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+2 on HAL's Hole in One Golf -



Had a few bad putting experiences, but despite the only view available being overhead when you swing, it's pretty good for this game.

Most of my Super Nintendo games no longer work, but emulation has done so many wonders. So glad I downloaded ZSNES way back in 2000.

If not for the blissful ignorance of my childhood, I would've saved all of my boxes. On the plus side, I still have most of the instruction manuals, although very few of them are void of any tears or scribbles.

I recently bought a few Super Famicom games, and two of them came with their boxes and inserts. Japanese imports are more affordable for me, but it's a shame that I can't understand the language.

Hey Aegis, what do you mean by they don't work? Is it that they no longer hold saves, the games don't start when you turn on the SNES, they have heavy artifacting and other glitches, or what? Maybe we can give some advice on restoring them.

I got a few more SNES games over the holiday: The Tick, The Hunt for Red October, Sonic Blast Man, and Top Gear. That put me at 273 total at year's end.

Aegis wrote:Most of my Super Nintendo games no longer work

Ack wrote:Hey Aegis, what do you mean by they don't work? Is it that they no longer hold saves, the games don't start when you turn on the SNES, they have heavy artifacting and other glitches, or what? Maybe we can give some advice on restoring them.

+1 to what Ack said.

Aegis, if you'd like to get your SNES stuff working, I'd recommend making a thread called "Help me get my SNES working" (or something similar) in the Tech Help forum. We'll make sure you get them working.

Aegis wrote:So glad I downloaded ZSNES way back in 2000.

Is that what you're still using? A build of zSNES from 2000? I highly recommend trying the bsnes emulator. The author, byuu, is well known in the community. His SNES emulator is 100% accurate, if I'm not mistaken. Currently, the bsnes emulator is now part of his "higan" emulator, which emulates other Nintendo systems as well.

http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/

I'll still use zSNES and SNES9x for specific things. But when I wanna actual play games I use bsnes because it's the most accurate experience to the real thing.

Oh man zSNES, haha. I stuck with it as long as I could as well, but yeah last time I emulated some SNES stuff I went with SNES9x and it was straight up vastly better.

I'd use ZSNES and Snes9x at the same time, only because certain emus ran certain games. I'll have to take a look at this bsnes.

Forget bsnes/higan itself, just run RetroArch with the bsnes core.

I don't like higan, it offers nothing bsnes .88 does and comes with other system baggage and a lame preloader into an album just to make the games load.

What other active emulators are left for snes? Seems with higan dying days ago it's up to nothing left of value.

Tanooki wrote:What other active emulators are left for snes? Seems with higan dying days ago it's up to nothing left of value.

Yeah, I just read byuu's last post. Sad. Well, the SNES portion of higan is 100%, right? At least there's that. Byuu said he wrote it in a language that would make it easier to port to anything, so it'll be future proof. That being said, do we even need an active SNES emulator development at this point? If the SNES portion of higan is 100% accurate emulation and it works on PC/OSX/Linux, then we don't really need anything right now. We'll just need something down the road when bsnes needs to be ported to something to keep it alive.

Byuu did make some other cool things though. Loki and MSU, probably a bunch of stuff I'm not aware of. It's sad if he's quitting the game all together, who knows what else SNES related stuff he could have come up with.

Ack wrote:Hey Aegis, what do you mean by they don't work? Is it that they no longer hold saves, the games don't start when you turn on the SNES, they have heavy artifacting and other glitches, or what? Maybe we can give some advice on restoring them.

Indeed, if it's just dead save batteries, myself or others can get those replaced for you.