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Who's making older games so expensive? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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I don't want to buy games digitally anymore until I can actually own the game rather than the license. But then some freak on eBay is asking for $500 for a copy of Klonoa on the PS1. Then there are even more freaks who are willing to bid higher than that! Then the smaller retro games stores around me base their prices on these prices. There needs to be a price cap on this stuff. We can't let all of the richest nerds control the economy.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

  1. The cheapest games will always be last generations games
  2. Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
  3. Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
  4. Anything Xbox is cheap
  5. PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
  6. There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
  7. Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
  8. Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games
[–] Agent_Karyo 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Got to disagree with you on #6 unless you explicitly mention that it's a DIY replica.

If one is buying a PC box, you expect the original from when it was released, not a DIY GOG package (which you can do yourself).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm not suggesting that you sell your DIY GOG package to someone else. I'm suggesting you do that for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

For burning to a disc from GOG, is there a way to do that with the old consoles? I have all of the PlayStations, because I have never liked playing on my PC. I wasn't allowed to play many of the games that came out on PS1 or PS2 growing up, and now that I have some sort of disposable income, I want to check out the stuff I missed out on. The issue is that those are the games that scalpers love. If there was a way to bypass them on the games like Silent Hill or Diablo I would love that.

[–] bigb 1 points 1 hour ago

If you have a PS2, mod it to play backups. There's a new method called MMCE that is very promising and looks very easy to setup.

https://stoneagegamer.com/memcard-pro-2-for-playstation-and-playstation-2.html

https://youtu.be/mdxDRtfEXNg?si=vAticFv6PnZTN9ER

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Mod your consoles, find backups online. For PSX check out PSIO...

[–] Benaaasaaas 1 points 2 minutes ago

What's the difference between playing on PC vs PS if it's the same game? Locking yourself out of either emulation or playing the PC version is going to make it harder/more expensive on you to replay old games.