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  2. Posted

    I got a supercard SD. I love it mostly for the homebrew scene, though I do test out DS games before buying them.

     

    The Supercard has terrible compatibility with GBA games, but it is OK for DS games. It also has the worst battery life out of all flash carts, and it is also one of the largest flash carts and therefore sticks out of your GBA and DS.

     

    If you are OK with the bad size and battery life of the Supercard, but you want better game compatibility and massive storage, then try the M3 Perfect.

     

    This is a comprehensive comparison of GBA and DS flash carts:

    http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/GBA_and_DS_Flash_Cards

  3. Posted · Edited by Jagasian

    For Snes only ZSNES, it plays everything flawlessly.

     

    You couldn't be any more wrong. ZSNES and SNES9x are extremely inaccurate SNES emulators. Do a side-by-side comparison to a real SNES and see for yourself. There are many games that have the wrong sound or they have additional glitches when played on ZSNES or SNES9x.

     

    BSNES is the only emulator that I would claim is capable of running most SNES games flawlessly, but even it has room for improvement. Some games can't be emulated correctly right now due to a lack of documentation of special chips used inside SNES carts. BSNES's main disadvantage is that it requires a very powerful PC, but if you have the hardware to run it at full speed, there is no reason to continue to use obsolete emulators such as ZSNES or SNES9x.

     

    SNES emulation is behind NES emulation, with regards to compatibility and accuracy, but thanks to BSNES, it is catching up.

  4. Posted

    still no link :(

     

    Ah well, I think waiting this long to get a new NES, its worth just to use the Wii's dload service lol.

     

    The Wii download service will only offer a small fraction of the entire NES game library. Nintendo has to get a license for each game that it will offer on their service, and they do not own the entire NES game library. Furthermore, you can forget about playing fan translations of various games. Hence a real NES or an accurate emulator will offer a much better NES experience than the Wii.

     

     

    i won a NEX system at the cinciclassic, its not perfect, but its not horrible either

     

    The NEX can't even play The Legenda of Zelda, Castlevania III, and Gauntlet correctly. If that isn't horrible, then what is?

     

     

    Does the messiah have the same problems with sound and not playing certain games? Or will anything that is not original hardware have these problems ot some extent?

     

    There are many games that the Messiah system cannot even run, and there are even more games that it can't run correctly, i.e., the games have serious glitches when played on the Messiah system. This is something to expect from any system that uses the run-of-the-mill NOAC chip found in every NES clone made these days.

     

    It is possible to do better, as demonstrated by clones that were made during the 8-bit generation. Also, accurate emulators for the Xbox and PC can run NES games better than a NOAC based system. Example emulators include Mednafen-NES for the Xbox and Nestopia for the PC.

     

    Why pay money for a system that can't even run NES games as good as a free emulator?

  5. Posted · Edited by Jagasian

    This is going to be one of those ultra rare games in about 5 years, which every collector wish they bought when they had the chance.

     

    I very much doubt that. The first run was 600 copies, and Super Fighter have said that they will keep printing more while demand is there.

     

    How many Genesis games have only 600 to 1000 copies total? Most Genesis games have at least 10,000 copies. That is an extremely small amount, which will make the game rare. Not now, but in 5 to 10 years those low numbers will make it a very rare game.

  8. Posted

    If you rate by accuracy and compatibility, then...

     

    NES: Nestopia

    http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/

     

    SNES: bsnes

    http://byuu.cinnamonpirate.com/?page=bsnes

     

    ...however, since bsnes is concerned with accurate emulation, it does not currently support FX chip games, as far as I know. This is because the FX chip has not been properly reverse engineered yet. Hence most SNES emulators just hack a crappy emulation of the chip. Still, bsnes is the best. For FX chip games, you still need a real SNES and real carts.

  10. Posted · Edited by Jagasian

    All NOAC based clones are the same. The only difference is the outer plastic shell for the system and whether the cart slot is the Famicom or NES type. I should also mention that the clones suck and are less compatible than modern emulations such as Nestopia.

  12. Posted

    For GBA games, the flash card with the best hardware-level compatibility, i.e., the card which can run the most GBA games without hacks/patches, is the EFA-linker. It comes in two sizes 256Mb and 512Mb. The SuperCard might be nice for DS games, but it is really buggy and has slowdown issues for GBA games. Most GBA games also require patching to work with the SuperCard.

  13. Posted

    The order of preference from most preferred to the least preferred is this:

     

    1. original system with original carts

    2. original system with flash cart, multi-cart, or cart copier

    3. emulation

     

    Note that emulation is the absolute last choice and the least preferred. Regardless of what many people believe, emulation is typically not very accurate, meaning that games will have incorrect audio, video, or even lag in the controls and additional bugs in games. You also won't be able to use the system's native controllers, guns, joysticks, paddles, etc... for which the games were originally designed.

     

    There are some exceptions to this. Some systems have USB controller adapters, but sometimes they introduce lag or they aren't compatible with all peripherials. Also, some emulators (Nestopia for the NES for example) are highly accurate and could past a "taste test" against the real system and original game carts. However, even then, there are inaccuracies... and somebody that has played a game for 20+ years on real hardware would easily be able to tell the difference in a "taste test" of emulator vs real system.

  14. Posted

    I was wondering, I own a FDS and I do not want to buy an AV famico or a TWIN Famicom, does it work corectly with the NEX and can someone give me a list of the clones that work corectly with the FDS.

     

    Thanks

     

    Like most NOAC based Famicom clones, the NEX can run most FDS games. However, the more important question is, "how well do NOAC based Famicom clones run FDS games"? As you probably already know, just because the NEX can boot a game, that is, just because a game runs on the NEX, doesn't mean that it runs correctly, without additional bugs, incorrect colors, or incorrect sound.

     

    For example, the original Legend of Zelda does not run correctly on the NEX, but it does run. Emulators such as Nestopia run FDS games better than the NEX, so buyer beware.

  16. Posted

    ok then in my little world the Genesis killed NIN 2 in a row, just because i dont care about world wide anything

    i live in the USA, and to me the Genesis beat nin back then, eveyone had Genesis and one kid had a SNES and i bought it off him for $50 about 5 months after it launched, and he took the $50 and got a Genesis

     

    Well, I used to live in a small town where the Turbo Graphics 16 out sold both the Genesis and the SNES, so can I claim that the TG16 held the 16-bit generation crown as the most popular console? Hence the flaw in your reasoning.

  17. Posted

    To be fair, they're all glorified PCs.

     

    To be honest, I'm considering getting a 360 just for the Xbox Live Arcade.

     

    If classic Street Fighter 2 makes a comeback due to the 360's Xbox Live Arcade re-release of the classic, I will definitely buy myself a 360. I am eager to relive the modern equivalent of arcade-style Street Fighter 2 multiplayer. Don't change the game, just let the masses compete over the net. You know, like what the Internet did for other classic games such as Chess. Good gameplay never dies.

  18. Posted

    i think the Genesis killed the Nintendo 2 in a row thing

    No it didn't. The genesis did prove nintendo was capabale of being dethroned. Snes won because of japan. There is 13 to 15 million difference worldwide. Most of it came from Japan. Another part came from the sega cd in the states and having the 32x hurt the genesis. sony and sega was ready to pounce on nintendo if nintendo slipped by making a wrong of format along with nintindo's treatment of 3d parties.

     

    Sony is following the same trap as nintendo did. Being too cocky for there own good. When one of sony's head huncho's said $600.00 is too cheap for the ps 3, there is a major problem. That means they are out of teach. IF the ps 3 was for 800 or 900 bucks the amount of people buying will go down.

     

    Exactly. The SNES sold roughly 15 million more systems world wide than the Genesis. In the early 1990s, that was allot of consoles! Sony's PS3 is starting to give me (and many others) thoughts of the N64. Late to market, non-standard media (for that generation at least), high price, etc. So either Sony is going to break Nintendo's record of 2 generations on top, or they are going to slide to second place for this next generation.

  19. Posted

    No single company has kept itself at the top of the game console industry more than 2 generations in a row. Look at Atari, Nintendo, and Sony. Atari had 1 generation, Nintendo had 2 in a row (NES and SNES), and Sony has had 2 (PSX1 and PS2). It is starting to look like Sony is shooting itself in the foot this new generation, with the PSP, aka Sony's Lynx, and PS3, aka Sony's 3DO.

     

    My prediction is that Microsoft will come out ontop of the next generation, with the Xbox 360, and Nintendo will continue to dominate the portable gaming market. By the time everybody else is just releasing their next-gen systems, Microsoft will be releasing the second revision of their 360, which will run cooler and more quietly.

  22. Posted

    The Wii can't play every NES, SNES, and N64 game, as it can only play games that Nintendo has a license to release on the Wii. Furthermore, the quality of Nintendo's emulators and the level of game compatibility that they have isn't even known yet.

  23. Posted

    I know the Generation Nex is a NoaC also, and it has a compatibility list, but I don't want to go by that because I've read it's missing info (it says it will work with Zelda I, which as you pointed out, isn't entirely true).

     

    Be careful. There are people out there that will attack you for the fact that you dared to point out a flaw in the NEX pirate NES clone. Going as far as to point out that their official compatibility list is misleading is down right suicidal. But seriously, their compatibility list really just lists games that can at least start up to a title screen versus games that can't even boot to a title screen. So when they list a game as working, they don't really mean that it is playable or that it doesn't have bugs when played on the NEX. They just mean that it can boot up to the game's title screen.

     

    The rule of thumb is this: don't buy a NOAC based clone if you care about compatibility or accuracy. Modern NES emulators for the PC are more compatible and accurate than NOAC based clones. Nestopia is a great example of a cycle-accurate NES emulator for the PC and Mac:

    http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/

     

    It has a few really cool features that aren't available on a real NES, let alone a pirate clone. My favorite Nestopia feature is the real-time rewind feature that it has for all games. It is like Prince of Persia's "Sands of Time". You can hold a button and watch everything that just happened play back in reverse: video and audio! Release the button whenever you want to start playing again. Combined with fast-forward, slow-motion, and save states, Nestopia's rewinder makes one killer feature for removing the frustration from those ultra frustrating NES games.

  24. Posted · Edited by Jagasian

    I prefer the Rayovac "I-C3" 15 minute rechargable NiMH batteries. The batteries are 2000mAh, which is a good capacity, though not the highest. However, when used with the I-C3 charger, it only takes 15-minutes maximum to go from completely discharged batteries, to fully charged batteries. If these I-C3 batteries came in a higher capacity such as 2700mAh, and could still be fully charged in only 15 minutes... they would be hands down the best NiMH batteries ever! Here is a review of the I-C3 batteries:

    http://www.atruereview.com/rayovac/charger.php

  25. Posted

    The real question is SP1 versus SP2. The SP2's screen is brighter and has better color, but it has a bit of bluring, which can be annoying. The SP1 does not have the bluring, but it has washed out colors and isn't very bright. Both support every Game Boy game: classic, super, color, and advance.

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