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Re: Rarity, physical PCB vs emulator bla bla
08/28/14 12:50 AM
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> I didn't personally keep tabs on it, but I was told that winning bid prices in Yahoo!
> Japan auctions for games that the Dumping Project acquired (and that were later
> dumped and supported by MAME) almost always declined after the games were emulated,
> sometimes precipitously.
Well, I'd like to add my opinion about this... There are two parts about this conversation. One is "in general, do emulated games lower the price of the real PCB?" and the other is "does the same happen with rare PCBs?".
In the first case, I'd say definitely. If I want to play SuperTetrisFighter EX and it's not emulated, and I have a JAMMA rig or something similar, and I can afford it, well, I just go and pay for it. Not because it's a collector's item, but because I want to play it. Maybe I am a collector and I will keep it, but in many cases, the amount of money you want to spend in something that you can get for free and probably in a cabinet setup (since you're with the JAMMA and maybe other arcade rigs) drops considerably.
In the rare PCB case, they are always collector items. Maybe they will only be tested and played a few times and spend their days mostly in a safe. Maybe they will be played, but they are acquired not for their playability, but 99.9% for their collectible value, as the first edition of Action Comics #1. In that case, wether the game is emulated or there's somewhere a free remake or whatever, is not relevant to the value. Moreover, if there's a rare PCB I am willing to buy, and it is supported by MAME, I might be prone to invest more money because I know that if the PCB suffers bitrot or something, I can repair it thanks to the documentation of MAME and the roms floating everywhere. Thus it's a more secure acquisition.
IMHO the japanese market is not so different regarding this. There might be more arcade fans, but they are probably the same as other human beings in this economy-driven world: there are things they want, and there is a budget to get them.
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