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SNES Game Collecting (Tips, discussion, and info for like minded collectors)
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This came today
Only played about 4-5 levels/rooms so far, but it seems a bit mental and like it will be fun.
Great, great game. I played it for the first time properly in 2013 and loved it. Definitely one of my favourite games now.
Only played about 4-5 levels/rooms so far, but it seems a bit mental and like it will be fun.
Best SNES game, IMO. Had to have it complete and now I do.
Great, great game. I played it for the first time properly in 2013 and loved it. Definitely one of my favourite games now.
sixteen-bit
Member
Best SNES game, IMO. Had to have it complete and now I do.
My favorite SNES game as well.
davidwhangchoi
Member
Best SNES game, IMO. Had to have it complete and now I do.
how can i get complete one? it must be expensive
zephervack
Member
When the batteries die, do games stop booting??
My Zelda Link to the past cart shows the NINTENDO splash screen and then just freezes, could it be the battery?
No they typically only stop holding saves. Might be something more serious with your cart. :/
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Not necessarily, but if the battery leaked as bad as this one did and corroded/damaged the traces on the board then you could end up with severe problems like that.
Or it could just be the card-edge contacts being dirty/corroded.
I have Super Smash on Genesis, but haven't played it yet. Good on you for playing Super Metroid too. Game is legend.
It's the correct answer.
Find someone on offer up (phone app), and let them take your money. lol
I think ebay sees them go for like $150. My local game shop had it for $130, which seemed like a good deal relative to ebay. However, this dude on offer up had this copy in near mint condition for $120. This is one game in a very short list where I was perfectly willing to break my $45 hard cap budget. I don't even go above that for new games 99% of the time.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I still remember buying a sealed copy of Super Metroid for $20 Canadian many many years ago.... those were the days....
When I got Super Metroid (full price launch), it had a rebate offer where they'd give me ten bucks if I chopped the UPC out of my box and mailed it in. I said "Nah, you can keep your ten bucks. I like my box the way it is."
A couple years later I saw a stack of new/sealed Super Metroids on clearance for ten bucks. I was kicking myself, because if I had taken scissors to my box and claimed the ten bucks, then I could've bought one of these new sealed copies with that money and had 1.9 perfect copies of Super Metroid for the price of 1.0.
Oh well, live and learn. Let's just set down this $10 new/sealed copy of Super Metroid and walk away.
It's a fake. A lump of modeling clay inside a reproduction box, sealed with counterfeit shrinkwrap. The "old lady" con is the oldest con in the book.
You should tear it open to check.
I'm trolling. Don't tear it open.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Kickstarter if you're interested in an ice cube tray looking storage for NA SNES carts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2033311797/bitlounger-16bitsn
I'd get one for SFC carts since they don't have dust covers from when I looked.
I'm not going to open it.
Also, if anyone is looking into picking these up, among with the 8Bitdo SNES controller, I highly recommend it.
8Bitdo Bluetooth SNES Adapter
sixteen-bit
Member
D.Lo
Member
Best game ever released on any platform.
This is my ultimate dream. I picked the Super Famicom up 10 years ago when I was in Japan. A few days ago I finally decided to see if it would play games (it mostly just been a collection item, sitting on the shelf). I also snagged one of the HD Retrovision component cables (hoping they work with my TV, since it lacks S-Video).
The console works great. Throw in the two 8bitdo wireless controllers and I couldn't be happier
Now I'm in the process of getting the rest of my collection (which isn't much) converted to the SFC carts.
Here's my collection
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Mystic Quest
F-zero
Illusion of Gaia
A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Super Bases Loaded
Secret of Mana
Star fox
Super Metroid
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
UN Squadron
Not pictured
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Collection
(both are the SFC version since they're not really language dependent, I just bought them today)
IrishNinja
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damn, no replies on krizz's forums, but my super everdrive 2 maintains saves, unless you switch games...then it's gone. you see game names in the SAVE folder, but they're just not there in-game anymore. any ideas?
PumpkinSpice
Banned
SD card might be busted.
I had a problem with my Super Everdrive v1 doing some weird shit with a Toshiba 2GB SD Card that came with my original 3DS. Once I changed the SD card it was totally fine.
BTW, never trust anything from Toshiba.
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, that should've been my first thought...think ill move everything off, reformat & just try again tonight, thanks man!
alf717
Member
This past weekend someone posted a copy of Earthbound cart only for $100. I decided to pass on it though. I instead asked if they were selling Super Metroid instead since it was in their picture. I got a no on that one.
This is the ONLY game I have complete. It was from a Craigslist deal that really worked out in my favor.Best SNES game, IMO. Had to have it complete and now I do.
Item_Screen
Member
EVO is great! I just played through it last week actually. The difficulty ramps up considerably with the last few bosses, but I was drinking during my playthrough, so it could have been that.
theSlacker
Member
I liked it but last time I played it was years and years ago so who knows if it would hold up. Do remember it being grindy but that could have just been how I played it to get over the difficulty.
Item_Screen
Member
It's not that grindy because there is only so much you can do before you max out your character for each area, and there is always a good spot to farm. The last few bosses are just cheap, but what you can do is make a small change in evolution, like removing or adding a horn, and you go back up to full health.
I got a set of the HD Retrovision component cables and on the plus side, they look amazing. The downside, I'm getting some insane sych jitter issues on one of my TV's and some minor sync jitter issues on my other.
My Samsung is jumping around like a cat on crack. My Sharp isn't to bad, it's mostly on the top and sides, it's noticeable, but not annoying.
My Samsung is jumping around like a cat on crack
. My Sharp isn't to bad, it's mostly on the top and sides, it's noticeable, but not annoying.Do those TVs even properly support 240p over component?I got a set of the HD Retrovision component cables and on the plus side, they look amazing. The downside, I'm getting some insane sych jitter issues on one of my TV's and some minor sync jitter issues on my other.
My Samsung is jumping around like a cat on crack
I got a set of the HD Retrovision component cables and on the plus side, they look amazing. The downside, I'm getting some insane sych jitter issues on one of my TV's and some minor sync jitter issues on my other.
My Samsung is jumping around like a cat on crack
I got an email from HDR where they talk about that issue. They're actively working on resolving the jitter that occurs with some sensitive TV's and say that they won't produce a new batch of cables until it's resolved. Given their technical prowess I have no doubt a fix will happen, but it's all a matter of when and then the turnaround time in getting the cables produced. It took them a year longer than estimated to produce the cables for the first go around.
Luckily, my Samsung doesn't have jitter, just the combing effect since it interprets the 240p as 480i.
Square2015
Member
This is what I need, I didn't see anything about a release date on the site...
Kickstarter if you're interested in an ice cube tray looking storage for NA SNES carts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2033311797/bitlounger-16bitsn
Picked up Skyblazer yesterday for cheaper than I've seen it go online which was nice.
Also clocked a CIB PAL version of Hagane in a new retro games shop that had opened up. Owner (pretty nice dude!) said it was pretty much out as a talking point because it's that damned rare.
Also clocked a CIB PAL version of Hagane in a new retro games shop that had opened up. Owner (pretty nice dude!) said it was pretty much out as a talking point because it's that damned rare.
sixteen-bit
Member
Price has gone up... did a prominent youtuber do a video on it or something?
Nothing compared the the rare-ass JP version tho.
It's a neat game that took me a while to come around on. I believe this team made the Spawn game on SNES as well but it's not nearly as good :/
davidwhangchoi
Member
i saw skyblazer but didn't know anything about it and passed.
RadarScope1
Member
I really love Skyblazer. It's one of the games that I distinctly remember thinking "this is a hidden gem" when it was new. Got a mint cart several years ago for about $7.
RoryDropkick
Member
Nice, I got Skyblazer for super cheap years ago when no one was looking for it. Just played it on my Twitch stream about a month ago for fun.
I've missed a few at around £30, which is the cheapest I've seen it this year, but have seen a lot people asking (and sometimes getting) £50/60+ for it. Not sure why it's spiked beyond "Sony game on a SNES" or the general price creep of SNES games. Was featured at SGDQ again this year so maybe that bumped it up a bit?
That's what my sharp is doing. I don't really have a problem with that, it's the input lag a annoying.
KDash31987
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After 20 years or so years of owning it, I finally finished Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars after restarting it again a few days ago.
I also just beat Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door over the past two or so weeks after also restarting those. Prior to these, I never managed to complete a single turn-based RPG, despite having quite a few over many years. They're really damn good games. I might restart Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga real soon...I was gonna play that the other day (it's been in my Game Boy Player for days), but I ended up playing Super Mario RPG first. Glad I did.
sixteen-bit
Member
I enjoyed SMRPG when I played it a couple years ago. Dunno what took me so long.
SMRPG was my absolute favorite game growing up. The humor, music, unique art style, solid Square turn-based combat with innovative timed button-presses, and all the crazy, optional side shit to do...awww man
I love that the personality they decided to give Bowser in the game is still his personality in every Mario RPG game. RPG Bowser is probably the best and most hilarious video game character, no hyperbole.
I love that the personality they decided to give Bowser in the game is still his personality in every Mario RPG game. RPG Bowser is probably the best and most hilarious video game character, no hyperbole.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
He wasn't actually a character in FFIV I don't believe. He was kind of like a parody of FFIV bosses.
Seems weird now, but at the time, I felt like FFIV's style of "god-warriors with lots of crystals and shit and starry backgrounds" was very "out" by the mid-late 90s in jRPGs. So I took it as a loving send up of that style.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Probably the Majesco-published made-in-Mexico re-release.