How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Gunstar Green]

As much as I love replaying my favorites from time to time there's a lot of games out there to discover, more than I'll ever play in a lifetime. Sometimes it's best to look fondly on the past but let it go in search of new favorites.

Either that or you can try self-inflicted brain damage.

[darsparx]

Good pickups dar!

What are everyone's thoughts on using guides/walkthroughs for classic games? I only ask because there are games I truly wish I could go back and re-experience with fresh eyes, and walkthroughs take that aspect away. What I wouldn't give to have no knowledge of Super Metroid or Link to the Past again...

Well I gotta admit for some of those old games where the little bit more of a guide(or repeatment of where to go after doing x and y) is nonexistent I need a walkthrough. Especially if I accidentally button mash or come back after a few days of not playing....Only problem with some of these old games...or at least FF1. Though I've never had that issue with ToP for some odd reason or even the Mana series when playing the first game. Of course though, even some later games like Golden Sun need a guide when playing for completion the second time. There's only so many you dijinn you can find looking on your own. For the rest unless you really explore or get some help good luck find it all. The same goes for zelda games especially games other than lttp. Don't know if it's just me but usually the first time I play it through without much going back and forth like I should so I miss some stuff so I always grab a guide for the second time(or if I get stuck during the first) to find everything. But there are some times to play as if I didn't already know the game would be nice. I had that problem when playing ToP for the first time on SNES a few days ago. I'd already played it on gba so I already knew what happened near the beginning of the story for the first parts as you start then begin traveling...that is one game to not know what happens during parts of it would be amazing

[SNESdrunk]

Good pickups dar!

What are everyone's thoughts on using guides/walkthroughs for classic games? I only ask because there are games I truly wish I could go back and re-experience with fresh eyes, and walkthroughs take that aspect away. What I wouldn't give to have no knowledge of Super Metroid or Link to the Past again...

The only video walkthroughs I'll watch are HCBailly's. That guy is so incredibly thorough and detailed that I always pick up something I totally missed the first time around.

[MyNameIsVince]

Good pickups dar!

What are everyone's thoughts on using guides/walkthroughs for classic games? I only ask because there are games I truly wish I could go back and re-experience with fresh eyes, and walkthroughs take that aspect away. What I wouldn't give to have no knowledge of Super Metroid or Link to the Past again...

The only video walkthroughs I'll watch are HCBailly's. That guy is so incredibly thorough and detailed that I always pick up something I totally missed the first time around.

I usually do walkthroughs for stuff like action RPGs. I'll only refer to a video/youtube walkthrough if it's for a specific part that I may have missed, but generally, just text walkthroughs for those, that and Zelda games.

Not to say that I wasn't like that back in the day. I had strategy guides for a number of games, so I used them, like for A Link to the Past. Oddly enough, I never had a strategy guide for Super Metroid (but I did use a couple of issues of Nintendo Power to get through the first half of the game). I don't need it anymore really because I've played it so much. In fact, I ended up resorting to a walkthrough to find the last 3 items in Super Metroid just to get to 100%. Funny thing is, I have a bunch of old issues of Nintendo Power at my disposal, yet I never refer to them when I want to look up something for a game. Probably because they're on the bottom shelf in my bookshelf, complete with dust and I'm too lazy to fetch them when my laptop is just inches away from me when I play games. (I really need magazine holders for those things).

[mas]

Didnt want to make a thread but where can I get a decent pair of s video cables for the snes? I seee those retro bit cheap ones but I heard they suck. Im only playing the snes thru an rf and i can't take it anymore. What would you guys recomend.

[Sano]

Awesome! Huzzah for Flashcarts!

[Ziggy]

Didnt want to make a thread but where can I get a decent pair of s video cables for the snes? I seee those retro bit cheap ones but I heard they suck. Im only playing the snes thru an rf and i can't take it anymore. What would you guys recomend.

It's kinda of a sore subject for me. It seems like you can't get decent quality AV cables for retro consoles right now. At least, not any that aren't ridiculously expensive.

If you search "SNES S-video cables" on eBay or Amazon right now, most of them look like pure garbage. Stay away for anything with super thin wires. Out of all of them, I thought these looked the best...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-S-Vid ... 3f30780085

I haven't ever tried them, or examined them in real life, but at least the wires look a little thicker than the rest. Thicker doesn't guarantee quality. I've bought cables in the past because they were thicker, but then when I spliced into them found out that they were actually pathetically thin and just had thick insulation to make them appear better. Still, since the pickings are slim, I'd go with them over any of the other cables in the $5-25 range. They all look horrible. Unless you wanna spend like $90 for Monster cables, or however much official ones are going for right now (I don't know but I'm assuming a lot).

[Hazerd]

As much as I love replaying my favorites from time to time there's a lot of games out there to discover, more than I'll ever play in a lifetime. Sometimes it's best to look fondly on the past but let it go in search of new favorites.

Either that or you can try self-inflicted brain damage.

/agree, i havent sat down and actually beaten a SNES game in over a decade.

[MyNameIsVince]

Didnt want to make a thread but where can I get a decent pair of s video cables for the snes? I seee those retro bit cheap ones but I heard they suck. Im only playing the snes thru an rf and i can't take it anymore. What would you guys recomend.

It's kinda of a sore subject for me. It seems like you can't get decent quality AV cables for retro consoles right now. At least, not any that aren't ridiculously expensive.

If you search "SNES S-video cables" on eBay or Amazon right now, most of them look like pure garbage. Stay away for anything with super thin wires. Out of all of them, I thought these looked the best...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-S-Vid ... 3f30780085

I haven't ever tried them, or examined them in real life, but at least the wires look a little thicker than the rest. Thicker doesn't guarantee quality. I've bought cables in the past because they were thicker, but then when I spliced into them found out that they were actually pathetically thin and just had thick insulation to make them appear better. Still, since the pickings are slim, I'd go with them over any of the other cables in the $5-25 range. They all look horrible. Unless you wanna spend like $90 for Monster cables, or however much official ones are going for right now (I don't know but I'm assuming a lot).

$90 dollars for a Monster cable? Are you serious? I bought a Monster S-Video cable for the SNES for like 17 bucks in 2011. I bought it because I thought it would be an improvement from the image quality I was getting from a 4 dollar S-Video cable I bought for my SNES a few months prior (that cable already improved the image from the standard red/yellow/white cables). So was the Monster S-Video cable for the SNES better? Nope. In fact it was worse, for these reasons:

1) Image quality between Monster S-Video cable and 4 dollar cheapy cable was nil.
2) Monster cable had S-Video/red/white. 4 dollar cheapy had S-Video/yellow/red/white. So if your TV had composite but no S-Video, you're shit out of luck with the Monster.
3) End connectors on Monster cable connected weird and connection felt not solid at all.

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

[darsparx]

Seriously. Who the hell spends $90 dollars or more on a cable? You have to be out of your mind to do that.

Well to be honest some of the more rare or uncommon or even higher quality cords aren't as cheap as they should be. Guess for not selling them as fast they think they can sell them for a higher premium..