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    #32
    FGR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭FGR


    Or the quality that is Super Mario Kart.

    ....I think you'd lose them on Final Fantasy 6 though. There's an element of society that will never appreciate the quality of an excellent engine combined with great story telling.

    I can't seem to find a mini anywhere. Sigh.


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    #33
    Retr0gamer
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    I wouldn't call the ff6 engine quality. It's incredibly buggy and broken. Sure you use sketch at your own risk as it can totally break your game!

    Still pure quality though.
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    #34
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Only football game for me was Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. Put so many hours into that game.


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    #35
    Corholio
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    FIFA has had some good iterations down the gears, FIFA Road to the World Cup is probably my favourite football game ever. The problem with a lot of the modern ones is a lot of the tech hasn't taken big enough jumps to distinguish it from a previous version, like it used to do often throughout the 90's and 2000's.


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    #36
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Yeah I don't like FIFA but sure whatever floats your boat, I hate soccer in general. WWF games are the same but I was a big fan back in my youth so I understand the yearly updates.


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    #37
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    My order was cancelled too :(


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    #38
    mttk
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭mttk


    Mine got cancelled....went in anyways and picked one up :-)


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    #39
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Emulation in super ghouls n ghosts is shocking, I haven’t played the original in years but can’t believe it was this slow and laggy


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    #40
    Retr0gamer
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    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Emulation in super ghouls n ghosts is shocking, I haven’t played the original in years but can’t believe it was this slow and laggy

    Lol its not an emulation issue. If it was you would get frame tearing. Slowdown is coded in to the game. The snes had a shockingly awful cpu which was crap for action games. Gradius 3 is a good example. Take it from a gng expert, the lag was in the original game.
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    #41
    direstraits
    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭direstraits


    If anyone knows where I can get one or if you selling a second snes mini can you pm please :)
    . thanks, im in Dublin


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    #42
    Retr0gamer
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    Jack burton wrote: »
    Yeah I don't like FIFA but sure whatever floats your boat, I hate soccer in general. WWF games are the same but I was a big fan back in my youth so I understand the yearly updates.

    There's some pretty good old wrestling games. Fire pro and the better n64 games were great. It's just the modern ones are utter crap.
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    #43
    CathalDublin
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Lol its not an emulation issue. If it was you would get frame tearing. Slowdown is coded in to the game. The snes had a shockingly awful cpu which was crap for action games. Gradius 3 is a good example. Take it from a gng expert, the lag was in the original game.

    Really? it’s almost unplayable, I had it bitd (US Cart) and don’t remember it being that bad, I thought it was quite good, it’s real jerky as well as the slow down


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    #44
    CathalDublin
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    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Really? it’s almost unplayable, I had it bitd (US Cart) and don’t remember it being that bad, I thought it was quite good, it’s real jerky as well as the slow down
    Once you get a handful of sprites on the screen it plays its sooooo slow, you actually fall when you die in slow motion lol
    Doesn’t look like that on the AVGN videos which are original hardware
    I play a lot of gng and ghouls but only really on arcade, maybe I’m spoiled


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    #45
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    sugarman wrote: »
    Walked in and picked up one no bother. She said their system went tits up over night and everyone's order was cancelled but they'd plenty of stock.
    mttk wrote: »
    Mine got cancelled....went in anyways and picked one up :-)

    Cool! Will get my Dad and Brother to get on to it! Hopefully one of them can pick one up :)


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    #46
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    They told me the same thing, they’ve tonnes of stock, much more than last year, they said their systems were down all morning


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    #47
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Won't get a chance to fire it up tonight. I'll wait till after work tomorrow and beat the crap out of the girlfriend on SSF2

    The controller cables are a bit naff, really thought they would have went wireless


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    #48
    M7roadrunner
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭M7roadrunner


    direstraits wrote: »
    If anyone knows where I can get one or if you selling a second snes mini can you pm please :)
    . thanks, im in Dublin

    I dropped into Smyths in Tallaght about 6.30 this evening and they had loads in stock.


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    #49
    CathalDublin
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    M7roadrunner wrote: »
    I dropped into Smyths in Tallaght about 6.30 this evening and they had loads in stock.

    Early tomorrow smyths should have wasn’t busy when I was in at 6


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    #50
    direstraits
    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭direstraits


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Early tomorrow smyths should have wasn’t busy when I was in at 6

    Thanks guys, I'm in Dublin 7 I'll try blanch if not I'll drive to tallaght or wherever :) if you happen be passing I'd appreciate someone pm me , thanks again


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    #51
    Retr0gamer
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    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Once you get a handful of sprites on the screen it plays its sooooo slow, you actually fall when you die in slow motion lol
    Doesn’t look like that on the AVGN videos which are original hardware
    I play a lot of gng and ghouls but only really on arcade, maybe I’m spoiled

    It's plagued with slowdown on SNES. The arcade game is a different game and also uses a juicier 68000 processor like the megadrive.
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    #52
    fmul9798
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    An evening of castlevania 4 was had, and can confirm the slowdown once things get busy... Just the snes mini being a snes!


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    #53
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    I’d a nice evening of super MARIO world, it really was a great game.
    Smyths said any pre orders not collected will be on gerenal sale Monday so watch the website Sunday night/Monday early or drop into any smyths Monday morning


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    #54
    direstraits
    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭direstraits


    smyths tallaght have 4 in stock, gamestop taking pre orders for 50.00euro


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    #55
    Lemming
    Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Picked my pre-order up this morning from Game, and bought a hardback SNES Classics history book at the same time which I've not been able to leaf through yet as it's still shrink-wrapped. It's going to be a long, long two and a half months to Christmas as this is a present for my other half (she got me the NES mini for last Christmas)


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    #56
    dmcg90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭dmcg90


    Anyone found stock of the SNES mini online/in Dublin?


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    #57
    sReq | uTeK
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    Anyone know where I can get one in the Dublin Area?


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    #58
    starWave
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    sReq | uTeK wrote: »
    Anyone know where I can get one in the Dublin Area?

    Smyths have a few in


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    #59
    Retr0gamer
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    sugarman wrote: »
    Spent the evening mostly ploughing away at Super Mario World and few 2P games of Mario Kart but I fired up Contra for all of 10mins before calling it a night, do not remember it being that difficult at all but it completely explains why I never completed it back in the day!

    Will give it a proper hack tomorrow when Im less hungover.

    You need to finish it on hard to get the real ending!

    It's not that bad. One of the easier Contra games. The missile boss is the worst it gets.
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    #60
    dmcg90
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    starWave wrote: »
    Smyths have a few in

    None in Jervis St (or anywhere on their online stock checker).


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    #61
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    Hopefully this will be modded asap so I can get my fix of pilotwings


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