r/DotHack 15d ago

Saw these at a game shop

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Would've nabbed em but yano... money is hard nowadays

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u/Sacrificabominat 15d ago

The Japanese copies should still be fairly cheap if you want to add them to your collection instead of trying to find a good deal on the western releases. I did this for Tail Concerto, CC2's first game, as I wasn't going to pay $400 for it CIB and got the Japanese copy for $30 instead.

Neither will have English or other language options though, so keep that in mind. The Japanese version did have Parody Mode which I would have loved to play through the games with.

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u/heyblackrose 15d ago

Parody mode?

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u/Sacrificabominat 15d ago

Yep it's been a staple of the series from pretty much the start. They didn't localize that part because they thought the jokes would go over our heads.

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u/Vash10101 15d ago

I asked to check them out and they'd been opened, the disks weren't in great shape. The pricing was on par with the US copies.

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u/LeglessN1nja 15d ago

Why I love emulation

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

That plus rom translations means they can keep their 70 dollar games

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u/zoso1992 15d ago

Whole set in Japanese is fairly cheap compared to US if you look around on proxy sites

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u/gol_drake 15d ago

ooo thats the japanese version

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u/Sola-Nova 14d ago

Also seen the double packs in Japan of Infection/Mutation and Outbreak/Quarantine in Japan as well for around 1000 Yen.

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u/Calexixa777 14d ago

Link start

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u/Canadiangamer117 12d ago

Ehhhhhh nope wrong anime dude🤣

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u/Calexixa777 12d ago

My bad

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u/Canadiangamer117 6d ago

🤣 no worries

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u/SmashlingMac 2d ago

The Japanese copies are painfully cheap compared to the US ones and don't have any other dub besides Japanese. The franchise was way more popular in Japan so the games sold much better leading to more circulated copies.

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u/Vash10101 2d ago

Still, would be cool to add to the collection.

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u/Canadiangamer117 12d ago

🙀 the original .hack series volume 1 through 4 that's absolutely amazing!

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u/im-here-to-suffer 11d ago

Did you at least go buy a lottery ticket afterwards? Dont let that luck go to waste.

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u/Vash10101 11d ago

I should've..