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Was doing a legend of Zelda replay this weekend, cart glitched out in death mountain after I got the silver arrow, took 30 mins to get the thing to boot again so I could re-do it. My Zelda cart is the most challenging part of the game.
Maybe some of you posses both their (childhood) NES and an Analogue Nt mini Noir.
With the last one mentioned, you can play all games (almost) glitch free on any modern display + you can still hook it up to a CRT (due to the DAC inside)
Is or are there people here, who prefer the original NES, hooked with a version of Mike Chi’s Retrotink (let’s say the 4K), above the use of a modern console like the Analogue Nt mini (Noir)?
If so; what’s the (main) reason you’re going for this route?
Ninja Turtles, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Ninja Gaiden, and Battletoads are the most well known, but I don't think they're actually the hardest.
I would probably give it to Cobra Triangle and Legacy of the Wizard.
Cobra Triangle was as hard as Battletoads when your boat was fully powered up with the Gradius pod system, and completely impossible if you died and your powerups reset. So Battletoads where a run ends if you die even once.
Legacy of the Wizard, just one giant maze complete with having to map out every single illusionary/breakable/movable block, having to work out which areas of the maze go with each character, grinding for items and gold, and having to plot out stringent resource usage and Inn stops on the paths to the bosses. I tried for over a year and never even reached any of the 5 bosses.
Special mention to Back to the Future 2 & 3. I hesitate to mention it because it's an LJN movie license product and barely a game. The sheer amount of busywork, backtracking, and foreknowledge required on top of being so tedious that you don't even want to beat it.
Special mention #2: playing without any kind of guide, King's Quest V and The Immortal
What do you think the true hardest game was?
(edit: I forgot the NES version of Gauntlet. You got unlimited continues, but you were barred from entering the last level unless you had a password. The password had to be collected in obtuse ways from random levels and you had to find ALL of them without even knowing they existed. Absolutely no clue how anyone was expected to get them)
Been playing Shadowgate all day. Really cool game.
And it looks beautiful up on the big screen. 😁
This one was also very close however Metroid won the #4 spot by a single vote with 51 combined votes
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In these instructions of the Donkey Kong ROM:
00:C7E1: 20 ED F4 JSR $F4ED
00:C7E4: 4C E1 C7 JMP $C7E1
There seems to be an infinite loop. This is also the subroutine:
00:F4ED: A5 18 LDA $18 = #$00
00:F4EF: 29 02 AND #$02
00:F4F1: 85 00 STA $00 = #$00
00:F4F3: A5 19 LDA $19 = #$00
00:F4F5: 29 02 AND #$02
00:F4F7: 45 00 EOR $00 = #$00
00:F4F9: 18 CLC
00:F4FA: F0 01 BEQ $F4FD
00:F4FC: 38 SEC
00:F4FD: 66 18 ROR $18 = #$00
00:F4FF: 66 19 ROR $19 = #$00
00:F501: 66 1A ROR $1A = #$00
00:F503: 66 1B ROR $1B = #$00
00:F505: 66 1C ROR $1C = #$00
00:F507: 66 1D ROR $1D = #$00
00:F509: 66 1E ROR $1E = #$00
00:F50B: 66 1F ROR $1F = #$00
00:F50D: 60 RTS
So I don't see how it can exit the loop, but stepping through the instructions with the FCEUX debugger, it somehow exits the loop.
I found some posts about "infinite" loops in DK like this one: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15561 (the problem here was communication between the PPU and CPU)
and this one: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15934 (this was just a normal loop, not infinite)
but in this case, It's unconditional. I've tried debugging for a while, but couldn't figure out what I did wrong, so I'd appreciate any help.
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Check it out on itch.io https://theoldgamemaker.itch.io/the-trial-of-kharzoid
I’ve played a few hours and it’s awesome fun!
It was a fun game
This one was very close however Mega Man 2 won the #3 spot by a single vote with 41 combined votes
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Started out this puzzle a week ago. Other NES elements need to be dusted off from my attic. Thank you for the upvote
Super Mario Bros. 3 won with 64 combined votes
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Recently played all 3 Super Mario games again for the first time in at least 30 years. I forgot how good they all are, but I like SMB 2 the best. The levels are almost the perfect length on all 3, just as I'm starting to tire of the level, it ends. Each level has a unique gimmick and challenge. These are still fun games after almost 40 years. The amazing things Nintendo was able to accomplish both graphically and sound on SMB 3 is amazing considering the technical specs on the NES. What do you like about these classic games?
I still reach for the original every time - the ‘wrong’ angle of the Dogbone and Max buttons feels terrible. It’s much easier for me to quickly pivot the heel of my thumb down to hit A, rather than trying to rock your thumb side to side; the buttons being so widely spaced, small and elevated up on ‘platforms’ on the dogbone does not help.
While the Max has PlayStation style grips, the controller is so tiny there is just not much to grip anyway, making it awkward for an adult to hold. The turbo buttons are where SNES A and B should be- meaning it’s really easy to fake out your muscle memory, and accidentally use Turbo B instead of A (on top of still having the ‘wrong’ angle issue). I don’t even mind the cycloid, but everything else on the controller is not optimal for me anyway- apart from the turbo buttons actually being useful, if oddly placed.
I think my hand might have just formed around the original controller as a child- despite having many visible edges etc. it still feels more natural, better built and less fatiguing to me than the SNES controller.
I did that, my parents were extremely lazy and would put it in all of the most easily accessible and obvious places I would just put it back whenever they returned home. They never knew.. Did that for years every time they took it away.