How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[RCBH928]

Monster cables are the biggest ripoff around. They prey on customer ignorance to make an obscene profit on their cables.

I do not blame the customer. Personally I am tired of spending hours of researching each item I have to buy there is a lot of lingo especially in tech. HDMI, HD, FULL HD, Gold Plated, you see where this goes with monitors, HDDs, ... etc . The most confusing part is when a brand is known for its quality in a specific product (TVs), and when you pick up another product with same brand it appears that theirs is one of the worst (Bluray players) . I guess most people go with the idea of better safe than sorry.

[fastbilly1]

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

I have spent more than that before, unrelated to gaming. Here is a quick list of stupidly expensive cables I have bought:
- 100ft of 5 strand RG6 with BNC connectors - $300
- 20ft of HD-SDI cable - $1k - this was in 2002, the same cable is like $50 now
- 40 ft of 4 strand fiber with LC connectors - $200

And when it drops Ill be buying a three 12G UHD-SDI, I am just assuming the six foot length will be over $100.

Granted all of these were payed off by other people/jobs they were used on.

Yikes, that's a lot of feet of cable. You rigging up a 16.1 surround sound system in that 5 story mansion of yours?

JUST KIDDING.

I have no idea what most of those acronyms mean, so I just assume it's some sort of high end audio/video/etc. that I don't understand.

In all honesty, I made my statement assuming that people would be spending 90 dollars or more on essentially a 3-6 foot cable for most regular electronics, like for their television or CD player or iPod or video game console or something like that when they really shouldn't . Obviously it'll be more expensive if you're buying many feet of cable.

Nah, I have a 5.1 setup and a 2 story house, though I do need to upgrade the receiver and sub. The BNC and SDI cables are what is used to connect cameras to decks/monitors. Specifically the BNC hooked up to a 90s Panasonic Broadcast video camera's deck. So we could view it on an external monitor in a different room. The HDSDI and UHD-SDI cables are what modern video cameras use for external connections. Some use HDMI, but the big guys use the expensive connectors. The 4 strand fiber was for connecting a customers warehouse with his office. Everything was wired with cat 6, but since he was trenching asphalt, he only wanted to have to do that once, so he went with future proof glass. Truth be told, when it comes to analog cables over a certain distance, the cable does matter - more so for analog than digital. Now I am going way off topic. But regardless of lenght, HD-SDI and Fiber are expensive. Fiber gets super expensive in short lengths. For a while a foot of fiber cost more than 30 feet.

So no, I am not spending $90 for a SNES monstercable. I have my SNES hooked up to a 10inch Amiga CRT via Composite, since it does not have Svideo.

[Hobie-wan]

All this talk about those silly Monster S-Video cables? I picked em up off eBay in 2012 for $9. Looks good on both the SNES and the GC (they used the same connector)

Too bad they look terrible on N64.

I can't say if S-Video on an N64 looks terrible on a CRT television, but on a flat screen, yes they do, because the S-Video cleans up the image, and for the SNES and Gamecube, that's great, but not so much for the N64.

But then again, it makes the SNES look mostly tolerable on a flat screen (composite looks worse).

Blue = sarcasm. I was commenting on the fact that N64 uses the same plug but wasn't mentioned.

[Ziggy]

Blue = sarcasm.

We should have that edited into the forum rules/guidelines thread.

[darsparx]

Blue = sarcasm.

We should have that edited into the forum rules/guidelines thread.

Seriously, I figured that out after i saw it a few times but really should be labeled somewhere

[Hobie-wan]

Blue = sarcasm.

We should have that edited into the forum rules/guidelines thread.

Seriously, I figured that out after i saw it a few times but really should be labeled somewhere

Fine gawd. You people! Went ahead and added it.

[Zing]

I have been trying to play through Final Fight for months. I always get to the arena, where I must fight the guy with two swords. He always rams me and I just can't win. Any tips?

[SNESdrunk]

I have been trying to play through Final Fight for months. I always get to the arena, where I must fight the guy with two swords. He always rams me and I just can't win. Any tips?

Approach him either from directly above or below and grab him, do the three-knees if you're Cody or three-headbutts if you're Haggar, that'll do the most damage. You'll lose at least one guy though because there's no avoiding his charges.

[Zing]

You can't avoid the charges at all? I've tried staying close, staying far, jumping… nothing works.

[Zing]

I can't seem to figure out the knee attack. I grab them, but Y just throws, and B just jumps. Can you even do the knee in the SNES version?