SNES JP imports recommendations

[anonymous1980]

Hi. I recently completed my wish list of PAL SNES games, getting every game that i believe is worth playing today. I never played this system in its day (got interested in it around 2008), but it has become my favorite console of all times. Living in Europe in a country devoid of any retro scene (or console scene for that matter) has not been easy for my hobby, it took an unfathomable amount of time and effort. Years. But i made it.

I acquired a Super Famicom (plus the required accesories, like a stepdown converter). So now i am interested in collecting JP imports, and recommendations are more then welcome. I am not familiar with this library, except for Seiken Densetsu 3 (which is on its way). Whether they're english-friendly or not is not important. Reproduction carts are a valid solution for me, and i have played text heavy JP games with printed translation guides before.

I'm not interested in collecting US exclusive imports, because i am more than familiar with them.. Maybe wen i finish my JP collection of games worth playing today.

As for why i haven't tried alternate routes like modding, buying adaptors, a SD2SNES etc. It's a hassle not worth doing because of the city & country i live in. It was easier outright buying a converter and a super famicom.

[StealthLurker]

Steve's site is a good place to start

http://www.rvgfanatic.com/6501/index.html

[Niku-Sama]

ROCKMAN & BASS.

this game was so fun I accidentally bought 2 copies of it when I was in japan, good thing they were cheap

[Mayhem]

Steve's list is a good start, but I can't believe he hasn't got Umihara Kawase listed!

[Tanooki]

It comes to taste, but one most would agree upon, if you like shooters, Macross and Spriggan Powered are solid and anything Konami shoved out on the Super Famicom is a must, even the spinoff of one, a platformer Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventure is good stuff. If you like brawlers, there's a heap from obscure, the anime stuff like Sailor Moon (and SM R) too. Fighting games have a good many more releases and Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 2 is a quality title. Also some stuff we got a game from, there were more in Japan too like the Goemon (Mystical Ninja) titles that are worth it.

[Daria]

My favorite SFC games are Clock Tower (point and click survival horror), Super Famicom Detective Club (graphical text adventure), Radical Dreamers (graphical text adventure), and Wonder Project-J (point and click life sim).

All of which require translations or a heavy understanding of Japanese.

[Captain_N77]

I can back up Tanookie on Macross. It is actually the only SFC game that I own, but it really did blow me away. My brother, who is not at all familiar with Macross/Robotech, loved the game as well when he came over and tried it. I did something that I rarely do in gaming with Macross, and that's continue to play it even after I'd already finished it. Wish I had more suggestions for ya.

And I did post my review of the Macross game on my blog last month, which is linked below for anyone interested. As well as a Normal difficulty no-death run on the youtubez.