Shadow Hog
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Technically, YT does support 3D video. Even has cross-eyed 3D support if you can't be bothered to break out some 3D glasses (whether that's the kind designed for a 3D monitor or just the old red/cyan ones).
NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread
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theSlacker
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It is really solid, but the problem is the same that every aftermarket slot thing has. The death grip. They are putting out a new version that has less of a grip now so wait for some feedback on that.
Other then that grip I love it. Was easy to install and is of good quality.
RoryDropkick
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So I was going to play Mario 3 this month.. then Yakuza 5 came out.. >_>;; but I'm here in spirit, really guys...
Huggers
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Yeah I heard there was a death grip issue. If they're working on a revised version I'll sit tight until it's sorted
drhankmccoyphd
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Can anyone recommend a cheap NES to Famicom converter? Preferably with case?
I didn't find it so bad until I had one that I had to pull out with pliers. I would wait. I might even replace mine if the revised version is a huge improvement.
blast processed
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So you guys are playing SMB3 this month, so I guess it's fitting that the id Software release video of the PC prototype of SMB3
https://vimeo.com/148909578
Edit: Didn't realize this was posted on the main board yesterday. I don't go there to often.
https://vimeo.com/148909578
Edit: Didn't realize this was posted on the main board yesterday. I don't go there to often.
D.Lo
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blast processed
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Yeah, sounds just like keen coming out of the PC speaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0V8iXjyqKU
Mario looks straight up obese in this.
I really like that game. I remember it being kind of directionless at first and pretty difficult, but once you get into its rhythm it's a really awesome game.
Played through the European translation on my NTSC Wii through the Virtual Console and it mangled the amazing tunes though.
elmalloc
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Does anyone have a Blinking Light Win mod (or NES with it modded already) for sale? I need one badly for Christmas (and a present).
I know it's hard to get out of the NES001, but I've had good success with jiggling the cartridge left to right in the other death grip connectors, I don't think I'll have a problem.
Thanks!
ELmO
I know it's hard to get out of the NES001, but I've had good success with jiggling the cartridge left to right in the other death grip connectors, I don't think I'll have a problem.
Thanks!
ELmO
Yeah, I had the same experience. As soon as I got the compass, things started becoming much more manageable and fun. Cool game for sure!
Congrats! I don't like the game much but it's not the worst. And yeah, lol at the ending.Best the first Ninja Turtles. It's massively flawed but I do really like it. After all that to finish it the ending sucks though. It's like 2 screens and it's over. Back to farming scrolls
Huggers
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Tbh mate I had to farm scrolls like crazy to get through area 6. Really tough. I'll upload it at some point. Looking for more NES action platformers that are finishable to play through. I've done most of the obvious ones now. Any suggestions?
Kabuki Quantum Fighter.
Ufouria, Little Samson and Monster Party are the most recent I have completed, all well worth your time imo.
The Technodrome is weird. Lots of enemies that take multiple hits in small hallways. The only way to kill them in one go is with beeping life alert panic Don or scrolls, so stocking up on them is the way to go. Gave them to Mike and Raph, just in case I picked up a crap weapon by accident.
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja is one of my favourite games for the NES. Some of the later levels are so varied, it's almost like Battletoads, but not INSANELY difficult. Plus, the graphics and music are top notch.
RadarScope1
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This one is on my short list. Seems cool but I never hear anyone talk about it much.
What. I thought the going price was 200 euros nowadays.
Kinda glad I picked one up for 30 euros a few years ago.
KDash31987
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TG3BEHdRHI
Man, that Namco(t) Star Wars game for the Famicom is fucking insane. Darth Vader turning into scorpions and sharks and shit? And Egypt and Atlantis (with a sunken United States Capitol)? Holy shit. I need to buy this game.
I should probably buy a Famicom, too. Just have a top-loading NES. I was thinking about going with an AV Famicom if I ever got around to getting one. I was strongly considering getting one and a disk system mid last year, but ended up saving that money to get an Xbox One instead.
Man, that Namco(t) Star Wars game for the Famicom is fucking insane. Darth Vader turning into scorpions and sharks and shit? And Egypt and Atlantis (with a sunken United States Capitol)? Holy shit. I need to buy this game.
I should probably buy a Famicom, too. Just have a top-loading NES. I was thinking about going with an AV Famicom if I ever got around to getting one. I was strongly considering getting one and a disk system mid last year, but ended up saving that money to get an Xbox One instead.
Huggers
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Depends. The PAL B version is around that price. We both collect NTSC though and the NTSC one is crazy money. It's similar to Stadium Events where in this case, the European version is way cheaper and easier to find
LOL. That game is crazy hard, Ive never beaten it.
Double Dragon 2 is pretty average for an NES game. Beatable in 30 minutes and quite easily once you know what to expect.
TMNT is quite hard though. I replayed that a few dozen times and always stuck to the gameplan. Maxed out scrolls for everyone, beelining past unnecessary enemies/buildings and crap, avoid the Shredder game-freezing bug and blast him with scrolls to win.
TMNT is quite hard though. I replayed that a few dozen times and always stuck to the gameplan. Maxed out scrolls for everyone, beelining past unnecessary enemies/buildings and crap, avoid the Shredder game-freezing bug and blast him with scrolls to win.
I am Christina Aguilera
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Want to hear something horrible? The word is that Vic Ireland and the Sunsoft people had the unreleased North American NTSC NES version of Ufouria up and ready to go and were trying to get it on the Virtual Console so that the music's PCM samples would play correctly and the music would sound the way that it's supposed to, but Nintendo insisted that only a previously-released version of the game could go up on the Virtual Console, so to have an English-language version, they had to use the released European PAL version with its PCM bass samples tuned to sound right for a slower PAL-speed NES CPU, but played through the NTSC version of the NES Virtual Console at the faster speed, resulting in totally borked-sounding music.
sixteen-bit
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Did they ease up on that policy eventually? Because there is definitely an English-language Monster World IV on there and that definitely did not see a physical release beforehand.
BubbleBobble
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TMNT was always so boring, especially compared to 2 and/or the actual arcade version
it wasn't even worth exploring because it was so boring (rhyming up in heah)
Double Dragon 2 was pretty difficult since you didn't get any continues once you lost your set of lives.. I guess you have to be pretty good to say it's average for you, though I do tend to agree that you can win easier after playing several times and knowing what to expect ;3
elmalloc
Member
The key phrase: "For an NES game".
Look at how easy Nintendo games are nowadays, sure DD2 relatively may have been "average".
You can't really even die in Yoshi's Wooly world.
TMNT1 was very difficult, I don't get how many kids would have beaten that (or even nowadays). It's nice to get back into retro gaming, where true difficulty lives.
Look at how easy Nintendo games are nowadays, sure DD2 relatively may have been "average".
You can't really even die in Yoshi's Wooly world.
TMNT1 was very difficult, I don't get how many kids would have beaten that (or even nowadays). It's nice to get back into retro gaming, where true difficulty lives.
D.Lo
Member
I think Double Dragon 2 is a good example of a game with perfect difficulty. It's a good challenge, but has great controls and is largely not unfair.
Heaps of NES games are hard because they are completely busted. The best games are the ones that are challenging but solid. Eg Contra and Super Contra, Batman, Castlevania etc.
Heaps of NES games are hard because they are completely busted. The best games are the ones that are challenging but solid. Eg Contra and Super Contra, Batman, Castlevania etc.
You can claim the first NES game wasn't as good, but it is definitely a vastly more interesting game design than the pure vanilla arcade beat-um-up of 2 and 3.TMNT was always so boring, especially compared to 2 and/or the actual arcade version
This game is a joke, but play stuff like 3D World and Donkey Kong if you want challenge.
I definitely agree that the firsr TMNT-game was much more interesting than the beat-em-ups. Kinda flawed, but still a very cool game imo. ALthough I have never beaten it.
Triple Dash
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Finally finished my Christmas shopping, though I had to do some returns and ended up picking up: Iron Sword (W&W2), Golgo 13, The Mafat Conspiracy, and Destiny of an Emperor.
I heard DoaE is a hidden gem, and I'm a diehard Fire Emblem fan, but on the flip side I can't figure out crap in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so I hope it's not too hard to get sucked into.
I heard DoaE is a hidden gem, and I'm a diehard Fire Emblem fan, but on the flip side I can't figure out crap in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so I hope it's not too hard to get sucked into.
TMNT 2 and 3 are far more fun than the frustrating and flawed as hell 1st game...hell doing a playthrough of the 1st game will probably be one of the most frustrating ones I'll do on youtube...and this is coming from someone who's gonna do Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden 3 and The Adventures of Bayou Billy.
Huggers
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Haha it is a fucker at times. I've just recorded my playthrough, got the vid down to 34 minutes. The technodrome was of course in the last place I looked....
A Black Falcon
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I got TMNT 1 for the PC back in the early '90s, so I had it back then and thought it was okay, but it's a bad game for sure, looking back. Even then when I did like it since it was the only Ninja Turtles game I actually owned (why, WHY didn't I get TMNT 2 for PC instead? Or the second or third GB games either, those are pretty good! But no, I only got this thing, unfortunately.) I didn't love it THAT much -- I don't think I ever beat the second level, the water stage. It's way too difficult even with the PC version's save system. Of course I have the US PC version so it has that bug later on (a jump you can't clear unless you cheat to skip the stage -- this is fixed in the later EU PC release, apparently), but I never got to that point.
Seriously, the game has a lot of major problems. The graphics are weird and not too great, the enemies don't look like anything from the series and aren't that nice looking, the level designs are annoying, the respawning enemies are TERRIBLE, some of the jumps are a pain, there are a lot of annoyingly pointless levels all over that you don't actually need to play (no, I don't think this is a good thing), etc etc etc. It's such a bad game...
Of course the first arcade TMNT game is also really great, but the NES port doesn't quite match up to the arcade original.
Seriously, the game has a lot of major problems. The graphics are weird and not too great, the enemies don't look like anything from the series and aren't that nice looking, the level designs are annoying, the respawning enemies are TERRIBLE, some of the jumps are a pain, there are a lot of annoyingly pointless levels all over that you don't actually need to play (no, I don't think this is a good thing), etc etc etc. It's such a bad game...
No way, 2 and 3 aren't vanilla at all, 3 particularly! 3 is the secret best TMNT console game ever; yeah, I know IV on the SNES is probably most peoples' pick, but I think 3 might be even better. I really like its level designs particularly, they are far more interesting than those in most beat 'em ups. Way too many games in the genre have basic "walk to the right" levels with no variety. Most all of Capcom's beat 'em ups are like this, for example, and lots of others too. My favorite beat 'em ups, such as TMNT III, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage 2 are better than that, and TMNT III might be the best of all. I love how the enemies come from all directions, statues turn into enemies, they come out of the sewer or through store windows, etc. And levels aren't just "walk to the right", but move up and down, have pits to avoid, multiple floors so you can jump between the sewer water and the path above, etc. There are traps to avoid too, in some levels. It's great stuff, and just gets better and better as you go. TMNT III: The Manhattan Project is a fantastic game and definitely is my favorite 3rd-gen console beat 'em up, and 3rd/4th gen beat 'em ups are a genre I have always liked. I like platformers more, but the first TMNT is a bad platformer, so there's no comparison at all between the two.
Of course the first arcade TMNT game is also really great, but the NES port doesn't quite match up to the arcade original.
Seven Force
Banned
TMNT II (and especially III) are better games, but the first game is easily the most ambitious of the bunch.
Yeah. IIRC, Ufouria's English Wii VC release in the US predates Monster World IV's by around a year and a half.
Yeah. IIRC, Ufouria's English Wii VC release in the US predates Monster World IV's by around a year and a half.
davidwhangchoi
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TMNT ultra games is best! (i still die at dismantling the river bombs)