I am in Japan, which system should I buy?

[noiseredux]

sorry to de-rail, but if you get a chance let me know what Final Fantasy III is going for on PSP in Japan. Ebay sellers are charging in the $45 range and I have a hunch that's pretty gouge-ish.

[prfsnl_gmr]

If you can't get it that way, you could try the NDS version. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I think it was ported to iOS.

[noiseredux]

If you can't get it that way, you could try the NDS version. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I think it was ported to iOS.

my wife has a DS, but I sold both of mine. I just am not a fan of the hardware. I don't find it comfortable. Don't like the dual screens. Don't like using a stylus in a lot of games.

I have no items in my home that can run the iOS, and plan to keep it that way.

Plus I'm on this kick having just finished FFI on PSP, and just started II on PSP. I kind of liked the idea of playing at least the first 4 installments in their PSP remake form.

[brunoafh]

sorry to de-rail, but if you get a chance let me know what Final Fantasy III is going for on PSP in Japan. Ebay sellers are charging in the $45 range and I have a hunch that's pretty gouge-ish.

Amazon JP is usually a pretty good gauge for stuff like this.



With the yen being in the state that it's in, looks like about $30 new and $20 used. So there are worse gouges, but yeah, "Final Fantasy" being in the name doesn't help.

[botolo]

sorry to de-rail, but if you get a chance let me know what Final Fantasy III is going for on PSP in Japan. Ebay sellers are charging in the $45 range and I have a hunch that's pretty gouge-ish.

Hello,

I am happy to check prices for all of you guys or to buy stuff for you (but I will ship anything when I am back in Los Angeles at the end of July). Please send me PMs with your requests. This was is easier for me to track all requests.

Some rules:

- send me the name of the games in kana;
- if you can, send me a pic of the box or cartridge;
- if you would like me to buy something for you, we should then use PayPal for reimbursement and you'll pay PayPal's fees;
- if you need me to ship games to you, you pay exact shipping price;
- I can't buy systems, I don't have enough space in my luggages.

Thanks!

[pierrot]

^ I wouldn't recommend opening yourself up to that without 'one small item per person,' and 'first 20 people' rules, or something. It won't end well.

[01toubib]

^ I wouldn't recommend opening yourself up to that without 'one small item per person,' and 'first 20 people' rules, or something. It won't end well.

x2 I know your trying to be nice, but the shear number of volume of requests you'll get will be very time consuming. Trust me I tried it once and got ran over and that was just a bulk order to try to lower shipping costs, I wasn't even in Japan.

Plus, you should focus on your mission at hand, you got time in Japan make the best of it. My best recommendation is try to find some cool looking Gameboy systems that weren't sold in the U.S.

[botolo]

Thanks a lot to everyone for the feedback! An update on my journey in the magical retro gaming world

I have visited Super Potato now three times, also their location in Ikebukuro (smaller but even more packed with stuff) and I have thought about my goals. Let me have your thoughts on this and forgive me for the length of this message. I am using it also to do some personal brainstorming.

Let's start with the systems I don't think I'll buy.

A system that I love is the Super Famicom. This has been one of the console I played more when I was a kid. I still remember playing Super Mario World until the end because my girlfriend at that time loved the game and loved to watch me play the game. She insisted that I finished it...and I did it! While the Super Famicom is very nice, I still have the PAL system at home in Italy and this has the same shape of the Japanese Super Famicom. In addition to this, I could easily buy a Super Nintendo when back in the US and this also plays Japanese Super Famicom games. Because of this, I would not buy the Super Famicom here in Tokyo.

I am also not interested in buying semi-modern consoles, such as the Nintendo Gamecube, the Dreamcast, the PS1 or PS2. I already have all these systems back in Italy and they can all play Japanese games (the PS1 and PS2 have been mod chipped and I think I have somewhere a Dreamcast loader and I could buy a loader for the Nintendo Gamecube).

As for the Nintendo 64, it's a great machine but I have the US version at home in California. Same thing for the Sega Master System or the Sega Mega Drive, I have them somewhere in Italy in PAL format.

This basically leaves out few consoles, the Saturn, the PC Engine (Duo) and the Famicom.

Among these systems, the one that really excites me is the Famicom with the Famicom Disk. It seems to me the perfect mix between toy and gaming system. Those disks are wonderful to look at and Super Potato has tons of them. But the price is high, we are talking about $120/140 for the system and I know I would not play it while in Japan (because we are always going around town) and I wonder whether I would play it at home, when I still have games on the PS3 and Nintendo Wii U to check.

What I was thinking is that I could buy a handheld system. I would play it when in the metro, at night before sleeping and I could play it on the flight back home (11 hours, sigh!). The only handheld system would be the Gameboy. At Super Potato they have Gameboy Colors at around $30/35. Someone suggested me to go for a Nintendo DS so that I will be able to play Gameboy Advance games. The price of a Nintendo DS is around $45. But when I think about this I wonder...does it make sense to buy these systems or should I go for a Nintendo 3DS, which is sold here at around $160?

What do you guys think?

Thanks a lot!!!

[01toubib]

You can never go wrong with a Gameboy. It's small and portable so it will be easy to bring back home and has an infinite library of games and they are not region locked if I remember correctly. I know you were looking at Colors, but it might be worth your time to get a SP, it's the most universal Gameboy. It call play any game from the original GB all the way to GBA. Plus the back-light is really convenient.

[botolo]

You can never go wrong with a Gameboy. It's small and portable so it will be easy to bring back home and has an infinite library of games and they are not region locked if I remember correctly. I know you were looking at Colors, but it might be worth your time to get a SP, it's the most universal Gameboy. It call play any game from the original GB all the way to GBA. Plus the back-light is really convenient.

Thanks a lot for your reply. Here is my doubt. You can buy here in Tokyo an SP at around $50 but you can buy a NDS at $40. The SP will play Gameboy and Gameboy Advance. The NDS will play NDS and Gameboy Advance. Which one should I get?