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Been playing a SNES emulator as of late when a cell phone version I tried got me into it. Can't stand the cell phone version, but I love the emulator on my laptop. Very cool to play so many of these games. Especially ones based on TV shows like Ren & Stimpy or Bobby's World. Gonna try and grab myself a n64 and playstaion emulator. Maybe even try an original xbox one that I've heard about. Anybody try the PS1/original Xbox emulators? How do they run?
 
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I actually bought a new power cable for my SNES this summer and went back and beat Super Mario World. Almost finished Donkey Kong Country, but college is in the way of that for awhile. I have a few TV/Movie games, such as a couple of Power Rangers games and Ahhhhh Real Monsters. I'll play them again when I get the chance. There are some really good games for the SNES. I recommend you try TMNT Turtles in Time too, that game is classic. Younger me had to have beaten it upwards of 50 times.
 
Triggerhappy14 said:
I actually bought a new power cable for my SNES this summer and went back and beat Super Mario World. Almost finished Donkey Kong Country, but college is in the way of that for awhile. I have a few TV/Movie games, such as a couple of Power Rangers games and Ahhhhh Real Monsters. I'll play them again when I get the chance. There are some really good games for the SNES. I recommend you try TMNT Turtles in Time too, that game is classic. Younger me had to have beaten it upwards of 50 times.
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I was actually playing Ahhhh Real Monsters the other day. Cool game, but I got stuck at a certain part where I couldn't jump up, get past a pillar, or use the swinging ability. Need to hook up a controller to my laptop. Keyboard controls are no way to play a console game.
 
I've never actually used one, and I wouldn't know which one to recommend or if they even work, but I've seen USB SNES controllers for PC play on Amazon. I'm sure a 36 or DS3 controller will be sufficient though.
 
Yeah I would think a 360/DS3 controller would be good. I used to play with a MS sidewinder pad when I played SNES/Genesis games on my laptop, I used to use Snes9x and Kega Fusion I believe and the sidewinder was fully supported by both.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Been playing a SNES emulator as of late when a cell phone version I tried got me into it. Can't stand the cell phone version, but I love the emulator on my laptop. Very cool to play so many of these games. Especially ones based on TV shows like Ren & Stimpy or Bobby's World. Gonna try and grab myself a n64 and playstaion emulator. Maybe even try an original xbox one that I've heard about. Anybody try the PS1/original Xbox emulators? How do they run?
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LOL I had a Ren & Stimpy game for the Sega Genesis when I was a kid (Stimpy's Invention)... brought it home and promptly finished it in one measly sitting... I was SO disappointed hahah. I was only given like 2 or 3 games a year, so it felt like such a waste. But it did teach me a pretty valuable lesson about the pitfalls of impulse-buying videogames.
 
Haven't beaten it, but yeah, I would have totally given an impulse buy if had money of my own. Most of my games were hand me downs. I rarely ever got to buy video games. It was usually rentals for me.
 
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Haven't beaten it, but yeah, I would have totally given an impulse buy if had money of my own. Most of my games were hand me downs. I rarely ever got to buy video games. It was usually rentals for me.
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Man I blew so much paper route money on video games when I was young. After getting burnt a couple times on impulse purchases I got subscriptions to EGM, GamePro and Video Games and Computer Entertainment, like to say I never got burnt again...
 
Haha, I miss the old days of gaming magazines. They were such an integral part of the hobby for me back then. Great memories of awesome covers and artwork, sneak-peaks of unreleased games, letters to the editors, codes and walkthroughs at the back.... they were so much fun. Even those full-page game ads carry special memories with me. We take it for granted now, with the prevalence of the interwebz, but before all this they were the best and pretty much only way to get an insider's view of the industry and feel some kind of connection with other gamers. That format/medium was something special, for sure.
 
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It also helped that places like Blockbuster were around to rent games, even if that had unfortunate side effects like walking in to work one afternoon with diamond-shaped flashing patterns burned into my retinas after having played Shining Force on the Genesis for, somehow, 36 hours the previous day.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Been playing a SNES emulator as of late when a cell phone version I tried got me into it. Can't stand the cell phone version, but I love the emulator on my laptop. Very cool to play so many of these games. Especially ones based on TV shows like Ren & Stimpy or Bobby's World. Gonna try and grab myself a n64 and playstaion emulator. Maybe even try an original xbox one that I've heard about. Anybody try the PS1/original Xbox emulators? How do they run?
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Oh, yeah, thread topic deserves answers too. I've used ePSXe off and on for PS1 games (replayed my copy of FF Tactics earlier this year, and still have FF 7-9 and Chrono Cross on disc if I decide I want to do that). ZSNES was pretty good for SNES as well. Haven't found any original xbox emulators but I haven't looked recently and since I can still play the original XBox games I have on my 360 it hasn't been a priority.
 
Ryubusa said:
Haha, I miss the old days of gaming magazines. They were such an integral part of the hobby for me back then. Great memories of awesome covers and artwork, sneak-peaks of unreleased games, letters to the editors, codes and walkthroughs at the back.... they were so much fun. Even those full-page game ads carry special memories with me. We take it for granted now, with the prevalence of the interwebz, but before all this they were the best and pretty much only way to get an insider's view of the industry and feel some kind of connection with other gamers. That format/medium was something special, for sure.
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I totally miss the video game mag days. I loved the beginnings of the month, getting all the new mags and seeing what was coming coming out, the reviews and like you said the ads, some were so horrible they were good. Yeah we are def. spoiled now with to much info...
 
I have zSNES or whatever but haven't used it in a long ass time. Looking at the folder I have the following games:

F-Zero
Jungle Strike
Jurassic Park
Rock n' Roll Racing
Super Mario World
Super Mario All-Stars
Top Gear


Pretty much all of my all time favorites on the system. Jurassic Park will forever be my favorite game of all time because I played through it with my dad. We took turns playing it and ended up drawing our own maps for the entire game including all the interior levels while looking for all of the eggs.
 
Viktor said:
tty much all of my all time favorites on the system. Jurassic Park will forever be my favorite game of all time because I played through it with my dad. We took turns playing it and ended up drawing our own maps for the entire game including all the interior levels while looking for all of the eggs.
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Hahah, right on. I never played the SNES version myself, but I know what it looks like, and how it differs from the Genesis version. I absolutely loved the Genesis version, as I was obsessed with Jurassic Park at the time and I had only the Genesis. It was one of the few Genesis games I owned too, so that's definitely an old-school classic for me. The fact that you could play as a velociraptor was mind-blowingly awesome to me as a kid! That was one hell of a hard game too. I don't think I ever beat it without the aid of codes. It's been YEARS (nay, decades) since I last played it... but thinking back on it I suspect it's actually kind of a s***ty game after all, and wouldn't hold up today in the slightest, lol. Kids can have some pretty terrible taste in games, but hey, we still had fun with what we had :p
 
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Hahah, right on. I never played the SNES version myself, but I know what it looks like, and how it differs from the Genesis version. I absolutely loved the Genesis version, as I was obsessed with Jurassic Park at the time and I had only the Genesis. It was one of the few Genesis games I owned too, so that's definitely an old-school classic for me. The fact that you could play as a velociraptor was mind-blowingly awesome to me as a kid! That was one hell of a hard game too. I don't think I ever beat it without the aid of codes. It's been YEARS (nay, decades) since I last played it... but thinking back on it I suspect it's actually kind of a s***ty game after all, and wouldn't hold up today in the slightest, lol. Kids can have some pretty terrible taste in games, but hey, we still had fun with what we had :p
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I had to look up the Genesis version as I didn't have the console, but now I remember that a friend of mine did and I remember he had this game.
 
Viktor said:
I have zSNES or whatever but haven't used it in a long ass time. Looking at the folder I have the following games:

F-Zero
Jungle Strike
Jurassic Park
Rock n' Roll Racing
Super Mario World
Super Mario All-Stars
Top Gear


Pretty much all of my all time favorites on the system. Jurassic Park will forever be my favorite game of all time because I played through it with my dad. We took turns playing it and ended up drawing our own maps for the entire game including all the interior levels while looking for all of the eggs.
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Rock n` roll racing. I loved that game! I still have my issue of egm that has the code for olaf the crazy viking. He had the best stats. Now i have to dig out my snes and buy a copy of the game.
 
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Wow. Never knew a JP game was made resembling Doom. But for a system running at around 2 mhz it runs decent enough. Actually looks like it runs better than Doom on my old 386 at 33 mhz!
 
BDaddyK said:
Man I blew so much paper route money on video games when I was young. After getting burnt a couple times on impulse purchases I got subscriptions to EGM, GamePro and Video Games and Computer Entertainment, like to say I never got burnt again...
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LOL. So true. I had hardly any money back then yet I bought $70-90 cartridges (here in Canada) no problem. Phantasy Star II was $120. Games now are $60 new, yet I act like 'ol cheapo waiting for them to hit the bargain bin or on preorder deal for $40 or less though I have a zillion times more cash to toss around!
 
I had both a Genesis and SNES. Genesis for sports, SNES for shooters, action games and SF II. For shooter fans, check out these SNES Konami games:

Contra III
Axelay
Cybernator
 
Intellivision said:
LOL. So true. I had hardly any money back then yet I bought $70-90 cartridges (here in Canada) no problem. Phantasy Star II was $120. Games now are $60 new, yet I act like 'ol cheapo waiting for them to hit the bargain bin or on preorder deal for $40 or less though I have a zillion times more cash to toss around!
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Ahhh the joys of being a kid, no real responsibilities other than what the next game will be :) So true bout feeling like a cheepo over a $60 game, I guess that the welcome to the real world...
 
I softmodded the PS2 with freemcboot, which let's you launch .elfs and run games via an external HDD. You only need a disc for save states.
 
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Playing Earthbound now on the Wii U. Eventually want to play Mother 3 which of course Nintendo never released here
so I'll need a GBA emulater.
 
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