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[keilbaca]

I have to sell my collection soon due to the most recent edition to my collection: a baby girl. Thankfully someone recycled a PS3 that just needed heatgunned to fix it. I fixed it, and am currently downgrading it and going to throw all kinds of emulators on it. If this works out as good as I anticipate, then I will sell my collection instead of putting it into storage, to make room for Trinity. I will be keeping certain consoles, mainly ones that don't take up much room. Things like, Atari 2600 with a Harmony cart for example, but depending on how things go those might go too.

So you can list me as... I prefer hardware, but room makes me consider otherwise.

[Keatah]

At one time, many moons ago, I was burdened with trying to maintain a library of over 1300 carts. It simply got to be too much.

[akator]

I also prefer real hardware... but I have too much, far more than I can setup or ever practically use. As I've mentioned in other threads, I don't like dealing with dying hardware (time, expense, etc.).

I'm in the process of doing a mixed hardware/emulation setup. I'm going to keep some of the systems, but the notoriously less reliable hardware and ones I only play every 2-5 years are gradually going to be sold off.

With the right controls (arcade, USB pads, USB adapters for original controllers), most emulators are now at a point where it is very difficult for me to tell the difference between the hardware and emulation. With each system I'm planning to get rid of, I play the original then compare it side-by-side to emulation to make sure I'm not going to massively regret the decision.

If I won the lottery, I would gladly keep everything and start a museum. But I don't play the lottery, so there's very little chance of that happening

Edited by akator, Fri Jan 6, 2012 12:23 PM.

[Ransom]

Keatah, on Fri Jan 6, 2012 12:21 PM, said:

At one time, many moons ago, I was burdened with trying to maintain a library of over 1300 carts. It simply got to be too much.

That's a lot of games!

I've been trying to keep my collection at around 500 games, and that's been working out because it forces me not to keep games I don't play.

[Emehr]

If space ever became an issue, I would probably sell most carts (keeping only a few) and buy a few Everdrive carts for the consoles it's available for. Even if emulation was 100% perfect, I could never get past the fact that it takes a high-end, modern, multi-processor computer in constant need of upgrading to do what 20+ year old hardware can do without breaking a sweat (or needing upgrades). I never have to second-guess the hardware. The experience I get on it is exactly what the developers intended.

Emulation is great for gaming preservation, testing, development, and arcade games (which actually do take up a lot of space). Save states are pretty sweet too.

I was just playing Midway Arcade Treasures 2 on the PS2 last night and I was horrified at how audio was treated in Xybots. The background music would just stop and restart itself. The music wouldn't even play all the way through. It just stopped about half-way to three-quarters through and reset. It pretty much made the game unplayable for me. The background music is half the experience in that game. It's fascinating how MAME can get it right but the companies that actually own the rights to these games can screw it up so horribly.

[so_tough!]

How about downsizing the collection first? There really is no point owning games you dont or rarely play (ok I know the collectors wont listen! ) . My collection is very small compared to a lot of peoples here, but I'm looking to get rid of all the games and consoles I rarely play.

I'm actually thinking of selling all my pc engine games apart from the shootemups, same with the megadrive games.