Seven Force
Banned
It's a shame that Jackal revival for Wii never came to pass, the original is a gem.
Totally OTT, but dope vinyl collection, bruh.
Totally OTT, but dope vinyl collection, bruh.
NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread
- Thread starter Teknoman
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Never knew this was supposed to be a thing. Btw, the Konami Rebirth-games should totally be rerelased somehow instead of being stuck on a dying service, those were all awesome.
I own all of them... but it's one of the greatest crimes in gaming that they're stuck on WiiWare. And a port needs to happen, but we'll probably never have that happen because it's Konami.
IrishNinja
Member
ah thanks man! been stepping it up this year since i inherited a DJ buddy's collection, crossing off most of my major ones at the moment
Seven Force
Banned
Yeah, I always kinda hoped for a physical collection. I managed to get some friends together this past Saturday and we all played through Contra ReBirth in Co-Op. It was pretty great. And Castlevania ReBirth is legit my favorite Classicvania.
Shame it'll never happen since, well... Konami.
Good shit, man. I just started my own, since I ended up inheriting my parents massive collection and turntable. I mean, most of it at the moment is old Motown stuff, but it's as good a start as any.
Ah. Well, as you progress from level to level your Bert transformation's projectile attack powers up. Eventually it fires two bolts that criss-cross in a wave pattern.The color of your sprite changes too, but the weird thing is it does for your Mark form also. So maybe your bat attack is getting stronger too, but since you're fighting new enemies of unknown strength in every stage any supposed changes in power seem arbitrary. At least in Bert form you can see the changes in your attack and bosses tended to go down much quicker.
I mean, it's not experience point-based or anything, but you definitely get stronger as the game progresses.
D.Lo
Member
Also they have fucked up widescreen scaling, Like Mega Man 9. They look great with the Wii set to 4:3, but when set to 16/9 they have forced widescreen borders with lower resolution, which makes them hideous blurry messes. On the Wii U it's forced widescreen so they look like crap. I have to keep my Wii around just for them.
IrishNinja
Member
oh man, do hit me up if you don't want some of that motown! haha, ive got mad hip hop singles and reggae stuff i gotta do something with
also off topic but this is kind've the gaf vinyl thread
Yeah was hoping for the same, a disc-release, a ds-port. Anything! Instead we got nothing as usual
Ah yeah, now I understand what you mean. I think this is just based on the level, and not experience as you said, so didnt really count it as leveling up. But yeah, pretty cool feature for sure!
sixteen-bit
Member
Definitely agree. Too bad Konami is done with gaming
Done? Didn't they just release a new Bomberman
on mobile
NOT FUNNY!
So, after having played through Monster Party, I decided to go through my NES games and find a few more Halloween-ish games, maybe for a marathon Friday night.
Here's what I came up with:
- BeetleJuice
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Friday the 13th
- Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
- Fester's Quest
- Monster in my Pocket
- Ghosts & Goblins
- Gargoyle's Quest II
- Maniac Mansion
- Uninvited
- Ghoul School
- Castlevania
- Castlevania II
- Castlevania III
And for the Famicom:
- Getsu Fuuma Den
- Kid Dracula
- Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
Any other suggestions?
Incidentally, I took pictures of these games to share but if I choose to include an image in my post my only option is to enter an image URL. Is that because I haven't made enough posts to upload pics or am I just missing something obvious?
Here's what I came up with:
- BeetleJuice
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Friday the 13th
- Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
- Fester's Quest
- Monster in my Pocket
- Ghosts & Goblins
- Gargoyle's Quest II
- Maniac Mansion
- Uninvited
- Ghoul School
- Castlevania
- Castlevania II
- Castlevania III
And for the Famicom:
- Getsu Fuuma Den
- Kid Dracula
- Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
Any other suggestions?
Incidentally, I took pictures of these games to share but if I choose to include an image in my post my only option is to enter an image URL. Is that because I haven't made enough posts to upload pics or am I just missing something obvious?
IrishNinja
Member
^that's an awesome list, id say Sweet Home if you can...so good!
missed this, but yeah - this is one of my most-wanted collection discs, ugh
just toss those 2 & gradius rebirth, easy $
missed this, but yeah - this is one of my most-wanted collection discs, ugh
just toss those 2 & gradius rebirth, easy $
sixteen-bit
Member
depends if the cart bay is a repurposed cheese grate imo
Nah, all you can do is post the image url inbetween brackets here
EDIT: Got my RGB modded NES back and running after a minor tech issue. So sharp, but now i'm trying to figure a pallet setting to stick with. Middle or up lol.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well that was banned since they reuse urls for expired images and that resulted in some very nsfw stuff popping up in threads over time.
Correct. I would still suggest Imgur for reliability.
And I'm partial to the pic of the dude in the Islander jersey!
But back on topic... anyone play Crisis Force? Pretty damn good Konami vertical STG. A bit heavy on the slowdown in parts, but the graphics are attractive and the little environmental flourishes are neat - you have volcanoes exploding in the background, lasers firing on a city and destroying buildings, little bulldozers digging up the land. Surprised it never got a US release, the game came out in Japan in '91 when the NES was still an extremely viable platform in the US, and I can't imagine translation would have been too arduous.
Shadow Hog
Member
Honestly, I've come to loathe ImageShack lately. Might be useful for uploading images, but their redirect mischief makes it a pain in the ass to view full-size images hosted on there.
I thought that was tinypic?
Crisis Force is AWESOME.
I was blown away with the juice they were able to squeeze out of a Famicom. The game is pretty solid, too.
Edit: Thanks for the tip, Teknoman!
I wanted to squeeze in a few Monster Party moments before the end of the month.
(Spoilered for length and, well, spoilers)
(Spoilered for length and, well, spoilers)
The entire ridiculous opening story:
Best part: "The beauty of the star made his eyes moist."
Here's the moment everyone remembers: THE CHANGE
The "Sorry, I'm dead" guy:
A sight gag typical of a lot of the sprite work:
The "Watch my dance" guys:
The "Which one" boss. It's actually a reasonably clever boss battle with faces blending into the background (only one of which is vulnerable), but the colors just clash so much that the atmosphere is surprisingly creepy and off-putting:
This guy can be brutal (Bonus: Post-battle cute witch):
The last boss battle:
The skin-meltingly odd ending sequence:
Best part: "The beauty of the star made his eyes moist."
Here's the moment everyone remembers: THE CHANGE
The "Sorry, I'm dead" guy:
A sight gag typical of a lot of the sprite work:
The "Watch my dance" guys:
The "Which one" boss. It's actually a reasonably clever boss battle with faces blending into the background (only one of which is vulnerable), but the colors just clash so much that the atmosphere is surprisingly creepy and off-putting:
This guy can be brutal (Bonus: Post-battle cute witch):
The last boss battle:
The skin-meltingly odd ending sequence:
Huggers
Member
Cheers mate! Pretty awesome and rare to get handed free NES games these days. The guy that gave them to me is upgrading to boxed complete copies. That's a road I'm yet to go down....
Did just buy Conquest of the Crystal Palace after seeing it in this thread I believe. Cracking little game, awesome music
sixteen-bit
Member
It was.Shadow Hog said:
I see you have a bigger Splatterhouse-cart, and I myself has a big Saiyuki World (basically Wonderboy 2)-cart. Any story behind these bigger carts?
I thought that was the default size of the Splatterhouse cart (most Namco carts are big)?
Yeah, maybe that is it. Maybe some of our experts in here know.
Hmmm, yeah I dont know. Look at Saiyuki World though
I can't quite match that set...
But I can make another:
No idea on the story behind the size differences. I might guess... brand recognition?
D.Lo
Member
It's just basically because they felt like it.
There is no standard famicom cart apart from Nintendo produced ones (which sometimes 3rd parties used). You could make your own, and make it whatever shape or size you wanted. Sometimes It was for extra ROM chips to fit, sometimes the shell is mostly empty.
It was a combination of need for more space, and a marketing/branding thing. Even if the shell is empty you can pretend it's a 'huge' game because it was on a huge cart.
Konami, for example, used three carts:
'Konami' style with label that folds over onto the spine
Standard Nintendo with only front label
NES sized black carts with 'Konami' branding in the plastic.
Most of the special chip carts are in standard Konami small carts, but all the large carts use all the space, so in Konami's case the larger cases were necessary. Larange Point has like six chips inside, plus a battery.
There is no standard famicom cart apart from Nintendo produced ones (which sometimes 3rd parties used). You could make your own, and make it whatever shape or size you wanted. Sometimes It was for extra ROM chips to fit, sometimes the shell is mostly empty.
It was a combination of need for more space, and a marketing/branding thing. Even if the shell is empty you can pretend it's a 'huge' game because it was on a huge cart.
Konami, for example, used three carts:
'Konami' style with label that folds over onto the spine
Standard Nintendo with only front label
NES sized black carts with 'Konami' branding in the plastic.
Most of the special chip carts are in standard Konami small carts, but all the large carts use all the space, so in Konami's case the larger cases were necessary. Larange Point has like six chips inside, plus a battery.
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/pcb.php
Great site to check out all the different famicom/nes pcb boards and the chips on them.
Koei games are among the largest.
Great site to check out all the different famicom/nes pcb boards and the chips on them.
Koei games are among the largest.
Its not just you, I felt like I had to do this with a few as well, they are not always good enough designed to take the normal "learn pattern, be patient"-approach imo.
Yeah, there were aspects of the game that seemed a bit sloppy (like some unbalanced bosses and the fact that it seems to become harder to hit some enemies with your powered-up projectile), but unlike a lot of NES games, the design flaws are things that are possible to overcome with a reasonable degree of patience and skill.
A few of the good design choices that help make up for the bad:
- Infinite continues (big plus).
- Relatively short stages.
- Fixed enemies dropping power-ups (which will re-appear and can be exploited).
- Some of your life bar refills between stages.
- No time limits.
There are a lot of games with design flaws that are game-breaking. Whether Monster Party was spared this fate due to clever developers, blind luck, or a bit of both I don't know, but I'm certainly glad it ended up the way it did. Would be interesting to see what Bandai-Namco could do if they decided to make a modern remake.
After seeing what they did to Splatterhouse, Im not sure I would want this.
sixteen-bit
Member
Splatterhouse 2010 was in-house? Yikes, I assumed it was outsourced to a D-tier western dev as per the fashion at the time.
It was, but that D-tier developer was so bad that Namco Bandai took over reigns and finished the game in-house.
Triple Dash
Neo Member
Finally started to get the hang of Gimmick!, at least enough so that I can make it through it each level decently. Level 5's boss is hard but the secret bomb items hidden nearby both give you extra farm-able lives and ammo. Level 6 isn't hard beyond getting a hang of the first miniboss's pattern (feels like fighting Hammer Bros) and dealing with springs (are easier than the ones in Mario IMO). I still have to beat Level 6's boss, but the sheer hecticness of the fight is a lot of fun and more manageable than it seems.
IDK I'm starting to feel ready to take on the Good Ending Challenge. lol
IDK I'm starting to feel ready to take on the Good Ending Challenge. lol
IrishNinja
Member
get a decent deal, at least?
Danexmurder
Member
Just got a copy of Lickle for the Famicom. Seriously excellent game. There's a reason that it fetches such a premium. Played through the game on easy the first night. It was a challenge but totally manageable. I'm excited to play through it on normal.
Ouch! I gave up and got the Famicom-version on this one.
A pretty good game for sure, but it does not defend that price imo. Played through it on normal just last month. Need to do it on easy as well, since I read somewhere that the last boss is different.
Danexmurder
Member
I agree with the price point for sure. The price of collecting NES/SNES games has gotten absolutely banannas.
Shadow Hog
Member
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