Thinking Of Buying A Snes

I'll read this....

Later.

 

i told you to go the emulator route bro! all u need is the usb controllers and its as real as you can get. i just hooked mine up to a projector for a party a few days ago everyone loved it.

 

that really sucks that u tried everything and no picture. if it's really broken you could probably sell it to someone, some people will buy a broken system so they can either fix it or use the parts that do work to fix another one that has a different problem.

I will say tho, SNES usually doesn't have problems. sounds like you just had a bad experience. The NES on the other hand seems pretty rare to be able to find one that still works. The NES is like 25 years old or something and iirc they didn't even work right way back then. I remember playing the NES as a kid and even back then you'd have to slap it or shove something in the cartridge slot, and push the game up and down. I remeber sometimes you'd get it working and there's be a few patches of garbage on the screen but it was acceptable to play like that because it probably took a lot of fucking with to get that far and it might be a while before you got lucky enough again to get a playable state.

 

Does the video look like it does on this one?

http://youtu.be/4FdXQo4W_1M

 

you can try something like this to use a real SNES controller on your computer:



the brand for this one is "Tomee" ... i'm thinking about buying it. I had a USB snes controller that i used for a while and then it suddenly stopped working. This thing let's you use the real thing, which is better quality.

 

Much as been mentioned about emulators. In general, they are great but improperly done, they can make a game worse than it actually was. A licensed version of MAME was used in Taito Legends volume 1 for the PS2. Wrong sound effects in Phoenix and Zookeeper has slowdown and flicker that did not occur in the arcade machine. Anyone's first time seeing these games and playing them will not get the right impression of how these games used to be.

I know that's not specific to an SNES, but emulator plus ROM isn't always the same as console plus cartridge. Ideally, test on both, if you know someone who already has an SNES. Noteworthy is that the higher resolution of PC soundcards will reveal any limitations of the actual game sounds and music that the console hardware did not reveal.

 

^ problem being that so few people still have working a SNES.

 

they dont really look the same way they used to on a modern LCD TV either even if you have the original system.

 

for the american snes's, you can break of these plastic guides on both sides of the cartridge input slot and it will allow you to put japanese snes games in too...and they work just fine...just a simple mod i thought i would share

 

Check out Retron consoles. You can get them new on Ebay for $40 and up depending on how many systems it works with. They will play games from Nintendo, SNES, GameBoy, SEGA, etc. and come with a controller for each. They connect to the TV via component cables, and come with converter plugs if your TV is too new to even have those inputs (like some 4Ks). I got the Retron 2 which does Nintendo and SNES and it works great!

 

yes, those things are cool...i almost bought one once but was given an excellent condition snes before i pulled the trigger...having said that, those all in one system on a chip machines tend to wash out colors and play the sound back incorrectly...if you cant find an snes at a yard sale for $$40 or less than by all means, pick up a retron or an fc twin type dealy...

 

I'm glad I still have my SNES from my childhood. It's at my parent's house somewhere. We still have a CRT TV that I can connect it to with ease.