snes ahoy

Krusty's Funhouse

The 'Super' Star Wars games

and that strange uni-cycle racing game.

try heberekes popoon

ah yes, that was the one I meant.

Is Super Punch out really good? I never played it (I didn't actually own a SNES until I got one for twenty bucks in college).

I've half-heartedly tried to get into Super Metroid before, but the beginning seems boring and then stupid hard. Somebody school me as to why I should persevere?

It sounds boring, except that it can be so incredibly rewarding when you finally crack the puzzle/beat the enemy and blaze triumphantly through to that unreachable door with your new grappling hook. Also, it's an enjoyable place to wander, especially as you progress and the world expands.

The weapons/utilities are awesome, and rationed out to you with good pacing throughout the game. Just when things start to get a little repetitive, along comes a cool new ability and the fun returns. Well designed enemies/bosses, some really great battles and dramatic JUMP moments, and an eerie, desolate ambience evoked by the music, graphics, and play control that does a pretty good job of convincing you that you are wandering half-weightless in a subterranean alien world.

The ending is perhaps the best game ending I have ever seen. If you win it once, you will probably want to do so again. It is eminently replayable, and... more than any concrete factor I can clearly articulate, I just love this game. I LOVE it.

Jonathong would probably enjoy it! Permadeath and all that!
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1091287094-00.gif

I'm going to have another crack at Super Metroid today.

YES

can't do the timing on bombjumps either.

x-post

allen, what's it like?

I'd like to play this again, I wonder if the SNES version is any different?

Jacking into the matrix was great but i was playing on an emulator and just cheated everytime i got killed by ICE, i think i'll go through it after i've finished FFT without doing that.

Apparently I don't have shit for games though, all I could find was Super Mario World and SFII Turbo (and some crap like Flashback and Super Empire Strikes back). I'm looking forward to getting some of stuff mentioned in this thread.

(Okay, Flashback isn't crap, I just don't have the patience for it right now).

And Super Empire Strikes Back rules!

the yoshi turning into things bits are ok, but the egg thing is a rilly genius way to structure it as something mildly puzzlelike.

the fact that if you fuck up you can always try and catch baby mario is a nice twist, b/c it gives a nicer, saner, sort of "breathing room" than losing one time mushroom powerups, etc.

the first time i lost mario i freaked the hell out. now i'm used to it happening a few times per level.

i also like the self-conscious nod of bringing back the super mario 2 characters, and the hovering jump is so addictive!

Ohhhh. I'll play it in my scheduled SNES renaissance.

The underwater levels were just so nicely designed.

The barrel shooting was amazing, you'd complete a section and be like "how the fuck did I just do that!"

This is why I so enjoy the way katamaris can pull themselves back from the most extreme angles and edges.

the first sequel is very similar and I never played the third one.

BROTHER!!!

think i'll get a gameboy emu just for yoshi's egg. i played that game all the time.

SO MUCH FARMING OF COCK going on. Enough to make a sequel to "Harvest Moon" from it.

GODDAMMIT I JUST WANT A ROM OF EARTHBOUND IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD

in other news, i found my four-year-old savestates from the last time I played Chrono Trigger. Should I beat the rest of the game, or start over from the beginning?

*cough*planetemu dot net*cough*

Or at least it's got a rep, and I'd check it out, if I was like some of you people and had time to do things like that

(NB I did get to the second pendant in Link To The Past GBA version, yesterday during pauses in the football games)

http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/images/ogreshot07.png
http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/images/ogreshot12.png

Your soldiers consist of knights, wizards, healers, bird men, gladiators, beast men, dragons, undead creatures, giants, angels, demons, and more[!!!?!?!?] . You put together units of five and send them across a huge map to liberate towns and combat enemies.

contender for best thing that happened to me this weekend:

i was walking down the street in milwaukee, and what do i see but a PILE OF SNES GAMES on the curb. not terrible games either! i grabbed donkey kong country (never played it before) and f-zero.

when i was walking away, a middle-aged dude with a white mustache and biker jacket was walking the other way, and he says, "oh, i put those there, you can have them." !!!

should i have taken donkey kong 3 too?

the donkey kong country games are amazing. almost mario-level. yes you shoulda if it's dkc3 you're talking about.

i don't know why i wasn't more greedy. like i was leaving some for the next nerdy twenty-something who walked by.

i started playing dkc1 last night and it is indeed some great shit.

can't believe a snes game exists that is named after not one but TWO queen songs! must play!

ogre battle is really hard. tactics ogre, fft, and vagrant story (the creator Yasumi Matsunoare's other games) are all better.

typo in name and link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumi_Matsuno

can't believe a snes game exists that is named after not one but TWO queen songs! must play!

Imagine my surprise years later when I figured this out! (Became a Queen fan later) Man, I love Queen II.

That game was kinda mindblowing to appear on the SNES at the time, since there weren't that many strategy titles on consoles in general, AND this game didn't exactly have a huge print run. Also the music in the game is fantastic. But the game itself is ridiculously hard as balls, unforgiving and each map takes ages to play. I tried to get through this game probably half a dozen times, I wanted so much to be able to love it.

haha okay so friends and i were walking back from the bar last week and someone had left a BIG SCREEN TEEVEE on the curb. so we hauled it back to my friend's place and set it up in his backyard and while the picture is pretty poor it still works and so we hooked up an SNES to it.

so can u guyz recommend to me some awesome SNES games that use the multitap? so far we've got Secret of Mana and Super Bomberman 2 and Peace Keepers.

NHL 94 and any Bomberman are exactly what you need

Do you want my copy of JEOPARDY for the SNES?

Saturday Night Slam Masters!

can anyone recommend a decent usb or bluetooth snes controller that'll work on a mac?

I wish I could. Whatever you do, don't impulse buy a $19.99 controller at Wal-Mart or something. I did that TWICE, and both times the controllers had horrible problems with lag (making any game based on reflexes - AKA 90% of the SNES catalog - worthless) and the analog stick.

The fact that you're making an effort to research this a little before purchasing probably means you'll fare better than I did, though!

got Secret Of Mana in the post yesterday. have never played it before, so i guess it's time to see if it matches up to the hype!

Whoa!
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/fabled-sony-nintendo-play-station-prototype-discovered/

http://i.imgur.com/X8EL3qD.jpg

Awesome. I would love to have that controller.

why does that knife block have the juggalo logo on it

my gf got me one of these things and ive been playing it nonstop

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/supaboy_handson.jpg

adam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._A._Henckels

I played the hell out of ogre battle btw

I downloaded a snes emulator yesterday. It has been too long since I've relived old games. Youtube has rekindled my childhood. Mostly I watch rom hack videos. Speaking of which, these two videos I found today are enlightening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh0Qb0My6fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z-gD1vmmE

I would like to have something like that Cory, but maybe just a SNES usb controller so I don't have to buy games. If I did want to buy games I would like to try one of those new spangled consoles that combines old systems like Retro Freak.

Oh man. I'm going to have to get a USB controller and an emulator. SNES was the last console I really owned but I loved it. Super Metroid, DKC, Mario Kart, Yoshis Island - they were my childhood

i got them years ago and play occasionally on my mac via openemu. it's rad.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15874154/nintendo-snes-classic-edition-release-date-price-announced

The Super NES Classic Edition will launch on September 29th for $79.99. Like its predecessor the NES Classic, it will allow players to easily play retro games on high-definition televisions, thanks to an HDMI connection.

The full list of games included on the SNES Classic follows:

Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO
Kirby Super Star
Kirby’s Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Yoshi’s Island

http://images.eurogamer.net/2017/articles/1/9/0/9/9/2/1/nintendo-confirms-snes-mini-149849357188.jpg/EG11/resize/600x-1/quality/80/format/jpg

http://images.eurogamer.net/2017/articles/1/9/0/9/9/2/1/nintendo-confirms-snes-mini-149849292477.jpg/EG11/resize/600x-1/quality/80/format/jpg

good list though chrono trigger feels like a major omission

is this the first official release for Starfox 2? solid list of games, pleased Secret of Mana is on there.

yeah this will be the first US release of that game iirc

holy fuck.... get my personal shopper on the horn

or the first release of it at all, apparently. neat

as much as i love ff6 on nostalgia i think chrono trigger has aged a lot better

star fox 2

!

buyin it

h8 you nintendo

I'm actually buying this one, not like thinking i can buy it shortly after it's released but it's already sold out

yeh i want one dangit

buyin it

omg this box art
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qb0NkMQQ-ll7J-kJMFZ_5xMKV78=/0x0:1200x885/920x613/filters:focal(504x347:696x539):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/55450119/DDQlaDAVwAEleYg.0.jpg

The guy who developed the Analogue NT Mini (currently the $500 holy grail of 8-bit gaming) is providing jailbreak support for every 8 bit and prior system. He plans on making a 16 bit console - I'm waiting on that. I love early gaming enough to pay a premium price.

Lately I'm playing the major Zelda game I missed, Majora's Mask, using Dolphin emulator, HD texture pack, and a wireless xbox360 controller (lol). This last week I also played Mario 64 for the first time in 20 years. I love emulating because of the up-scaling and widescreen code support etc..

However, NES and SNES don't need any upscaling. It's great of Nintendo to shell out new, old consoles; however it's kinda mean of them to stop production on the NES Classic.

how to pre-order?

It's up on Game for £80 but seems to have broken the website

Nintendo confirms to Kotaku that there will be more SNES Classics, but only this year https://t.co/TDVE7FEmHj pic.twitter.com/uaOqszTMVC

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) June 26, 2017

japanese boxart so pretty

http://i.imgur.com/5KYaS5a.jpg

It was apparently up on Amazon UK but now is "unavailable"

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/6/26/15875482/nintendo-snes-classic-mini-console-amazon-uk-preorder-pricing

buyin it

It's on Nintendo Store UK for £70 now https://store.nintendo.co.uk/nintendo-classic-mini-hardware/nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system/11495711.html

bought one

*yoink* cheers stet

And gone again, heh.

I got an order in with amazon last night before they ran out.

I've still got my bootleg combo NES/SNES with Street Fighter and Mario, I think Chrono Trigger is the only thing that would have made me really want this (and FF II/IV).

if anyone sees a US place taking preorders please lmk

Are the pre-installed games the only ones that will ever be available for it?

https://gizmodo.com/without-chrono-trigger-the-snes-classic-is-just-a-fanc-1796434315

lol... they should of completed the headline in the link address. stupid click-bait
meanwhile I raise you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/6jtle0/the_creators_of_starfox_2_throw_a_longbelated/

auto-generated links aren't intentional clickbait but sure can end up that way

the creators of starfox 2 throw a longbelated brick

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/scalpers-already-reselling-snes-classic-pre-orders-at-150-average-markup/

no official us sellers yet but you can set up a notification from best buy at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-entertainment-system-snes-classic-edition/5919830.p?skuId=5919830&ref=199&loc=HiuZOO%2F9InU&acampID=1&siteID=HiuZOO_9InU-vxnSEqRusRMXjDKxHh32Bg

amazon's doing it too. but i suspect i'll actually have to get my ass out of bed and wait on line for one this year, when i didn't bother for the nes classic. at least it'll be in september instead of november, making it a little bit less of a holiday rush purchase

I wonder if a single nes classic actually was purchased as a gift and not in a scramble to grab one

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/super-nes-classic-pre-orders-start-later-this-month/

i bought a rasp pi for the vintage games instead of waiting for one of these things.... it's dope

i priced out at $130 delivered with a 64 gig memory chip and a bluetooth controller; kinda leaning that direction

do y'all still have wii? those can emulate SNES etc...

y'all have computers?

it doesn't have terranigma so IDGAF

I kinda want to buy one and turn it for a quick $30 profit. But there's no way I'll be quick enough to get one. Too much forethought.

i priced out at $130 delivered with a 64 gig memory chip and a bluetooth controller; kinda leaning that direction

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 4:12 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

about what it cost me, i went: 32gb card (heard things about larger cards sometimes not working), 2 wired snes-ripoff controllers that are p great, and a preorder copy of this book lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/the-unofficial-snes-super-famicom-a-visual-compend

y'all have computers?

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 7:40 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

computer into tv w/hdmi cable and picking games w/desktop + mouse ?? classless

I have managed to secure two pre-orders (UK).A friend of mine donated me his childhood video games collection before he moved to the USA a number of years ago, so I'm planning on sending him one of the SNES mini's when I get them (being from the UK he doesn't want the USA's gross boxy one, and would prefer the smooth beauty that is the UK one).

until a few months ago I'd gone my entire life without knowing that the US SNES had a different (hideous) design to the Japanese/European one

you think it's hideous? you should see what happens when they get old and yellow

I have an original old snes too (courtesy of said friend) but thankfully it's avoided going yellow - it's still got a 'healthy' grey blandness to it. And, aye, I'm not a fan of the blocky USA snes, but it's probably more down to familiarity with the rounded eu ones (plus we have multi-coloured buttons on the controller, which I don't think the USA one does?)

nope, sadly we did not get the colored buttons

I read somewhere that the SNES re-design thinking was that Americans would break the eject mechanism on the original design.

i read that it's because the american soul is vulgar

there's an eject button on the SFC?
and tbf just about everybody busted the springs on their NES consoles, it was a poor design

hot tip- this rules (if you have a mac)

http://openemu.org/

I got one of these to go with it:

http://www.8bitdo.com/snes30-sfc30/

preorders live on best buy website right now, I assume theyll be gone fast

yeah gone already

I got a preorder by going into an ebgames. not sure if i'll keep the system or give it as a gift.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-08-snes-mini-already-hacked-to-play-downloaded-games

So what else should I put on this thing?

Chrono Trigger obv

Super Tennis

Pilotwings

Donkey Kong Country 2

Super Mario All Stars

damnnn if I'd known it wd be susceptible to such hacking I mighta jumped on the bandwagon for this thing

I put on mine so far
Chrono Trigger
FF 4 & 5
Shin Megami Tensei 1 & 2
Umihara Kawase
Sailor Moon Another Story (a SM RPG with english fansub!)
Axelay
Darius Twin
UN Squadron

compatibility list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HKfz4ZQBy6Ip5awvh8t2aV5cVswYlnsdKxn9xoIW2Y/htmlview?sle=true#gid=2014317767

I snagged one of these today and it rules! I was in college during the SNES heyday so I don’t know most of these games, just Donkey Kong Country and Street Fighter, both of which I played about a million hours along w NBA Jam Tournament Édition. Might hack it eventually for the latter.

Where are people buying these, UK or us?

there's a french site tracking availability that I'd been monitoring & one store popped up the other day as having some in stock (at retail price, not marked up duh) & I jumped on it.

www.stockinformer.com is handy for this kind of thing.

(there's also a .co.uk version)

thanks!

smash tennis
turtles in time
NBA jam
smash TV
chrono trigger

don't think terranigma works :?

you can now hack this thing so it‘s a dual boot NES/SNES classic machine. neat.

any way to hack it on mac (natively) yet?

Forget about the SNES Classic. Get the Analogue Super Nt. http://time.com/4981296/super-nt-release-date-preview/90 plus shipping.

This is the console I've been waiting for. It's the follow up to the Analogue Nt Mini which is an all-in-one console (8-bit generation and prior) for the hardcore gamer/collector/person that wants to stick a million roms on an SD Card. I'm going to wait and see if the Super Nt has a jailbreak for the entire 16-bit generation (and prior) before I order it.

The core designer, Kevtris, is an one-man powerhouse plowing through all the work on his own. Plus he's a perfectionist and all around nice guy. His thread is here on atariage.com.

fixed
*Forget about the SNES Classic. Get the Analogue Super Nt. $190 plus shipping

**oops wrong link, fuck go here---> http://time.com/4981296/super-nt-release-date-preview/

lol the writing in that time.com thing is aneurysm inducing

There's another Super Nintendo on the block, and this one means business.

Not the lucrative sort Nintendo's sold out Super NES Classic seems to be doing as availability bulletins circulate like whispers of a ghost. Nor the steady sort Nintendo's handheld 3DS has been up to for years, dishing up choice SNES downloads by way of its Virtual Console. But business the way an audio engineer means when retooling decades-old tunes for playback on modern audio hardware. Or as a film preservationist does when cleaning and converting acetate film to digital ones and zeroes.

It's called the Super Nt, plays some of the medium's most treasured games (like Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past), and judging from the literature its Seattle-based boutique hardware-maker sent over, it's poised to be a Super Nintendo nonpareil

I browsed through 6 or 7 articles and that was the only one with expressive language that matched my excitement. I couldn't read it in one go but in bits between looking up at the tv.

> that wants to stick a million roms on an SD Card.

Oh, do these things do that? I always got the impression they were just designed to play the original physical carts rather than roms.

“The Super NT also includes an SD card slot, ostensibly for firmware updates; however, shortly after releasing the NT mini, Horton released a jailbroken firmware unofficially, which supports ROM playback and, most notably, new “core” support. After 12 releases, culminating in the 2.0 firmware, the NT mini simulates everything from the Atari 7800, the Sega Master System, and the original Game Boy to lesser-known consoles like the Channel F and Adventurevision. Horton’s decades spent decoding the intricacies of video game hardware found a readily available home in the NT mini, and the Super NT should be similar.“

judging from the literature its Seattle-based boutique hardware-maker sent over

luv2breathlessly recycle marketing materials as copy

Oh wow, yeah these are much more tempting then than the way they're marketed would suggest.

Yeah a pinnacle 16-bit system that is $260 less than the pinnacle 8-bit system

lol at the way they described a FPGA in the press release, though

flowery, but good to know. i didn't realize myself this was hardware simulation vs. software emulation

I mean the reason you'd ship it with a FPGA is to simulate different processors, but their marketing only mentions the one

The other reason would be that you don't think you'd sell enough, or actually having chips manufactured would run afoul of actually licensing. Generally a FPGA is used when you're designing a chip. If your intention was to make it run exactly like one specific processor, then... use your FPGA instructions to have someone manufacture that processor

The marketing only mentioned NES for the 8-bit Analogue NT Mini but all the other early systems were casually dumped on the internet via jailbreak firmware from Analogue’s coder himself (Kevtris). As for licensing on things like the super fx chip there might be workarounds in writing code differently and providing the same result. I fully expect the Super Nt to get jailbreak firmware for Genesis, Turbografx 16, and Neo Geo. I hope it includes all the 8-bit and prior cores as well.

Nevertheless, I can wait til Febuary to find out more.

just got one from amazon.fr via stockinformer, thanks jimd

they always alert me just in time for me to miss it

Ha you’re welcome. Been playing Micro Machines on mine this week, and enjoying it more than mariokart.

Oh man I forgot about Micro Machines, that's a definite reason to hack. Are there any drawbacks? Was it easy enough?

It was astoundingly easy, to the extent that it's ridiculous to even call it a hack. It was easier than adding songs to my second gen ipod was! Hackchi is pretty lovely, it'll even do things like auto-googling box art for the menus.

Drawbacks I guess are that a) not everything works (but hackchi warns you which games won't and lets you decide not to add them), b) the interface isn't designed for huge lists of games, which forces you to use subfolders, which is just slightly clunky. Not a massive deal at all though.

It's also possible to install other emulators so that the games which otherwise don't work become playable, the software also offers to do this for you, haven't tried that yet though.

mentioned elsewhere (even on this thread i think!) but:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/one-upping-the-nes-classic-edition-with-the-raspberry-pi-3-and-retropie/

I probably mentioned it? I've got one with a custom interface skin that resembles the NES Classic. Was very fun to curate.

any update on hacking this for people using a mac (without parallels etc)?

I got one! A little Christmas gift to myself. Never heard of Earthbound in all my time as a console enthusiast. What's the deal with that?

Are you from Earth?

Between the poor sales and the phasing out of the Super NES, the game did not receive a European release.

I came across it 15/20 years later via the internet

i remember reading about it in super play and i'm looking forward to playing it nearly 25 years later

( had my snes classic shipped to family in the UK from amazon.fr, so i don't actually have mine yet)

it's the best

I play Earthbound once a year, like a digital hajj.

im on earth btw

I'm on my way there

I did the next level of mod on this thing today, which is installing retroarch. Now it plays all the SNES games (including ones the built in emulator didn’t support) but also all the NES and Gameboy and GBA and, man, it’s pretty amazing (it’ll also do non-Nintendo consoles and n64 but I’m sticking with these for now)

i read about it in super play and played it on emulator in the early 2000s. it's very good, one of the best games on SNES

do the pads on this feel like an actual snes?

is jailbreaking it more or less work than setting up a raspberry pi?

Raspberry pi is at least an evening’s work, this is 20 minutes. And requires a lot less know how. Even installing the extra emulator was literally “download the zip, drag it over to the hackchi window, drop it, click ok”.

And I think the pads feel right? Although I’ve never used a brand new SNES pad before so can’t say for sure, the d-pads do feel stiff but I’m guessing that’s normal.

yeah the pads are pretty close to a new SNES. had a few sessions w this and it felt exactly like playing og hardware.

Are there wireless controllers available for the SNES? The cords are sort of a dealbreaker for me

https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Wireless-Controller-Classic-super-nintendo/dp/B074HBNNH6/
these are very good

also if i had a classic, this would be an instabuy
https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Deluxe-Carrying-Super-Nintendo-Console/dp/B075MXXHCG

I've got one of the those 8bitdos. The d-pad is a little loose but it's otherwise fantastic, and the bluetooth wireless feature is great.

Oh wait that's a newer one than I have in that link. I wonder how it compares.

I'm addicted to Earthbound. It's wonderful. Kind of wish we had a separate thread for it, but I don't know what the point of it would be...

spooky shit in earthbound

SNES classic finally available at walmart.com right now. I should probably snag it...
...welp it disappeared in the time it took me to write this post, good job me

time to re-examine yr priorities dude

Yeah. Snag first write post AFTER

i know! such shame ;_;

got one

https://toadle.me/2017/02/03/how-to-add-more-games-to-you-nes-mini-classic-using-hakchi2-and-a-mac.html

OK I just got one too. I don't know how, but apparently Gamestop has them for more than an hour tops these days because people have started to give up seeking them out.

4 million units sold, apparently? I'm surprised it's that high, given that they're only releasing ten units to market every week.

Like, hey, Nintendo: I've never owned any of your systems except a Game Boy thirty years ago but I'm interested in giving you my money in exchange for one of these things but also only if you stop making it an enormous pain in the ass for me to give you my money.

Corporations are so fucken dumb, I swear.

it's just faintly possible that they're having trouble manufacturing a mass-produced item to meet demand, and not that they're deliberately withholding from individual people who have bought one (1) thing from them in the last 129 years

No, Nintendo have form for this

Thank you for responding in kind to my grounded and literal expression of concern, sic.

Okay, I'm done with Earthbound now. Been replaying Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Super Mario World. There's a strange phenomenon of a kind of 'muscle memory' or something where, even though I haven't really played the games in about 20 years, I still have an intuition of what to do, where the secret bits are etc.

I haven't played the other RPGs - Secret of Mana, Zelda III, Final Fantasy III etc but they do seem a bit hackneyed compared to Earthbound's postmodern swishness. <- are any of these worth continuing with?

Not really played the Kirby games apart from a few 2-player goes.

Mario Kart is all time ofc

Side-scroll arcaders like Ghouls'n'Ghosts, Castlevania and Contra just feel dated and a bit samey (not to mention difficult)

No idea what I'm doing in Punch Out

Think I might hack my machine soon

Hacking is super easy. Link to the Past, FF3/6 and Secret of Mana are all-time great games, definitely play them at some point. Have you played Super Metroid yet?

I had Super Metroid back in the day. It's an amazing game. Just need the time to invest in replaying it.

I was kind of enjoying Secret of Mana but there was something annoying about the way the text was layered onto the background that was doing my eyes in. I'm sure the graphics in some these games are slightly blockier than I remember. I've tried changing the display settings but they don't seem to do anything particular

bigger tv probably?

punch out is amazing, keep at it

xpost - if time is an issue, avoid FFIII, that game is hueg and somewhat addictive

i don't mind huge. I was impressed by Earthbound's scope tbh.

Zelda III isn't really an RPG fwiw - action/puzzle/exploration thing, like the original Zelda. You increase max health and items, like Metroid, but otherwise there's no leveling and the story/dialogue are much much more limited than the average RPG (tho much more extensive than the average 8-bit title of this type). It's a blast imho but I also just find the world/music/palette very comfortable and soothing.

I think Kirby's Dream Course is my second favourite SNES game. Difficult to get to grips with at first.

I sold all my systems a few months ago. My PS2 with the Metal Gears I'd never played. My Gamecube with Killer 7 and Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil. My SNES with R-Type and Chrono Trigger and all three Mega Mans and so on. Now all I have is a SNES Mini (hacked) and my Switch.

I have my N64 but I'm having a crisis with it, lol. I'm buying an SD-card cartridge so I can get rid of all my expensive cartridges (my favourite is Sin & Punishment, bought it in 2005 in Japan with no idea what it was except for the Treasure logo on it). I'm considering getting the system hacked for RGB and an upscaler. Mouse hovering over Buy It Now over these expensive ridiculous upscalers on eBay.

Anyway SNES mini, hacked? amazing. Favourite thing ever

selling Killer 7! a pox on you!

man, i can't remember or even begin to think what other games I'd love to play again.
What was the crazy kawaii side-scrolling shoot em up where you could be a range of spaceships or a penguin?
What was the forward scrolling one that was a bit like Starwing but not as vectory and had a lot of large monsters and a lot of fire?
The RPG where you play someone called 'Seth'?
Oooh, Star Wars, that one was great!
Mario Allstars! Yes!
I had the Superscope back then, but I wouldn't be able to play those games (it was shit tbf)

Zombies Ate My Neighbours - definitely one of my all time favourite games and something that really should have become a franchise

What was the crazy kawaii side-scrolling shoot em up where you could be a range of spaceships or a penguin?

Parodius

"Seth" - Illusion of Gaia?

What was the forward scrolling one that was a bit like Starwing but not as vectory and had a lot of large monsters and a lot of fire?

Axelay?

Zombies Ate My Neighbours - definitely one of my all time favourite games and something that really should have become a franchise

― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:55 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was a great game. i don't think my brother and i ever completed it, which given that I'm much worse at video games now and my brother and i live on different continents means we probably never will :'-(

oh and there was a franchise of sorts, the sequel was called ghoul patrol (game was made by a third party but using the same engine). i never played it unfortunately

ZAMN has great gameplay, a shame it's way too hard in unnecessary and unfun ways. that's okay in that you can always pick up and play the first few levels with a friend and it's always good but I think if it'd gotten a little bit more playtesting and recalibration (and/or a reasonable pass/continue system - iirc you can continue but you start back with the starting weapons/ammo so lol forget it) it'd be one of the undisputed classics of the system.

I'm considering getting the system hacked for RGB and an upscaler.

I'd be tempted to at least wait a while and see whether Nintendo do announce an n64 classic mini for this year, if that happens and is as easily modable as the snes then it might end up being a better solution.

My friend hooked me up with a fake snes mini that has a bunch of trash games on it. Really weird but kinda fun to mess around with. It works perfectly on my old crt tv.

What kind of trash games?

the reviews of the super NT make it sound awesome

There's a guy in my city who mods N64s and so I just got one. I am freaking SHAKEN by how expensive and weirdly overzealous the whole "upscaling composite/S-Video/RGB to HDMI" game is, actually considering buying one of these idiotic Framemeisters that actually look so nice

I don't know if they'll ever do an N64 mini BUT if they did it would be very, very interesting to see if they upgrade the 3D-rendering. idk. It was so wonderful to play Mario 64 and Majora on the 3DS, looking beautiful

What kind of trash games?

I think this list is the same. Tons of duplicates within the list:

http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Mini_Game_Anniversary_Edition

that's bonkers

super contra 7!

I did it! It worked! It was surprisingly easy too! Just need an Axelay rom and I'm away

Did anyone actually like Starfox? I remember it being this super-hyped game back in the day, but I always found the vector graphics really naff and the game felt unresponsive, like primitive VR or something.

yeah it always felt more like a technical triumph than an actual fun game to me

like Killer Instinct I guess. Lots of hype about it learning your playing techniques etc, but it was more of a showcase for early AI than a game that was better than Streetfighter or Mortal Kombat.

So among other things I put on my SNES:

Street Racer - a really good Mario Kart alternative fun racing game
Addams Family - a neat platformer, really playable. Good music
Young Merlin - a flawed adventure game with some nice touches

The fan translation of Der Langrisser is my favorite (non-Civ) turn-based strategy game. Best to play with the sound off, the music is grating af imo.

Star Fox was worth it for the level where you fly inside the spaceship. outside of that it felt weirdly out of date.

Addams Family is an amazing game. i remember renting that one rainy day and being amazed w this undiscovered Mario-style platformer

imo star fox was fun once you stopped concentrating on how polygons flying at you was kind of distracting when you were used to pixely sprites

i loved the level where you fly through the spaceship. it was janky and oldschool but oddly that was kind of a golden era of on-rails shooters. i was playing a lot of Rebel Assault on PC at the time.

What are the risks of hacking the SNES classic? I keep hearing how easy it is but the thing is just so hard to get and my wife is very against me fiddling with it and potentially ruining it. I probably still won't since I have a little retro pie as well as OpenEmu on both of my computers, but the tempting incentive is being able to play other games with those sweet-ass official BRAND NEW Nintendo controllers. I mean, that's the part that has me feeling the most sentimental. That I am holding a new ~official~ Nintendo made SNES controller!

I'm a doofus and I managed it. program is very good and I just followed a YouTube tutorial on how to do it. I was surprised at how easy it was

The very first thing you'll do is back up the original kernel, and if anything goes wrong, just flash that back on there and it's factory reset. It's pretty much unbrickable tbh. I mean absolute worst case scneario, if you somehow mess it up and lose your kernel backup, pm me and I'll send you mine.

love this thread, i used to run a website with the express goal of reviewing every snes game. i went back and read some and it's uhhh definitely not good and/or written in this modern era (caught myself dropping both the r- and t- words in at least one article that i vaguely remembered as my fave, so, that's not great)

i have such wonderful memories of illusion of gaia, what an intensely lonely game

Thanks for the help guys, I'll probably look a little more into it but despite any actual level of risk I'm still just going to refrain so I don't get in trouble!

Speaking of reviews, I tend to rely on this guy to inform me about all the titles I don't necessarily know much about:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfBLXTwLoUpDAkHcHizW3Jg

caught myself dropping both the r- and t- words in at least one article that i vaguely remembered as my fave, so, that's not great

To be fair, Mallow is both those things

@ Evan, hack the SNES, it's a challenge but not a challenge

Message me privately and I'll link you to ROMs

Starfox is the greatest game ever and frankly "on-rails 3D space shooter" should've been an entire genre of game and I'm disappointed that it wasn't. Even "one or two levels" on Starfox Zero were so thrilling, I don't know why more resources weren't put into this genre

The ROMs part of it I've got covered, actually! If any of you have a Mac and a usb controller, OpenEmu is fantastic. That's what I use.

http://openemu.org/

@ Evan, hack the SNES, it's a challenge but not a challenge

Message me privately and I'll link you to ROMs

Starfox is the greatest game ever and frankly "on-rails 3D space shooter" should've been an entire genre of game and I'm disappointed that it wasn't. Even "one or two levels" on Starfox Zero were so thrilling, I don't know why more resources weren't put into this genre

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, February 9, 2018 10:51 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i thought star fox was awesome personally. i found it hard and could never complete it despite trying thousands of times tho.

The ROMs part of it I've got covered, actually! If any of you have a Mac and a usb controller, OpenEmu is fantastic. That's what I use.

http://openemu.org/

― Evan

^ ditto

also yeah, i loved starfox. it had its flaws but i played through it many, many times.

it WAS really hard! there were multiple routes you could take to the end, though, and eventually i found one that i could reliably complete.

openemu is definitely good

I bought a usb controller that was either made with an original snes controller mold, or copied very well, and it's nearly perfect. The buttons are about 90% there, but probably play better than my worn out old controllers.

that's 8bitdo, right?
man i wish i had time to play all this stuff.

I was going to guess ibuffalo controller

8bitdo is more known for being wireless vs. another "usb controller" (even though that's what it becomes if you plug it in with the charging wire)

I might be misremembering how decent the buttons were! It's been a while. Amazon says I bought this, maybe it's actually hot garbage and I don't know better: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034ZOAO0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Starfox SNES was hard, Starfox 64 was mostly easy until "Venom 1, expert mode" which is the most difficult thing I've ever attempted

In Star Fox mythos it bothers me that Peppy becomes an old geezer so fucking fast. The only good Peppy is SNES Peppy (my favorite SNES Starfox companion).

SNES Starfox always felt like a slow, boring tech demo to me, but Starfox 64 absolutely should have led to a whole genre or at least a single robust entry per console, like Zelda and Mario Kart. Delightful, kid-friendly narrative shooter, not about insane twitchy perfection (until the late game on the hard path, yeah) but just the satisfaction of doing loop-the-loops and blowing stuff to polygonal smithereens.

I've said this elsewhere (probably more than once) but what always appealed to me about Galaga and then good schmups afterward (anything Treasure made) is that the spectacle and pleasure come not only from gameplay and design but the thrill of excellent 'choreography'-- that is, that these landscapes and enemies might be designed to reveal themselves and respond to player input in an aesthetically appealing sense-- this particular neural network was activated when I was 8 and played Galaga 88 for the first time and literally saw the aliens dancing to waltzes and tangos

Starfox did the exact same thing but in a 3D environment and I tried to explain to friends what it was about Starfox (specifically) that differentiated its effect on my internal response from other space combat games (Wing Commander-derived free-combat) or other on-rails games (Crash Bandicoot) but I guess it just became a dry subject

But it's clear to me too that the very designers of Starfox themselves ~didn't get what made the game so great~ as they introduced all-range mode into Starfox 64 and other increasingly obnoxious addendums and footnotes to what I liked about the original SNES (and 64) games: being overwhelmed with enemies as you fly through the wreckage of a fleet, giant frigates appearing and the Arwing flying in closely to take out a few turrets, asteroid ballet, twisting internal corridors to reach the engine core, trench runs and so on

that's a great post. the all-range mode levels/bosses in starfox 64 are definitely a huge step down from the on-rails ones. but you still have so much great on-rails stuff. and the way enemies can pop up (and get blown up) in formation gets at least a little of that galaga choreography, no?

Yes! That's what I like about it. There's something about it that's like... an interactive ballet

Ok so what do you think of Starfox 2?

Unfortunately, Starfox 2 does not have a high enough frame rate to be an effective allegorical attack on the Trump administration

— Gold medal in Olympic finger skating (@owenpallett) October 27, 2017

So I discovered that Tetris Attack two player is ridiculously addictive

Also started playing Chrono Trigger.

we had a tradition of spending all our downtime between studying/tests at the end of college semesters sitting around playing tetris attack! good times

Multiplayer Tetris attack is one of the most underrated games ever, imo

yeah, that and puzzle fighter on PS1 were prob the biggest games outside of tony hawk when I was in college. <3 gargantua blarg forever.

i didn't know that game until the DS version of Puzzle League came out, but yeah it rules

SNES Classic available just right now: https://www.gamestop.com/snes/consoles/super-nes-classic-edition/152771

By the time I forward that to someone who needs it it'll be too late I'm sure

they've been sticking around a bit longer; give it a try

I jumped! Thanks ulysses.

Anybody getting this thing? To me the downside of the classic is that it won't play cartridges, but this does.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/7/16934180/super-nt-review-super-nintendo-snes-analogue

not snes related but that review reminds me that my new tv doesn't have a vga input so the next time I want to hook up the ol' dreamcast I'm going to have to do some thinking

just snagged a snes mini off amazon, mainly to troll old lunch

Congrats on your successful troll!

So does anyone have the deets of the guy who's assembling these things by hand so I can ask him to text me once he finishes another one in two or three weeks time?

But seriously: this has to be the work of asshole speculators snatching up every extra unit the second they hit the streets. Grade-A BS!

fyi I’ll be happy to sell you mine with just a modest 150% finder’s fee

i am willing to chip in my muscle and street smarts and keep watch on the edge of the alley, $200 + free snacks for my friends

I will weigh your offers carefully.

If my interest were based more on nostalgia than making up for missing out on a bunch of classic games (aside from the fifteen minutes or so I spent playing them on friends' Nintendo consoles, as we were more of a Sega/C64 family), I'd probably just bite the bullet and pay whatever extortionate rate someone wanted to charge for one.

Like I'm pretty sure I've never played a Donkey Kong Country game, or any Zelda beyond the first. Probably played the first stage of Super Mario World at some point, and then nothing until one that was released for the Wii. You get the picture.

it's wild these days, I went from joking with a friend about Donkey Kong to playing a really well emulated Donkey Kong Country on my computer in about ten minutes not long ago. And my cheap-ass snes knockoff controller was good enough for DKC. I can still time those rolls over the pits pretty well.

Yeah, there are certain respects in which the future is kinda awesome. Like having a bunch of games I played the shit out of 20+ years ago loaded on my Vita, ready to play when/wherever.

I largely want an excuse to finally play through Super Metroid

Ooh I played that for a second last night and got destroyed by the first Chozo Comes Alive! moment

there's a shop down the street from me that has all the old snes games, i think they might also have some stuff that plays the old carts

the eye-opening moment for me re: emulation was when intellivision games became emulable, god those intellivision controllers were flat garbage

mostly i'm trying to convince the spouse to let me buy a vectrex but we keep wanting to, like, make house payments and stuff

to get it back on topic the snes rpgs are the best rpgs ever made

Super Metroid is so great. Really looking forward to replaying that one. I still get the music from the Crateria Caverns stuck in my head.

Something I'm really enjoying with Chrono Trigger is how it manages to use the SNES's limited graphics as an advantage, in that it's not always clear whether a wall is a wall or more a staircase. You can be running around a maze for a while and then suddenly the way out will just pop out at you. Good for hidden passages and secrets too.

I'd love to read (or maybe write) a short ode to the top-down RPG genre. So many tropes to be discussed and dissected and I love how Earthbound played with a lot of those tropes. Also I have been having fun calling my characters things like 'Fucky' and 'Arses'

I am 12 btw

https://i.imgur.com/2FfIWPD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BN8jyc7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MQ77Cuu.jpg

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Ya my first exposure to any Final Fantasy game was FF2 at a friend's house

Protagonist's name was Lezbo

Never a bad time to revive this imo: What do you name your peepz in RPGs?

paging old lunch

look what the amazon delivery dude brought for me today

https://i.imgur.com/BqhqnDu.jpg

Such a weird coincidence, I was just about to post what my own delivery dude brought me:

https://d2gg9evh47fn9z.cloudfront.net/800px_COLOURBOX9228474.jpg

rude

keep it to the wdyll thread, buddy

kinda taken aback at how dinky this li’l snes actually is in person

also enjoying that i can power it from the usb port on the front of my ps4

Does that actually provide enough power to safely run it?

it has so far!

kind of funny that the playstation started off as a snes add-on and now...here you are

the circle of life man

man punch-out was really the original dark souls huh - punishingly difficult opponents who require patience and keen observation to take apart

i’d forgotten how hilariously weedy gabby jay’s little exclamations of ‘yay!’ are

ha yeah, you’re right! xp

punishingly difficult opponents

and yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfbB89ZquY

okay that’s nuts

YAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0w2lrn0a4Q
This isn't a rom hack unfortunately. Just really good video editing.

I miss Chrono Trigger so much... This is ridiculous

lol

there was a snes console in my dreams last night. the one belonging to my brother and i broke many years back and is sitting uselessly in my parents' attic. in the dream it had came back to life and there were new titles to play on it

little nemo 2019: the post-apocalyptic dream master

oh yeah, for north american readers who enjoy upward scrolling SHMUPs and use an emulator: play pop'n twinbee. great game, never released in north america

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vh3nTdMhw

dl, getcherself a Vita! Its optimal function as far as I can tell is as a portable old-school RPG device. I have mine loaded up with practically every major game of the genre through at least like '95.

OL, can you perhaps explain how i'd get homebrew working on a vita?

That I don't know, but a ridiculous number of these things are available via above-board means. Pretty much all the early Ys and Mana and Phantasy Star and FF games, most of the stuff released on PS1, a bunch of SNES ports.

Soul Blazer is underrated!

32gb card (heard things about larger cards sometimes not working), 2 wired snes-ripoff controllers that are p great, and a preorder copy of this book lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/the-unofficial-snes-super-famicom-a-visual-compend

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:12 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

my book never arrived!

That’s kickstarter for ya

After watching all those Super Mario Maker vids I got the itch, but don't have a Switch. So I pulled out this old 'FC Twin' bootleg machine that plays both NES and SNES cartridges (it has an 8 bit/16 bit switch and two slots), and the original Super Mario World.

I'd forgotten that even when you save your game (which you can only do after beating certain worlds), it doesn't save your extra lives or powerups. And after moving the console, the screen got all glitchy so I hit reset, and all the save slots were cleared. It's all part of the experience.