A world without emulation is a dystopia.

>open the box
>take out disc
>walk out of store
WOOOOW

>>712852539
black hands typed this

you could just not play those games

>completely overpriced for regular customers
>zero value for collectors
what the fuck are they even thinking?

>>712852391 (OP)
>t. Snoy

>>712852539
>cashier blows your brains out the moment you turn to walk away
Wow indeed.

>>712852539
They're gutted.

>>712852391 (OP)
how big of a newfag are you that you dont already own those games for years at this point? you could get them on ebay for a reasonable price as recent as like 2017

>>712853034
He's black. It'd be a net benefit to both.

sh 4 isn't even that good

>>712853034
He won't do shit

>>712853240
>I'm old
say less

>>712852391 (OP)
You can download the PC versions for free.

That's actually cheap

>>712852391 (OP)
I feel like your best bet is to find discs in decent condition at pawn shops/yard sales/ebay (with manuals intact) and then just order a bunch of blank dvd cases and print out the covers yourself. That way it looks brand new but you're paying a fraction of the cost. Just use a site like thecoverproject and some glossy printing paper and you're good to go. That way you can turn your collection into a restoration hobby.

>>712853240
I didn't get into Silent Hill until like 2013. I do have the three Xenosaga games though

Those are complete with manual games that are in demand. You can buy just a disc to play SH2 for the price of a new game.

>>712853240
My Silent Hill 3 still has the $15 Gamestop sticker on it.

>>712852539
>game cases are empty to prevent this exact scenario
>cashier doesn't give a shit and slips in a shovelware bass fishing or m&ms game instead when you buy it

>>712853960
Game collecting is more about the case and manual than the game. There's like 7 different ways to pirate PS2 games on a console. People want the product, the artifact, the "cultural snapshot", you know.

>Nintendo is killing physical media!!
>Errmm it's not like I'd actually buy all these "preserved" games or anything I'll just download that shit

>>712852851
Hand rubbing. They should be pricing them at eBay price -fees and shipping for it to even be worth considering. This is why you always hear about these places going out of business. They sit on stock and never sell being stubborn over a measly 20~50 bucks per item and then cry about how hard it is doing business and that when you don't buy from them you're hurting their family.

>>712852391 (OP)
Should've bought em when you had the chance anon.

>>712852851
The blackpill is that most of these retro game stores are owned/ran by dudes who don’t give a fuck about games and just know there’s money to be made in price gouging Pokemon Emerald at 200% markup. They’re essentially more business-oriented PTCG scalpers

>>712852391 (OP)
The problem is that greedy assholes like Sony don't just ship PS5s with native backwards compatibility for PS1/2/3 games and then get publishers to digitally re-release these games. This is one aspect of physical media that is objectively cancerous, the notion of scarcity for an entertainment product. Literally the only reason people have to rely on third parties for emulation is because first parties don't bother and when they do they hide them behind a $100 subscription fee. At this point we need a complete crash so we can start again. I don't mind consoles, but consoles need to be platforms that iterate on previous console libraries just like upgrading your PC will do for you.

>buy a bunch of PS2 games from CEX because I found a PS2 in a charity shop for £30
>just keep buying more until I have pretty much everything I wanted. All my old favourites and a few I never got chance to play
>realise just because the games start that doesn't mean they're going to be playable from start to finish
Fuck sake lads I've wasted £150 beans haven't I?

>>712856712
Yes since OPL has been the standard way to play PS2 for over a decade now.

>>712852539
>go to vimm's lair
>download all 3 in a matter of seconds
You don't even have to leave the house, man.

>>712855938
This but with my .hack// tetralogy instead. I still hold out hope they make a remaster collection including the Liminality discs' content for the newfags

>>712852851
Game stores that aren't Gamestop base their prices off of eBay or stuff like the old GameValueNow site before it was sold. That's why prices continue to rise on select games because they're constantly going up due to the stores pricing them higher and higher to make some profit on the purchase.

Wonder why physical sales have been in decline for a while...

>>712852539
well, that explains that.

>>712853034
Do American stores really gun down their customers?

glad i stopped collecting when i got what i wanted for 360

>>712856931
>vimm's lair
>download in a matter of seconds
lmao

>>712852974
Why would a snoy tell you a world without emulation is a dystopia, tendie? Makes no sense.

>pay $20 to some chink halfway around the world
>get an SD card
>can play real PS2 games on real hardware without paying dipshit prices

>>712857642
thieves aren't customers

>>712860421
Snoys defend emulators to no end. It's partially why they're the villains of gaming alongside PCfags

>>712857121
I'm so grateful I finished collecting in 2008. Somehow Quarantine was always a little pricey even back then.

>def Jam fight for NY is worth $160
Damn it feels good to be a real one

>>712860963
I remember one of my friends let me borrow Infection and then I went on to buy the other 3 on release. Many years went by and I one day looked at my collection and noticed I still didn't own Infection so I bought it on Amazon for like $20. For some reason it was the one game in the series that never got too expensive

>>712852539
Main Character doing whatever he feels is right

>>712852704
>>712853034
NPCs following programming

>>712852391 (OP)
Piracy on the PS2 is trivial, just get an HDD and a memory card with FreeMcBoot. The real benefits for emulation are convenience and enhancements.

>>712860963
Yeah, a lot of games have always been a bit pricey (Rule of Rose... Haunting Ground...) but the quarantine really fucked a lot of prices.
I got Silent Hill 3, with the soundtrack, for $40 back around 2010.
Now just the game without the OST is going towards $200.
Bought Dragon Quest V for DS brand new for $70 back around 2015.
Now a used copy is like $150.
Hopefully this dies down like NES did.

Sometime, the true Silent Hill is with us. Or just Emulate it.

I remember buying all the PS2 survival horror shit that goes for megabux now for like £20 sealed back around 2010. What made that genre in particular spike so high in price, anyway?

>>712852391 (OP)
For how much people shit on Nintendo for going after piracy, at least they are one of the only few publishers who actually make an intentional effort to make their old shit available on modern hardware.

I love emulation. But recently I've been on a class PC gaming kick. Played through Deus Ex for the first time.
Thank you God for PC gaming :)

>>712862881
probably faggots who cling to YouTube video essays about the topic and decided THAT was the moment they want to be survival horror fans by buying the games and then not playing them

>>712862881
PS2 games are just spiking in General. Xbox is still cheap. You can get Silent Hill 2 for Xbox for like 50$

>>712852391 (OP)
Physical games are a meme, and I'm tired of people acting like the death of physical is the death of video game preservarion. Physical media always becomes too expensive to own eventually. The only way game preservation actually occurs is when a ROM gets dumped on the web.

>>712862996
Hope you use the Retro Achievements, it's pretty good.

>>712863146
Nah, it's a fun thing. I buy all the games I can on Physical. Otherwise I buy on PC.

Always have PC versions.

>>712862813
It's funny how every other SH game benefitted from the death of the series EXCEPT HDC.
Some fun comparisons from PriceCharting, used CIB:
>Silent Hill (PSX)
2013: $25
Now: $230
>Silent Hill 2 (PS2)
2013: $15
Now: 250
>Silent Hill 3 (PS2)
2013: $20
Now: $230
>Silent Hill 4 (PS2)
2013: $20
Now: $155
>Silent Hill Origins (PSP)
2013: $10
Now: $60
>Silent Hill: Homecoming (PS3)
2013: $16
Now: $16 (went to $25 during covid)
>Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii)
2013: $20
Now: $100
>Silent Hill: Downpour (PS3)
2013: $16
Now: $60
>Silent Hill: Book Of Memories
2013: $15
2015: I went to EB Games and bought five copies for $1 each because they were quickly getting rid of all their Vita stock
Now: $85

>Silent Hill HD Collection
2013: $30
Now: $20
It is literally the only SH game to DROP in value from 2013 to today.

Still no idea why Felix the Cat is so expensive.

>>712860963
I have a lot of what I want from the 6th gen era, but have a ton of stuff from 4th and 5th gen I still have to pick up because a good portion of my games from 6th gen were purchased with credit selling my old games to FUCKING gamestop as a kid. I actually take back what I said about 6th gen in part, I got a PS2 late in the cycle so I very often stumble upon some JRPG I never heard about back in the day and it gets added to the wishlist. Fuckin Xenosaga 3 and Ar-Tonelico will hurt my wallet, some day.

>>712860501
What abou those mass robberies where the niggers just take out whatever they want?

I saw SH3 soundrack included for 30 bucks like 4/5 years ago (and bought it)
now it's 150ish whenever I scroll past listings
the same thing happened with the bluray for the Cowboy Bebop movie

>>712863153
Nope! Achievement hunting is for fags!

>>712863583
It's not about Achievement Hunting. Just passive unlock. It make the game more fun for me.

>>712853710
I've been wanting to try this, since sometimes used games will have their art torn up/stains. How easy is it to print my own covers? What kind of printer do I need?

>>712863548
>the same thing happened with the bluray for the Cowboy Bebop movie
Much like the entire SH series, I was lucky enough to get the steelbook for that when it was being sold on clearance.
I don't even like Cowboy Bebop, I just saw the film for $10 and went "Ah, it'll be a showpiece for my anime collection".

Sadly anime collecting isn't a serious hobby for most people, so my near complete RightStuff Gundam BD set and my Dragon Ball DVD Saga sets hold little value to the general public like a Silent Hill or Resident Evil Gaiden would command. I much prefer anime collecting though, games are just boxes but anime sometimes come with BIGGER boxes you put MORE DVDs inside of.

>>712852391 (OP)
This is why physical is good, piracy is good and emulation is good.

>>712852539
Based. Retail wagecucks deserve to suffah.

>>712860963
I'm always going to hate myself for not getting the PS2 and Gamecube games that I wanted all those years ago. The amount of times I saw Chulip or Go Go Hypergrind for dirt cheap at Gamestop, only to go "ehh, maybe next time" makes me cringe at myself.

>>712864042
>Sadly anime collecting isn't a serious hobby for most people,
Outside of Lain becoming a meme and prices on that set skyrocketing in the past few years, you're mostly correct.
However, as anime sinks into the remake/retread trend the same as every other form of media, there's going to be more Netflix Evangelion-style updates where they remove the original dub (however you might feel about that) and change the fucking subtitles. And that'll just be the shows that reached the highest echelon of popularity.
Trigun hasn't been released on Bluray (outside of Japan, but I'm only assuming that, I've never checked) and the DVD box set, while out of print, is still pretty cheap--but that won't last forever.
The original release of FLCL on bluray has jumped up in price significantly, but you can get the shitty "FLCL - Season 1" version for a normal price, but that branding sucks ass and all the newer "seasons" of FLCL are total trash.
Those are just examples I've encountered directly. If you're at all into collecting anime you're probably near to or over 30 and most of what you want is out of print and the licensing rights have been in limbo since the late 00s and going to have to rely on out-of-print DVDs primarily.
You could always just go digital only, but I've always preferred physical.

I got Silent Hill 4 for Xbox for $60. Good condition. Idk if it's worth the same as the PS2 version. Just glad to get it.

>>712863153
Based
>>712863583
Retard!

>>712863583
shut your filthy whore mouth, cuck

>>712864787
That's about the average price for a cib copy. The Xbox versions of a lot of games are usually way cheaper than the PS2/Gamecube ports for some reason.

Games are meant to be experienced, not displayed. Physical has become a wasteful meme, as long as you have a way to play a game, then you have 'collected' it.

>>712853034
>
kino

>>712864787
it's not worth as much because the graphics are generally worse as the textures were designed for the PS2 architecture, this is also partly why the HD collection versions look worse, and because you can't have the full "set" of 2 3, and 4 on the xbox
The xbox version of 2 is similarly cheaper

>>712853687
Hello fellow Charlotte fag.

>>712864693
Most anime that spike in value tend to be stuff that isn't that popular or things with DOZENS of releases.
Off the top of my head
>Expensive because OOP
The entire RightStuf Gundam line (basically every Gundam BD that isn't IBO or G Witch)
Every Nozomi Entertainment release
Any OOP Discotek release
Hunter x Hunter (1999) from Viz
Yu Yu Hakusho Steelbooks
Space Runaway Ideon and Xabungle from Maiden Japan
>Expensive because it turned out to be a limited release
Dragon Box Z
Dragon Ball Z 30As
Dragon Ball Z Steelbooks
Cowboy Bebop Movie Steelbook

Off the top of my head.
I'm more interested in collecting older DVDs though. For my collections there I got:
>Dragon Ball Sagas Volumes 1-7 + Movies 1-4 (with the elusive Australia Volume 1 DVD)
>Case Closed Box 1 (Box 2 is a bitch to collect)
>Naruto Shippuden LEs 1-3 (LE4 disappeared from RS the day before I was going to order it)
>Desert Punk Box
I wish anime companies would do the old 3 episodes a volume with a box to put them in like we used to get in the 2000s. Sure it was absurdly expensive in the longrun, but putting everything in one big box was fun.

>>712865532
I'm mostly interested in collecting all the shit on saw on various American television channels (Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, TechTV, Encore WAM, etc.), most of which is pretty good, and for the most part a lot of it never made it past DVD.

>>712852391 (OP)
It's a wonder reproductions aren't more popular. I couldn't care less if it's authentic or not as long as it's a near 1:1 reproduction of the original.

Now that I think about it, why aren't video games reproduced like movies are? There's gotta be decent money one could make.

>>712852391 (OP)
>my life goes to absolute shit 3 years agl, has not recovered
>decide to go balls deep autismo into emulation
>happy again
>megscorpo then starts to crack down on the one thing that makes me happy
Just kill me. Fuck nintendo

>>712865840
they'd rather have indians slap ugly HD replacement textures on everything and resell it digitally
or remake it
there is an interesting industry of bootleg blurays of TV shows and movies on ebay, though, stuff that only ever got DVD releases or in some cases no home media release at all, but was put up on some streaming service at some point and that's what was ripped and put on the disc

>>712853687
>Video Game World
Those guys have always sucked ass. Look at how Shattered Memories still has the nasty ass gamestop sticker on it, they don't ever bother trying to clean up their inventory despite charging premium prices on literally everything. And if you go to the one at Hanes Mall, their manager is a legit inbred mongrel who doesn't seem to have gotten his GED.

>>712863115
I have tons of games I saved up with the cases. Time to cash out.

>>712852539

If you try this shit at my shop I got one of five possibilities waiting for you: knuckle gloves, pepper spray, stun gun, a taser, and a Glock 19 with hollow points

I WILL kill you over a video game, it's Texas and I have every right to do it and you deserve to die if you are so pathetic. Go donate plasma and buy the game like all the other losers if you can't hold a job you stupid bum

>>712866625
Based going to jail anon.

Eileen shaving

>>712865840
It's never really come up despite it theoretically being really easy.
For carts there's a basis in the components used to make those carts being niche now, but anyone can repro a PSX, PS2, Xbox, PS3, etc. game with relative ease in an official capacity. Sega and SE have both done it (with Yakuza 1 & 2 on PS2 and the PSX FF titles for SE).

It's probably more to do with FOMO though. Limited supply creates artificial scarcity- remember how Paper Mario TTYD used to be one of the most sought after GCN games? Then the remake came out and everyone got instantly excited.
Remember the day when Earthbound got added to VC? That shit is what these companies want.

>>712863621
I feel like the little blip and "achievement unlocked" message take away from the experience.
As I play I get to decide what moments matter more or less to me. I get to choose what has meaning for me and how I play.
Achievements kinda ruin that because it's someone else who designated what moments are important, they are like laugh tracks in TV shows.
They aren't the worst thing ever, but I have to agree with that guy because it's kind of gay and thus for fags.

>>712866740
where do you live where you'd go to jail for killing a thief actively robbing you?
You know what, don't answer that. Because the answer is HELL and you should get out of their as soon as possible.

>>712863319
lmao waht the fuck why is earthbound 3k

silent hill isn't even good.

>>712852391 (OP)
lol the fucking prices on these damn games jesus. I wish I bought them long ago but I don't think I could ever justify spending so much on copies of any games. Even if it were for one of those fancy collectors editions that include a lot of things with the games.

>>712866462
This was taken at the hanes mall one, they also let their gay employees vape behind the counter the entire time