Earthbound prices to plummet?

[wiggy]

LOL! 

[scaredtowake]

Final Fantasy VII used to go for $70 for just the discs, now it goes for $30 because of it being released on the PSN.

it dropped significantly before the release.  i think the hype just died down a little bit, there was a big demand for FFVII for a while thanks to the remake rumors, Advent Children, and the PS2 and PSP offshoot games.

[pumanchero]

Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64...  Alas it won't happen either.

For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.

[madrocsz]

I don't think they will plummet, actually I would more so see them going up even further lol.

Collecting has been weird lately, be it due to youngins getting a port of an old game and thinking retro collecting is cool after to get the original or that it is simply becoming quite the fad. While there were a ton of earthbounds produced it was not even in the same spectrum as FF7 which had 2 black label releases and greatest hits, if anything the game stayed around retail price long after but consider those greatest hits sold for 20$ brand new lol.

As someone else mentioned the SNES market is tricky, a good example look at syndicate , 20$ game till the current gen version comes out now its been doubled and some cases tripled. Chrono Trigger only went up when the DS version is dirt cheap, mass produced and arguably superior.

[wiggy]

Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64...  Alas it won't happen either.

For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.

Nintendo (and almost EVERY large corp) are almost ALWAYS in some sort of civil litigation at any given moment.  Threat of litigation prolly has nearly nothing to do with it.  Plus, all those references were wiped out for the original SNES release (Coca Cola, Red Cross, etc), so no need to even go into that.

[scarmullet]

Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64...  Alas it won't happen either.

For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.

Making a Mother 2 to EB cart is a bit tricky. Mother 2 uses two mask roms, and Earthbound used one. You need to disable the top MASK rom, and force the cart to use just the one.a

The SD-2-SNES flash cart is easily superior to the Super Everdrive in many ways, it uses a FPGA (Field-programmable gate array), and it currently supports almost all the SNES enhancement chips aide from S-DD1 (Star Ocean without the 96mb hack) and the Super FX...but they can be implemented through an update, where as the Super Everdrive will never support such enhancements.

[pumanchero]

Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64...  Alas it won't happen either.

For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.

Making a Mother 2 to EB cart is a bit tricky. Mother 2 uses two mask roms, and Earthbound used one. You need to disable the top MASK rom, and force the cart to use just the one.a

The SD-2-SNES flash cart is easily superior to the Super Everdrive in many ways, it uses a FPGA (Field-programmable gate array), and it currently supports almost all the SNES enhancement chips aide from S-DD1 (Star Ocean without the 96mb hack) and the Super FX...but they can be implemented through an update, where as the Super Everdrive will never support such enhancements.

Soft mod? like the Star Ocean hack?

[wiggy]

Two things:

1) like any of us would ever settle for a flash rom cart alone.

2) good luck finding an SD2SNES cart.


Even if you can find one, its STILL cheaper to just but a loose EB cart.

[scarmullet]

Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64...  Alas it won't happen either.

For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.

Making a Mother 2 to EB cart is a bit tricky. Mother 2 uses two mask roms, and Earthbound used one. You need to disable the top MASK rom, and force the cart to use just the one.a

The SD-2-SNES flash cart is easily superior to the Super Everdrive in many ways, it uses a FPGA (Field-programmable gate array), and it currently supports almost all the SNES enhancement chips aide from S-DD1 (Star Ocean without the 96mb hack) and the Super FX...but they can be implemented through an update, where as the Super Everdrive will never support such enhancements.

Soft mod? like the Star Ocean hack?

Hardware update. The FPGA can theoretically emulate the Super FX, it just needs the code.

And The SD 2 SNES will be coming back in stock at Stone Age Gamer sometime next month or in March.

I am thinking of picking up an SD2SNES, loading it up and not having to deal with repros.

[wiggy]

And The SD 2 SNES will hopefully be coming back in stock at Stone Age Gamer sometime next month or in March.

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