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The reset button should be on the top of the system, not its current location, not noticeable. And the oval circle surrounding the d-pad should look more like the original. It basically should be one to one copy.

I wonder how long the battery would last if instead of this being an emulation machine, the original Genesis components where shrunk down to say 7nm process. It would probably last for years on a watch battery, with the screen and audio turned off.

I predict that the best selling, most played games will win.

@TheFox Nobody new what a Master System was, and the graphics were still on the same level more or less to the NES. I'm judging more by cultural phenomenon. With the logic of other obscure systems looking better, then the SNES would lose points with the NEO GEO, with a much higher degree than the NES Master System. Game Cube/XBOX, Wii/360, Switch/XBox One, etc. Again, these are all opinions.

These list are tricky, and it doesn't help that's it's being worded at best to worst. How does one judge? It can't be power, else older system would be the worse. The one that stood out the most was the NES at number 11. Sure, it's old and not as powerful as today's systems, but Nintendo (NES) was synonymous with video games. I remember ten years ago or so an older lady heard the Super Mario Bros song and said, "All parents recognize that song." So the NES should probably be number one. So for the first three I would go, NES, Wii, SNES.

@retro_player_22 But didn't they win a certain amount for every one of Nintendo roms hosted?

I do wish that after you come from sleep, it will immediately take you to the game, rather than having to press a button. It's amazing how eliminating one more step would make it so much better.

And yeah, one of the things that I hate about modern gaming, the reason why I don't even have an X Box is because of the extra crap involved, when I just want to quickly just play a game.

I miss snapping in a cartridge and playing a game. No loading also.

For my own curiosity, since memory is so cheap, and a co processor 1000x faster than the FX2 chip could probably be added for less than a penny, I would love to see Nintendo put in the effort and seriously put out a final SNES game that truly pushes the limit.

With the extra memory, unlimited frames of animations, including video cut scenes (though I'm not a big fan of cut scenes).

Or just re release current games in their ultimate form, by adding more to the code. Raise all the resolution to the max, etc.

Of course this is just a fantasy, there's no real money in doing this.

Oh no. Retro Studios is imploding. This could be the start of bad things to come.

I'm so glad that Nintendo is charging $60 because of all the people whining about it. Just pretend the game doesn't exist. Or just wait until the price goes down. Or buy it for the Wii U. And if you don't have a Wii U just buy one then. The market determines the price. If this game had also came out on the PS4 a few years ago then it wouldn't be $60. It also probably wouldn't had been ported to the Switch.

Can you imagine hiding your money inside a Nintendo cartridge, and then your mom gives away? I kind of had a similar story of storing something in something and then my mother throwing that something away.

I came in to see any comments like, "But I just bought a Switch. This is not fair (company's name). Though I didn't read all the comments, this is the first time that I didn't see that from such news.

I've been working there for 28 years. It was hectic at first, but now I only get one call every couple of weeks, sit back and relax, build pyramids with old Super Nintendo's, and make $98,000 a year.

There is one boy who has been calling me since 98 because his parents were never around and he needed someone to talk with. Now he calls me about once a month to talk.

@formulas666 If that was the case they wouldn't be porting it to the Switch due to the fact that the Wii U would have sold many times better, as well as this game.

@full_metal_opera I'm not familiar with that game, since I don't play much, but is that not a multi platform game? Do you understand the difference between a game that didn't sell because it was on a system that didn't sell, and the difference in demand for such games?

If the Wii U had sold 9 times more than it did, and the pressure from people who hadn't played Tropical Freeze was not there, then if it would had been ported to the Switch, then it would be cheaper. As a business it would be STUPID for Nintendo to not charge full price.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE So you would had bought a game you already had if it was $30?

@kobashi100 Aren't Switch games more expensive than Wii U games, due to Switch games being on game cards?

For some reason I would had been annoyed if it was at a discounted price. It's that the game was so good it was such a shame it was only for the Wii U. People who had never played this game before want a discount for it, as if the game is not as a good because it's older. For those who already bought it for the Wii U, you really do not have to buy it again.

The original DS was like a prototype in a sense, and had horrible displays. So I wouldn't really consider that as a legit reason as to why they would bring out a new Switch version.

I would love for them to do improvements such as CPU die shrink, for longer battery life, cooler running, and running at a faster clock rate during portable mode, and even a higher clock rate while dock. And I hate loading time, so faster bandwidth capabilities for the Micro SD and Gamecards.

Seeing Nintendo and Sega next to each other reminds me of back in the day when video game companies made the consoles, before corporations saw it as a side think where they can make extra money. And paid exclusives were not really thing, because the video game companies tried to lure people to buy games with their own games that they developed.

@Prof_Yoshtonics I'm sorry, that mentality makes me want to throw up, of doing something to be part of what others are doing. I don't know, it just sounds mentally weak. Something a person with not much talent would do to be part of a group. Unoriginal.

As far as Billy Mitchell, he doesn't even play Donkey Kong or other games, due to family life and a business he runs. He wastes less time on video games than probably 99% of people here.

Also, this King of Kong is rather famous. The type of famous where the topic is going to get a lot of hits and views. Should people just ignore such a story because of your ideology?

Here are all Super Mario World World Records https://www.speedrun.com/smw#96_Exit

Maybe it will make some of you feel better if you knew that there are different categories, and this memory modification technique does not mean that he's the one and only world record holder/best in the world.

As far as who finds these, things, who has time to find these things, they are computer scientist/engineers who know exactly how computers work, and where each register must be. This is not something that any random video game player can figure out.

It's funny how a specific category, in this case finding a faster way to run a code to trigger the ending is consider cheating. When that's the category. It's literally like saying that passing it as fast as possible regular is cheating because they didn't complete all 96 stages. Sometimes I don't get people's lack of understanding.

@Rayquaza2510 Write speeds do not affect loading time. From what I've read on another site the read speed are 80 megabytes/second (copied and pasted), which is still not amazing, but not too far off the Switch top read speed. (Which I think is 99 mb/s).

Not sure how the Switch does game install, but 10 mb/s should be a lot faster than the vast majority of internet connections.

If they do, I hope it's true 2D, like the ones for the Game Boy Advanced, with better graphics, higher resolution, 1080p. I'm just a little burnt out, after 2 decades of having polygon games, they're just style to me. One not being better than the other. As opposed to one requiring more power and the other less.

@gatorboi352 It's not arrogance, the Switch just came out, it's a portable console, it's not that powerful, and VR needs even more power than 4k. 4k is not a $30 off and on switch that can simply be flipped and like magic a system has 4k and VR support at the same quality graphics.

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played, but the loading time makes it hard for me to play again. I really, really, hope they some how improve it significantly.

@JoyconGang Though Pato means a gay male, as well as a duck, I imagine that most Spanish speaking people that I know will see it as duck. Now if it was something like, "El Pato," then most people would read that as a gay guy.

I would like it better if it had color.

@YummyHappyPills You can't just simply eliminate the problem from future prints of the chips. The chip would have to be completely redesigned.

@ACK What about Punch Out, can you beat Mr. Dream without any problems? I've never played against Mr. Dream/Tyson on original hardware, and noticed that when trying to play the game as an adult I never really go far into it. (Also consider that as a kid I would continue playing until I beat it, as an adult there's less motivation.) Then I learned about the concept of input lag and I wondered if that's the reason why. I saw a video about this guy who beats Mike Tyson's Punch Out once a year, as part of a personal ritual that he has, but he couldn't beat him on the NES Mini.

When my great grandfather's brother hooked up a Wii U with Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. It was the first game I ever beat, life was never the same again.

For some reason I'm mostly just interested in the fact that you can transfer the internals of and older NES into the controller of the NES mini, thus giving it a brand new feel for all the speed runners and people who still play the system. Hope it's the same case for the SNES.

Why would they take it down? It's a mod. There are 100s Mario 64 mods. Maybe not hundreds, but dozens. And hundred, thousands of mod for all Nintendo games. AM2R was not of mod of a rom, it was a new game using Nintendo IPs for a game they were recreating.

You get used and prefer the control that you have over the camera. The game is a masterpiece.

I thought this piece was going to be about the camera, I can't believe it ended by saying that Super Mario Sunshine is a very bad game.

@JamesR I remember a few years ago being really annoyed that the PC version required over 50gb.

Probably for all the BS story modes. I'm guessing the audio track takes up a lot of space.

Though it was a little before my time, I imagine the Golden Era to be in the 80s Arcade, and also the 90s which was my time. It's not based on technology, that's a simplistic argument, but on the newness of things. The wow factor that's missing now because the changes back then were more dramatic. Now we have an abundance of available games, which makes each one less valuable. Kids quit one game to play another, while back then there was a determination of beating any game. In that sense I feel those days were the Golden Era.

If you look back the graphics look like crap, but that's a relative thing, because back then they had the wow factor.

The last time graphics had me wow, was the Dreamcast, after that each generation has had less return.

I hope they release the Metroid game for the Switch eventually.

The game came out in 1992, but the video footage was recorded in 1987.

So is this a game made with phones in mind, then ported to the X Box One and PS4?

I have a Nintendo DS Lite, and borrowed for a couple of days the New 3DS which I assume was the XL model.

I simply preferred the smaller screen of my Nintendo DS Lite. The resolution, pixels fits it.

@Equinox What kind of computer background do you have to make such a bold statement?

Everything computer can be exploited, every system, every OS. It could be the next day, it could be the next week. Phones get rooted, iPhones get jailbroken, and this is with the makers doing everything they can to prevent it. It's not that developers are bad, but rather just the nature of computers.

And this is not even a hack.

@Beau_Skunk That's not the point. Today, and the past few days I've been playing Game Boy, Super Mario Land, from 1989, and thinking about how much more powerful it is than video game systems like the Atari, etc. And how in a relative term, people in the Atari era would be like wow, at the Game Boy's power in 1989.

It's all relative, and the original Game Boy was a ten year old hand held in 1999, weaker than other handhelds that came out at the time it was out like the Game Gear, Lynx.

And the point of my post is the human tendency to look at in this case, a $60 camera for that ten year old, 4 shades of gray, very low resolution Game Boy, and somewhat assume looking back that such a camera was decent technology back then.

A younger person reading that now would be like, "Oh interestin, this was acceptable to people back then?" When at most it was something that someone might buy by chance, or curiosity, and think that's neat, and rarely ever use it again. And those without it, if they came across someone with one, probably not giving it even half a second of a thought. I think that's closer to the reality in terms of the technology, not to say that people would hate it.

It would be like if someone 18 years from now did a review on one of the cheapest Android phone from 2007 that was relaunched in 2017, and saying that despite how slow it was, and how bad the image quality of the camera was, it was decent technology to us in 2017.

I don't think the GameBoy camera was considered decent back in its day. It was consider what it was, a camera for the Game Boy an it's for shades of gray. I'm just mentioning that because I always find it funny that just because something archaic is old, it becomes a state of the art representation of the time, to people of the future. But it was a cheap $50 add-on for a ten year, under powered hand held.

@Megal0maniac https://youtu.be/NmyST03mAcU?t=1073

I'm referring to that. Taking the old NES controller PCB, putting it in the case of the mini.

They should re release the NES mini. There are still millions of people who want that system. I think it would make more business sense to offer that, the SNES mini market will still be there a year later.

I mean seriously, wouldn't they make more money going that route?

Personally what I love about the Mini is the replica NES controller. The NES is a 30 year old system, and I liked the fact that you can take the internals of controllers that went bad and put inside a Mini controller.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Not really. Sometimes Nintendo has a higher market cap, sometimes it's Sony. Market cap is in a sense independent of of profits, sales, etc. Sony or Nintendo could lose a billion dollars, and still have a higher market cap the next day. Nintendo could sell out all their Switchs, 3ds, sell 10 million copies of a random game, and their market cap could still go down the next day.

I'm so glad it was a cartridge system. It might have cost them games (and shovelware), but I think it's ended up being the more memorable system in terms of future generations and emulation. Compared to the PS1, emulators don't have to deal with massive ISO with garbage data taking up unnecessary memory, no loading times, and better graphics. 8mb games don't have to take up 300mb of hard drive space.

@tanookisuit Take Super Mario 64, speed running, or understanding the speedrun, you understand the level, Mario movements, jumping, etc at a much, much deeper level. Plus it's a 100% run. Speed running does not mean buying Super Mario 64 and then passing it as fast as possible in a casual and random manner, where you collect whatever stars you casually come across. It involves highly optimized routes.

@Krest_arisen After buying the game 13 years ago, I'm playing Yoshi's Island DS, time trial mode. Developing and excuting new strategies really, really fulfills a competitive kind of drive, and makes the process more amazing. Playing a game casually = not a lot of drive, while speed running to me = being pushed to the limit and as a result viewing your environment in a much, much more creative, intelligent way.

@tonyhoro No, the concept is not even in the same galaxy. It's like saying "Is Field Programmable Gate Arrays the 2017 version of legos?" Because legos have nothing to do with it.

Though I find it interesting that legos was the word that popped into my head, since the concept of legos is a lot closer to FPGAs than blast processing.