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Post by anayo on Mar 31, 2019 11:19:36 GMT -5
Examples of redundancy in my collection:
- I have at least one of every North American Sega Genesis variant.
- I have mini and full-sized PS1s and PS2s.
- I have multiples of the following consoles: NES, SNES, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and a few others.
- For the Playstation I have green label and black label editions of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Metal Gear Solid
- For the NES I have both Mike Tyson's Punch Out and Punch Out Featuring Mr. Dream.
- For the PC I have Starcraft v1.0 and Starcraft v1.5
Where do you set your personal boundaries for how many of something you should or shouldn't have when it comes to retro gaming? Do you just indiscriminately accumulate everything, or is there a point where you say, "I don't need this, I can pass on buying it or sell it."?
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Mar 31, 2019 12:28:13 GMT -5
As far as games go, I don't accumulate "variants" (ie: Atari label variants, black label & greatest hits versions of the same PSX game, etc) but I'm a huge ports fanatic. If I find a game I like I try to track down every port possible.
Consoles - I just want/need one functioning system, for those I'm interested in. I have accumulated duplicates over the years, but only because I was given several for free or I found 'em for <$5 in the wild.
I really don't "collect" "sets" of anything, really. I just buy games I'm interested in playing.
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Post by Ex on Mar 31, 2019 13:26:31 GMT -5
As far as games go; I do not tend to own multiple copies of the same game. I'm having a hard time remembering any duplicates in my library right now. I'm sure there's a few, but it wouldn't have been on purpose. One functioning copy is enough for me.
As for consoles/handhelds; fifth generation and back, I purely emulate everything. I'm happy enough with emulation for those first five generations.
Sixth generation and forward, I own at least one functional piece of hardware. So lets see...
Model: Functioning Units Owned
Dreamcast: 1 GameCube: 1 Original Xbox: 1 PS2: 2
DS: 3 PS3: 1 PSP: 3 Wii: 1 Xbox 360: 1
2DS: 1 3DS: 1 Vita: 2 Wii U: 1
I keep all my hardware in absolute mint condition, never let stuff get dusty. Temperature and humidity controlled environment. Some of this stuff I have spare parts for. For example, I have multiple new laser assemblies for the PS2s. For my 360 I have a spare new harddrive and new cooling fan. Stuff like that. I try to keep spare parts for the stuff most likely to wear out, rather than duplicate entire consoles.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 13:50:32 GMT -5
Not a problem I have. I have a 3DS right here which I've never booted up as well as a couple of old PC games. I left most of my old stuff at my parents' house. Well, I hope they didn't throw all my stuff away, but nowadays I only care for my PS2 games or any games that aren't available digitally (no DRM). It's not just about games either. If I were to suddenly get evicted, it wouldn't take me long to collect my belongings.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 14:42:04 GMT -5
As far as games go, I don't accumulate "variants" (ie: Atari label variants, black label & greatest hits versions of the same PSX game, etc) but I'm a huge ports fanatic. If I find a game I like I try to track down every port possible. Consoles - I just want/need one functioning system, for those I'm interested in. I have accumulated duplicates over the years, but only because I was given several for free or I found 'em for <$5 in the wild. I really don't "collect" "sets" of anything, really. I just buy games I'm interested in playing. I do exactly the same.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 31, 2019 18:50:34 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't set out to get multiple systems. I have a lot, though, and it's mostly because I find them for very cheap, and am unwilling to pass up the deal. My spare PS1 was obtained in a lot of "broken" systems from our local pawn shop. Got that, an NES, a Gamecube, and I'm wanting to say it was two XBOX systems for $10. Success rate on getting them working? 4/5. Only one of the XBOXes was problematic, and I basically used the DVD drive to get another one working.
I did discover that I have one more NES than I thought I did, bringing the total to four. And it works well, apparently! My original one and one of the other spares needs some recap work done, since the composite video is turning fuzzy or outright broken.
I have several duplicate games as well, and again, those are bought when they're a really good deal, usually on a game I like, with an eye towards collector's value in the future. I have several dupes of various SquareSoft games, and also have a spare copy of Symphony of the Night. I try to avoid paying market price for duplicates unless they're really cheap, but sometimes I goof up, like my two copies of Sonic Chaos for Game Gear. (Which, of course, was also cheap, but I don't see significant market value developing from that game.)
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Post by Ex on Mar 31, 2019 20:45:23 GMT -5
I don't hoard video games in general anymore. I grew out of that around 30. I stopped being a fan of being surrounded by stuff solely for the sake of being surrounded by stuff. Nowadays I sell or give away a game once I beat it. I only keep games I've already beaten, if I plan to replay through them someday. That's extremely rare though. So in recent years I've been slimming down my collection considerably.
Many years ago (circa 1997-2000) I gave away, or sold, all my fifth gen and older stuff. As explained before; emulation is fine for me gens 1-5. Considering every game and system I care about from the first five generations, I can fit their equivalent ROMs/ISOs and emulators on a single hard drive. Can't beat that for space saving!
On the sixth gen, I used to own about 150 PS2 games. Most of those I sold off once I got FreeMcBoot working. I now own about 25 35 legit PS2 JRPGs on disc, the rest of my PS2 library I play off burned DVDs. I once owned about 75 GameCube games, that's down to about 12 14 now. I used to own about 170 original Xbox games. That's down to about 70 80 now.
Seventh gen... I used to own 190 Wii games, that's down to about 50 60 now. PS3 I own about 80 games. Xbox 360 about 220. The DS and PSP... I never owned legit games for those, I just use legit hardware.
Eighth gen... for the Wii U I've got about 30 games. About 85 95 for the 3DS. I've got over 100 for the Vita.
PC I can't put into a single generation, as it just keeps going. I probably own 300 or so legit physical PC games on disc. The vast majority of those were bought 1993-2007.
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None of those counts are including digital games. I own a lot of legitimate digital purchases on multiple platforms. But that stuff doesn't take up physical room, so I'm not going into it.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 2, 2019 22:02:22 GMT -5
I'm with Bone on the ports/collections, still a huge sucker for those. It's usually for stuff I envision myself replaying again and again though, like a lot of my Capcom favorites.
I know I own at least 6 versions of RE4 and counting...
GameCube PS2 Wii PS3 (digital) PS4 PC I'm curious about the upcoming Switch release, since the Switch has motion controls. So I wonder if it'll be like the Wii version but nicer looking. If so I'll buy it again probably. Link to the Past is my favorite game of all time next to Super Metroid (yes I'm selfish with two favorites!) ... so I own two carts of LTTP, the original and Best Sellers gold stamped one. Other than that, I don't really fret too much about variants at all. For the PSX I did a good job at tracking down black label editions of just about everything I wanted. But if the Greatest Hits release was a lot cheaper or the only one, I didn't mind getting that. I have re-purchased a few PSX games on the PS3 PSN store for digital copies, just for the heck of it. Resident Evil 1-2 have some differences among their releases, with RE2 it gets tricky down to the disc print numbers and such... so yeah I own a few versions of both. I grew up on two NES's that died on me and have had zero interest in collecting the NES library physically ever since. The old toaster seems too unreliable and the top loader was expensive years ago, now I don't have a clue and carts are probably really pricey. After my original Wii got scammed on craigslist, I had to buy two new ones. Because Nintendo did an amazing job at making the REMOVAL of GC backward compatibility on the newer models basically impossible to detect on the box and all, so I literally had no clue and it was too late to return. So I went out of my way to get the cool red model that plays GC games, only to never use it because I had a Wii U by then. And with the U, I don't know why I'd ever use my Wii's again. The irony is I don't even like the GC much, so I'm not sure what I was doing for here. I still have my original GC boxed up anyways. I have two modded Saturn's that do different things, but they've been boxed up for years now so I forget the details. I think basically one could do burned NTSC games and the other could do burned anything as long as I encoded the ISO with a Japan header so it thinks it's a Japanese copy. It got pretty weird with how I specifically had to burn games. I stopped selling games a decade ago or something but I don't collect nearly as much as some do, even though my collection is still in the hundreds. I've been extremely strict with zero tolerance on my physical collection from the current gen though, last year there were two games I hated so I sold them for something else and don't regret it. Making sure everything on my shelf for the current gen is only something I like enough to beat. It's been working out nicely for the most part. Never really cared for "special editions", outside of like the old cool Working Designs releases on PSX and stuff. But they're mostly a lot of needless junk. I also just like my consoles the plain vanilla variant usually, same with controllers. Nothing too fancy, simple and efficient I guess.
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Post by anayo on Aug 5, 2019 9:35:23 GMT -5
If you buy original hardware when you already have the game you want on a compilation or re-release, does that count as redundancy? For example, I bought Sonic Mega Collection for Gamecube in 2003, but then I re-collected all the Genesis cartridges of those games. Another example would be buying a Neo Geo AES or MVS to play Metal Slug when you already have Metal Slug Anthology on PS2.
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Post by 20thcenturygamer on Aug 5, 2019 11:49:44 GMT -5
I'll have a system with a couple controllers and a flash cart. Decluttering has been very good to me.
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