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7 hours ago, goldenpp72 said:

but I spent many hours researching this particular system and have a really nicely curated list on my spreadsheet

Heck yeah.  I love the PS2, reminds me of college.  What are a few of your favorite RPG's and shooters?

I'm loving the PS2 at the moment.  You can find games on the cheap (albeit having to check for scratched discs), and with an upscaler they look ok on an HD TV.

What games are your favorite ? Lately I've been playing Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, GTA: San Andreas, Burnout 3 and Capcom and SNK compilations.

Also, with Rule of Rose going for hundreds of dollars, what are some other games to look out for that may increase in price in the coming years?

I've been using the PS2 slim, the silver one and it works great!

ok thanks for the update!

Ok I figured out the case situation, send me a PM about the John Elway Sealed copy.  Thanks!

I'm looking to get my first Sealed NES game and that John Elway is looking nice!  Do you recommend a good way to protect and display a sealed NES game besides WATA ?

58 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

That's it, fraud, and if it's not they're doing the best at making it have the appearance of it.  To me just too much lines up of self interest and cooperative behavior to help both the grader and auction house that conveniently peddles the high graded goods to make as much profit as possible, and twice no less.  So any comment made to puff up an item the graded so they can turn around and sell it at their own auction seems shady and corrupt given the huge amount of self interest luring in someone to get paid to grade, then paid again on a much fatter margin on auction fees and percentages off the outcome.  So, yes, to me having this pop up on pawn stars and play the 'well I don't want to sell it but...' card and then having the self interested entity dip their two cents into it just came off as smelling less than roses.  We could all be wrong, but damn does it not come off as such.

100%

what is on sale ?

Gunstar Heroes is great

I found a Smoke Grey N64 with controller, pretty much brand new at a church rummage sale about a year ago.  Paid a couple of bucks.

I found a few Sega Genesis games at an obscure thrift store.  All were a few bucks a piece, sold the ones I didn't want and kept Gunstar Heroes. Ultimately paid zero for it.

From a Craiglist wanted ad, I bought Bucky O'hare for $20.  I cherry-picked a few game from what he had, I thought $20 was fair since he had no idea the value of anything.

From my experience with Dreamcast and burned games, it takes a lot of trial and error to get them to work. 

Sometimes discs work flawlessly, other times just occasionally and other times not at all.

I burned some myself and some burned games came with my system.

But my Dreamcast was modded to play burned games when I bought it.

Maybe try the burned games on a different Dreamcast?

I also use an Action Replay to play imports, which is awesome.

Long story short, try some troubleshooting.  It can be a pain in the ass to get these burned discs to work but it feels so good when they do work.

Just my personal list:

PAL exclusive:  Mr. Gimmick

Famicom exclusive:  Splatterhouse

Homebrew/Zapper:  Super Russian Roulette

Platformer:  Super Mario 2

Lesser known sidescroller:  Shatterhand

Game of mini-games:  California Games

Football:  Tecmo Super Bowl

Baseball:  (tie) RBI Baseball/Baseball Stars

Hockey:  Ice Hockey

Best 2 player game:  probably one of the above sports games or Contra

RPG:   Crystalis

Shooter:  Lifeforce

Arcade/high score:  Burgertime

Hardest:  ghost and goblins

Easiest:  Felix the Cat

Best music:  Mega Man 2

Racing:  Micro Machines/Excitebike

13 hours ago, Tanooki said:

use your finest looking top loader, put the HiDef NES Kit inside there,

yep there are some other options out there, especially things like Retrotink. Not sure route I will go,   Thanks for the suggestion!

I might buy an AVS soonm but I was trying to figure out if the AVS Scoreboard has survived...............I guess I will wait and see.