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Why buy SNES games when you can play ROMs?

Because not everybody wants to download ROMs.

 

I don't mind ROMs, but I've gotten rid of most of my ROMs as it is.

 

I prefer to buy the carts for collecting and playing.

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Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes

Just bought Smackdown HCTP, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Double Dragon Advance in the last 2 wks.

 

I don't count any I got for chirstmas yet.

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Guest TheZsaszHorsemen

Bought:

 

Mission Impossible: Operation Surma

Splinter Cell

Hitman 2

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Why buy SNES games when you can play ROMs?

Because not everybody wants to download ROMs.

 

I don't mind ROMs, but I've gotten rid of most of my ROMs as it is.

 

I prefer to buy the carts for collecting and playing.

Ditto. I hate playing on a PC, and I'm not a theif. No PC controllers I've had have felt quite right. I never have to calibrate my Sega or SNES pads to get them working correctly.

 

I downloaded a ROM of Rockman and Forte once, and it didn't quite run right on my computer anyway. It was slow, chunky, and didn't have any sound.

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Why buy SNES games when you can play ROMs?

Because not everybody wants to download ROMs.

 

I don't mind ROMs, but I've gotten rid of most of my ROMs as it is.

 

I prefer to buy the carts for collecting and playing.

Ditto. I hate playing on a PC, and I'm not a theif. No PC controllers I've had have felt quite right. I never have to calibrate my Sega or SNES pads to get them working correctly.

 

I downloaded a ROM of Rockman and Forte once, and it didn't quite run right on my computer anyway. It was slow, chunky, and didn't have any sound.

You make it sound like its hours of work

 

Step1: Download rom

 

Step2: Run emulator and game

 

Step3: Configure controls (you can buy USB adapters for almost every mainstream console controller)

 

Step4: If game sounds or looks funny, make a modification in the video/sound options

 

If we are talking about a Megadrive or Super Nintendo game with broadband that would take less then ten minutes. Sure you need to know about your emulator but really it doesnt take a genius to work these things out.

 

If it wasnt for emulation there would a lot of games that I would have never have had the pleasure of playing and actually buying in the long run. Games such as super robot wars, captain tsubasa, Metal slug and so forth. Also I use them to see if the game is actually worth buying later (like SNK vs Capcom chaos, by downloading the rom I made the decision to pre-order the Japanese PS2 port as there are no arcades near me that supply the game.) Through neo-geo emulation about five of my friends have started to support SNKP by buying console ports and even NGPC's.

 

Fair enough, I do have some roms which I do not own legally but if you could tell me where I could own a copy of "guwange" without taking a flight to Japan and hunting it down in every arcade please tell me. Or how could I play Treasure Hunter G without learning to read Japanese and importing it over.

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If we are talking about a Megadrive or Super Nintendo game with broadband that would take less then ten minutes.

 

Broadband? Hehehe--no, we aren't talking about that.

 

Also, I've admitted to playing Rockman and Forte on an emulator (long before it was announced for GBA), so I think you should know better than to think I'm opposed to emulating import games.

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I never have to calibrate my Sega or SNES pads to get them working correctly.

I never had to calibrate my PC controller to get it to work right either. I got one of those PC controllers that doesn't require calibration and can be plugged in and used immediately.

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I have thousands of old school games in ROM form, both on my PC and my Dreamcast. For some reason though, I feel the need to buy the actual carts. It's the same for PSX and DC games- I had a ton of burned ones, but I'd rather own the actual games. It's more fun to play the real thing and more rewarding to be able to look at my massive collection.

 

Anyway, I just rented my first game in a long time last night, so I figured I could talk about that in this thread as well. I got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for GameCube based on the fact that I loved the demo on the Mario Kart bonus disc. It's a great game so far. The graphics are gorgeous and the cartoon derived cutscenes make it feel like you're actually playing the TV show.

 

2D side scrolling beat-em-up games were probably my favorite genre back in the SNES days, and maybe of all time. When they're done right (as many on the SNES were) they are incredibly fun, although at times mindless. TMNT for GC is a perfect 3D adaptation of the genre, and although nothing can touch TMNT II: The Arcade Game for NES as the best game in this genre, the new game is a great breath of fresh air in the current gaming world and it's very difficult to put down.

 

The graphics are gorgeous, the gameplay is addicting, and multiplayer is probably even better. I'm sure I'll be able to easily beat the game at least with one character by the time I have to return it, but seeing as how you can play through the game with all 4 turtles (and I here casey Jones and Splinter are unlockable) there should be a ton of replay value. Does anyone know if playing with different characters causes the story to be any different?

 

Honestly, this is a title I can see myself playing through over and over again. I will most likely end up buying it.

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I just bought WWE Crush Hour for GameCube. I heard it sucks, but I like car combat games, LOVE WWE games, and hell, it was only $5 at Circuit City (it'll be marked at $19.99, but get a price check). I haven't played it yet, but I'm about to. The instruction manual is fucking hilarious. Here are a couple quotes from the character/vehicle descriptions:

 

RVD- "When it comes to taking turbo powered leaps in his 4-wheel ATV, no one gets as high as Rob Van Dam."

 

Jeff Hardy- "Jeff Hardy drives the most extreme wood-paneled station wagon you'll ever see!"

 

Haha... that's too funny...

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Just bought Shenmue II (Xbox) and Shinobi (PS2).

Ah, so I see you took my advice. You'd better take some time out from those to play Mario Kart and Fire Pro with me on Thursday, though. :P

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I just went to Game Crazy and the selection of games I had wanted has been depleted since last time. Also, most of the games I really wanted were at least $10, and I decided that since I only had $170 remaining ($100 of which pays for wrestling) I would only spend around $20 rather than the previously planned $50.

 

I still picked up the following 9 games for $23.56 (mostly sports and fighting):

 

WWF Royal Rumble (Genesis)

Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (Genesis)

Mortal Kombat (Genesis- with box)

Street Fighter II: Championship Edition (Genesis)

TMNT: Tournament Fighters (Genesis)

College Slam (Genesis)

World Series Baseball '95 (Genesis- with box)

NBA Live '98 (PlayStation)

Madden 64 (Nintendo 64)

 

I have very few Genesis games, so I'm trying to build up a collection. I have MK already for SNES, but the Genesis version is supposedly superior. The Live and Madden games I got are my favorite incarnations for those systems, repsectively. I picked up the TMNT and Wolverine games because I have played and enjoyed both, and I needed some superhero/comic/cartoon games. You also can't go wrong with Street Fighter. College Slam was 99 cents and I loved the old NBA Jam style games. These should keep me busy for a while.

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Well, I just purchased Fire Emblem (GBA), yesterday and I'm LOVING it. Great stuff.

 

With my $500 dollars I just got for Christmas/B-Day here, I'm GOING ALL OUT TOMORROW~!

 

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~!

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Guest TonyJaymzV1

I bought this game called Lionheart: Legacy of The Crusdaer, for about 10 bucks at Target. I didn't know anything about it, never heard of it, BUT it was made from Black isles, my fav. pc game developer. Basically, Take the Fallout engine, , place it in the 1600's Barcelona, and twist and tweak history to your ling, plus a great magic system, and trait and perk system, and you have one hell of a game. The combat engine has evovled from Fallout too, no waiting, all realtime. You all should buy this game...now...I'm serious....go...why you still reading?

 

I didn't buy it but I got a Gameboy SP for Christmas( I specifically asked for it during my English class lectures. Oh and I got a tape recorder:)) and din't get any game I asked for. Nope, instead my parents picked me up this game called Blackthorne, which is an old game from the snes. I was dissapointed untill I started playing. Really fun, mindless action game, which had some rpg-lite elements(an inventory, talking to npcs). It's probably less than 20 bucks, so I recomend this game to pass some time.

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New additions to my video game collection via Christmas

 

1 Platinum Game Boy Advance SP

Donkey Kong Country

Star Wars Episdoe II: Attack of the Clones

 

SNES:

Earthworm Jim 2

Street Fighter II (I have to go exchange this at some point, as I already have it)

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My new additions :

 

NCAA March Madness 2004

Sly Cooper and the Thievus Raccoonus (both are pretty damn good)

 

I'm getting Splinter Cell tomorrow. If EB doesn't have it, I'll get The Sims.

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I left the house and came home with ten new Genesis games... they are as follows:

 

Atomic Robo Kid

Batman: The Video Game

Columns

Fatal Labyrinth

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Rocket Knight Adventures

Shaq Fu

Tinhead

WWF Royal Rumble

Zoom

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Got 4 cheap, cheap, cheap PS2 games to trade in at EB Games (Fantavision, State of Emergency, Pryzm, Gungriffon Blaze) for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.

 

I found Light Crusader for the Genesis for only $2.99 (it's a quite underrated Treasure game) at Gamestop.

 

I'm also expecting Project Gotham Racing 2 that I won in a contest. I'll probably sell that (since I don't have an X-Box, nor do I plan on getting it in the near future) and buy Sonic Heroes when it comes out.

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