How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[mas]

I think we might need to accept that current high prices for games for key systems may not be a bubble at all, but simply the new status quo. I don't foresee any circumstances that would lead to a broad reversal of these pricing trends.

Which is just fine with me. Upper middle class, baby! Woo!

Lmao that was a good line

[Tanooki]

Enjoy the steakums, could be worse, it could be snausages. The way I see it, if I ever get back on a SNES bender again I have a little over 50 games which is nothing to take lightly. It has been far too long for most of them to have even been used let alone seriously so they'll be like new again aside from a recollection or some muscle memory in play. If that doesn't work, there's the high end of chopped beef the SD2SNES, or you go with your steakums on an everdrive, or some kibbles and bits with an emulator for free. And that's a side from if Nintendo and friends won't load it onto a virtual console you have access to.

Just never give up looking, sometimes stuff happens, but consider it few, far between, and ultimately rare if it's not some $10 or under title that has persisted staying cheap.

[mas]

Ohh I always look tanooki but I was just looking at prices just for the hell of it. Wouldn't want to dip do much money into Nintendo products. I do or was going to go into GameCube like you know but even the cube has now inflated in prices. Well everything pretty much has.
I only am doing ps3 and master system cart only.
Played some sunset riders today and what a great conversion of the arcade. Some things are noticeable like the girls in the game but regardless it's fun playing it.

[Sarge]

SD2SNES is the way to go if you need to play on the actual hardware. I've had mine for around three years, and it's a great piece of kit.

[mas]

SD2SNES is the way to go if you need to play on the actual hardware. I've had mine for around three years, and it's a great piece of kit.

Yup I already have it. Thank god I do also

[Tanooki]

Ehh the girls are minor in Sunset Riders (I own the cart) compared to the horrid censoring atrocities that Capcom pulled on the original Final Fight (and for some insulting/bizarre reason reinforced 20 years later in 2001 on the GBA release in the US too.) -- Girls are out for stickboys, blood out, etc. I had to import the JP version of the GBA title to get it arcade right.

The sad bit of reality check here is, reflect back how old the SD2SNES was and the price these years has been a constant sales aside. When that arrived it was harder to justify the device given the steep price with it fully ready to roll even if prices were in the increase then too. Now look at the price of just *ONE* SNES game it can run, especially exclusively like MMX2 or x3 and it now looks like a bargain. Sick eh?

Kits like that if I ever jumped that in to it again I'd shelve the R5 and get my systems back out, or equally as likely, I'd sell the R5 and get a RetroFreak since you can SD card play stuff off of it negating the need for a flash cart.

I've seriously been considering it too, dumping the R5 for it, but it's hard to find a good price for the bundle set with the NES adapter and the legit controller module too.

[marlowe221]

Honestly, SNES game prices are high enough that if I wanted to get heavy into the system I would probably just build a quick RetroPie and load it up. I've got an iBuffalo SNES USB controller.

I still have my childhood SNES and 10-15 great games for it. I used to own more but I sold the ones that I either didn't like or know I'll never play again.

Now I'm down to:

SMW
SM All-Stars
Link to the Past
Sim City
Super Castlevania IV
Star Fox
Turtles in Time
Aladdin
ActRaiser
Star Trek Starfleet Academy
Eye of the Beholder
Batman Returns

And maybe a couple of other games I can't remember at the moment. I still keep my eyes peeled for a good deal on a classic title but I don't hold out much hope for that these days.

[Tanooki]

Wow solid small list, I just lack the bottom two but have all the others.

Truth be told you're right, but I guess because self control and still a semi-purist rat about things, I'd pony up on the SD2SNES device, then if there was a SA1 or FX game I had to have, I'd just pay up for those and pirate the rest of them and stick with my console. I still think that's the best route to take unless you really need that HDMI, emulation features, and other foo foo.

ActRaiser was my first new game with Gradius III right after the launch after 100% taking down Super Mario World over a couple weeks. ActRaiser is my long lived guilty pleasure on that title because it's so insanely unique as I love the sim and how it corresponds to the action parts -- and then the true symphony music digitized into that system was just ear candy to the max then and still in a way really now too. Little ever matched the quality of that games audio package on those pieces. I hated with a passion how poor AR2 was and the removal the sim (and battery) as it killed off such an awesome franchise I'd kill to see resurrected. I wouldn't even care if it was S-E who did it and called it AR3, or some awesome indie god of sound reasoning just aped the hell out of that 25 year old cart and made a true sequel in the same traditional laid back way that game did things. It was my go to relax game to just screw around with and have knocked off over a period of like 4 hours.

[dunpeal2064]

I've been on an SNES kick of late, basically all I am playing.

Just finished up Contra 3 on Normal. I've heard the Hard difficulty is actually really good, and far more than the average "boost hp/fire more" affair, so I plan to look into that next.

Also playing Final Fantasy II (IV). I played the PS1 port back in the day, but have never played the original. I was expecting it to be stupid easy, since I've heard this was the easier of two versions and the PS1 port was the hard one (Or something like that), but so far it seems similar to what I remember... other than the translation being pretty bad at times.

Spoiler'd for story stuff.

My fiance cried when Palom and Porum turned themselves to stone. I always considered this the beginning of FF, as far as what attaches me to the series, and I was happy to see that it is still able to deliver an emotional impact.

Looking to track down a copy of either FFIII or Chrono Trigger, and Super Ghouls and Ghosts next.

[Ack]

Yeah, FFIV does stuff like that way more than any other game in the series.

I played through D-Force over the weekend and knocked that off my list of SNES games to get through. Also my copy of the Dungeon Master SNES port apparently arrived a few days ago, so I will probably pick it up from the front desk tomorrow. I look forward to playing that over the summer, and it would put me one step closer to beating all the NTSC-U SNES RPGs, so it's gotta happen.