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Since we've mentioned it, and few probably play it-

For the record, never finished Golden Axe Warrior, but made if fairly far. I had it on Gamegear, which died and I never replaced it. Then again, I had whatever came with it. That was in the 90's, so I may also have been bit lucky, and found enough to get by. Otherwise, that one was more direct in what you had to do and where. Just about every screen had something hidden somewhere. Kill the enemies, and if you have the Ax, just lay waste to everything possible, and pump your guy up. No need to leave and reenter screen for each try either. None of the dungeons were completely hidden either. While Sega played Monday morning QB on it, they did give enough to keep me hacking at it. I'd place it closer to Link to Past, minus the dimension hopping crap. I mentioned before kinda liking how that one playes, but stopped in first temple thing, where I was sent for a pendant?, because I kept falling off stuff, and ended up dodging these rolling cannonballs forever. I watched a how-to video on it, and my impression was NFW! My nephews might want grandma's games someday, so I hang onto them, try occasionally. She didn't beat them either. Dragon View is the only other side scroller ARPG I've had success with, to this point. Only a half hour test play though, so add salt where needed. I did complete Sword of Vermillion, maybe 10yrs ago, but did much from reading walkthrough pages, etc, so I don't list that among my accomplishments. That's a triple train wreck, lol Instead of Lord of the Sword, I actually got that confused with Golvelius.

While I turbo buttoned my way through Crystalis, that's probably the extent of my ARPG game skill. I can do Chronicle of Radia War as well. SMS, Lord of the Sword and Golden Axe Warrior, an that's about it. Dragon Warrior, Phantasy Star, Shining force, FF 1 &3, BOF, Lufia, FF Legends 1/2/3, STED, etc. However, it's not as if I dn't try other things, which is how I found Soul Blazer and Dragon View. I'll likely not beat them, but they are fun enough, and don't quash hope completely. I've got an original Lagoon which flat out sucks, but I actually get somewhere. None of my employees, who were willing to try, got any further than I do, unless they just ran through screens, going for distance, lol. I pay a minimum of $18 per hr to my weaving staff, and even paid to play, none could do much with LOZ, despite having played newer ones. I have one of those "looks like a gameboy" NES handhelds, and we put it on the big security monitor, if quotas are hit, and time left to kill.

they tend to be my biggest fans, lol. In all seriousness, if I can't just walk around a spot on the map, gain 5 levels and try moving on, rinse and repeat, if failure, and eventually overpower the game, I'm not going to get anywhere, in anything where I have to actually do it. This is one, where I'd have to put on a walkthrough video on screen beside it, and endlessly pause, and inch forward, and that's not playing it. If I can't pick it up, cart only and make it through, without internet, I ain't bothering. Last I messed with it, I kept getting where I'd appear on next screen completely surrounded, but can't attack till you move, that move gets you hit, then you can't shoot, and it doesn't get much further. Things look like the 2nd 2600 space invader from top, on a pogo stick, lol. I'd rather the pea spitting brownie in Fantasy Zone. In real life, I handle my sword fairly well. M1840 "wrist breaker"

Actually, given some of the others on that cart, I only tried it, because it might have been some hack worth a laugh. BS usually means something to that effect. There's a handful on there, that the initial "WTF" hasn't faded out yet, lol. Quite a few, take way too long to start doing anything. There was one, something about scarlet king, that I never even got to do anything, before I turned it off. My drink was done, and so was I, lol. Those three I liked, were really good, at least in the half hour time I allotted for testing. Those alone in cheap repros, would almost double cost of buying one of those carts.

I do. It's the only part I get right, 100% of the time.

Offhand, I liked Ancient Magic, Lennus 2, and Villgust, though Super Boss Gaiden was hillarious. The Sailor Moon is the "beat em up", not the rpg, but still worth the value easily. The BS Zelda is a beautiful looking redo of the original NES. I even die about same place, which is about 3 screens any direction.

I know several goodies on that one. A friend of mine is a reseller for those, and lets me test them. It's one anyone with a deeper interest, should grab. Beats playing around with patching ROMs on an emulator IMHO. I ordered one of the 68-in-1. It's one I could use in future for just keeping saves safe, while I play other stuff. Nearly complete NTSC rpg catalog. I have the forever Duo, and the 1up cart, which is just the forever 405-10 games. They don't run the upper level stuff, but contain the widest spread of games, with lots of deep dives. The new chip save version has several fixed titles, but most of the same limitations. Still only one game save, but you can play ones using the SRAM, without nuking it. The 509 was always chip save, but still only one save, and problematic on some systems. For some reason, I can't run the crystalis on it, except for on the Yobo. Another oddity was the untranslated gun nac, but it's loaded with recent goodies, like R-Type, Altered Beast, etc. I've seen that Konami cart, considered it,but passed since what I'd play, is already on several ones I have. Even odder, is I do much better on gradius 2, than the original, 😂 I like that R-Type, but it's got so much complete sprite flicker, that it looks like a lost Atari attempt. I mean enemies completely disappear, and reappear. It's fun, but I'd hate it to be my only version.

He's always nice to me, but I rarely get my order. Last one was a 65xe mobo to fix one killed by MT ram, that got delivered to "God knows who", with all claims denied. Last successful order was over a year ago, and it got dropped off at main property office. I won't order again, unless I can choose anything but USPS. All that Atari box tape just begs "steal me", lol I have to keep it all small stuff, to have a chance of arrival.

My most played one- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805235408962.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.150.185d1802QsfGZx&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa RPG stacked- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805235466074.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000060.2.696461d4iYxQv5&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller&scm=1007.13339.291025.0&scm_id=1007.13339.291025.0&scm-url=1007.13339.291025.0&pvid=235cbd03-1fed-45ef-b703-b31a135b1df4&_t=gps-id%3ApcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller%2Cscm-url%3A1007.13339.291025.0%2Cpvid%3A235cbd03-1fed-45ef-b703-b31a135b1df4%2Ctpp_buckets%3A668%232846%238110%231995&pdp_npi=3%40dis!USD!15.34!15.34!!!!!%402101c5bf16897905586528186eee21!12000032999287220!rec!US!2637729830&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa similar but chip save- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256801664314773.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.57.32e41802VL6uvU&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa Both these are missing Soul Blazer, and Lufia-Fortress of Doom, but the multi-cart Lufia is often the buggy one. good all-around selection- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805235428018.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000013.7.696461d4iYxQv5&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller&scm=1007.13339.291025.0&scm_id=1007.13339.291025.0&scm-url=1007.13339.291025.0&pvid=0bac21bf-325c-47ba-9cb6-781e0955ca0e&_t=gps-id:pcDetailBottomMoreThisSeller,scm-url:1007.13339.291025.0,pvid:0bac21bf-325c-47ba-9cb6-781e0955ca0e,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238110%231995&pdp_npi=3%40dis!USD!16.04!16.04!!!!!%402101c5bf16897905589078192eee21!12000032998935198!rec!US!2637729830 Loaded with Jp translations, hacks, and homebrews- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256801655458433.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.83.185d1802QsfGZx&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa Popular, and tends to sell out on etsy and amazon alot- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803015755594.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.108.185d1802QsfGZx&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa Supposedly, this one has the later translation for 1st Lufia, and some bugs fixed

Electric in my area is goofy, so I like to keep old faithful battery as my backup. That 101 has decent stuff, IMHO. Just from memory... Shooters - Contra III, gradius 3, choplifter III, super R-Type, caravan shooting collection, super smash TV Beat em ups- X-Men, turtles IV, final fight 1&3 Sports- NBA jam Rpg -earthbound, bof1, ff2, ff3, ff IV easy and in jp, lufia II, Chrono trigger, harvest moon, illusion of Gaia, ogre battle, Link to the past (depends on how you class) Mario all-star, smw, Mario kart Quite a few others that I know are popular, but I ignore, lol. "Best" is arbitrary, in terms of what someone wants. Rpg-wise, the best was the black 138-in-1, out of recent production, but still around. Used battery, but held plenty of simultaneous saves. The goldish grey 125 in one is an oldie, and only holds one save, but we'll loaded with RPGs, minus Chrono trigger, and probably the best shooters lineup there was. Out of production, but easily found with slight markup. Only glaring fault was mega man 7. For sports, I'd recommend the purple 120-in-1, or the blue 121-in-1. They both have a good shooters, beat em ups, and rpg stocks as well, including the English translations of the Dragon quest and FF games. Current production rpg loaded ones, are the translucent gold 68-in-1, using battery, but saves multiple games, only missing lufia 1 mainly. Using chip save, I'd recommend the clear 88-in-1 If translated Japan games are your thing, the 146-in-1 is best yet, and includes done hacks and modern games. Only 1/4 are commonly seen on other multis

Depends on what you want to play. Almost all use a save battery or have been upgraded to save on a chip. Most battery models still available, can save multile games at once, as do the chip-save models. I have the 150-in-1, and it comes in both styles now, battery and chip. The legendary or forever series is still out there. Some using battery, and others upgraded to use save on chip. In the case of those, both only save one game at a time, though the chip models have some repaired games, such as Deathbots now works. Everyone selling them says the same, so label is the clue to which board it has, though not absolute.

Now, back onto Snes, my backup multicart, is the battery powered version of this one- https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805302685035.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.36.21ef1802sGcdc7&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa Good selection,not overloaded with any particular genre, couple deep dives, and rpg loaded. It holds as many saves as I try. Only fault I'd give it, is the FFIV is not the translated one, but all that would mean, is having essentially two of same game on it. The two US versions work fine.

I went with purple and green.

Here's all 4. The 630 uses a battery, but done right. The others are an improvement to the design, and using chip save instead. At the angle I used, you can see there's no battery, which would be just under right of front label. Other pics are inside the 253 & 630

249 is the immediate predecessor to the 253, just carries over the 239 games, adding 10 more

https://www.amazon.com/249in1-Classic-Collection-Cartridge-BlueTransparent-Nintendo/dp/B09FMNSR9T listing for games list purposes. I can always dig mine out as well.

the battery version still holds your place and saves multiple games, but for same price, I'd agree. There's also a 249, which is the 239+10 more, and those never have the battery either.

get a translucent one. Look at the pics and ignore sticker. I've already seen one US seller with one that states no battery on cart, but you can see the battery in front. Other than missing the number starting titles, the 630 is a nice add, one of my best in the collection. No battery using 253 exist. Supposedly the 630 is out of production, but can be found still. I didn't see any left on Ali, but I already had one by then. Besides being "in stock", that listing had the games list, which helps. Essentially, paired up with my 150-in-1, it covers my entire needs.

nicer than suggesting their parents get a $200 ED to use in a $20 RD2, lol They also have the 180-in-1 cart from here, and the Thunder Spirits from Mom's house. Cruel would be getting them Space Invaders. They like to beat me, which likely ain't hard, but has to be something I can kinda play. So far, I make it to the giant connect-4 looking thing, on my last life

Just played some today. Long as I don't do anything beyond the regular rapid fire button, I get somewhere. Since the "purty" games kill me off on opening screens usually, it makes a better candidate for my nephews learning to play. No stupid options, just hold this button and go. It's not like I'm going to beat any of these, except maybe Aero Fighters and STG. It's about as good, or bad, as Super R-type, or anything on this, beginning with "Super", lol. I let them take the partially broken RD2 I had here, home, and would not worry about them taking $10 Blazeon home to practice.

Nothing heavy, just my usual fun games- SNES- Gradius III- 45min got far as usual Space megaforce- 1hr got to lv3 Cotton Marchen?- 5min won't do this again, lol Axelay- 5min actually made it through the floating islands before dying once Zelda- Link to The Past- 1hr 15min figuring out functions on my ED clone thingy BlaZeon- 15min I can actually get somewhere, if I don't bother scanning anything for powerups. Bulls V Blazers- 45min with Clyde The Glide, Drexler Darius Twin- 1hr made it to somewhere beyond H NES- 1942- 90min Star Force- 20min made Gamma Gunsmoke- 20min Operation Wolf- 25min gave up on the gun and just played regular

Another good, but slightly older model, getting harder to find, but pre-imported ones are still available- https://www.amazon.com/630-Classic-Collection-Multicart-Cartridge/dp/B0BZW58MK7 Uses Pixel's system, saves your last game played, but uses battery still. I tested mine with 4 different saves at once, and all held. Games divided into letter sections, with two "miscl" sections between A & Z, also loaded. Runs fine on Classiq N, my original Retron, Mom's old Retron2, and the Yobo FC twin-slim. Combine this with 239/253, and you got hella lineup.