Nintendo Entertainment System

[Yoshimo]

So, anyone here have an old NES system the still like to play every now and then? I recently found my bro's, plugged it in with Castlevania, and WHAM, it worked! =O

Repair tips, games, and other varied topics regarding the console should be posted. =]

[Vyacheslav]

Castlevania is probably my favorite NES game. There's a site where you can play tons of NES games for free, you just need Java.

www.nintendo8.com

[OneSevenNine]

Okay, this is about the SNES, but it's still a NES, just super. Right? Whatever, I just wrote the whole thing and I'm going to post it.

Anyone heard of Uniracers? Probably not, because some asshats over at Pixar sued the developers claiming the copyright to all animated unicycles. Thus, only 300k cartriges were ever produced, and that was back in 1995.

A friend of mine who still keeps the SNES plugged in constantly (and with whom I must have beaten Super mario world at least five times by now) somehow inherited a copy of Uniracers from an older half-sibling who left for college, and fell in love with it. And I've played it; I mean, you wouldn't think it, but it's good. Wikipedia says: "Many reviewers and players believe the game would have been quite successful, given its critical praise, had it not been limited to its 300,000 production run;" yeah, they're right. Really freaking right.

Of course, just our luck, my friend's cartrige was borked. It wouldn't save. Thus, I remember many long hours spent beating every single track to unlock the stuff at the end, and leaving that poor, poor old SNES on for as long as it would hold out--usually more than a day before it had to be unplugged for some reason--to try to savor the endgame stuff as much as possible.

...Man, I just got hit by the nostalgia bus. I've really gotta find another working copy of that game somewhere. I've tried playing it on an emulator, and it's just... not in the least bit the same. The controls are way too weird without a d-pad and the good old ABXY.

[toasters]

I have an SNES, but the sound no longer works ;-;

[Rose]

My brother has an NES and we play super mario bros. from time to time. He's beaten it; I've gotten up to somewhere in World 6.

[Vyacheslav]

My brother has an NES and we play super mario bros. from time to time. He's beaten it; I've gotten up to somewhere in World 6.

O_O I was playing SMB today and beat it in one sitting without using ANY warps.

[Rose]

My brother has an NES and we play super mario bros. from time to time. He's beaten it; I've gotten up to somewhere in World 6.

O_O I was playing SMB today and beat it in one sitting without using ANY warps.

Well I don't use warps so at least I legitimately got to World 6 :p He, on the other hand, has only beaten the game by warping.

[Vyacheslav]

Try jumping the pole at the end of 3-3! it's possible.

[Yoshimo]

Imma try that, Vyach. Speaking of which, Joust is pretty damn fun.

[Twistkill]

I didn't have a lot of games on my NES but Sky Shark, SMB 1 and 3, and Pac-Man took up a lot of my time. I want to look up some of the classic games I missed out on like Castlevania, Excitebike, Legend of Zelda, etc.

[Kablizzy]

http://www.virtualnes.com/

has been a favorite site of mine for ages.

[Luminaflare]

More snes related but have any of you guys heard of the super robot wars/taisen series of games? It's a pretty awesome series or Strategy RPGs where giant robots from a variety of real and super shows just beat the living crap out of each other (Gundam Wing Zero vs Mazinger Z = :D), there's a crap ton of them but only 3 have been officially translated (due to licensing issues in the west) so far (OG saga 1.2 for GBA and a JRPG spin off called endless frontier) but I found some complete translations for 1, 3 and Alpha Gaiden and have been playing them a lot, so much so I ordered the OG games (Or the first at the moment) off of ebay. Also the battle animations are goddamn awesome (Rather static in the first game but they get awesome the further in the series you go).

[Cheez]

I have a working NES and SNES that I play occasionally.

NES takes more patience to make the games work, though. >:/
But man it feels good playing Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda on classic systems.

[Vyacheslav]

It always takes a few tries to get a SNES cartridge working for me. And my console has turned to a yucky yellow.

[koipen]

DOes anyone know what kind of connection NES has to television? Like Gamecube has SCART, what is it with NES?

[Vyacheslav]

The NES uses an RF cable. You can use the SCART cable the GC has with the SNES, N64 and GC.

[Pheidippides]

Played Duck Hunt the other night. Classic.

[SlappyMcGee]

This might seem (and is) completely off topic, but it definitely does not merit a new topic:

Pop Fiction proved you can glitch into playing Master Hand in Super Smash Bros Brawl.

It was awesome.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Pop Fiction proved you can glitch into playing Master Hand in Super Smash Bros Brawl.

It was awesome.

This is also doable with a GameShark code.
Although as soon as you use the downward fist, you're screwed. And the final Master Hand vs Master Hand battle is... disorienting.

[otters~1]

Pop Fiction proved you can glitch into playing Master Hand in Super Smash Bros Brawl.

It was awesome.

This is also doable with a GameShark code.
Although as soon as you use the downward fist, you're screwed. And the final Master Hand vs Master Hand battle is... disorienting.

You could do that in Melee with AR. Other characters included, I believe, Crazy Hand, Sandbag and Giant Bowser. This is from memory, don't take my word for it.

[blackson]

...Man, I just got hit by the nostalgia bus. I've really gotta find another working copy of that game somewhere.

I don't think you've looked very hard. About 3 seconds of searching and I found this