deepthaw

Wasnt a later Mega Man released by Nintendo in the US?

Those were definitely in the game - they were just rare. Don't recall what it took to trigger them, which made it all the more sweet when they happened. https://youtu.be/4ow9cadI_DM?t=345

"Your art is too sexualized." Meanwhile, the "female celebrities you find attractive" thread is going strong.

I was actually going to ask if people consider this "cheating?" I got surprisingly far in Contra Hard Corps US version when I was younger, but if I was to revisit it today I doubt I'd have the time and perseverance to force my way through it.

The Ninja Gaiden trilogy reminds me of the Streets of Rage trilogy in a way. The first one was great. The second one was a masterpiece and superseded the original in pretty much every way. The third one was weird and forgotten. To stay on topic, I never even bothered trying to finish NG3. Something about it felt off from the start, and as soon as I saw the limited continues I said "nope, I got better things to do."

Boy, you guys sure did show me. Wish I was Internet gatekeeper on an Atari message board.

Going to the effort of posting a screenshot instead of saying hey, you probably didnt notice theres a dedicated wanted forum in no way comes off as petty.

As the topic says. I have cart and case but no manual.

I've only played 3S at a fairly casual level, although I did log hundreds of hours in SFIV and could actually keep up a bit with the local tourney players (I would never win a tourney, but they'd not curbstomp me.) I'll be checking in on this discussion...

I imagine the lack of 32X support is due to a few factors: 32X may have had a BIOS. That could be a copyright issue for built-in support. The FPGA they're using may not be powerful enough to support 32X. Writing a 32X core for their FPGA may not be worth it. Meanwhile as far as using a real 32X: The 32X had a patch cable that ran video in from the Genesis. They'd have to add the electronics to generate that signal so a real 32X could use it Even then, you'd lose HDMI because all 32X video comes from the 32X itself, and that would still be the old hardware.

Analogue is ironically destroying my need to keep my analog TV. Still want a cheaper version of the NT Mini (why is it still double/triple the cost of the Super NT?)

They probably didn't port it since they had Revenge of Shinobi ready to go so early on. Do wish they'd gone back and given us a "definitive" home port on Genesis though.

Don't mind if I do!

I don't know if I can agree with the (majority of) black box games. I don't think they did anything you couldn't do on previous consoles, except they had better graphics. It wasn't until SMB that I realized the NES could do more than the same games with prettier graphics.

The NES had a disturbing number of games that were too long for a single play session but had no way to save your data between sessions. I suspect that's why warp zones were in so many games.

Do I actively "hate" pre-NES consoles? Absolutely not. Is the NES my personal threshold for old games that are still legitimately fun to play? Yes. The earlier generation of consoles simply didn't have the hardware capabilities to have the complexity that NES/SMS games could offer. I still appreciate pre-NES systems, but I don't play them because the games have generally aged out of playability to me. Some examples of the complexity and why it matters: Player abilities and the game world change in reaction to the player's actions. Mega Man slowly grows in abilities, in an order of your choosing. Stages are both complex and unique enough to be identifiable. Super Mario Bros. epitomized this vs say, Pitfall or even Pitfall 2. Storage space was enough that games intended to be completed over multiple sessions (Zelda and RPGs) were feasible. Sound hardware was robust enough to provide sound tracks. And some of them were actually good. It was a paradigm shift in how games could be designed. And for me, games before that shift just aren't worth revisiting. But it's fine if other people want to. And I'm not saying that no pre-NES games pushed the limits of complexity. A lot of them did, but at a certain point you hit the limits of processing and memory, no matter how clever your programmers are.

Have development libraries evolved to the point that backwards compatibility is just assumed for consoles? Xbox and PlayStation should be a platform, not a specific console at this point. And being able to tightly control hardware and the development environment means they could lose all the weirdness that comes with the theoretical backwards compatibility of PCs. That would make me much better with annual or biannual hardware updates/revisions. I'd be able to hold off on buying a new console until I had a TV that needed the extra pixel pushing power or a game that required PS5000 vs my PS4000 came out - and I wouldn't lose access to my existing controllers and games.

Mighty Final Fight was easily one of the best entries in the series. Shame it came so late in the NES's lifecycle and got overlooked.