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Turbinosamente posted:Mine for sure uses the price charting barcode scanning for boxed trade in and they manually look up loose carts on it. I generally just dump crap that can't or won't easily sell online to them, haven't bought from them in years. Prices are usually just under the VGPC average but I think most of their business is being the last resort for current console games when the chains sell out. Same, mine is my designated offloading location for lots I don't have the time or desire to deal with. I usually check if they have anything for decent prices though, cause they give a store credit trade bonus and it's still kind of possible to recoup value if they have niche interest games the staff isn't bothered with updating often.
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Xenomrph posted:I was looking at the Hyperkin “Specialist”, is that a good call? Careful on extension cables - PCE and TG16 have different sized controller ports.
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Nancy posted:Same, mine is my designated offloading location for lots I don't have the time or desire to deal with. The things I'd want are so obscure that they're never in stock. Like NGPC games or maybe the ds Izuna games CIB, so I don't bother to look. Last game I think I bought from them was the Blazblue crossover game on switch because it was 20 bucks.
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Ornamented Death posted:Careful on extension cables - PCE and TG16 have different sized controller ports. What about something like this?
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Turbinosamente posted:The things I'd want are so obscure that they're never in stock. Like NGPC games or maybe the ds Izuna games CIB, so I don't bother to look. Last game I think I bought from them was the Blazblue crossover game on switch because it was 20 bucks. I don't buy to keep cause I'm in a similar boat, but I've done the "sell 10-15 cheap games for store credit -> find underpriced niche game -> sell on Ebay" route a couple of times and gotten close to what I would've selling everything individually & pretty much double what the store offered in cash.
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Nancy posted:I don't buy to keep cause I'm in a similar boat, but I've done the "sell 10-15 cheap games for store credit -> find underpriced niche game -> sell on Ebay" route a couple of times and gotten close to what I would've selling everything individually & pretty much double what the store offered in cash. Ah I was never good at the flipping game. I used to try and do it out of thrift stores, but got burned more often than not. Best deal was getting God Hand for 3 bucks and selling for 80. I also don't really have time to do sales often anymore. Probably will have another hurrah of nerd poo poo in sa mart in the second half of the month though.
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Turbinosamente posted:The things I'd want are so obscure that they're never in stock. Like NGPC games or maybe the ds Izuna games CIB, so I don't bother to look. Last game I think I bought from them was the Blazblue crossover game on switch because it was 20 bucks. What are some good NGPC games to check out? I have Metal Slug, SNK vs Capcom Cardfighters Clash (the SNK version), and some Puzzle Bobble game.
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Xenomrph posted:What about something like this? That'd work Turbinosamente posted:The things I'd want are so obscure that they're never in stock. Like NGPC games or maybe the ds Izuna games CIB, so I don't bother to look. Last game I think I bought from them was the Blazblue crossover game on switch because it was 20 bucks. I'm in the same boat. Especially since I never really buy games anymore because I have means to play backups on just about every system I have, so I go in once in a while on the offchance they'll have a piece of hardware I don't have. But I already have pretty much every console that's easy to obtain in america so it's pretty rare that they have something I want (Like the previously mentioned 5200) Null of Undefined fucked around with this message at 17:12 on May 8, 2024 |
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Annath posted:What are some good NGPC games to check out? How much do you like fighting games? Also I'd recommend a flash cart because the flash cart is cheaper than most of the games. That said the games I've enjoyed are Gal's Fighter, the Puzzle Link games, and the Magical Drop port. I've heard good things about Neo Turf Masters but haven't gotten into it. I remember the Sonic game being decent too but I am a bad judge of Sonic games. There's also a second Metal Slug game and you could probably pick up any fighting game you get your hands since Gal's Fighter is expensive. Match of the Millenium is a popular one. Some of the standbys I have yet to get into are Faselei and Biomotor Unitron but again those are 110% flash cart territory at this point.
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Turbinosamente posted:How much do you like fighting games? Also I'd recommend a flash cart because the flash cart is cheaper than most of the games. That said the games I've enjoyed are Gal's Fighter, the Puzzle Link games, and the Magical Drop port. I've heard good things about Neo Turf Masters but haven't gotten into it. I remember the Sonic game being decent too but I am a bad judge of Sonic games. There's also a second Metal Slug game and you could probably pick up any fighting game you get your hands since Gal's Fighter is expensive. Match of the Millenium is a popular one. Oh, cool info on the flashcart! I looked into one years ago, but was under the impression that you could only have one game on it at a time and had to swap them. Maybe I was misunderstanding the "install to the 15MB RAM" thing?
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Xenomrph posted:Part of me wants to pay the slight premium for an actual NEC controller just for the authenticity, unless OEM controllers are actually trash and known to break. I wouldn't say they are trash, but the d-pads on the two that I had (TurboPad, DuoPad, both NA versions) were not good. Very stiff, not much give to them. It was almost like just pressing a flat surface. Made my left thumb/hand pretty sore. The other buttons, switches, and overall build quality were fine.
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Annath posted:Oh, cool info on the flashcart! I looked into one years ago, but was under the impression that you could only have one game on it at a time and had to swap them. Maybe I was misunderstanding the "install to the 15MB RAM" thing? I believe it means that you can install 1 game directly onto the card, and the rest can go onto the sd card.
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Annath posted:Oh, cool info on the flashcart! I looked into one years ago, but was under the impression that you could only have one game on it at a time and had to swap them. Maybe I was misunderstanding the "install to the 15MB RAM" thing? It's been a long time since I've used mine but if memory serves you can have all the games on the sd card, but only a few installed and ready to go. The cart takes care of it all, you go through your uninstalled games pick one and tell it to install. It will also remember which games are installed so next time you pick which of your installed games you want to play and it'll boot fast/start normal. I didn't hit the limit yet on how many you can install at one time. I don't know how the internals of an NGPC work but im guessing the console only expects to read that 15mb limit. You may be thinking of the older flashmasta cart that you could only store 2 roms on and had to write to it with a pc program. I had lots of trouble getting that program to work with anything later than windows vista, and unfortunately for that maker jumped on the much better and easier to use neo pocket game drive as soon as I could.
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Turbinosamente posted:
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Annath posted:Oh, cool info on the flashcart! I looked into one years ago, but was under the impression that you could only have one game on it at a time and had to swap them. Maybe I was misunderstanding the "install to the 15MB RAM" thing? You were probably looking at a different cart. There's one called the flashmasta that can only have one or two games on it at a time. The gamedrive is menu based and much more civilized, though still limited - you can have more games flashed at a time and can manage them within the cart interface, no PC required. E: kinda beaten
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Well Manky explained it better than me. I like my NGPC just haven't touched it in a while since I decided to focus on beating my DS and 3DS games this year. Edit: lmao, I looked up the games I recommended and the loose cart english versions of some cost more than the console itself. Definitely sign up to be notified by stone age gamer when the flash cart comes back in stock and keep a spare 110 and whatever taxes/shipping is ready for it. Turbinosamente fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 8, 2024 |
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Cool beans. This is the one I have, and the games. Forgot about KoF R2.  I think I actually got the NGPC itself on SA-Mart lol.
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Annath posted:Cool beans. Nice color! I've got frost white and ocean blue ones. And all my stuff came from SA mart as well too, lol. I tried to find a link cable once, since I know some one else irl that has one, but those are $80 if you can find one, no repro cables exist either.
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I didn't order a thing or two on Surugaya and saw them go out of stock. This was over a month ago. They never came back. My wishlist is now 9 out of stock items and something I am not paying $60 for when I am pretty sure I could pick it up for $30 next time I'm in Japan and don't really care about, anyway.
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I traded for my NGPC from Monitor Burn and still haven't really played it at all even though I've had it for a few years now
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Null of Undefined posted:I traded for my NGPC from Monitor Burn and still haven't really played it at all even though I've had it for a few years now Understandable as its niche as hell with a pretty narrow library. Once in a while I consider selling because of the prices, but I'm still too attached to it and a few specific games on it. Conversely, it took me years but I think I'm okay with letting go of DS/3DS. Im not rushing to dump them, but if one of my consoles broke I would not seek out a replacement. That is also the secret reason this is the year of 3DS for me, I'm afraid of my cracked up circle pad giving up for good and I don't want to perform that replacement repair or cough up for another system.
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Jimbot posted:I'm curious, do you folks also have the problem of used game stores over-charging on older games? There's one place close by and two others like 25 minutes away from me and their prices are bananas high. I've looked on ebay for similar games in similar conditions and they cost half or less as much as it was in the store. CiB and everything. I'm not a collector either, I actually play these games. I full well know that the prices of these things won't be cheap but these places, like I said, overcharge something fierce. There was one near me a few years ago. I went down to check it out. It was just a bare store with some wire shelves screwed to the walls with some Wii and xbox 360 and ps3 games on them. Then under glass in the central counter, they had loose carts of LttP for 400 dollars.  They are no longer in business.
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I go to used game stores to dig through the junk bins and occasionally come away with some cables/accessories or a neat controller that just needs some TLC (I have a nice collection of NES Joycards and SNES AsciiPads to carry me through the apocalypse). I do not buy games.
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I mostly buy non-Nintendo disc games at my local stores. The markup on cartridges and anything Nintendo is dumb.
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There are two game stores kind of local to me, both sell above ebay prices. I went to them to see if they would change game batteries for a reasonable price. One didn't and the other said sure they would, for $20 a game  Just because I can't do it myself, doesn't mean I don't know that it takes like 3 minutes for someone who can.
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I usually only hit the local places if I'm looking for imports or the odd game that lands in that spot of having higher eBay prices than I want but something that most game stores will overlook and just slap a price sticker on. Even trying to buy junk trade ins is ridiculous, this was about a decade ago but I went into one shop and I needed some parts for an NES and I asked if he had any garbage consoles that came in and he pulled out an NES that genuinely looked like it had been savagely attacked with a baseball bat and confidently told me it was $50.
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katkillad2 posted:There are two game stores kind of local to me, both sell above ebay prices. I went to them to see if they would change game batteries for a reasonable price. One didn't and the other said sure they would, for $20 a game I could be mistaken but: It usually takes a special tool or tool bit to get in there. It requires desoldering the battery. It requires a battery. It requires the battery to be then soldered in. So special tools and a battery that probably costs a few bucks. $20 seems high but it also seems somewhat reasonable at the same time. $10 seems more consumer friendly for a fairly simple procedure, though.
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Also like, if you're paying a store, you're paying for their time as well
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Also also, those batteries depending on whether they're 1616s or 2032s or tabbed or not can typically cost a couple bucks a piece.
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Pink Gorilla charges people $5 dollars to change their batteries and they are in/near downtown Seattle. If you think $20 to change a battery is a fair price you all are crazy. I can pay to ship my games to a modder and have it done for way cheaper. I was just trying to avoid some shipping hassle. And the batteries aren't that expensive, as seen on Amazon. .64 cents for a 2032 katkillad2 fucked around with this message at 02:32 on May 9, 2024 |
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I think if you take apart electronic things you should probably have a ready supply of 2032s just in case.
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katkillad2 posted:Pink Gorilla charges people $5 dollars to change their batteries and they are in/near downtown Seattle. If you think $20 to change a battery is a fair price you all are crazy. I can pay to ship my games to a modder and have it done for way cheaper. I was just trying to avoid some shipping hassle. Pink Gorilla are a bigger outfit that can afford to take hits on smaller things like that as opposed to someone running a local shop
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If your company is buying and selling old media, I'd think you would have the tools and supplies already on hand for common repairs like a disc resurfacer and specific cartridge screw bits. I think charging 5-10 is definitely realistic if you already have everything needed.
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I think a lot of folks who can do soldering work realize they've got a huge amount of folks over a barrel on something like this. Like, sure, a shop might already have the soldering tools and batteries and whatever else you need and, sure, it may only take a skilled tech 5-10 minutes to do a remove and replacement but they can charge $20 because... where else are you gonna go?
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