any update on hacking this for people using a mac (without parallels etc)?
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
I got one! A little Christmas gift to myself. Never heard of Earthbound in all my time as a console enthusiast. What's the deal with that?
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 21 December 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
Are you from Earth?
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 21 December 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
Between the poor sales and the phasing out of the Super NES, the game did not receive a European release.
I came across it 15/20 years later via the internet
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 December 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
i remember reading about it in super play and i'm looking forward to playing it nearly 25 years later
( had my snes classic shipped to family in the UK from amazon.fr, so i don't actually have mine yet)
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
it's the best
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
I play Earthbound once a year, like a digital hajj.
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
im on earth btw
― infinity (ā), Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
I'm on my way there
― Evan, Thursday, 21 December 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
I did the next level of mod on this thing today, which is installing retroarch. Now it plays all the SNES games (including ones the built in emulator didnāt support) but also all the NES and Gameboy and GBA and, man, itās pretty amazing (itāll also do non-Nintendo consoles and n64 but Iām sticking with these for now)
― JimD, Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
i read about it in super play and played it on emulator in the early 2000s. it's very good, one of the best games on SNES
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
do the pads on this feel like an actual snes?
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 22 December 2017 07:04 (six years ago) link
is jailbreaking it more or less work than setting up a raspberry pi?
Raspberry pi is at least an eveningās work, this is 20 minutes. And requires a lot less know how. Even installing the extra emulator was literally ādownload the zip, drag it over to the hackchi window, drop it, click okā.
And I think the pads feel right? Although Iāve never used a brand new SNES pad before so canāt say for sure, the d-pads do feel stiff but Iām guessing thatās normal.
― JimD, Friday, 22 December 2017 09:15 (six years ago) link
yeah the pads are pretty close to a new SNES. had a few sessions w this and it felt exactly like playing og hardware.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Are there wireless controllers available for the SNES? The cords are sort of a dealbreaker for me
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 22 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Wireless-Controller-Classic-super-nintendo/dp/B074HBNNH6/these are very good
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
also if i had a classic, this would be an instabuyhttps://www.amazon.com/Classic-Deluxe-Carrying-Super-Nintendo-Console/dp/B075MXXHCG
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
I've got one of the those 8bitdos. The d-pad is a little loose but it's otherwise fantastic, and the bluetooth wireless feature is great.
― Evan, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
Oh wait that's a newer one than I have in that link. I wonder how it compares.
I'm addicted to Earthbound. It's wonderful. Kind of wish we had a separate thread for it, but I don't know what the point of it would be...
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
spooky shit in earthbound
― JimD, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
SNES classic finally available at walmart.com right now. I should probably snag it......welp it disappeared in the time it took me to write this post, good job me
― Nhex, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
time to re-examine yr priorities dude
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 January 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Snag first write post AFTER
― Evan, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
i know! such shame ;_;
― Nhex, Monday, 8 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
got one
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
https://toadle.me/2017/02/03/how-to-add-more-games-to-you-nes-mini-classic-using-hakchi2-and-a-mac.html
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
OK I just got one too. I don't know how, but apparently Gamestop has them for more than an hour tops these days because people have started to give up seeking them out.
― Evan, Friday, 2 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
4 million units sold, apparently? I'm surprised it's that high, given that they're only releasing ten units to market every week.
Like, hey, Nintendo: I've never owned any of your systems except a Game Boy thirty years ago but I'm interested in giving you my money in exchange for one of these things but also only if you stop making it an enormous pain in the ass for me to give you my money.
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
Corporations are so fucken dumb, I swear.
it's just faintly possible that they're having trouble manufacturing a mass-produced item to meet demand, and not that they're deliberately withholding from individual people who have bought one (1) thing from them in the last 129 years
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 3 February 2018 07:53 (six years ago) link
No, Nintendo have form for this
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
Thank you for responding in kind to my grounded and literal expression of concern, sic.
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 February 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
Okay, I'm done with Earthbound now. Been replaying Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Super Mario World. There's a strange phenomenon of a kind of 'muscle memory' or something where, even though I haven't really played the games in about 20 years, I still have an intuition of what to do, where the secret bits are etc.
I haven't played the other RPGs - Secret of Mana, Zelda III, Final Fantasy III etc but they do seem a bit hackneyed compared to Earthbound's postmodern swishness. <- are any of these worth continuing with?
Not really played the Kirby games apart from a few 2-player goes.
Mario Kart is all time ofc
Side-scroll arcaders like Ghouls'n'Ghosts, Castlevania and Contra just feel dated and a bit samey (not to mention difficult)
No idea what I'm doing in Punch Out
Think I might hack my machine soon
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
Hacking is super easy. Link to the Past, FF3/6 and Secret of Mana are all-time great games, definitely play them at some point. Have you played Super Metroid yet?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link
I had Super Metroid back in the day. It's an amazing game. Just need the time to invest in replaying it.
I was kind of enjoying Secret of Mana but there was something annoying about the way the text was layered onto the background that was doing my eyes in. I'm sure the graphics in some these games are slightly blockier than I remember. I've tried changing the display settings but they don't seem to do anything particular
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
bigger tv probably?punch out is amazing, keep at it
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link
xpost - if time is an issue, avoid FFIII, that game is hueg and somewhat addictive
― Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link
i don't mind huge. I was impressed by Earthbound's scope tbh.
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
Zelda III isn't really an RPG fwiw - action/puzzle/exploration thing, like the original Zelda. You increase max health and items, like Metroid, but otherwise there's no leveling and the story/dialogue are much much more limited than the average RPG (tho much more extensive than the average 8-bit title of this type). It's a blast imho but I also just find the world/music/palette very comfortable and soothing.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
I think Kirby's Dream Course is my second favourite SNES game. Difficult to get to grips with at first.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 8 February 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
I sold all my systems a few months ago. My PS2 with the Metal Gears I'd never played. My Gamecube with Killer 7 and Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil. My SNES with R-Type and Chrono Trigger and all three Mega Mans and so on. Now all I have is a SNES Mini (hacked) and my Switch.
I have my N64 but I'm having a crisis with it, lol. I'm buying an SD-card cartridge so I can get rid of all my expensive cartridges (my favourite is Sin & Punishment, bought it in 2005 in Japan with no idea what it was except for the Treasure logo on it). I'm considering getting the system hacked for RGB and an upscaler. Mouse hovering over Buy It Now over these expensive ridiculous upscalers on eBay.
Anyway SNES mini, hacked? amazing. Favourite thing ever
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
selling Killer 7! a pox on you!
― Nhex, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
man, i can't remember or even begin to think what other games I'd love to play again. What was the crazy kawaii side-scrolling shoot em up where you could be a range of spaceships or a penguin? What was the forward scrolling one that was a bit like Starwing but not as vectory and had a lot of large monsters and a lot of fire?The RPG where you play someone called 'Seth'?Oooh, Star Wars, that one was great!Mario Allstars! Yes!I had the Superscope back then, but I wouldn't be able to play those games (it was shit tbf)
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Zombies Ate My Neighbours - definitely one of my all time favourite games and something that really should have become a franchise
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
What was the crazy kawaii side-scrolling shoot em up where you could be a range of spaceships or a penguin?
Parodius
― Number None, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
"Seth" - Illusion of Gaia?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
What was the forward scrolling one that was a bit like Starwing but not as vectory and had a lot of large monsters and a lot of fire?
Axelay?
― Evan, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
ā Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:55 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was a great game. i don't think my brother and i ever completed it, which given that I'm much worse at video games now and my brother and i live on different continents means we probably never will :'-(
oh and there was a franchise of sorts, the sequel was called ghoul patrol (game was made by a third party but using the same engine). i never played it unfortunately
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link