Underrated NES/Famicom games

[Anonymous No.7282621]

Post underrated NES/Famicom games

I'm having more fun with Heavy Barrel than with Super Contra

[Anonymous No.7283354]

Have some Armadillo

[Anonymous No.7283357]

>>7283354
and some Moai Kun

[Anonymous No.7283361]

I also love The Lone Ranger
US exclusive game
Action-adventure, with a world map, overhead and sidescrolling sections

The world map and the shops are like in Getsu Fuma Den, but the sidescrolling segments play more like Castlevania with guns

[Anonymous No.7283368]

Monsters In My Pocket

short, easy but fun action platformer. Great for co-op.

[Anonymous No.7283373]

Batman Returns, which I genuinely like more than the SNES version. Shit's hard though and spamming the sliding move will hurt your fingers after a while, which is how the move is balanced I suppose.

Fuck that one level that loops though

[Anonymous No.7283381]

Mission Impossible

Great fucking game, kinda like Metal Gear but with more varied gameplay. Hard as balls but at least there is a password system. Make sure the nigger doesn't die, he's useful.

[Anonymous No.7283392]

Samurai Pizza Cats

short easy platformer, but fun due to being able to switch between many characters with different moves

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>>7283361

Might as well post Getsu Fuma Den.
Great action-adventure game. If you've played TMNT, which came out later, many things will be familiar, or even identical. I believe TMNT was made based on this game.

Protip: get the candle and use it in the faux-3D maze sections. Also, in the later maze, draw maps on grid paper. I still got mine.

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Choujin Sentai Jetman

It's like Shatterhand... but much easier

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Spartan X-2

Beat the shit out of bad dudes

[Anonymous No.7283725]

Jaws

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>>7282621
... I never really liked Super Contra.

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>>7282621
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>>7283447
Now what da fuck is with these shitty shrinked screenshots?

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>>7283401
Is there a translated script for the game floating around? I have the cart and I know I probably don't "need" to read the text to beat the game but I'd like to know what it says anyway.

[Anonymous No.7284823]

Just beat a puzzle game called Egypt last night. It's very good and pretty easy relative to most others on the system.

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>>7283354
I got addicted to this game for a while and played through it a few times in a short time span.

[Anonymous No.7285552]

3D sections of this game are super fun. almost forget it's NES

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>>7285552
oh yeah, I enjoyed that one as well. I'd hardly ever talked about.

>>7284894
it's pretty good isn't it, too bad about the stages that repeat. Captain America And The Avengers has the same flaw.

>>7284809
There are a couple on romhacking.net

>>7283739
most of these are lossless in native res. How old are you?

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Snow Bros

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>>7283368
Came here to post this. Great stuff.

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>>7286031
it has a really kick ass Konami soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_T-CXFUN_c&ab_channel=grad1u52

[Anonymous No.7286079]

Mitsume ga Tooru

a bit on the easy side, but fun with a nice gimmick. also great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFdm1UfV3s

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Asmik-kun Land

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Banana Prince

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>>7286079
ha yeah I played a few levels of that and it was great.

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>>7286087
KID are gold, every action game they developed has chars capable of huge screenhigh jumps, weird modular 'collect enough of this to level up' weapon systems, and a great combination of using melee and firing - both are equally useful. There's always so many gameplay elements, at the expense of framerate/animation but still.. Both GI Joe games, Low G Man, and Kick Master follow this mould. I never liked GI Joe Atlantis Factor as much til I realised you just play it like Kick Master and melee goons, you can even do a punch combo. Guns are most useful on big shit/bosses, rather than in the first which feels like the whole game favours them. Oddly satisfying when you level melee and become capable of cooler moves - Kick Master being based on this entirely.

Isolated Warrior and Burai Fighter lack the melee and jumping obviously, but keep the weapon systems, being shmups. IW even has a bunch of level variety. Yep, i'm thinking KID are based.

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>>7286323
what game?

[Anonymous No.7286784]

Thunder and Lightning, it's a clon eof arkanoid and it's hard as fucking balls.

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>>7286784
looks cool, too bad it only has that one lousy music looping through the entire game

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>>7286083
Any pro tip for that one?

The dragon seems to get sick whenever I use items which is annoying, and stages drag on forever if you don't use anything

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>>7287053
Looked up a FAQ and the hiccup effect have nothing to do with using items, good. Although usig items seems to "cure" it for the duration of the item.

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>>7286083
Speaking of Asmik - Conquest of the Crystal Palace.

[Anonymous No.7287148]

Anyone played Cosmic Epsilon? That shit looks amazing for NES

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>>7287148
Time and time again I forget to put this fucker onto my flashcart. I saw this game on a retrogaming convention and I was amazed after playing the Famicom port of Space Harrier and Attack Animal Gakuen, which are horseshit to say the least.

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>>7282621
Hard as nails, very fun if you are a masochist

[Anonymous No.7287283]

this (and the second episode too)

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>>7282621
>playing old tired gay shit
get a ps5 and stop coping

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>>7287321
>>>/v/

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>>7283373
Based AF now i'm willing to give it a chance but the duckie tank and subsequent kick back to 5-1 hurt. Tried over and over too, need to practice - i'd assume you can get more Boxes by 1ccing far too. Best slide since Megaman though.

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>>7286079
Oh,man,the feels the music brings.
Yeah, great game. Went through it multiple times, loved 100%of it. Might do again. Thank you.

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>>7286079
>>7287401
Great Natsume soundtrack. A lot of the sounds (music and FX) used are the same as in Shatterhand.

[Anonymous No.7287429]

Cross Fire is a neat as fuck Contra clone that somehow missed a western release. You start out with fists and throwable grenades to hit background shit. Break certain boxes to git gun, somehow the power of obtaining an automatic firearm heals you just like in real life. Git more gun for better gun. Also our protagonist seems to have an extreme dislike for mobileshit, as pictured.

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>>7287401
P.s. gotta contribute now.
Kero keroppi no daibouken 2.
Pretty easy as I remember, but cute and fun to play.

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>>7287420
That's what I was about to add too, but thought I'd make it short.

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>>7287429
>CROSSSS FIIIIREE !!

[Anonymous No.7287475]

Thank you for these little writeups, looking forward to trying some of these

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>>7283354
It's shit

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>>7283357
still don't understand their thought process when deciding to use syouten's opening for the music

[Anonymous No.7288621]

does faxanadu count?

[Anonymous No.7289356]

>you can shoot coins to make them bigger and earn more money

Shit, I wish I had found this out sooner. Gonna drag the pacing though.

[Anonymous No.7289406]

>>7286079
>those fucking jumps

I thought you said the game was easy

I've lost like 7 lives on this shit and I can't figure out if I'm supposed to get sucked by the air thing to make the jumps, use the arrow, or both

can't even cheap it mega man style and abuse the inv frames to walk on the spikes

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>>7289406
Got it. Bounce on the arrows without using the jump button.

[Anonymous No.7289487]

Beat the game on easy and found a female jesus

8/10 would play again on normal one day
great effects in the game like the bg tiles that turn into sprites and scroll up, while showing a new bg behind. reminded me of the infamous blocks in castlevania 3 except better designed

[Anonymous No.7289493]

Anyone play Dragon Fighter? Another Famicom exclusive action game by the exact same devs as Mitsume Ga Tooru, but it predates it.

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>>7289493
Made it to stage 5 out of 6 on my first playthrough when I accidentally hit reset.

Seems shit and hard at first but it's a decent enough game once you get the hang of it.

Action platformer but you get to turn into a flying dragon for a brief period of time and when you do the game autoscrolls.

Otherwise it's hack&slash but you also get a charge shot.
You can also swap to 2 other colours with power ups and that changes your charge shot but also the kind of shots the flying dragon shoots.

Protip: the blue form seems to the best
Protip 2: you have to fill up an energy bar to be able to transform into the dragon. it fills up when you kill enemies, but that doesn't happen if you kill them with a charge shot

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>>7289493
Started over and beat the game now.
Good game overall. Decent soundtrack also.

Between this, Otocky, Fuzzical Fighter and even Cobra Triangle, the NES/Famicom actually has quite a few hybrid SHMUPs. Whatever happened to those?

[Anonymous No.7289806]

>>7287429
Trying this now and it's a decent game I guess, but the musics and sound effects are dog shit.
Also, the controls are kinda weird. Diagonal to the right= walk and shooting diagonnaly at the same time. Diagonal to the left = stand still and shoot up. Makes me feel like my pad is broken.

Also some backgrounds enemies (vehicules) can be hard to see and most of the projectiles (grenades, rockets) flicker a lot more than they thought. Looks like they ran the flickering routine for stuff by default "just in case" when in reality in many cases it wouldn't even be needed.

More of a nitpick but jumping down a hole and getting hit by enemies you couldn't see straight away kinda sucks and happened several times

still i've seen worse, game is okay I guess

[Anonymous No.7290168]

Last stage in Shatterhand/Solbrain always tears me a new asshole

it's not even funny

[Anonymous No.7290195]

>>7290168
All the stage hazards crammed into one level and doing all the previous boss fights again, Mega Man style. With the second boss being that fucking ninja guy. I don't know how to get past him without receiving too much damage. And then you gotta make it to the final boss, of course with your robot buddy in one piece, without him you're done for.

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>>7290195
yeah shit is crazy, it's like 3 times harder than the rest of the game and iirc there is barely any checkpoint

Pic related me dying "on" the health refill machine after bumping my head into this piece of ceiling shit

[Anonymous No.7290208]

>>7290202
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxrpxYEZ35A
Sweet mother of God, some mad lad did it WITHOUT POWER-UPS.

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>>7290208
Look at this literal chad

[Anonymous No.7290226]

>>7290208
>WITHOUT POWER-UPS.

Although to be frank, sometimes the robot helper gets in the way. The most obvious example being the underwater boss which is a LOT easier if you don't have the robot inevitably bumping into him and fucking with the pattern.

[Anonymous No.7290252]

Not an unheard of game by any means, but easily one of the less talked about ones from Konami.
Really solid overhead action game, probably one of the best that are not a Zelda style ones on the system.

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>>7290252
Used to play this in coop but we never beat it. Great game.

[Anonymous No.7290528]

Beat Vice: Project Doom earlier today. I have no idea but it's probably not underrated at all. Anyway it was short and fun, not very hard but rather fair 90% of the time. The soundtrack is very good. The cutscenes are like watching trainwreck. It's almost funny. Never took much delight in camp. Feels like it's been written by a 12 year old. Overall it's a fun generic action game.

[Anonymous No.7290532]

>>7290528
Yeah fun game to play through once. it manages to have those different gameplay genres into one game and pull them all off rather well.
But I never felt like replaying the game once I had beaten it.

[Anonymous No.7290541]

>>7290252
top tier co op game
It also has an intelligible hostage rescue element, with vehicle upgrades tied to it.

[Anonymous No.7290787]

You're a speedboat with gradius upgrades. Early Rareware game. Love it to pieces.

[Anonymous No.7291565]

i always thought ikari warriors would become an obvious classic but no one has made any kickstarted reboots or anything

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>>7287148
For a Space Harrier rip-off it actually looks pretty decent. I'll have to check it out.

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>>7290787
>finish level
>tiny propeller emerges from boat and you fly to the next level
based flavor

[Anonymous No.7291661]

Megaman 5 is surprisingly enjoyable. Everything after 3 is often overlooked, but 5 is actually quite competent. It brings back the fast pace of 3 with lightning fast screen transitions and far less slowdown than that game. Using the menu is also a lot faster too. The charge shot works better than it does in 4 and also doesn't compromise the enemy health by making them bullet sponges like 4 does. Yes, getting hit will remove your charge but I see it as a fair balance for how powerful the buster is in 5. The level design in 5 is also enjoyable and unique. You get to mess around with low and reverse gravity, riding bubbles, a cool jet ski section and so on. The game is just clean fun. It is crazy how they go back to very slow screen transitions in Megaman 6. That game also screwed up the way sliding works. 6 is still enjoyable in its own right though.

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>>7291584
I tried it and I got filtered

[Anonymous No.7292361]

>>7286743
huh, never realized it was the same devs as GI Joe, even though I played both a ton.

[Anonymous No.7292871]

>>7290195
Started over as Shatterhand and I raped this fucker. His final stage version isn't nearly as bad as his og stage version due to the absence of the elevator/gears setup

I had 05 seconds left of the robot transformation when I entenred the room, felt good

On this playthrough i've found out that BBB is actually an awesome robot and now I tend to favour it over AAB. AAB can shoot through walls though, but BBB is very similar and deals more dmg which is more important against bosses.
Also BBB's explosion when destroy the round mines will also destroy some of the pellets the mines spawn which is awesome

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>>7292871
>dead on the 3rd boss
>back to the start of the stage

this is so fucking depressing

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>>7292984
>HOT-B
that reminds me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR8ujv7QTg

[Anonymous No.7292993]

>last life
>last HP

got you motherfucker. BBB saved me on the gravity boss which killed me 4 times before.

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[Anonymous No.7293049]

No joke: One of the greatest games of all time. If you ever enjoyed arcade golf games like Neo Turf Masters then I don't know why you wouldn't enjoy this.

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[Anonymous No.7293060]

Low G Man

[Anonymous No.7293065]

>>7293060
Nice concept but choppiness ruins it.

[Anonymous No.7293219]

>>7292993
decided to replay but as Solbrain again. Solbrain is a lot easier, big enemies and I think even bosses have less hp. But still that kicked ass

>a single life lost throughout the entire game (gravity bitch in final stage)
>of the initial 6 stages bosses, I killed 5 with the full transformation
>entered the final boss room with full transformation, half of its time left

Also
>full transformation timer still goes down during cutscene at the start of final boss
>during the cutscene after killing the final boss, robot helper gets destroyed by the collapsing ceiling tiles

Robot helper just can't get a break

[Anonymous No.7293405]

>>7283368
I never owned any monsters in my pocket but that game was badass, some friends of mine had it

[Anonymous No.7293449]

>>7289806
Yeah the diagonal thing and just the unbalancedness of losing gun levels on death when you've got to beat a boss that requires so much shooting up at multiple targets gets me. Just thought the game earnt points for being an jap only run and gun if anything. Do like the main char's outfit changes from level to level.

[Anonymous No.7293458]

Crystalis, someone else post a screenshot cuz all the ones on google suck ass.

[Anonymous No.7293574]

impressive 3d pinball simulator.

[Anonymous No.7293616]

Indian jones and the temple of doom is actually a really good game. You may not know what the fuck is going on at first, but once you get the controls down, its extremely fun.

Super street fighter 2010 the final fight is an amazing game. I know avgn shit on it, but the game mechanics are impeccable, may be a bit hard to get the hang of at first, but its worth it imo.

Ninja jajamaru kun has a very arcady feel. Similar to donkey kong, but its als great in its own right and deserves some love... And you can get a giant frog to ride.

Metal storm is hard as balls like street fighter 2010, but its got interesting mechanics and a hellofa soundtrack. Definitely worth a shot.

Sqoon is a nice little arcady game that tends to get overlooked these days, as is elevator action.

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>>7293574
I wish we got more of these. Pinbot and High Speed were great. Imagine if we would have gotten interpretations of Black Knight 2000 or Bride of Pinbot too.

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>>7287429
I keep reading that there's a Genesis version, but it looks like a helicopter based shmup? This can't be right.

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>>7294545
It'd have been much nicer if they could have released some for SNES, which was clearly much more able to handle decent pinball physics.

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>>7293458

[Anonymous No.7296274]

Been looking into Shatterhand's RAM map

Here are some fun facts:
Ninja boss has less HP in the final stage than he does in his original stage. 48hp instead of 64.

Bosses HP vary from 32 to 64.

A small punch deals 1 dmg
A big punch deals 2

When wearing the red clothes: small punch= 2dmg, big punch = 5 (!) dmg

During the full transformation damage output of the flame shot vary from 1 to 4 depending on how close you are to the enemy.

If you want to cheat:
Ram adress 0005C4 gives you the letters, and with the right values put in, the robots:
15: AAA
16: BAA
19: ABA
1A: BBA
25: AAB
26: BAB
29: ABB
2A: BBB

Address 0005C2: Full Transformation timer. Put in a value and freeze it and you'll be invicible with the full transformation forever

0005C5: protag HP
0005C6: Gold
0006F0: Boss HP
0006F9, 0006FA, 006FB, etc: enemies HP

00071C: Lives

[Anonymous No.7296325]

>>7296274
One last thiing:

address 0005C8 determines whether you're wearing green or red suit. You're allowed 3 hits before red turns back to green.
Value 00: green suit
value 01 to 03: red suit

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>>7294935
super pinball 1 & 2 on snes

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>>7296325
>>7296274
0006FC: Robot Helper HP. Starts with 16HP

Any hit to the robot = -1 HP. When the robot gets in contact with an enemy, that enemy also loses 1HP (like the full transformation contact).
Starts to blink when it has 3 HP left
When the robot spawn backs at the end of a full transformation, its HP is replenished

I've seen situations where, when picking up the same 3 letters when the robot's HP was low, it'd respawn the robot instead of leading to a full transformation; but I can't reproduce it and now I'm convinced it's a glitch; which may be caused if there are too many enemies on the screen + the robot, as it seems that the ram addresses of robot and enemy can potentially be on the same ram address (I believe the next thing spawning just takes the next free address)

[Anonymous No.7296424]

krazy kreatures: addictive and fun puzle game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btd_oULr-dU

another addictive puzle game fire n ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7zvp9qRY0M

[Anonymous No.7296436]

>>7296420
>>7296274
Small corrections and then I'll stop:
It appears bosses and enemies don't have less HP in Solbrain after all. The thing is, the same one enemy may have slightly different HP depending on which stage it is? Not sure either on that one yet.

Also, red vest big punch = 4dmg, not 5.

[Anonymous No.7296451]

>>7294935
>>7296405
They released Digital Pinball Last Gladiators and Necronomicon on the Saturn, they are exactly like Super Pinball 1-2 except very heavily souped up. Hi-res, cd-audio, tables have twice as many features, 7-ball multiball, and prog metal soundtrack with John Petrucci of Dream Theater doing the intros.

Probably my favourite pinball games.

They then did Akira Psychoball on PS2 which is just insane, it has 1 ball shared on two tables.

[Anonymous No.7296465]

Sugoro Quest is one of those boardgame rpgs.

[Anonymous No.7296968]

>>7283368
I had a hacked version of this with Batman and Robin instead. Shit was weird.
On a related note, I'll never know how an officially unreleased Time Driver Eon Man made its' way to Russia in 1996, but I definitely played it back then. It's a good game.

>>7283392
Top tier music in this one. My copy was in moonspeak but I still enjoyed the cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.7297337]

>>7296436

I found these posts interesting

[Anonymous No.7297352]

If you like JRPGs please play Momotaro Densetsu. It has a translation on romhacking and is pretty great. It has its own series of games but no one has translated them as of yet.

World of Wonder!

[Anonymous No.7298050]

Try Robocco Wars. It's a pretty easy game, except that bastard final boss. Love the OST

[Anonymous No.7298068]

>>7282621
On this board? All of them. These fucking zoomer faggots don't respect the soulful-est console/set of games ever made.

[Anonymous No.7298069]

Wai Wai World 2. The first stage is boring, but after that is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.7298085]

>>7298069
Why does that stage look like a direct ripoff of the first level of Contra?

[Anonymous No.7298089]

MOTHERFUCKER CAPTAIN TSUBASA 2, HOLY SHIT!!

[Anonymous No.7298097]

>>7298089
Nintendo World Cup is way better, fuck off with your gay anime shit.

[Anonymous No.7298106]

>>7298085
Because it's a crossover with various Konami games and chars. You also have Castlevania, Gradius, Twin Bee. Try it, it's not too long.

[Anonymous No.7298115]

>>7298097
Not even the same genre, idiot. And Kunio Kun no Nekketsu Soccer League is much better than that castrated game. Fuck off with your uneducated opinion.

[Anonymous No.7298119]

>>7298115
No, fuck you with your stupid Jap garbage.

[Anonymous No.7298121]

>>7298106
I guess that explains the whip and Goemon's pipe.

[Anonymous No.7298127]

>>7298119
Bruh, kunio kun was made by the guys who made super dodgeball. Im sorry, your opinion is invalid and void. Youre going to take this L and carry that weight today, anon.

[Anonymous No.7298128]

>>7298119
>Actually thinks that Nintendo World Cup was made by americans
Imagine being this faggot

[Anonymous No.7298129]

>>7298127
They also made Nintendo World Cup, which was released in English and was good, even if your Chink game is "better".

[Anonymous No.7298132]

>>7298128
When did I say that? It was released here though unlike your Nip-only shit.

[Anonymous No.7298138]

>>7298129
Well shit, now i feel like a basketball american. I guess the consolation is knowing nintendo world cup is the worst of the three

[Anonymous No.7298142]

>>7294562
Yup, same company, same 'franchise'? The Japanese version is Super Airwolf which you're gonna want to play for dat theme tune in the first level which the western version doesn't have. Alternate levels are top down run and guns with an incredibly weird 'jump' button that jumps your guy toward the camera and lets you hit stuff on higher planes. Also does that thing Master System run and guns do where moving down aims you up so you can return fire while backing up - I like it, myself, and you're only gonna want to fire up. Better game than the NES one, at least while I can't get past that bastard stage 3 tank in it.

[Anonymous No.7298153]

Don Doko Don 2. The first one was a Bubble Bobble clone, but this one is an adventure game.

[Anonymous No.7298174]

>>7298138
Doesn't matter when worst = very good, does it?

[Anonymous No.7298204]

Ghoul School. An early metroidvania.

[Anonymous No.7300174]

Looking more at Shatterhand/Solbrain I think I have proof that Shatterhand was made first.

Character sprite uses 2 palette slot in Shatterhand, one for the top, one for the pants, but only one palette in Solbrain... yet, the 2nd (unused) palette slot in Solbrain is still set to the pants colours.

Also, if you simply replace the character sprite from the stage select screen in Solbrain by the one in Shatterhand, the animation will play (despite the Solbrain one being unanimated)

[Anonymous No.7300263]

I love ninja -kun

[Anonymous No.7301162]

>>7298204
Is it actually good or just a historical curiosity? Controls and level design look kind of sloppy from gameplay footage.

[Anonymous No.7301223]

>>7286761
Souper Maraya Brodha Three

[Anonymous No.7301793]

>>7301162

I played through that sometime within the past couple of years. I'd never played it as a kid (or I did play it as a kid and thought it was cruddy and forgot about it). I was prompted to do so by a Cinemassacre video in which Bootsy and another guy (either James or Mike) played it for a bit and kinda trashtalked it. It actually looked clever and interesting in the video (albeit also kinda cruddy), so I thought maybe they were missing something.

It is indeed actually good. You're right, the levels are more bland and samey than they should be. That's one of the major flaws of the game. I think another one is that the controls and/or combat were somewhat awkward, or something like that. And the game is generally pretty ugly-looking. But given a generous and tolerant player, it can be really fun. The exploration and character growth are interesting and it's clear that the designer really cared about it. I had a good time with it. It has a playful, witty feeling to it, kinda like Maniac Mansion.

Make of that what you will.

[Anonymous No.7303016]

Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen'in Shūgō!. It's River City Ransom but in the feudal Japan. There's a translation around.

[Anonymous No.7303072]

Vice: Project Doom. A nice mix between Ninja Gaiden and Super Spy Hunter

[Anonymous No.7304476]

famicom wars (88) the grandfather of advance wars. Then super famicom wars came out for snes (98)

For those who do not know the series, it is the turn-based strategy type where 2 or more factions fight to conquer each other by killing or seizing the center of each one.

super addictive and highly recommended

[Anonymous No.7305576]

>>7304476

I probably would have liked that as a kid. Shame they didn't localize it. I played Genghis Khan instead. That had okay battles but I think this kind of game would probably have more entertaining ones.

[Anonymous No.7305595]

>>7282621
Ever heard of The Legend of Zelda?

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>>7305576
https://www.romhacking.net/games/124/

[Anonymous No.7306398]

that one platformer with a chef. what's it's name again? panic restaurant?

[Anonymous No.7306406]

Bucky O'Hare

[Anonymous No.7306446]

The Guardian Legend (favorite nes game)
Kid Nikki the Radical Ninja
Shadowgate
Monster Party

[Anonymous No.7306490]

>>7306398
yea i remember you fight a burger as one of the bosses

[Anonymous No.7306947]

>>7306373

No doubt, but it's too late now. I'm not a kid anymore and I've played a lot of games like this already. This isn't a genre that's easy to go backward in; I'd rather play a new one.

[Anonymous No.7306964]

>>7293049
I love that sun.

[Anonymous No.7308148]

>>7283447
>>7286079
The entire Shatterhand staff is credited as "special thanks" in both games; all 3 games also have the same sound designer.

Now that I know Shatterhand's ram map a little bit, I decided to check both Choujin Sentai Jetman and Mistume Ga Tooru.

Both games have what looks like the same system to draw graphics onto the screen and in all 3 games it's located at the same RAM addresses.

The sound/music system is also identical and located at the same RAM addresses for Shatterhand and Mitsume Ga Tooru.

Couple of other things look like they follow the same kind of logic also but not located in the same places, but I can't say if that means much.

[Anonymous No.7308372]

>>7291661
>It is crazy how they go back to very slow screen transitions in Megaman 6. That game also screwed up the way sliding works. 6 is still enjoyable in its own right though.

Use this patch on a Rockman 6 rom, it fixes the sliding and makes the scrolling faster. You can also skip the armor animation etc

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yop86w163oh1p67/Rock6Optimization101_.zip?dl=1

[Anonymous No.7308507]

I love some Mighty Final Fight but I always get filtered in stage 4 and 5. This goddamn Ninja and his dash attack....

I can't tell if the Exp system in this game is horrible or genuis. You lvl up and exp gained varies depending on the finishing move you used for enemies.

Anyone knows what's the difference between the 2 difficulty skills? Only number of lives?

[Anonymous No.7308615]

>>7286761
Doki Doki Panic 2

[Anonymous No.7308671]

>>7303016
This game is goddamn unplayable on real hardware between the lag and all the flickering, especially in COOP.

Thank god for emulation.

>>7304476
I played this quite a bit but I enjoyed the sequel on SFC better

[Anonymous No.7308875]

>>7282621

[Anonymous No.7309754]

>>7308148
batman is very similar

[Anonymous No.7309995]

>Rygar
>Gekitotsu Yonku Battle
>Hebereke (Uforia: The Saga)
>Gimmick!
>Heisei Tensai Bakabon
>James Bond Jr.
>Joy Mech Fight
>Jungle Book
>Little Nemo - The Dream Master
>Moon Crystal
>Quinty (Mendel Palace)
>Radia Senki - Reimei Hen
>Saiyuuki World 2 - Tenjoukai no Majin
>Seirei Densetsu Lickle (Little Samson)
>Kage (Shadow of the Ninja)
>Spelunker 2
>Wacky Races
>Yume Penguin Monogatari
I'll try later to make a single image with them all.
And if you didn't yet play Mitsume ga Tooru, as the other anons recommended, do it immediately.

[Anonymous No.7310064]

>>7291661
Are you me? In every Mega Man thread I go, similar points to these I argue with but 5 remains the black sheep of the classic series for the anons...

[Anonymous No.7311873]

>>7282621
The music is still good, I give it that.

[Anonymous No.7311876]

>>7310064
>>7291661
You might be interested in the Protoman romhack


http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3638/

[Anonymous No.7311890]

>>7309754
It's true that Batman is very similar to Shatterhand, I had never realized that. Main combat is punches and you get weapons too. Also, the HUD appears in a similar way and number of lives and score only appears when pressing pause.

It's possible that Shatterhand was inspired by Batman but since they're different companies it's unlikely the later was based on code of the former. I checked anyway and the RAM map and logic seem completely different.

[Anonymous No.7312060]

>can't figure out how to beat this boss

You know, I realized I'm not having that much fun with this game. I can't put my finger on it but something about the gameplay feels off to me.

[Anonymous No.7312073]

>>7311876
nesfag?

[Anonymous No.7312169]

>>7312060
Yeah now I'm starting to put my finger on it

>many situations where you pretty much have to get hit if you don't use weapons, lot's of bullshit enemy placement

>the bosses suck and are hopeles without weapons

>said weapons have limit ammo

>some enemies have randomized patterns. Think you can wait for its attack to end to go through or attack? Well fuck you, randomized timing leads to a hit

>those pixels jumps involving wall jumping

The list goes on but the beauty of Shatterhand was that you the game is still hard-but-fair if you go in fist only. Batman is just filled with bullshit.

[Anonymous No.7313424]

Anyone played Chaos World?

[Anonymous No.7314496]

>>7312060
Doesn't he jump and you hit him with a batarang while on those platforms.

[Anonymous No.7316041]

>>7313424
The only thing I can remeber from that game is that the final boss is a tree.

[Anonymous No.7316042]

>>7308875
Mad City is better, still challenging, but not straight-up bullshit.

[Anonymous No.7316068]

>>7314496
I beat him by tanking. You can do that if you avoid one hit at the start of the battle, then position yourself so that the batarangs deals maximum dmg per throw, you can just tank him and he'll die when you have 1-2 Hp left

I couldn't beat the final 2 bosses however

[Anonymous No.7316079]

lots of HIDDEN GEMS in this thread

[Anonymous No.7316119]

Here's another good one. Time Zone. Just check the first few levels. There's a translation patch, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh5KLzM5UCg

[Anonymous No.7316131]

>>7316042
>but not straight-up bullshit.
care to explain? never played it

[Anonymous No.7316140]

>>7316131
They screwed up the balance for US release. Regular enemies can kick your balls in seconds while it takes forever for you to take them down. It's one of those games that had their difficulty ramped up so you won't rent the game, but damn they really went overboard. Compare these two for yourself and you'd rather play the JP version.

[Anonymous No.7316160]

>>7316131
https://tcrf.net/The_Adventures_of_Bayou_Billy/Regional_Differences
They ruined the game so much that isn't even fun.

[Anonymous No.7316775]

Cosmo Police Galivan. Another metroidvania/rpg. Has a sequel on snes.

[Anonymous No.7316829]

Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima IV. Tons of stuff to find and minigames. Pretty easy, compared to the other Adventure Islands

[Anonymous No.7316830]

>>7282621
Gimmick.

[Anonymous No.7316935]

Anyone played Totally Rad aka Magic John? Looks like a competent Mega Man clone.

Same devs also made a sequel to Golgo 13 on NES.

[Anonymous No.7317006]

>>7316935
Yeah, I remember it had pretty weird spells and huge ass bosses. The translators changed the whole story

http://www.carbon-izer.com/mirror/rad/index.htm

[Anonymous No.7317019]

>>7283729
... I never really liked (You)

[Anonymous No.7317067]

>>7282621
Bayou Billy was awesome!

[Anonymous No.7317074]

>>7308875
hell yeah brother

[Anonymous No.7317083]

[Anonymous No.7317119]

>>7316829
That's a good one.

[Anonymous No.7317240]

The Krion Conquest. It's good, but it's almost a Megaman sprite hack.

[Anonymous No.7317526]

>>7293012
this used the modem to look up stocks, right?

[Anonymous No.7317546]

Metal Storm. An action game where you need to change gravity to advance.

[Anonymous No.7317794]

>>7316935

I played through it as a kid. I liked it well enough then but it was too bland to become a favorite of mine. It is indeed competent. It isn't really a Mega Man clone - it lets you transform to use different abilities, but you spend magic points to transform, and then you don't spend any more to shoot or fly or whatever. Kinda the opposite of how Mega Man does that sort of thing. Also there's little or no character progression as I recall. I think you start with all your spells, and you keep those throughout.

The action is fine but there's nothing very special about it. The standout features are the transformation spells, which are cool in concept but nothing super exciting in practice, and the impressive bosses, which are dazzlingly big and detailed by NES standards.

[Anonymous No.7317815]

>>7317006

Haha I forgot how much they changed the human characters. Allison is vastly more appealing as a realistic-looking person instead of an anime-looking chibi-beast.

[Anonymous No.7318929]

Gremlins 2

[Anonymous No.7318994]

>>7317526
No... ? What the fuck?!

[Anonymous No.7318996]

>>7316042
It's not even about difficulty. They just straight up made the game unbalanced in a way that isn't fun in the English version.

[Anonymous No.7319218]

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[Anonymous No.7319272]

>>7316119
This is a very cool one, my relatives played it a long time ago. I personally dislike it, but know the stuff have quality.
>>7316829
Isn't this one considered good everywhere?

[Anonymous No.7320865]

>>7319218
I thought that was a beta. Did it come out.

[Anonymous No.7321268]

>>7320865
Released June 1993 according to mobygames

I emulated this game a lot as a kid but I could never get far

[Anonymous No.7321283]

>>7321268
>>7319218
Doesn't the NES version have the first person perspective parts or am I mixing up with another version?

[Anonymous No.7321461]

>>7321283
That's the Snes version.

[Anonymous No.7322968]

>>7283401
> Also, in the later maze, draw maps on grid paper. I still got mine.
Shit, mang! Can you post it?

[Anonymous No.7322986]

>>7318994
There was a modem for the famicom that let you trade stocks. I dont think there was a game attached to it though.

[Anonymous No.7323084]

Bee 52 was really fun.
Funny enough, I only own this because I'm retarded, and thought I was buying an Action 52.

[Anonymous No.7323097]

OP's image almost made my blood boil because I thought it was Jackal at first.

[Anonymous No.7323113]

>>7319218
I have this one on gameboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRGNGRmRws

[Anonymous No.7323114]

>>7283401

You reminded me of Fudou Myouou Den with this post. Badass motherfucking game, but difficult at first. North America got Demon Sword as a hacked apart port, but the original is one of the best Famicom/NES games ever made. Also has some dope box art.

[Anonymous No.7324213]

Bumping this gem

[Anonymous No.7324345]

not sure if this is really "underrated" but i never really see anyone mention kickle cubicle.

not a hard game but one of my favorite relaxing games on the NES

[Anonymous No.7325050]

>>7324345
I wish there were some rom hacks with higher difficulty. It's a lot of fun but it's so easy until the special stages

[Anonymous No.7325063]

>>7324345
>>7325050
>special stages
That was such a strange leap in difficulty. The whole game is this whimsical 4/10 chillout experience, then at endgame you have these legit 9.8/10 levels. It's great, but just kinda weird.

[Anonymous No.7325192]

Flying Warriors. Everything is kinda weird in this game, in a good way. You have to play in expert mode to be able to fight the real final boss and see the true ending.

[Anonymous No.7325197]

>>7319218
I had this on a bootleg cartridge. Managed to beat it eventually but it was hard as fuck. People fuming at escort missions these days never had to beat an escort boss mission with 2 dumbfuck npcs.

[Anonymous No.7325327]

>>7287429
>somehow the power of obtaining an automatic firearm heals you just like in real life
based /k/ommando

[Anonymous No.7325352]

>>7321461
That's weird. I could swear I played a Jurrasic Park on NES that had first person mazes, they were very crude. Maybe it's the beta version this anon is talking about ?>>7320865

Or I'm mixing up two different games that I played around the same tilme as a kid.

[Anonymous No.7325363]

>>7325352
Maybe you are mixing it up with Fester's Quest? There aren't many games with fp mazes in the Nes.

[Anonymous No.7325371]

>>7325352
>>7325363
Maze pic