Arcade card questions

[arromdee]

Basically the obvious questions:
1) What would I expect to pay for one?  (I have the separate CD system so I would need a Pro)  rakuten has one for $40, but they don't seem to be anywhere near as much a bargain for items in this price range as for cheap items.
2) What games for it are reasonably decent and reasonably cheap?  Ports are of less interest since it's easy to get them on other systems, but if really cheap, I may consider them.  I do already have a Sapphire bootleg.  I don't know Japanese much past being able to read kana.
3) What games might I want to burn a CD for, but could probably not buy for oh, $25 or less?  (I have the PSX Strider, so I don't need a port of that.)

[thesteve]

$40 is cheap for the pro

[Black Tiger]

Buy Kabuki Itouryoden.

Since you're not looking for ports and have Sapphire, that should do it, but still justify the expense of the Arcade Card.

[Samurai Ghost]

$40 is a decent price for the Pro. On a really good day on Yahoo Auction you might be able to pick one up for around $25 plus local shipping, but once you factor in international shipping and everything it would still end up being around $40+, especially for a complete copy. If it's a Duo you could probably do it for around $30.

[thesteve]

duo can be had for 16-20 from hit

[arromdee]

$40 is a decent price for the Pro. On a really good day on Yahoo Auction you might be able to pick one up for around $25 plus local shipping, but once you factor in international shipping and everything it would still end up being around $40+, especially for a complete copy. If it's a Duo you could probably do it for around $30.

rakuten would also be international shipping.

I know nothing about Yahoo auctions (Japan I presume); how do you use that?

[Samurai Ghost]

$40 is a decent price for the Pro. On a really good day on Yahoo Auction you might be able to pick one up for around $25 plus local shipping, but once you factor in international shipping and everything it would still end up being around $40+, especially for a complete copy. If it's a Duo you could probably do it for around $30.

rakuten would also be international shipping.

I know nothing about Yahoo auctions (Japan I presume); how do you use that?

Well if you are outside Japan it's next to impossible so basically you'd have to use a proxy service.

[Necromancer]

+1 on $40 being a fair price for a complete ACP, and +1 on buying Kabuki Itouryodan.  If you don't care much about the NeoGeo fighters (since you do CDRs, you should at least give 'em a look), the only other games worth getting are Mad Stalker (cheap) and Madou Monogatari (pricey).

[Senshi]

+1 for Mad Stalker. Street Fighter-esqe moves in a robot beat'em up. Very fun.

P.S. PSX does not mean playstation 1 or 2. Sorry, pet peeve.

[Necromancer]

P.S. PSX does not mean playstation 1 or 2. Sorry, pet peeve.

It means both!

[Senshi]

I know but it was a separate system and everyone always refers to PS1 and 2 this way.

[Black Tiger]

I know but it was a separate system and everyone always refers to PS1 and 2 this way.

It wasn't a separate system, the system you're thinking of came into existence after many years of people using PSX to refer to the original Playstation. The Sega Master System's official name was the Power Base and calling it the "Sega Master System" is like calling everything NES "Nintendo Action Set" consoles and games. But most people don't have a problem with "SMS". There's no such thing as a Turbo Grafx, Turbografx-16, Turboduo, Turbo Duo, etc either, if you want to stop people from using anything but exactly perfect names for things.

Otherwise, you have to build a time machine and tell Hudson Soft that they're rupturing the space-time continuum with the title "Adventure Island", titling Dawn of Ys as "Y's IV", before racing over to Sega HQ (if reality is still held together), to stop the Wonderboy III paradox.

[Senshi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

When people say PSX i think of this.  That's all. Jesus, who pissed in your cheerios?

[RegalSin]

Also PSX works as a sum of the Playstation model. So people just say PSX. What is stupid is how the Gameboy was basically the same back then.

[Bernie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29

When people say PSX i think of this.  That's all. Jesus, who pissed in your cheerios?

I didnt even know that thing existed.  Too bad it wasnt released here in the US.  I'd want one.