Just bought a SNES

[magick]

I had a snes emulator with mario kart rom and ran on laptop through to tv and ps1 pads. Its not quite the same. There was a slight delay and the graphics would mash up and random things happen sometimes.

On my xbox, emulators play perfectly. Don't know how they compare to the original as I no longer have an original snes anymore but I don't feel as though i'm missing anything.

Plus the fact you can turn on a console and its straight in, no messing around with save states, setting up rom directories, setting graphics etc, and thats after you have actually powered on the machine to the emulator window.

Setting savestates and rom directories only has to be done once. Do agree with the plug and play though. Plus when you have an emulator with 2000+ games on them they do seem to lose there value and I only end up playing a game for 4 mins before swtiching to another.

 

[Guest2]

Setting savestates and rom directories only has to be done once. Do agree with the plug and play though. Plus when you have an emulator with 2000+ games on them they do seem to lose there value and I only end up playing a game for 4 mins before swtiching to another.

Those 2000 cartridges you have must take up quite some space!

 

[Guest2]

finally completed donkey kong country! not too happy it said i was 42% through the game, then gang plank galleon was the end.

Great game, will have to buy DKC 2

 

[Alexrose1uk]

I thought under uk law you'r allowed to make 1 back up of any data you own?

I think that's been done away with
I cant remember the exact bits and pieces, but I seem to believe that view was either negated or cancelled with one of the copyright laws and changes to accomodate everything going digital in the last few years.
Nintendo aren't exactly going to give an unbiased view on it, but even thier site lists it as illegal, even if you own the original.

ROMs are a bit of a legal minefield, Im not saying Im clean on them either, but then I have a physical collection of about 40 games covering the ROMs I used to have anyway (lost em years ago when I forgot to backup that directory before a reformat and since I had most of them [as a cartridge] by that point I never bothered to redownload 'em)

Anyway, this is kinda entering dodgy ground now, I dont want this to become a piracy conversation!

 

[domthecondom]

I just bought a Snes Aswell Anybody got Zelda? :O

 

[sharingan_sasuk]

Terranigma if you can find one. It was released here and in Japan, but not in the States. I still got my cartridge safely stored somewhere, and intend to hold on to it for as long as I can (dunno why though lol).

 

[JoeBoi]

Went to a boot sale the other day (London) and a guy had pretty much every snes and master system game you could want as well as a tonne of other gaming bits and pieces, might be worth taking a look.

Where abouts was this and how well priced was everything mate?

 

[daz]

finally completed donkey kong country! not too happy it said i was 42% through the game, then gang plank galleon was the end.

Great game, will have to buy DKC 2

There are obviously a few secrets for you to find

 

[Owenb]

finally completed donkey kong country! not too happy it said i was 42% through the game, then gang plank galleon was the end.

Great game, will have to buy DKC 2

Yeah it's very short. I think I finished it in 2-3 days and that included a lot of time spent playing the far superior Secret of Mana! IIRC a lot of the % is down to the hidden zones where you use the animals to collect banana's. The DKC series was pretty good, but it's main attraction was it's pre-rendered graphics which was very rare, no pun intended, and maybe a console first. There is a lot better games out there.

 

[HeX]

finally completed donkey kong country! not too happy it said i was 42% through the game, then gang plank galleon was the end.

Great game, will have to buy DKC 2

IIRC a lot of the % is down to the hidden zones where you use the animals to collect banana's.

Lots of the % is down to finding all the special coins etc. in the game.

There is actually 101% in DKC.

You can tell if you have fully completed a level as the level name will have '!' at the end of it if you have found everything.


DKC 2 and DKC 3 are far bigger (and harder) games.