"Why do we collect games?"

[Kyle]

I prefer hardware, real carts and flash carts as well. I like the hunt of finding old games, opening them and methodically cleaning the connectors to where they play on the first try. It's very Zen like. My problem is that as time progresses I find less in 'the wild' (garage sales, Goodwill, etc).

I tell you, travelling around on the subway playing the original mario land in full colour as a real gameboy color game rules.

I must have missed the Mario Land post if you already posted it here. Thanks for doing this. It's awesome.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1187/

I have a GBA cart but not one for GBC so I'm playing this on the Wii via Mednafen. It does support the Mario Land 2 colorization though which is a plus. The GBC cards seem pretty limited in that they're really only intended for one game at a time.

The Wii is preferable to an Xbox. It can do 240p over component on a CRT. This makes the games "look right" compared to futzing with the ratio and such on the Xbox. It can use Super Nintendo controllers via various adapters. That being said, I still prefer my Super Famicom.

http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=22
http://www.mayflash.com/Products/N64SNESSS/W005.html

Another topic we touched on was flash cart overload. I'm also not a fan of seeing a screen with an endless list of roms. What has helped curb this for me is sorting games into genre directories. This way you boot to a list of folders like Action, Platform, Racing, Shooter. It also lets you put all of the sports titles in their own folder that can go in the trash.

NSRT will do this automatically for the SNES. I need a day off to do this for Mega Drive.

http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/400/

I hadn't seen this before but Allgame has a full(?) game genre listing for older systems. If I had more free time I'd cobble together a utility to sort roms based on their database.

http://www.allgame.com/platform.php?...sort=title_ASC

[Soulis]

I like the idea that i can revisit a gaming world that i like in the future. Games create memories and i like having these memories stored somewhere.

[acdc]

Because collecting human body parts is only a night time hobby.

yeah put me on for that one and a whiskey to go with

and it beats collecting stamps