buying FF7 again..

Retr0gamer

carbonkid wrote: »

Not true at all...real collectors will always want the item in its original release format in mint condition and willing to pay big money!

Not if it's as common as muck like FFVII.

Aurongroove

meh.. original release format?

I think only if it really is mint condition and only then perhaps after like 60-100 years.

what you need to factor in, is how important digital information is effecting media. will anyone ever pay good money for an original music cassette of songs easily bought on itunes?

not unless it's seriously old and seriously rare, and even then, who really cares?

the first thing you learn about antiques, if daytime TV has taught us anything, is antiques, except for a very small, extremely rare extremely few examples, sell for disappointing amounts of money.
19th century vases for 60 - 80 euros, letters written by historical figures for 25 quid.

it's useless. you might see the equivalent of 100 euros for FFVII in like, 80 years. If even that.

degrassinoel

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Not if it's as common as muck like FFVII.

common as muck maybe, but incredibly hard to pick up for less than 100€ outside of PSN.

anyone could easily get a non-legit copy, however trying to get a legitimate copy which isnt damaged or in bad nick is really tough going, especially for the pc lol
there are as i said earlier, some people selling their copies for up to 500£.

Pretty optomistic pricing but who's to say there isnt someone out there that would pay that much considering the difficulty in getting it anywere else since its been out of 'print'

Retr0gamer

As I said before it's not actually very difficult to find. Go to car boot sales, raid second hand shops or look on buy and sell or adverts.ie and you'll eventually come across one in great condition for a tenner or less. If you are going to buy it for over 15 euros well what's the saying again, a fool and his money...?

carbonkid

Alot of people where fools with their cash during the economic doom years...im with degrassinoel on that FFVII in original release mint condition, as in 'as new' (sellers can have a very different idea of what mint is), people are asking for about 100e and sometimes even more.

Most people rarely took any care of their games during the ps1 days...we were too used to leaving cartridges on the floor.

Retr0gamer

Well if you think it's worth it then go for it. You just have to have a little bit of patience and you can get things for reasonable prices. I picked up Panzer Dragoon Saga with 3 other games for 25 euros and just today got Devil Summoner 2 for 30 euros when it goes for 50-80 euros. FFVII is the second best selling PS1 game of all time, do you really think there's not that many copies in good condition in the wild?

carbonkid

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well if you think it's worth it then go for it.

LOL...i picked up a second hand platinum copy ages ago for about 20e i think. Plan on passing it onto a mate later this week ^_^

Where do you normally pick up your older games?

Retr0gamer

Anywhere really. Adverts.ie, buy and sell, ebay, car boot sales, raiding second hand stores. I know some people on the arcade and retro forum have even done some skip diving and found perfectly good consoles at dumps.

bruceyowens

degrassinoel wrote: »

Been years since i first played it on my playstation, the original 4 cd box..
I've searched online and even square's website, but nobody seems to sell it at all.. only second hand dodgy copies.

Does anywere actually stock it on any format, i remember it was on the PC for a while too, albeit fairly rare.
Anything i can do to get get a copy thats not second hand, and not costing me more than 50 quid?

i think you can get it on playstation store. one of the greatest games ever imo, absolutely brilliant

degrassinoel

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Anywhere really. Adverts.ie, buy and sell, ebay, car boot sales, raiding second hand stores. I know some people on the arcade and retro forum have even done some skip diving and found perfectly good consoles at dumps.

i may have done things like that in my youth, but it would look a bit whacky if a middleaged guy was rooting around in a dump or someones skip for a playstation game lol

besides that, isnt it a bit cheeky to be rummaging through someone elses skip?

sorry dude, the secondhand store would be a good idea, but again, when something is on your wishlist to play, and you dont have patience enough to drag yourself across town and back again for a game you can download for a tenner (if ye have a ps3) and wind up getting a fairly okay deal, then it turns out one of the 4 cd's isnt working.. which could quite easily happen with or without scratches.
(offtopic - i bought fallout2 a few years back, for the pc in game on dawson street, brand new at the time '97 or something, when i got home to install it, it was a blank disk with the fallout2 logo on it, returned for new case np)
Another time, more recently i got company of heroes gold edition, disks were fine but there was no serial code lol..

see where i'm going with this? my luck isnt great when it comes to gaming lol

Anyhow.. its probably time i bought a ps3, cheers for the help all

Retr0gamer

I've nothing against getting it from PSN but if you are a collector looking for it then it's the best way to go. As for skip diving, I wouldn't do it myself but there's no law against it. Anything you throw out is fair game. As for scratched discs you can also send them into a game store to get them resurfaced or if you have patience do the toothpaste trick.

degrassinoel

lol whats the toothpaste trick?

Retr0gamer

Basically using toothpaste as a polish, only works with light scratches and takes a lot of applications. You can also use sandpaper, working from a coarse grain polishing down to a very fine grain. It's basically how other companies resurface CDs.

degrassinoel

might try the toothpaste one lol, wouldnt trust myself with sandpaper on cd/dvds

Retr0gamer

It's basically the same thing, toothepaste is a mild abrasive. Look up videos on youtube to do it right.

conbob

might pop into town to try find a copy of final fantasy 7. what second hand shops would you recommend. game, gamespot, extravision etc?

Retr0gamer

Don't bother, you won't find one. Any second hand game shops that sell games have been raided for decent PS1 games years ago. Some other second hand shops that don't specialise games might have it but you have to know where they are and be prepared to go diving around the backs of the shops.

eire2009

Can be tricky to get working but Ive yet to find a game I couldn't.

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Retr0gamer

Banned for links to illegal distribution to copyrighted material.Read the charter next time.

L1m1tless

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PJTierney

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Retr0gamer

This is not a sales forum, use adverts.ie

L1m1tless

Retr0gamer wrote: »

This is not a sales forum, use adverts.ie

I use adverts.ie

Retr0gamer

The reason this rule is enforced is to stop the forums turning into trading forums and getting swamped with people selling stuff. Edit your post or say it's for sale again and you'll have a very long ban. You're lucky I haven't banend you already.

Aurongroove

I have a copy of suiloden 2 with one hugh crack on the disk,

I took it too a local games store to be re-surfaced, and it fixed it to a state where the game will play, but once it gets to a CGI sequence the game reloads incorrectly, and you need to decipher the jungle of glitched graphics in order to make it to a town, save it, then reset. (so you re-load the game, saved after the sequence, with the graphics one again restored)

landsleaving

Couldn't you try doing the re-surfacing again, it just takes a layer off, so it might remove the scratch completely after a second layer goes. I don't know if you can do it twice, but those ps1 discs seem extra thick to me so it could be worth a shot.

Aurongroove

no, what's left is more like a dent, it's like a visible puk mark, I emagine the information ltself has been broken a bit.

PJTierney

Retr0gamer wrote: »

This is not a sales forum, use adverts.ie

Understood.

Getting back to the topic at hand: Has the OP got a PS3? If so I presume FFVII's on the PSN.(unless of course you're like me and would prefer the Disk version for nostalgic reasons)