Chrono Trigger Cartridge Value

[DarkGizmo]

I would like to know if there is a way to find out how much would sell a CT original Cartridge, I don't want to sell it just curious! Because once a seller asked me over 20 time if I was sure I didn't want to sell it and it's jsut wierd as you can get them has rom so easily they should be worth nothing, right?

[V_Translanka]

Well, the cart itself isn't really rare or anything (it's just that people hold onto their copies)...But you can normally get a sale value of about a $25-40 price range...But, if you do it through an online deal, like Ebay, you can get more...Especially if you have it's box & the instruction booklet...I've seen copies go up to about $100 before...I plan on putting my SNES cart, the instruction booklet, my copy of FFC, and CC up for bids one of these days...y'know, when I'm hard up for cash and all my comic books and action figures are down the tubes...

...maybe...

[DarkGizmo]

ok then it must be 40$ I only own the cartridge, nothing else. I was jsut lcuky finding it in those 1000 cartridge and it was a the very end. I bought it for 40$, luckily it was money well spend

[Lord J Esq]

Because of the ROM and the fact that Chrono Trigger carts are no longer in production, the cart has become obsolete for anyone other than those who prefer a cartidge copy over a ROM image copy, for whatever reasons, and those who collect appealing carts as much as a numismatist collects appealing coins. These two groups of people--the ones who prefer the CT cart to the ROM, and those who value the CT cart not only for being CT but also for being a cart--are the ones who determine the "value" of a given CT cart today. What they are willing to pay, on average, represents what the carts are still worth.

If we could sample these two populations it might be possible to determine with some confidence an empirical average value of a CT cartridge in various conditions. So if you're interested in answering this question Fo' Real, that's where you'd go with it. Just my $0.02...which, incidentally, is more than I'd personally be willing to pay for a CT cart.

[V_Translanka]

Yar, my cart's sentimental value skyrockets it into the hundreds...It's probably one of the first things I'd save if the house was on fire...that and my comics & action figures & video games & my comp...man...do I ever not have a life...w/e

Which is actually funny because I value CT pretty much equal to that which I value FFVI, but I lost my FFIII SNES cart long ago...It was a sad day...so sad...my only consolation is that now I can play it whenever on an emulator...But Blitzes actually AREN'T the same on a comp which is the only valid complaint about ROMs I've ever heard...But really, that's just because I don't have a fitting controller...

[Lord J Esq]

But of course! How could I forget something as obvious as sentimental value? I think Sometimes I think I'm Air elemental's bitch to a fault.

[ZeaLitY]

$100 is usually the very upper limit for a complete package on Ebay. It will get up to $80 most times and then end, but even that could be avoided if idiots did not start bidding 6 days in advance. I may be a sniper, and it may seem ethically wrong and bother me the night I win an item, but it is truthfully the only way to operate. People who bid early simply get into petty wars and drive up the price.

[CatchRBFivy]

my cart was a slut, i bought it from a blockbuster video because i rented it so much that i had a file on there that i just didn't want to lose.  i don't have it anymore because i think my brother traded it in for $$....he also stole my xenogears, CC, FFVIII and a couple others....my only games left were like FFT, FFVII, grand turismo, and that might be it......

But Blitzes actually AREN'T the same on a comp which is the only valid complaint about ROMs I've ever heard...But really, that's just because I don't have a fitting controller...

yeah i feel the pain on blitzes....i have to resort to vanish/doom a lot because bum rush is hard to get right sometimes

[Hadriel]

I've got an easy solution to that; reconfigure ZSNES to use the arrow keys for direction and the keypad as the A, B, X, Y, etc. keys.  You don't have to worry about calibration issues.  I've never missed a single Blitz with that system, plus I can do all the work with one hand and scarf down a burger with the other (unhealthy, I know.)

[CatchRBFivy]

if you think thats lazy get a load of this

i calibrated teh direction to the arrows
and the a,b,x,y buttons to the closest possible keys....like Ctrl, Shift, Zero

this way i didn't even have to move my wrist over to the keypad. but i changed it back cause i didnt' really like it.

how do you not miss the blitzes though?  i use the arrow keys and i still miss.

[V_Translanka]

That's wierd...I had my Blitzes as RTYU & FGHJ (using trusty WASD as the D-Pad, KL:" as ABXY, IO as L&R and M< as Start & Select). But my point was that since the Blitzes are so super easy to use that it's not exactly like playing the cart, but this problem (if you go so far as to see it as one) can be resolved with the proper computer controller.

[Chrono'99]

For Blitzes... I thought you could just push twice a key instead of having to do the diagonal combinations, like "down, down, right" instead of "down, down-right, right"?

[jotabe1789]

Well, in SNES9x you can actually configurate the keyboard to activate certain keys as the diagonal directions.

[Ramsus]

http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/

[CatchRBFivy]

thanks for the tip about using down down right right and stuff chrono 99

i had completely forgotten that way!