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What are your favorite emulated games and classic game memories?

A great site for ROM files is:
http://www.n64stud.com/

Lots of ROMS for all different platforms.

Spy Hunter didn't have a joystick.

[Bockie]

Favorite emulated game: Secret of Mana for the SNES. I'm a die-hard Nintendo fan!

Favorite memory: Writing Nintendo of America in 1989 asking if and when the Japanese version of Super Mario Brothers 2 will be released in the US. Their answer, "We have no plans to bring that title to the US."

<History Lesson du jour> The Nintendo cartrige released in the US bearing the name "Super Mario Bros. 2" was a Japanese game named "Doki Panic" that starred a cast of Arabian characters, not Mario et al. Nintendo of America believed that US consumers did not want a second side-scroller but a game with more gameplay depth (two dimentional movement). They altered the Doki Panic's code to replace the original characters with Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess(Peach). Bowser is absent from this SMB game because it never was intended to be a Mario game. *WARNING* Spoilers Ahead :To work around this anti-Mario genre, game designers created an ending that framed the game and its story as a dream that Mario had while he slept one night. Lame! </History Lesson du jour>

Several years later, Super Mario All-Stars was released for the SNES, included was the mysterious "Lost Levels". This was the Japanese version of SMB2 that I so longed to play! I bought it immediately and played the Lost Levels from World 1-1 through 9-4 (no warps! ) The altered gameplay for Mario and Luigi was very challenging, as was the environmental factors such as the wind. I loved that game!

Here's a question for emu gamers: Has anyone ever actually reached world -1 on SMB1? I have tried many times, all with no success.

Yeah, I always thought that mario2 was pretty lame. Now I know why! I think the best was SuperMario World for SNES. Man, what a great game!!!!

But...hrm. Zelda for SNES was just plain awesome. I think that that Zelda was better than the one for N64, easy.

Ca$h

Originally posted by Shiney McShine:
Spy Hunter didn't have a joystick.

Okay, a lot of people keep saying this. This is false (sort of).

The article should have said "yoke", because the stand-up version of Spy Hunter featured a yoke. If you were like me, you only played the sit-down version which featured a wheel. Anyway, joystick is entirely in the realm of yoke so I don't think it's really a false statement in the article.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...ls/5997/sh.htm

[Bockie]

Wow...I expected more people to reply to this thread. Does no one have memorable experiences with older video games and emulated systems? I know Anthony has an occasional Super Mario Brothers craving.

I love the fact that with Connectix's Virtual Game Station and the "Arcade Classics" CD I am using a computer which is emulating a game console (PlayStation) emulating another game console (Atari 2600) emulating a game cartridge (Pole Position). Ain't technology grand!

[druber]

Personally, I can't get enough Final Fantasy. Just bought a psx to play 7 etc. Hoping RockNES will let me save ff1 games, as iNES never worked for me.

Also an old-school Zelda player. In fact, I think I have the original Nintendo Power magazine sitting around somewhere at home, though it's in crappy shape. Zelda through iNES is still pretty sharp.

On another note, anyone know anything about the Color Wonderswan or any possible emulation thereof? Their revamped version of FF1 sure caught my eye..