SNES

[j_factor]

Anyways.. to summarize, were you to spend more time with R-Type III, you would surely come to enjoy it.

There is no shortage of games that I can enjoy right off, so I see no reason to bother myself playing games that I have to invest time into before I can enjoy them. *shrug*

[ary incorparated]

I have been playing Starfox on the SNES a lot recently. For some reason I love the game, while I hate the N64 version.

I personally like the SNES more than the Genesis but I love both systems. The SNES has the more memorable games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, Super Mario RPG, Kirby Superstar, and Link to the Past. The Genesis is almost as good but one thing that is good and bad about the system is that most of the games don't have a password or battery save. It does extend the life of most games but it isn't fun having to play for an hour and a half straight to beat all the levels in Sonic and then losing all your lives in the last 2 levels.

We had these discussion many times,its a uppinion,i agree that snes is great for its save functions that increased the lenght of the game and the fun of duration,Mario world best game on that system IMHO.i like em both but megfadrive has megacd as a add,(Flop but hell sales dont say anything) i know that prices where a big point back then mega cd was just to expensive but it had the greatest game music and graphics where cutting edge the new and improved 3D effects,nowdays its just retro fun for bargin prices,now its doable and thats cool,i still stay with that you better can buy some games like Chrono trigger etc then one sick priced neo geo AES game,3 rare snes games,RPG can be ways more fun then 300 bucks for a neo geo cartridge.I like genesis more cuase Jup of the speed,i found snes bothering slow somethimes,but not a big deal,and the genesis had more adult games and metall synth comix zone and contra HC etc.But metall and rock and roll racing on snes does great for one example ant i think the only example.My love for nintendo hgas grown,not as much as for sega but im looking forward to the WIIIIIII yes i think its going to be a dream come true only not sega.Ds is great and always loved the nes and n64,snes was great but creeping slow even slowwer then a master systemn i think dunno for shure.Ehy DBZ for that system it has real choppy anymations sore the frames are almost to slow thats bit ugly,FF 3 is a great game and that was the reason to own that thing for me.Cough to much talking sorry for that.

[ary incorparated]

I find R-Type III needlessly frustrating because I keep running into walls and dying. There'll be no wall on the bottom of the screen for a while, and then all of a sudden, BAM, a wall out of nowhere, so if you happened to be on the bottom of the screen, you're SOL. I generally dislike having walls kill you at all, and R-Type III takes it further by making deadly walls part of the level design.

Also, the music reminds me of Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. And not in a good way.

Another thing I didn't like was how the screen would occasionally get cluttered unnecessarily. As a quick example here's a pic from the first level:



Those things aren't actually enemies. They're just these things that sit there and hope you ram into them. And wtf is with that foreground?

Those graphics make me puke so tiny and the resolution looks crap,really empty and one colored,sorry but this doesnt look nice at all far way from it,blech.

[Joe Redifer]

Most SNES games saved? That's news to me. I'm not a huge RPG fan and even less of a SQUARE fan so the SNES doesn't have the same sort of attraction to me as to Square-o-philes.

Also, games like Sonic don't really need a battery unless they are mega-long. Sonic 3 had a save function. Sonic 1 and 2 had level selects. There are always ways for the less-skilled player to make it to the end in those games.

[David J.]

As I said years ago, both are great systems, each has their pros and cons. However... What really kills the SNES for me, is some of the most common games are expensive.

Like I'm paying $20 for a loose cart of Yoshi's Island. The game has a Players Choice release, and still sells for a lot. WTH? There's only twenty games I really like on the SNES, but they are solid games that'll keep me happy.

ps. anyone have a loose copy of Yoshi's Island for sale, a cheap one at that?

[Joe Redifer]

So does anyone know if there are any software region lock outs implemented in any SNES/Super Famicom games? All of my Super Famicom games work perfectly well on my US Super Nintendo, but there are a few more I'd like to get including the 48-meg Tales of Phantasia... just to have it (plus for the kick ass sound test). The game goes for about as much as the OST, so I might as well have the game!

[Drixxel]

So does anyone know if there are any software region lock outs implemented in any SNES/Super Famicom games? All of my Super Famicom games work perfectly well on my US Super Nintendo, but there are a few more I'd like to get including the 48-meg Tales of Phantasia... just to have it (plus for the kick ass sound test). The game goes for about as much as the OST, so I might as well have the game!

As I understand it, the only form of regional lockout preventing the play of Super Famicom games on a SNES is the shape of the cartridge, but you've clearly schemed around this. PAL games are another case entirely, but I've read that all Super Famicom games are playable on a SNES, and vice-versa, as there is no form of software or hardware lockout beyond the conflicting cartridge/slot shapes. Tales of Phantasia it up proper!

[Joe Redifer]

Oh hellz yeah!

[Curryman123]

Donkey Kong Country is S***-Well i found Vectorman to be even more of a S***, seriously it blows big time, the game is just mindless, makes donkey kong look like an masterpeice.

Castlevania 4 is S***-then you must think bloodlines is s*** too, If you don't, then you nothing more then a fanboy.

I will take Super Metroid, Zelda 3, and Donkey kong country over any all top 5 genesis games any time.

[GeckoYamori]

Oh, burn topic, burn!

[ary incorparated]

aah whos the mindless fanboy now then,we give snes games our chance,I have to admit every consoles have their minors and pros, accept people uppinion,proove me in every way every possible way why snes is better with atleast a 50% above then genesis,ill bet you name all the fanboy crap possible aggainst Genesis,if you like snes it would state that genesis is crap,sorry but when comparring you may grab vectorman vs DK country,yes you may DK uses photo kind of layes digitalized graphics whci look bitsy like clay but still fine,and genesis vectorman has the effects of scalling rotating,Transparancies,Darken Highlight animations filled with animations ehy,shure vectorman has minors technically but its hell of a good looking game and plays great.Final geneisis is far way not so called weak,it has much power and things that been proven wrong,and snes is great too for its clear sound and hioh color stunt race fx rock and roll racing etc,both have their games.Its like comparring bananas with peaches,its about taste but normally people like both for theyre games,BK2 Final fight 3,etc etc both nice games.Which one better is none,which one you find better is a choise but youre choice would not stop gamers form playing veccie cose you sead its shit but they stil keep playing.

[ary incorparated]

same as sead snes has mode 7 blah blah blah big medial blow upp,same snes has a shite processor and is slow,how the heck okay DBZ HPDimension looks nice but is animated almosty to choppy and slow.the graphic play on snes is fine we know,but still people are droowling over their famicon and play old famicon games and like the game music of it and then nagg about genesis sound when only hearring games like hang opn and Altred beast,geez the crap about genesis its limited sound is pushed far away genesis is not limited to me in any way of a 16 bit console,it only didnt feel the need to do the 256 color trick etc,and for the snesboys genesis has 512 colors per level while snes mostly uses allot lesser.The sound chip in genesis isnt limited print it in youre head if you forget listening TF4,Genesis sound chip 10 channels(TF uses em all) snes 8,compare the sound from DK 3,s lava level(still awesome) with Tf4 or Contra hc,limited i dont think so,not always as good,but famicon was lesser TG16 also and lot of others and they dont complain about that then,tisk tisk.One question neo geo simply was called 24 bit cause of the mian processor+Z80 is 24,genesis has the z80 and used it some time F22 interceptor yuck why still looks dick ugly.Coul genesis increase its in screen colors also with the z80+68000 processor in serie?.TG 16 has 512 colors and same stuff graphically as genesis kind of and can use more inscreen also.

[Curryman123]

Your not serious right, not only vectorman plays like S*** it looks like S***, theres no excuse, it came after freaken DKC.

DKC is a milestone in gaming, whats vectorman, nothing.

The only reason to hate DKC is if you a religous sega fan what ever you call it and don't give me C**** stating how bad it is, cause there nothing bad about it that i see, tons of replay and levels.

I just found that comment very offending.

[segagamer]

If anyone doesn't know by now, Curryman is a huge SNES Fan Boy.

[Joe Redifer]

Vectorman, despite putting well over 64 colors oncreen for the entire game, looks like crap. Donkey Kong Country, despite the hype, looks like crap. I cannot stand digitized CGI sprites. This goes for any game that does it.