snes ahoy

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

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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?