How do you currently get your Super NES fix?

[DigitalSpace]

This week's poll focuses on the Super NES. I'm sure the majority of you play the original model. Is it still grey or yellowed in some spots/everywhere?

Then there's the model 2, released late in the console's life. It did better than the NES Top Loader (most likely due to Yoshi's Island included as a pack-in). It's slimmer and lighter, but lacks S-video and RGB output.

Then there's the FC Twin clone. Then we have emulation. I think that's it, but there's the "other" option if I'm wrong.

I use a model 1, the same one I got as a birthday present in 1993. It's still as grey as it was the day I got it. It's also the console I've owned the longest in my collection (I also had an NES when I got the SNES, but it was sold off).

What about you?

[NinjaJoey23]

SNES 1 - Original DK Country Pack-in version - received for Christmas - still very grey

[Hwj_Chim]

Emulation. just to lazy to pull mine out and hook it up

[BocoDragon]

My SNES looks great... perfectly light grey. I love the look of it.

But my NES and SNES look like hell on my decent SDTV, even with S-video, because there are lines rolling across my screen and it drives me nuts. Maybe I need one of those clean power bars?

My home theater PC provides me with a perfect emulation of the SNES (no lines? Hmmm..)... but that's kind of depressing, so I barely play SNES at all these days. Only translated import titles, and such, I know that I wouldn't be able to play on my real SNES, even if it didn't look like shit..... *sigh*

[MarioMania]

My Model 1 crapped out on me

I'm using Model 2

[DragonMaster Sam]

Still have the original model SNES that came with Super Mario World hooked up in my room, and it still has it's color to it. 14-15 years 70+ games later, and still working great. And I also emulate as well.

[xtremegamer]

Got 4 to choose from of the original model. Model 2 just collects dust on the shelf.

[bangtango]

I currently play my Super NES favorites on emulation, since I no longer have an original system. Too bad since I got mine two or three months after it first came out, so I was a fairly early adopter. I've owned three or four Model 1 systems, including my very first one. Last year, I had a Model 2 for a very short time which I ended up selling here on the forums.

I may be alone in saying this but the system is one of those that I don't think has aged very well. I know I am in the minority but does anyone else feel the same way? I'll play LTTP and SMW until the end of time but a lot of the other games I used to enjoy are not quite as good as I remembered them back in the early 1990's. Thus I never hold onto an SNES for a long period of time and am just fine emulating them. However, I actually own a bunch of Super NES carts to this day just in case.........I can dig up a couple dozen games from my collection, mostly the Square RPG's and the "best" fighting games (along with the various Mario titles and Zelda). I just don't have the system.

[DigitalSpace]

SNES 1 - Original DK Country Pack-in version - received for Christmas - still very grey

Mine came with Super Mario World as a pack-in. Unfortunately, I don't have my original SMW cart anymore - for some reason, the cart died in the late 90s and oddly enough, several cleanings couldn't bring it back to life. :(

[psychic1]

Who likes my 16-bit set up?

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2092/snescdx1ta0.jpg

[bangtango]

Who likes my 16-bit set up?

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2092/snescdx1ta0.jpg

Nice! I dig the XBox on bottom a little bit more but Sega is always good for your health. The Super NES ain't so bad either. Where are you hiding the tv?

[CosmicMonkey]

There are clone SNES units that look exactly like SNES 2 / Super Fami Jrs. They come in very official looking packaging too from what I've heared. They're multi-region as they don't have a security chip, but there'll be no playing Mario RPG.

[retroman]

the original snes

[DefaultGen]

.....

[GuyinGA]

I had a model 2 (?) but I gave it away when I thought I 'grew' out of videogames. Should have just stuck with it.

Now, I do emulation which isn't bad, I guess. I mean, I get to play Front Mission Gun Hazard and other Japanese RPGs, so that's good right?

[DarthKur]

I use an original model SNES with a Super Advantage controller. Both look in great condition with no fading at all. I hadn't ever had a SNES until a few months ago. Not sure why it took me so long to finally get one. I've been on a cart buying rampage ever since. :)

[Nebagram]

My original hasn't seen action in a while, I actually play more on the wii VC than anything else so I voted 'emulation'. :-)

[Aussie2B]

I mostly just use my two model 1's, which are both still perfectly grey. One is kept at my mom's house for playing on summer vacation, and the other is here at my house. The one at my mom's is the one I bought for myself back around 1993, which I did by saving up my money a long time since I was only around 11. It was the first system that I personally owned, and I got the bare model. I sent away for a free copy of Super Mario All-Stars for my first SNES game, which they were advertising on TV at the time. Several later, I got into imports and modified my system, and I also have a modified model 2 here at my house. The other model 1 I prefer to keep unaltered. The only downside is that I can't play my imports in S-video since I have to either switch to the model 2 to play them or at my mom's house I'm out of luck because there are no TVs that support S-video.

[PentiumMMX]

I use my Model 1 Super NES I bought back in '05, though I also use emulators on occasions when I want to try a game out.

[Gentlegamer]

I still play my launch-day SNES, and it is un-yellowed after all these years.

[snes_collector]

Model one, still the same one my parents bought off my cousin when I was five and gave to me for Christmas :)

[Gentlegamer]

Who likes my 16-bit set up?You need Turbografx-16 and Neo Geo to complete it.

[Pantechnicon]

Emulation for me. SNES is a system that came out during a period in my life where gaming was at an interlude, so I never really latched onto it. I bought one about 10 years ago at a thrift but never got more than a few carts for the system. I sold it all off last year. Sometimes I think I'd like to give the system a second chance, then I see how the prices for all the good titles have gone through the roof, which keeps me content with the idea of emu for whenever I decide to try it out again.

[Steven]

Original model.

Bought one in 1992, maybe late 91, can't remember, but my bro and I gave it away to our cousins circa 99 or so.

Bought a model 1 un-yellowed 1.17.06

Had the choice to buy a yellowing version for like $15 less, but I figured I get a good healthy (looking) machine.

More than a year later, I'm so happy I bought the best condition SNES. $15 comes and goes, but an original looking SNES -- hopefully it's here to stay.

To the poster above me, game prices may have shot up, but I've paid no more than $40 shipped for the big boys, like Earthbound, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Chrono, Castlevania Dracula X, EVO, MegaMan X3, etc.

You just gotta be a bit patient. These games can hit 50+, but a little patience you can get any of them for 40 or under. It's worth it to have the real thing and the actual SNES controller in your hands IMHO, which is the best controller ever devised.

[JSoup]

I still have my original model, but it's not working any more for any number of reasons. While I've been playing all my fave games via emulator, an FC Twin is in the mail.

[BocoDragon]

game prices may have shot up, but I've paid no more than $40 shipped for the big boys, like Earthbound, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Chrono, Castlevania Dracula X, EVO, MegaMan X3, etc.

You just gotta be a bit patient. These games can hit 50+, but a little patience you can get any of them for 40 or under. It's worth it to have the real thing and the actual SNES controller in your hands IMHO, which is the best controller ever devised.
Thank you.. that was inspiring. I've got a decent all around Nintendo collection, but I'm missing many of the SNES staples, and it's a little scary to pursue them since they are so highly valued.

[Push Upstairs]

*I* don't have an original model SNES but I did talk my GF into getting one. She expressed some mild interest and I made the recommendation that she get an SNES because it would have more games that would appeal to her.

It should be noted that she played it a few times and its been sitting at my place for nearly two years.

I have a few games for it (hers are mostly over at her place) but I rarely play it. I pretty much have her keep it so I can play "Turtles in Time".

[Haoie]

ZSNES, still the best emulator for it, if you ask me. An older version is what I use.

[Ace Comics]

The original yellow-yellow-yellowed (and cracked) SNES.

I *did* emulate for awhile until I found where I'd mis-packed it's hook-up cables.

I still play it, and I'm still buying games for it as well... looking into picking up Shadowrun, when I can wrangle together a bit of cash.
-Chris

[Retsudo]

At the moment Im using Emulation. My Model 2 is in a box in the closet.

[kataboom]

i picked up the messiah nes clone a few months back. it looks great & also can use original nes equipment like gthe zapper, etc - which the fc twin couldnt do.

[Damaramu]

I'm using a non yellowed SNES model 1 that I picked up somewhere for about $20. I've got a modded X-Box with SNES emulation and an assload of games....but I just like popping in an original cartridge on my SNES. Good times. Been playing a lot of Pilot Wings lately.

[Pilotwings]

I have a usa snes 1 as i prefer them to the pal or jap models unlike most UK people who think otherwise. Plus i like the way you can just break off the tabs and whack in a jap game:-P. The top half ov mine was discoloured but i just bought a cheap dead one that was vice versa and now i have an all white snes and an all beige snes that looks ok actually. Fixed the dead one also just the fuse problem.

[VG_Maniac]

I play my regular SNES system that isn't turning yellow.