So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

o1s1n

I had planned on starting a Super Mario World save tonight. Cart battery needed changing first though. Damn old one wouldn't come out! Needs to be attacked with a soldering iron. There's my plans ruined for the night.

I have a floppy drive and disks ordered from ebay. Once they arrive I'll be playing through Earthbound for the first time. Can't wait!

CiDeRmAn

Why do you need a floppy drive and disks to play Earthbound?

I don't understand.

Just "downloaded" the complete series online, will pop them into the Wii emulators to give them a lash at some point, they better be good!

Gummy Panda

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Why do you need a floppy drive and disks to play Earthbound?

I don't understand.

Just "downloaded" the complete series online, will pop them into the Wii emulators to give them a lash at some point, they better be good!

He has some cart backup device for the snes.

Mother 3 is not 100% on emulators it seems. The timing is out for the rhyme combos so it makes the game harder and needs more grinding. If you have a GBA Flash cart, stick to it.

o1s1n

You can use floppy disks in the Snes. Did you not know that?

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Nah, as Gummy said, I got that Wild Card and Famicom from the guy that was selling them here. It has really reignited my interest in the Snes.

Putting games on old tech like floppies and putting them into a Snes almost feels like putting a cart in.

Gummy Panda - Would playing Mother 3 spoil Earthbound? Or is it only a losely based sequel?

I'll have my GBA flash card up and running this week and I wouldn't mind having a good game to play on the way to work.

\edit - Oh, you haven't played Earthbound.
And retr0 hasn't played Mother 3.

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To google!

CiDeRmAn

My god, there is a old, nintendo based, japanese, NTSC, role playing game that Retro hasn't played!!!!

Isn't that one of the conditions for the start of the apocalypse?

Quick, grab all the canned food, bottled water and classic consoles and make for the shelters! (or the churches, each to his/her own)

Gummy Panda

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My god, there is a old, nintendo based, japanese, NTSC, role playing game that Retro hasn't played!!!!

Isn't that one of the conditions for the start of the apocalypse?

Quick, grab all the canned food, bottled water and classic consoles and make for the shelters! (or the churches, each to his/her own)

Yeah and the translation patch has been out a year... :eek:

CiDeRmAn

He was probably too busy playing Halo 3 and reading Edge!

Gummy Panda

I think I need to look into get a GBA Flash cart for Mother 3. Pity I haven't got a clue about them.

Nintendo just release the game in the west on DS

Professey Chin

Whoops wrong place Ignore

o1s1n

Buy one of these - (Dealextreme had them for 24 dollars up until last month. The page is gone now though )

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/ez-flash-iv-mini-ez-cart-slot-2-sd-multimedia-flash-cart-for-gba-sp-nds

Download the tool for it -

http://www.ezflash.cn/software.htm

Use the tool to write some games to a mini SD card (Not micro sd..mini sd! I didn't know the difference until I got mine in the post and had no cards for it)

And away you go!

Gummy Panda

Dealextreme have this

Is it the same thing?

o1s1n

Unfortunately not. That's a slot 1 & 2 device for the DS.

Deal extreme don't really have any GBA stuff left really. There's one card there for super cheap. I bought it for my GBA about two months ago but couldn't get it to work. It connects via a serial port. My old pc just wouldnt detect it.

So I bought one of the other one that I linked you to as you just have to put stuff on an SD card. No detecting hardware needed.

valleyoftheunos

After playing a ton of NSMBWii I gave Mario 1 a go for a while today, man that thing is tough, skipped all the warps and only made it to 2-4 and then it was back to the start:(. Not a lot of 1ups to be had either, respect to anyone who has done a number on that one.

o1s1n

You forget how hard the originals were don't you?

I played a bit of Super Mario World tonight. Have to say, there were some bits even in the first 15 or so levels that I had to repeat several times.

My younger self would be in fits of laughter.

weeder

been playing some r type and mario kart super circuit tonight, r type ftw

o1s1n

Super R Type is one of the games going with my Snes..

Cough cough cough.



It's an absolute bitch of a game though. Great feeling of accomplishment when you actually finish a level.

Horrible feeling of frustration and anger when you can't.

weeder

ya and i want it too , only thing stopping me making you an offer is the laziness of sorting out my dreamcast stuff.

o1s1n

weeder wrote: »

ya and i want it too , only thing stopping me making you an offer is the laziness of sorting out my dreamcast stuff.

Do it! Do it nao!

Diddy! DIDDY MAO! MAO! MAO!

/whip

Retr0gamer

Super R-type is a horrible game. They absolutely ruined it by taking the mid level checkpoints out. Instead of being a challenge it's pure frustration. I'll be sticking with the better R-type 2.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Super R-type is a horrible game. They absolutely ruined it by taking the mid level checkpoints out. Instead of being a challenge it's pure frustration. I'll be sticking with the better R-type 2.

Oh god, not this again :P

It's frustrating, in a bounce your controller off the wall way, but it's still a good game. And as I said before, if anything, it just increases the satisfaction when you actually get passed a level!

Retr0gamer

It's still not a patch on R-type 2.

o1s1n

Today has been a good day. I got a USB floppy drive and now have 20 floppy disks loaded with snes games.

I also managed to get my GBA micro up and running with a 2gb sd card.

Only question now..which game do I play first?!

I'm thinking Phalanx and Gradius 3. Maybe some Axelay too.

Shooter day!!

But Metroid Fusion is also calling. Hey, retr0! Is Fusion any good?

Kimbot

o1s1n wrote: »

Do it! Do it nao!

Diddy! DIDDY MAO! MAO! MAO!

/whip

Your looking for a DC aswell??

I has one here, keyboard, vmu, pad, rumble accessory, VGA adapter, link cables, multitap etc.

o1s1n

jonny24ie wrote: »

Your looking for a DC aswell??

I has one here, keyboard, vmu, pad, rumble accessory, VGA adapter, link cables, multitap etc.

LOL

Did you buy up a liquidated games shop or something? You really should hang onto your consoles man. I know Macbooks are exciting..but you may regret it later!

I'm meant to be swapping a Snes for Weeder's Dreamcast. If he changes his mind I'll get back to you about your one

On the topic of shooters, I just remembered I'd bought Rez and forgotten about it.

Just after giving it a go. Christ, that is one amazing game. I sat there in a trance for about half an hour. Had to turn it off before I woke up and the day was gone. I can only imagine it being enhanced by ..er.. substances.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

But Metroid Fusion is also calling. Hey, retr0! Is Fusion any good?

I really liked Fusion, it gets a bad rep but it's because it doesn't come close to Super Metroid. Still a wonderful game. The only problem with it is that the exploration never really opens up to super metroid levels until the end game and then only for a short time. It feels slightly more linear as a result. Zero Mission is a better game but Fusion is well worth a play through.

As for your shooter night, drop Phalanx, it's not that great and replace it with some of the parodius games! Axelay of course is always a good shout

CrinkElite

I just got through Castlevania SOTN, played it on the ePSXe emulator.
what a great game, I'm on the look out for something can ayone reccomend a good one?

you've probably seen these before but i'll link to them anyway.

got a real laugh out of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MM_Q0nfaG0

what a tune!

Retr0gamer

There's plenty of great games like symphony of the night. The best of them all is Super Metroid on the Super Nintendo, arguably the greatest game ever made. Also the GBA and DS castlevanias are very similar to SotN and well worth playing as are later Metroid games like Fusion, Zero Mission and the metroid prime series.

LoGiE

o1s1n wrote: »

Today has been a good day. I got a USB floppy drive and now have 20 floppy disks loaded with snes games.

Haha where did you get the floppy disks! There almost impossible to find in stores these days

CrinkElite

Thanks, I might give super metroid a blast. I've seen it mentioned many times. Don't have a DS

Atavan-Halen

LoGiE wrote: »

Haha where did you get the floppy disks! There almost impossible to find in stores these days

I got some floppys a few months ago in Dunmore in Waterford :P They were in a little shop and €1 each. There was only 2 left and I just had to pick them up!