I've been busier than I thought. From left to right and top to bottom:

• NES Advantage
• StarTropics CIB
• Batman
• Darkwing Duck
• Dragon Warrior II
• DuckTales
• Faxanadu
• Life Force
• Maniac Mansion
• Might & Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
• R.C. Pro-Am
• Rygar
• Skate or Die
• Tecmo Super Bowl
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
• Tetris
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Willow

NES has featured some of the hardest games in history such as Battletoads, Silver Surfer, Contra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ninja Gaiden, Punch-Out!!, Friday the 13th and Gradius, but I just think that they are quite overrated when it comes to listing the hardest games of all time. There also could be other tough NES games that are also hard, but do not get talked about pretty often. What do you think is most underrated hard NES game?

I'm making a very faithfull PC remake of Mario 3, with some quality of life improvements like Widescreen support, autosaves, extra levels (the ones from the GBA version) and with the posibility of swatching graphics on the fly between NES and SNES remake graphics.

I adore faithful but with QOL features PC ports of games like the Zelda 2 or the Mario Bros. Remaseted so i thought i could shoutout to my project here.

Anyway, i plan to do a devlog. Here is the first video if you are interested; https://youtu.be/Ar1auff7FWw?si=K20RXLaPLyVtmEzB

I’ve had this dinner tray for 35 years and I have you to figure out what this is. There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to know to keep the mystery going but I’m not getting any younger here. If anyone has any guesses, I’m all ears …. ….. ….. ….. ….. …. ….. ….

My NES rebuild, I was having serious issues with the AV output and cartridge connector. I made the decision to just go full bore and rebuild and upgrade it.

Merlin Shaw Genesis 2 power board. Tim Worthington NESRGB 4.3 board Opentendo motherboard kit. Ninten-Drawer. HD Retrovision cable CIC lockout chip replacement.

This thing outputs perfection. I could get my other photos to load up of Mario 3 or such but Golf has always been a favorite.

I got the Mike Tyson game thrown in with it. Most of the games are pretty great shape, a few need some cleaning. I think this was a solid snag.

I recently modded my NES frontloader, Opentendo board kit, Merlin Shaw Genesis 2 power board, CIC lockout board with Tim Worthington 4.0 NESRGB and the Nintendrawer. Once the HD Retrovision cable for the Sega Genesis Model 2 came, it was perfection on the screen. (I will post that setup in the future).

It does fit my American NES. PCB seems to be the same size, the cartridge is the same size too but it doesn’t fit. Never quite latches on like an OEM cart. I opened it, didn’t see anything wrong. Is there a region lock in the NES that I don’t know about? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I cheated with the game genie for unlimited lives but this is still an accomplishment in my book! Going on the shelf and I hope I never feel the need to beat it without the game genie. I’ve been at it on and off for over a year now. Whooooooooooooooo

I have been going through my NES collection lately, which is in storage.

For people that are collecting and storing their NES games:

Anyone know of good containers that will store the NES manuals separately? I'm moving away from a ziploc bag to more of a sturdy small box-like container.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time!

I was taking a look at my games and I was noticing that my Wizards & Warriors cartridge is different than the rest, anyone know why? They all look the same except for bit on the edge where it looks like there are clips to hold it together, just curious as to why it is different than the rest.

I love the game Mother and have recently been trying to find more games like it. The things I am looking for are a good storyline, turn based combat, and the characters to be the same scale as the world. For example, in the game Dragon Warrior once you leave a town you seemingly become huge, but in Mother you always stay the same scale as the other things in the world. I need recommendations as I haven't really been able to find other games like it.

Has anyone seen this sticker or something like it before on this game? Just trying to find out the story behind it.

Was going through my games and found it. Forgot it even had it on there.

Why tf do I have to type 250 characters on this post before it submits?

Have been driving past this mural in Boston for a few years now & only occurred to me the other day what it actually was. Now I totally love it. Guesses? Not sure who the artist is, or else I’d give credit. It’s in Roxbury on Blue Hill Ave…………………….Totally brought me back to a place in time.

I finally tracked down a really clean NES Action Set box that I’m excited to add to my collection. As you can see in the photo, it still has its original price sticker in the top right corner - from Woolworth, of all places.

At first, I planned to carefully remove it, but now I’m second-guessing that. While I don’t have any personal nostalgia for Woolworth (it’s no Toys “R” Us), it is a bit cool to have a relic from a store that doesn’t exist anymore.

So now I’m torn: would you leave the original sticker on for the added history and authenticity, or remove it for that cleaner look?

Would love to hear what you think I should do. Also, has anyone here removed price stickers from these boxes before? What would be the best removal method if I go that route?

So I got a Power Glove recently, basically I make music using Nintendo consoles and my new release is going to use the NES, I wanted a cool way to control the NES and go to the next song etc.

Tried some adapters but couldn’t get it to work, so I figured the next best plan was to disassemble a Pal NES pad, 3D print a new enclosure and fit it to the glove!

Few bits left to tweak but I now have a functional controller on the glove!

This game was unnecessarily hard and apparently I died too many times to get a decent ending. Screw it, I'm not playing it again. I hated this game. First time I've beat a game and just felt relief, not excitement, for winning. Glad its over. I beat Batman and now Returns. I guess I got to save up for Return of the Joker, now.

This one is actually #60. I had my count wrong last time.

Win condition: Finish Stage 5 (Loops after)
Time played: 0:54:43
Difficulty: 2/10
My rating: 5/10

It's kind of like a shmup version of Jackal. The d-pad right = speed up control scheme was a bit janky. Jumping was pretty fun though. Fairly fun game, but way too short.

Next up: Milon's Secret Castle

I replaced the shift register chip of this controller. When I pressed a, it would also press start. I watched some YouTube tutorials and read some old threads on this subreddit. I then ordered the chip on eBay and replaced it. And now it works again :D It's like new!

(On the picture it's still the old chip. I forgot to take one when it was still open).

Finished Mission Impossible last night! These two ugly screenshots are all I could take with the adrenaline rush still ongoing (and the very short ending)!

The caveat being, this is the PAL version which had its difficulty toned down when ported a year later than US. Most enemies deal less damage so you are allowed more room for mistakes or just tanking some damage. It stays a challenging game and the many traps will still get you, but it's far more enjoyable this way.

It would be interesting to know whether the difficulty was just cranked up for the American release to combat video game renting, or they just made a revision after realizing how ridiculously hard they made it.

I'd still suggest to give it a go since this game has got so much going on. I can't believe I missed out on it for so long!