CONGRATULATIONS FOR BREAKING 100,000 SUBSCRIBERS! Seriously, this channel deserves each and every single one of them. I've been with this channel for 3 years now and to see it grow to this size is truly great.
Wow, I'm not the only one who does stuff like this? Awesome! In Mario RPG I began a file and save at Mario's Pad, then I play through the game as long as possible without saving again, when I need to quit I just die on purpose and Mario gets sent back to Mario's Pad, but surprise surpise, Mario keeps all the levels you gained, then just save again at Mario's Pad before you shut off the system until you feel like playing again. After a couple run throughs you can start the game with an insanely overpowered level 30 Mario who can OHKO many of the early game bosses. Its pretty funny.
That is an awesome idea. I'll try that next time. The last "challenge" playthrough i attempted was no healers (so just geno and bowser) & no shopping (treasure only). I almost finished it but it got too hard in the last dungeon!
I actually played through Super Mario World without the switch palaces recently. It definitely adds a surprising amount of difficulty, especially for Yellow and Green. The game is surprisingly sparse with Power-Ups when you take those out of the equation, and it definitely makes for a bigger challenge.
I really enjoy your no nonsense approach at speaking on the content you cover, it always flows, is never irritating, or annoying, just flat out you tell it like it is, appreciate everything you share with everyone, top notch quality narratives, thank you appreciate your passion 👍
I never get tired of supporting this channel. This was a great video, and I'd absolutely love to see your takes on romhacks more often. Anyway, have a great rest of your day as well snes drunk.
This channel has been getting suggested to me for a few months but I finally just watch one of the videos yesterday. Now I have watched at least 25 in just a day. Awesome stuff!
Dude SNESDRUNK! I played through FRONT MISSION: GUN HAZARD on your recommendation and I am so thankful for all the time and effort you put into telling us about these games! Im very fond of a few games in the Armored core series and the SNES is my favorite console so I really loved the game. Thanks again for the recommendations man, I always keep a lookout whenever you post. 💖
You definitely have to try Gigantic Army then. It's a modern indie game that's a homage to this game and all others like it, I've got it on switch but I think it's on every platform including pc. Mr. Drunk here made a video about it that pretty much just said "I don't really need to say anything, just go play this right now". So I bought it immediately and am glad I did. It's a bit weird, you can't seem to save so you start from the beginning every time you open it to play, but that's not too much of a problem.
It really is amazing how much milage you can get out of a great system's library :D That Super Metroid v Link to the Past romhack in particular looks like a ton of fun
"No Drinking and Driving Mario Kart". Race your friends but you have to finish a beer before the end of the race. The catch is: you have to pull over and stop before chugging your beer.
There's a group of guys from my home town who hold an annual event called the DWI. They get to spend $500 on a car total then they race it in 5 lap heats. The catch it you MUST drink a 6 pack before you get in your car. They hold the race on private land and admission is by invitation only. It is, as they say, a "hoot".
Very cool Christmas tradition! And I have to say that yours is one of a few channels that I just hit Like as soon as the video starts. I've never been disappointed by your content or delivery or video length. Keep it up!
You, Sir, are deserving of a MUCH larger subscription count. I don’t know your age, but as an “Old School” gamer, I find your videos to be informative, entertaining, and above all, fair to the subject matter. Your sense of humor is a nice frosting. KEEP. IT. UP. All the best....
Hey if you want to play Super Mario World in a difficult and new way just play it on my Super Nintendo. On mine, from the beginning, all of the bosses were invisible so the only way I saw them was by the dust trail they leave behind. Years later I was playing it at a friends house and noticed the bosses were visible making the bosses a cake-walk for me. I thought maybe it was the cartridge but after testing discovered it was just my system. I encountered other difficult things with some of the Donkey Kong Country games etc. that differed from a normal persons experience but this was the most bold,and also the first game I played on the SNES. 😂
@@skunkman5534 😂 Well I didn't know that my struggle was different from others so I just look at it like it made that much better at video games starting with something like that.
you could play on an emulator and do stuff like remove sounds or certain layers from the graphics. I'd watch someone beat mario world without sounds or sprites :D
I must say, I'm pretty amused by that one for "Lamborghini American Challenge" - it sounds like a third-person, lightgun version of Spy Hunter. Gotta love when a game's programmers were clearly allowed to have a little fun during development.
Sometimes I watch these at 11:XX PM and the rest of my day is short, but usually great. I get more bang for my good day buck when I watch just after midnight, to maximize the good dayness I am wished at the end of another entertaining SNES Drunk video. Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great rest of your day.
I really enjoy your channel dude! Have you ever tried Eye of the Beholder? you can play with a dead party LOL! you need to get an extra character (5 at least), and then kill your original 4, then kick out of the party the 5th member and bam! you can play with the dead. You can STILL beat the game if you use throwing weapons, but it is really difficult. It is just for the lulz.
I used to work with a developer who created the 'Link to the Past' randomizer. We were at a holiday party and somebody brought in a Super Nintendo mini and he beat that game maybe in 10 mins using some crazy wall hack. Very cool you brought up his hack on your channel :-)!
I had a self-imposed rule for whenever I played TMNT2 The Arcade Game. The game increases the difficulty in 2-player mode (more enemies and higher hit-point bosses), so I would start a 2-player game and kill off player 2, finishing a harder game with a single character.
One of my favorite things is to do a lttp minimalist run. You only get the items that are required to advance the plot and only right before you would need them. Its brutal to not get the armor upgrades and find normal enemies that take 6 hearts from you
Yea I did this. And I thought this was so easy intill the Ice Caverns and Im not able to get the armor and only lv2 Sword. I never died so much in a zelda before
When you started talking about randomizers I was a little surprised you didn’t mention Super Metroid Impossible. Although not a randomizer of Super Metroid, it makes the game much harder than the original.
Thanks for inspiring me to do a Passive run of Contra III! It's actually the first episode of my new series called Challenge Gauntlet! It wasn't easy lol
In Hagane, I just backflip through everything. you are entirely invincible as you hold the button and I only used front flip attacks, so basically a playthrough only using L, R, and movement, until you have to jump. U.N. squadron without buying anything. In metal warriors you can try to do a pilot only playthrough, only using mechs when you have to, usually letting the enemies open up paths for you. I haven't tried this in gunhazard. Kirby super star with no abilities can be a fun challenge.
+1 for these clever alternate playstyles. I do a variation on this with Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. You can set up AI bot matches in VS mode by holding SELECT, after choosing the handicap and stage. (The Handicap also determines the "difficulty" of the AI bots).
I do three things for Zelda Link to the Past: Pacifist run (stun with boomerang is okay, and anything in a dungeon is fair game), and an interesting thing where I grab the main treasure from a dungeon, but then leave. Best done in dark world, and you can get the mirror shield from Turtle Rock before you have to go back and beat bosses. Third thing is just no-death run. Gotta make that death count zero!
My favorite alternate way to play FF6 is the "NMG" method. NMG stands for "Natural Magic Game" and the goal is to never teach characters spells through Espers or Items. So no elemental shields or Memento ring, and no magicite on characters. Everyone has to use their innate abilities and commands to pull you through the game. I played the entirety of the GBA version including the bonus dungeons and I had a blast. Most fun way to play one more time and it doesn't require any modding.
I did a challenge run of Link Between Worlds that took me almost a year to complete, on and off. Hero Mode, deathless (dying means start over from new game), and you can only collect Ravio's rentals and heart containers. No heart pieces, armor or sword upgrades, no shield, no bottles, nothing but the Master Sword and your wits. Things get truly brutal when you get to Lorule, and the Ganon fight is extremely tense. The first phase takes 64 hits, and everything he does either oneshots or twoshots you. When I finally did it, though, that was one of the most triumphant moments I've ever had in a game. What a rush.
You can also play Earthbound coop! Plug in another controller and you basically have another 1st player (can control everything), just make sure you control your own chars! :D
Here's one I did a bit of as a kid: Kirby's Dreamland 3, try going through each level while holding onto one particular Copy Ability (combined with one particular animal companion, or no animals at all.... though in some stages you might have to stop short since the stage requires flying or something that the animal is incapable of, but if you have a second controller, you could just hand the animal off to Gooey for those segments). Of course, this kind of playing can also be done in any other Kirby game that features Copy Abilities. My intent was to play through the whole game (and other Kirby titles up to Kirby64) using each ability, but I stopped short, having just gone through the game strictly using the basic inhale ability, and I think the Burning ability (going through the whole game with Burning+Chuchu, now that was an interesting challenge). I guess I got worn out on it, but if you pace yourself properly, it seems like an interesting (if repetitive) goal to try and strive for. You could also do this in certain Mario games that feature power-ups. In the case of the SNES, there's the Super Mario All-Stars version of SMB3 (which is made all the more easier since you have a save feature combined with the ability to stock up on power-ups), Super Mario World (which has a more limited number of power-ups compared to SMB3, but makes up for it a bit by having Yoshi in different colors), and even Yoshi's Island (stock up on one particular kind of melon and access it from the pause menu). Really, just about any game that features semi-permanent power-ups could be played like this (Mega Man games could be worth considering as well, though your weapons do have limited usage and some enemies are straight up immune to certain attacks). Just a real shame that the Donkey Kong Country games couldn't let you take animal companions outside of levels.
this is definitely not the first time I heard of the randomizer that has a link to the past and Super Metroid combined, but nevertheless it's still quite impressive to see that somebody even pulled that off
@@kyluya Player 1 moves on the overworld/towns/dungeons. In battle, control of the characters is split in half between players 1 and 2. I dont think there was a specific way to decide who controls who, but you can organize it by moving the order of the party. Also increase the speed of the active time battle system to make things feel less "turn-based."
@@mr.vidjagamez9896 it was decided by character slots and iirc you could arrange it to where 2P had control of three guys while 1P had the first slot and navigated the maps. It's entirely slot based though, which sucks if you're splitting the characters up and you reach a point in the game where the characters change position out of no where.
I've always had fun with Turtles in Time with both P1 and P2 controls mapped to the same controller. It's such a button-masher that you rarely navigate accidentally into bad situations, you can cover a ton more ground than single-player, and it's just more fun to watch the turtles working together than going it alone. Strength in numbers, after all!
Never did a randomizer of Link to the Past but have done minimalist runs- wherein you don't get any upgrades to weapons (except master sword as its required) or armor, no heart upgrades beyond boss drops etc. Makes late game super difficult as you have little health and full damage incoming from enemies and bosses. Would recommend.
I find it crazy like: - there's always someone "reinventing" or finding other ways to put new spins in these old classics - how deep some people understand these "ancient" technologies (three decade old consoles and arcade machines) - the number of classic old games that I had never heard about (I have a Dingoo portable emulator, and almost **weekly** I find new titles I want to play, that I had no idea existed...)
My unconventional playstyle that generated the most fun was on a Playstation game, Final Fantasy Tactics. I used the Game Shark codes to overwrite generics with story characters that couldn't be gotten in the group otherwise. Since they overwrote a generic of the same gender, they were considered fully usable by the game's standards. Some were a bit broken as in having only regular attacks to use (like the final boss, but still usable!), but some were actually fully programmed with full skill sets and abilities, making the game quite a different treat! Quite a few still were able to change class and such as if nothing was "wrong". Another fun one was actually using some games' bugs and glitches to play the games in unconventional ways, like using the sketch glitch from Final Fantasy 6 to break the inventory...then still try to beat the game. Or on Super Mario Bros., using the "get hit by Bowser at the same time as stepping on the Axe while Super" to make it so that Super was your small form, small was your Super form, and small-and-Fiery was the Fiery form. Kinda fun being in a Fiery Mario form and not being able to break blocks!
There was a goal scoring trick in NHL 96, and that made your challenge idea easier than it seemed. I'd beat the Whalers with Eric Lindross 70 something to 21 regularly.
On Super Mario Kart, there’s a code on the character select screen to play every race mini as if you were hit by lightning. It’s the best thing to do when 150cc is too easy. I can’t recall exactly, but I think you either press X and B together.
I grew up with the SNES but I have never played a ton of classic games past renting them back in the day. All the Donkey Kong Country sequels, Mario World 2, Chrono Trigger, all new to me to play soon!
The second time I played through Final Fantasy IV I grinded like crazy in a few areas to ridiculously level up my characters. I found some rare items in the process and also exploited the heck out of the item duplication tricks. It added HOURS to the gameplay, but I also was able to kill some bosses with a single attack which was good for a laugh.
Gonna be honest I only clicked this video, because I thought Krillin was in thumbnail on the bottom left corner. Stayed for the awesome content though.
I like the fact that you stay on level 1 in some kingdom hearts games it makes for a hard game an enemy pattern learning which is heavily missed if you play it on normal like most people do
I once played through Shadowrun only using the Beretta (starting gun) through the whole game. It forces you to rely much more on using magic and hiring offensive Shadowrunners. A bit tedious at times but a fun challenge overall.
If you happen to have a dance pad sitting around somewhere, you can always boot up an emulator and play your favorites using that. If you've only got one, of course, you'll need some keyboard keys too, but arcade cabinets have buttons on their front, so that's fine. If you're looking for people who do this on Twitch, PeekingBoo has an actual arcade cabinet (so he's got 2 pads), and I myself have an Omega 4X - both of us play non-rhythm games on dance pad using our respective setups.
I try to play Super Mario World without skipping levels by flying, but the most brutal challenge I've faced was completing the Special Stages without losing Yoshi. Specially since in Tubular, Mario is supposed to get a balloon to complete the level and he can't get it without abandoning Yoshi, so it makes that specific leval brutal Also, trying to 100% (or 102/105%) Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 is super hard. The thing I wish I had noticed before is that DKC2 indicates when you found all bonus levels by adding an exclamation mark to that level's titles, this kept me from 100% the game for a long time since I didn't know whether I had completed all bonus levels in a level Most people criticize Capcom's Aladdin because it's too easy, specially compared to the Virgin's game made for the Mega Drive which I personally think is a cheap and unforgiving game. But if you want a real challenge in the Super Nintendo game, try completing it collecting all red diamonds, it is brutal. If you miss even one and completes a level, you have to restart the game; if you use a continue, you lose all you're previously collected red diamonds; if you turn off the console and use the password system to go back, guess what? The game doesn't record how many red diamonds you collected, so you might as well restart the game. So it requires a flawless playthrough from start to end and, even though it's cheap, I think the fact that it's a self-imposed challenge make me resent it a lot less than Virgin's Alladin. And the Snes game is so fun that I actually enjoy trying it out, collecting the red diamonds require you to use all kind of acrobatics and platforming which really enhances my experience, even when I fail I just keep playing trying to do my best because it's such a fun game Outside of the Super Nintendo, I had lots of fun playing Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and Peace Walker with no deaths and without the tranquilizer gun. And Super Mario Sunshine without using the hover is a pretty interesting experience
on MiSTer, ive tried playing Mario Kart and F-Zero with a pc steering wheel. F-Zero was a no-go, but mario kart was very playable! Thats a way to dial up the difficulty, for sure ^-^ Outrun on genesis is another that worked great with that setup. I was able to clear the game with that setup. Also, increasing the CPU/Super-FX chips clock speed on SNES will not only make the framerate better for many games, but makes the super-fx games play at a faster speed as well, which ups the challenge level. I know this isnt an option for most folks with original consoles, but on MiSTer or an emulator that supports similar functionality, this can be a fun way to revisit Star Fox/2, Stunt Race FX, etc.
Remember when Eric Lindros kept getting concussions? The only NHL game I had was '94 on the Genesis and I still think it's the best hockey game of all time.
I once played zelda by taking the items from the dungeons and then did the bosses from last to first. Also, my dad maxed out the levitate spell in Secret of Evermore. He'd do the "max the shit out of everything" runs all the time.
A few challenges I have under my belt your viewers may like to try out for themselves. Beat all Super Mario Games using small mario. SMB 3 has one exception in world 7 with the stage that has nothing but piranha plants. SMB2 you have to immediately shrink your character at the start of each turn. Then there are RPG solo character challenges. FF1, FF5, FF6 (with the exception of the team segments, each team gets one character), FF7, DW4 are all beatable with one character parties. FF5 was probably the hardest one beat solo character. You can do this, or, learn how to survive the coming transition. Hmmm, what to do?
Childhood: Never got 100% on Super Mario World because of that hellish secret water world, never found the final heart container in Link To The Past Quarter-life Crisis: Friend and I drank whiskey and finished Super Mario World in one sitting.
The Zelda/Metroid Rabdomizer needs more updates. Outside of cosmetic characters, it could do crazy things like randomize bosses (as in, a Zelda boss room could end being a Metroid boss instead and vice versa), tweak the algorithm to encourage more game swapping, Zelda dungeon keys in Metroid, etc.
I will definitely try that Mario World no exclamation box's thing. And will definitely pick up NHL 96. I'm very wary of picking up sports games on SNES, even though I love sports games on NES. Never heard of that Lamborghini game. But need to get that and a mouse. Being able to play a racing game with a mouse in it self makes it a must buy for me
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So happy you gave my favorite athlete of all time, Joe Sakic, a shout out.
Well I guess we know what you are doing today. Me, Mario 64.
I always have a great rest of my day after a SNES Drunk
@MultiTarded Hang in there!
That message always puts me in a better mood.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR BREAKING 100,000 SUBSCRIBERS!
Seriously, this channel deserves each and every single one of them. I've been with this channel for 3 years now and to see it grow to this size is truly great.
completely agree, and congrats SNES Drunk!
Gabe Mewell
I think you mean Congraturation...
@@MrShanester117 A winner is you
Thank you, the sentiment is appreciated.
whens half life 3?
That Star Fox randomizer is the most drunk thing I have seen on this channel.
Wow, I'm not the only one who does stuff like this? Awesome!
In Mario RPG I began a file and save at Mario's Pad, then I play through the game as long as possible without saving again, when I need to quit I just die on purpose and Mario gets sent back to Mario's Pad, but surprise surpise, Mario keeps all the levels you gained, then just save again at Mario's Pad before you shut off the system until you feel like playing again. After a couple run throughs you can start the game with an insanely overpowered level 30 Mario who can OHKO many of the early game bosses. Its pretty funny.
Wow, never imaged that! If I ever play SMRPG again I'll try this for the lols!
That is an awesome idea. I'll try that next time.
The last "challenge" playthrough i attempted was no healers (so just geno and bowser) & no shopping (treasure only). I almost finished it but it got too hard in the last dungeon!
ThewOrldIssqUare I bet that really got hard after the cloud area
@@ThewOrldIssqUare never played with healers on my party 🤣 And the regular game stuff was pretty easy.
I actually played through Super Mario World without the switch palaces recently. It definitely adds a surprising amount of difficulty, especially for Yellow and Green. The game is surprisingly sparse with Power-Ups when you take those out of the equation, and it definitely makes for a bigger challenge.
Also they can save you from missing many jumps later in the game. I agree.
I really enjoy your no nonsense approach at speaking on the content you cover, it always flows, is never irritating, or annoying, just flat out you tell it like it is, appreciate everything you share with everyone, top notch quality narratives, thank you appreciate your passion 👍
I never get tired of supporting this channel. This was a great video, and I'd absolutely love to see your takes on romhacks more often.
Anyway, have a great rest of your day as well snes drunk.
This channel has been getting suggested to me for a few months but I finally just watch one of the videos yesterday. Now I have watched at least 25 in just a day. Awesome stuff!
Thanks for stopping by Mike
Dude SNESDRUNK! I played through FRONT MISSION: GUN HAZARD on your recommendation and I am so thankful for all the time and effort you put into telling us about these games! Im very fond of a few games in the Armored core series and the SNES is my favorite console so I really loved the game. Thanks again for the recommendations man, I always keep a lookout whenever you post. 💖
You definitely have to try Gigantic Army then. It's a modern indie game that's a homage to this game and all others like it, I've got it on switch but I think it's on every platform including pc. Mr. Drunk here made a video about it that pretty much just said "I don't really need to say anything, just go play this right now". So I bought it immediately and am glad I did. It's a bit weird, you can't seem to save so you start from the beginning every time you open it to play, but that's not too much of a problem.
Gun hazard is an OG classic
It really is amazing how much milage you can get out of a great system's library :D
That Super Metroid v Link to the Past romhack in particular looks like a ton of fun
Yeah I want to try that one
Yeah that one tea caught my attention
"No Drinking and Driving Mario Kart". Race your friends but you have to finish a beer before the end of the race. The catch is: you have to pull over and stop before chugging your beer.
There's a group of guys from my home town who hold an annual event called the DWI. They get to spend $500 on a car total then they race it in 5 lap heats. The catch it you MUST drink a 6 pack before you get in your car. They hold the race on private land and admission is by invitation only.
It is, as they say, a "hoot".
Very cool Christmas tradition!
And I have to say that yours is one of a few channels that I just hit Like as soon as the video starts. I've never been disappointed by your content or delivery or video length. Keep it up!
You, Sir, are deserving of a MUCH larger subscription count. I don’t know your age, but as an “Old School” gamer, I find your videos to be informative, entertaining, and above all, fair to the subject matter. Your sense of humor is a nice frosting.
KEEP. IT. UP.
All the best....
Amazing video, I didn't know a lot of this! Super Scope on a racing game? Randomizer for LTTP/Super Metroid at same time? SWEET
SUPER best friends play it this version of metroid and a Link to the past
Hey if you want to play Super Mario World in a difficult and new way just play it on my Super Nintendo.
On mine, from the beginning, all of the bosses were invisible so the only way I saw them was by the dust trail they leave behind.
Years later I was playing it at a friends house and noticed the bosses were visible making the bosses a cake-walk for me.
I thought maybe it was the cartridge but after testing discovered it was just my system.
I encountered other difficult things with some of the Donkey Kong Country games etc. that differed from a normal persons experience but this was the most bold,and also the first game I played on the SNES. 😂
I feel sorry for past you
Except Lemmy and Wendy, all of them uses Mode 7.
So, I see what's the problem with your SNES. Lol
@@skunkman5534 😂 Well I didn't know that my struggle was different from others so I just look at it like it made that much better at video games starting with something like that.
you could play on an emulator and do stuff like remove sounds or certain layers from the graphics. I'd watch someone beat mario world without sounds or sprites :D
I have a Mario 3 cart that switches your suit when you hit select. Kinda fun to run around in the hammer suit or the shoe just for kicks.
This is great. Thanks for the suggestions. I'd enjoy seeing you do a whole video on randomizers. That Star Fox one looks nuts.
Death, Taxes, and a Front Mission Gun Hazard reference in a SNES drunk video :)
Lemmings 2 is also compatible with the Super Scope, that would make for an interesting challenge!
That sounds awesome
"OH NO.... " *Blasted to death by the super scoper*
I must say, I'm pretty amused by that one for "Lamborghini American Challenge" - it sounds like a third-person, lightgun version of Spy Hunter.
Gotta love when a game's programmers were clearly allowed to have a little fun during development.
SMW has been a Christmas staple in our family for decades
Congrats on the new milestone. Keep up the good work.
Have a good rest of your day ;)
Your voice sounds just a little bit more upbeat/happier. You can hear the 100K hype. Congrats!
Congratulations on hitting 100k.
Sometimes I watch these at 11:XX PM and the rest of my day is short, but usually great. I get more bang for my good day buck when I watch just after midnight, to maximize the good dayness I am wished at the end of another entertaining SNES Drunk video.
Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great rest of your day.
I really enjoy your channel dude! Have you ever tried Eye of the Beholder? you can play with a dead party LOL! you need to get an extra character (5 at least), and then kill your original 4, then kick out of the party the 5th member and bam! you can play with the dead. You can STILL beat the game if you use throwing weapons, but it is really difficult. It is just for the lulz.
Ok that's interesting
I used to work with a developer who created the 'Link to the Past' randomizer. We were at a holiday party and somebody brought in a Super Nintendo mini and he beat that game maybe in 10 mins using some crazy wall hack. Very cool you brought up his hack on your channel :-)!
Another great video. Awesome to learn something new about gaming on the classics. Just makes me want to go and try these methods right now!
Always love the content here and this was a particularly great episode.
I had a self-imposed rule for whenever I played TMNT2 The Arcade Game. The game increases the difficulty in 2-player mode (more enemies and higher hit-point bosses), so I would start a 2-player game and kill off player 2, finishing a harder game with a single character.
Love it!
I've definitely played that Front Mission, a hidden gem of a game.
Good video. Congrats on 100K dude!
One of my favorite things is to do a lttp minimalist run. You only get the items that are required to advance the plot and only right before you would need them.
Its brutal to not get the armor upgrades and find normal enemies that take 6 hearts from you
Yea I did this. And I thought this was so easy intill the Ice Caverns and Im not able to get the armor and only lv2 Sword. I never died so much in a zelda before
When you started talking about randomizers I was a little surprised you didn’t mention Super Metroid Impossible. Although not a randomizer of Super Metroid, it makes the game much harder than the original.
Woooo! Graz for passing 100k! Well deserved!
Thanks for inspiring me to do a Passive run of Contra III! It's actually the first episode of my new series called Challenge Gauntlet! It wasn't easy lol
I must have that Star Fox hack, glitches and all. 😂
Do a barrel... hovering Nova bomb?!?
The secret room in the beginning of Shadowrun makes the game such a pleasure without having to grind all the way through
In Hagane, I just backflip through everything. you are entirely invincible as you hold the button and I only used front flip attacks, so basically a playthrough only using L, R, and movement, until you have to jump.
U.N. squadron without buying anything.
In metal warriors you can try to do a pilot only playthrough, only using mechs when you have to, usually letting the enemies open up paths for you. I haven't tried this in gunhazard.
Kirby super star with no abilities can be a fun challenge.
I love playing games in different ways. This is an overlooked characteristic of old games.
I'm literally laughing out loud at the Contra 3 footage.
So do I.
I'd like to thank you for uploading and hope you have a great rest of your day.
I love this channel and Front Mission Gun Hazard so much. It's probably my favorite game right after Chrono Trigger.
+1 for these clever alternate playstyles. I do a variation on this with Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. You can set up AI bot matches in VS mode by holding SELECT, after choosing the handicap and stage. (The Handicap also determines the "difficulty" of the AI bots).
I like how you end your movies. Thanks for being such a swell guy.
Awesome Content, you are the definitive source for all things SNES!!!
I do three things for Zelda Link to the Past: Pacifist run (stun with boomerang is okay, and anything in a dungeon is fair game), and an interesting thing where I grab the main treasure from a dungeon, but then leave. Best done in dark world, and you can get the mirror shield from Turtle Rock before you have to go back and beat bosses.
Third thing is just no-death run. Gotta make that death count zero!
My favorite alternate way to play FF6 is the "NMG" method.
NMG stands for "Natural Magic Game" and the goal is to never teach characters spells through Espers or Items. So no elemental shields or Memento ring, and no magicite on characters. Everyone has to use their innate abilities and commands to pull you through the game. I played the entirety of the GBA version including the bonus dungeons and I had a blast. Most fun way to play one more time and it doesn't require any modding.
I did a challenge run of Link Between Worlds that took me almost a year to complete, on and off. Hero Mode, deathless (dying means start over from new game), and you can only collect Ravio's rentals and heart containers. No heart pieces, armor or sword upgrades, no shield, no bottles, nothing but the Master Sword and your wits. Things get truly brutal when you get to Lorule, and the Ganon fight is extremely tense. The first phase takes 64 hits, and everything he does either oneshots or twoshots you. When I finally did it, though, that was one of the most triumphant moments I've ever had in a game. What a rush.
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You can also play Earthbound coop! Plug in another controller and you basically have another 1st player (can control everything), just make sure you control your own chars! :D
There is also speedrunning. Through the different categories, there are so many ways to enjoy games.
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Here's one I did a bit of as a kid: Kirby's Dreamland 3, try going through each level while holding onto one particular Copy Ability (combined with one particular animal companion, or no animals at all.... though in some stages you might have to stop short since the stage requires flying or something that the animal is incapable of, but if you have a second controller, you could just hand the animal off to Gooey for those segments). Of course, this kind of playing can also be done in any other Kirby game that features Copy Abilities. My intent was to play through the whole game (and other Kirby titles up to Kirby64) using each ability, but I stopped short, having just gone through the game strictly using the basic inhale ability, and I think the Burning ability (going through the whole game with Burning+Chuchu, now that was an interesting challenge). I guess I got worn out on it, but if you pace yourself properly, it seems like an interesting (if repetitive) goal to try and strive for.
You could also do this in certain Mario games that feature power-ups. In the case of the SNES, there's the Super Mario All-Stars version of SMB3 (which is made all the more easier since you have a save feature combined with the ability to stock up on power-ups), Super Mario World (which has a more limited number of power-ups compared to SMB3, but makes up for it a bit by having Yoshi in different colors), and even Yoshi's Island (stock up on one particular kind of melon and access it from the pause menu). Really, just about any game that features semi-permanent power-ups could be played like this (Mega Man games could be worth considering as well, though your weapons do have limited usage and some enemies are straight up immune to certain attacks). Just a real shame that the Donkey Kong Country games couldn't let you take animal companions outside of levels.
I loved the super scope, its so badass that Lamborghini for the Snes supported that ❤
Awesome idea for a video. I’m gonna try some of these myself.
this is definitely not the first time I heard of the randomizer that has a link to the past and Super Metroid combined, but nevertheless it's still quite impressive to see that somebody even pulled that off
Final Fantasy 6 with 2 players was always my "unconventional" SNES experience.
It's so fun with another player Jesus I can't believe more people don't play it like that.
It was mainly overworld controls though...right?
@@kyluya Player 1 moves on the overworld/towns/dungeons. In battle, control of the characters is split in half between players 1 and 2. I dont think there was a specific way to decide who controls who, but you can organize it by moving the order of the party. Also increase the speed of the active time battle system to make things feel less "turn-based."
@@mr.vidjagamez9896 it was decided by character slots and iirc you could arrange it to where 2P had control of three guys while 1P had the first slot and navigated the maps.
It's entirely slot based though, which sucks if you're splitting the characters up and you reach a point in the game where the characters change position out of no where.
Great vid with a bunch of cool ideas!
I rejoiced to realize that there are tons of videos in your channel that I have not watched yet. Thank you SNES drunk.
Something I used to do in some games is mainly pretend to live a virtual life within the games that I used to play.
That sounds like the type of thing I used to do when I was a kid as well haha
Lamborghini American challenge is one of my favorite SNES games from my childhood, I never knew you could play it like that :O
I'm .a big fan of your videos. they are always so informative and give me a great nostalgia factor.
I've always had fun with Turtles in Time with both P1 and P2 controls mapped to the same controller. It's such a button-masher that you rarely navigate accidentally into bad situations, you can cover a ton more ground than single-player, and it's just more fun to watch the turtles working together than going it alone. Strength in numbers, after all!
That was a good topic. Way to keep it fresh. 👍
Never did a randomizer of Link to the Past but have done minimalist runs- wherein you don't get any upgrades to weapons (except master sword as its required) or armor, no heart upgrades beyond boss drops etc. Makes late game super difficult as you have little health and full damage incoming from enemies and bosses. Would recommend.
I find it crazy like:
- there's always someone "reinventing" or finding other ways to put new spins in these old classics
- how deep some people understand these "ancient" technologies (three decade old consoles and arcade machines)
- the number of classic old games that I had never heard about (I have a Dingoo portable emulator, and almost **weekly** I find new titles I want to play, that I had no idea existed...)
This was an awesome Vid. Thanks for all your vids man I love them!
My unconventional playstyle that generated the most fun was on a Playstation game, Final Fantasy Tactics. I used the Game Shark codes to overwrite generics with story characters that couldn't be gotten in the group otherwise. Since they overwrote a generic of the same gender, they were considered fully usable by the game's standards. Some were a bit broken as in having only regular attacks to use (like the final boss, but still usable!), but some were actually fully programmed with full skill sets and abilities, making the game quite a different treat! Quite a few still were able to change class and such as if nothing was "wrong".
Another fun one was actually using some games' bugs and glitches to play the games in unconventional ways, like using the sketch glitch from Final Fantasy 6 to break the inventory...then still try to beat the game. Or on Super Mario Bros., using the "get hit by Bowser at the same time as stepping on the Axe while Super" to make it so that Super was your small form, small was your Super form, and small-and-Fiery was the Fiery form. Kinda fun being in a Fiery Mario form and not being able to break blocks!
Thank you for another great video. It made my day :)
There was a goal scoring trick in NHL 96, and that made your challenge idea easier than it seemed. I'd beat the Whalers with Eric Lindross 70 something to 21 regularly.
Super Beard Bros did a playthrough of the LttP/SM randomizer, it was really fun to watch.
Can't wait for part 2! ♥️
On Super Mario Kart, there’s a code on the character select screen to play every race mini as if you were hit by lightning. It’s the best thing to do when 150cc is too easy.
I can’t recall exactly, but I think you either press X and B together.
Those alternate control options for Lamborgini Challenge are very cool.
I grew up with the SNES but I have never played a ton of classic games past renting them back in the day. All the Donkey Kong Country sequels, Mario World 2, Chrono Trigger, all new to me to play soon!
That SMW no switch palace sounds brutal. Considering how easy the switch palaces can make some areas of the game.
The second time I played through Final Fantasy IV I grinded like crazy in a few areas to ridiculously level up my characters. I found some rare items in the process and also exploited the heck out of the item duplication tricks. It added HOURS to the gameplay, but I also was able to kill some bosses with a single attack which was good for a laugh.
Gonna be honest I only clicked this video, because I thought Krillin was in thumbnail on the bottom left corner. Stayed for the awesome content though.
Congrats for the 100k
I like the fact that you stay on level 1 in some kingdom hearts games it makes for a hard game an enemy pattern learning which is heavily missed if you play it on normal like most people do
I once played through Shadowrun only using the Beretta (starting gun) through the whole game. It forces you to rely much more on using magic and hiring offensive Shadowrunners. A bit tedious at times but a fun challenge overall.
Fantastic video!
I actually enjoyed playing the Mega Man X games on PC. X & X3 were somewhat decent on a PC.
The original X is fun because it has a built-in speed-increase setting to the gameplay you can use on PC version.
I have got to try that LTTP and SM combine randomizer it looks like a blast thanks SNES Drunk!
Ok, some of these were pretty unexpected. Well done, SD.
“And I wanna thank you for watching” came out sorta abruptly lol.
I hope you have a great rest of your day as well.
If you happen to have a dance pad sitting around somewhere, you can always boot up an emulator and play your favorites using that. If you've only got one, of course, you'll need some keyboard keys too, but arcade cabinets have buttons on their front, so that's fine. If you're looking for people who do this on Twitch, PeekingBoo has an actual arcade cabinet (so he's got 2 pads), and I myself have an Omega 4X - both of us play non-rhythm games on dance pad using our respective setups.
I try to play Super Mario World without skipping levels by flying, but the most brutal challenge I've faced was completing the Special Stages without losing Yoshi. Specially since in Tubular, Mario is supposed to get a balloon to complete the level and he can't get it without abandoning Yoshi, so it makes that specific leval brutal
Also, trying to 100% (or 102/105%) Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 is super hard. The thing I wish I had noticed before is that DKC2 indicates when you found all bonus levels by adding an exclamation mark to that level's titles, this kept me from 100% the game for a long time since I didn't know whether I had completed all bonus levels in a level
Most people criticize Capcom's Aladdin because it's too easy, specially compared to the Virgin's game made for the Mega Drive which I personally think is a cheap and unforgiving game. But if you want a real challenge in the Super Nintendo game, try completing it collecting all red diamonds, it is brutal. If you miss even one and completes a level, you have to restart the game; if you use a continue, you lose all you're previously collected red diamonds; if you turn off the console and use the password system to go back, guess what? The game doesn't record how many red diamonds you collected, so you might as well restart the game. So it requires a flawless playthrough from start to end and, even though it's cheap, I think the fact that it's a self-imposed challenge make me resent it a lot less than Virgin's Alladin. And the Snes game is so fun that I actually enjoy trying it out, collecting the red diamonds require you to use all kind of acrobatics and platforming which really enhances my experience, even when I fail I just keep playing trying to do my best because it's such a fun game
Outside of the Super Nintendo, I had lots of fun playing Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and Peace Walker with no deaths and without the tranquilizer gun. And Super Mario Sunshine without using the hover is a pretty interesting experience
on MiSTer, ive tried playing Mario Kart and F-Zero with a pc steering wheel. F-Zero was a no-go, but mario kart was very playable! Thats a way to dial up the difficulty, for sure ^-^ Outrun on genesis is another that worked great with that setup. I was able to clear the game with that setup.
Also, increasing the CPU/Super-FX chips clock speed on SNES will not only make the framerate better for many games, but makes the super-fx games play at a faster speed as well, which ups the challenge level. I know this isnt an option for most folks with original consoles, but on MiSTer or an emulator that supports similar functionality, this can be a fun way to revisit Star Fox/2, Stunt Race FX, etc.
Remember when Eric Lindros kept getting concussions? The only NHL game I had was '94 on the Genesis and I still think it's the best hockey game of all time.
I once played zelda by taking the items from the dungeons and then did the bosses from last to first. Also, my dad maxed out the levitate spell in Secret of Evermore. He'd do the "max the shit out of everything" runs all the time.
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A few challenges I have under my belt your viewers may like to try out for themselves.
Beat all Super Mario Games using small mario. SMB 3 has one exception in world 7 with the stage that has nothing but piranha plants. SMB2 you have to immediately shrink your character at the start of each turn.
Then there are RPG solo character challenges. FF1, FF5, FF6 (with the exception of the team segments, each team gets one character), FF7, DW4 are all beatable with one character parties. FF5 was probably the hardest one beat solo character.
You can do this, or, learn how to survive the coming transition. Hmmm, what to do?
Loved this video.
Thumbs UP if you watch the crappy commercials so SNES Drunk gets the ad revenue!
So he doesn't get the revenue if we skip the commercials???
From my understanding, no.
Childhood: Never got 100% on Super Mario World because of that hellish secret water world, never found the final heart container in Link To The Past
Quarter-life Crisis: Friend and I drank whiskey and finished Super Mario World in one sitting.
The Zelda/Metroid Rabdomizer needs more updates. Outside of cosmetic characters, it could do crazy things like randomize bosses (as in, a Zelda boss room could end being a Metroid boss instead and vice versa), tweak the algorithm to encourage more game swapping, Zelda dungeon keys in Metroid, etc.
I will definitely try that Mario World no exclamation box's thing. And will definitely pick up NHL 96. I'm very wary of picking up sports games on SNES, even though I love sports games on NES. Never heard of that Lamborghini game. But need to get that and a mouse. Being able to play a racing game with a mouse in it self makes it a must buy for me