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Click here for my boring little iNES critique... Click here for my hyped-up and absolutely complete review of the most excellent NESticle emulator. Qwertie's Lists of NES

• Wanted Unreleased Games
• Good Games on the NES
• Emu quick list
• Wanted Additions to NESticle

If you have some suggestions for additions or changes to these lists, feel free to mail me.

Popular games confirmed to have been released: New releases sometimes trickle in, but most of the games I don't recognise.  Virtually all the games that were ever released are now available on the internet somehwere.  Most of these were released in packs by Vertigo and GitM (GitM used to be gushing out NES packs like a gunshot wound, but is gone now...)

A thousand tons of games I've never heard of; Temco Super Bowl; Donkey Kong Country 2 (for NES!); Dragon Warrior III and IV; Uninvited; RC Pro Am I and II (3/4 view race car games); Legacy of the Wizard; Punch-Out! (Now it works, in NESticle 0.34+); Gauntlet & Gauntlet II; Smash TV; River City Ransom; Total Recall; Double Dragon II and III; Gunsmoke (why did people want it? I think it sux dill!); TMNT 2 & 3; MegaMan 6 (Now all the Megamans are out); Star Tropics II; Dragon Warrior (the original); Zelda II; Ninja Gaiden II and III; Star Tropics.

The following games have not been released.  Many are listed with an e-mail address of someone who is looking for the game; if you find the game, mail both that person and me so I can remove the entry from the list.

• Tangen Pac-Mania! - That 3-D version of pac-man where you can jump. Wanted by ME!
• [The following were submitted by Frank P. - [email protected]] 1) Guardian Legend [Jap version is available] - an awesome game that combined the action of a top-view space game (much like LifeForce) with an overhead RPG (like Crystalis) Set in the way, way future, it had an awesome storyline, fluid game play, and is sorely missed now that my NES is gone.
• 2) Dr. Chaos--not many people ever heard of this game, but for somebody who used to chew up carts in a matter of hours, this was LONG. I had it for roughly two months befor my NES bit the dust, and I still never beat it. It's gameplay was much like Goonies II, but there was a lot of stuff to do and explore.
• 5) Gremlins [Gremlins II is available] - this cute, cartoony game was actually very fun! Most people took for granted the theme, and passed it off as a child's game. However, once you got past the first stage, it was anything but! This game provded hours of fustration I would very much enjoy living through again.
• [From Lucas [email protected]] Rampart: It's a cool little game (over head map view) where u build castles to enclose areas + get more points + more guns and blow up the other guys castle with cannons and conquer his ass. Also: where is Marble Madness and Dragon Strike?
• Uninvited II - wanted by Electric Jack <[email protected]>
• 3D Worldrunner - wanted by <[email protected]>
• Crash and the Boys: Ice Challenge - wanted by Ryan G. <[email protected]>
• Faria - wanted by <[email protected]>.
• Flying Warriors - wanted by [email protected] .
• High Speed by Williams Entertainment - Wanted by [email protected] :"This was one of the best games I have ever seen for Nintendo so far as game play, but it never was too popular (it's a pinball game)."
• Monster Truck Rally - four-player off-road racing game - wanted by Pscion <[email protected]>
• 'Nobungas Ambition' - 'role playing' game similiar to Ghengis Khan - wanted by <[email protected]>.
• L'emporer and Ghengis Khan - wanted by [email protected]

Favorite Game Images in circulation for the NES console

For all those who missed out on the fun of the NES, here's a list of the best games for that console--in no particular order.

Super Mario Brothers 3: The last and best Mario game for NES. * Super Mario Brothers 2: The Mario game that isn't. It was a different game in Japan, but they changed the graphics to take advantage of the "Mario Mania" in North America. Still a very cool game, but instead of hitting question mark blocks you dig up weeds out of the ground, and instead of squashing enemies you pick them up. * Super Mario Brothers: For some reason this original Mario game is still popular. * Crystalis: An adventure-RPG game sort of like Zelda 3 or Secret of Mana, only not as good. Only works in iNES 0.6. * Metroid: A large, non-linear adventure game with passwords to save your game. Unfortunately, in order to get a password you have to die, which reduces your energy to nearly nothing. Long live the instant save feature!  Anyways, Super Metroid for SNES is much, much better... * Blaster Master: A large, funky action/adventure game where are a kid in a little jumping tank thing and can jump out and well... you gotta try it. On a few of the bosses you can pause it as you fire your weapon into the enemy and it will damage the boss as long as it's paused.  Can anyone tell me how to pass level four?  (or was it level 3?  hmm...) * Mega Man 1-6: You're a little blue guy that gets new weapons by killing bosses (get the boss's weapon.) You can defeat the first stages in any order. * Ninja Gaiden I, II ($$ **) and III ($$! **!!): You are a ninja guy that goes through stages whacking enemies with your sword and throwing stars, and whatever other items you can find. You can cling to walls too.... has some kewl animated sequences between the levels. Go to the Nintendo Power Loud House site to get music test codes for Ninja Gaiden II, which is now up for download :). * Dragon Warrior I to IV: Regular RPGs... fairly good ones in their time. * Castlevania I, II, III: Action games you play with a whip and other items... I never really got into this series... * Excitebike: A game where you ride a little motorbike over hills and obstacles and stuff. You can choose a circuit or make your own track.  A pre-Mario Miyamoto game * Double Dragon I, II, III: games where you go along seemingly forever and punch out a lot of thugs who kidnapped your girlfriend, or something. * Star Tropics: One of the best RPG's out there! Some puzzle elements. You can't see any of the text in iNES! Drat!! Also the status and palette is screwed up. As soon as you go into a place with enemies the background goes black (iNES) or it is graphically screwed in an extreme sense (NESticle). * Star Tropics II: Similar to the original... it probably uses the same engine, because this one is all messed up too. * The Legend of Zelda: Um... it was worth playing the first time... * Zelda II: This game departs from the other Zelda games, with a top and side (battle) views. It could be classified as an Action-RPG... * ProWrestling: "The best of the wrestling games made for the NES. Has (I think) eight selectable characters, each with a few special moves." * River City Ransom: A Double-Dragon/Final Fight type game, with "Super Dodgeball-type graphics", as somebody put it. Or, as somebody else said: "Perhaps the best side-scroller ever, this game made all other games obsolete. The sheer complexity of the game has only been duplicated (and not very well, I might add) by a few games, such as SNES's Legend of the mystical ninja." A bit of an overreaction, in my opinion. * Legacy of the Wizard: An adventure game with odd gameplay that is difficult to get in to, but I like the music... * Donkey Kong Country 2: Yes, there's an NES version of it!  The graphics look a lot like in the Donkey Kong Land series of games, but of course it's in color.  I wonder who coded it.

Most Wanted NESticle features - this was a hard section to do, since NESticle already has so many features =)

• Double-size game window. This would be especially useful in the Windows 95 version, which may become horribly jumpy when you lower the resolution to ModeX 320x240. Or you could run it in 800x600, double size, so you have a nice sized game but also a bit of room around the edges to put a NES timing, sound, network or chat dialog around the edges.
• Modem games. I wouldn't have asked for a network game feature, but now that there is one I realize what a cool feature it could be. Internet games are usually terribly lagged, but a direct modem game could provide a totally unprecedented blast from the past. The DOS version should include the modem game option as well. The Win95 version could include support for LANs and stuff (I don't know if it does already; I play at home).
• Cheat patch finder. You know, one of those deals where the program monitors memory locations in the game and with some human assistance, figure out what memory location to modify to give you 99 lives, full life, items or whatever. Note: the new versions .32+ has game genie support.
• Midi or MOD logging. I have yet to see an emu with this feature (well, iNES sorta does it, but..), but I think it would be incredibly popular. Several music composers have tried to duplicate the music of certain games on console systems... wouldn't it be nice if you could just tell the emu to generate a music file!

List of NES Emulators that are worth listing
 

 
By the way, iNES is sort-of good for something: it can log sound to .SND files, which with a special one of Marat's tools can be converted to MIDI format.  Unfortunately it doesn't always sound good, mostly because the volume is screwed up - background instruments are sometimes very loud, while the main tune is barely audible.  If you have WinGroove, the best way to hear it is to load the MIDI in the WinGroove Player and adjust the scroll bars to make all the channels the same volume.  This isn't the only problem, though... however, I've recorded a large bunch of MIDI's for your listening pleasure.

Download NES Midi Collection

Ninja Gaiden II, which has some of the best NES music IMO, has very, very screwed up volume.  I put all the NG2 music in one file for a reason I don't care to explain here :)
 

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