xdaniel

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📜 Hobby programmer, ROM hacker, retro computers & consoles, anime & manga fan, sometimes NSFW?

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⛏️ The Cutting Room Floor
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There's two things I realized recently:

  • I want to do something about the complete and utter mess my apartment is.
  • I have several consoles I have used very little over the last 5+ years.

Thus, one obvious thing here would be getting rid of said consoles and their games.

And honestly, as much as like ex. the Super Nintendo and its games, whenever I've played one of them over the last few years, it was either emulated on a PC through something like ares or even Snes9x, or emulated on the Switch through Nintendo Switch Online. I also don't have much nostalgia for the platform, unlike ex. the N64 or GameCube, and it doesn't have the, I dunno, "underdog charm" of something like the Saturn or Dreamcast — and even then, I've also not played either of those, nor my Mega Drive, in some time.

So I'm very much thinking of selling at least all my SNES and Super Famicom stuff. And that's a decent amount of stuff: Three consoles, PAL SNES and SFC, some 40 games across the Japanese, US and European regions, although mostly loose, some Action Replay cheat cartridge, and various controllers. I'd probably just make two bundles, one that's all the PAL stuff, and one that's all the NTSC stuff — tho in that case, I should probably include the cheat cartridge with the NTSC stuff as an adapter, considering the cartridge design differences between US and Japanese cartridges.

Another one that's on the metaphorical chopping block would probably be my Sega Mega CD II with its two games, plus a matching Mega Drive II, likely also with a handful of games. I got the Mega CD probably 15 years ago, had a bad fuse fixed — this was before I had learned soldering myself —, came across cheap copies of Sonic CD and Time Gal, and ... have used it maybe five times in total since.

It's of course very cool to have these systems, to have those classic games, and the actual, physical hardware they run on — but if you don't actually use them, not even occasionally, then what's the point?

What's the point of having them just sitting here, literally collecting dust, when there's gotta be someone out there who'd actually play them, who would, I dunno, maybe even show their kids the games they used to play Back In The Day™ or something?

For the SNES in particular, if I suddenly felt like playing Yoshi's Island or Chrono Trigger or something again, rather than grabbing and setting up the console, plugging it into the OSSC, messing with the cartridge because they never boot up the first time, then being miffed by the blurry video output because I don't have any 1CHIP console models, etc., etc., I'd be much more likely to check NSO on the Switch and play it there, if it's available, or just fire up the ROM in an emulator on my PC, or on that thin client I got a while back and set up with RetroPie.

So, yeah. I'll definitely think about it some more, as I don't want to regret my decisions immediately, but I guess it's likely for some SNES lots and a Mega Drive II + Mega CD II bundle to go up on eBay Germany over the next few weeks?


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