Genesis vs SNES - The personal Vietnam

[StMaryPiper]

Time for the age old question. Are you a Sega Genesis type of guy or do you enjoy Super Nintendo? You can enjoy both but you need to choose one over the other

 

[innocent jogger]

SNES, no question. Not that the Genesis is a bad console at all, but SNES just has a better game library. Plus all controllers made for the Genesis were crap compared to the ol' SNES dog bone.

As for the N64 topic derailment: The game that everyone I knew had to have for it was GoldenEye. Nobody ever talked about Pokemon where I lived. I personally hate 3D Mario games and never cared much for the N64 in general. Paper Mario 64 though...oh, man. I love the hell out of that game. It's the best of the series IMHO.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I was fortunate enough to have both but I played my Genesis way more. It comes down to this:

Do you like RPG's and are a disgusting weeb? If so, you'll go with the SNES.

Do you like action games (I.E. Contra: Hardcorps, Gunstar Heroes, Streets of Rage trilogy, SHMUPS)? If so, you'll go with the Genesis.

When it comes to platformers they're about even I'd say.

SNES had Super Mario World + All Stars, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country trilogy (even though 3 sucked) and Kirby.

Genesis had Sanic trilogy + Knuckles, Ristar, the superior version of Aladdin, Stimpy's Invention, Pulseman, and Kid Chameleon.

Both systems had unique outlier titles as well.

 

[Pissmaster]

I remember Vita had some type of mystery slot that never got used and was actually removed in its revisions. Oddly, I don't think it was ever definitively determined what that was.

IIRC it was determined that it was wired up for a TV out cable that never got mass produced, though I can't remember where I heard that, or if that was confirmed in a schematic.

Dude you're at the main library for autism and you're asking that?

It's me, I'm the autistic kid who wanted expensive ass Secret of Mana as opposed to a bunch of action figures and Lego and Disney movies on VHS.

Nah the real genius idea that didn't happen was to make the SVP into an adapter like the S&K cart was and you just pop SVP-only games on it. Would've been a far better choice than the 32X, less expensive and wouldn't compete with the Saturn.

If Virtua Racer had a S&K-style adapter on the top, that would have been one hell of a way to sell that game. The 32x was like $150 and came with no pack-in games, right? Yeah, that's a hard pill to swallow for a kid.

But today nobody cares, so why would nintendo sell you a eGPU when they can sell you a new Switch?

I like the idea from an engineering standpoint, but I know it'd be unpopular in practice. Nintendo has internal standards that demand game performance be roughly equal in every game when docked and undocked, right? Imagine the nightmare of having to ensure every single game can jump between an eGPU and an iGPU, and seamlessly switch graphics settings, at any point, with nothing ever going wrong. Yeah, that idea's dead on arrival, but I like thinking about it. Not like there's much else of a use for eGPUs out there.

 

[cybertoaster]

If Virtua Racer had a S&K-style adapter on the top, that would have been one hell of a way to sell that game. The 32x was like $150 and came with no pack-in games, right? Yeah, that's a hard pill to swallow for a kid.

Virtua Racing was already $100 but it was an actual game and in this timeline it would've been more like the game that came with the SVP adapter, and then you could put other games on it like Virtua Fighter or even (I shit you not it was in the plans) Daytona. Plus any 3rd party that could pay for a Genesis cart could've made games for it, since they don't need to purchase the SVP chip themselves like it happened with the FX.

I like the idea from an engineering standpoint, but I know it'd be unpopular in practice. Nintendo has internal standards that demand game performance be roughly equal in every game when docked and undocked, right? Imagine the nightmare of having to ensure every single game can jump between an eGPU and an iGPU, and seamlessly switch graphics settings, at any point, with nothing ever going wrong. Yeah, that idea's dead on arrival, but I like thinking about it. Not like there's much else of a use for eGPUs out there.

It would be a way to get real 1080p 60fps graphics without upscaling or other shitty tricks when in the dock, but then the dock would be as expensive as a switch and devs would've to code for the eGPU which means some kind of SLI which never worked well, or worse bypassing the GPU in the SoC and go with the dock at a much higher latency.

Anyway, too complicated.

 

[Tequila Jong]

Genesis, but only because I still have mine and never owned a SNES. I was lucky enough to have friends in my hometown with other consoles, so we never missed out. I've always preferred the music and sound on Genesis games though. Example:

I'd totally forgotten the SNES version of Desert Strike had to censor the Madman lowering the Kuwaiti into the vat of boiling oil.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

So... little Jimmy, tell us why the Nintendo brand is better than Sega.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Genesis, but only because I still have mine and never owned a SNES. I was lucky enough to have friends in my hometown with other consoles, so we never missed out. I've always preferred the music and sound on Genesis games though. Example:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WtOoWRMLThk
I'd totally forgotten the SNES version of Desert Strike had to censor the Madman lowering the Kuwaiti into the vat of boiling oil.

The SNES version of Robocop VS the Terminator doesn't have the gore either. Weirdly, the level design is worse in the SNES version as well. The Genesis version even has a cheat code to add more gore. Fun game and one of the few licensed titles worth a goddamn.

 

[Pringles Can]

Uh Genesis has blast processing. Super Nintendo doesn't have blast processing.

We have a winner. Genesis has processing. And it's blast. I rest my case.

 

[bifftango]

Do you know who else had a Genesis? Khan Noonien Singh. The fricking thing created a new planet. What did the SNES do, other than make a whole generation of insufferable Nintendo fans who won't shut up about Mario Kart? I don't see the SNES being credited with planet creation. Also, the Genesis had Techno Cop.

This whole discussion is a farce.

 

[BrunoMattei]

If Virtua Racer had a S&K-style adapter on the top, that would have been one hell of a way to sell that game. The 32x was like $150 and came with no pack-in games, right? Yeah, that's a hard pill to swallow for a kid.

Legit Thunk-rate. That would have been interesting. For Zoomer fucks reading this, there is a precedent with this happening with the N64 Expansion Pak being required for 3 games. I think the Pak confused consumers because I remember back in the day that it was kind of confusing to know which games needed the Pak versus it just boosted graphics or something? I know it say's "Expansion Required" right on the cover but when you're researching a game you just don't know until you actually physically see the box in those early internet days. Big difference is that the Expansion Pak by itself was not $100 but closer to something like $30-ish if memory serves? Buying $100 game is asking a lot especially for a mediocre racer. Make the game Afterburner or an Afterburner sequel and now we're talking.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Also, the Genesis had Techno Cop.