Ps1, turbografx and sega cd/saturn games are slowly rotting away

>ps1, turbografx and sega cd/saturn games are slowly rotting away

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>not owning modded consoles

Did the guy dredge that shit out of a harbor? So far all of my games are holding up.

Honestly Emulation is the only way is properly preserving older titles and Companies want to prevent it due to them wanting to gate keep and demand for a "rare" game high so they can potentially sell it later.

They've all been dumped, who gives a shit. I'd be more concerned about all those mobile and flash games that were never archived. Or arcade cabinets that were in extremely short production and are hoarded by assholes who won't let anyone near them.

This, digital is based and collectorfags can go fuck their discs.

Yes, and the only way they usually resell those games is through ephemeral online services which will shut down eventually, like the Wii's virtual console.

I personally blame the "Classic gaming" collector mindset and old school record holders.

Or arcade boards with suicide batteries/fuses
Or arcade boards that require regular online authentication/hardware dongles/etc to boot

did youtube destroy the collecting scene? im pretty sure you shouldnt more than 2bucks for a copy of loose smb3 but here we are in 2019 where people ask 30 bucks for it

>Or arcade boards with suicide batteries/fuses
Yeah, I read about those. Capcom are assholes but damn if that didn't kill piracy and bootlegs for them.

>acceptable
What in the fuck

There always was a collecting scene, you just became aware of it because of youtube. There will always be hoarders with an obsession for old shit that barely runs.

60 pesos for a copy of castlemania? That's a steal.

>Not buying a psp to play the remaster with proper VA

we're all slowly rotting away, life is finite

the og voiceacting is charming though

>remaster
It's a port with different VA and the jp exclusive content added back in.

It helped but overall it's the mindset all people have about "Rare" and "Old" items, videogames tend to get it worse in some regards because someone can put up a SNES game on a shelve, label it as rare, and some dumbass will buy it for $100 when in reality it's worth maybe $10.

We had a store here in town that was trying to sell vintage games for outrageous prices, biggest examples being:
>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters for $85.
>SMB3 for $50
>Super Mario 64(Japanese version 2) for $100
>Sonic 2(Not for Resell sticker) for $20

why mod when theres sdcartridges

I managed a game store back in 02-03 and the pricing and attitudes toward retro stuff was very different then, but so was the world and internet. While we had to make a profit, compared to today CIB/loose prices were pretty reasonable. I got all kinds of stuff at prices I'll never see again. You'd still see some obvious people trying to waltz in, buy lots of games to flip, but in general not every fucker that had a stack of NES games thought they had gold. My youngest brother worked at a game store as well quite a few years after me and would rant about how people would get pissed that their worthless NES games weren't 'rare'.

If I had to take a stab at it I'd just say YT is just one part of it. The people that grew up on the older stuff now are getting older, have money, nostalgia/retro/being 'nerdy' is en vogue (all the mini systems, pop culture), and either those older people or newer people getting into collecting will enable the current prices. It sucks since there are some games I genuinely wanted to play/couldn't find back in the day but refuse to buy now due to the pricing being absolute robbery. Just sticking to emulation or modded consoles now.

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Aaaaaagggghh

so youre saying that i definately should buy loose copy of earthbound for 300 bucks?

>all of these... vidyas will be lost... to time... like... tears, in rain.

Most PS1 is fine, and that in particular is actual CD abuse (looks like water damage) than disc rot. The fear of disc rot is that it inherently can be very subtle but still be devastating and we know proper storage has no bearing on it as it's a pressing quality issue, and without more examples we don't know if you don't have it now are you in the clear or not.

Turbo, CD/Saturn/Dreamcast, part of Gamecube, other disc based systems are the ones to watch out for. Realistically though, your biggest issue is going to be console deaths long before disc rot becomes the norm which is why perfected clone consoles or even shit like the Minis have some purpose. That doesn't even get into wild shit like environmentalists outlawing certain manufacturing that'd indirectly affect replacement parts or electricity becoming obsolete, all things that can realistically happen in collector lifespans assuming they aren't old already.

>hits up ebay
>multiple listings at lower prices, some even cib, in better condition
Somebody will buy this.

are ps2 dvd's more longer lasting than cd's?

Bunch of decent replies already, but I'd like to chime in that we're currently seeing a glut of people running game reselling as a side hustle so prices for damn near everything are going way up. Lots of things that aren't worth dick go up in price simply because there are so many people trying to resell games that things that aren't rare essentially become rare due to the only copies for sale being in the hands of greedy resellers. It's a very, very bad time to be a genuine collector or even a casual fan unless you have wads of cash you're willing to spend.

why people give in to this, retroarch and emulation is pretty spot-on for most consoles and games nowadays