a full set. Maybe something happens in the pursuit of the set where you get the 1000 cart stare and it's a total personal thing.

Lol depends on how complete it was and the condition of the console and all that. Still, an hour drive is a tough sell even for the console alone since that stack of games had so little potential.

That console CIB should go for around $200 shipped.