The SNES is awesome. I still have the original PAL one and of course SNES Mini, which I've been playing regularly since it was released (with added content). It's funny how SNES can still be pure joy in 2025.
Honestly with the state of current Gen gaming I am thinking of going back to my SNES. It also helps that a new retro gaming store opened in my tow so I am thinking of picking up some SNES games that I missed years ago. I have my Super NT which is just an awesome console to play my SNES library on.
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Ya, I'm kind of in a similar spot, at least outside of Nintendo. Most modern games, western games to be exact, feel depressing and soulless. And I Won't be getting the Switch until fall, and besides i have a big back log of Switch 1 games to tackle anyways. But in the meantime, I'm bouncing back to Nes, Snes, Genesis, Super GameBoy, Commodore 64(Mini), and will finally be diving into the TurboGrafx's library.
Basically sticking with the 8-16 bit consoles & Arcade games that spanned through out the 80's & 90's, since that's what means the most to me, aside from mostly being totally timeless. Although, NES-game 'flicker' drives me batty a lot of the times. lol Anyways, as long as they're presented with a Soft organic CRT look, and not the awful razor sharp raw/naked square-y sprites that you get on an HDTV. That kills it for me. These games were always intended to look cartoon-like after all. So It's a Sony WEGA CRT, or nothing for me at this point.
The next best alternative would be something like a 42" LG C5 OLED, and pairing that with a RetroTINK4K scaler to gain a bunch of CRT filter options to tinker with to get it looking identical to a CRT, and a groovy Black frame insertion setting, which wipes out 50% of OLED motion blur, getting you 50% closer to CRT. It's an expensive route to take, but it's the best way to fly if you're finally done messing with CRT's.
But once you tap into the 32-bit 3D Polygon stuff it gets pretty rough. Saturn especially, then PS1 & N64. That stuff has aged worse than Steven Seagal's SNL guest star appearance on SNL from the 90's. in 1995, it was all mostly brilliant, sort of. But we've come a long way since then. It wasn't until Dreamcast in 99' when 3D polygon graphics finally grew out of that awkward faze. Switch 2's 'NSO' GameCube Classics like Soul Calibur II, even being plunked in near-full HD is going to hold up remarkably well. It still looks beautiful to this day. Heck, I find it more visually appealing than the latest Soul Calibur VI for PS4. When video games start to look almost photo realistic they really start to lose their charm and become less appealing and fun to play unless you're a Resident Evil. lol
I've been slowly modding my retro consoles to use on modern TVs and use flashcarts. I have a pretty big retro collection, but games are becoming insanely expensive even with prices slowly dropping. I just recently finished modding my SNES. The shell was very yellowed and had a massive crack down the front.
@seinfeldfanatic I'm 44 so an older game and big into the SNES but never had much to do with the Game Genie I'm afraid, best of luck to you with it chap
@seinfeldfanatic i could never figure out Game Genies or Game Sharks. I ended up buying a Monster Brain for Pokemon game cheats. It made it way more simple by letting you edit the games' data to get anything you want. You could use it to get any Pokemon, any item, change the stats, HP, PP, gender, what item they were holding, the number of items in your inventory, ect. It only worked on Gold and Silver. The original Brain Boy was for Red/Blue/Yellow. They also double as storage for save files. The Monster Brain even had an extra feature that let you use your own custom palettes to colorize your Game Boy games as well as double the speed and make the games play twice as fast like in Pokemon Stadium, but you could use any Game Boy game you wanted and weren't restricted to just Pokemon games like in Stadium.
Just picked up a snes and a Sony crt it’s amazing played in the 90s I think it’s better now!! Super Mario all stars is amazing as is super Mario world.
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