Retro Gaming Australia

Yep, it’s massive auction time once again.

This time, the seller has over 6,500 games and 330 consoles. He’s centered most of his attention on collecting for his favourite series, such as The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Castlevania and Metal Gear. There are all sorts of things collectors drool over, like sealed copies of Magical Chase, Metal Gear: Solid Snake for the MSX2, not one but four Steel Battalion controller sets, the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles white GameCube and even a PCB for the cult-classic Strider-esque arcade game Osman.

You can find pictures of the collection here.

The author of the most accurate SNES emulator, bsnes (now higan), byuu, is selling off his US SNES Collection. The emulator author rounded up all 721 commercial releases for the system to ensure that perfect dumps of each game were released, that they were 100% compatible with his emulator, and that the boxes and manuals could be scanned and preserved.

The last part of that plan looks like it’s going to the dogs – byuu is selling up so that he can start work on the PAL and Super Famicom sets – though apparently he’ll give you a discount if you let him hang onto those boxes and manuals so he can scan them.

The buy it now price is currently a cool $US25,000 – about $34 per game. Considering that the vast majority of them are complete, that’s actually not that bad a deal when you factor in the high price of most of the system’s RPGs.

Got a spare million Euros? You could purchase this guy’s collection which is up for sale on eBay.

The collection contains full software sets for 22 systems (all Japanese except where noted) – Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Virtual Boy, Super Famicom, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, GameCube, Master System (EU), Mark III, Game Gear, Mega Drive, 32X, Mega CD, Saturn, PC Engine, PC Engine CD, Supergrafx, PC Engine Super CD, PC-FX and Pioneer LaserActive – many of which are still sealed. He’s willing to sell systems separately, but not titles separately.

Frankly, you’d be taking all of the fun out of collecting, but it’d make a nice conversation piece.

Edit: And it sold. Let’s wait and see if it was a legitimate sale, or if someone was pissfarting around.