Re: "Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis?"

In: s/retrogaming

I was a Genesis kid. I always preferred the grainy synth music over the SNES wave table music, especially since way too many musicians on the SNES abused the reverb feature. Too many games felt like you were playing them in a cave. That and the horns, which sounded cheap and bad. If I had one game I wish was on the Genesis it was Super Metroid.

👻 darkghost

Jan 16 · 4 months ago

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🐝 drcouzelis [OP] · Jan 16 at 13:20:

@darkghost YES, I can't stand the audio of the SNES (or the GBA) with all the compressed sound samples.

I'm a huge fan of the Metroid series and was bummed that there really aren't any comparable games on the Genesis. The closest may be QuackShot starring Donald Duck? Which is a great game, but totally different vibe. 😆

But a couple years ago someone made a new Metroid style game called Life on Mars. I started playing through it and I can recommend trying it!

🐝 drcouzelis [OP] · Jan 16 at 13:23:

@dce I agree. I can't explain it but I even feel the difference in the new Mario Kart World and Sonic Racing CrossWorlds games. 😅

👻 darkghost · Jan 17 at 01:36:

Yeeeah the best part about Metroid is the vibe and, well, Quackshot ain't it.

🦔 bsj38381 · Jan 17 at 22:53:

I mainly grew up using Nintendo handhelds, The Gameboy Color, advance SP, DS, DSI/DSI XL, and then the Switch. If I ever wanted to get a new game system, I would get the Pyra handheld game system, at least I would get something where I can play game ROMS more safely, than using my android to play them.

🐝 drcouzelis [OP] · Jan 18 at 04:17:

@bsj38381 The Pyra looks soooo nice, the pics give me the feeling I had back when I used a Nokia N900. 🥲

Is there something unsafe about game ROMs on Android?

🐰 NovaSquirrel · Jan 18 at 17:38:

I had a SNES in early childhood (and a PS1 and NES so we're crossing multiple generations here) and a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles for Windows, then later got a Genesis as a teen. I like cute colorful games and I feel like the SNES library has more of them than the Genesis's library does, but I have found some really cool Genesis stuff like Crusader of Centy.

Now that I'm competent enough at programming to make games for old consoles I've been sticking with the SNES primarily because its color capabilities let me use lots of colors, big gradient ramps, subtle shading, etc. and I don't feel like I'm compromising very much while also still having interesting limitations to work with.

🐝 drcouzelis [OP] · Jan 18 at 21:42:

@NovaSquirrel haha I JUST got copies of Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles! 😄 I know what you mean, even the cartoony games like Batman & Robin can feel so dark and gloomy.

What SNES game of yours should I check out?

🐰 NovaSquirrel · Jan 18 at 22:12:

I don't have any finished SNES games yet since I scoped pretty ambitiously and then got busy with other projects, but I do have a small-scale shooter game I started last year and intend to finish this year if I can: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=304207#p304207

I also have a few NES games: https://novasquirrel.itch.io/

Feels like the Genesis really played into the western 90s energy and trying to look like the "cool" console, on top of the console just not supporting a ton of colors at once. If you try to do shading it can get cramped.

🐝 drcouzelis [OP] · Jan 18 at 22:30:

@NovaSquirrel I just found out I ALREADY follow you on Bluesky. 😆😆 Nice to see you again!

🍀 gritty · Jan 19 at 16:10:

I grew up with both. I remember having the Super Scope 6 with Toejam and Earl. That was pretty fun. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it. I still have my SNES with 8 or 10 games from when I originally bought it off my dad's coworker. Sonic and Knuckles with the top-load onto the game was pretty neat.

🦔 bsj38381 · Jan 19 at 16:35:

I personally haven't had any technical issues downloading game roms to android on my phone. I will recommend some game rom sites CD romance dot org and ROM hustler too.

I did used to have a bed habit of deleting game roms to give my phone more space, without thinking. But that's it really.

👻 darkghost · Jan 19 at 20:12:

64 colors is plenty! Unconnected, I grew up in the EGA era of shareware.

Also the Menacer had Toejam and Earl.

🍀 gritty · Jan 19 at 22:42:

@darkghost good catch, I didn't have the super scope, it was the menacer.

🕷 baran · Jan 22 at 12:09:

SNES.

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🐝 drcouzelis:

Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis? — Which did you grow up with, SNES or Genesis / Mega Drive? Which do you play more now? Is there a game on one that you wish was available on the other? 🤓

💬 20 comments · 1 like · Jan 16 · 4 months ago · #nintendo #sega #snes