Keep checking guys! I saw one on ebay last month, I think it sold for about 54 USD (just the game). I bought a brand new, sealed in box game for about $100 USD. It also seems like the sealed ones go up for sale more often too. So it’ not that much more expensive to just get the whole thing, it may be worth it to do that. In my opinion it has the coolest box out of the whole collection, so there’s that too!
Ah you know what you are right. I was forgetting that to emulate requires much much more processing power than the original. The VB has a better processor than the NES and one similar in strength to the SNES, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is good enough to emulate those consoles.
This article talks about how it takes a 3GHz processor to properly emulate the Super Nintendo’s 21.47MHz CPU. http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/2712-why-perfect-hardware-snes-emulation-requires-a-3ghz-cpu/
I wonder though, if it would be possible to run NES on the VB. The NES has a 1.79 MHz processor, while the GB has a 4.19 MHz. And, as we can see, the VB with its 20 MHz CPU can emulate the Gameboy.
I could see a scenario where the VB would struggle to emulate NES games, and that would be games that had extra processing chips (mappers) in the cartridges. I wonder how many NES games have mappers..