Collector's Cove (Post Pictures of Your Loot)

[Gypsy]

I think I have $0 in my SNES, lol. I'm not 100% sure on that though.

[DinoDerek]

I'm sure it's a quality product. Just none of these things are for me since I have all the old consoles as well as upscalers and RGB cables. $230 for a SNES is a lot when I already have one and barely play it.

Totally an original hardware guy myself. Ive even been trying to convince myself retro can look good on my HDTV if I get an Rgbmini. But for now I still need the Trinitron when I play.

[Gypsy]

I prefer the CRT look too. Using a VGA CRT monitor currently. PVM is collecting dust atm.

[Lord of Pirates]

I'm honestly not really in the target demographic myself, it's just the price of older Nintendo consoles is a bit out of hand and people don't take care of their stuff. If I didn't feel strongly about even one of those two aspects, I would buy something else. I also hate the idea of buying a SNES on eBay, which is the alternative (2nd hand stores in this area are even more of a rip-off or potentially even more shady, if they have anything worth buying in the first place). I also have never purchased an upscaler or RGB cable, so the image quality aspects are just a bonus to me.

I'm not in the target market myself but I like that old systems are getting proper clones.

[Gypsy]

That I can agree with for sure. Way better than hyperkin trash.

[zborgerd]

Got the new centerpiece of my PCE collection today. BATTLEFIELD '94 IN SUPER BATTLE DREAM.

I'm expecting that this is sarcasm. How is it though?

[mandy_moorehol]

I mean...in an ideal world I could affordably buy original hardware that reliably works and doesn't have cooties or need a bunch of additional equipment that's also expensive to function or not look horrible on certain displays, but that's not my reality for much of anything from the 8 or 16-bit era.

The Genesis is kind of an exception because they're cheap and I've never owned one to have standards/nostalgia based on previous experiences or need anything to be THE BEST about my experience with it (and at least they don't turn yellow or have issues like the NES lockout/blinking light whatever as far as I know). It's not that difficult or expensive to get a model 1 in nice shape and I feel like I'd be golden with a late model CRT and HD Retrovision cable (which I both already own and only had to pay for the latter). I just haven't bought one yet because I keep getting distracted by other things I want more.

[Gypsy]

I'm expecting that this is sarcasm. How is it though?

Haven't got to it yet but I'll let you know. ARCADE WRASSLIN

[zanth1979]

Yes, they charge when you order, plus $40ish shipping (for within the US), plus a 3% or so fee if your card/bank charges for foreign transactions (I used my debit card and had no idea the US company selling these would be using their newly opened Hong Kong branch for such transactions without telling anyone, so oh well, another $7 for that). It's around $230 with shipping in the US if not counting the foreign transaction fee that may or may not apply. I saw no options for cheaper shipping or even Paypal and would've prefered both. I guess it's even more if you want one of the matching wireless controllers, but I didn't.

It's expensive, but I would rather do this than pay at least $80 for a used SNES that might be yellowing or smell of cigarettes or isn't a 1 CHIP or whatever other issues/variables I'd have to deal with. I despise buying used hardware more than just about anything else involving collecting/playing older games, so it's worth it to me.

I have an old SNES that works fine, but I don't have an old CRT TV anymore, or room to set one up. I love my retroUSB AVS, it looks great on my HD TV, and I'm sure this will too. Thanks for the order information, I really appreciate that! Which color did you order?

I'm sure it's a quality product. Just none of these things are for me since I have all the old consoles as well as upscalers and RGB cables. $230 for a SNES is a lot when I already have one and barely play it.

I don't have all that post-processing stuff, and my AV-MULTI doesn't look good on my TV, and I know this will, with no introduced lag, so why not? Probably cheaper for me to buy this than all that gear. I am glad they went FPGA with this one rather than actual NES hardware with additions like the Analogue NT was. Unless I'm completely misremembering what that system was.

[zborgerd]

Haven't got to it yet but I'll let you know. ARCADE WRASSLIN

I have Fire Pro on PCE and Saturn.

Speaking of wrasslin, boy and I are watching Lucha Underground right now.