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Post by 20thcenturygamer on Apr 30, 2019 1:05:40 GMT -5
Do flash carts ever come pre-loaded with full libraries? No, but it's trivial to download such things and copy them over to a flash card. Drag and drop. |
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Post by Ziggy on May 1, 2019 8:03:01 GMT -5
Over the past couple of years I've been thinking about purging. I've also been using flash carts a LOT. And when I find myself playing a game from a flash cart when I own the actual cart, I question why I bother to own the actual cart at that point. And good point about having backup flash carts. I have a few backup flash carts from upgrading. If I parted with some of my collection, I would definitely use some of that money to get a few more backup flash carts.
I don't think I'd ever sell off 100% of my collection though. I would trim the fat, so to speak. I would keep games that are sentimental to me, like copies of games that I've owned since I was a kid. And I would keep games that I reallyreallyreally like. But a year or so ago I took a hard look at my collection and pondered what I could part with and not miss. I estimate that I could let go of at least half of my physical collection and be OK with it (look at my Backloggery for quantities - not to mention the huge amount that are UNPLAYED). Reclaiming that space would sure be nice. As awesome as having a huge collection is, I'm kinda getting sick of the space it requires. And getting the money from a purge would also be good. So why haven't I been able to bring myself to do it? I really don't know...
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Post by Ex on May 1, 2019 14:54:10 GMT -5
I would keep games that are sentimental to me, like copies of games that I've owned since I was a kid. That's understandable. I've still got the twenty one year old box to Thief: The Dark Project hanging on my gaming room wall, purely for sentimental reasons. It was around my early 30s that I grew out of the idea that having myself surrounded by walls of games was awesome. Before then, I used to derive pleasure from having ridiculous amounts of games. I don't know if it was a gamer pride thing, or perhaps a subconscious vindication for unfulfilled yearnings of youth. Whatever the reason was, there came a point where maintaining such a large collection felt more like a vanity chore, rather than curating something meaningful. Owning stuff just for the sake of owning it, stopped meaning anything to me. It was at that point that I began selling off tons of games. If it was a game I was never going to play again, or I was never really going to play in the first place, it simply went away. I went from owning about 2500 physical games down to about 700 (including physical PC games discs). I didn't regret selling any of it off. So when I beat a game these days, I tend to sell it off right afterwards. One ride tends to be enough for me. I think long time collectors start to encapsulate a piece of their own identity within their collections. Ergo excising portions of it seems akin to chopping chunks of themselves away. Thus the premise of such an endeavor is intimidating, but ultimately liberating. |
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Post by dunpeal2064 on May 2, 2019 4:28:15 GMT -5
I've been through pretty much this exact thing, multiple times now. At one point I owned just about every console I was aware of (3DO, Intellivision, bunch of stuff I hardly played), and hundreds and hundreds of games. I had an arcade cabinet and thousands of dollars in arcade boards, import consoles with so many triple-digit price tag games that I couldn't keep track, just too much stuff. I think it was a response to me discovering all this gaming stuff and wanting it to eventually play it, but it lost its appeal pretty quickly, and I sold most of it off. I'd go through phases where I'd rebuild a smaller collection, it'd still get out of hand, and I'd sell things off again.
I think I've found a happy medium now. I'm not full-on minimalist, but I like to try and find a balance that lets me play as much as I can, in the best way possible, without the cost and clutter. I've got a flat screen and a tube tv on my desk, and plenty of consoles, but most are modded or play burns naturally. The Sega CD and Saturn are cool, and I'm glad I have the consoles, but I have no interest in owning the games, I'd rather just play them. The Wii is basically my emulation machine, so no need for a Turbografx and such, I just plug various controllers into it and it works perfectly for me (240p/480p out via component with easy support for tons of controllers, good shit).
My only concession is towards games that I deeply care about, particularly on the SNES/Genesis, since those are the consoles I've always loved most. My view towards it is like an extreme form of curating, where a game needs to not only be great, but also personal to me, and it needs to be something I'll want to play often. There are a few games I have left to get, but my retro gaming purchasing is just about done now. Aside the 16-bit consoles, I also have all of the ps1 Final Fantasy games, which I re-bought because they fit that criteria. The only one I didn't need to rebuy was FF7, a game I managed to hang on to for all these years, the first game I ever bought, and the one game that I'd never sell.
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Post by Ex on May 2, 2019 10:18:36 GMT -5
The only one I didn't need to rebuy was FF7, a game I managed to hang on to for all these years, the first game I ever bought, and the one game that I'd never sell. Yeah I can understand not wanting to sell it. The first game I can remember buying with my own money, was this:  I think it was around 1990 when I bought it from a store that sold a variety of electronics. At that point I'd already beaten a few other KQ games, so I was super excited to play this one when I got home. Unfortunately the disks had sector corruptions, probably due to being in proximity to unshielded speakers, so the game didn't work. Which ultimately isn't a terrible thing, because it gives me an excuse to play through this version someday. SOMEDAY |
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Post by 20thcenturygamer on May 2, 2019 12:03:40 GMT -5
I did end up keeping two NES cartridges in particular.
One is a gold Legend of Zelda because it represents quite possibly the slickest, most inspired and iconic physical presentation of a home console release in history. It's just something you want to be able to hold in your hands and admire from time to time, you know?
The other is a copy of Mega Man 2 that I grabbed an a con and had autographed by the cover artist Marc Ericksen later that weekend.
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Post by Sarge on May 2, 2019 14:47:20 GMT -5
Oh, now that is cool! Yeah, I wouldn't part with that at all.
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Post by Xeogred on May 2, 2019 17:52:03 GMT -5
I still hate how Link to the Past wasn't gold, yet some SNES carts were colored and then Zelda got those gold carts again on the N64.
... I maybe once had the dirty idea of trying to make one and put it up on ebay as some rare collectors edition thing. lmao, but hey, I remember seeing romhack carts being sold there back in the day...
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Post by Xeogred on May 2, 2019 18:34:14 GMT -5
Those poor poor people that fall for these...
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