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Is it worth sourcing a console for this?

cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

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Ok so at a garage sale I got a copy of Super Mario RPG for $10. Was on a table with random SNES and Genesis games. Nothing else looked really good or I already own. I had never played that title and since it got decent enough reviews I went ahead and bought it.

Anyway to make a long story short, my SNES is nowhere to be found. I have the box of games but no idea if I still have the system somewhere. Just can't locate it. Is it worth sourcing a new console to play this game or should I just toss it in my collection and forget about it? The only SNES systems I can really find look pretty poorly taken care of. Lots of the famous yellowing plastic and lots of smoke damage ones too. On ebay the clean ones seem to go for $70 or more which I dunno, but it seems high.

Your Thoughts?
 
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Go for it. I am in the market for an NES as I found out recently my original one was not in any of my boxes when I moved.
 
It accepts SNES controllers directly too huh? I don't know if I like the ones they put bundled with it...

Interesting.
 
Emulators man, Emulators. It creates the experience better than an original system ever will. I personally like Emulators because i can play games without pixel stretching, and it really lets the art of games shine. For example, final fantasy 3 looks like a beautifully drawn 2-D game when you see it as was intended by the artists
 
I pick up SNES consoles at year's sales for $5-$20 all day long. Cherry pick the non yellow ones and flip trade or give away the rest.

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cmdrdredd said:
Then what is a fair price for a clean SNES system? $80 seems high to me no?
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Fair price = $40 or so for a bare system with no yellowing.
EBay price = $70+

Just keep looking at yard sales, you'll eventually come across a complete system and a dozen games for $10-20.
 
Tweak155 said:
Microcenter sells these if you have one nearby, or Amazon below:

http://www.amazon.com/Hyperkin-SUPAB...ywords=supaboy
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i think he should skip this heh. from the 2nd review of that thing.

The Games: I tried a lot of my games out and they all seems to work! Some of them worked first time I put them in and I haven't played some of them in ages! But nothing is perfect however and there is 1 game I COULD NOT get to work to save my life. Super Mario RPG. I became depressed right away because I heard the a lot of people got Super Mario RPG to work. And it's not my game because it works fine on my normal SNES. So.. i'm really unsure what to do. I did get it to work twice though but both times it was really glitched up and it gave a really loud static sound. I know it IS capable because the picture was working fine but i'm wondering if there is a secret to getting it to work. If you have a huge collection and you don't have SMRPG in it, then the Supaboy would be perfect for you.
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Yeah super Mario RPG uses mode 7 and some special sound processing. I even read that some emulators don't work or freeze up.
 
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