snes ahoy

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

YES

can't do the timing on bombjumps either.

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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!

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

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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:

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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

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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.