SNES Classic launches 9/29 - $80, 2 controller, good games

[Positive Touch]

What doesn't work right now?
Illusion of Gaia
Terranigma

:'(

I'm sure it's only a matter of time. they already got mega man x3 working so...

[Freyj]

Breath of Fire 2 with the new translation.

[Himu]

can it play nes roms too

[Positive Touch]

it's the same hardware so I don't see why not

[Beezy]

I guess Mana 3 is a favorite of yours since you listed it twice.

[Positive Touch]

:| i type in bits at work i can't make everything coherent dammit

also i only ever played a min of mana 3 despite playing the fuck out of secret

[demi]

Off the top of my head:

Spike McFang
Big Sky Trooper
Young Merlin
Brainlord
ZAMN
DKC2
DKC3
Evermore
Robotrek
Super Soccer
NHL Stanley Cup
Lester The Unlikely
Mystic Quest
FF2/4
Equinox
Plok
Beavis & Butthead

[Tasty]

so, what games are y'all planning on putting on yours? I've got some classics ready, but also lots of old bs that I'm installing for nostalgia lols. preliminary list is: dq1-3, mana 3, pocky and rocky 1&2, mystical ninja, treasure of rudras, live a live, mana 3, actraiser 1&2, soul blazer+sequels, Stunt race fx, spider man & x-men, pilotwings, dkc2, Spike mcfang, mortal kombat 2,Joe and Mac 1&2, SimCity, and I guess chrono trigger

DKC2
Chrono Trigger

Dat's it.

[archie4208]

One game I haven't seen mentioned is Tetris Attack.

Of course knowing Nintendo I'll never find one anyway. 

[Positive Touch]

beavis and butthead was poo on snes. genesis version forever

[demi]

When they make a Genesis Classic then I'll add it

[Trent Dole]

Already hacked.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=251131523&postcount=7757

Will wait for it to be out of "beta" first.

Unless they've dumped the rom for Star Fox 2 I don't care.

[Rufus]

That happened last week already. Apparently there are already repro carts out.

[Positive Touch]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1444556

shit is hacked; now someone else do it and tell me how safe /easy it is

[fistfulofmetal]

Seems like it's pretty easy but there's still a risk of bricking the system so I'll probably not risk it yet.

Over the weekend I started up Earthbound, which I never fully played but I did play the beginning on VC on the WiiU a few years ago. I'm pretty early in, I just got to the second town but I got mushroomized and now my controls are all fucked up and I haven't gotten around to looking up how to fix it. I wanted to try and figure it out on my own but it;s annoying so I probably won't. I'm enjoying it so far, the dialogue and characters are super weird.

And I also started Secret of Mana which I basically know nothing about beyond it's a real-time combat RPG that you can play coop. Combat is fun.

[demi]

There's zero risk of bricking the system.

I didnt hack mine yet, I'll let them fix bugs or make discoveries that may make games work.

But if you're horny, you could dive in and add games if you wanted.

You go to the hospital to remove the shroom.

[fistfulofmetal]

Man, I friggin did go to the hospital and talked to the doctor but he was like "I only deal with illness" or whatever. But I guess there's probably someone else there who can fix it.

[demi]

[Positive Touch]

in happy happy valley there's a girl at the entrance that'll take the mushroom off you too. man the early part of the game is just so damn annoying. it's like dragon Quest if you whiffed 50% of the time, died constantly and enemies had stupid obnoxious status abilities that made your character useless. the game has fun scenarios but god damn the battles can be annoying.

[Positive Touch]

the main stuff i want to play with hacking is the old square rpgs but some of them don't work right or need that retroarch program to work. that's annoying.

[demi]

Its so weird that it doesnt like Enix games.

RIP Robotrek Gaia Terranigma

[a slime appears]

Seems much rougher than the NES Classic hack. I'll be waiting for a bit while people figure out all the issues.

Reading GBATemp and the miniSNESMods subreddit and there are lots of people having weird ass issues like losing all their backgrounds or having the hack really slow down the OS.

Unfortunately the built-in emulator Canoe doesn't have a lot of widespread compatibility like the NES Classic, which honestly is expected. Looks like using RetroArch will be mandatory once they fix the performance issues. 

[nachobro]

Looks like GS is going to have more in stock starting today in-store and tomorrow online. Good luck to anyone who wants one!
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/snes-classic-edition-buyers-guide-gamestop-and-thi/1100-6451207/

[TakingBackSunday]

I may roll over there after to work to see if they have any

[TakingBackSunday]

I failed

[demi]

Its so weird that it doesnt like Enix games.

RIP Robotrek Gaia Terranigma

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/75qyq5/illusion_of_gaia_fix_for_canoe/

Pic in thread

[nachobro]

I failed

Me too

Its so weird that it doesnt like Enix games.

RIP Robotrek Gaia Terranigma

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/75qyq5/illusion_of_gaia_fix_for_canoe/

Pic in thread

[TakingBackSunday]

Got one!

now show me how to hack it demi

[Positive Touch]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1444556

[fistfulofmetal]

Put Chrono Trigger and Doom on it

[Positive Touch]

i heard doom runs extra slow on it unfortunately.

[fistfulofmetal]

yeah it sucks. CT works tho.

[Himu]

New shipment already?? Fuck. I get paid next week. Looks like I'll miss out on one of these

[fistfulofmetal]

Put Dracula X on it. Think it may be my favorite level-based Castlevania game.

[Himu]

Have you played 3?

[Positive Touch]

Put Dracula X on it. Think it may be my favorite level-based Castlevania game.

drac x is a severely watered-down port of a much better game

[archie4208]

Beat Super Metroid

Still the GOAT

[Beezy]

Played Mario Kart, SF, and Contra 3 with my best friend last night. We could not stop laughing at how unforgiving Contra 3 is.

[Positive Touch]

i keep thinking about how contra 1 was our gens dark souls, that one game people bragged about beating. of course back in the day there were tons of brutal games that you might not even understand how to play let alone be good at. I'm glad more games nowadays try to be more fair, but damn if kids aren't annoying as shit bragging whenever it takes a little effort to win at something.

[Great Rumbler]

All the kids who bragged about beating Contra 1 definitely used the Konami Code on the DL, one hundred percent.

[MMaRsu]

Loving this thing, modded it and playing through Chrono Trigger

[Positive Touch]

just modded mine and it really is piss easy. i saved my kernel to some different cloud drives just in case, but i don't think there'll be any problems. playing actraiser now and I'm gonna go see how the other shit I put in here runs next. hope they get some of the problematic games working soon bc a fair number of them are really good games.

[Valkyrie]

Randomly saw this for $220 at a toy store. What a fucking scam, even for Norway. No wonder it wasn't scalped or sold out here, who the fuck would pay that much? Buy 1, pay for 3!

[archnemesis]

Randomly saw this for $220 at a toy store. What a fucking scam, even for Norway. No wonder it wasn't scalped or sold out here, who the fuck would pay that much? Buy 1, pay for 3!

The MSRP/RRP in Scandinavia is almost $200 and many retailers are charging extra since it will sell well anyway. The Nordic distributor, Bergsala, is taking advantage of their monopoly and it will be sold out again before Christmas.

[Tasty]

So I already had an 8bitdo wireless SNES pad and a SNES Retro Receiver from buying a SNES Jr. last year, but obviously the SNES Classic uses a different port (the Wii/NES Classic one), so I needed a new NES Classic Retro Receiver (which was recently updated with SNES Classic compatibility.)

I got it two weeks ago, but it was busted. No matter what, the blue light which showed pairing would not come on. And yes, I updated it to the latest firmware (1.07, along with the controller itself to 4.0 for good measure.) So I put in a refund request on Amazon and promptly bought two more.



They arrived today and after the somewhat kludgy process of updating them (again), I've got them both sitting snugly* in my SNES Classic and I'm playing this bitch wirelessly. The included controllers literally would only go halfway to my couch.

Gonna buy a second wireless SNES pad now. The only, only thing I would change here is to have some combo of buttons invoke "reset" on the SNES Classic (AKA go to the home screen) since getting up to do that is lame. Might not even be possible though? Ah well.

I'm a very happy camper right now regardless.

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* The Retro Receivers actually feel really loose in the system, they don't "snap" in and instead kinda hang there. I'm not expecting any earthquakes to jolt them out but wish they were a bit more secured.

[close]

[demi]

Terranigma, ActRaiser 2 and Robotrek fixed

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/78pu0f/terranigma_playable_with_canoe_maybe_more/

[CrankyJay]

So I hacked mine to play FF2 and SimCity. Is there a rom for FF5?

[Positive Touch]

yes, you can even put the gba translation into the snes version

[demi]

Far East of Eden Zero patch works on SNES Classic with newest Retroarch

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/79032y/how_to_get_tengai_makyou_zero_aka_far_east_of/

I might make an exception for this game when I mod mine up. Trying to be as "pure" as I can.

[Tasty]

Nintendo sold 2 million of these fucking things

[demi]

I hacked my SNES. Currently have about 90 games (original + extra). I patched the trouble games so they work (ActRaiser 2, Robotrek, Terranigma, Gaia)

If you plan on hacking yours, let me know and I'll spare you the trouble. Gonna add some translations next.

[Corporal]

I hacked my SNES. Currently have about 90 games (original + extra). I patched the trouble games so they work (ActRaiser 2, Robotrek, Terranigma, Gaia)

If you plan on hacking yours, let me know and I'll spare you the trouble. Gonna add some translations next.

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Well fuck me, that sounds/looks great.

Meanwhile I'm still sore about not finding one of them things for a reasonable price. Fecking Nintendo. Fecking amazon not taking my (pre)order until it was out of stock.

[demi]

Honestly I keep seeing them reappearing in stock at stores. Scalpers arent really hiking the price up either.

[Positive Touch]

hacking it is suuuuuper easy and the interface is great. there's a few games i still haven't added to mine yet but as of right now it basically has every snes game i ever enjoyed and all the ones i wanted to try but didn't. just about everything runs perfect too (did they ever fix mega man x2?). it's a fucking dream tbh.

[Corporal]

Honestly I keep seeing them reappearing in stock at stores. Scalpers arent really hiking the price up either.

*in the US.

Here in good ol' Krautland, the thing is hard to find and scalpers sell them for 100€ at the least, 120-160€ usually. Which isn't all THAT bad, but I'm unwilling to reward them for being assnuggets.

[demi]

Here's all the trouble games I added to mine

ActRaiser 2 - Needs patch
Beavis and Butt-Head - Works, but instant death (anti-piracy?)
Goof Troop - Hakchi automatically patches
Illusion of Gaia - Needs patch
Kirby Dream Land 3 - Preset ID 0xA210
Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Preset ID 0x4710
Mega Man X2 - Use -no-lowlatency for sound issues
Mega Man X3 - Use -no-lowlatency for sound issues
Pilotwings - Preset ID 0xBA10
Robotrek - Needs patch
Secret of Evermore - Preset ID 0xEF10
Terranigma - Needs patch

CTRL+ALT+E - Preset ID Editor

Everything else worked without issue so far. Adding translations now. Gonna add Retroarch for Tengai Makyo Zero

[Positive Touch]

still waiting on fixes for the hi-res text in mana 3 and treasure of the rudras. i also had issues with mega man and bass, but i think it was just my rom or something.

[Tasty]

All I want are CT and DKC2.

[demi]

SD3 works if you assign the preset ID of 0x1610 but comes with a new share of issues

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/78chn3/seiken_densetsu_3_hires_working_in_canoe/

[demi]

Tested a bunch of translated games. All of them work except one (Villgust). Nobody cares about Villgust anyway so no big loss!

Currently at 130 games. Should be able to top it off at a clean 150 and be done with it.