thinking of selling my neo stuff.

to put it simply my stepdad is selling his record collection to get money as my family is broke as a joke now. and i can't stand to see that stuff go. hes got original willie nelson stuff to original mo town records to a hendrix are you experienced that's autographed. i wanna offer to buy em from him, and i need to know if it'd be worth dumping my neo stuff for. music to me seems to hold much more value in my life than games what do you guys think? i know most record places would cornhole him so i wanna make him a better offer for the stuff i myself want.

Tell him to sell on ebay, he won't get shafted by record stores knock down prices.

dude you don't get it. this is the music i was raised on i don't want him to sell i'm wanting to buy it of of him. see what i'm getting at? i love this stuff i have memories of each one of the albums he's selling and he's got like eigh boxes full of records. i remember dancing to shut up and play yer guitar byt frank zappa. and i remember all of the all green, beatles, and led zepplin stuff. it's got a lot of sentimental value to me and i can't stand to let that go. there's more to it than money. to me money means nothing, but this whole situation is just another indictment of why money makes the world go round and it's really pissing me off. this is why i'm thinking of unloading my neo stuff. just to buy these records from him, so i know they're gona be safe for another ten or twenty years.

I wouldn't trade Neo Geo games for old vinyls that have been remastered on CD.

SamuraiShodownSensei:
I wouldn't trade Neo Geo games for old vinyls that have been remastered on CD.

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Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

Have u asked , or have an idea of the value of your dads records??

Baseley09
Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.
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I would rather listen to music of much higher quality, than hear the crackling that is associated with old records. I don't see how this relates to Roms in any way. I didn't say download the mp3s. Most people I know who have all the old records, make an effort to upgrade their music to higher quality.

dude all those records are worth like $2000 if not more, and if i sold my neo stuff i couldn't get em all but i could get a decent chunk of em. i'm really broken up about this it's like losing a relative or something and really pulling me apart.

SamuraiShodownSensei:

Baseley09
Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

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I would rather listen to music of much higher quality, than hear the crackling that is associated with old records. I don't see how this relates to Roms in any way. I didn't say download the mp3s. Most people I know who have all the old records, make an effort to upgrade their music to higher quality. [/QB]

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you don't get it. it's not the quality of the sound it's what it's worth to me. sure i have most of those albums on cd. but i feel that they are priceless in vinyl form you'd have to have lived on music like i have to get it

SamuraiShodownSensei:

Baseley09
Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

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I would rather listen to music of much higher quality, than hear the crackling that is associated with old records. I don't see how this relates to Roms in any way. I didn't say download the mp3s. Most people I know who have all the old records, make an effort to upgrade their music to higher quality. [/QB]

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Yeah i kinda lost my point someewhere, its just if u have an old record collection, or like to buy LP's over cd's, you would know what i mean, or more specifically, if the albums you listened to when a child are still around the house, they have much more value to the person than modern cd's, if u see what i mean.

SamuraiShodownSensei:

Baseley09
Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

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I would rather listen to music of much higher quality, than hear the crackling that is associated with old records. I don't see how this relates to Roms in any way. I didn't say download the mp3s. Most people I know who have all the old records, make an effort to upgrade their music to higher quality. [/QB]

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Some people prefer classics; to each his own.
There's nothing wrong with a persons preference.

homecarts vs. mvs

same thing.

Kid Aphex
Some people prefer classics; to each his own.
There's nothing wrong with a persons preference.

homecarts vs. mvs

same thing. [/QB]

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I agree. I just don't want Kim selling all his Neo Geo stuff, then regretting it down the road. But, I believe this is the second thread you have made about selling your games? Since you obviously have questions about keeping your games, selling them might be a good thing.

seriously, sell you stuff to buy back at least the special stuff from your stepdads collection.

when you're a bit more flush again you can always buy another neo, but you'd have a hard time buying back those records.

SamuraiShodownSensei:

Kid Aphex
Some people prefer classics; to each his own.
There's nothing wrong with a persons preference.

home carts vs. mvs

same thing.

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I agree. I just don't want Kim selling all his Neo Geo stuff, then regretting it down the road. But, I believe this is the second thread you have made about selling your games? Since you obviously have questions about keeping your games, selling them might be a good thing. [/QB]

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well that's the thing last time i made a thread about it i put the systems away for about a month and now the spark has returned, but see today when i came home from school my step dad was sitting at the dining room table with all of his records in front of him about to cry cause he had to sell em. and i realized something those records are not just valuable to him their value is totally mutual in our house we all used to sit an listen to them on Saturday nights when my uncle and aunt would come over every weekend a hang out till two a.m. or the countless times i'd steal one and pop it on my player and listen to it for hours. they have a really high value to me, my mom, my step dad, and my sisters. it's like in that moment i walked in the door i could remember all these times during years past and then a James Taylor song popped into my head "rock a bye sweet baby James" and it hit me i can't stand to see em go. they were there all my life like some sort of phantasmagoric entity watching over me. their melodic tunes guiding my life. hell in first grade when i had to write a report on my favorite song i used "voodoo child" by Hendrix. I’ve lived my life to the beats of led zeppelin and the who. and i was just exploring my options to see what i could do to save these memories, and preserve what few shreds of innocence i have left. I know that to the untrained eye and mind they’re just records, but to me they are my life there are so many memories in those albums that if they were to leave it’d be like losing a really good friend or something. When I look into these boxes loaded with records I don’t just see albums I see my life. I remember when I was five and coming home from school and zappa would be playing or stevie ray Vaughn and double trouble. Or the day srv died in 1990 I remember the music wafting down the stairs and into my room I was all of four but I can still remember it. Even now as I write this I’m listening to abbey road by the Beatles. You know this music taught me to sing, it taught me to be me, and so much more. It’s wholesome and it means something to me and I feel that if I lose that little bit of tangibility that’s in owning the albums I could lose so much more.

I don’t know what to do, I figure he’s going through the same thing he will probably cry himself to sleep knowing that he has put a price on his youth and on forty years of collecting. He will go upstairs to tonight and play his guitar and find all of the chords are off and that all he fought against in purchasing these records is what he is trying to buy, a life in suburbia. And this is his last ditch his last shred of life and he is selling it. I quote tha band alpha Ville in saying “forever young , I Wanna be forever young, do you really Wanna live forever forever and ever?” his youth and his life is in these records as well. And granted we haven’t always seen eye to eye on most things to see a grown man have to sell his soul and his past to provide for the future is something I can’t stand for.

Kim _Kaphwan:
to put it simply my stepdad is selling his record collection to get money as my family is broke as a joke now. and i can't stand to see that stuff go. hes got original willie nelson stuff to original mo town records to a hendrix are you experienced that's autographed. i wanna offer to buy em from him, and i need to know if it'd be worth dumping my neo stuff for. music to me seems to hold much more value in my life than games what do you guys think? i know most record places would cornhole him so i wanna make him a better offer for the stuff i myself want.

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Record albums are virtually worthless . . . you can't play them like games, the sound quality sucks, and they're difficult to keep in good condition. For collectibility, the only real thing they offer is a big album cover with its artwork.

Best thing you could do would be to help him by selling them on Ebay, where he could get more money for them. Selling your Neo stuff to buy the records would be a big mistake, IMO . . .

Baseley09:

SamuraiShodownSensei:
I wouldn't trade Neo Geo games for old vinyls that have been remastered on CD.

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Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

Have u asked , or have an idea of the value of your dads records??

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Actually no thats not a good analogy, since the remastered versions on CDs would be much higher quality than the original albums (no scratches, ticks, and pops, and much better sound quality). In the case of Neo vs. Emulators, it is most people's opinion that the original version (Neo) is the best.

I think selling what you cherish personally to keep what you cherish as a family is a great gesture, and I can't see how it would be wrong or a bad idea.

Family always comes first in my book.

Yeah dude. If it's for the best, sell your Neo stuff and buy those records. After all, those records cannot be replaced, but as you hold no special ties with your particular copies of neo games, sell them and buy them back when your in a more suitable position. At the end of the day it's up to you. Man it would be like me having to part with my Megadrive collection i've had since i was about 8 years old, i couldn't do it.

best of luck.
Mike

chimpmeister:

Baseley09:

SamuraiShodownSensei:
I wouldn't trade Neo Geo games for old vinyls that have been remastered on CD.

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Nah, thats kinda like saying sell the neo stuff cause u can play the games on an emulator = it just aint the same.

Have u asked , or have an idea of the value of your dads records??

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Actually no thats not a good analogy, since the remastered versions on CDs would be much higher quality than the original albums (no scratches, ticks, and pops, and much better sound quality). In the case of Neo vs. Emulators, it is most people's opinion that the original version (Neo) is the best.

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lol, i dont wanna explain again.

That wasnt the paralell i was trying to point out.

It wasnt abput quality, more ownership of an original piece :

My original Rolling Stones sticky Fingers LP = £100 + (2nd hand)

On CD = £7(2nd hand)

chimp you may not care about the price value on them but the sentimental value is what makes them worth anything to me. you have to have something you're incredibly passionate about, for me it's rock n' roll, writing, and videogames. in that order. you chimp may not feel these records are worth the dirt on the soles of your shoes, but you have to have something you idolize something that you have loved since you were a kid. and think of it in that perspective. whatever it is think of you having to permanently part with it. then you'll see where I’m coming from.

chimpmeister:
Record albums are virtually worthless . . . you can't play them like games, the sound quality sucks, and they're difficult to keep in good condition. For collectibility, the only real thing they offer is a big album cover with its artwork.

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Some people (myself included) prefer the true analog sound over digital. Listen to perfect-condition records on something that isn't some peice of shit turntable that's highly calibrated with reference quality needles, I can rarely spot the differences. An added bonus in regards to collecting vinyl is that much music STILL is only on vinyl and never brought over to a digital format, which only limits how much music you want to be able to enjoy.

My opinion in regards to Kim_Kaphwan would be try to keep much of the vinyl that's in near-perfect to perfect condition and the true sentimental peices, and sell the rest (for the most part, it's pretty easy to track down older vinyl with the right connections, and for decent prices in most cases). Then again, I'd also do some research as to how tough it would be again to track down the same records you would possibly sell. It's a tough choice you're faced with, I don't know if I could sell any of my games to keep a quality record collection (or my own), but maybe sell some of the Neo stuff you don't really want to have anymore. But the choice is up to you, of course.

Will, I can tell you this from experience, your duty to your family comes first and foremost. If you feel you can help your family out by selling your Neo gear then go for it. Remember, no matter how much we talk it up, the Neo is still only a game system, nothing more nothing less. Some things in life are more important than videogames.
Best of luck to ya.

Mike

chimpmeister:
Record albums are virtually worthless . . . you can't play them like games, the sound quality sucks, and they're difficult to keep in good condition. For collectibility, the only real thing they offer is a big album cover with its artwork.

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I was going to write out a big reply explaining why you're so wrong, but instead I'll just say this - you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Vinly sound better then CD's.

Actually no thats not a good analogy, since the remastered versions on CDs would be much higher quality than the original albums (no scratches, ticks, and pops, and much better sound quality). In the case of Neo vs. Emulators, it is most people's opinion that the original version (Neo) is the best.

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Actually Chimp, you could make the exact same argument for Neo vs. next-gen shit...

'Actually, PS2, XBox and GameCube are much better looking and sounding. Neo-Geo stuff is really old, really expensive,terriblylow-res and the music and sound fx sound like an old Casio keyboard. Go with the new shit man.'

I work in a large store where besides videogames and books we offer all manner of music media, including vinyl. You be shocked if you knew the depth and severity of vinyl freaks' devotion to that older, warmer sound. These are people who buy the old, $2500 radio-tube amps and $700 turntables to get what they believe is a truer, better sound. Doesn't this line of thinking all sound familiar? Honestly man, I don't think you can draw a better analogy to what we are in pursuit of as Neo fans. It can't be explained to anyone other than those just 'feel' the unrivaled quality of they believe is still better than the newer technology. And yes, it comes with a very hefty price tag.

There's also still TONS of music that is only available on vinyl. It's just one more hardcore hobby.

buy it off him if you can.

you can always buy back 90% of the neo geo carts. Who knows, maybe the next time around, you'll get sweeter deals. Happens to me all the time.

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