July 2010 Finds

[ScourDX]

$9.50 at a half priced books way out of town. Just made a topic about it. God I hope this is real and not a resealed copy.

Looks like resealed.

[Gunface]

Wow. Allyourblood, that is quite a haul! Congrats!

[allyourblood]

Thanks! Like I said, that was actually from last month, so I cheated a bit by posting in the July thread, but I've been lagging on getting some photos taken until today. Here are my proper finds from this past weekend. As always, click the pics for full-size.



Silent Hill 2 Official Strategy Guide
Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide, $3 for both

These were originally $2 each, along with an Onimusha 3 guide, which I left behind. There were also a bunch of games at this sale, and a couple Blu-rays, but nothing I was interested in. The SH games themselves, unfortunately had been sold off long ago. I think I've already got the SH2 guide, but the SH3 guide is my first, and I couldn't be happier.



Steel Battalion controller, $5

This is my second Steel Battalion controller. I think my other one has blue buttons, so this one's a little different. Unfortunately, this one is missing the little screws that hold the 3 blocks in place; when sitting on a table, everything stays together, but you can't pick it up all in one piece very easily. It is also missing the little flap that goes over the Eject button. I have no idea where my Steel Battalion disc is, so I can't test this right now, but it looks to be in okay shape.



PS3 Little Big Planet (complete), $13
PS2 Silent Hill 2 (complete), $2

LBP was originally $15. Seller said yes to $13 so fast, I wish I'd gone lower. Oh well, still seems like a good price. I mostly got this one for my wife, as she dabbles in all sorts of design, and I thought she might get a kick out of it. I popped it in and it seems okay.

SH2 came from a stack of PS2 games, 90% of which were sports. Now I just need SH2 Greatest Hits and I'll have every US PSX/PS2/XB entry of the first 4 games in the series.


NES Jaws, 1943, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers, Captain Skyhawk, Track & Field, Destination Earth Star, Donkey Kong Classics, Dr. Mario, Home Alone, Super Mario Bros. 3, Laser Invasion, Tecmo Super Bowl, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Time Lord, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Top Gun, 3 sleeves, $15 for all

NES Rescue: The Embassy Mission, Simpsons: Bart vs. the World, Super Spy Hunter, Star Tropics, Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland, The Untouchables, 3 sleeves, $10 for all

NES Total Recall
GG Tempo Jr., $5 for both

I only needed a handful of those NES games in the first bunch, but the seller said they were $5 a piece unless I took all of them. I asked how much the whole pile was and he said $15. WHATEVER.



GEN Evander Holyfield Boxing, Power Rangers, X-Men, $1.50 for all

PSX NFL GameDay 2000, Final Fantasy VIII (missing discs 3 & 4; all were in the same case), $1

XB Star Wars Battlefront II (disc only), $1

PSX Vagrant Story (missing manual and demo disc)
PSX Resident Evil 2 (missing manual), $7 for both

NES AC adapter
GEN Genesis (Model 2/3) RF adapter, $3 for both



Lexicon LDD-1 AC-3/RF Demodulator, $8

Finally. FINALLY. I have been searching for an LD RF demodulator for ages. If any of you know what this does, you know people aren't exactly giving them away. Except for this one! Plugged it in, works like a dream, and despite the flash in my photo bringing out some flaws in the surface, it's in wonderful condition.

[BetaWolf47]

I was in Ohio for about a week visiting family. My cousin up there just graduated from high school. That makes the whole current generation family high school graduates! But yeah, I have some Genesis finds:

Power Base Converter: $20
Separation Anxiety: $2.50
Light Crusader: $5
Vectorman 2: $2.50
6-button controller (late model, looks like 3-button controller... non-working): $1
Wonder Boy 3 - Dragon's Trap: $12

All from a few game/movie shops in Lakewood.

[Atarileaf]

I don't usually see these in the wild:

Atari XEGS with keyboard
+
Hardball
Bug Hunt
Flight Sim 2
Barnyard Blaster
Food Fight
Ace of Aces
Blue Max
Rescue On Fractalus

Works great. Tested the ram, all good, nice clean unit - only $9.99 for everything at Value Village.

[geezuzkhrist119]

Looks like resealed.

factory sealed games dont got the melted plastic on the corners

[98PaceCar]

Was finally able to put my hands on one of my grails.



The games are Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Warriors of Fate.

[Marriott_Guy]

@98PaceCar That is some serious hardware goodness!! Congrats D on finally tracking down one of the most elusive beasts out there!! You da man!!

Terry

[Steve W]

I again found myself driving my mom down to visit a friend in Waco today, so I ended up going seriously out of my way on the way back and hit some thrift stores and retro game stores.

Now that I've stopped ignoring SNES games in the wild the few times I come across them, I'm finding them all the time. Two of those PS1 memory cards seem to be all Japanese on the backs, so I'd say they were imports. The Sega Master System 3D glasses were bought at a Console Game Exchange in Temple for $17.95, the Dreamcast joystick/trackball combo was $6.95 at the FX Game Exchange in Waco, and the Sega titles all came from a Games N' Things store also in Waco. Man, I spent a lot of time in a car searching for thrifts that went out of business years ago but Google Maps hasn't been updated with that info. And searching took so long that all the thrifts I knew were still there were closed by the time I got to them. Ah well, I'll just have to hit them when I drive back and pick my mom up.

[NayusDante]

What DreamCast games use the trackball? I know a guy who has (I think) that same joystick for PC, which he absolutely swears by to play UT99 with, and I never knew about a DC version until I saw that.

[Fatalstar64]

Got myself quite the haul today NES with 2 controllers and zap gun along with 69 games $65. So I have more of a NES collection then my SNES collection without even trying.

[Steve W]

What DreamCast games use the trackball? I know a guy who has (I think) that same joystick for PC, which he absolutely swears by to play UT99 with, and I never knew about a DC version until I saw that.

This one didn't have the box, but earlier in the day another game store had a boxed one and it said only Quake III, Unreal Tournament, Starlancer, and one other I can't recall were compatible. It's one of the reasons I didn't buy it back in the day, since it only works with four games.