Most of my carts are repros from an Etsy seller who makes them. I know they're illegal, but these games are 30 years old and you can't buy them anymore. Also, they're cheap since they're fake.

I couldn't care less about collectors' value. I just want to play. Repros look and work just like the real thing and that's good enough for me. I'm not paying $50 plus shipping for a copy of Super Mario Kart when I can get a repro for twenty bucks.

I guess in 40 years we'll be able to start buying burned copies of PS5 games, along with another version of GTA V even though at that point we'll be at GTA X on Playstation 20 and whatever they call the latest Xbox.

..when you can have two?!

Have this collection of games and manuals was wondering what its roughly worth. Some good games in there like Super Mario World, Mario paint, Mario all stars, super punch out, nba jam, donkey Kong country one two and three. Anything helps thanks.

Look, this isn't intended to be one of those "your game is overrated" shitposts. Objectively, Super Metroid is probably a Top 10 SNES game, and on the topic of the graphics, atmosphere, and OST (save that one superhero-esque track), it has aged incredibly well.

But coming into it from Metroid Prime, I didn't enjoy three major aspects about it:

1. The lack of context clues for structural secrets. Sometimes the game gave them, but by and large I felt like it was too reliant on trial-and-error, which left me feeling an idiot: bombing and missile launching random walls & floors in the hopes one of them would break. The x-ray visor eventually nullifies this of course, but it came quite late into the story.

2. The map not removing obtained item icons -- I don't think this point is defensible as it's such a dumb decision by Nintendo. I get encouraging exploration, but how is confusing players about whether or not they already investigated a part of the world good game design?

3. The SNES controller just wasn't built for the various tools. It surprises me Nintendo didn't just copy ALTTP's menu swap layout as having to click the Select button constantly to filter through your increasingly big armaments could get tedious during the early boss fights before your beam was sufficiently upgraded.

Compare all this to Metroid Prime, where the map was more than indicative of where alcoves and secrets potentially resided, in addition to environmental cues being better and it, of course, being easier to swap b/w weapons.

Im literally 15 and have been playing it, I’ve been exposed to the steam version of Doom I and II at 240 fps and the SNES version is still absolutely playable and the soundtrack is awesome.

I bought this megaman x3 and a SNES for the first time and wanted to know if the game was authentic any help will be appreciated.

So it's the first time I play Super Metroid despite owning a SNES for 20+ years. This game hails with great reputation and it was on my list of to-do so here I am. Currently I got the Super Bomb (the one you use when in morph form) which I'm guessing is about 35% of the way through the game.

Disclaimer I've only ever played one other Metroid game before and that was Metroid Prime 3 on Wii which I thoroughly enjoyed and played multiple playthroughs. My experience playing Super Metroid is heavily skewed as a result.

Story: not much here. Feels like a big letdown especially in comparison to Metroid Prime 3. Obviously story is not its strong point which is totally okay. 2/10

Graphics: looks great for a SNES game. Holds up recently well; it's no Zelda LttP but it reminds me of Act Raiser 2 though not as visually appealing. Sprites look good but backgrounds are a bit too blended and not distinct enough - I don't know what I'm looking at half the time. The different planet areas have a theme though that much is clear. The overall atmosphere is very strong and the isolation feeling is great. But it does wear down a bit over time and I found without any bright colors or interesting backgrounds I kind of got "lost" in the game and found my attention wavering. Instead of being excited at unlocking a new area it felt more like "oh just more of the same". 6/10

Sound: all sounds the player and enemies make sound great and the background music fits the game's theme nicely. That said the mono-tone ish atmosphere music plays on you after a while which fails to hold my attention; see graphics. 8/10.

Gameplay: combat feels nice, good variety of attacks and interesting enemies. Bosses make this game shine. Upgrades are just frequent enough which helps keep the player focus. Controls are pretty good once you get used to them. Overall the experience it delivers makes it top notch but it comes with some big stains: heavy platform sections with spikes on top and bottom and worst offender of all: hidden passageways. The hidden passageways are usually obvious and found after some light exploring; it's done really well when you locate a map. But when the passageway is completely hidden and you have no map to indicate you could look for a passageway then it's lousy. You just need to randomly bomb areas hoping for false bottoms/walls which is a terrible player experience. Sometimes you have the enemies that are small to move through hidden ball formations which is a nice touch, but when there is 0 clue it's downright abusive. I actually got stuck trying to locate the Varia suit and opened up a guide which told me I need to randomly bomb a smooth looking floor at a random area. What looked like a floor what actually a passageway. Later on I came across a dead end room where there are 5 respawning flying enemies. Confused after mulling about I need to consult the guide again which told me to shoot a random spot in the ceiling - again no clue whatsoever. 7/10

Overall the game is fun but I'm not sure I would ever play it a second time - just feels too much of the same with every area and doesn't hold my attention well. The secret passageways with no clues are frustrating and lead to the player needing to random shoot or bomb everything which is unfun. Perhaps I got spoiled by Metroid Prime 3, but in my opinion Super Metroid has a few stains on its great gameplay which prevent it from being a masterpiece.

Took the feedback, hoping this is better :-)

***AI was used to make this, I am no where near talented to rework the art

Complete in box is meaningless for a lot of people who just want to play the games, but I find the design language of the boxes to be pretty bad and have never cared about them. And this is dating back to the system's release back in 1991.

I just tossed the boxes growing up because the big SUPER NINTENDO logo along with huge and busy borders around the artwork just made them all look kind of same-y.

It's not to say I don't care about CIB for games, I have a bunch of NES, Genesis, Super Famicom that are complete (or complete enough anyway) and with the advent of disc based games everything I bought was kept complete in box. But just something about the overpowering(?) blackness and x-treme overall design that made the art became basically an afterthought always has been off-putting to me.

I was browsing Reddit and came across this sub. Remembered I had these from my childhood.

Don’t mind the placeholder Tamatama Run graphics. Some of y’all had a beef with my use of AI, so I’m instead repurposing the AI to develop a new graphical, human-oriented SNES dev tool, code named “RicohSuave.” It will return the agency to the human, but remove as much of the friction as possible from the development process.

I got my hands on an interesting super famicom controller. It is completely normal in every way except that it has a Honda sticker on it. I can’t tell if it was added to a normal controller or if it is an official branding by Honda. The only thing I found is that some Honda vehicles in the 90s had a super famicom built into the vehicle but I’m not sure if that’s what this controller was originally used for. Any additional info would be very helpful.

Hiya I just came back from a garage sale where I got this for $30. Looked legit from the outside so I figured I'd take the chance. It has the legal information but I'm not sure if the fakes also have that. No misspellings either. Just wanted some peace of mind 😅

I found a box in my garage with childhood stuff, including SNES and a dozen or so games. I looked to list on eBay and see that a game like "Inspector Gadget" sells for $20, unless it's in a box with a manual, then it sells for $180?!

Are these collectors? Are these for decoration? Do people not just keep these sturdy durable cartridges in a shoebox anymore?

Thought it was interesting and would love to hear thoughts.

Pretty good price but before I buy it I wanna make sure, looks good to me but just wanna double check

I was on the street when I saw an elderly lady with some shopping bags, so I asked her if she needed a hand. She was very happy and gave me the bags, and I took them to her house. Once we got there, she was about to give me a tip, then said, “Oh dear, I don't have any more change, wait, wait, I'll give you a SNES Jr and two rhubarb sweets.”

Compré un cartucho en aliexpress SNES Cartridge evergenesis 3000 o algo así, son unos 500 juegos. El tema es que no inicia, la tarjeta sd parece estar bien trae un ejecutable qué me imagino es el menú inicial pero no aparece absolutamente nada en la pantalla no sé si le falte algún archivo a la tarjeta o si el problema es físico, electrónico el cartucho es nuevo, le pregunté al vendedor pero no me ha contestado.

Me gustaría saber si hay manera de cargarle algún ejecutable o menú para validar el cartucho.