Anyone looking to sell their dreamcast collection?
Sold my collection about 10 years ago (used to nearly have the complete set).
DM me your collections and if you are willing to sell
Posted Nov 23, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC
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I have thought about finding my Dreamcast and it's games a new home (I have more games than I can reasonably enjoy). I probably have a couple hundred titles, but would need to sit down to put a list together. The only caveats is that I am on military orders out of state till I go on leave in January 2023. I have one of the Bahar Bros boxes (Akura? I haven't played my DC s8nce 2019), an old school VGA/s-video hook-up and an DCHDMI (not installed), four controllers, VMUs and a Japanese six button fight pad if you are interested and can wait.
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DM me. I'd be interested
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That's awesome man. Any chance if OP isn't interested in everything you'd be willing to part out? Haha divorce over a Dreamcast seems like a silly but probable thing if I'm not careful 🫣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I had to sell my collection 10 years ago as well. I've spent the last few years building it back and am down to the last game or 2 for a complete PAL set, also getting all US releases that didn't get a PAL release and the language friendly JPN games.
Good luck rebuilding your collection.
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If you're interested in actually playing the games, then definitely don't bother with a legit collection. I know the sentimentality is strong and it's tempting to collect something. The cost is gonna be soooo high now if you pay reasonably fair prices. A lot of that stuff is just gonna collect dust on a shelf. You're looking at a $1k investment for a system and handful of decent games. You'll easily hit $2k if you want any of the best games. If you want a fuller collection it'll be easy to get into $5k+ territory. You'll have to really put effort in to be sure that everything you're buying is legit and authentic. Everything has gotten a lot harder out there with the greed the shitty speculator/collector's market brought. Ten years ago was a long time and it's a brutal scene now.
If you're actually wanting to play the system then a modded system with a GDEMU is probably the way to go. You can build some neat stuff with a cool colored shell, mod lights, etc. You'll have something that's fun to play, looks cool on the shelf, and has a wide variety of games to enjoy. I highly recommend the fan mod and HDMI. If you want to be nostalgic just YouTube the noise and startup sounds. If you don't want to GDEMU just burn yourself a collection and Etsy some cases/artwork to display.
If you're not actually going to play it then there is just no real point in laying out the cash/effort in obtaining the games. Maybe you have the time and money to blow or maybe someone in the community fronts you an unbelievable deal. If I were you I'd just have fun building your dream Dreamcast and then playing it a ton.
Dreamcast is actually still pretty cheap to build a solid collection of og games. Especially collecting for playing, most of the priciest games are far from the systems best MoHo, Evolution 2 and Cannonspike being the PAL priciest games.
Plenty of great stuff under £20 at least PAL and they will work on NTSC systems. Similarly with so many arcade games Japanese games are a great low cost way of getting many fantastic titles.
I'm sorry but this just isn't true. Even Sonic Adventure has spiked in price. If you wanted to buy a functional Dreamcast, VMU, controller, rumble pack, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, and a handful of other games you're down a minimum of a couple of hundred dollars. Add anything like Power Stone 1/2, Marvel vs Capcom 1/2, Skies of Arcadia, etc. (some of the best the system has to offer) and you're looking at some serious money/hassle. It's cheaper than Saturn. The collectible stuff is cheap relative to some other collectible stuff. Overall it's still an expensive system to get a good collection for when there's a reasonable and cheap alternative that allows you to actually play all the games accurately.
You need the hardware regardless of whether the games are originals or not. I said plenty of great games under £20.
https://uk.webuy.com/search?categoryIds=51&categoryName=dreamcast-games
Where is the lie exactly? Even Sonic Adventure is under £20 in stock right now.
You seem to be cherry picking your "great games" for the expensive ones. Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis, Metropolis Street Racer, Sega Rally 2, Sega Bass Fishing.
Loads of games where not necessarily exclusive to DC, but best console version also fit in for somebody wanting to build a DC collection. Soul Reaver, Hydro Thunder, Tomb Raider etc.
Yes there are some expensive games, but for the most part even them can be had much cheaper and perfectly playable getting the Japanese versions. This particularly applies to the Capcom fighters.
I've got nothing against ODEs, I have a Saturn with ODE. However original discs will always be my preference as they are for many others. Sometimes a smaller collection rather than everything on a menu makes it easier to settle down and focus on something. Though I say that with over 300 DC games >_< I'll probably get an ODE for one of my DCs at one point particularly for home brew.
Oh, I guess I never realized how much cheaper games were across the ocean. I was totally wrong about that. Stateside, Sonic Adventure runs around $50 CIB. It actually looks like any PAL version of a game is around half the price of the US version. My fault. For us (and I'm assuming that OP is an American) the market is a lot worse. Costs are high, repros run rampant, there's a lot of opportunities to get scammed. Our local retro stores have massive markups (when they have stock) and the market has gotten super hard to maneuver otherwise.
I think for the cost (especially stateside) there's a lot of reasons it makes more sense to burn your own or buy high quality repros if you desperately want something you can hold on to. I personally don't think that makes a difference if you actually intend to play the games. Most of the collectors I know don't necessarily intend to pull the games out to play them. If you get overwhelmed by choice a large collection is going to present the same issue.
There's nothing but advantages (if you're just starting out) to modding out a system and rolling with that. There's the space that a collection takes up (but I guess whether that's a problem or not is going to vary by the person). You can get rid of the mechanical pieces in the systems and remove common points of failure. They're quieter and more reliable. There are almost no differences in the playing experience.
If someone is actually interested in getting a Dreamcast for play purposes it just makes more sense to invest in a good system with useful mods (HDMI, Noctua, etc.). I have a modded out GDEMU DC and a regular old school DC (with a massive collection) but I almost never feel the need to pull the original DC out (it's in storage).