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AceBandage
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DavidDayton said:
They should do it every week.
That's two months, and would lead into the 10th of November, right around the time all their big games come out.
Dreamwriter
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I don't think it's the lack of automapping people care about 
It's more the annoyances like always starting out with only 30 life, and having to bomb pretty much every single square of every single floor to find the passages needed to progress. As a kid with endless time on my hands, I had no problem with that, it was fun exploration. These days, I would go insane
It's more the annoyances like always starting out with only 30 life, and having to bomb pretty much every single square of every single floor to find the passages needed to progress. As a kid with endless time on my hands, I had no problem with that, it was fun exploration. These days, I would go insane God damn,you know what you be nice and useful for that extra 32 MB of memory reserved for the browser?
A .jpg viewer so I can rip one of those on-line maps and stick it in the SD card. I spent 10 minutes trying to find my way back to the 3rd dungeon in Zelda and the little gray box with the dot doesn't help!
A .jpg viewer so I can rip one of those on-line maps and stick it in the SD card. I spent 10 minutes trying to find my way back to the 3rd dungeon in Zelda and the little gray box with the dot doesn't help!
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
*bows*womp said:
jamesinclair
Banned
I cant pass fucking mountain 9 in ice climbers.
BocoDragon said:
After graphing games such as Bard's Tale 1 and 2 prior to that, not to sound like a pompous douche but Metroid was a cakewalk in comparison.
The part that made me sick?
I managed to get my hands on this after I beat both it and Zelda....
A tip for guys first experiencing the original Zelda - You can get the white sword (Twice as powerful as your wooden one) within 10 min of starting the game. All you need is 5 heart containers and they can easily be had by bombing some rocks around the southern shore line and the big boulder by the tektites in the mid NE section of the map.
Blowing through dungeon one will be almost criminal.
Zelda took me about a week on Christmas break 1986 to finish, the included map and just some enthusiastic chatter with my buds (AKA school yard chat) was what I needed to get through it. Some dungeon and item locations were pure evil without a nod in the general direction.
Great game, it was the one NES game that actually impressed me enough in the system to start with.
PigSpeakers
Member
Boney said:
I already have a beard, but I don't like not having diagonal shot. I beat Zero Mission though.
PigSpeakers
Member
womp said:Zero Mission is the Dr. Seuss version of Metroid.
Still a good game though.
Dr Seuss is fun and whimsical. I would play a whimsical Metroid game if they made one actually.
cartman414
Member
Boney said:
It's not hard, just somewhat frustrating and monotonous.
Naked Snake
Member
I really hope that once Nintendo releases these games officially they will update the rotating icons in Home Menu to show a 3D NES cart with the original art on it, instead of the generic square with a title screenshot we're getting now.
I can't recall for sure, but they do that for the GB VC games, right?
I can't recall for sure, but they do that for the GB VC games, right?
Nuclear Muffin
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Naked Snake said:I really hope that once Nintendo releases these games officially they will update the rotating icons in Home Menu to show a 3D NES cart with the original art on it, instead of the generic square with a title screenshot we're getting now.
I can't recall for sure, but they do that for the GB VC games, right?
They show a Gameboy/Gameboy color with a cart inside (the cart colours so far match up to the actual ones, but we'll see if they keep that up when the likes of DKL and Pokemon get released)
I'm betting that they'll make a NES cart for the final version as well. The icon they're using at the mo is obviously a quick rush job.
Naked Snake
Member
Better yet, show a 3D NES console with the flap door open showing the correct cart inside *drool*
Edit: actually just the cart would be better if it shows the full artwork.
Edit: actually just the cart would be better if it shows the full artwork.
Naked Snake said:I really hope that once Nintendo releases these games officially they will update the rotating icons in Home Menu to show a 3D NES cart with the original art on it, instead of the generic square with a title screenshot we're getting now.
I can't recall for sure, but they do that for the GB VC games, right?
Hmmm did they do a re-release of Metroid back in the day? This is the cart I have:
Naked Snake
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I don't know, never had Metroid.
omgkitty said:Hmmm did they do a re-release of Metroid back in the day? This is the cart I have:
Yeah, that was a rerelease they did in the early 90s I believe. I think that was around the same time they printed copies of Punch Out that weren't the Mike Tyson version.
I ran through Metroid yesterday and I still love it just as much as always. I could see how frustrating it would be for new comers, but I have that shit burned into my brain so I pretty much know exactly what walls to bomb and all that stuff. While I've never completed the game in under an hour, I've always come close.
Also, Ice Climbers is awful. Maybe the worst game of the lot.
ss_lemonade
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Maybe. I remember ours being the same as the one with the game sprites (in fact, I remember a lot of our Nes carts having the game graphics as art. Guess it was the norm with Nes games back then)omgkitty said:Hmmm did they do a re-release of Metroid back in the day? This is the cart I have:
giggas said:
I'm terrible at Metroid. I've had the game since I was about 3 or 4 years old and have never gotten anything other than the morph ball and maybe a rocket pack. When I was younger I had no idea what I was doing and the game is frustratingly hard, especially on the 3DS. I will probably never beat that game.
Naked Snake
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The sprites boxart was also used in the NES Classics for GBA.
omgkitty said:
Ha, it's not too bad. The start of it is always pretty frustrating, but once you get some of the key items (especially the screw attack) you're all set.
When I play through the game I generally do the same exact path every time and I rarely venture off it because it is easy to get lost. I usually do morph ball, missiles, long beam, bombs right off the bat. You can do all that stuff right in Brinstar. For the first pack of missiles I generally get the pack that's on the way to norfair (so you go to the long yellow shaft and drop down to the bottom door). The long beam is towards the top of the first blue shaft, and the bombs are towards the top of the third shaft.
Once I get those I head into Norfair to get the high jump boots and then the screw attack. Anything you need in Norfair is off to the right part of the map. So, when you come down the elevator into Norfair pretty much just head right, don't even bother with the left side of the map. After I get those I go back up to Brinstar to get the Varia suit, which is right up that same first yellow shaft in the hallway that interconnects the first and second yellow shafts. There's an energy tank in there too. After that I go for Riddly, Kraid, and then Mother Brain.
Finding Riddley and Kraid are pretty easy too. Just remember when you get into the hideouts to always go right. For Kraid you need to drop down to the third door or so, but you head right and fall down as far as you can go. Fight Kraid is tough though, he will whoop the shit out of you.
Also, I never get the Wave Beam. Ice Beam is way more handy and it's required to fight off the Metroids eventually anyway, so it saves you a trip from having to go get the ice beam again before heading into Tourian.
This probably makes no sense and helps you out zero, but... yeah. Hahaha.
AndyMoogle
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I own the superior 2 player version.
Sir_Crocodile
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Zelda 2 seems a lot easier then it did back in the day.
I guess it's because the most effective way to level up is more obvious to me now then it was when I was six.
I guess it's because the most effective way to level up is more obvious to me now then it was when I was six.
Sir_Crocodile said:
It's really NOT that hard at all, honestly. Once you get past the admittedly wonky jumping mechanics, the basic thing is that the game requires you to have patience. Oh, and learning the importance of "high-low" for sword fighting.
In its own way, Zelda 2 probably prepared me for the likes of SF2, which would come out several years later! :lol
YourMaster
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Fularu said:Zelda's 5th dungeon is kicking my assWell not really, I died once, but still
That room with the 6 blue knights is evil
In the 5th dungeon you can have the magic sword already, that helps a lot with both them and the bat-men.
The Lamonster
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Really hoping ALTTP is included in the GBA games. The GBA version is the best version of that game.
The Lamonster
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You can't buy GBA games on the VC...Roto13 said:
AndyMoogle said:I own the superior 2 player version.
Wow, what's the story behind the 2 player version? I just picked mine up off the shelf and I have the same one. I'm not sure if our local copies say that on the back, but my Dad bought it for me for Christmas last year from the USA off eBay I think, but I never noticed the 2 player part... Does it even work? I've never bothered to try, lol.