Would an OFFICIAL reproduction interest you? Explanation inside

Games not made by Nintendo wouldn't be too big a problem. They could just license them in a way as they do for the Wii store. Games made from licenses not owned by the developer (Ducktales) are a bit harder but possible. The only ones that would pose a problem are games from companies which are no longer in business.

 

Official repros of consoles? I would rather see new batches of the parts that are needed to repair our already existing systems and are getting increasingly difficult or impossible to find. Like FM-towns Lasers.

 

Competent PSP extended batteries would be nice. I lost mine with my previous system disappearing.

 

Consoles wouldn't be too feasible cause of parts that aren't really produced anymore. The guys who made retron said when they make these clones mostly have to get parts that have overstock from other things cause they don't make the cartridge connectors anymore of some systems. Now it could be argued they could custom order them but they would have to order a ton for it to be worth it to a manufacturer.

Replacement parts on the other hand would be trickier as some were custom made for that system and are no longer made any more do to things like practicality. Systems like the pc engine cd rom2 and sega cd would run into issues due to design flaws in trying to keep costs and sizes down. I mean it was insane how much 3do cost when it came out, but most in the wild are still going strong.

Diminishing value really depends, they did a digital re-release of Radiant Silvergun and that didn't hurt the resale value of that game at all. Yes supply and demand does adjust, but unlike most things people will pay more for the original in most cases when it comes to games.

I mean look at stadium events, theres plenty of copies of the nintendo version, yet people still pay insane amounts for the bandai version even though its the exact same game. It could be argued that yes it's cause the original was by bandai and not nintendo, but even if companies did limited reprints they would have updated copyright year on the packaging. It is not at all going to diminish value of original there's still going to be people who want the original copy.

Only time I have seen newer version come more valuable then original were majeco game gear and top loader nes cause they addressed design flaws of original.

 

Was just about to say that.
If an 100 pounds gamee go re released at 30 pounds,
it would mess shit up

 

radient silvergun for £30 i'd buy that

 

Earthbound £30 i'd buy that.

 

He was being sarcastic, as Silvergun got a rerelease on XBLA and the price of the originals on saturn didnt drop.

 

Personally I have the feeling that the asking price of sellers in general did not drop, however the demand for the original Saturn edition did.

 

I sold a copy for a friend on ebay for £90 after the XBLA release and it sold within an hour.

So I am not so sure...

 

I can imagine that for 90 pounds RSG got sold quickly, because that is a heck of a lot cheaper then they used to be sold for back in the day.

 

They were around 100 before its release (he was thinking of selling it for awhile). I sold at 90 to get it out quick, which worked. I noticed no difference on price pre or post XBLA.

If the price has dropped long term, it wasnt due to the XBLA rerelease - which is the point of this thread/discussion

 

http://videogames.pricecharting.com/game/sega-saturn/radiant-silvergun

According to this, the price is going down compared to where it was when it was released on XBLA in September 2011. Also, aside from an odd spike in Jan '11 (holiday sales? prices seems to hit peaks in Jan every year...), the price continued to go down from when it was announced in September '10 (FWIW, the price was already on a downward trend before that).

 

According to that, the price was going down 2 years before the XBLA release, which cant be blamed on the rerelease. So I dont come to the same conclusion as you.

100GBP is around $150 - so it wasnt far off that in 2009 (to be fair, in 2009 it was more like $170 iirc)

 

I would be for it if they did something like this if all it is a parts upgrade (I.e Famicom Disk System) Saves me the hassle of stupid repairs because of bad parts. Price drops on original systems would (for me) be both good and bad. People need to stop thinking you can go out and making a living off selling older video games or think of them as an investment. For me, I buy games I know for sure I'll like and keep and have fun playing them, not because its a "rare" expensive game I'll make money off of a few years down the road and not have any fun with the game.

 

I would love to see gears made for the turbo cd. In my eye's whats the point of owning a system that you can't enjoy. Many of turbo cds are dead because of that crappy gear and they all have them. When a system is lost to time its a sad day in gaming.

 

I think its time for CD based repros to be made. All of this CD based stuff will fail eventually. FC's havent really hurt the value of NES's have they? I know the FC isnt a repro but it serves the same purpose. I think that no matter what is out people will find a way to spend to much money on retro and hard to find stuff. Just so they can say they did.

 

as 3D printing progresses it could be fairly simple and cost effective to print reproduction parts even if a systems original mouldings are long gone.

 

It will take at least 15-40 years for 3D printing to make it possible to print industrial quality parts, not something that breaks withing a few hours or days. For now 3D printing is only good for simple case parts, like that Turbo Everdrive shell. Also when printers will reach that level of quality, many governments won't be happy about it. They already bringing us way close to Orwell's world, and with such technologies it will be easier to make "stealth" weapons, like plastic daggers, crossbows, guns, etc.

Official reproductions ? Good dream, but it's just a dream. Only thing those corporations will do with their older stuff is resell emulated games again and again, or just sell a license to another crap maker - FireCore, NeoGeo X etc. - worse than most other chinese emulation consoles that aren't "official". Nobody will re-release older console with original parts or high quality FCPGA/PC based emulation. It will cost too much and who will buy ? Me and other members of this forum, plus about 1-2 thousands of other people at most.

 

i think 15-40 years is a bit of an excessive estimate 40 years is a long time in the tech world. 10 years is a long time in the tech world let alone 15.