What's the rarest game you own?

Look, all I'm saying is that eventually all those discs and cartridges will be useless. Get yourself some 25 year storage discs and rip your collection to buy some extra time. That way if you're really into carts or whatever you can create a new one because you've got the files.
 
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The 8 Of Spades said:
Imagine buying physical games still, y'all are some plebes. I have almost every game mentioned in this thread, shits easy as fuck when you've got a bunch of full set rom collections.

Modernize or Die from Bit Rot as I always say.
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Related: I don't physically own any retro game but it took me forever to find a ROM of Crusader of Centy (Genesis) which likely had to do with the cartridge being rare and expensive. So you could say that's the rarest game I own.
 
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The 8 Of Spades said:
Imagine buying physical games still, y'all are some plebes. I have almost every game mentioned in this thread, shits easy as fuck when you've got a bunch of full set rom collections.

Modernize or Die from Bit Rot as I always say.
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PS2 emulation sucks a fat dick, so the easiest and best way to play a PS2 game is to own an actual copy, which is a shame because so many of them are so absurdly expensive now.

I hate to think of some PS2 games being essentially lost to time like a lot of silent films were, hopefully people continue to work on PS2 emulation, because in my experience at least it sucks.
 
Dom Cruise said:
PS2 emulation sucks a fat dick, so the easiest and best way to play a PS2 game is to own an actual copy, which is a shame because so many of them are so absurdly expensive now.

I hate to think of some PS2 games being essentially lost to time like a lot of silent films were, hopefully people continue to work on PS2 emulation, because in my experience at least it sucks.
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You can run backup games of a HDD if you have a fat PS2 with a cheap adapter. I have a 2tb in mine with hundreds of games.

Have not tested myself but a while back some guy figured out a way to softmod a slim ps2 to play burned isos.

So there are options, you dont have to touch PCSX2 (agree it is a steaming turd compared to something like dolphin or PPSSPP) or buy original games.
 
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My dad bought a copy of the original Scorched Earth, the version you play on DOS. I still have the floppy disk. The disk also came with Pinball Fantasies.
 
Dom Cruise said:
PS2 emulation sucks a fat dick, so the easiest and best way to play a PS2 game is to own an actual copy, which is a shame because so many of them are so absurdly expensive now.

I hate to think of some PS2 games being essentially lost to time like a lot of silent films were, hopefully people continue to work on PS2 emulation, because in my experience at least it sucks.
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God, right? That's just scary to think about.

At least it works with some games like Nocturne. (it does suffer from occasional slowdown though)
 
I have two physical copies of the Metroid Prime Trilogy. It's relatively rare, but not crazy rare or anything.
 
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Might be my SNES EarthBound or Inindo carts. None of my PS2 discs are particularly rare, to my knowledge.
 
I just flipped my copy of Cubivore on ebay for about four hundred bucks.
probably either my bootleg FC Street Fighter II that came with a full case and manual or Terrifying 9/11 (English edition)
legit games only maybe USA Saturn Rayearth?
 
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Dom Cruise said:
PS2 emulation sucks a fat dick, so the easiest and best way to play a PS2 game is to own an actual copy, which is a shame because so many of them are so absurdly expensive now.

I hate to think of some PS2 games being essentially lost to time like a lot of silent films were, hopefully people continue to work on PS2 emulation, because in my experience at least it sucks.
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It's actually pretty easy to hack PS2 these days to play burned DVD, just need a memory card with Free McBoot installed and the ESR patch.
 
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Some more rare games I own are Haunting Ground (sadly no manual), Echo Night Beyond (bought back when it first released in the US) and Skygunner (not outrageously expensive but not cheap)


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right? That's just scary to think about.

At least it works with some games like Nocturne. (it does suffer from occasional slowdown though)
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I often wonder about the long term future of games, like 100 years from now.

I think something like Silent Hill 2 is a piece of art worth preserving forever, but Konami already lost the source code, so we're off to a bad start.

There may come a day where games are only preserved by LP videos, with no way to actually play them which would really suck, to say nothing of them being lost to time entirely of course.

Stasi said:
You can run backup games of a HDD if you have a fat PS2 with a cheap adapter. I have a 2tb in mine with hundreds of games.

Have not tested myself but a while back some guy figured out a way to softmod a slim ps2 to play burned isos.

So there are options, you dont have to touch PCSX2 (agree it is a steaming turd compared to something like dolphin or PPSSPP) or buy original games.
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Road Work Ahead said:
It's actually pretty easy to hack PS2 these days to play burned DVD, just need a memory card with Free McBoot installed and the ESR patch.
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I need to look into this because there's still plenty of imports I want to play or games that are too expensive to buy.
 
Nothing short of EMPs will destroy the "classic" Nintendo and Sega libraries, I feel, due to file hoarders. Indeed, there are people out there who meticulously purchased literally every XBLA game, back on 360, just so that they could have a complete library. We are better off than you think. Now microcomputer and PC? Those game libraries are fucked.
 
Fire emblem radiant dawn and 2 copies of Shadow Dragon. I lost the first copy and found a second at the same gamestop

also is there a place to buy Wii cases? My copy of Radiant Dawn came in a sleeve and nothing more.
 
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I’m trying. I’d also like to find PoR at a reasonable price but I can’t drop 200 on an old game starring the husbando of r/waifuism most prevalent members, no matter how much I like Ike
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Oh, you mean with the cover as well? Thats a little trickier. I thought you mean an official blank Wii case to slip your cover over.
 
I would say my rarest would probably be Metal Warriors on the SNES but I have a pretty big SNES collection so not sure what all else is rare from that era. I didn't go super crazy and try and get Aero Fighters on the SNES. Did get a few duds without realizing it, like trying to buy the Capcom King Arthur beat'em up and got some other King Arthur game.
 
Hmmm. Not really a game per se, but I own a shovelware CD still that I don't think is mentioned anywhere on the internets. It's full of Windows 3.1 games.

Might image it and upload it to Archive.org.
 
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