I bought a SNES

[naved.islam14]

Am I the only person who noticed that it should be 'an SNES' instead of 'a SNES'.

 

[elmoemo]

Am I the only person who noticed that it should be 'an SNES' instead of 'a SNES'.

How? Snes begins with a constanent

 

[Armadillo]

Depends how you pronounce SNES.

If I remember right.

An or A is based on sound. So if you pronounce SNES with each letter being said, then it should be "an". As it starts with a vowel sound. So an S-N-E-S.

However, op is from the UK and I've never heard anyone here pronounce each letter individually. Always been pronounced as a word. So "a" would be right for that.

 

[elmoemo]

Depends how you pronounce SNES.

If I remember right.

An or A is based on sound. So if you pronounce SNES with each letter being said, then it should be "an". As it starts with a vowel sound. So an S-N-E-S.

However, op is from the UK and I've never heard anyone here pronounce each letter individually. Always been pronounced as a word. So "a" would be right for that.

Good explaination, from u and never heard it said as letters either lol

 

[McHaggis]

"Snez", that is all.

 

[bradzx]

By the way, it's "it's", not "it".

Deal with it for my grammar problem. I can't be perfect grammar. So deal with it with people's grammar problem.

 

[loco365]

On the topic of games, Final Fantasy III is really damn good. Far better than the GBA remake of it. And yeah, if you can get Mario All-Stars, get it, although if you have the Wii version, you're not really missing anything. As well, if you can find it, Mario Paint is a great timewaster.

 

[blinkzane]

SUPER MARIO RPG.

 

[emigre]

I love how people are mentioning gaems which weren't released in Europe despite mentioning it in my opening post.

Kudos to Nate for acknowledging my pain. And I'm going to get a flashcart, the price for SNES border of fucking ridiculous. Than again it's not like it was the most popular system here.

 

[Armadillo]

My suggestion for PAL stuff is, don't bother.

Get a flashcart, 60Hz mod the SNES and away you go. Going out and buying PAL stuff, you may as well just be throwing money away.

Unless you enjoy playing squashed, slow games. Or even worse, half assed optimised ones, like Super Metroid. Samus moves correct speed, but world is slow. Well done Nintendo, same goes for Yoshi's Island.

 

[zerofalcon]

Contra III The Alien Wars its a must have.

 

[JulietStMoon]

I love how people are mentioning gaems which weren't released in Europe despite mentioning it in my opening post.

Kudos to Nate for acknowledging my pain. And I'm going to get a flashcart, the price for SNES border of fucking ridiculous. Than again it's not like it was the most popular system here.

My apologies if I did. I was at work when I made that post. Otherwise I would've checked.

My suggestion for PAL stuff is, don't bother.

Get a flashcart, 60Hz mod the SNES and away you go. Going out and buying PAL stuff, you may as well just be throwing money away.

Unless you enjoy playing squashed, slow games. Or even worse, half assed optimised ones, like Super Metroid. Samus moves correct speed, but world is slow. Well done Nintendo, same goes for Yoshi's Island.

Just out of curiosity, how does one 60Hz mod a PAL SNES?

 

[grossaffe]

Just my opinion but I think the Super Nintendo looks best on an old school tv with an S-Video hook-up, rather than with the yellow video component cable. I think it looks a lot smoother and not so pixelated that way.

He lives in Europe. They have SCART over there which does RGB and is better than S-Video.

 

[emigre]

My apologies if I did. I was at work when I made that post. Otherwise I would've checked.

That's cool Bro. We're still Bros.

 

[Armadillo]

My apologies if I did. I was at work when I made that post. Otherwise I would've checked.

Just out of curiosity, how does one 60Hz mod a PAL SNES?

Lift a pin on each of the PPU. +5V is 50Hz, GND is 60Hz.

The old method is this

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/snes-5060hz-switch-with-lockout-switch/

60Hz + lockout disable.

Newer method is this

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/snes-switchless-modchip/


Switchless method is far nicer + has better region compatibility. Simply disabling the lockout does not work on later imports. It can also be paired up with another chip that will let you cycle modes using the controller.

 

[Coltonamore]

Eh emulators, anyone?

Let me sum things up about this.
An emulator is ok, but its not actual hardware. What this means is that emulators will have graphical glitches, frame rate slow down and other kinds of problems. The thing about actual hardware is that the games are being played on the system they where meant to be played on so you won't find those kind of shit problems that you would find on emulators.
I hope that people here get where I'm coming from on this.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

That's cool Bro. We're still Bros.

If you do get a flash cart I believe either the carts "just work" or you can patch roms? This would probably be for the best since from what I understand the European library of SNES games both run slow and many awesome games just never where released at all in the region. I also believe that some of the flash carts do double duty as GameGenies or Gamesharks and I think some of them even support translation files... although the only ones I have found sadly are for RPG's (why no one make them for action games.... I want to know why I am beating the hell out of the guy.. I mean it's still fun but I need motivation!)

If you decide to move to the US for help with your video game addiction problem, you can stay at my place for a while!!! I have the cure, we just play video games until our eyes bleed... lol

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Let me sum things up about this.
An emulator is ok, but its not actual hardware. What this means is that emulators will have graphical glitches, frame rate slow down and other kinds of problems. The thing about actual hardware is that the games are being played on the system they where meant to be played on so you won't find those kind of shit problems that you would find on emulators.
I hope that people here get where I'm coming from on this.

I am a huge emulation fan, but I agree perfect emulation is hard to pull off if not impossible in some respects... Even the best filters still leave something to be desired compared to the actual hardware on an old tube TV.

This reminds me I should check to see if there are some newer filters out to try with Higan. Always looking for something that better replicates the effect of a tube TV.

 

[sandytf]

I connect my computer to my CRT tv.

 

[Blaze163]

First thought I had when seeing the topic title was 'good boy, correct answer'. I lost my SNES in a robbery a while ago, along with my N64 and all my games. SNES has some truly classic games. My personal favourites were Starwing (known as Star Fox elsewhere), Stunt Race FX, and arguably the king of all co-op games even to this day, Zombies Ate My Neighbours, also known simply as Zombies! But the SNES had some of the best RPGs ever, it spawned Super Mario Kart, you could even make a fairly well reasoned argument that the mighty Mario never got any better than Super Mario World. It's a truly astonishing console. Enjoy every second of it.