There are some news one never expects to write and this is one such case. A new Super Nintendo and SNES Playstation CD video game has been released! Super Boss Gaiden is the product of German duo Chrono Moogle and Dieter Lazer. If you like 16-bit retro platformers with tight controls, humorous dialogue and challenging gameplay, this might just be your surprise homebrew hit of Summer 2016.
The game's plot follows the rampage from the top floor of Sony's fictional President office across the whole of Sony Headquarters once his executives deliver the news that the last remaining SNES CD prototype has fallen into the hands of the general public and has been emulated. Being a very hands-on executive, instead of calmly discussing the situation and planning out the proper legal counter action, the titular Boss takes on employees and resources with both fists and feet.
We certainly enjoy the very familiar sprite work of the protagonists. The team as even managed to sneak a few unlockable secrets into the game, but we are not going to give them away.
Download the game from right here - there's a regular SFC ROM file that runs on a standard SNES using a flashcard, but there's also an image file which, if burned to a CD, will run on the recently-unearthed SNES CD prototype - the team behind the game hope to demonstrate this in the future.
Feel free to share your findings in the comments below.
[source superbossgaiden.superfamicom.org]
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Wow! I applaud the effort! I'm eager to see them demonstrate that it actually works on the SNES PS.
Notice the amount of restrained it took for me not to write things like "Punch, Kick... Parappa!" or "Sack that Sackboy!" in the article in order not to mess up the egos from the boys at PushSquare.
If I ever become a boss, I want to conduct myself like this.
Also... that is some real dedication from the devs! Most applaudable.
AWESOME!!
Amzing
I like the idea of the story in the game being about itself, basically.
It's also funny to note that this game was technically released for the smallest possible installed user-base. I suppose pretty much no one has an actual SNEStation.
Clever. Now it would be cool for a port or two. One of those fan projects that add pre-recorded music to a game for instance or cut scenes from a later remake.
Will this work in the real prototype console??
If it runs it will be like bringing another reality- one that never happened here- to our world! And one that would changed a lot at the gaming world!
Mind bending thing this is! Type of thing sometimes videogames can do with creativity and a dose of what if history!
Talking about flash carts on my Nintendo Life? It's more likely than you think.
Imagine if Nintendo made this system - and didn't make the Virtual Boy - and didn't name the 3DS and the Wii U like they did. And if they made the N64 disc based - and didn't pass on Skylanders - and imagine if they...
I love how meta it is. Every once in a while, something like this comes along, and it's very special, indeed.
This... Looks... AMAZING!
It would be cool to see some stuff come out from the Chrono Trigger development and Secret of Mana, Sword of Mana 3.
This is fantastic, good work to the devs. I'd love to see it running on a Nintendo PlayStation, so fingers crossed for that!
Looks really cool. Combat seems a bit off, though, but I'm impressed that they were actually able to something like this.
That's actually pretty cool.
Well, this was the beginning of the Rivalry between Nintendo and Sony. Just like Flame vs. Ice.
This looks fun! SO cool to see stuff like this. How would one play the Nintendo Playstation version though? (Besides the guy who has one) Was it reversed engineered? Is there an emulator for it?
Oh my God, this is amazing!
@Spacey Not yet. For now, the regular Super Nintendo version will have to suffice.
I will be seeing the Nintendo Playstation in person this December XD
Good release the game for a system nobody has that'll sell. Seriously they could had at least make the game work with the original PlayStation or PS2.
@retro_player_22
Read the article and you'll know it'll work with SNES as well.
AFAIK the PS SNES still just used SNES hardware.
@AVahne Now imagine if late SNES titles like Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean had used the PS SNES to achieve maximum soundtrack goodness... What if those SNES titles were modded to support orchestral soundtracks using the PS SNES?
@PlywoodStick Do you realize some of them already have been so thanks to byuu's MSU1 multimedia enhancement chip? Here is an example: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/09/super_nintendo_classic_chrono_trigger_gets_digital_audio_support
Someone should try and make an emulator for the SNES Playstation... then we can get homebrews that take advantage of more space via CDs... or ISOs..
That's just me though.
@TheGoof Too early, too little information. Outside the BIOS, little is know what is different inside the prototype outside the regular SNES hardware.
@AVahne Make it work on the PlayStation so we get the better soundtrack.
@Spacey my guess is, there is an emulator some where it just isn't public. Otherwise, how could they develop this game?
Is there footage of it actually running on real hardware (the recently discovered snes playstation)
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