The favorite item you've found

Got this today for $7! mint condition

 

hey i didn't know you were on here

 

my favorite thing i've ever found was a NFR copy of sonic 1

 

Oddly the coolest thing I have is a NPDP reader with a 2 blank drives. I saw a listing on craigslist about 6 months back for this thing. The seller said he had gotten it in a storage unit and didn't need it. So I went over to is house, looked at it a bit. It's in decent condition with a few nicks in it, but not bad. Cool thing is that he wanted $50 for it, so I ponied up the dough and bought it. It has one controller, no manual, all hook-ups, and is in the original box.

Right now it's all boxed up in storage, but what a find! I could not pass that up.

Another one is I got my first Net Yaroze system at a garage sale for $25. The drive is kinda dead and needs replacing, but works none the less. The shell is also in decent condition.

 

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I cant really single out items, but my favorite consoles are:

N64 (grey): $20 (power cable, no AV) (Expantion Pack included) (Came with elmo Letter Adv. and Rugrats: paris [ yay...])

Game Boy Micro (black): $0 (No carger/dead battery) (silver faceplate)

They were both only missing a few parts and after buying them for a small fee, they worked great

 

Demo System DS-16. Took 6 months to find but I HAVE ONE NOW!!!

 

DS Lite [Crimson/Black]: My Dad's Friend's Wife asked me if I could fix her Kids DS Lite consoles (3 of them total)as they would not read games. It turns out the pins needed to be cleaned as the kids would lick their ds carts before inserting them.
One of those console's I cleaned was a Crimson/Black DS Lite. It had a broken hinge so I offered to buy it from her when i was done cleaning them. She let me have it for free for fixing the other 2. partly because i mentioned that it still had trouble reading games after it was cleaned. I Superglued the hinge crack so it opens and shuts now and it works fine. I now use it to replay my GBA games as i love the backlight screen. no more snake lights for me.

Action Replay GBX (the clear one W/ USB-B Port). one of my friends likes to go to garage sales a lot so i asked him to lookout for any video game related items. He has brought back various cables and misc stuff usually, but he comes over one day and hands me a Action Replay. I took a look at it and thought it was weird that it had a usb port on it (i used to have one just like it but it was the newer usbless one). he gave it to me for free since it only cost him 1$.

PlayStation SCPH-1001 (has a refurb label on the bottom and CD player boot method appears to be patched): I got it at a thrift store for 7$ (this was back when they went for 50$+ on eBay,etc). Its the PlayStation that never fails me. It still has the original plastic sled laser assembly. So far, its the only PlayStation besides by PS2 that i trust to play games on without worrying about read errors. It can read games and playback FMV with no stutter. my PSOne cannot even do that. I adjusted the POT on both. I have had a 9001 and a 7501 die on me, and the 1001 keeps on kicking.

PlayStation Dual Analog (SCPH-1180): I picked it up off of eBay for 1/2 the cost that others were selling it for. I really enjoy using the controller and I screwed the thumbstick PCB down to the controller even tighter so the board does not tilt along with the thumbsticks when pressed. this is my favorite PS1 Controller.

Bleem! 1.5b: I was on vacation and decided to stop by a few thrift stores to burn some time. I was looking through the CD's and found this. SCORE!. its a later release that uses fake game pictures and mentions Sony suing them for using real screenshots. not sure if all 1.5b versions are like this.

PSP-1001 (TA-08 MB): A acquaintance of mine gave me a PSP-1001 that was improperly displaying stuff, for free. I purchased a replacement LCD screen for 15$ and was good to go. I still play it every so often. I later put a custom faceplate on it as the original was scratched up. still, i put 30$ into it. good deal considering i did this back when FATs were going for ~80$ used.

FAT Pandora Battery: I installed CFW on a FAT PSP for a kid in school a while back via cutting up his own battery to make it a Pandora (was before people could self sign executables). I gave the PSP back to him with the Pandora Battery along with flashing a custom IPL to his memory stick that allowed the console to boot to cfw via the pandora battery. I told him to buy a new battery sometime later. months later, he did that, and gave me the Pandora Battery for free. I put the PSP-1001 FAT battery in my slim and put the Pandora battery in the 1001. So now i got a Hardmodded Pandora battery and I get over 6 hours of battery life on my PSP-2001 all for free.

 

My best find ever by far and away was my 64DD dev kit. Got it for 200 shipped brand new with 5 blue discs. The saddest part is that I could have bought as many as 10 units for the same price, but I passed. Even sadder is that I sold it about 2 years later to help pay for college debt. I shoulda kept it. I didn't get anywhere near what they're worth now

 

I would have to say my pokemon Fire red/Leaf green store poster.

 

New in box, shrink wrapped copy of Daikatana for the PC. All that orange... those badly translated kanji... ooh yeah.

Seriously though, might be my NiB copy of WWF No Mercy, the best wrestling game on the N64, or maybe the broken PS1 with controllers, memory cards, and both Gran Turismo games... (that I subsequently fixed with a 3 dollar replacement PSU).

 

Ok now this may not be the most interesting find at all but very sentimental story. Out of everything I'm gonna go for Ape Escape on the PS1.

Now the reason I chose this is because my late father didn't have much money working at a pretty lousy low paying job and coping with child support payments and he bought this for me and my bro retail for $70 back when it first came out. I played the heck out of it and finished it pretty much 100% so we got a lot of good use out of it. It's funny how some of the smallest things a person can do can hold so much importance in remembering them after they have passed on.

Honorable mention goes to the copies of Streets of Rage, Golden axe and Running battle ALL mint CIB lying on the side of the footpath outside someone's house on a 3pm on a Sunday arvo. Was actually walking down to a Garage sale to look for games and bada bing bada boom. Stopped me dead in my tracks and since they we're a bit hard to carry with just two hands I was like, score! and decided to just walk home and forget about the garage sale instead

 

I love my pirated carts, I don't know why haha


Pirated Game Boy games by Y=MX+B, on Flickr


IMG_4996 by Y=MX+B, on Flickr


IMG_4998 by Y=MX+B, on Flickr

 

Loving the signs!

 

My favorite find has to be my non-working sega cd model 1. Got it online as is, but I knew it had to be mine, so I bought along with other items. When it arrived, it had Lunar Silver Star complete inside of it, no wonder the lot had a complete case/manual

Now I have to my visit the repair section of the forum more often

 

Currently I do not have enough items. The Only Limited Edition item is Japanese Shenmue Limited Edition.
Almost can't understand what is going there.

 

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Got a Boxed PAL Playstation 2 TEST Debugging Station DLT-H30002 with Manual, US power cable, Uk power cable, PS2 Dualshock controller (warranty sticker remains unbroken, controller is smooth like dsi, not glossy like normal ps2 controllers)

for £85 ($128.95)!!!!

 

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my favorite find to date would be picking up a LoZ:OOT v.1 gold card and sonic&knuckles for $1 each or my recent find at a garage sale of a box with 1 NES console (console only), 1 PS1 (not PS and again console only), 2 N64 controls, 1 standard and 1 dual shock(3rd party) PS control, and 40 NES, N64, and SNES games (mostly sports be the one that aren't are amazing like ninja gaiden and golden eye) all for $40. later when i looked at the PS1 i found a copy of Mega Man legends in it (not the greatest hits edition).