Poll: SNES vs Megadrive?

SNES vs Meagdrive?

  • SNES

    Votes: 247 52.9%

  • Megadrive

    Votes: 220 47.1%
  • Total voters
    467
Superficial said:
I think We need to get something straight!

The Megadrive had Street Fighter II: Special Championship Edition - this was FASTER than Turbo which came out on the SNES.

The above fact Plus the 6 button controller on the Megadrive meant that playing SF on the megadrive was a much better experience closer to the 6-button arcade machines.

I will never understand why so many think the SNES had such a great controller anyway - ok it had 6 buttons fromthe get go but, and lets face it, the shoulder buttons were, frankly, TERRIBLE. it was like someone stuck them on as an after thought - they were so cheap and had zero travel.
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Indeed.

But both Championship Edition and Turbo had the same speed options and modes since they were both based on the arcade original versions of Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting.

From what I remember, Turbo on the SNES does have a slightly better colour palette due to the SNES' obvious better hardware. But when it came to the music, MegaDrive's Championship Edition wins this since it sounded a lot more closer to the arcade original's CPS-1 board music. SNES's Turbo music was exactly the same as the SNES home version of World Warrior, and whilst it sounded good on it's own right, they were very different.
 
I'm sorry, but if we're talking about music and not sound quality, the Megadrive simply destroys the Super Nintendo... Each Sonic game has more great tracks on it than the entire library of games on the SNES.



I actually transcribed the above tune, and played it with my jazz quartet. :o





 
Naffa said:
I'm sorry, but if we're talking about music and not sound quality, the Megadrive simply destroys the Super Nintendo... Each Sonic game has more great tracks on it than the entire library of games on the SNES.
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Honestly though, both system's sound chips have their advantages and disadvantages.

I mean this is pretty much an old synthesizer battle of FM analogue (Mega Drive) vs Digital (SNES).

I find the Mega Drive's FM chip produces much more faster sounding music and then you have rare cases like the Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage trilogy that is just amazing and shows what an older chip is capable of.

The SNES' digital chip produces better quality sounding instruments and voice samples (The many epic muziacs of JRPGs!), but I find that the overall speed is a bit lacking in comparison.
 
Megadrive also had the better version of Mortal Kombat. The SNES version was censored and basically pointless as it wasn't a great game, and the gore was the main selling point.

P.S, the best sonic music was the starlight zone in the first one. :)
 
SNES what a brilliant xmas that was for me i think i must have been 8 or 9. It came with super mario world. I must have had about 20 odd games for it and all my free time after school was spent on it:D
I dont think ive ever been that excited with any other console and ive had:
NES
Master System 2 (yuk)
N64 (golden eye probably made that my second best console)
dreamcast
psone
ps2
xbox
xbxo360
ps3
gameboy
gameboy advance
nintendo ds
nintendo 3ds
psp

Yep the SNES can be beaten for me on how awesome the games were and just being a kid and talking to my mates all day at school about are SNES.
 
SNES without a shadow of a doubt. Super Mario World? Super Metroid? LOZ: Link to the Past? Pilotwings? F-Zero? Super Mario Kart? Need I go on?

Weirdly though I did have both consoles. I never actually asked for the Mega Drive though. My parents just randomly got me it for Christmas a year or two after I got the SNES. I remember being completely shocked when I opened the wrapping on the box. It had some decent games to be fair, but it was no comparison to my beloved SNES.
 
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Stupid thread, i'm looking to buy (another) SNES now off ebay or find one somewhere else so I can fire up Mario Kart and Street Fighter 2 again
 
SNES. Can't beat the original Nintendo series. :) Megadrive/Sega I've never really thought much of. :o

Conclusion: I'd say SNES :D
 
Superficial said:
I think We need to get something straight!

The Megadrive had Street Fighter II: Special Championship Edition - this was FASTER than Turbo which came out on the SNES.
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Is that with the '10 star' option you can get to when you enter the cheat code?

I will never understand why so many think the SNES had such a great controller anyway - ok it had 6 buttons fromthe get go but, and lets face it, the shoulder buttons were, frankly, TERRIBLE. it was like someone stuck them on as an after thought - they were so cheap and had zero travel.
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The d-pad on the SNES.
 
SNES was better especially the us version, the pal version had some nasty slowdown on some games, street fighter & mario kart us versions for example were way better.

Megadrive was great too though in its own right, as was the Japanese pc engine.

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Sutters said:
SNES was better especially the us version, the pal version had some nasty slowdown on some games, street fighter & mario kart us versions for example were way better.

Megadrive was great too though in its own right, as was the Japanese pc engine.

NTSC brick version

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NTSC console is awful looking. Not sure what they were thinking with that design. Snes Jr is much nicer. Shame you have to mod it to get anything other than composite out of it.
 
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