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What's the best way to collect? how do you collect?
Doom:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 04, 2015, 02:24:50 PM ---Actually Sega claims that the source code was lost at some point, so the game would have to be rebuilt from scratch :(
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Ah, that's the difference between porting and emulation. If the source code is lost, porting the game would be impossible, but emulation would be possible. Porting is what happened to Ikaruga, emulation is what the Wii U does for Super Mario World. But the Saturn is notoriously difficult to emulate, so it's a tough problem that's probably pretty expensive to solve.
wiggy:
It's a total bummer too. Why couldn't they have lost the code to Virtua Cop or something else? Ugh. I thank my lucky stars that I already own that game at this point. The price for it is absurd anymore.
Einhander:
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--- Quote from: Einhander on January 04, 2015, 04:12:07 AM ---I enjoyed your post. But I'm a little confused. This site is for collectors, but you are saying that the best way to collect is not to collect,
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I used to enjoy making and printing covers much more. The expense of the hobby and my increased experience with emulation and the Virtual Console has made me like collecting less. A file on a Wii U or an actual cartridge - it makes no difference to me.
--- Quote ---but then you are saying that practical collecting is for fools even though it may be cheaper.
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Practical collecting is buying a game because you want to play it. That's buying Smash Bros. Melee for $55 used because you want to play it, or EarthBound for $160 used because you want to play it. But EB is on the Wii U for a mere $10, and I'm hoping that Melee gets remade in some way within the next 10 years. Melee is in the minority - most good games are like EarthBound and available in many places.
Among my favorite games, most are available as digital downloads, or in remakes. (Ocarina of Time can be substituted for OoT 3D for example [and I think OoT 3D is a better game too].)
And these remakes and ports aren't really going away. If anything, more games will be released in this manner. Sure, Panzer Dragoon Saga is around $360 used, but it looks like the reason it hasn't been re-released is mostly because of the difficulty of writing a Sega Saturn emulator, rather than any licensing issues. So give it 10 or 15 years and it should be possible to buy that game once again for a reasonable price. Ikaruga was a very expensive Dreamcast / GameCube release, but then it came to Xbox 360 and later Steam for $10.
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So you're saying that if you only want to play the game, you don't need to collect for it if it's cheaper elsewhere? But collect what you have a true passion and appreciation for?
RealPlumpBox:
--- Quote from: Einhander on January 03, 2015, 07:09:58 AM ---Now I am also a collector of shmup imports, so for those I'd think it'd be hard to get out in the wild.
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I am a diehard shump fan. I get almost all my shmups exclusively here. http://shmups.system11.org/
If you sign up to the site you will have access to there trading area. These people know there shit. Also they are good with shipping/ selling prices. they deal with P2P and also of people only use Paypal since its easy and it changes currency value since a lot of people are from Europe on the site.
aaron-hagel:
I don't have a best way to collect rather I use a multitude of different ways of obtaining the games I have collected in the past couple of years. I usually will troll the surrounding area looking at second hand stores, gaming stores and thrift shops when I am out and about. I have come across many good games for a reasonable price that way. However for games that are not in my area and availability is limited I will go and make purchases from online vendors, this includes Ebay and retro gaming stores. Whatever method I choose is the one that will provide me with the game that I am seeking at that moment or sometimes it will be an impulse purchase to satiate my want to add to my growing collection.