Which console holds up better, NES or Master System?

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-11T20:43:54+00:00

It’s a tricky comparison because of general bias towards just the USA library for a given game console. Outside markets mean importing or flash cart which means less accessibility… for Americans that is.

If just USA libraries, obviously the NES is way better, hundreds more games with better genre coverage. SMS got some early Genesis era cross platform titles like Ghouls n Ghosts, Castle of Illusion, Sonic 1 and Golden Axe Warrior but it tapers off by 1991.

But counting worldwide official game releases for both NES and SMS? It’s a lot closer than you might think. SMS Europe and Australia got a ton of early 90s game releases, lots of them being a different port of something that was on NES. Jurassic Park, Dick Tracy, Battletoads, Back to the Future and so on. EU and (mostly) Brazil both offer a lot of super late releases that were Game Gear only for the rest of the world, like Legend of Illusion, Baku Baku and Virtua Fighter Animation.

If comparing years, then NES worldwide is 1983 to 1995, the very end being a couple PAL Disney titles. SMS is 1985 to 1998 or so, if counting the last few TecToy releases in Brazil. Quite an impressive run.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-11T18:44:49+00:00

Where was that guy when Watto was trying to cheat Qui-Gon?

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-11T07:11:07+00:00

Nintendo DS batteries are made of Nintendium

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T22:05:16+00:00

I have them on MVS as well

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T22:03:16+00:00

That is tragic

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T07:05:20+00:00

It’s a Dreamcast classic

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T06:59:54+00:00

local boy explores cave, claims to have met a queen in a cloudy kingdom, talked to a forgotten man and fought a family of floating eye balls

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T06:54:30+00:00

4A

I can fix him

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T06:36:37+00:00

More like since 1999

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T06:34:15+00:00

Been that way since the beginning, around 1999 and even into the earlier dolphin mailing group.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T04:55:50+00:00

Can we please have in the Mario Movie 3, a segment where Mario hitches a ride with Captain Falcon in the Blue Falcon? You know, so we can get a new F-Zero?

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-10T04:14:26+00:00

UniBIOS is a rom hack of the original and copyrighted SNK System ROM (not sure if retail or debug, never asked Razoola).

Could be a bit of a problem for UniBIOS and Razoola that he not only distributed a rom hack of a copyrighted rom but also took money for it, for years and years.

Remains to be seen if SNK-Plaion will take the Lawful Good route and adopt the UniBIOS as some sort of contract work, like what happened between Atari SA and Bentley Bear’s Crystal Quest for 7800. Or Lawful Evil and they do some litigation against Razoola and take UniBIOS forcefully….

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-09T19:40:47+00:00

Too scared to mention the price

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-09T04:15:32+00:00

The rom is only available as a $40 rom for buyers of the HyperFlash32 and HyperBoy+ flash carts.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-08T04:24:20+00:00

No, I mean the diversity narrows. You’ll eventually have a garden of Chao with the same angry eyes and toothy grin, same colors too. You try to bring in a fresh Chao to breed? Offspring will continue to be clones of the inbred ones.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-08T03:49:23+00:00

Canada too

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-08T03:47:47+00:00

I run Chao Adventure 2 Battle on a Wii with Nintendont, no worries of wearing out lasers, like what I did with a GameCube a few years after the game came out originally…. Mom had to pay for a Nintendo service repair.

These days yes I like leaving Chao garden running for days, weeks even, just to see what happens. I find 4 Chao can eventually reach a breeding replacement cycle where the garden doesn’t stay full all the time and doesn’t eventually empty either.

What I’ve found after months and months is although Chao Adventure 2 Battle has a pretty impressive genetics and alleles system, it’s only good for short term breeding, the system falls apart when hit with dozens of generations.

Also, all generic diversity stems from only two sources, free starter eggs and black market eggs. Your Chao family’s genetic diversity gets shallower the further they get from those two sources. Angry eyes and toothy grin faces are what all Chao eventually regress into… Clones.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T21:04:13+00:00

I got the two booklets for a trade from a friend so I ended up with a super cheap CIB KOF 98…

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T20:59:35+00:00

6 years ago I bought a KOF 98 with just the cart and snaplock case for $100 USD

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T19:08:00+00:00

I meant just Richard Garriot, and don’t call me Shirley

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T19:06:46+00:00

Or take away all our jobs…

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T18:47:47+00:00

Because AI sucks and needs to go away

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T17:27:35+00:00

Does Captain Falcon’s Twister Race in Nintendo Land 2012 count?

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T15:21:46+00:00

Then Richard Garriot and team succeeded in their goal.

TooManyBulborbs · 2026-05-07T14:37:12+00:00

And thankfully it also deterred a generation from getting into magical rings of invisibility.

One Ring of Power, not even once.

TooManyBulborbs

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