Retro Duo System plays NES and SNES games

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Originally Posted by Kogen

I know what you mean and I'd still buy it(I foolishly "lent" it to someone), but it's still over priced considering how old it is and how many units of it were made. Sonic 3 and Knuckles is only more exptensive since it's two carts.

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you think $15 for Mario 3 is bad, try $70 or sometimes even $80+ for a mint Black label copy of Final Fantasy VII. If the wikipedia list is correct, FF7 is the second best selling Playstation one game, behind gran turismo. You know how much Gran Turismo sells for? ~$6 complete shipped, if anyone bids on it. I was given a CIB Sega CD RAM cart which I traded for a copy of FFVII, so considering I don't have a Sega CD and any games I would buy don't require a RAM cart, I think I did pretty well, but I just can't believe a game that sold for $20 NEW for YEARS now goes for more than a PS3 game. Its madness.

I think the problem stems from "perceived value," I find once a game starts going for a certain amount, everyone thinks it is worth that, so buy it nows change to reflect the new price and people start bid sniping any low finishing auctions. I can't tell you how many times I had a winning bid of $40 or less on FFVII only to have it be bought for $60 in the last 30 seconds. Next, everyone starts buying it in stores and flea markets because they know its worth alot, so you can't get your hands on it for less than the eBay minimum. And the biggest gripe from me is that FFVII isn't even the best game in the series. Sure, its OK, but I find FFVI, VIII, Chrono Trigger, and Chrono Cross are all superior games, but then again an SNES cartridge of Chrono Trigger also sells in the $70 range, especially complete, while FFVIII and Chrono Cross still have lots of sealed copies to keep the price in the low teens. FFVII is an OK game but the fanboy bullshit needs to stop and people need to realize there are plenty of copies to go around and need to stop paying small fortunes for it.

Final Fantasy 7 has like 8 copies here in the bargin bin at EB GAmes marked at about 5 dollars. SEGA CD Ram carts go for over a hundred... Plus you can't just copy them.

I can't really understand the mentality behind paying a huge amount of money for a common, cheap good just because it has a black label.

I remember when Sega CD ram carts were in the bargain bin at Toys'r'us.

I remember when they actualy HAD bargain bins. None of this having to ask a Wallmart employer just to unlock the door, check the game out, and then find out you don't want the game after all.

Why do they do this with games and not DVDs?

Video games are higher theft items

Or so they say.

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Originally Posted by Earthworm_Jim_Fan

The Retro Duo supports S-Video.

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Not for NES games. If you try to play a NES game when connected by S-Video, you get a gray screen.

Do you own a Retro Duo?

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Originally Posted by Earthworm_Jim_Fan

Do you own a Retro Duo?

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Yes. My first post in this thread said I just bought one. :)

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Originally Posted by evildragon

Yea, one or the other.

And NES can benefit from S-Video. Dot crawl anyone? There's an RGB mod for NES.

NES mod screenshot. Image is Moosman's from GamesX forum:
http://nescenter.de/features_sharpfctitler_rgb.jpg

There's a HUGE benefit.

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that second picture looks like an NES game running on a clone. For some reason the original NES A/V picture wasn't as sharp as the clones from Yobo. Both the regular FC and FC Twin have a really nice picture with just standard A/V composite cables.

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Originally Posted by Kogen

Final Fantasy 7 has like 8 copies here in the bargin bin at EB GAmes marked at about 5 dollars. SEGA CD Ram carts go for over a hundred... Plus you can't just copy them.

I can't really understand the mentality behind paying a huge amount of money for a common, cheap good just because it has a black label.

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are you sure its 7? if so, that doesn't sound right, SOMEONE would come along and buy them up to sell on eBay sooner or later. VIII on the other hand is like $15 sealed because Square/Enix still makes it (or just recently stopped, so there are plenty of sealed copies still), are you sure it isn't VIII (8) instead of VII (7)? If they really do have 8 copies of FF7 I'll gladly buy them at $10 a piece because I have some friends that have been looking for a copy and don't want to pay eBay prices. I haven't seen a Sega CD Ram cart go for more than $70 on eBay (yet) but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. Makes me want to punch that dude I traded with on another forum, I pointed out that he was coming out way ahead just seeing the $70 buy it now Ram cart (closed auction) and he ended up giving me negative feedback over it. What a piece of shit.