I have been playing Super Nintendo since I was 4 years old and as my hobby i buy and sell a lot of SNES stuff. Ask me anything about games, console versions, converters, emulators etc.
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I have been playing Super Nintendo since I was 4 years old and as my hobby i buy and sell a lot of SNES stuff. Ask me anything about games, console versions, converters, emulators etc.
What's your favorite game?
It would have to be Super Metroid. The gameplay, graphics and overall atmosphere makes it a perfect game! Other than that I very much like the Donkey Kong Country series, Super Mario World 1&2, Super Mario Kart, Zelda, Secret of Mana and much much more. What's your favorites? :)
How many SNES games do you have?
Well I don't have that many physical copies since I own a SNES Powerpak. I have about 20 cartrigdes, and I'm selling most of them. The best thing that has happened to SNES in a long time in my opinion is the Powerpak, since you can download nearly any ROM (SNES game) onto a CF card, insert it into the Powerpak, and play. I have hundreds of game on my CF card.
Do you think the PlayStation would have been a big success?
It is currently the only console I own.
Oh man, I know what you mean with the powerpak - many, many, many (it seems like forever) years ago, in the hay day of SNES, when new games were still being made, etc. I had the "floppy disk" version of that thing (got it from some Chinese store). I'd rent SNES games, rip them to roms, and just... have them forever haha. I had many, many boxes of floppy disks. It was annoying to load them though, especially the bigger ones. Some games needed like 4 floppies.
I *think* it was a Pro Fighter X or something like that
Pro Fighter X 32m DSP - $59.00 : Game Doctor Hong Kong Games
That looks a little familiar. It's a huge unit that sits on top of your SNES (it's boning it with a cartridge-shaped penis haha). You can then stick a cartridge on top, and a floppy in the side, and tell it to rip the game (it's like an SNES orgy). Then, you later get rid of the game (return it to the video rental place hehe) and you can just load the floppy into the unit.
Also, the games I tried worked when loaded with any SNES emulator, so it's exactly the same rom format, though that shouldn't be too surprising I guess.
Haha that is so awesome! :)
A lot of people still buy those floppy drives even though there are easier alternatives. I guess it's just for the nostalgia. Did you even play all your ripped games?
I actually mostly did. But of course, with all the options, it took less to say "meh this game sucks let's try another one" :) It's kind of like having a bunch of SNES roms on your computer, really. It's more of a way to get through the crap and find more games you really enjoy without the risk of spending money uselessly.
Do you still play on the console? I sometimes play old SNES games, but I got a nice USB controller for my laptop so I just use that.
When Sega dropped their CD, Nintendo had Sony to help them out with one. Eventually, they had plans to make a cd/system bundle that would ultimately be called the Playstation. I still remember reading about that in EGM, and going berserk. It's also the reason why Secret of Mana, a glitch fest. It was originally developed for their CD system. I'm guessing this probably played an important factor in Squarsoft's decision to end it's exclusiveness with Nintendo.