And pricey.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread
- Thread starter Teknoman
- Start date
Taking suggestions for April 2016 now.
Submit your picks, don't pick the losers for March 2016, they won't count.
Probably too much so, but it's only going up from here.
Submit your picks, don't pick the losers for March 2016, they won't count.
Probably too much so, but it's only going up from here.
We were hacked.
RadarScope1
Member
Damn Russians!!!
Shadow Hog
Member
Give it a month.
Unless you're suggesting the second Flintsones game, in which case it wouldn't count cuz it's way over the spending limit.
Oh yeah for sure. I'm not trying to say there isn't truth to the videos, or that the games aren't flawed. I'm just saying a game shouldn't necessarily get written off because AVGN ripped on it. Some of them are at least worth a shot, and many of them I still enjoy in spite of their flaws.
Don't blame me, I'm the one guy who voted for Laser Invasion!
RoryDropkick
Member
Can we vote on Snake's Revenge? :3
davidwhangchoi
Member
anyone play Solomon's Key? can we vote for that =)
sixteen-bit
Member
davidwhangchoi
Member
i love metal gear as well, now that i have a nes, i'll join you all and play. i could never beat the computer room when i was a kid...
From someone who can beat the 3rd level but can't beat the 4th: When you knock Abobo down, get right on top of him as he's getting up. He can't hit you if you're in the same spot as him but you can hit him. The difficult part is that there's two of them at the same time. You just have to try to keep them apart with jump kicks. For all other guys, especially the ones with the purple hair and pants, do the move where you pull their hair and throw them. You get that at 4 stars. You do it automatically just by kicking them from a certain distance away.
I still say Stage 4 is harder than Battletoads. So look forward to that.
Thanks, i already use the hair-move whenever i can. Will definitely try to use the trick you mentioned for Abobo, i tried to beat them in a pretty different manner, which i guess didnt work so well. Got to the second round of fighting them.
Also, harder than Battletoads? I almost cant believe that, but looking forward to it!
Only the random pillars and Willy are hard, the rest isn't that bad though Jimmy takes a lot of hits. With Jimmy you don't ever want to stop hitting him because it is insane how much health he has, it would take over 40 seconds to beat him with just kicks alone.
Also, just use diagonal kicks against the Abobos, that's what I do and is able to kill them faster than jump kicks and you'll have more health left that way, that's what I always did. Jump kicks are worthless against them because you're on a timer.
When I beat the game I almost ran out of time, lol.
Just move in a diagonal pattern like down left or down right and kick repeatedly. Also, the Aobos can't really hit you much when you go down diagonally.
Brainiac 8
Member
Yesterday I picked up Karnov from a local retro game shop. I loved that game!
davidwhangchoi
Member
i love that game!
I did not notice that before you mentioned it, lmao!
tornjaw
Member
Demon Sword is one of my favorite games of all time. I played it non-stop as a child, not that I had much choice. I didn't own very many games, but never the less, I played it a ton.
It wasn't until years later that I discovered that the Japanese version is different. So I immediately bought it but it wasn't until I bought a Retron that I was able to play it.
This Wiki explains the regional differences. Aside from the additional bosses and stages the biggest difference is the difficulty. In the NTSC version you can be hit 2-3 times per life box, but in the Japanese version each hit equals on entire box.
You have to be very careful until you get a couple of black orbs (to extend life) and then the red (but portrayed as yellow?) orbs to refill your health. I never beat it, but I'd love to find the time to go back to it.
Sup guys, ive had a YouTube channel for sometime, but going into this year I wanted to start putting a bit more effort in making regular videos and doing stuff that's important to me. I started a couple Podcasts and started making regular gameplay videos and also some retro play through type ones with live commentary. I didn't want to spam my channel on here but I felt this video was somewhat relevant since this is an NES discussion. I had mostly been doing Destiny related videos but in an effort to kick my addiction to that game I started making "Destiny Rehab" videos about other games. I had Mega Man Legacy collection sitting around and I hadn't given it a proper play so I decided to make some Mega Man videos. I started with Megaman 2 and then did 1 and 3. This is the one for Mega Man 3. I'd love to have some feedback and discussion if possible. I am thinking about buying a capture device to do more retro type play through as I've really enjoyed making these. Thanks in advance for your attention.
https://youtu.be/DIYiIiC2bzo
https://youtu.be/DIYiIiC2bzo
RoryDropkick
Member
Demon Sword is one of my favorite games of all time. I played it non-stop as a child, not that I had much choice. I didn't own very many games, but never the less, I played it a ton.
It wasn't until years later that I discovered that the Japanese version is different. So I immediately bought it but it wasn't until I bought a Retron that I was able to play it.
This Wiki explains the regional differences. Aside from the additional bosses and stages the biggest difference is the difficulty. In the NTSC version you can be hit 2-3 times per life box, but in the Japanese version each hit equals on entire box.
You have to be very careful until you get a couple of black orbs (to extend life) and then the red (but portrayed as yellow?) orbs to refill your health. I never beat it, but I'd love to find the time to go back to it.
Yep, I own it. It's quite unique, but this post here nails it.
That's awesome. I nominated Laser Invasion for this month, but it seems I was the only one into it.
I don't have the Laser Scope though. I play the game with a combination of the standard NES controller in port 1 (flight sections, and maze section navigation) and the zapper in port 2 (shooter sections and maze encounters)
It's a really cool game imo. I like the multi-genre aspect, and any time I can use my zapper is a plus.
Demon Sword is one of my favorite games of all time. I played it non-stop as a child, not that I had much choice. I didn't own very many games, but never the less, I played it a ton.
It wasn't until years later that I discovered that the Japanese version is different. So I immediately bought it but it wasn't until I bought a Retron that I was able to play it.
This Wiki explains the regional differences. Aside from the additional bosses and stages the biggest difference is the difficulty. In the NTSC version you can be hit 2-3 times per life box, but in the Japanese version each hit equals on entire box.
You have to be very careful until you get a couple of black orbs (to extend life) and then the red (but portrayed as yellow?) orbs to refill your health. I never beat it, but I'd love to find the time to go back to it.
Is it worth getting it if im a more casual fan of Demon Sword?
RoryDropkick
Member
I got mine for pretty cheap a few years back, it was under $10. I'd say yes?
Yeah why not I guess
Another question, probably for D.Lo or somebody with his knowledge, any way to delete the save files on FDS-games, in this case, Doki Doki Panic?
tornjaw
Member
'Eh. A toss up. Like I said, initially it's hard as hell unless you get lucky with health orbs. But the new bosses and the extended game was pretty great.
And it looks like you can get it shipped for under 20USD from eBay.
No without a delete option ingame you'd have to rewrite the disk or.. I've read something about ejecting the disk while it's saving to possibly corrupt the data but that sounds kinda sketchy.
D.Lo
Member
There is, but you need to re-write the entire side of the disk using a full write-enabled FDS and an interface, FDStick is useful for this.Yeah why not I guess
Another question, probably for D.Lo or somebody with his knowledge, any way to delete the save files on FDS-games, in this case, Doki Doki Panic?
Most games have a manual delete option however, DDP is a rare example that does not.
AFAIK the Japanese version has no life box, each hit is instant-death. However, each enemy has a chance to drop protection charm so if you farm anywhere for a few minutes you get enough charms to breeze through the entire game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51kQTnp8to
Thanks and thanks for the sub.
This sucks, guess I just need to manually keep track of which stages Ive beaten with each character then. Thanks!
Electronic Gaming Monthly had a Fact-File / Review for Demon Sword, but it deserved higher ratings.
that was in here:
this is actually EGM #5 - December 1989.
Shadow Hog
Member
Gotta love "Ninja Gai Den".
GurgleBot20
Member
Is anyone actually going to play Metal Gear? I have Zelda to take up most of the month, but I'll maybe at least start it.
I'm definitely planning to. I'll have the big post up later today I think. Just got the image