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Dreamer of the year (Arcade Edition)
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They were good when they opened. Could end up with some very rare things for silly low money but I think they cottoned on when I think Johnny Ultimate got a boxed copy of MUSHA Aleste for a bargain and I ran out of there with Alien Soldier for a tenner. They kind of realised some of the stuff was more valuable then.
Chris Kohler had an interesting twitter post about this from selling games at conventions this year. The Atari 2600 market used to be ridiculous but clamed down and now nobody cares about it. He said the same thing is happening with the NES market. The rare sought after stuff still sells but he can't shift the common or low value items. Megadrive and PC Engine are the same. SNES is still going strong but PS1 and PS2/Gamecube are getting into the insane phase with DS and Wii really taking off as well.
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Did for me at least once. Was looking for a copy of Trip World for months from Germany. Took ages to get one where the shipper didn't mess up asking if they would change to international shipping. Finally got a bare cart for 80 quid but gave it away to a friend of mine as a present. Went looking for another copy but by that time Jeremy Parish had highlighted the game in some of his write ups and mentioned how it had a limited German release and the prices were japanese copy prices (about 400+ euro a bare cart).
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There's an issue I've come across with a lot of PAL games. There's a good few that run the correct speed on a modded 60Hz machine but the music is sped up to sound better on a 50 Hz machine. So you have the worst of both worlds, crappy slow gamplay but correct music or correct gameplay but music that sounds all wrong.
Most annoyingly it has been on a few games I got that were far cheaper in PAL format. Super Aleste was one and Little Samson on the NES was another.
Best advice is just not bother with PAL games unless they are very cheap and you can take a chance or are PAL english exclusives. It's not worth the annoyance.
As for the PS1, don't even bother with PAL games unless they are PAL english exclusives.
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There's no real PAL optimised games really. There's one of two. Rare did a bit as they are a UK company and Sega did a few late life PAL optimisations. Super Mario Bros is a strange exception that is well optimised.
Most PAL optimisation is just the sped up music with slow gameplay. As for Extra lines and colour depth, only 16-bit game that I can think of that has extra vertical resolution might be DKC. Pretty much every PAL game has squashed aspect ratio and letterboxing bars on the top and bottom of the screen. Definitely no extra colour depth as that would require new art.
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