sixteen-bit
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That's too high unless it's complete in box.
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SNES Game Collecting (Tips, discussion, and info for like minded collectors)
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baphomet
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Well that's pretty awesome. I only picked it up because I knew SNES RPGs were going up in price and that was one you never heard much about back when it came out.
ShadyLurker
Member
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Robotrek-SNE...mes&hash=item25750524e9&_uhb=1#ht_1502wt_1159
That's the cheapest one I could find and it's in really bad shape.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Waaaaaaaaaay too much, you should be paying around 40-50 for a cartridge only copy, hopefully less than that.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Every time I see that guys listings they seem too high. Looking at sold listings it seems you can get it pretty easily for about $30.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Weird question: the year on the back of SNES game boxes, does it refer to the year the game was released or the year that individual cartridge was produced? For instance, a game like Chrono Trigger, if the copy you bought was produced in 1997 and the game originally released in 1995 which year would appear on the box? I know for NES games it was the date that particular copy was produced, was curious about SNES games.
ShadyLurker
Member
Oh I forget, I'm on Canadian Ebay. So yeah it could be cheaper for the US only shippers. Everything seems to be more expensive here.
ShadyLurker
Member
I just tried out my new Super Gameboy and I think there's something wrong with it 
I tried putting in Pokemon Blue and there's no sound. The Super Gameboy start up sound plays when I turn it on, but there's no sound from the actual game.
I tried putting in Pokemon Blue and there's no sound. The Super Gameboy start up sound plays when I turn it on, but there's no sound from the actual game.Okay, what the fuck is going on here? I bought this game a year ago, mint, with manual and maps for $20 shipped. CIB versions were around $40. Who is dropping $40-50 on a beat to hell copy of a mediocre RPG?
Superblatt
Member
Perfect representation of the current incredibly inflated SNES market. Likely the highest prices we will ever see for a good portion of the system's catalog. There couldn't be a worse time than now to get into SNES collecting. But feel free to pay $50 for Castlevania IV and other common titles. You're only driving up the value of my collection that I've owned since I was a kid.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Nobody, hopefully. You can pretty easily get them for $30 in auctions, and if you're too impatient for an auction there are a couple nice looking copies with $35 BIN prices right now.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I just tried out my new Super Gameboy and I think there's something wrong with it
Try cleaning the Pokemon game and perhaps the slot on the top where you put the GB games in.
Superblatt
Member
That game is worth half that price. $15 to $20 tops.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I've never played it, so don't know about quality-wise. But, according to wikipedia it only sold 20,000 copies in the US, so it's technically pretty rare.
ShadyLurker
Member
I took apart both the gameboy cart and the Super Gameboy and cleaned all 3 sets of pins. I think it's something more serious, but unfortunately I can't test which is the problem. I don't have a gameboy to test pokemon, or another gameboy game to test the Super Gameboy.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Hmmm...well where did you buy the Super Gameboy? You could just take it back, those things are pretty cheap to buy. I haven't had any problems with the ones I find, even the dirty ones I find at flea markets.
ShadyLurker
Member
I bought it at a local privately owned thrift store. Unfortunately I think their policy is everything is sold "as is". SNES carts so rarely mess up though that I've never cared. Like you said it wasn't too expensive so I'm not that upset, but it still sucks. It could still be the Gameboy cart itself. I've been wanting to get an Advance SP for a while so maybe I'll buy one to test it.
sixteen-bit
Member
The Super Game Boy uses the extra pins on the sides of the main pins for GB sound I believe. It could be that the pins are somehow broken, or the connector pins for them in the SNES are dirty. Do you have any other SNES games with such pins (like Starfox or Yoshi's Island) and do they work?
try check:
Super Drift Out
Super F1 Circus
Stunt Race FX (if you can stomach the low framerate)
Street Racer
Lysander91
Banned
I just bought a complete SNES for $25. I didn't realize how much game prices have risen over the last couple years. What are the chances that prices go down? It's not like they're making more of these games.
ShadyLurker
Member
I have Yoshi's Island and tried it. Sound works fine.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I think they will be like this for a long time...=/
The two are top down mode 7 racing game (former is a rally game the latter a F1 game).
The rally game was part of Visco Drift Out series especially known for the arcade and Neo Geo games.
The F1 game was by Ninchibutsu and it's probably the best F1 game on Snes.
If you want a F1 game more similar to Sega Super Monaco GP there is Nigel Mansell's World Championship.
SkyMasterson
Member
Everyone has a different theory on when and how much, but as you said, there are only so many of them and as the years go by, more get destroyed/lost and become even more sought after.
Best advice I can give is just get the games you really really want and stick with those. It's too easy getting sucked into the "oh this looks cool, I'll have to get it" phase.
With Yoshi's Island and other SuperFX games the pins are not used for sound, but to connect the processing chip inside the cartridge with the SNES. But if the game displayed graphics normally (especially on the Title Screen which I believe uses the SuperFX chip) then it's probably something wrong with the extra pins on the SGB unfortunately. I can't imagine that there would be anything wrong with the GB game if it boots up and all that. Sound would be transferred to the GB with the regular game code. It's just on the SNES that the SGB then transfers the processed sound through the extra pins to play back with the SNES sound chip.
ShadyLurker
Member
Bummer, thanks for the help though. Maybe I'll open it up and see if I can see anything burnt out or something to confirm it.
Well snagged Skyblazer and Pilotwings today for 11 bucks total. Problem is (not that much of a problem since Skyblazer is a damn nice game anyway), the label has some gunky stuff on it in various spots. I could use Goo Gone, but i'm not sure if it'll fade the label or something.
Really need to learn how to clean SNES labels...but griping aside, its a really cool/challenging game, and one of the few games aside from SMT that i've seen Hindu (?) mythology as well as middle eastern style music combined with Japanese 16 bit style.
NA release art is kinda stupid/misleading
Really need to learn how to clean SNES labels...but griping aside, its a really cool/challenging game, and one of the few games aside from SMT that i've seen Hindu (?) mythology as well as middle eastern style music combined with Japanese 16 bit style.
NA release art is kinda stupid/misleading
IrishNinja
Member
Hero_of_the_Day - worked out Terranigma + Secret of Mana 2 for $50 total thanks to your nintendo-age link, thanks again man!
Super Game Boy always looked cool, but having the GBA player for GC it'd be redundant now, i think.
Super Game Boy always looked cool, but having the GBA player for GC it'd be redundant now, i think.
sixteen-bit
Member
I think SGB is still the only way to unlock enhanced features in certain game carts that need the SNES hardware like Donkey Kong '94 for better audio and Space Invaders' extra mode.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
I did a bit of retro game shopping today. I saw a store that carried a cart only copy of Super Mario Kart for $75. I about shat myself when I saw that.
Went to another second-hand game shop and they had a copy of Super Mario Kart, same condition, for $18. I wanted to go back to the other store and ask them wtf they were thinking when they priced that.
Went to another second-hand game shop and they had a copy of Super Mario Kart, same condition, for $18. I wanted to go back to the other store and ask them wtf they were thinking when they priced that.
IrishNinja
Member
wasn't aware of this...that's pretty cool though, was trying Metal Gear Ghost Babel & a few others over said GBA GC thing, could definitely go for titles having better audio!
tiggerkiddo
Member
About as bad when I go to the flea markets and people are charging like 30-40 bucks for a copy of freakin' Super Mario World. In this day and age, where people have smart phones and stuff, I don't know how they get away with it.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Huh... I had no idea that the SGB had an effect on audio in certain games. That's kinda awesome. I remember Donkey Kong 94 being the poster child for the device, and that was always what I played on the thing, but I didn't really notice a difference in sound quality. Then again, I was like... 6.
sixteen-bit
Member
Pauline's voice samples were much clearer on SGB.
Here is a list of SGB-enhanced games. A few of them have enhanced music or audio samples.
ShadyLurker
Member
Does the GameBoy Player add the cool borders like Super Game Boy does? It's not that big of a deal but kinda cool.
Shadow Hog
Member
More than that; on the standard Game Boy, it's just some standard notes pitch-bended to make it sound like her screaming. The voice samples are exclusive to the Super Game Boy.
It does not.
A Black Falcon
Member
No, the GB Player does not support any SGB enhancements. You need a real SGB, or an emulator on your PC, for that; nothing else has them, not the GB Player, not the 3DS Virtual Console, not anything official. It's pretty annoying, some of the SGB enhancements are nice...
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Is there any solution to playing SNES games on my SFC that isn't this?
IrishNinja
Member
damn i wish i could switch my super nintendo shell for a SFC, so nice
LiveFromKyoto
Member
I am of the opinion that Space Megaforce is not only the best shmup on the system, it's the best 16-bit shmup period.. If you haven't seen it already, the visual tricks it pulls off and the soundtrack will blow your mind.
IrishNinja
Member
i love you, LiveFromKyoto
but we are not gonna have this conversation like M.U.S.H.A. aint exist
but we are not gonna have this conversation like M.U.S.H.A. aint exist
Is there any solution to playing SNES games on my SFC that isn't this?
Yes, as posted earlier in the thread:
Do you mean playing SNES games on a SFC? I picked up a honeybee adapter to play SNES on my SFC.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47466218&postcount=586
This is how it looks when using it with the SFC.
I'm not sure how much exactly they sell for as I picked up mine on for 2,000 yen on Yahoo Auctions JP along with that Super Off-Road game (and a few SFC games the seller threw in.) I do also have a SNES mini, though.
Does that Honeybee have a particular model name? The only ones I seem to be able to find are the Magic Game Converters and they go for a mint.
I'd have no idea, I just quoted his post because I remembered it.
Edit: Also, that honeybee doesn't seem to have the extra tabs for the extra chip cartridges:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=86171
I wonder if it works with Starfox and the like, as I have no idea how's the cart connector for the Super Famicom.
Some of my latest pickups here. I got Mother 2 a couple of weeks ago but the rest arrived today. Of course I knew the 8 in 1 was a pirate but I was kinda bummed to open up Contra and find it was a pirate too Ah well, I still own the real deal as a PAL copy. And it only cost me a few bucks along with the 8 in 1.
Ah well, I still own the real deal as a PAL copy. And it only cost me a few bucks along with the 8 in 1.
Or that PCEngine wasn't 16 bit
But now being serious my tips would have been:
Rendering Ranger R2 (if you have the cash)
Space Megaforce
Parodius games (the latter episode the better)
Cosmo Gang
Aero Fighters (again it should be costly)
Pop'n Twinbee
Super SWIV