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It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

As someone who owns most of the consoles, has Pvm etc don't play the scalpers game just emulate. Thankfully the bubble has burst on a lot of markets, and we're seeing more reasonable prices, but the OG hardware can only last so long. If anything grab a controller for each system you love, even saying that, 8bitdo have really stepped up, and I would say surpassed a lot of the old first party ones.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

It helps that emulators have caught up in the last ten years. When I started collecting consoles there wasn’t a good emulator for the Saturn and even emulating the snes on a mobile device with similar power to a pi was inaccurate at times.

I have less and less reason to want to use original hardware other than nostalgia.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 9 points 3 months ago

8bitdo is amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The used game market is still insane, I'm seeing $20-30 for even shit-tier, obscure, normally worthless nes games. If you bought the console while it was new it's still worth keeping, but absolutely just get a flash cart instead of subjecting yourself to the price gouging retro market.