RE/SET: 100 SNES Games for your RetroPie

pjft

@thelostsoul well, I have a weird relationship with actually "playing" games these days, as I don't have a lot of free time and as such I tend to collect the games and add to my backlog for future reference. I know that I likely will never have the time to actually make progress in the backlog, but it's good to keep the dream alive :D

A few years back, when I first started with RetroPie - and I had a bit more time - I started playing Chrono Trigger, and I think I made it about 20h in or something, but then ended up losing track of it, so even though you have a lot of great recommendations for RPGs and long games there - and most of them I already have on my setup - I likely won't start any, any time soon.

Games I didn't have on my RetroPie that I'll be looking into:

Gokujou Parodius / Fantastic Journey: I don't think I have this one, and since I like this kind of games I'll be getting it.
Front Mission / Gun Hazard: you sold me with the cheat for co-op. These days, with the kids, I tend to look for multiplayer games. I had been playing Super Bomberman 3 with them in the last few weeks.
Fire Emblem: I might have this but this English title doesn't ring a bell.
Super Famicom Wars: I don't think I have this and I like the Advance Wars series, so that's a no-brainer.
Majyuuou / King of Demons: I don't think I have this one, but the description and screenshot are interesting enough for me to take a look!
Nightmare Busters: Side scrolling co-op run and gun? Sign me up.
Super Boss Gaiden: I had read about this a long time ago, and I don't think I have it so I should probably get it.

Games that I had and might bring forward on my backlog:

R-Type 3: I loved R-Type 1 back in the day, but never played any of the others. This one looks nice, and I might try it out one of these days, especially as it's not a bit time commitment!
Wild Guns: I tried it out once and enjoyed it a fair bit! Felt like Cabal, but a bit harder. Last week I actually ran into Wild Guns Reloaded online and thought I should play this again. This must be a sign. :)
Hagane: I know I mentioned it but the truth is that I never played it. I loved Strider back in the day, and the whenever I am browsing and see the video I always think "I should play this one day", so I suppose I should play this one day, really :D
Final Fight 3: I had forgotten about the CPU playing as P2. I played this 15-20 years ago (memory is a bit hazy), and I did have a blast with that feature!

As for Magical Pop'n, I played it two or three times, I do get to the second or third level, but I don't have the time for long play sessions these days. It plays great, it is kind of fun, it has really nice sprite work and animations so it's always a game I have on my list of "games I probably should play because I think I'd enjoy but I don't have time".

The other part I enjoyed the most was the one on Romhacks, but I end up losing the motivation to get them. Actually patching the different ROMs, scraping the info, screenshots, videos, descriptions... it kind of dissuades me from doing it. But there's several good ones, especially on the Zelda, Mario and Metroid front.

So that's it from me - thank you again!

thelostsoul

@pjft said in RE/SET: 100 SNES Games for your RetroPie:

I have a weird relationship with actually "playing" games these days, as I don't have a lot of free time and as such I tend to collect the games and add to my backlog for future reference. I know that I likely will never have the time to actually make progress in the backlog, but it's good to keep the dream alive :D

I couldn't agree more, you perfectly described my current state.^^
Some notes from my sides. The listed Parodius is the second game on the SNES. There is a third one is Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius and the only one exclusive to SNES. I really really did want to include this game instead, but it did not run well on (very slow) my Raspberry Pi 3 back then. I hope this makes your backlog even more frightening. :D
Gun Hazard is a single player game most of the time. Only when you have a second companion at times, s/he can control it. So, don't put this game too high on your list of multiplayer games. There are 3 Fire Emblem games on the SNES. And sometimes you only read the Japanese title, so you might have the game already, but not with the translated titled.

Regarding the Romhacks, I enjoy them too. It is like playing a DLC for these old games, so cool. The manual scraping part is a bit annoying and the reason why I really think twice which games to include. At least this translates automatically into a curated list. I already have a few such scraped infos and should upload them someday. Actually a good idea.

DTEAM

@thelostsoul

It could be interesting to add the average time to beat the game with a hyperlink or a reference to https://howlongtobeat.com

For exemple 5 hours for ActRaiser
https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=191

This is not a criticism, because your document is already wonderful !!

thelostsoul

@DTEAM This is actually a good idea. The "rating" link (average user rating) from gamefaqs.gamespot.com include an average playtime (14h for ActRaiser). I thought about to include this one. But the actual time to beat (the webpage you linked) is also very interesting.

I already discovered "bugs" in the document and may make an update. In example the text for Batman Returns is wrong. This happened when I moved the games. I think the playtime or time to beat or both are really cool to know and will be integrated directly to the page somehow. But only if for most games are such an information available.
Should I just update the document silently? Sadly many people downloaded have the wrong one and most probably won't know the new version.

DTEAM

@thelostsoul You should create a revision like : RESET-100 SNES Games Quality_rev1

mitu

Gradius 3 has recently been 'patched' to remove the severe slowdowns in game - see https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/28. The authors's work has sparked the interesed in similar 'patches' for othe SNES titles, like Megaman X or Contra III.

thelostsoul

@mitu Yes, I am aware of it (found out just recently) and already listed them on another blog post about romhacks. I knew of Gradius 3 and Contra 3 patch, but didn't know about Mega Man X. But I won't add or change any game, because the way the document is organized would require to change a lot of things associated with it.

thelostsoul

Is this the second player bot? :p

@Kellanx said in RE/SET: 100 SNES Games for your RetroPie:

Read via it and it used to be a simply pleasant list - will probable refer returned to it! I used to be completely satisfied to see Magical Pop'n there, as properly as Hagane and Final Fight three with the point out to the bot as the 2d player, and to discover some different hints I did not have on my list.

@pjft said in RE/SET: 100 SNES Games for your RetroPie:

Read through it and it was a really nice list - will likely refer back to it! I was happy to see Magical Pop'n there, as well as Hagane and Final Fight 3 with the mention to the bot as the second player, and to find some other recommendations I didn't have on my list.

pjft

@thelostsoul does look like a poor implementation of one:)

celly

@thelostsoul this is fantastic! Thank you for this.

obsidianspider

This is great! Thanks for putting it together! Do you think you'll create one for other systems like Sega Genesis/Mega Drive?

thelostsoul

@obsidianspider No, at least not at the moment. The biggest problem is how time consuming it is to write the little essays and to read reviews and watch videos about the games (especially with language difficulties). I would love to do it, maybe in the future, maybe not in the scale.

thelostsoul

Update!
Version 1.1 (7. July 2020):

new howlongtobeat playtime and links added to each game
replaced the wrong text for game 045-Batman Returns with proper one
various clean ups, little layout reworks and updated texts
added image us snes to page1:title screen
a few PDF meta descriptions added

DTEAM

@thelostsoul
Thanks for the Update !! Nice work !

meleu

@thelostsoul very cool! :)

would you mind to tell us wich software you used to do the layout on that pdf file?

thelostsoul

@meleu Ah yes off course, its the free software Scribus, a desktop publishing tool similar to the likes of InDesign and QuarkXPress. I had to learn it from scratch, just to make this happen. :D

It started out as a regular LibreOffice document and just a week later I switched over to Scribus. Evolution with screenshots from previous states:

DTEAM

@thelostsoul

I reread your document and it's still great a year later. Awsome work!! I take the liberty of bringing this post back in the spotlight because there is a lot of work in this document and it can be useful for those who missed it the first time.

thelostsoul

@dteam Thank you for the kind words, this means a lot to me. Initially I had plans on doing more with other systems too, but the way I did it was too much work for me and a lot has changed in my private life too. The plans are still there, just with little bit less of scope. As for this document, off course there are things I would have done differently now. But that will always be the case. And did anyone notice the starts at the last "Thank you for reading" page are clickable links to some websites?^^ So guess this makes them to Easter eggs.

Just for the fun and sake of discussion, what games did you miss on the list? Or what games does not belong to it in your own opinion? How many of you are on Raspberry Pi 3 or older?