[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]This week I have spent in the pursuit of gaming nirvana. My mission was utterly successful, I now have in my possession the finest piece of gaming hardware ever concocted by mortal man; a Snes.

Also via ebay I have managed to obtain:
Zelda - Link to the past
Mariokart
Mario World and Allstars (one cart, I didn't even know it was released until I saw it up for auction)
Cybernator
and last but not least by any stretch of the imagination Streetfighter2 Turbo.

I spent this afternoon playing and finishing the sublime platform excellence of Super Mario Bros. 1 and then the first three worlds in the impossibly good Super Mario Bros. 3.
I think that if everyone had a snes there would be world peace. Except when playing bomberman with three of your mates, that's the equivalent of a domestic missile crisis.
I am deeply contented.
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[aldo_14]

How much did that set you back?

[redsniper]

mmmm... the snes is indeed one of the greatest platforms ever. Square's best games are on there, FF3, ChronoTrigger... I'll just have to settle for snes 9x

[diamondgeezer]

Guess we've seens the last of the green one for a while. Those are some of the very best games on the bestest console of all time. All you want now is Starfox, Mario World and Stunt Race FX.

On a side note, I saw a GBA SP up close today. It rules.

[Unknown Target]

*chants* star fox, star fox, star fox *chants*

[diamondgeezer]

You know, I spent most of my school years playing Starfox but only reached the black hole last year... random fact for you there

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Actually I'm quite annoyed at myself for forgetting that I already have starwing, it's my favourite game for the Snes actually. D'oh.

Mario world is built onto the mario allstars cart and stunt race FX wasn't my cup of tea. As for not seeing me for a while; I'm not having too much of a good thing so although I gorged myself on Mario for the best part of this afternoon/evening. I'm going to keep it as a reward for my university achievements.

Costs, lets see

One fully working, quite great nick Snes was £15 with two pads.
Zelda was £10.50
Mariokart was £12.50
Cybernator was £4.30
StarWing was £4.75
SF2 turbo was £6.50
Allstars + world was £6.52
And I got a Super gameboy for £5.50. (just for my collection)

I'm on the lookout for bomberman 1 (damn rare + the best IMHO) and a multitap but failing that I'll Build a blank cart and write the games I want. The only problem is getting the correct memory which thus far has been a pain to track down. I have to mention that I was actually quite downhearted when I first looked into the average cost of zelda and mariokart, copies were selling for up to £40 a piece but I got both for less than £15. I gues Ebay just lucks out sometimes.
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[Jonathan_S47]

The RF connector for my old SNES is dying. The multi-cable the came with it disappeared a few years ago so I had to switch to emulators for my old games.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Mario world is built onto the mario allstars cart [/color]

You mean as in Super Mario World? As in the one set on Dinosaur Island, with Yoshi the cape feather and ****?

[01010]

AKA the best platform game in existence (bar possibly Viewtiful Joe, it wouldn't suprise me if this game was lovingly handcrafted by god himself).

[Unknown Target]

Is Pitfall for the SNES, too? That was a great platformer.
Anyway, Starfox was fun, I got thru half of it in, like, a week, but it was great fun The new one is crap, tho, too easy.

[Killfrenzy]

I would debate the SNES being the 'greatest gaming hardware' ever created. The 16bit era was won by the Mega Drive/Genesis, if only for Sonic the Hedgehog 2.....

[Shiva Archon]

Pfft, SNES stomped Genesis in every way, shape, and form.  Sonic 2 was good, but there's a long list of SNES games that topped that one.

[adwight]

No Super Metroid??? IMO one of the best games ever, it kicks ass.

[StratComm]

Yeah the Bomberman/Multitap combo are exceedingly rare, as I only found mine when it was new.  I was pleased to discover, however, that Secret of Mana (Square's other all-time great game) would actually register the thrid controller and let each character get their own seperate player to control them.  Boy, does having real people play a sudo-RPG game in tandem change the way you play.

[Singh]

Ah yes...the SNES...some of my best gaming experiences were on that.
Absolutely loved FF- mystic quest, the Zelda games and yes, even the Mario bro games on that

[Kamikaze]

SNES owns all the other consoles. I still have my modded SNES (plays both Japanese and English cartridges) around to play FF4/5/6 and a bunch other classics.

Maeg, if you find out any more about the custom cartridges can you post the info here? That'd be really useful as I've heard memory cartridges can die out as they age. *wants to use his SNES eternally*

[mikhael]

Originally posted by StratComm
Yeah the Bomberman/Multitap combo are exceedingly rare, as I only found mine when it was new.  I was pleased to discover, however, that Secret of Mana (Square's other all-time great game) would actually register the thrid controller and let each character get their own seperate player to control them.  Boy, does having real people play a sudo-RPG game in tandem change the way you play.

That works great in an action RPG like Mana. Not so great in a game like Chronocross or FF10.

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by aldo_14
How much did that set you back?

Games cost money?


Gotta cut back on the bittorrent addiction.

[Setekh]

Lol, awesome catch you got there Maeg. Bit disappointed at the exclusion of any Metroid games and Chrono Trigger is also conspicuous by its absence, but you still got a very impressive suite there.