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Posted: Apr 22 2006 07:20 am

I'm trying to think of a list of co-op oldschool roms to play with friends. The preffered systems would be NES, Genesis and SNES. I can think of a good handful of games for NES and Genesis, but I can't think of shit for SNES. Any ideas?

Posted: Apr 22 2006 07:26 am

Let's see... On NES, you've got:

Any Double Dragon
Jackal
TMNT 2: The Arcade Game
Bubble Bobble
Contra
RIVER FUCKING CITY RANSOM

On Genesis, you've got the Golden Axe games....

On the SNES, there's Contra III: Alien Wars.

I'm sure there's more, but I just got up and I can't think.

Posted: Apr 22 2006 12:09 pm

I figured I'd post what I'd thought of just for shits and giggles.

NES:

Downtown Special - Kunio Kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shuugou!

If you've never heard of this or played it, I highly reccomend you get it. Hell, I'll play it with you if you want. Nestopia's got Kaillera support. It's the sequel in spirit to River City Ransom in feudal Japan

Riki & Kunio
A great, mindless beat 'em up, up to 4 players simultaneous with 2 on 2 teamplay. This one is a blast. Stars the cast of River City Ransom, it's a mixed martial arts high school tournament

Genesis:

I've played everything a million times and I can't think of anything that would hold my interest anymore, but here are some classics I enjoyed back in the day:

Gunstar Heroes
Streets of Rage 1 & 2
General Chaos
Cyborg Justice
Contra Hard Corps

Genesis pretty much fails for netplay, I've seen / done it all before.

SNES:

I can't find a goddamn co-op game that I haven't either played to death (contra III), takes too long to play (Secret of Mana on netplay, ouch) or just sucks (Run Saber, it's like ugly Strider with pastel colors and lame characters)

I usually just resort to playing random Super Mario World romhacks, those are fun. Factor in a slight amount of net lag and it's lol-tastic. I don't know if you've seen those "I don't think you've thought your cunning plan all the way through" pictures where mario is trapped by 5 goombas and a bullet bill in a 1x1 square of blocks, well, you find yourself in those situations quite frequently, and it's a lol.

Posted: Apr 22 2006 02:45 pm

Maybe I'm an idiot, but how do you play with other people with roms? There's only one keyboard? Are there emulators that have netplay?

Posted: Apr 22 2006 04:08 pm

Yep, Kega Fusion (genesis) Zsnes and NesTopia all have netplay, as well as mame. some of them use direct IP connecting, others use Kaillera.dll, which does a big online server browser thing. As for the controls, I use this PSX to USB adapter

It's Radikool Cool

Posted: Apr 22 2006 04:39 pm

I recommend Pocky and Rocky for SNES.

Posted: Apr 25 2006 12:07 pm

I recommend Pocky for FOOD. It's delicious.

Joined: Apr 24 2006 Posts: 292

Well I don't really get a chance to use it but.

Renegade (4players) SNES. It is mostly 2 players but after you get your girlfreinds until the last area the game is four players.

Rivercity Ransom NES is grand but the truth is the game could take less then a minutes.

Super Bomberman 2 the fact you can jump in one level and bomb the living daylights out of people.

TMNT: The Hyper Stone Hiest( four players). while the game is easy I prefer this over the SNES game. For some reason the game is fun on the Genisis.

There was this game for SNES with a blonde guy on the front with glasses striking a pose and sounded Japanese. I forget the name but it had s ome nice two player action. the name was sho je ???

Posted: Apr 25 2006 08:31 pm

RegalSin wrote:

There was this game for SNES with a blonde guy on the front with glasses striking a pose and sounded Japanese. I forget the name but it had s ome nice two player action. the name was sho je ???

That sounds like the Captain Commando game by CAPCOM.

Joined: Mar 14 2006 Posts: 135

Murdar Machene wrote:

Yep, Kega Fusion (genesis) Zsnes and NesTopia all have netplay, as well as mame. some of them use direct IP connecting, others use Kaillera.dll, which does a big online server browser thing. As for the controls, I use this PSX to USB adapter

It's Radikool Cool

Cool. Price? (too lazy to look it up on laptop dial-up)

Posted: Apr 28 2006 01:50 pm

12 bucks at Radio Shack.

Or if you really wanna go all-out and get one that converts n64 and PSX / PS2 all on one adapter, or one for SNES, or X-box, whatever:

www.lik-sang.com

They've got whatever you need.

Joined: Apr 24 2006 Posts: 292

To hell with Usb I want the use of the regular game ports adapter like a made conversion from PSX to Game port.

Joined: Mar 14 2006 Posts: 135

Murdar Machene wrote:

12 bucks at Radio Shack.

Or if you really wanna go all-out and get one that converts n64 and PSX / PS2 all on one adapter, or one for SNES, or X-box, whatever:

www.lik-sang.com

They've got whatever you need.

My N64 broke. As a matter of fact, it's my only Nintendo platform that's ever broke. I still have my origional GameBoy, Nes, Snes, Virtual Boy(no, not really), and two GBCs, one of which is riddled with some kind of electronic leprosy.
The only reason I bring this up is because I sometimes play N64 ROMS, which is insanely futile and stupid on the computer without some kind of joypad. So that site just saved me the terrible pain of throwing away a few N64 controllers that I would never use again otherwise! Yay! But I do have to fork up 7$ for the converter.

This is what I have my eyes on. Hopefully it won't break as soon as I try to use it Sad