• Donkey Kong Country

    From JonD@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 6 18:31:38 2019
    I got a mini-snes recently and have been playing through some of the old favourites.

    I forgot how brilliant DK Country was/is.

    I'm basically addicted for the next while.

    It starts off easy, and I build up a healthy stock of life-balloons,
    then the next thing I know I'm in the rail-cart one and I get past it
    with two lives remaining.

    Awesome.

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  • From Geeknix@21:1/5 to JonD on Thu Feb 7 08:18:08 2019
    On 07/02/2019 02:31, JonD wrote:
    I got a mini-snes recently and have been playing through some of the old favourites.

    I forgot how brilliant DK Country was/is.

    I'm basically addicted for the next while.

    It starts off easy, and I build up a healthy stock of life-balloons,
    then the next thing I know I'm in the rail-cart one and I get past it
    with two lives remaining.

    Awesome.


    How are the graphics? I bought the CoolBaby NES with 600+ built-in
    games, obviously most are not original (AngryBirds!) and the originals
    don't seem to play well.

    For example, I don't remember TMNT characters flashing and going
    invisible when moving. Which I don't remember the original doing.

    I have DKC on Wii, and it is too addictive.

    Geeknix.

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  • From JonD@21:1/5 to Geeknix on Thu Feb 7 01:09:34 2019
    On 07/02/2019 00:18, Geeknix wrote:
    How are the graphics? I bought the CoolBaby NES with 600+ built-in
    games, obviously most are not original (AngryBirds!) and the originals
    don't seem to play well.

    For example, I don't remember TMNT characters flashing and going
    invisible when moving. Which I don't remember the original doing.

    I have DKC on Wii, and it is too addictive.

    The graphics are fine and it runs perfectly. Also, there's the option to
    use a CRT/TV filter that makes it look like the original perfectly. To
    my mind, a genuinely worthwhile enhancement.

    Otherwise it'll be exactly the same as the Wii version.

    I agree, addictive, a good excuse to addicted again.

    It has StarFox 1/2 - I hadn't played the original since I owned a snes.

    It shows its age now, but still really good, with 4 save slots for each
    game.

    All the games are true to the originals. :-)

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  • From Geeknix@21:1/5 to JonD on Thu Feb 7 11:22:15 2019
    On 07/02/2019 09:09, JonD wrote:
    All the games are true to the originals. :-)


    Well sounds like my wallet will be lighter by end of the week, and my
    weekend is gone to nostalgia!

    Geeknix.

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  • From cbusylol@21:1/5 to JonD on Sun Feb 10 20:52:01 2019
    On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 11:33:17 AM UTC-7, JonD wrote:
    I got a mini-snes recently and have been playing through some of the old favourites.

    I forgot how brilliant DK Country was/is.

    I'm basically addicted for the next while.

    It starts off easy, and I build up a healthy stock of life-balloons,
    then the next thing I know I'm in the rail-cart one and I get past it
    with two lives remaining.

    Awesome.

    It's probably my favorite franchise from the SNES. Meaning, I got the SNES that was bundled with DKC1 so I didn't have a a lot of the other games to win me over (Mario World)

    It's also nice to note that the guy that did the music did a lot of other great music in other games, all the way back to the NES.

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  • From JonD@21:1/5 to Geeknix on Tue Feb 12 03:20:40 2019
    On 07/02/2019 03:22, Geeknix wrote:
    Well sounds like my wallet will be lighter by end of the week, and my
    weekend is gone to nostalgia!

    Ha! So did you get the mini-snes then??? ;-)

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  • From JonD@21:1/5 to cbusylol on Tue Feb 12 03:24:39 2019
    On 11/02/2019 04:52, cbusylol wrote:
    It's probably my favorite franchise from the SNES. Meaning, I got the SNES that was bundled with DKC1 so I didn't have a a lot of the other games to win me over (Mario World)

    Ha, Mario World was amazing but DKC1 was probably even better overall.

    Certainly the graphics were great for the time. I remember being
    impressed by the parallax backgrounds, and the rain etc.

    It's also nice to note that the guy that did the music did a lot of other great music in other games, all the way back to the NES.

    Cool! Do you know any of the NES games he did?

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  • From cbusylol@21:1/5 to JonD on Tue Feb 12 23:25:24 2019
    On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:26:21 PM UTC-7, JonD wrote:

    Cool! Do you know any of the NES games he did?

    The two that stick out to me is Battletoads and Nightmare on Elm Street. I know, NoES is fun to make fun due to it being a ridiculed on Angry Video Game Nerd and being published by LJN, but the game wasn't bad and the music was awesome!

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  • From JonD@21:1/5 to cbusylol on Sat Feb 16 01:48:51 2019
    On 13/02/2019 07:25, cbusylol wrote:
    On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:26:21 PM UTC-7, JonD wrote:

    Cool! Do you know any of the NES games he did?

    The two that stick out to me is Battletoads and Nightmare on Elm Street. I know, NoES is fun to make fun due to it being a ridiculed on Angry Video Game Nerd and being published by LJN, but the game wasn't bad and the music was awesome!


    BATTLETOADS!

    Now that was a great game!

    I think it was one of Rare's early games, but I might be wrong.

    I miss the music on the 8-bit machine, some of it was very catchy. Only
    problem was it was all repetative and it drove my parents bananas. It
    would probably do the same to me after two hours now. ;-)

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  • From Geeknix@21:1/5 to JonD on Wed Feb 20 18:32:24 2019
    On 12/02/2019 11:20, JonD wrote:
    On 07/02/2019 03:22, Geeknix wrote:
    Well sounds like my wallet will be lighter by end of the week, and my
    weekend is gone to nostalgia!

    Ha! So did you get the mini-snes then??? ;-)


    No I did not. Too many other things I want to buy. I am trying to think
    how best I can cover every generation of Nintendo console. My kids are
    getting into Zelda, so what is the least number of computers/consoles I
    need to buy to cover the most games. Thinking whether RetroPI or
    something would be better.

    I have a Wii that can run GameCube games and an old DS.

    GeekNix

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  • From JonD@21:1/5 to Geeknix on Wed Feb 20 17:27:11 2019
    On 20/02/2019 10:32, Geeknix wrote:
    No I did not. Too many other things I want to buy. I am trying to think
    how best I can cover every generation of Nintendo console. My kids are getting into Zelda, so what is the least number of computers/consoles I
    need to buy to cover the most games. Thinking whether RetroPI or
    something would be better.

    I seem to remember the Wii virtual console shop is closed down now. :-(

    So I suppose that is no longer an option.

    I looked up the RetroPie gaming machine - new to me, looks pretty good!

    I assume you'd have to 'aquire' ROMs for any game you want on it though.

    I'm not sure how easy they would be to get nowadays. ;-)

    Probably easy enough I guess.

    Good luck with that, please let me know if it works out. I would
    consider it for myself if it didn't cost that much for the setup.

    I assume I would be best with some sort of mini-pc device.

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