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WOWOWOW what happened here?
That's like, my opinion man.
Anyway, if you guys want to post Course ID's I'll try to get through em.
that's actually the trampouline I'm talking about. it is frightful how much I gamed overed trying to get up there because I thought there'd be something better than coins waiting up there for me.
I've... honestly got myself in a lot of hot water. I actually think Metroid is more responsive control-wise than SUper Mario Bros, but that might just be the slower pace to it? ... and besides maybe Ice Climber, I'd legit go back to these titles. I'm the only one in my group of RL friends who's really beaten NES Metroid or Kid Icarus without a password.
I remember a lot of frustration and playing Duck Hunt instead with SMB1. or World-Class Track Meet. I didn't like playing it in all stars, and I remember in middle school getting SMB Deluxe on my GBC, and mostly messing with the stupid Bowser Fortune teller mini-game or the boo races because they were preferable to playing SMB2 especially.
I'm deeply sorry if you think I'm a stupid kid (I think I'm either the same age or slightly older than James Jones, actually.) or spoiled or something. I've played stuff with tricky controls like Super Metroid and appreciated it. I just do not think Super Mario Bros. I got my NES when I was 4. It had this game with it along with some others. I think besides Operation Wolf and Mighty Bombjack, I had beaten all my NES games I had gotten with it. I actually never beat SMB1 until all-stars, and not the NES version without warps until about 2002 when I had a friend over one night. It felt like I got lucky. Lucky that Hammer Bros. patterns agreed with me, lucky that I made that stupid jump in 8-2 (you know the one; it's got a bill launcher right in front of a gap and a single block piece of ground before a screen-wide jump) without eating a bullet bill or a spiny, Lucky that I made it through 8-4 with a fire flower, which is the only sure-fire way to get through the endless stream of hammers that gets thrown during that final bowser fight.
It is of my PERSONAL OPINION thatthe games made in that particular engine have never been tight or responsive. they're perfect for running ahead and memorizing the levels, but god forbid if you ever have to come to a stop, make a mistake, or have to interact with a trampouline.
Did you just say Super Mario Bros 1 has awful and stiff mechanics!!!!!
That game is tight as hell when it comes to controls. If an HD TV and Wii VC is all you ever played this game on then your grossly misinformed.
I play this game regularly on an old TV and trust me the controls are not “awful and stiff”.
Yes is different from other Mario games that came afterwards for sure but I’m played a million hours of Super Mario Bros going back to the 80’s and while many NES games had bad controls SMB is not one of them.
Sorry for the bit of hyperbole, but I gotta say that SMB1 and by extension all the myriad level packs out there for it (SMB Special, Nippon Nights SMB, Vs. Super Mario Bros, the game that Hiroshi Yamauchi demanded Tezuka make into SMB2) do not feel NEARLY as tight as any of the games that would follow. More than ANY othe game, I fear trampoulines in SMB1's engine. I do not touch them. ever. I do not swim down holes for coins because of the magical vaccum effect. my butthole clenches coal into diamond with every other jump in World 8 because I never felt like on an NES, on SUper Mario All-Stars, on Wii U VC, on 3DS VC, on the playchoice 10, or on any other place I've played SMB1 that mario was going to jump when I hit the jump button, that he was going to make the jump or awkwardly hitch on something, or if I'd feel the need to abort a bad jump OH WAIT YOU CAN'T.
If you are going to give me stiff jumping controls, do NOT do it in a momentum based environment! I don't mind games that you have to commit to getting an engagement ring with your jump arcs like Ghosts n' Goblins or Castlevania or La Mulana because there's no momentum there. I'm not building up speed for a jump I may or may not make, and I feel like results are repeatable there.
SMB1 has only aged SLIGHTLY better than contemporaries like The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Ice Climber, etc. it is still by all technical means playable, but it does not feel good to play. It has never felt particularly good. was it revolutionary? Yes, very much so! Does mario still wear ****-brown overalls and have an ugly notched nose? Hells the **** no! I will take Doki Doki Panic, SMB3, or SMW ANY Day over SMB1.
my issues with the lack of faithful recreation of engines go a bit deeper. the lack of ability to spin-jump on grinders, the lack of double grab or vine grab, the lack of ability to control vertical swim speed by holding up or down on the D-pad in Super Mario World are kinda stark things that have prevented me from making even some basic replications of things I've seen done with a certain program that kinda sounds like 'Tuner Pagent'. I welcome some things like an aleviation of SMB1's awful and stiff mechanics, but other things like how awkward the racoon leaf feels with how quickly the button has to be hit to maintain the slow fall speed or differences in how long it takes for the P meter to fill up are much more minor but still off quirks to myself. even some of the things with New SMB dont' feel quite right. the ground pound and propeller hat drill drop feel a little odd...
What they HAVE managed to replicate does feel good. it's not like something like Sonic 4 where the basic laws of physics the series predicated itself on before are just gone.
Of the levels I've made thus far, I feel like only one of them was meant to truly troll and the other ones were me trying to make levels with a hook and an underlying theme. they do seem to tend towards difficult, as I want to make levels that can still catch me unawares if I'm really slacking off.
Auto-Mario levels are something I'm fine with, as usually it means I can get up and refill my drink whenever i happen to hit one during a 100 mario challenge. I have been playing a lot of expert 100 Mario Challenge, and so I get a lot of troll levels. my rule is that I throw 5 lives at a level before I give it the Gong Show treatment (by the way, PERFECT analogy, Greg.), but more often than not I'll spend 10 because I really do want to see someone's vision with a level, even if it's stupid. (like levels using the recently exposed mechanic on Gamexplain to glitch yourself invincible via a door set on spikes, or a level that starts off with a thwomp 2 inches above mario's head and a pirhanna plant right in front of him).
and at the end of the day, I do try to leave constructive criticism, or at least a stupid doodle. a couple of the podcast folk have already gotten my stupid doodles.
A good suggestion i have is to try and follow indie devs on twitter who have the game. I've been getting levels from Stevie DiDuro, the guy who developed Freedom Planet.... and he's done a semi-decent job of trying to make some of his levels from his game in Super Mario Maker, abeit without the flow of a game that has smooth hills and such. I have a BLAST playing his Freedom Planet remake levels and putting on in my headphones music from Freedom Planet.
... maybe I should be playing Freedom Planet instead of this.
oh, and uh... this game is really good and I've been having fun making and playing stuff. if you institute my 5 lives rule on some expert 100 Mario Challenge, you may find a real challenge and some levels that you love!
Discussion about Mario Maker confirmed all my fears - that it's a playground for no talent design hacks to troll each other, with way more self-playing levels than anyone should ever care about.
The fact that ratings aren't really indicative of quality, that discovery is problematic right now so you probably spend more time looking for good levels than playing them, and that very few people will be going back and replaying levels multiple times to see what secrets they hold has convinced me that (despite being high quality and a cool concept) it's simply not worth buying right now. Congrats to all those who enjoy the game for what it is, but it's not for me.
Maybe I'll reconsider when the price is less than $80+ (after taxes)...
I think the type of TV matters for old games too. I have a plasma TV, and old games look much better on it than they do on any LCD screen. There are several reasons for this, as a plasma has more similarities to a CRT with its glass screen, great contrast, deep black levels, etc. It also has much less latency than LCD, so no perceptible controller lag. Adjusting things like the sharpness level on a game-to-game basis can also help.
While any good-quality flat-screen CRT will always be best for old games (which I still have and sometime use), SNES and N64 games still look surprisingly decent on my plasma, enough that I often play them there for convenience. Plus, the select few N64 games that support widescreen look quite nice in 16:9. NES remains crap on it, though.
Funny you mention DKC. As you mentioned SNES DKC on CRT looks good and VC version on HDTV looks meh...I can agree, but if you plug your SNES into your HDTV via the composite cables it came with then DKC literally looks like vomit
Yeah, although I still have my original controllers in nice condition. It's worth having the system to play games that aren't available elsewhere and accurately.
Plus I have the Hori Mini controllers, good condition original controllers, along with some custom PCB's for the GameCube style stick replacement. Makes them very close to the N64 stick, but won't wear out.
N64 games can look great if given an upscale and or polish. The Banjo games on 360 are largely untouched graphically, aside from a few textures, widescreen and framerate and look really good.
Wii U N64 VC isn't great, but for a casual audience of the system perfectly playable, Wii VC does look nicer though. The main reason to possibly look into going the real hardware route for N64 is simply because many of the games will likely never be re-released, especially on Nintendo platforms.
Not a cheap option though.
I use the actual system still. The games look great on crt TV and s cable and the n64 has a big library that is still not available anywhere else. Sure Nintendo and rare games are covered but that system had a ton of other great games
Silicon Valley how I love thee.
That's why I have been buying/collecting and setting up my N64 for optimal output. I currently use an RGB modded system on a Sony PVM CRT. A friend of mine has an XRGB Mini and the N64 looks great on that, HDTV's suck at upscaling. I'll be looking into the HDMI board mod as well for the easiest and best output for the system.
That said, its not for everyone and even the Wii U versions are okay for most, even if they do look worse.
No way guys. Playing on an actual N64 is not a good solution because those joysticks on the controllers just wear out and have to be replaced
N64 games can look great if given an upscale and or polish. The Banjo games on 360 are largely untouched graphically, aside from a few textures, widescreen and framerate and look really good.
Wii U N64 VC isn't great, but for a casual audience of the system perfectly playable, Wii VC does look nicer though. The main reason to possibly look into going the real hardware route for N64 is simply because many of the games will likely never be re-released, especially on Nintendo platforms.
Not a cheap option though.
I don't think any hi-res (480i) mode N64 games are supported by Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. I do think they would probably look very good. Anyway, my point is that Rare Replay shows you can emulate N64 games to look good on HDTV. Blast Corps, Jet Force Gemini, and Conker all look great on XB1, and I don't think that's because Wii U is underpowered.
It's totally possible to make N64 games look great in HD. Just look at Rare Replay.
I love the N64 so i'm going to have to defend it a little bit here.
The N64 connected to a HD TV will look rough unless these things come into play.
The N64 outputs a progressive signal through SCART which we do not have here in the US unless is some very specific monitors. So already the N64 is at a disadvantage on HD LCD screens.
Games that support high rez mode with an expansion pack look much better on a HD TV because the higher resolution. So for instance Perfect Dark in 480p with a SCART cable actually looks good running on the old N64. Doesn't run very smooth lol. But you get the idea.
Also the Wii U virtual console for N64 games is horrible. Terrible. It's even blurrier and much to dark. Go play the Wii N64 game and compare it to the Wii U one and right away you will see a difference in color, brightness and clarity guys.
While I agree that N64 can look pretty nice with the right setup, every N64 worldwide needs to be modded to display at its best.
Once its modded it'll display a 240p RGB image that can then be sent to an upscaling unit such as the XRGB Mini, this is the best way to play N64 games on a modern set. However, there is an HDMI board being worked on that will be an even better option once its out. A professional CRT such as a Sony PVM is also a great option if you can track one down.
As for RPG choices, I'd throw in the first Golden Sun. That was actually my first traditional RPG outside of Pokemon.
$30 is up there. You can nominate it and it might make the list. We might also save that for its own thing since it would likely dominate.
Keep in mind I write the article after we talked about it. So while anything that can be played on Wii U/Wii/3DS is game we are going to curate among ourselves.
Also, ANY MARIO INVOLVEMENT. Punch Out! for example, counts
