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Chrono Trigger’s easily #1 for me in the 16-bit era, but FF VI is damn good.

aidenn0 3y ago
I love Chrono Trigger; it's also what got me into emulation. I wasn't allowed to have an SNES but my 486 could just manage to run an emulator (esnes I think it was called?) that could do SNES with no sound or translucency (there were keyboard shortcuts to toggle the layers so e.g. you could hide fog that would otherwise make the whole screen gray).
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Oh man, no sound on Chrono Trigger is a shame. The music’s great.
  - fbdab103 3y ago
    I also vaguely recall a few of the puzzles used sound ques to note there was a hidden button.
- zerocrates 3y ago
  zsnes is an older SNES emulator that definitely in its earlier days had some issues with transparent/translucent layers and had keys to turn each layer off. I think I remember needing to use those toggles for the same fog layers in Chrono Trigger that you're talking about (though I definitely wasn't on a 486). I think esnes may be a little bit older?
  - aidenn0 3y ago
    Just a tiny bit older: https://archive.org/details/ESNESv012a https://archive.org/details/ESNESv012a
  - gavinray 3y ago
    When I was about 9/10, my grandfather put ZSNES on my computer, along with ROMs for most SNES games ever made. ZSNES gave me some of the best memories of my childhood. The coolest bit was that he had soldered a real SNES controller so that it worked with those old-school trapezoid 9-pin keyboard input things. I still think that is pure magic, to this day.
    - zerocrates 3y ago
      Probably the old "game port." That's cool. My experience was definitely more in the "use the A, S, Z, and X keys for the face buttons" realm.
      - hotnfresh 3y ago
        Serial was my guess, if it was in fact 9-pin. I don’t think I ever had a serial-port keyboard, but I did used to have a serial-port mouse. Game port had more pins.
- isk517 3y ago
  I remember playing Chrono Trigger on a emulator and it took me a while to realize that the fog in the future era was not suppose to be completely opaque.

I love Chrono Trigger; it's also what got me into emulation. I wasn't allowed to have an SNES but my 486 could just manage to run an emulator (esnes I think it was called?) that could do SNES with no sound or translucency (there were keyboard shortcuts to toggle the layers so e.g. you could hide fog that would otherwise make the whole screen gray).

hotnfresh 3y ago
Oh man, no sound on Chrono Trigger is a shame. The music’s great.
- fbdab103 3y ago
  I also vaguely recall a few of the puzzles used sound ques to note there was a hidden button.
zerocrates 3y ago
zsnes is an older SNES emulator that definitely in its earlier days had some issues with transparent/translucent layers and had keys to turn each layer off. I think I remember needing to use those toggles for the same fog layers in Chrono Trigger that you're talking about (though I definitely wasn't on a 486). I think esnes may be a little bit older?
- aidenn0 3y ago
  Just a tiny bit older: https://archive.org/details/ESNESv012a https://archive.org/details/ESNESv012a
- gavinray 3y ago
  When I was about 9/10, my grandfather put ZSNES on my computer, along with ROMs for most SNES games ever made. ZSNES gave me some of the best memories of my childhood. The coolest bit was that he had soldered a real SNES controller so that it worked with those old-school trapezoid 9-pin keyboard input things. I still think that is pure magic, to this day.
  - zerocrates 3y ago
    Probably the old "game port." That's cool. My experience was definitely more in the "use the A, S, Z, and X keys for the face buttons" realm.
    - hotnfresh 3y ago
      Serial was my guess, if it was in fact 9-pin. I don’t think I ever had a serial-port keyboard, but I did used to have a serial-port mouse. Game port had more pins.
isk517 3y ago
I remember playing Chrono Trigger on a emulator and it took me a while to realize that the fog in the future era was not suppose to be completely opaque.