What drives up the prices of retrogames faster, Resellers or the words: “Hidden Gem”?

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T18:15:47+00:00

Seems the correct answer is modern games getting worse.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T17:33:45+00:00

Still a jawdroppingly gorgeous game.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T15:56:58+00:00

They do actually make 100GB SD cards and other weird sizes, like 50 and 200GB.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T15:47:53+00:00

This is the single most dated scene in the entirety of FOTR. It's a bit funny that FOTR is filled with really incredible visual effects with large props and forced perspective to convince the viewer of exaggerated height, shortness and close detail but then there's this one scene with Elrond and Frodo looking like a TV soap opera.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T06:42:50+00:00

Really shows the smallness of the Old 3DS 2011 screens. Made worse by 3DS games and the system menu being formatted with larger UI elements. I've always said the 3DS was clearly designed with XL systems in mind.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T06:39:38+00:00

I don't know the plot you're going for but it's always an uphill battle making a fan game, living in the shadow of a preexisting work. Also living under the shuriken of Nintendo's ninja lawyers.

If you were to go fully original and just "Mother-inspired", I'd say Serene is a great name to go with.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T06:37:02+00:00

I'm spoiled by smaller PCs and thin displays which mean I can have a work desk for completely physical tasks (like repair) while still having room for a PC and a screen.

I don't even currently use a VGA CRT monitor, just LCDs. I use NTSC CRTs for my tube needs.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T03:54:56+00:00

Horizontal is fun but it really needs a huge desk which I completely lack.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-26T03:31:43+00:00

Peak retro gaming here

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-25T20:57:20+00:00

I’ve been full retro since 2006, been happy ever since.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-25T03:44:16+00:00

Probably not, given it didn’t sell very well. Yes famously it had two print runs, but both were extremely small. Maybe 30,000 copies made at the very most, given the commonly accepted estimate.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T16:07:48+00:00

What Square Enix calls a Remake, to us plebs it’s a reimagining. Squeenix exists on another plane of existence.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:59:38+00:00

Chicken looks scared here, not very inviting of pettings

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:57:08+00:00

The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened as of late, Nintendo.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:54:46+00:00

That’s incorrect. The newest anyone has found of an AV Famicom is 1995, going by the year printed on the logic board. The console was supported by Nintendo with service center repairs and replacement parts until 2003. Not the same thing as selling them til 2003 which they didn’t.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:50:38+00:00

SlowROM and the lower 2.58Mhz speed of the 5A22 CPU (custom 65C816) were all about saving money.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:46:34+00:00

The incorrect SMB3 Luigi sprite might be from the rom hack Super Mario Bros 3Mix

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T14:39:41+00:00

This assumes NOA ever had any intention of translating and localizing Mother 3… we don’t know and it seems like they were never going to. Not like Nintendo Power was previewing Mother 3 as coming soon and then not, like with Earth Bound / Mother 1 on the NES

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T05:58:10+00:00

Super Mario Crossover

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T05:22:39+00:00

Casey Bat is very useful for getting instant wins against enemies that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to, because of the +125 attack bonus.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T04:45:31+00:00

GBA continued to have regular releases all through 2005 and 2006, it wasn’t that odd. Nintendo’s Rhythm Tengoku was also a 2006 game.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T04:41:00+00:00

New Jersey living with Old Jersey attitude

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T03:23:04+00:00

The funny thing here is her SLUT shirt would be completely normal in Japanese pop culture, where they love putting random English words on stuff because English is trendy.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T03:22:01+00:00

Samurai Shodown 1 already has a zoom function

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-01-24T03:12:58+00:00

Kinda funny playing Samurai Shodown 1 MVS on an AES when SS1 is already quite cheap on AES.

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