Debating Genesis vs. SNES in favor of Genesis...

[Jeremy]

I have a couple of ASCII SNES pads, including one that adds some much-appreciated bulk to the SNES pad design. I don't like the six-face button one that I have, as it has kind of an awkward feel to it. Not bad for the $5 or so I paid for it.

[Cheebs]

I cant for the life of me remember a decent SNES controller with six face buttons though.

The Championship Joystick rulled! It was the first I ever saw that used a real arcade stick and buttons. Still have mine, still use it all the time.

http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives...n_joystick.php

[JefmcC]

Can I play a comparison of a Castlevania IV or Actraiser .spc against a shitty .mp3 of Altered Beast then? Or how about putting the SFII music and sound effects from the SNES and Genny directly up against one another, eh?

Sure, why not. But the original posters point was to win a debate that Genesis was superior to SNES. Why would one try to prove the opposite if that's not the goal?

I can think of worse sounding Genesis games than Altered Beast.

Funny how we both picked Yozo music to represent the best of Genesis and SNES.

I like your tactics tho'.

And Sega CD games did use straight redbook audio for most tracks. Go ahead and put it in a home CD player and give it a listen. No Genesis audio chip there.

Most do, but on Lunar 2 (US version anyway), you cannot play it in a CD player, except for maybe one or two tracks. The rest is not red book.

[Master]

only mk1. 2 on SNES had more sounds and crisper visuals than its Genesis counterpart.

Yes but the 32x version was the shizz-nizzle.

[Fe 26]

Yes, Lunar was out looooooong before Ninja Gaiden 1-3 hit the NES...


Unless you are taking about RPGs only. In that case, I agree.

Yeah, I was talking about RPGS only. As sqaure went on to put them in the FF games with 7, and sony adveritsed the hell out of the game with them. In doing so they launched RPGs into the publics eye.

[bbobb]

What the hell happened to kids debating about REAL issues in college debate classes?

This is just fucking stupid. What the hell does this teach them?

[Cheebs]

Yeah, I was talking about RPGS only. As sqaure went on to put them in the FF games with 7, and sony adveritsed the hell out of the game with them. In doing so they launched RPGs into the publics eye.

Y's had story scenes to move things along, and that was before Lunar.

[Kinopio]

Was Cosmic Fantasy before Lunar? That had cutscenes too.

[Mikey]

Actually comparing SNES and MegaDrive is unfair since Nintendo had 2 years more to develop the SNES. From that perspective, the MegaDrive is better, since given that time difference, there's not a huge difference between them. MD was more ahead of its time. But if you're comparing the software catalogue, it's an uphill battle, because in terms of games I'd play now, SNES wipes the floor with MD. In fact, I'd even put MD in third place behind PC Engine, even without the CD systems! I'm not a big MegaDrive fan, obviously.

[Damian79]

What the hell happened to kids debating about REAL issues in college debate classes?

This is just fucking stupid. What the hell does this teach them?

Teaching them about how to make your arguments sound better than the other guys arguments when the audience has no freaking clue what you are on about?