SNES Mini

[Ry]

Prices going up? 

 

I may have to sell mine. I have used it for 10 mins. Even bought a wiresless 8bitdo pad for it. 

[dfq23]

Still 69 quid in my local Game and the NES is still 49

[Down by Law]

Put mine on ebay last week for 75 with a ton of extra games and systems, all lovingly matched up boxart, mint in box with unused 2nd pad, no takers. It's back on, had two views since Sunday. 

[Sketch]

On 08/02/2019 at 12:12, Thor said:

Should I give Yoshi's Island more of a chance, or is it the steaming turd it appears to be?

 

Thank you good sir. I too hate it, and people always accuse me of being mad.

 

I forced myself through half of it, and it never improves. The level progression is always linear, unlike the original Super Mario World. The requisites to attain 100% on each level are ridiculous - it's not about finding an alternative exit, but collecting rubbish and tat, and finishing with 100% health. The reward for collecting all this crap, in every level in each world, is a single extra level which is overly difficult and crap.

 

The original SMW is in fact perfect when it comes to secrets and rewards. Each secret gives you an entirely new piece of content to play through and, in some cases, find more levels.

 

Yoshi's Island is just a painful slog through a swamp of trash collecting.

 

 

[Parappa]

On 05/11/2019 at 17:38, RYAN WHITELAW said:

Prices going up? 

 

I may have to sell mine. I have used it for 10 mins. Even bought a wiresless 8bitdo pad for it. 

 I am after one if do sell 

[Ry]

3 hours ago, Parappa said:

 I am after one if do sell 

Make me an offer dude. 

 

 

[SteveH]

11 hours ago, Parappa said:

 I am after one if do sell 

Am I right in thinking you are in/near Manchester? I have a brand new one here. Just don't want the hassle of posting to be honest.

[Ry]

2 hours ago, SteveH said:

Am I right in thinking you are in/near Manchester? I have a brand new one here. Just don't want the hassle of posting to be honest.

Fucker! 

[ryodi]

Has anyone managed to get the Final Fantasy GBA games working properly on the Mini? I've updated to Hakchi v3.7.0 and tried both gpSP and mGBA and the sound is always garbled. Every other GBA game I've tried has been fine but the Final Fantasy games never work properly. 

[gizmo1990]

Bit of a bump here, but been playing on this with my niece and nephew and it's a blast. One thing that has seriously annoyed me though is my continual inability to pull off some special moves in SF II!! Like WTF!? Back in the day it's what turned me off SF and I'm still finding it impossible now. Seriously how is that possible?

 

For example the most annoying one is Chun Li's fireball. I've never been able to do it yet it should be a snap. I can do Ryu's no problem but that extra 1/4 seems to evade me. Is there some weird knack I'm missing? So embarrassing..

[Qazimod]

I set up my Mini the other day as my nephew came over and we played some games. He did try to relieve me of the console on the way out because I keep it packed away when it's not in use (so clearly I "must not use it that much") but it's great for a quick spot of co-op Kirby.

 

I do want to pick up FFIII on the Mini again sometime - it was my first proper attempt at playing the game but I abandoned it, and then played through it on my RS97. So my Mini save is a piece of unfinished business that's been taunting me.

[Goemon]

29 minutes ago, gizmo1990 said:

Bit of a bump here, but been playing on this with my niece and nephew and it's a blast. One thing that has seriously annoyed me though is my continual inability to pull off some special moves in SF II!! Like WTF!? Back in the day it's what turned me off SF and I'm still finding it impossible now. Seriously how is that possible?

 

For example the most annoying one is Chun Li's fireball. I've never been able to do it yet it should be a snap. I can do Ryu's no problem but that extra 1/4 seems to evade me. Is there some weird knack I'm missing? So embarrassing..

This is why Capcom continually try and make moves easier to do. They were much more strict back in the day.

 

Street Fighter V has shortcuts for specials (hitting down/forward twice +p is recognised as a dragon punch motion) and they have characters like Ed and Falke who’s special moves are nothing more than pressing 2 buttons together.

[gizmo1990]

I'm totally down with making specials difficult but a half circle and a button press shouldn't be that hard, should it? I literally sat for about 30 mins continually attempting it and didnt pull it off once.. That's really weird. Which leads me to believe there's some knack to it?

[Paulando]

I remember hacking mine to install loads of other games. Is there an easy way to go back to factory settings?

[Thor]

2 hours ago, Paulando said:

I remember hacking mine to install loads of other games. Is there an easy way to go back to factory settings?

Why would you want to do this?

[SeanR]

2 hours ago, Paulando said:

I remember hacking mine to install loads of other games. Is there an easy way to go back to factory settings?

no.

 

I think with hatchi (sp?) you had to make a backup first?

[Paulando]

7 minutes ago, SeanR said:

no.

 

I think with hatchi (sp?) you had to make a backup first?

Hmm, might have that somewhere then.

[Paulando]

43 minutes ago, Thor said:

Why would you want to do this?

Cos it’s undoubtedly full of shit I probably won’t play. Fancy just starting from scratch.

[LaveDisco]

4 hours ago, Qazimod said:

I set up my Mini the other day as my nephew came over and we played some games. He did try to relieve me of the console on the way out because I keep it packed away when it's not in use (so clearly I "must not use it that much") but it's great for a quick spot of co-op Kirby.

 

I do want to pick up FFIII on the Mini again sometime - it was my first proper attempt at playing the game but I abandoned it, and then played through it on my RS97. So my Mini save is a piece of unfinished business that's been taunting me.

 

I completed Super Castlevania on the Mini, and for it felt way more special than playing it on the Switch collection, or on some dodgy rom.

 

Going to do the same for Bloodlines on my PCE mini,

[Sarlaccfood]

3 hours ago, gizmo1990 said:

I'm totally down with making specials difficult but a half circle and a button press shouldn't be that hard, should it? I literally sat for about 30 mins continually attempting it and didnt pull it off once.. That's really weird. Which leads me to believe there's some knack to it?

Isn’t Chun Li’s fireball a charge move? Also I can’t recall which SF2 is on the snes mini, but did she actually have it as a move originally or did they add it later?

[ox1973]

11 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Isn’t Chun Li’s fireball a charge move? Also I can’t recall which SF2 is on the snes mini, but did she actually have it as a move originally or did they add it later?

 

I think it depends on the version? Half circle + punch or charge move depending on which flavour of SFII you're playing?

 

It's been a while since I played SFII admittedly.

 

[Lyrical Donut]

26 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Isn’t Chun Li’s fireball a charge move? Also I can’t recall which SF2 is on the snes mini, but did she actually have it as a move originally or did they add it later?

 

It was half circle on Hyper Fighting/Turbo. They changed it to a charge move later.

[gizmo1990]

Yep manual just says half circle and punch. Still can't do it and thoroughly fed up. Just like in '92. Rubbish.

[Qazimod]

I'm trying it on the Mini now and I struggle to get it out consistently. The timing feels very strict - it's like if you're walking backwards you need to roll the half-circle in the middle of the walking animation, without seeing her crouch.

 

Also maybe trying different "Turbo**" speeds (from the main menu) may help?

[Sarlaccfood]

Absolute thumb ripper on that D-pad too. 

[Calashnikov]

I used to effortlessly bash out Ryu’s half-circle red fireball in SNES Super Street Fighter as if it were wanking back in my teenaged years. Was the button input less strict than in Turbo?

[gizmo1990]

5 hours ago, Qazimod said:

I'm trying it on the Mini now and I struggle to get it out consistently. The timing feels very strict - it's like if you're walking backwards you need to roll the half-circle in the middle of the walking animation, without seeing her crouch.

 

Also maybe trying different "Turbo**" speeds (from the main menu) may help?

 

Her crouch was leading me to believe that I was doing something wrong too. But I've just been giving it another go, I'm nothing if not persistent, but I just can't get anything to happen. I can't even find examples of her performing the fireball on yt, in order to check whether there's a crouch frame in there, which is just plain bizarre! Performing a half circle must surely initiate a crouch shouldn't it? I mean, you're pushing down , right? Because she always crouches when I try it. The fact that I've not managed a fireball ever, not once, is really really odd.

[dataDave]

Start slow and build up. If you’re exhausting your thumb you need to slow it down. This is Turbo, so also make sure that the game speed is as slow as it’ll go.

 

Yes, you can do it slow enough that you see the crouch frame/s. You can also push it fast enough that you don’t. Make sure that the punch button press is synced with the forward input, it doesn’t follow it.

[gizmo1990]

Ok I'll give it another go tomorrow. Can't let this damn game beat me!

[Lyrical Donut]

4 minutes ago, Fallows said:

Start slow and build up. If you’re exhausting your thumb you need to slow it down.

 

Yes, you can do it slow enough that you see the crouch frame/s. You can also push it fast enough that you don’t. Make sure that the punch button press is synced with the forward input, it doesn’t follow it.

 

You just beat me to this post. Sage advice.