Topic: SNES Classic thread

[lolmonade]

- A lot of the controller options I found for the retropie didn't feel great (even 8bitdo).  These controllers feel really close to the originals.

Gah, I have two 8bitdo controllers preordered. I heard good things.

Don't let my impressions dissuade you.  I'm finding as I get older that i'm pretty particular about classic games and the way I play them.  it also could be i'm used to the mushiness of my older controller buttons, and the ones I got from 8bitdo felt a little more stiff to press.


They generally seem well praised by most online reviews I looked at, i'm sure you'll be fine.

[Adrock]

I’m definitely still keeping the preorder. I’ll report back once they come in. I haven’t even opened my Super Nintendo Classic. I’m trying to track one down for a friend’s birthday. Wish me luck.

EDIT: I managed to track down a Super Nintendo Classic for my friend. I got the last one at GameStop. Baller.

[BranDonk Kong]

Got one at GameStop today, there were two left after that. Added 17 games before even hooking it up to my TV.

[ShyGuy]

Got one at GameStop today, there were two left after that. Added 17 games before even hooking it up to my TV.

"Florida Man Violates DMCA"

What games did you add? Chrone Trigger? Turtles in Time?

[BranDonk Kong]

So far all the MK games, Earthworm Jim, DKC2 & 3, Maximum Carnage, Separation Anxiety, Spider-Man, Arcade's Revenge, X-Men Mutant Apocalypse, Mario All-Stars, can't remember the other 3 right now. Turtles in Time, Chrono Trigger and Act Raiser will be added tonight.

[Mop it up]

So I've played more Star Fox 2 and I beat it?  Huh?  I can't even get to Venom on the easiest path in Star Fox 1 yet I beat Star Fox 2.  It's a very creative but short game.  Now I only got a D score so there's room for improvement and I really had a blast beating it.  Beat-in-one-sitting is not that uncommon during the SNES years.

Unlike the first Star Fox, the game gets lengthier on higher difficulty settings. "Normal" is really just an easy mode to introduce you to the concepts, though "Hard" isn't all that much longer. "Expert" is around twice the length of Hard, and one run has you visiting all six planets, four battle cruisers, and various other odds and ends. Expert is the "true" game.

A note about ranks, the scoring does not take difficulty setting into account. Therefore, you can't get the highest rank unless you play on Expert, and on Normal "C" is probably about the best you could do.

That's perhaps the best nostalgic element of the SNES Classic, it has recreated the feeling of a new SNES game being released!

The SNES Classic is also $80 USD, which is about what Star Fox 2 would have been priced had it released in 1996.

[Stratos]

Yeah, SNES games were pricey. I remember saving a long time to get StarFox because of its $70-80 price tag. I think it had to do with the SuperFX chip tech.

[broodwars]

Just FYI, Terranigma & Illusion of Gaia ARE working now on the SNES Classic. If you already tried to install them, you have to remove & re-add them under the latest version of Hakchi2. That will prompt the program to warn you that you'll need to install a 3rd party emulator to run them. Just make sure you patch Terranigma with the patch already in Hakchi's "patches" folder, & make sure you install the Retromod emulator mod.

Yeah, it requires some trial & error, bit it does work. I just worked it out on my own SNES Classic.

Best of luck. You might be glad you played Terranigma sometime in the future, so if you're interested, it works now