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Help me find a SNES game

  • 27-10-2012 6:58pm
    #1
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭


    Because i posted about this in another thread, now i'm mad to find out what it is!!

    I'm 99% sure it's a SNES game, a 2D platformer with a lot of (inaccurate) jumping from floating platform to floating platform. I'm nearly sure it was one of those games that had a single screen and loads a different screen when you went up/down/left/right, and you were some guy who was going from town to town completing quests/challenges for different guilds collecting armor and weapons (definitely swords).

    I probably won't even recognise the name, but i would recognise a picture/video. I never completed it as it frustrated me beyond belief, and i keep getting vague flashes of it when i think of it.


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  • #2
    Hamhide
    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭Hamhide


    sounds like a castlevania game,perhaps super castlevania 4?


  • #3
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Ys III by any chance?
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  • #4
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    U sure it's definately a SNES game. From what you described it sounds very like a NES game called Faxanadu

    Faxanadu_NES_gameplay.png


  • #5
    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭RichT


    Reminded me of an NES game as well......

    Battle of Olympus

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    gfs_39470_2_2.jpggfs_39470_2_1.jpg


  • #6
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Hamhide wrote: »
    sounds like a castlevania game,perhaps super castlevania 4?

    Definitely not a Castlevania game.
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Ys III by any chance?

    Not Ys either, was definitely English.
    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    U sure it's definately a SNES game. From what you described it sounds very like a NES game called Faxanadu

    Very similar to that, but i don't think that's it.
    RichT wrote: »
    Reminded me of an NES game as well......

    Again, similar style, but not it.

    I'm nearly certain it was SNES as i remember it being a bit graphically better than the NES.


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  • #7
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Magic Sword?
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  • #8
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Magic Sword?

    Nope, not it :(

    You know when you can see something clearly enough in your head but can't put it into words... I have that...


  • #9
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Any of these?

    Legend of the Mystical Ninja
    24804-107311-TheLegendoftheMysticalNinja7jpg-468x.jpg

    Skyblazer
    Skyblazer.jpg

    Equinox
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  • #10
    mackeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    it sounds like simons quest or zelda.


  • #11
    Forest Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Forest Demon


    Secret of Mana?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwGd2kQ9OsM

    Chrono Trigger?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hzHlIsjwY

    Knights of the round?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwiCnpufn1s

    Wanderers From Ys
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNAM3EtZdhM

    Actraiser
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXBTOEqO6Qk

    The SNES was an amazing console!


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  • #12
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Nope, none of them :(

    It was definitely a 2D platformer, not an Zelda-esqe style RPG.

    It's sickening, as everything i try to remember more it keeps coming back to a fuzz of a quest/challenge where i kept losing (can't make out exactly what it was) and horrible jumping mechanics with constantly missing the jump and falling down 3 or 4 screens...

    Also, going to open it up to other consoles just in case.


  • #13
    Forest Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Forest Demon


    Hmm. I am intrigued now. I played nearly every SNES game at some time but there are a few that it could be. Is it a Rastan, or black tiger type game? Both of them had head wrecking jumping mechanics.

    Was the main character cartoon like or more like a rastan style?

    I will throw out another few :)

    Was it Hagane??
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUm1szjEc3M

    Sparkster??
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mo4nnsBcI

    blackthorne?? (loads like you said)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WafqCyIwAWw

    Skyblazer??
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqzYe00NLfw

    Run Saber??
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWitEGcyoFA

    Gods??
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vw3mw9wpF4


  • #14
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    None of them, i think it tried to stay realistic (or, i never got far enough to get to the unrealistic parts).

    Not like Rastan, was less detailed? I just keep seeing like a Knight, slowly upgrading armor and swords, jumping around alot (can't even remember using the sword tbh). From what i played, it seemed to all be set in towns, going from one guild to the next, needing a certain upgrade to complete other challenges for each guild. A lot of vertical scrolling through jumping. But, in a screen by screen style (at least, that's how i remember it).

    You started out with just a rag covering your crotch if i remember correctly, then you got cheap shoes, a top, pants, and started working you way up through to armor. You went into houses/doors to talk to the different Guilds. Would have been around the early 90's to 95 (Pre-Playstation)

    (I swear to God if this is all in my head, i had a really active imagination as a child!)


  • #15
    Forest Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Forest Demon


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5uZk5qwgjI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJl7VPIjbHo

    Wizards and warriors? Armor, floating platforms and multiple screen falls. :)


  • #16
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Forest Demon wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5uZk5qwgjI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJl7VPIjbHo

    Wizards and warriors? Armor, floating platforms and multiple screen falls. :)

    BOOM!!! Fairly sure that's it, but i remember it looking better! And a bit different. Maybe it was a remake? (I got kinda excited when i saw the jumping!)

    Edit: Or maybe this isn't it, but the jumping is exactly how i remember it, but there were more towns, and i'm 100% certain there were challenges for Guilds (for some reason i keep recalling Wood Guild, Iron Guild, etc).


  • #17
    Tubbs4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Tubbs4


    try the other wizards and warriors. The 3rd was not it i say as you became a thief and wizard also.
    The rage from getting to the top of the level and falling to the bottom.
    Watch the YouTube video's as it more enjoy able then screaming at the tv when he falls.


  • #18
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A jaysus Wizards and Warriors looks nothing like a SNES game. Really hated those games although for the time they were good. There's 3 W&W games so it could be one of those.
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  • #19
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Wizards and Warriors 3, that's exactly the one (I only YouTubed 1 & 2...). YouTube part 1 of a playthrough and i'm back playing it.

    Couldn't even get that first statue for the Thieves Guild.

    So, in summary, it was a NES game with Guilds (Thieves, Warriors and Wizards, not Iron and Wood), a Knight with armor and a sword and scrolling levels. Guess things just aint how you remember them sometimes.

    Cheers to everyone!


  • #20
    balkieb2002
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭balkieb2002


    I saw your post on the other thread and saw no replies so glad you got your answer.

    I just watched a TAS version of that game (completed game in about 17mins) and I don't envy those jumping sequences as they look mental. In fact the whole games looking like one massive jumping puzzle and punishing at that. Reminds me of a lot of NES games around that time :mad:

    Here was vid I watched (Warning the ending credits of the game may be epilepsy-inducing!!)



    Obviously he skipped some areas etc as explained at http://tasvideos.org/401M.html


  • #21
    magick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Any of these?

    Legend of the Mystical Ninja
    24804-107311-TheLegendoftheMysticalNinja7jpg-468x.jpg

    one of the best games ive ever played on the snes


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