I just got back from another successful Saturday morning of yard sales.

I was lucky enough to get my very first Sega Saturn today. This is the first one that I’ve seen in the wild at a reasonable price. The seller was asking $5, but I offered him $3, and he took it. (I admit, my definition of “reasonable price” is pretty lowball when it comes to yard saling.) It was pretty dirty and scuffed (photos are after cleaning) but to my surprise, it does, in fact, work. What surprises me most is how quiet it is for such an old CD-ROM system. Heck, my new PSP is noisier than this.

The last Sega Saturn set I saw in the wild was at the same Goodwill where I picked up the Super Famicom (!), though that set was a bit too pricey for me at $50. It had some nice games though — Bust-a-Move 2,  Sonic 3D, etc.

I was wondering why I keep finding copies of Final Fantasy XI at yard sales and Goodwills, and then I remembered Gamestop doesn’t take it for trade-in.

• Sega Saturn, 2 controllers, all hook-ups, with Virtua Fighter 2 and some hockey game that I’m not even going to bother to copy down — asking $5, offered $3
• Final Fantasy XI Xbox 360 — $2 (A Final Fantasy game that I don’t have, at a yard sale. How novel!)
• Vectorman, complete and mint –  $2
• Sonic 3D Blast, complete and mint –$2
• Frogger, Spyro the Dragon, Spyro: Ripto’s Rage, Ape Escape, all minty — $2
• Playstation pre-DualShock Analog Controller SCPH-1180, mint in box — $3 (Some crazies believe that this is the most comfortable Sony controller ever made. The PS1 and Genesis games all came from a guy who told me he had a ton of game stuff, but was eBaying portions of it. He told me he just sold a mint copy of Super Mario RPG for $91 on eBay [link]. I responded with a frustrated “aaahhh!!” Guess I wasn’t going to get any amazing deals from him.)
• Nintendo A/V hookups — $0.75
• TI-83 Plus graphing calculator — asking $5, offered $4 (Easy resale come August/September.)
• PSP charger — $1 (Great for my Crisis Core PSP, since I needed another American cable.)

aaaand the Find of the Day:
• Nintendo DS fatty — $5

Found this at the very first sale of the day. Amusingly, they also had a 1st-gen indigo GBA that they wanted $10 for. Huh? I’m sure the DS would not have lasted long had I not gotten there early. The lady said it worked OK, but she didn’t have the “batteries.” Er. By that, I guess she meant the power cable. I plugged it in immediately once I got home and hit Power. Nothing. I was disappointed as I was sure I had just bought someone’s brick. I kept pressing Power and then I heard the speakers clicking. A few more times, and it powered on. It lives! I guess it needed a minute to charge.

The touch screen is pretty scratched. Does anyone have any suggestions on fixing scratches? If so, leave a comment.

And no, Phoenix Wright wasn’t included.

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