/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1008447]

I think it's sort of disappointing this game was released in 1991, so early in the SNES' life. Imagine how great it could have been if released in 1995 or 1994, and it could take full advantage of the console's capabilities. It's still a good game, but it sort of feels like a missed opportunity. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.1008496]

>>1008447
Nah. I think they should have made another LoZ title in later years for Snes

[Anonymous No.1008520]

>>1008447
Nah. I think they should have made another LoZ title in later years for Snes

[Anonymous No.1008551]

>>1008447
You could the same thing about LOZ/TAOL, which were also released early/middle in the NES lifespan. Look at how much more sophisticated Kirby's Adventure is than SMB.


Another game I'd have loved to see late in the SNES lifespan as opposed to the console it did come out it: Pokemon Red and Blue. Would have loved to see that as a full blown SNES game. the remakes kind of come close.

[Anonymous No.1008594]

Seems like ALttP was developed right alongside SMW...both games have almost identical aesthetics. For the most part.

[Anonymous No.1008619]

I think Zelda is supposed to be a second wave game. Mario is a release game then Zelda comes out the next season. It's the new Zeldas that are screwed up.

[Anonymous No.1008883]

The thing is the Super FX chip came so late in the SNES' life that it didn't get to do the damage that it could have. This of course was when cartridges carried the power, which isn't what goes on in consoles today.

[Anonymous No.1008887]

>>1008447
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Honestly, LTTP is one of my top SNES games. What do you feel would have improved with another 3-4 years? The graphics?

[Anonymous No.1008925]

>>1008594
There does seem to be a lot of similarity in their palette choices.

[Anonymous No.1008936]

>>1008883

>Chrono Cross reference

[Anonymous No.1008941]

>>1008496
>>1008447
>>1008520
Did you know that the maker of Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker was tapped by Miyamoto to marry the LttP engine to an enhancement chip and make a boss adventure game in 1996?

Marvelous - Mouhitotsu no Takarajima (J) [T-Eng06.2012_tashi]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/83cs7q

[Anonymous No.1008948]

>>1008941

NO I DID NOT KNOW THAT

[Anonymous No.1008952]

>>1008941

There were plans to localize it. I remember reading about it. Still no translation patch?

[Anonymous No.1008965]

>>1008952
>T-Eng
it says its almost fully completed according to romhacking.net

[Anonymous No.1008980]

>>1008952
Epic Center in Nintendo Power. Yeah, I remember reading about it.

[Anonymous No.1009115]

To people wondering if there's a translation patch, I already uploaded my patched and zipped copy. It's all good to go. Fully playable and completable.

[Anonymous No.1009135]

What are you talking about?
It's everything you could want from a sequel to the original Legend of Zelda.

Likewise Ocarina of Time was everything you could want from a sequel to A Link to the Past.

Majoras Mask felt more like a sequel to Link's Awakening.

[Anonymous No.1009179]

i always felt lttp had pretty meh graphics

[Anonymous No.1009252]

Mario World and A Link to the Past are great games, but I think they definitely show being produced so early on the console. Both games have only decent production values. They don't have a lot of music, and it often sounds kind of muted (most of Mario World's songs are the same theme with different tempo). Graphically the games are also decent but not extraordinary. Still, I think Mario World suffered a bit more, it always felt kind of rushed to me, but it's still great.

Yoshi's Island didn't have a lot of music either, but that's because it was an enormous game and looked amazing. The music was also greatly composed. To me Yoshi's Island is way better than World.

[Anonymous No.1009536]

I know Miyamoto felt that Mario World was rushed, did he say anything similar about ALttP?

I can't imagine how it could have been made much better. It has a ton of dungeons and a sizeable overworld.

[Anonymous No.1009561]

>>1009135
Unless you wanted an overworld that wasn't shit and was vasts amount of emptiness.

[Anonymous No.1009625]

i think they could have given the game better controls

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1009653]

>>1009536
>I know Miyamoto felt that Mario World was rushed
Doesn't he say this about every Mario game?

But, I can totally understand. Even when I was a child, some aspects of SMW seemed a little "off." It felt unfinished.

[Anonymous No.1009674]

>>1008496

these are my thoughts exactly. why did the snes only get one zelda title while every other nintendo console got at least 2?

also LttP is my favorite zelda

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1009680]

It would have been cool if near the end of the SNES lifespan, they made Zelda All-Stars.

All four Zelda games, with improved graphics but still keeping the gameplay intact.

I know there was -kinda- a SNES version of Zelda 1, but it had a lot of mechanical changes and the world map was only like half the size.

[Anonymous No.1009692]

>>1009680
>I know there was -kinda- a SNES version of Zelda 1

Buh?

[Anonymous No.1009720]

let me ask: do you guys think its cheap if, when playing ALttP, i often savewarp? like if i feel like getting to death mountain quickly, i just save and quick, and start back up at the death mountain cave? is that type of thing considered cheating, in a sense? i feel like, since you can start at links house, the sanctuary or the cave its often faster than walking across the map

[Anonymous No.1009721]

>>1009720

Who cares?

[Anonymous No.1009732]

>>1009692

The Satellaview, a discontinued Japan-only SNES peripheral that used black voodoo magic to download games sort of like the Sega Channel. The only games anybody gives a shit about for it were the Zelda ones though.

[Anonymous No.1009741]

>>1009692
Seriously how do you not know this shit?

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1009747]

>>1009692
BS Legend of Zelda. It was for the Satellaview.

[Anonymous No.1009761]

>>1009720

Seems annoying because you can't skip the title screen intro thing

[Anonymous No.1009812]

>>1009741
Stop trying to suck up to Princess Attentionwhore.

[Anonymous No.1009890]

>>1009761

you cant? im almost positive that you can

[Anonymous No.1009925]

>>1009890
only on the GBA release you can, if memory serves right.

[Anonymous No.1011859]

>>1008941
Freezes for me everytime when the monkey takes the 3 keys in the intro.

[Anonymous No.1013767]

>>1009720
No, I've utilized it back on the actual hardware when I played it as a kid. It doesn't get you out of anything, but if you don't feel like running through more useless shit, do it. You don't take any harm, but you don't pick up extra items or find shit you might come across that way, so it's kind of balanced. If you saved and quit you'd get put back there anyway, so whatever.

[Anonymous No.1013780]

>>1009692

[Anonymous No.1013815]

>>1009252
I feel SMW had dreams for at least 2 more worlds. There was no Ice world, no Sky world, and any of the other worlds could each have another couple levels without feeling like the game is too long.

[Princess Sevenshit !!4kgug9zbIJb No.1013821]

>>1013815
>Sky world
Does the star world count? And the "special" levels?

[Anonymous No.1013839]

>>1013815
>There was no Ice world
And thank fucking goodness for it.

[Anonymous No.1013892]

>>1013839
agreed, fuck world 6

[Anonymous No.1013914]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was one of my earliest introductions to the Zelda series. I'll be honest here, I wasn't born until 1992, making me not a part of the Super NES generation (my childhood console was the Nintendo 64) BUT, this was the second game from this series that I ever played. After playing it on the Game Boy Advance, not only did I receive an introduction to the Super Nintendo, but to a video game that I would replay constantly, even to this day. Had this game been released later, yeah, I think it would have been sweet to see what could have been done.

[Anonymous No.1013935]

Okay, /vr, I'm not sure if anyone else has mad e a thread like this, but I'm incredibly curious as to what everyone thinks. For some reason, whenever I play Kirby's Adventure on my NES, I'm reminded of McDonald's, before they attempted to 'improve' the food. I guess I associate this restaurant with Kirby because growing up, I never seemed to own any Kirby video games. I would always end up playing and beating a Kirby video game whenever I stayed the night at a friends house, and we would usually be taken to eat out, mostly at McDonald's, where I was of course too glued to the game to eat. Maybe the color scheme just reminds me of 90s McDonald's for some odd reason, I dunno.

tl;dr I associate one of my childhood games with a restaurant, no matter how many times I play it. Does anyone else do this with games?

[Anonymous No.1013940]

>>1013935
not restaurants but i for damn sure equate a lot of games to the music or tv show that was on in the background when i was playing them

[Anonymous No.1013942]

>>1013935
>what would happen if zelda was released later and took full advantage of the consoles capabilities
>well I will tell you what it would do, kirby will remind of mcdonalds

Nevertheless, I associated Castlevania to White Castle.

[Anonymous No.1014053]

>>1013821
star road doesnt have anything like SMB3's sky world, big jumps, fast scrolling, feeling of flying over everything.
>>1013892
>>1013839
Man up and play some fucking world 6, its not that goddamn hard.

[Anonymous No.1014795]

>>1013914

ha thats exactly like me. i was born in 93 and ALttP is my all time favorite game now. i played it 3-4 years ago and play it all the time

[Anonymous No.1014825]

Has anyone here checked Zelda Classic?

It's a PC emulation of Zelda I, and includes BS Zelda:

www.zeldaclassic.com/

You can also download a ton of user-made quests for it, plus you can make your own (which I just don't have the patience for - hard enough to complete a Doom level at the best of times).