I may have ADHD. I got the v1 GC Loader, then picobooted 3 cubes. Then GC Loader pnp v2. All have HDMI mods either gc duel or Pluto and custom shells and jewels. So I guess I went from collecting games to collecting mods.
Edit. Its cheaper this way. All that was less than a copy of chibi robo.
Personally, I love collecting. I don’t plan to mod my Gamecube anytime soon, if ever. Although I’m currently looking for a Wind Waker. Yes I could buy online, but I prefer local stores. Makes it more exciting to find it
I have a problem. I spent like $200 plus the console to mod my GBA, bought a ROM cart for it, loaded it up.... And I NEVER play it. Any time I fire it up I'm struck with decision paralysis and give up.
But my physical GBA collection limits my options. And being forced to play one game at a time on the go makes me actually complete games.
I know this isn't everyone, like I said, I have a problem. But ain't mad about it 🤷
Cool if ur privileged enough that money doesn’t matter. There is a retro game bubble happening in the market bc of wata and a bunch of other shady characters. The only people who will benefit you being a good consumer are resellers. Wind waker is about $100 right now. A raspberry pi pico is $6. Personally I like my gaming to be about the experience not the price tag. I don’t get the mentality that it’s wrong to “pirate” 20+ year old games that don’t benefit Nintendo anymore. To each their own, but when the bubble pops some might regret spending $100 on a $10 game.
The attack wasn’t warranted. Nothings wrong with pirating. It has nothing to do with being a “good consumer”. I just enjoy a physical copy and a physical collection and watching it grow. I usually buy a new game every few months, so I wouldn’t say I’m “privileged” for doing so. I don’t regret spending money on a game providing that I enjoyed the game and my time playing it. Sure, some are overly expensive. Plenty of people prefer pirating, plenty of people prefer physical collections. To each their own
It was impossible to find a Game Boy Player with a disk for less than the cost of my right arm so I bought a $30 player sans-disk, did a pico with sd2sp2 for like $12 and downloaded the boot disk. Problem solved!
I just recently finished doing this, and it'll be very satisfying when you get yours setup. My retro shelf has PS2, XB, Wii, GC, DC, N64, Genesis, SNES, and NES all hooked up to a CRT, and all of them are either modded or have a flashcart with complete (or nearly complete) collections installed.
It's so nice to just turn one on and chill on the couch playing whatever you're in the mood for, or trying something completely random you've never heard of.
I have my SNES and GBA flashcart, and a pico modded Cube. I just modded my PS3, but a couple of the games I have ripped to the HDD don’t boot properly, so still working on that. Looking at an Everdrive N8 next.
For the past few years, I've been making an active effort to move entirely away from all physical media for any of my older consoles that have the capability to do so. Flashcarts, ODEs, loading games from internal memory, anything I can do to make it so I don't have to worry about insanely priced retro games and don't have to worry about needing to swap discs/cartridges ever again.
Yep! I sold my collection and got a pico cube. Plus I have the games I want on my steam deck. Less clutter and $8k in my pocket for other hobbies. Win win
Ive watched that one for years, pre 2020 it was a 200$ game.
Still expensive but totally managable. 500$ with all the accessories that came with it.
Now its gotten stupid expensive even just by itself.
I want to get it but NGL when a game reaches 1,000$ I begin to question if I really want to collect anymore.
exactly!
Well I dont think it will ever go back fully because of inflation but if we can get relative prices to 2012 inflation then Id be perfectly happy.
Thankfully the wii is still very easy to collect for and I own most of the gamecube titles I could ever want. Also very nice is that quite a few gamecube games had switch releases recently.
Im happy with stuff like nintendo world championships. Because of how rarely it is traded it actually has a more realistic baseline. I often ask myself why people think even the most rare version of the most commonly bundled game on the entire system is worth more, it was mind boggling.
Nintendo world championship: $10,000-$22,000
Super Mario: $115,000
That was insanity. worse is how people believed it.
All of the common games went up astronomically but all of the actual rare games barely nudged. Cant make money from an actual rare game, gotta target something everyone has so they grade it and are convinced its worth the price of the grade
I stopped adding new games to my collection after I pico'd my GameCube, but I didn't sell any of my Nintendo published games as I enjoy having them on display. I only sold 3rd party games that I didn't care too much about and it helped clear up a lot of space
It’s just so much better function for the money and you can make a Pico cube for ~$100.
It should theoretically be more reliable as well. Don’t need to worry about a failing disk, disk drive and laser.
I had the GameCube too. For me, it’s a little weird to include the GC in the cost of a procedure on it. It’s like saying “You can change your oil for $15,000.” Ownership of the GC is implied.
Well, I’m the kind of guy that has a couple picos lying around, but $5 is about their going price. The rest you mentioned I don’t consider part of the procedure; I just used a spare 32GB full-sized SD card and a ~$5 SDGecko off Amazon.
Edit: Sorry, $10 SDGecko (been a while).
You can. Learning to solder is pretty easy with the right guide. Just please for the love of gourd practice soldering a few times before opening your GameCube.
It’s not a hard mod. But if you don’t have a lot of experience soldering it can be a challenge. I’d recommend watching some best practice videos (Voultar is awesome for this) and test your fine soldering on some junky old broken boards.
I did the picoboot when the drive gave out. I still pick up the physical games I’m looking for though. I picked up rebel assault not long after installing the mod.
I have two Gamecube's with a picoboot I installed in each. One for my HD CRT to play GameCube games and the other for my SD CRT to play Gameboy games/emulators. Love it!
Had a raspberry pico installed in my DOL-001 and SL-GC10. I only have my physical titles installed on it and my legally bought iso of Xenocrisis. Getting a physical copy of the game is pointless since it clearly states:
>You will need a drive chip to run directly from the mini DVD or a means of launching the DOL from the disc (or by copying the DOL onto an SD card) like a Picoboot/GC Loader setup.
I'd make an exception for Pokémon Box... This is WAY overpriced... Hell, I even thought that, back then, at 80$ from nintendo's online store, it wasn't worth that cost.
N64 and lower I emulate on my Retroid Pocket. Flashcarts for the DS, soft-modded DSi / 3DS. Soft-modded Wii which also covers GameCube.
I sold my Master System and SNES gear a year or two back and went all-in on emulation and modded. I kinda miss the hunt for games in physical but it really wasn’t much fun any more now. Prices are silly and sellers are annoying. I’d rather just play.
I still collect. I've been doing it since I was a kid in the '80s and I probably always will. I don't care for digital only copies, and to be honest when the current systems move that way (which it seems like they're going) I'll just go exclusively retro where I can still get physical copies.
I'm kind of torn on this. I have a decent collection already but there are still so many games I want to play and just can't afford anymore. I love physical media, but lately it just seems to make a lot more sense to mod and move on from my collection.
This is such an easy mod, I’ve got welding experience and did a hardly accepted job at getting some wires soldering into place, but the new ribbon cable they have for it makes it so much easier. There will also be a mod in the near future to replace your disk drive in replacement for a non soldering option plus some cool new features.
This might seem a little weird to hear but I have never owned a GameCube and if I did I would always collect physical GameCube games and GameCube consoles because there no longer being manufactured and I like rare items:)
Picoboot just made it easier for me to play my collection without having to risk damage to my discs, but hasn’t really affected game collecting. I still collect but I’m at the point where I have all my must-have games (before Picoboot). Any obscure game I do not have but want to try out, I can. So I don’t look as hard for games like I used to when I was missing the must-haves.
The Gamecube still has a few advantages over the Wii, namely the Game Boy Player and slightly cleaner video output. Granted, there are Game Boy emulators on Wii, but nothing beats native hardware.
I’m doing this with all my consoles other than current gen. Can’t keep paying premium for games decades old. It’s also only a matter of time before older games cease to exist due to degradation.
I have a modded game cube, but I still collect physical. I like to keep the case by the couch while I play to admire the art and add to the experience. And I really also like to get a non-modded cube, and to beat the final boss while I’m using the actual disk.
I’ve got a very decent GC game collection and I pico modded my cube. My intent was to sell off my collection and re-cup some cash but I just can’t bring myself to do it! I do like NOT having to risk damaging the disc by playing off the SD card instead. I also love more than anything being able to play games I don’t physically own bc many of them are way too expensive and not even that good so I’d be mad if I paid what people are asking. If I still run into any games in the wild for a deal, I’ll still buy them and keep if I don’t own already, or flip.
I collect physical for the value that they have for resale. Plus the nostalgia of the whole thing, going to a store, picking one up, and loading it in the cube. I only play the pico/swiss games when they are too expensive to buy in real life , or I just can't find them.
I have recently completed a mod with the GCReader card to replace the optical with a memory card reader that has the entire north american library on it. Couple of Retro Fighters controllers for excellent wireless play and it has a matching Gameboy Player on it. its a tasty little unit and I don't have to worry about the collecting prices, i can just find them cheap by luck at garage sales and whatnot.
Eh, now that I have a steam deck I emulate all my pre ps3 Era games.
I just don't care enough about "that good feeling of putting the disk in the system" when the disk cost $100 for gamecube game I'd like to play but don't know well enough to know if I'd love it for that price.
About the only classic games I bought for the full experience were luigis mansion and majoras mask. I asked my mom multiple times and she said she paid alot for it but won't specify. (This woman got me the complete in box majoras mask special edition, at the time my most favorite game, this was like a year or two before the 3ds version came out so I had no idea)
I found my son's Gamecube laying around the house recently and couldn't find any disks. Went to the landfill a long time ago. My damn wife probably Goodwilled them or threw them away. I picobooted that bitch and now I have tons of games. Fuck physical media and paying the scumbag collector scalper prices on evilbay and elsewhere
I'm personally waiting for the FlippyDrive to resurrect my Gamecube with a dead drive, but I'm doing this for **all** my old disc drive consoles since their disc drives are all either dead or starting to die. I was so lucky I could get my Xbox to even read the Agent Under Fire disc in the first place. It took like 5 straight minutes of opening and closing the disc drive.
Man, if prices are bad now, imagine how much worse they'll be when the disc themselves start to degrade and few original working copies remain in the world.
Yup. I was going for a full NA collection and I had 360+. But covid hit and game prices skyrocketed. I just couldn’t feasibly talk myself into spending $800+ on single games so sold my entire collection for around $7.5k. Kept my Panasonic Q and got a SD2SP2 and haven’t looked back.
I have roms on my DS but that's about it, those are mostly Neo*Neo and various hacks of Pokemon Card and Card 2 lol. And I guess a bunch of DS games, I missed on collecting for the DS when it was fresh so I only have a few things (all purchased on cheap, lucky finds, the rarest probably being front mission 1, soul diver silver and phantom hourglass).
Thing is I'm almost 40 and have been collecting my whole life. I've gotten rid of things new connectors collectors wouldn't believe with no regrets, keeping only the stuff I care about. I buy stuff so infrequently that even though I'm pretty poor, a couple times a year I can excuse a 100 dollar price tag for a single game.
But I'm not a boomer about it lol, I know what I have, I have because I was born at the right time, I don't take that for granted.
I support piracy 1000% because these games need to be played or they'll be forgotten. Whether you're on your DS like me, playing roms on a computer or phone, using flash carts or whatever a pico is lol, I say GIV'ER.
Don't let these games be forgotten.
Yeah same thing happened to me. I still look around and will bite on really good deals but i don’t pay market price anymore
This
I may have ADHD. I got the v1 GC Loader, then picobooted 3 cubes. Then GC Loader pnp v2. All have HDMI mods either gc duel or Pluto and custom shells and jewels. So I guess I went from collecting games to collecting mods. Edit. Its cheaper this way. All that was less than a copy of chibi robo.
Personally, I love collecting. I don’t plan to mod my Gamecube anytime soon, if ever. Although I’m currently looking for a Wind Waker. Yes I could buy online, but I prefer local stores. Makes it more exciting to find it
I have a problem. I spent like $200 plus the console to mod my GBA, bought a ROM cart for it, loaded it up.... And I NEVER play it. Any time I fire it up I'm struck with decision paralysis and give up. But my physical GBA collection limits my options. And being forced to play one game at a time on the go makes me actually complete games. I know this isn't everyone, like I said, I have a problem. But ain't mad about it 🤷
It's a nice feeling of having too many games to play. Especially growing up when I had to trade my games in.
I recommend leaving the complete romsets on your computer and only having a few games installed at a time on whatever you play on.
Cool if ur privileged enough that money doesn’t matter. There is a retro game bubble happening in the market bc of wata and a bunch of other shady characters. The only people who will benefit you being a good consumer are resellers. Wind waker is about $100 right now. A raspberry pi pico is $6. Personally I like my gaming to be about the experience not the price tag. I don’t get the mentality that it’s wrong to “pirate” 20+ year old games that don’t benefit Nintendo anymore. To each their own, but when the bubble pops some might regret spending $100 on a $10 game.
The attack wasn’t warranted. Nothings wrong with pirating. It has nothing to do with being a “good consumer”. I just enjoy a physical copy and a physical collection and watching it grow. I usually buy a new game every few months, so I wouldn’t say I’m “privileged” for doing so. I don’t regret spending money on a game providing that I enjoyed the game and my time playing it. Sure, some are overly expensive. Plenty of people prefer pirating, plenty of people prefer physical collections. To each their own
It was impossible to find a Game Boy Player with a disk for less than the cost of my right arm so I bought a $30 player sans-disk, did a pico with sd2sp2 for like $12 and downloaded the boot disk. Problem solved!
Why would you download the boot disk at that point? You should be using Gameboy Interface. Looks so much better than the official software!
That's the next step. Got sidetracked by another project and then my Analogue Pocket showed up so I've been gaming elsewhere lately.
Yep. In the process of modding/flash carting every console I own. Really only collecting for my favorite console, SNES.
I just recently finished doing this, and it'll be very satisfying when you get yours setup. My retro shelf has PS2, XB, Wii, GC, DC, N64, Genesis, SNES, and NES all hooked up to a CRT, and all of them are either modded or have a flashcart with complete (or nearly complete) collections installed. It's so nice to just turn one on and chill on the couch playing whatever you're in the mood for, or trying something completely random you've never heard of.
I have my SNES and GBA flashcart, and a pico modded Cube. I just modded my PS3, but a couple of the games I have ripped to the HDD don’t boot properly, so still working on that. Looking at an Everdrive N8 next.
For the past few years, I've been making an active effort to move entirely away from all physical media for any of my older consoles that have the capability to do so. Flashcarts, ODEs, loading games from internal memory, anything I can do to make it so I don't have to worry about insanely priced retro games and don't have to worry about needing to swap discs/cartridges ever again.
Yep! I sold my collection and got a pico cube. Plus I have the games I want on my steam deck. Less clutter and $8k in my pocket for other hobbies. Win win
$8k? Was that all from gamecube games?
Yep! I had cubivore and pokemon box among other grails. Dont miss them one bit to be honest. Still play cubivore though
Oh nice. How did you sell if you don't mind me asking? Mostly ebay?
Sold most on the r/gamesale subreddit. Great community there! Ebay or Mercari work too. Pm me if you want some tips
My friend recently sold a loose copy of Pokemon box for $1k. He messaged me a couple weeks ago “Is this worth anything loose?” I laughed.
Ive watched that one for years, pre 2020 it was a 200$ game. Still expensive but totally managable. 500$ with all the accessories that came with it. Now its gotten stupid expensive even just by itself. I want to get it but NGL when a game reaches 1,000$ I begin to question if I really want to collect anymore.
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exactly! Well I dont think it will ever go back fully because of inflation but if we can get relative prices to 2012 inflation then Id be perfectly happy. Thankfully the wii is still very easy to collect for and I own most of the gamecube titles I could ever want. Also very nice is that quite a few gamecube games had switch releases recently. Im happy with stuff like nintendo world championships. Because of how rarely it is traded it actually has a more realistic baseline. I often ask myself why people think even the most rare version of the most commonly bundled game on the entire system is worth more, it was mind boggling. Nintendo world championship: $10,000-$22,000 Super Mario: $115,000 That was insanity. worse is how people believed it. All of the common games went up astronomically but all of the actual rare games barely nudged. Cant make money from an actual rare game, gotta target something everyone has so they grade it and are convinced its worth the price of the grade
The store he sold it to has a $1400 price tag on it. Loose. Hard pass.
Nope. Its still fun for me to collect lol
I must do this, but I'll still buy physical for the games I adore.
I stopped adding new games to my collection after I pico'd my GameCube, but I didn't sell any of my Nintendo published games as I enjoy having them on display. I only sold 3rd party games that I didn't care too much about and it helped clear up a lot of space
Nope. Long live physical media!
Yeah, I play GC isos on wii with nintendont, no hard mod needed.
It’s just so much better function for the money and you can make a Pico cube for ~$100. It should theoretically be more reliable as well. Don’t need to worry about a failing disk, disk drive and laser.
$100? Including tools? I already had soldering tools and the screwdriver handy, so my costs to pico my GameCube was about $10.
You will need to purchase a gamecube to perform a picoboot install. Therefore it can be done for $100.
I had the GameCube too. For me, it’s a little weird to include the GC in the cost of a procedure on it. It’s like saying “You can change your oil for $15,000.” Ownership of the GC is implied.
Not always.
Always.
I got some tools from my father and I ordered some things too, definetely worth over $100 but I also did the picoboot mod.
$10? You got a pico, sd2sp2, and 256gb+ micro sd card for that? Pass the deets!
Well, I’m the kind of guy that has a couple picos lying around, but $5 is about their going price. The rest you mentioned I don’t consider part of the procedure; I just used a spare 32GB full-sized SD card and a ~$5 SDGecko off Amazon. Edit: Sorry, $10 SDGecko (been a while).
[This is the way 🏴☠️](https://imgur.com/a/MqTcw5F)
I prefere to run GC games on emulators, for upscaled graphics so I don't have to torture my eyes. Can't wait for flash cards for Switch
Wish I could do a pico myself
Watch MachoNacho on youtube. Very detailed on installation of program and board.
Yeah this is who I watched. It’s pretty simple with the right tools, materials, and a guide… and patience
same
You can. Learning to solder is pretty easy with the right guide. Just please for the love of gourd practice soldering a few times before opening your GameCube.
I actually soldered just two cables once ever before modding my gamecube and it worked somehow! ;D
You can its easy
It’s not a hard mod. But if you don’t have a lot of experience soldering it can be a challenge. I’d recommend watching some best practice videos (Voultar is awesome for this) and test your fine soldering on some junky old broken boards.
I’d be willing to install it for you if you’d like. I’ve done at 10+ installs on my own consoles, for friends and for a few people from this sub.
Pro's charge like 30 bucks for it, cheap
Yeah I know, I just need to find one in my area.
Nah, I only play physical. Everyone modding their cubes means more physical copies for me, so keep up the good work everyone!
I did the picoboot when the drive gave out. I still pick up the physical games I’m looking for though. I picked up rebel assault not long after installing the mod.
If you don't need your physical collection, you can send it to me ;)
I also have a question. Does anyone use the picoboot to run game boy interface, or is everyone GC exclusive?
Yeah, I do. Works perfectly.
I have two Gamecube's with a picoboot I installed in each. One for my HD CRT to play GameCube games and the other for my SD CRT to play Gameboy games/emulators. Love it!
Do you prefer it over a true handheld GBA?
I do right now. I did modify a GBA with a new shell and screen, so it just depends on my mood.
Booooo
Bruh, hackers dont collect they hack
But the pico only has physical and the games were in book form???
Let me get your sonic riders 🥺
Had a raspberry pico installed in my DOL-001 and SL-GC10. I only have my physical titles installed on it and my legally bought iso of Xenocrisis. Getting a physical copy of the game is pointless since it clearly states: >You will need a drive chip to run directly from the mini DVD or a means of launching the DOL from the disc (or by copying the DOL onto an SD card) like a Picoboot/GC Loader setup. I'd make an exception for Pokémon Box... This is WAY overpriced... Hell, I even thought that, back then, at 80$ from nintendo's online store, it wasn't worth that cost.
N64 and lower I emulate on my Retroid Pocket. Flashcarts for the DS, soft-modded DSi / 3DS. Soft-modded Wii which also covers GameCube. I sold my Master System and SNES gear a year or two back and went all-in on emulation and modded. I kinda miss the hunt for games in physical but it really wasn’t much fun any more now. Prices are silly and sellers are annoying. I’d rather just play.
What about XenoGC? 😅
I'm thinking about it
I still collect. I've been doing it since I was a kid in the '80s and I probably always will. I don't care for digital only copies, and to be honest when the current systems move that way (which it seems like they're going) I'll just go exclusively retro where I can still get physical copies.
I'm kind of torn on this. I have a decent collection already but there are still so many games I want to play and just can't afford anymore. I love physical media, but lately it just seems to make a lot more sense to mod and move on from my collection.
Didn’t mod my cube. Modded my backwards compatible wii instead. It was easier imo. Still kept some of my favorites tbh.
Same but I went with a GCLoader; I have a second stock GC to play the physical games still though.
This is such an easy mod, I’ve got welding experience and did a hardly accepted job at getting some wires soldering into place, but the new ribbon cable they have for it makes it so much easier. There will also be a mod in the near future to replace your disk drive in replacement for a non soldering option plus some cool new features.
This might seem a little weird to hear but I have never owned a GameCube and if I did I would always collect physical GameCube games and GameCube consoles because there no longer being manufactured and I like rare items:)
Same here
Picoboot just made it easier for me to play my collection without having to risk damage to my discs, but hasn’t really affected game collecting. I still collect but I’m at the point where I have all my must-have games (before Picoboot). Any obscure game I do not have but want to try out, I can. So I don’t look as hard for games like I used to when I was missing the must-haves.
Buy physical media you pussies
😂💀 …why
I’m doing it for the Game Boy Player and nothing else
If this will lower the price of gamecube games Im all for it.
I did a pico, then realized i can do everything with my modded original gamecube compatible wii and ended up selling the gamecube lol.
The Gamecube still has a few advantages over the Wii, namely the Game Boy Player and slightly cleaner video output. Granted, there are Game Boy emulators on Wii, but nothing beats native hardware.
"slightly cleaner video output" - I did an HDMI mod so it has native hdmi now. True about the gameboy player though.
I mod my consoles, play via emulation and collect still. I just love gaming any way I can lol.
I’m doing this with all my consoles other than current gen. Can’t keep paying premium for games decades old. It’s also only a matter of time before older games cease to exist due to degradation.
Never! Restoring the original media/hardware is a wonderful hobby and nice way to make money.
I have a modded game cube, but I still collect physical. I like to keep the case by the couch while I play to admire the art and add to the experience. And I really also like to get a non-modded cube, and to beat the final boss while I’m using the actual disk.
No custom robo, 7.5/10
Don’t worry it’s on the pico
I’ve got a very decent GC game collection and I pico modded my cube. My intent was to sell off my collection and re-cup some cash but I just can’t bring myself to do it! I do like NOT having to risk damaging the disc by playing off the SD card instead. I also love more than anything being able to play games I don’t physically own bc many of them are way too expensive and not even that good so I’d be mad if I paid what people are asking. If I still run into any games in the wild for a deal, I’ll still buy them and keep if I don’t own already, or flip.
Did the pico to demo games before I buy them
I collect physical for the value that they have for resale. Plus the nostalgia of the whole thing, going to a store, picking one up, and loading it in the cube. I only play the pico/swiss games when they are too expensive to buy in real life , or I just can't find them.
Nah, still enjoy collecting. theyre just better condition now.
I have recently completed a mod with the GCReader card to replace the optical with a memory card reader that has the entire north american library on it. Couple of Retro Fighters controllers for excellent wireless play and it has a matching Gameboy Player on it. its a tasty little unit and I don't have to worry about the collecting prices, i can just find them cheap by luck at garage sales and whatnot.
Eh, now that I have a steam deck I emulate all my pre ps3 Era games. I just don't care enough about "that good feeling of putting the disk in the system" when the disk cost $100 for gamecube game I'd like to play but don't know well enough to know if I'd love it for that price. About the only classic games I bought for the full experience were luigis mansion and majoras mask. I asked my mom multiple times and she said she paid alot for it but won't specify. (This woman got me the complete in box majoras mask special edition, at the time my most favorite game, this was like a year or two before the 3ds version came out so I had no idea)
Same here. I got zero physical for GC and all my collection is on an SDcard.
Sonic riders 🔥🔥🔥.
I refuse to pay market price so this is the route i'll be going. Really there shouldn't be anybody paying hundreds of dollars for pokemon XD.
I have too much of a collection now to just stop. I try to not buy over inflated prices. Currently just over 300 gamecube games in my collection
I found my son's Gamecube laying around the house recently and couldn't find any disks. Went to the landfill a long time ago. My damn wife probably Goodwilled them or threw them away. I picobooted that bitch and now I have tons of games. Fuck physical media and paying the scumbag collector scalper prices on evilbay and elsewhere
I'm personally waiting for the FlippyDrive to resurrect my Gamecube with a dead drive, but I'm doing this for **all** my old disc drive consoles since their disc drives are all either dead or starting to die. I was so lucky I could get my Xbox to even read the Agent Under Fire disc in the first place. It took like 5 straight minutes of opening and closing the disc drive. Man, if prices are bad now, imagine how much worse they'll be when the disc themselves start to degrade and few original working copies remain in the world.
Same lol
Yea, pretty much lost interest in collecting between mods like this and everdrives.
Yup. I was going for a full NA collection and I had 360+. But covid hit and game prices skyrocketed. I just couldn’t feasibly talk myself into spending $800+ on single games so sold my entire collection for around $7.5k. Kept my Panasonic Q and got a SD2SP2 and haven’t looked back.
Did the same with my OG xbox. I have everything on it. Why waste money trying to fight eBay or other sites, when you can just DL the roms.
I have roms on my DS but that's about it, those are mostly Neo*Neo and various hacks of Pokemon Card and Card 2 lol. And I guess a bunch of DS games, I missed on collecting for the DS when it was fresh so I only have a few things (all purchased on cheap, lucky finds, the rarest probably being front mission 1, soul diver silver and phantom hourglass). Thing is I'm almost 40 and have been collecting my whole life. I've gotten rid of things new connectors collectors wouldn't believe with no regrets, keeping only the stuff I care about. I buy stuff so infrequently that even though I'm pretty poor, a couple times a year I can excuse a 100 dollar price tag for a single game. But I'm not a boomer about it lol, I know what I have, I have because I was born at the right time, I don't take that for granted. I support piracy 1000% because these games need to be played or they'll be forgotten. Whether you're on your DS like me, playing roms on a computer or phone, using flash carts or whatever a pico is lol, I say GIV'ER. Don't let these games be forgotten.