Game Collection Then vs Now

[The Jackal]

That's the most entitled post I've read in awhile. Your excuse is because you don't like Sony you think it's ok to pirate their games. Is what I understand from what you state.

Then you didn't read my post then. I never said I pirate my games - I said I rip them - as in back them up. As in, I take my actual copy, off the disc and make a backup of it for my own personal emulation use. Backing up is not = pirating. If I wanted to pirate them, I'd just download the games I wanted off any warez site and be done with it. I don't. I fail to see how that makes me "entitled" or how ripping my games makes me a damn dirty pirate either, but ok, whatever you say.



As for hating Sony - Nope, I just don't like their handing of backwards compatibility. Hence why I won't support it by giving them money. I'll still buy their PS3 & PS4 games, just not their digital PS1/PS2 ones. You know, stand by what you believe in? I'm a firm believer of that. It's also the reason I'd rather backup my old PS1/PS2 games instead of buying them again - because I don't like their greedy handling of it. See my post on the last page why; I don't feel like repeating myself.

[nemesis enforcer]

Apart from the fact that "retro" is suddenly cool again, and the prices for whatever reason have gone through the roof (I personally blame them damn kids, with their playboxes and xstations having all bling and no game), I gave up collecting games due to the prices getting silly a couple of years ago, don't get me wrong, I'm a self confessed tight wad, I wouldn't dream of paying more than the original retail price for a game, hell I never paid full price back in the day. I would either go get it second hand (still near mint) or wait until it was going cheap in the sales.
What gets my goat is these jokers that lock up perfectly good games in a clear plastic case, then stick a grade on it and then ask 50X the already inflated ebay price for the priviledge, and there is always some hipster dumbass that buys it, he can afford it, he dosen't have to buy shaving foam or blades because beards are "retro" (artisan?) or buy clothes because he raids his parents/grand parents/great grand parents wardrodes and jumble sales for his "retro" (steam edwardian lumberjack punk?) look, are you gonna play that game? or just look at it on a shelf? In all my years of collecting games I've been lucky enough to get quite a few brand new unopened games within the last decade, and you know what? taking the cellophane off a brand new mutant league hockey and knowing full well I have just degraded it makes me feel warm inside, why? because I just picked that sucker up dirt cheap and now I'm gonna play the shit out of it like it was 1995, thats why!
But what really disturbs me is the fact that on ebay alone there are so many dodgy knock offs for sale, and the sheer greed and deception of some of these people trying to pass them off as being legit. But even worse is the increase of sellers trying to hide the fact they are selling a dog mauled box, with no manual, and a cartridge that looks like it has spent the last twenty years in an infants daycare center, with the listing claiming to be in very good condition, and from a smoke free home. It really boils my piss.
Mr Angry Rant out.

[zetastrike]

That's the most entitled post I've read in awhile. Your excuse is because you don't like Sony you think it's ok to pirate their games. Is what I understand from what you state.

And how is going to a brick and mortar store and buying a PS1 game any better than pirating (even though that's not what Jackal is doing)? If you are a good person with a functioning moral compass, you give sony your money and download all the games you've already bought from them twice like a good boy.

[Thief]

And how is going to a brick and mortar store and buying a PS1 game any better than pirating (even though that's not what Jackal is doing)? If you are a good person with a functioning moral compass, you give sony your money and download all the games you've already bought from them twice like a good boy.

^ That's how society works these days. Give money, don't ask questions.

[KnightWarrior]

I rip my own PS1 games (as well as Saturn) and play them via emulation. No way I'd give my money to Sony. Their handling of the PS4 backwards compatibility completely turned me away from ever giving them any of my cash. PS1 PSN games bought through and for the PS3 can't be used on the PS4 - that's is a joke. And so is their PS Now service.

I do that too on my Famicom EverDrive-N8, I don't have a NES or Famicom Cart Dumper to Dump my Games on it so I have to find ROM's

So when I buy a NES/Famicom, I look for the ROM online then download it, Except the High Doller Games..I just put that on my ED anyways to play it, Same with my 8-bit/16-bit Systems I have

Apart from the fact that "retro" is suddenly cool again, and the prices for whatever reason have gone through the roof (I personally blame them damn kids, with their playboxes and xstations having all bling and no game), I gave up collecting games due to the prices getting silly a couple of years ago, don't get me wrong, I'm a self confessed tight wad, I wouldn't dream of paying more than the original retail price for a game, hell I never paid full price back in the day. I would either go get it second hand (still near mint) or wait until it was going cheap in the sales.
What gets my goat is these jokers that lock up perfectly good games in a clear plastic case, then stick a grade on it and then ask 50X the already inflated ebay price for the priviledge, and there is always some hipster dumbass that buys it, he can afford it, he dosen't have to buy shaving foam or blades because beards are "retro" (artisan?) or buy clothes because he raids his parents/grand parents/great grand parents wardrodes and jumble sales for his "retro" (steam edwardian lumberjack punk?) look, are you gonna play that game? or just look at it on a shelf? In all my years of collecting games I've been lucky enough to get quite a few brand new unopened games within the last decade, and you know what? taking the cellophane off a brand new mutant league hockey and knowing full well I have just degraded it makes me feel warm inside, why? because I just picked that sucker up dirt cheap and now I'm gonna play the shit out of it like it was 1995, thats why!
But what really disturbs me is the fact that on ebay alone there are so many dodgy knock offs for sale, and the sheer greed and deception of some of these people trying to pass them off as being legit. But even worse is the increase of sellers trying to hide the fact they are selling a dog mauled box, with no manual, and a cartridge that looks like it has spent the last twenty years in an infants daycare center, with the listing claiming to be in very good condition, and from a smoke free home. It really boils my piss.
Mr Angry Rant out.

I feel the same way, I'm on a tight budget, I'm cheap

That's the most entitled post I've read in awhile. Your excuse is because you don't like Sony you think it's ok to pirate their games. Is what I understand from what you state.

He didn't say he Pirated Games, He rips them from his own Collection to play on the Emulator

As for hating Sony - Nope, I just don't like their handing of backwards compatibility. Hence why I won't support it by giving them money. I'll still buy their PS3 & PS4 games, just not their digital PS1/PS2 ones. You know, stand by what you believe in? I'm a firm believer of that. It's also the reason I'd rather backup my old PS1/PS2 games instead of buying them again - because I don't like their greedy handling of it. See my post on the last page why; I don't feel like repeating myself.

Yup, Just too make Money, There Greedy in my view, I have like 3 PS1 PSN Street Fighter Alhpa Games, I have the Games on the PS1 already, And it was very cheap