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Rx_79:

--- Quote from: segamer on January 07, 2016, 03:25:23 PM ---So, I have to warn you about something in regards to collecting Saturn Games. Unlike most CD based games, Saturn games have very little paint on top of the disc. In most cases, the graphical image on top of a disc will protect the foil. However, on Saturn games, the foil is exposed in most cases. One out of every 5 saturn games I've gotten on Ebay had disc rot/foil damage. You can really only see this damage by looking at your games under a light.

Here's an extreme example:

I paid over $200 for a copy of Saturn Bomberman only to find foil damage. It's just a few dots but I sent it back. I purchased Mega Man 8 on Saturn 3 times before I acquired a copy without disc rot.

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I had a Mario Sunshine do something like this onetime.

amiga1200:
faaaak!
that's nasty, heads rolling tackle right there. >:(
it's a sad fact of optical medias.
well, anything really, thermal dynamics and entropy at it's finest. :'(
...
all the diseased joints i infest, this subject occasionally crops up, and the best solution would be to:
1, dump the disk image and verify it.
2, and create a 1/1 backup for a spoofed console.
(cloneCD and the tosec/redump/trurip dat tables to check shit against. dumping methods can vary, not a science, but an art.)
my saturn is just stored away til it gets an ODE.
there's RHEA, but out of my resource range atm, and i'll be waiting for a usb/sata version, which will eventually... ??? :P ;D
[edit]
typo.

cynicalmatt:

--- Quote from: wiggy on January 02, 2016, 07:26:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: cynicalmatt on January 02, 2016, 02:09:27 PM ---I don't collect complete sets of any console (seems like a waste of money when so many games for any given system aren't worth it), but I do have a nice Saturn collection. About seven years ago I started collecting for it in earnest and I picked up the majority of rare titles before the prices went insane.

I got Panzer Dragoon Saga AND Dragon Force together for $225.
Burning Rangers was $90.
Shining Force III was $80.
Magic Knight Rayearth was $90.
House of the Dead was $115.

I don't remember what I paid for stuff like Shining Wisdom, Shining the Holy Ark, or Shinobi Legions, but I know it was all considerably less than they sell for these days. I still had a lot of games from their original retail life too, like NiGHTS, Guardian Heroes, and VF2.

Saturn Bomberman was my greatest accomplishment. I paid $90 for it last year, and that was a great price. Three weeks later, the case and manual got ruined in a flood. The disc still worked, but the manual was all waterlogged and hideous. A local shop got in a copy priced at $80! I took my crappy copy up there, figuring maybe I'd get $40 in trade just based on the rarity of the game, condition notwithstanding. They gave me $115 in trade. In essence, they PAID ME to take a better quality copy of the same game. My old copy still sits in their shelf, priced at $189.99.

I wish you luck in your endeavor. It's gonna cost you, but the Saturn is such a great, under-appreciated system.

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Boy does this age me. I bought all of those games when they were available new.

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I could have done the same. I was in my late teens at the time of their original release and had just started working. But by that time, I had also moved on from my Saturn and never really bought games for it anymore.

But when you're a dumb teenager, you don't really think, "Oh hey, this game may cost me $400 some day..." ;D

N64 Guy:
Another two off the list and the Sega rally net link edition for $10 I'll take it!!

Total 55 + 1 net link edition

wiggy:
The rotting issue is because of an inadequate layer of lacquer on the top surface. The screened-on graphic isn't intended to provide any protection to the aluminum data layer. Some really early audio CDs have this defect as well. Like the extra flame retardant in the SNES plastic parts, it's just a manufacturing flaw, not a defect in the design of the actual parts. Not that this info makes it suck any less when it happens :-\

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