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maybe I can actually beat punch out wii now that I'm on real console on crt. rematch soda felt unreactable on emulator but maybe I was just missing something

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I'm still not sure what I would have done about Mike Tyson in mtpo without 4 frames of runahead, given that a lot of actual speedrunners seem to think that the fight is Rough on emulator without it. this series really has a habit of putting ridiculously tight execution checks at the end of their games huh

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idk I like this series a lot and I think the whole thing of "boxing fights as puzzles you have to solve" is really fun and I really like having to learn each fighter's patterns and whatnot, but god is this series hard to recommend to like, anybody, between the excessive Not Great stereotypes and the brutal reaction speeds required basically meaning you gotta either have a beefy cpu to use runahead liberally on emulators, or use a real console, which is obviously not a reasonable recommendation

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Very true, especially that last. I have a working console and a couple of hundred games, but Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is WAY too expensive for me to get a hold of. Even the non-celebrity version is harder to find than most first-party games.

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yeah, that checks out. my wheelhouse is mostly snes and I'd love to have a physical collection at some point but the games I'd most want to own are like, outlandishly expensive. like super metroid goes for a fair bit but I could probably get it for the price of a modern triple a game if I scoured ebay for long enough, but I have long since given up all hope of even seeing a copy of earthbound with my own eyes. anyone telling someone to just buy a retro game physically to play the game should not be taken seriously

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@iamarat

I can give one tip: a lot of Super Famicom games are just as playable as their Super Nintendo equivalents. Removing the region lock on a Super Nintendo only requires a pair of pliers and a sturdy craft knife. Super Metroid is identical between the two versions, and Super Valis IV is BETTER in the Japanese version. The price difference has been make-or-break for me.

You can also often get hacked carts from ahem online retailers. Sometimes the hack is minor enough that it can substitute for the original game. F'rexample, I can buy a translation of Mother 2 for $40.99 from a Certain Site, while Earthbound goes for hundreds on eBay. They can't sell bootlegs of the originals, but they can sell derivative works!

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@iamarat

If you look inside the cartridge slot there are a couple of tabs there. American games have space in the cartridge for them, while Japanese games are solid there and won't go in. I just broke the tabs out and Super Famicom games worked A-OK!

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Its been a while since I’ve played it but Patobox is inspired by punchout but also has 3d areas to explore, theres also a boss rush mode but I can’t remember if you need to play the main story to do all the fights in it.

Im not very good with reaction speed and i beat everything except the secret boss while playing on a tv with some input delay so its probably a decent amount easier than punchout (tho ive played very little punch out since Im not very good with reaction speed lol)

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