RF Generation Collectorcast

Episode 11 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=11204 We have talked at length in the past about many of the quirks involved with a collector’s persona. Do those oddities manifest themselves into your gaming life also? The three of us reflect on our game playing to see if our collector mentality spills over. Apparently it hits some of us harder than others ;) We also hope you enjoy the extended Small Score part of the podcast! Extended?!!? That’s correct. With a few generous RFGeneration members donating enough money to the site to reach our coveted “featured on the collectorcast” target, we’ve added their latest pickups to the podcast in great detail. So take the time to listen to their finds for the month and hopefully it encourages more people to donate in order to keep the site running smoothly! Music: Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis/Mega Drive) 0:00 Auction Announcement 2:07 Intro 15:38 Small Scores 2:32:34 Gaming and Collecting Rituals 3:55:15 Closing

Do words like Reproduction, ROM Hack or Pirate Cart have any place in a collector’s vocabulary? There are many fringe areas of collecting that may or may not find a home in your collection. How far removed from legitimate licensed releases are you comfortable with? If playing on the original hardware is important to you, is there a way to justify playing a back up of your games? Where can you even get these things? Why would you want them? Are you still considered a collector if you partake? Get our occasionally nonsensical take on such subjects as we explore the farthest reaches of physical media and collecting. Interesting side note: If you listen to Episode 10 of the Collectorcast backwards, at full blast, and playing at half speed you might just hear the most sinister and unholy of words uttered straight from the depths of Hell... emulation!! Show notes: Music: Legacy of the Wizard (NES) Small Scores: 11:12 Main Topic: 2:48:29 Outtro: 4:50:42 Show links: Retrozone: http://www.retrousb.com/ Krikzz (Everdrive): http://krikzz.com/ SD2SNES: http://stoneagegamer.com/sd2snes_deluxe.aspx

Donate directly to support RF Generation via PayPal at webmaster@rfgeneration.com! Whether you’re just starting out your collecting career or you’ve been at it for a little while, it can be daunting to tackle an unfamiliar system. Model Revisions, 1st and 3rd party accessories, different territories, software and many other new areas are opened up for you to explore. We’ll take one of the most beloved systems of all time, the NES, and break it down so that hopefully people still learning the basics about it can leave the Collectorcast with new found, and vastly useful, knowledge in their collecting quests for this classic system. As an area of focus for all 3 of our collections we hope to pool our combined knowledge and experience with the NES and show that there is a lot more to the “Nintendo” than one might think. But with a few tricks, a bit of research and some trial and error anyone can dive in and enjoy collecting for the NES in many different capacities if they have the desire. As usual we’ll also spend waaay too much time discussing the plethora of amazing scores that have been posted (and blogged) at RF Generation. It’s becoming cliche to keep saying that this month’s scores exceeded the last, but fortunately it keeps being true! So check it out and see if you made the cut this time around.And make sure to stay tuned until the end for a special announcement regarding how you can help rfgeneration.com...... Donate to RF Generation: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?action=paypal Show notes: Music: Life Force (NES) Main Topic 1:56:45 Donation Drive 4:05:05

Many of us are familiar with the games released for our favorite consoles. But how can you enhance your collection beyond simply obtaining retail releases? We’ll explore one of many answers to that question this time around by entering the realm of Homebrew titles. And to make sure we treat the subject appropriately we’ve sought out help. NES Homebrew Developer John White, creater of the game Assimilate, joins us to discuss his thoughts on Homebrew games. We took this opportunity to poke and prod as much info as we could from him regarding both his game and Homebrews in general. Being a collector focused site, we of course had to get his unique perspective on the collectability of such items too. As usual we also discuss the most interesting scores posted on the site since our last recording. With the overwhelming number of post this time around we must apologize if you feel we missed mentioning your finds. There were far too many wonderful additions to our member's collections this episode that we really had to cut it down to what we felt were the absolute best scores. Show notes: Music: Final Fantasy III/VI (SNES) 4:53 Small Scores 1:12:00 Homebrew intro discussion 1:35:03 Interview with John White 2:50:59 Outtro Sites mentioned in the show: http://airwalkstudios.com/ http://nessylum.wordpress.com/ http://www.retrousb.com/

When buying, selling or trading games there is one thing that’s always sure to come up: What’s this game worth to me? Pricing your game to sell can be a tricky thing. Buying at a price both the seller and buyer can agree upon, and be happy with, can be even trickier. How important is it for trades to be equal in value? Does your relationship to someone have a monetary value when it comes to transactions? Whats a lowball and is it ever appropriate to make such an offer? What are the generally accepted methods of estimating an items price? Join Duke, Crabmaster and Bil as we discuss how to spend your Toonies on the ever fluctuating market of secondhand video games. Show notes: Music: Ninja Gaiden (NES) 10:09 Small Scores 1:42:40 Pricing 2:55:46 Outtro Sites mentioned in the show: http://videogames.pricecharting.com/ http://www.ebay.com http://www.cheapassgamer.com

Crabby and Duke decide to allow Wildbil back on, since his awesome score streak has dried up and he's no longer competition. We sit down to discuss methods for keeping track of your gaming inventory. You may be able to guess our current favorite, but we talk about the options, our history with different methods, and the deeper meaning behind documenting items. You folks may regret all the praise you gave us for the last episode, as we've gone on to produce another three hours of content. Don't blame us, you had the chance to complain at the last one ;) Show notes: Music: Metroid (FDS) 22:01 Small Scores 1:34:09 Main Topic: Inventorying 2:58:04 Closing Sites mentioned in the show: http://www.rfgeneration.com http://www.ign.com http://www.nintendoage.com http://www.segaage.com http://www.collectorz.com http://www.cheapassgamer.com

17:06 Small Scores 59:17 Interview with Wildbil52 1:23:06 Crabby's Amazing Pick-up 1:32:52 Main Topic: Cleaning 2:49:25 Outro After an unusually long absence we are back to discuss a topic that our significant others wish was more universal, cleaning. This is one of several areas of collecting that we find oddly enjoyable. Don't know how to stock your cleaning tool box? We’ll help you get started. Wondering what the best method is to get stickers off your games? No problem. Dirty contacts giving you trouble? Or maybe you just want to spruce up the look or your dirty old NES. Whatever it is, we’ll get you on your way to a pristine looking game collection that’ll make your friends jealous. And if you’re a listener of any of the previous Collectorcasts, you’ll probably recognize how sick we are of talking about Wildbil52’s great new finds each episode during the small scores recap. To remedy this we invited Wildbil52 onto the show so that he can talk about his own dang finds this time around ;). And since cleaning can be such an important part of the collecting experience Wildbil52 sticks around for the rest of the episode to let us take a look inside his cleaning tool box, share a few cleaning secrets, and make sure that we don't get off topic.

Join Crabmaster 2000 and Duke.Togo as they blather on about collecting video games. In this episode we talk about nice pick-ups from collectors at RF Gen for the month of April, a little introduction of ourselves, why people collect, and personal grails.