[usurp]

I just had to share this with someone. Today I bought a brand new boxed first generation SNES system for only $45!

The guy had like 8 of them boxed hidden in a closet in the shop. he also had original gameboys, sega gensis and 32x plus games.

I need to go back and like buy all this stuff. Last time I got a brand new boxed NeoGeo AES system for KD80, thats like 200 something dollars. They sell for over 1000$ if new. http://unex-t.com/neogeo/

Now i just need to find Super Metroid...

[stonyc]

Mario Kart!

[autodata]

Huge facball fan here. I was also a big fan of f-zero and like it much more than the latest ones.

[usurp]

my original snes is stuck in Lebanon, but all my games are here in Kuwait. Now i just need to find them. I have some cool stuff which i miss playing. Oh I need to get Star Wars Empire Strikes back also. Will take pictures of the console and my games tonight.

[Dave.m55]

still have original snes with mario kart etc. ... it's awsome

[autodata]

the possibility of downloading these games has me looking foward to the revolution

[Brad]

SNES fans? *raises hand*

I still get more entertainment out of some old SNES games than most modern games.

I sold all my games a few years ago, though, and have downloaded a bunch of ROMs to replace them.

[DMBand0026]

I love emulators for this kind of stuff. I do own most of the games I download and play. I have one emulator for SNES that's called SNES 9x, available from here. I have a USB gamepad that my brother's bought a few years ago to play some game and now they've lost interest in that game so I can play Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter without having to use the keyboard.

[Wrao]

Yea, Super Nintendo is probably my all time favorite system.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by DMBand0026 SNES 9x, available from here

Emulation.net is down. There's a mirror somewhere, but I can't remember the address.

Besides, I hope you're using the SNES9X Custom version.

[atomicbartbeans]

Right, so I got SNES 9x. Seems like it works fine under OS X.

Now, where do I get these ROMs? I've bought plenty of Nintendo games over the years, so I don't feel like I'm swindling anybody. Besides, SNES is an old system, and Nintendo isn't making any money off of it.

Links anybody?

[Brad]

Hmm... I suppose we can allow links to ROMs since the games are no longer manufactured and for all intents and purposes should be considered abandonware.

I use Edge Emulation for most.

[atomicbartbeans]

Right, so I downloaded the file "Super Mario Kart.7z". How do I unzip it? I guess OS X doesn't have native support for it...

[DMBand0026]

Everyone be warned the link below probably isn't safe for work. For some reason people that provide ROMS also really like anime porn, so you may run into some of that on this link. Proceed at your own risk!

I really like ROMNation. Huge selection, fast downloads, annoying voting however. It says you have to vote for ROMNation before downloading a ROM, but you don't really have to.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by atomicbartbeans Right, so I downloaded the file "Super Mario Kart.7z". How do I unzip it? I guess OS X doesn't have native support for it...

Yeah, that pissed me off that the changed from a standard ZIP format to this obscure 7ZIP crap. Read the front page at EE for a link to a thread that explains how to decompress the files.

[DMBand0026]

Originally Posted by atomicbartbeans Right, so I downloaded the file "Super Mario Kart.7z". How do I unzip it? I guess OS X doesn't have native support for it...

Oddly enough Tiger didn't include Stuffit Expander, which was almost always available on every Mac that I can remember. However, it's still a free download from here. By the way, you're lucky I hunted that down for you, the stuffit website makes it next to impossible to find that free link.

[usurp]

Here is my brand new SNES! It kicks ass, Stunt Race FX is like such a sad story though, was expecting the graphics to be alot better, I turned it on a while ago and I was like wtf, my god the graphics suck! lol

[atomicbartbeans]

Originally Posted by DMBand0026 Oddly enough Tiger didn't include Stuffit Expander, which was almost always available on every Mac that I can remember. However, it's still a free download from here. By the way, you're lucky I hunted that down for you, the stuffit website makes it next to impossible to find that free link.

I have Stuffit and it doesn't support 7-zip files.

[DMBand0026]

Welcome to teh old school. What life was like before the days of the 128 bit gaming machines and Doom III.

[atomicbartbeans]

Also, the link in the forums from Drop7Zip leads to a site with a dead download link.

[DMBand0026]

Originally Posted by atomicbartbeans I have Stuffit and it doesn't support 7-zip files.

Sorry, I misread your post. My bad.

[Brad]

Heck, to avoid that 7ZIP stuff, just use these:

http://www.emuparadise.org/roms/ (ZIP files, read the page for the l/p)
http://snesorama.us/ (ZIP files, see the "ROMS" link on the top left)

[SilentEchoes]

I got a Sega Genesis, 32X, And Sega CD in my closet. I don't really have a use for it thanks to ROMS, If anyone wants it all ya gotta do is pay shipping and handling.

[usurp]

silentechoes I WANT IT!

[atomicbartbeans]

Holy Crap, My Mac is also a SNES!

Thanks Brad

[Brad]

My Mac is also a SNES

Welcome to, like, ten years ago. I actually remember running Silhouette and the early versions of SNES9X on my old 8600/250 back in the late 90s. I checked emulation.net regularly and was so disappointed that Silhouette never got a proper update.

Back then we also had some good NES emulators too. Nowadays, though, the only decent NES emulator is RockNES by Richard Bannister, but the latest versions play choppy even on my 1.33 GHz PowerBook. Someone needs to smack him. Hard.

Anyhow, I'm glad you're enjoying.

BTW, I found that mirror for emulation.net: http://emulation.victoly.com/

[SilentEchoes]

When I sold my first Sega to get a playstation way back in the day, I had to get an emulator to play General Chaos.

Still one of my favorite games of all time.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Brad Nowadays, though, the only decent NES emulator is RockNES by Richard Bannister, but the latest versions play choppy even on my 1.33 GHz PowerBook. Someone needs to smack him. Hard.

Wah?!? How is that possible?? I could run NES emulators perfectly on my 210MHz 604e clone!

[Wrao]

Welp, emulation is tricky business. It's less about the quality of your machine and more the quality of the emulator. A shoddily coded emulator will run poorly even on a DP 2.7 g5 with max RAM. Likewise, a really really well coded emulator will run great on older hardware.

[Brad]

The new versions of RockNES are supposed to be "timing accurate" meaning they are supposed to provide perfect emulation of the whole NES hardware, not resorting to any coding shortcuts. Even for the measly 1.8 MHz (ONE POINT EIGHT MEGAHURTZ!!1!11) processor in the NES, it supposedly requires a god-awful amount of processing power.

Bannister doesn't seem to care about his users or actually playing these games. It seems instead he just wants to build a true-to-form hardware simulation application. If the guy had a knock of common sense, he'd make this timing-accurate emulation optional. But, NOOO. By forcing that and refusing to host older versions of RockNES (though, they can be found elsewhere), he's made it so even brand new $1000+ systems can barely emulate a cheap 22-year-old gaming console.



Meanwhile, SNES games with stereo sound, transparencies and scaling and rotation, even that elusive FX chip which took ages to reverse-engineer, play smooth as silk on years-old hardware.



That's my rant for the day.