Based on your personal experience right bro ?

Now available on PSP too bro

I wonder how many gaming hours, one need to complete the whole series

Nice collection, all boxed consoles

Loose for consoles means, without the original box, manual book and some accessories that originally was included.

The console, if loose not expensive. As for the games, some titles are expensive even they're loose and others are cheap even they're complete

Yes very typical KOEI style games

I think not much NES cart games using save game feature, only few long adventures/ strategy/ RPG using it (newer NES games usually). The more common save system during NES time is using password system for each level or milestone. If you're playing using Emulator, of course you can save state anytime u want (no need save game feature). The early NES games have a simple game mechanism actually, that's why many of them didn't require save game (maybe also expensive at that time)

This post has been edited by chronims: Jul 16 2009, 06:31 PM

Yes, this is usually 3rd party product and not endorsed by SEGA. Everything almost looks the same, except there are built-in games. There are few 3rd party SEGA-endorsed product but usually they came on different shape and not copying the original SEGA models.

I have the SEGA CD 1 with Genesis 1 console, bought quite cheap from my friend. It's quite bulky, but still nice to see and collect hehe

Another alternative to this is SEGA CD2 or JVC X'Eye.

If u want to play cross-region, still have to use a special cart like datel cd-x or get your bios modded.

Yea, actually for a game to be 'ULTRA RARE' it has to be released in very, very, very limited quantities : eg. AES Kizuna Encounter PAL or MD Tetris (Not affordable for most people)

For games that are 'RARE', but you can still see people selling it once awhile (at > $300) of course : eg. SAT Taromaru or MD Eliminate down.

Now if we've gone through that, let see how about games that are originally common but now fetching high prices ($100-$200) in the market due to popular demand : eg. SAT Radiant Silvergun, PS1 Suikoden 2

If I would categorize Aerobiz Supersonic, it will not fall in any of above-so-called 'RARE' categories

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Added on July 20, 2009, 5:40 pmYea I got mine all loose (and from a friend) so it's cheap alright. But as any frontloader model, it will be more prone to jamming when opening the cd tray. In fact this is a problem for all kind frontloading consoles, due to its motorized part : Mega/ Sega CD1, NEO GEO CD 1st, 3DO FZ1, Panasonic Gamecube and even FAT PS2. But luckily mine is still alright and read cd also still ok

This post has been edited by chronims: Jul 20 2009, 07:31 PM

Actually if you're thinking buying a lot of consoles in one shot to safe delivery cost is not good idea, the reasons are :
1. More Risk of Loss, damaged, etc., just like investment don't put all your eggs into one basket.
2. The custom will be more than glad to find an excuse to tax your items.
3. Seldom people sells a lot of items in one shot, so limits your choice of buying.

So can we see your main collection

Yes this is true, just check the bottom of your cart will do (green = fake/ brown = ori). Another way to spot is by the label of the cart (got SEGA/ other) logo or not. Normally the fake carts don't have the company/ trademark logo written on the label.

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Added on July 24, 2009, 1:39 pmIf your Castlevania bloodlines cart is ori genesis, you will see GENESIS Logo written vertically on the left side of the label and also the KONAMI & SEGA logo, just like the picture below. I also have both the carts and the fake one is very easy to distiguish even only by the label.


ori genesis cart, borrowed from other website.


Note that not all Genesis cart will have similiar logo, other also have a black & silver Genesis logo which also is an original one.


Another variation of original genesis game


Different games also came in different cart size/ shape, eg. EA games have more like a square shaped cart and a yellow tab on the left side.


Ori EA Games


Also Sonic & Knuckles have bigger and different shape than normal due to its special functionality.


Ori Sonic 3 on top of Sonic Knuckles cart combined together

The above examples are all only for GENESIS cart. For MD Japan, Asia and Euro/ AUS PAL will have a slightly different features (eg. Logo will be MD, Megadrive, etc).

This post has been edited by chronims: Jul 24 2009, 02:12 PM

For some people, they would not mind anyway. They would've preferred that the producer created the sequel based on xenogears instead.

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Added on July 27, 2009, 2:47 pmFor Xenosaga, you might just want to skip the first 2 and head for the third one

This post has been edited by chronims: Jul 27 2009, 02:47 PM

I have the new trance vibrator made by ASCII, but never used it. I wonder for what purpose one would use it anyway ?? and I certainly wasn't interested to buy a 2nd hand one at that time

Ha3 I knew someday u would ask me this question

The truth is I don't have time to organize my collection, since it's quite dispersed between my home town and here. So it's also difficult to take pic of my collection since it's a bit here and there.

However if u interested to see the glimps of my collection here (still growing), I will gladly take some pic

Do you collect AES/ MVS carts btw ?

This post has been edited by chronims: Jul 27 2009, 03:12 PM

Hahaha yaps susah, XD masa lah

Yes true, it's too expensive for most of us. I didn't see myself also collecting AES, as you said true that it's better to spend on other things.

Actually for GC, Xbox and DC some people considered it to be classic already because the console has been discontinued for some times and their technology is not really current-gen (Since PS3, X360 are current-gen now). This is if you differentiate by the generation of the console of course.

But for PS2 case, it's a bit hard to categorize because even though the technology is outdated (almost 10 year), it's still being produced in the form of the slim PS2 (9XXXX) series and still got developers coming out with new games. I think this is because Sony thinks that PS2 can still make money and that's why they take out the PS2-backward compability in PS3 (maybe due to this reason and price cut of course).

I think if this is cabinet is MVS, can put the multi-in-one cart inside. Then like u said can select games from the menu. But if using MAME, that means it's a PC running emulator and somehow modified to use coin-op, then this would also be possible. Nowadays the arcade hardware specs look like more and more comparable to PC though.