For reference: Lousy was originally used to mean 'infested with lice'. If a place was lousy, it was full of lice and should be avoided. If a person was lousy, they were filthy and disgusting and to be avoided.
Agreed, the HD ones look like old shareware games on the Mac. The biggest thing that stands out is the uneven scale. The better ones stick to the lower res of NES and just add more colors, basically like a SNES sequel would look. The Mega Man one is top-notch, and the Zelda 2 also great (if it's finished).
Those 8-bit graphics are an art form. I don't think people appreciate enough how much thought and planning went into creating the games with all the constraints. You can't just glue pretty pictures over the old ones and expect it to work.
@@hannuback I think people who draw these high-res wonky graphics packs don't realize how much planning goes into game graphics. There are lots of stylistic decisions that must be consistent and coherent. With 3D it's a lot easier to mechanically increase resolution (and it tends to look good). I wouldn't be surprised if you *can't* make sharp pixel graphics because part of the art form is in being vague. It must leave a lot to your imagination.
If anyone here is looking for more music like that you should check out Boards of Canada and Oneohtrix Point Never, two of my favorite musicians ever and it sounded really reminiscent of their nostalgic and haunting sound. Especially BOCs album "Music Has the Right To Children" and Oneohtrix's "Zones Without People"
YES having an 80s sci fi thriller based metroid movie has been my dream for ages. Metroid still carries that grimy, organic, practical effects sci-fi 80s era in its dna when everything else has modernized quite a bit. It's one of my favorite things about it!
the worst part is that there are WAY better SNES-style texture packs for all of those games, I think he's using the shitty flashgame packs just to fuck with us honestly
Vinny doesn't make these packs. It's always someone else and then the mods send it to him, so blame them. And always remember they do it for FREE lmaoooooo.
@@paul-nj1ig cause he's busy living his life and he has a bunch of people happy to do it for him. I think anyone would do the same. His email is probably a huge pain to deal with.
The Zelda 2 one has literal RPG Maker 2000 tiles thrown in on the overworld, heh. Hopefully just placeholders. Some of the parallax backgrounds seemed familiar too.
36:57 Just like BattleCity and Contra, Circus Charlie was a common pick to slap on multicarts and/or Famiclones as built-in game. Yes, the FC version overshadows the Arcade and MSX versions because of that.
Seeing this is really making me want to make a pack and soundtrack update for Monster Party. I always thought that was a great game trapped by primitive graphics.
These look like the kinds of games I played during computer class whenever the teacher fell asleep. The only thing missing are advertisements for other Cool Math Games™ like Jesus vs Satan Dodgeball, Totally Spies Kissing, and Papa's Weederia
Nuts & Milk was actually the first third party game to release on the Famicom (or any Nintendo platform) and did quite well for itself. Not as important as Lode Runner which was also Hudson (or at least the Famicom version was ported by them and sold by them), and not something that they cared to bring west, but important either way.
Thank you for playing Dr. Garfield. We created this version, which is available as an NES hack and as an HDPack. The two are very similar, but the HDPack is more colorful, like a SNES port. The viruses were indeed designed by LumpyTouch for his horror parody of the game. At one point, the HDPack had CD audio, but not anymore. The NES version has been updated to have the "correct" Garfield themes in it, so CD music was not needed.
I like how enthused Vinny is about playing Shatterhand with the HD mod; you can tell that the game stuck with him after that one Sunday segment a couple weeks back.
Ya know, I gotta wonder if that Donkey Kong one and those SMB1 ones were done ironically or not. Like you'd think they were serious, but what if it was just some guy intentionally doing what they'd assume some kid would do, for the laughs.
Why in the world would you ever they were serious? It's possible that the DK one might've been serious, but there's no way in hell that those SMB1 ones were anything other than jokes designed to look like flash games.
@@neild7753 I can believe that those were made authentically, it's pretty easy to accidentally end up with a very lame looking result even if you try your best to make something look good
Metroid HD soundtrack comes from Luminist. Here’s a link to the entire NES Metroid soundtrack they did. czcams.com/play/PL50UiFZSGFneSN1H5nJYHaaLc9qCpp-T-.html
Personally when I played Wily Wars for the first time, when I got NSO Expansion pack, I found the controls way more precise and satisfying than on the NES.
@@vstpnv More specifically, in Wily Wars I felt like I could jump the exact pixel height I want to on command every time. NES Mega Man controls were still very good but Wily Wars knocks it out of the park
There's just so many wrong things with the HD mario game. It is like uncanny valley mixed with tripophobia were your own brain tells you this ain't right. Of course with all due respect to whomever did it, but looks like the yisus painting someone tried to restore
I wouldn't even call it HD... Heck most of those packs Don't even have anything to do with resolution. Resolution and graphics are almost 2 entirely different things.
These were very fun. The ones that blew me away the most were Metroid and the two Zeldas. For Zelda 1 and 2, I keep thinking, man Nintendo ABSOLUTELY needs to give them the remake treatment, especially 2. It's a perfect chance to make it some of people's favorite Zelda. I really wanna see this 2 repaint finished
This video made me realised just how long I’ve been watching Vinny, I am too young to have ever had a NES and my uncles all had Sega for some reason but hearing Zelda 2 music makes me immediately nostalgic because I’ve watched Vinny play it so many times
Picture this, as an HD remake of the original: Little Mac is in the ring for the final fight against Mr. Dream. The bell rings, and right as contact is about to be made, Mike Tyson lands a massive haymaker on Mr. Dream, knocking him out cold in one punch. Tyson comes from the crowd, clocks Mr. Dream, and challenges Little Mac to the REAL final fight.
Friendly reminder to check out more of Luminist's work including the rest of his remakes of Metroid music remade with analog synths! 0:04:17 - Rippers. 0:13:42 - I actually knew what I was getting into with this stream because I watched St1ka's video on them a week back or so. 0:22:50 - Metroid Zero Mission Ganon 0:32:16 - Vinny provided Mario voice clips for use with these overlays. 0:39:21 - Dr. Wily is germinating the forest with Miracle-Gro. 0:40:37 - Don't pick Guts Man. Don't pick Guts Man. Don't pick Guts Man. 0:40:46 0:41:04 0:55:38 - Looking it up, Virus actually had that dog animation on the lower left. I wish I knew about that last game sooner. I had just put a few .pocket games into an SD card for my Analogue Pocket a week ago.
The Metroid one seems to be based on Mother, which is my personal favorite way to play Metroid 1. Got the enemies in doors fixed, the map, and Mother originally updated the NES sprites to just…better NES sprites
Somehow I didn't realize it was based on more than just a graphic/audio replacement when it had a modern file select screen, but instead instantly took notice of it starting you with 99 energy instead of 30.
Fun fact, link sprite is actually official as it was from the scrapped satellaview Zelda II remake that was only shown in some magazines, the sprite was found on the gigaleak, there are some other stuff of Zelda as well like adult Mario sprites for Yoshi island or donkey Kong 3 protagonist sprites for a scrapped donkey Kong 3 sequel game that was being made on Yoshi island engine.
I actually never owned a nes, we were poor and for one of my big bro's bday we got a famiclone called PolyStation, it was one of those 9999-in-1 shits and it had Nuts & Milk and I loved that game so much alongside SMB...
Hearing Vin talk about playing the original Metroid really makes me wanna go back and give it a try. Sadly my only experience with it was playing Zero Mission whenever that was, but i have an older brother that sings it’s praises a lot like Vin does so hopefully I’ll get around to it soon.
Do not play Metroid 1, Anyone saying any praise is pure nostalgia, Even hardcore Metroid fans tell you to avoid Metroid 1, Its completely outdated If you MUST play it, play some of the fan remakes like Metroid Planets, and even then you'll get tiered soon
@@jesusramirezromo2037 There is value in playing it, he game is still entirely playable and can be pretty fun. Giving it praise isn't a bad thing at all.
@@Zero-ds9wsyeah but Zero Mission really is soooo much better. There's not really any point to playing the original unless you want to observe it from a historical perspective.
@@FutaYuuta Without a doubt, Zero Mission is objectively better in essentially every way, but this does not mean the original is without merit or value, since there were many changes ZM did that they're almost different games entirely.
In Zelda I HD, majority of sprites are taken from Cadence of Hyrule. The skeletons with hats are based on a skelly from that game, same hat, color palette and face. Just changed the body.
There was a freeware game from a while ago called "Lyle in Cube Sector" that I think does this right. It's NES-style, but with things unavailable to the original hardware. An expanded palette, an extra layer of parallax, expanded sprite memory for particle effects, and a lot of subtle polish that stops it from crossing the border into SNES or Flash game territory. A bit like playing a cart with custom chips, or deck enhancers or something.
6:56 It took me like two minutes to even see what he was talking about here. It's definitely not "too obvious", only someone who already knew of that block's relevance would have their eyes gravitate towards it so quickly.
Hearing the Metroid intro music made me realize that a more grown-up movie adaptation of Metroid done with the style of James Cameron's Aliens would be phenomenal....
Are these even actually using the NES games at all? They just seem like someone made a flash game that tried to emulate it like all of those mario/sonic flash games. I dont recall Samus ever being able to machine-gun like that.
The HD Zelda 2, Megaman Ice Climber, Contra, Metroid, and Castlevania looked fantastic, they add a whole new flavor and really give the games more depth and soul, I’m surprised no one in chat spoke up about Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES existing and essentially being what Vinny was playing but just with NES Soundtrack.
Most of the better hacks here don't increase the resolution to HD, but use more colors, making them look like SNES ports (like Super Mario All Stars). That's the easier way to do it, since it retains the art style. Increasing the resolution requires new art which has to be high quality. Contra pulls it off, but it takes a lot of skill to come up with something higher resolution which still looks good. (It's also not very high resolution, so you're still trying to do something like a vintage arcade game.) It's hard to do this sort of thing well since you're still bound by the limitations of the NES original (including how the sprites are chopped up). Almost all of these are very good efforts in their own right.
35:55 Entertaining indeed. As a kid this was one of the games that I had on my Famiclone and it was also the only game that my late father actually knew how to play and he would play it with me. Also, the fact that it has a level builder made it one of my most played games of all time, I think. And while the tile options aren't exactly mind blowing I tried to draw with it. I just sincerely wish that booti would pls acknowledge the level builder which he ignored every time this game has come up on things such as Plug & Play :(
When vinny said these are nes games with pngs over them and since the pack is "hd" nes games I was really expecting this to be some program that procedurally pulled pics off google to replace sprites, like replacing ground blocks in mario with actual jpegs of dirt etc. I'm both pleased and disappointed that's not what this is.
Zelda's adventure mad me happy. Making crap games and movies good is an art form of its own and even more challenging than making a good game from scratch, and I always wanted to see people remake those games.
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For reference: Lousy was originally used to mean 'infested with lice'. If a place was lousy, it was full of lice and should be avoided. If a person was lousy, they were filthy and disgusting and to be avoided.
My expectations were set so high before he started showing the flash ones
they look like a minecraft hd texture pack
Some of 'em are great and some of 'em are uhhh, them pixels look a lil penisy
Why the heck do people make these, they look so bad oh my god
@@somefries3101 it has more pixels and if you look at the numbers it must be better.
@@krux02 1:04:08 bruh you can't see this and say it looks good
Also im not referring to the "16bit" ones
Really demonstrates that an increased resolution doesn't mean shit without a decent art style behind it.
Agreed, the HD ones look like old shareware games on the Mac. The biggest thing that stands out is the uneven scale. The better ones stick to the lower res of NES and just add more colors, basically like a SNES sequel would look. The Mega Man one is top-notch, and the Zelda 2 also great (if it's finished).
Those 8-bit graphics are an art form. I don't think people appreciate enough how much thought and planning went into creating the games with all the constraints. You can't just glue pretty pictures over the old ones and expect it to work.
@@hannuback I think people who draw these high-res wonky graphics packs don't realize how much planning goes into game graphics. There are lots of stylistic decisions that must be consistent and coherent. With 3D it's a lot easier to mechanically increase resolution (and it tends to look good). I wouldn't be surprised if you *can't* make sharp pixel graphics because part of the art form is in being vague. It must leave a lot to your imagination.
Minecraft texture packs confirm this
@@gblargg what does it mean to ’mechanically increase the resolution’
the Metroid intro song sounded absolutely stunning
Yeah that cover was by Luminist. They did the whole soundtrack, it’s absolutely worth a listen sometime
Sounds like a Vangelis song if you ask me lol
@@SouprSpookr Yeah that whole Luminist soundtrack is amazing. Would recommend.
@@TheRazarKnight they did some tracks from super Metroid as well and they're equally amazing
If anyone here is looking for more music like that you should check out Boards of Canada and Oneohtrix Point Never, two of my favorite musicians ever and it sounded really reminiscent of their nostalgic and haunting sound. Especially BOCs album "Music Has the Right To Children" and Oneohtrix's "Zones Without People"
Some of these look very nice, and others look like the version they use on cartoons or series to avoid copyright.
1:04:02 I can feel the sheer willpower it took to not immediately make fun of this one.
Didn't Joel play this on a Windows Destruction stream
so retro
*bootleg detected*
The intro music to Metroid is how I imagine a Metroid film in the 80s would sound.
YES having an 80s sci fi thriller based metroid movie has been my dream for ages. Metroid still carries that grimy, organic, practical effects sci-fi 80s era in its dna when everything else has modernized quite a bit. It's one of my favorite things about it!
It sounds like the Fez game in some parts
It's like all the music from the Metroid II remake on 3DS, all the synthy vibes of a Friday the 13th movie and everything
All I could hear is the Zelda Fairy Fountain melody, is it the same song?
@@sillycookie the Metroid Prime ad takes a live action "Power Rangers" suit acting approach, love it. Have you seen it
If you want to hear the rest of the Metroid soundtrack on analog synth, it's by Luminist, give it a listen
the worst part is that there are WAY better SNES-style texture packs for all of those games, I think he's using the shitty flashgame packs just to fuck with us honestly
Vinny doesn't make these packs. It's always someone else and then the mods send it to him, so blame them. And always remember they do it for FREE lmaoooooo.
@@FutaYuuta why doesn't vinny put them together
@@paul-nj1ig cause he's busy living his life and he has a bunch of people happy to do it for him. I think anyone would do the same. His email is probably a huge pain to deal with.
22:50 Man Ganon looks so good. And that font is awesome. Reminds me of if Zelda had a dark horse comic.
You could Say They Gave It All They Got
i agree, shame vinny didnt seem too into it
*This will be graphics in 2013*
"Nintendo hire this man"
The Zelda 2 one has literal RPG Maker 2000 tiles thrown in on the overworld, heh. Hopefully just placeholders. Some of the parallax backgrounds seemed familiar too.
the zelda 2 pack is 100% placeholders and hasn't been updated for 2 years. It's a bizarre proof of concept that will never be finished.
@@nepdisc3722 Kickstarter must not have panned out for the guy
@@christopherkelley1664 looks more like an ill-fated covid project that lost momentum fast.
There is still a very good vision behind the work from what we can see, and if it gets completed it would be great.
36:57 Just like BattleCity and Contra, Circus Charlie was a common pick to slap on multicarts and/or Famiclones as built-in game. Yes, the FC version overshadows the Arcade and MSX versions because of that.
Makes me think of JonTron, "How could I be mad when I'm playin' Circus Charlie under 50 DIFFERENT FUCKING NAMES, I'M FINE!"
These games feel like they were made for some kind of alternate universe console created after the Gameboy Color and before the Gameboy Advance
Reminds me a lot of the Satellaview versions of some of the games honestly, like BS Zelda
They really added texture packs to the NES. Incredible.
Dang I recognize that MIDI at 52:05, I transcribed that from the C64 game original some 25 years ago. Binyot said "not too scummy" ❤
Seeing this is really making me want to make a pack and soundtrack update for Monster Party. I always thought that was a great game trapped by primitive graphics.
YES. Monster Party is such an underrated game, and it could really use updated graphics to truly show the kooky horror parody in all its glory.
Actually true.
It'd be cool to see something similar for Abadox, too.
I’ve always liked the way monster party looked. Compared to some other NES games it has a lot of character and detail.
that would be awesome but I love monster party’s graphics. Especially the bosses
These look like the kinds of games I played during computer class whenever the teacher fell asleep. The only thing missing are advertisements for other Cool Math Games™ like Jesus vs Satan Dodgeball, Totally Spies Kissing, and Papa's Weederia
Zelda 2 looks really impressive, also cool that they made Link fully left handed instead of just giving him an ambidextrous sprite
I didn't know Vinny was doing another flash games stream so soon.
Nuts & Milk was actually the first third party game to release on the Famicom (or any Nintendo platform) and did quite well for itself. Not as important as Lode Runner which was also Hudson (or at least the Famicom version was ported by them and sold by them), and not something that they cared to bring west, but important either way.
I love that Vinny autopiloted the negative world glitch
Thank you for playing Dr. Garfield. We created this version, which is available as an NES hack and as an HDPack.
The two are very similar, but the HDPack is more colorful, like a SNES port.
The viruses were indeed designed by LumpyTouch for his horror parody of the game.
At one point, the HDPack had CD audio, but not anymore. The NES version has been updated to have the "correct" Garfield themes in it, so CD music was not needed.
You cant skip Ninja Gaiden 2 opening like that. Its one of the greatest video game opening of all time.
Booty place nen gayden too
For this sin Vinny is going to the same hell they send people who put spaghetti in their brother's overalls to
Ninja Gay den
You know what? This version of Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 kind of reminds me of the SNES trilogy version of them.
@@macuser7048 heeelll nawwwww that trilogy is TERRIBLE
If you want the OST for the Metroid HD game, it's from a fan album called Metroid Resynthesized and it came out in 2016.
Thank ye kindly!
@@RedSpade37 Anytime. :D
I like how enthused Vinny is about playing Shatterhand with the HD mod; you can tell that the game stuck with him after that one Sunday segment a couple weeks back.
I wonder if he recognizes the boss theme since it was used in Mega Man Sprite Game? lol
38:36 Vinny hasn't played WW for more than 10 minutes and he's already shitting on it.
It's on NSO so he has to shit on it.
I got chills from the Metroid intro...
Also i need a copy of HD Zelda 2.
The Hogan's Alley one made me nearly spit out my drink
I wonder if you could replace them with any png face? lol
@@macuser7048 ??? It's literally PNG files wym
I made the Hogan's Alley hack as a joke, glad you laughed.
Ya know, I gotta wonder if that Donkey Kong one and those SMB1 ones were done ironically or not.
Like you'd think they were serious, but what if it was just some guy intentionally doing what they'd assume some kid would do, for the laughs.
Why in the world would you ever they were serious? It's possible that the DK one might've been serious, but there's no way in hell that those SMB1 ones were anything other than jokes designed to look like flash games.
@@neild7753 I can believe that those were made authentically, it's pretty easy to accidentally end up with a very lame looking result even if you try your best to make something look good
I bought a cursed nintendo cart and the background was .... hyper realistic dead mario
Was there hyper realistic blood?
My issue with Ice Climbers is that the jumping is pretty awkward and everything revolves around jumping precisely over and over.
can't belive i've never seen _any_ romhack or anything for it that fixes that like that's the only thing that made it bad
HD Super Mario Bros looks like a MS--DOS game
No. The MS-DOS Mario game looked alot better than that.
Whatever chat member said Mega Man 2 is harder than MM1 is on the finest, most exotic blend of crack I've ever seen.
MegaMan 2 even on its non babby gaem mode is miles easier than MegaMan 1.
@@diegomedina9637 Mega Man 2 is unreasonably challenging, in my opinion, but Mega Man 1 is just absolute bullshit.
vinny being really fucking good at dr mario was something i was not expecting
Dr Mario 64 when
What do you mean, he only played the first three levels very slowly. How is that "really fucking good"?
Wow, Kung Fu grew the Albinoblacksheep stank with this modification
very cool vinbo
BIMBO I know about BIMBO
the hd mod of the Ice Climber game looks like it came straight out of a 3DS eShop 3D Classics version
Metroid HD soundtrack comes from Luminist. Here’s a link to the entire NES Metroid soundtrack they did.
czcams.com/play/PL50UiFZSGFneSN1H5nJYHaaLc9qCpp-T-.html
Personally when I played Wily Wars for the first time, when I got NSO Expansion pack, I found the controls way more precise and satisfying than on the NES.
Wily Wars is pretty alright altogether, it's just different, and people who got used to NES versions would totally not like that
@@vstpnv More specifically, in Wily Wars I felt like I could jump the exact pixel height I want to on command every time. NES Mega Man controls were still very good but Wily Wars knocks it out of the park
Dr. Garfield actually using the Garfield Lore of Liz being a vet is something else
That Zelda 2 one has a whole lot of potential to it, hope it does end up getting completed.
There's just so many wrong things with the HD mario game. It is like uncanny valley mixed with tripophobia were your own brain tells you this ain't right.
Of course with all due respect to whomever did it, but looks like the yisus painting someone tried to restore
Maro
I wouldn't even call it HD... Heck most of those packs Don't even have anything to do with resolution. Resolution and graphics are almost 2 entirely different things.
I am now just realizing that Zelda's blue alt in Ultimate looks exactly like the Zelda in Zelda's Adventure for the CD-i
That design was based off the Link to the Past artwork for Zelda.
That HD Mario looks horrible.
I hope the Donkey Kong one was bad on purpose.
The full metroid hd intro is why I will always watch the full sauce, since I miss most streams.
That song was wonderful
These were very fun. The ones that blew me away the most were Metroid and the two Zeldas. For Zelda 1 and 2, I keep thinking, man Nintendo ABSOLUTELY needs to give them the remake treatment, especially 2. It's a perfect chance to make it some of people's favorite Zelda. I really wanna see this 2 repaint finished
I don't think they would ever consider remaking 2. But if they did, people would go for it.
the music in the metroid one was beautiful
Uncle Joey why do you sound different
I would be so mad if we finally started getting good video game--based movies or shows now that I'm too old to care
Anger paradox
Like a Taxi version of Crazy Taxi? Or how about a House version of Dr. Mario? No wait! I got it! Thin Blue Line and Virtua Cop!
id like to see this done for donkey kong ‘94 on gameboy, that game is great and deserves a remaster
It's getting a colorized version for Game Boy Color soon.
@@macuser7048 YEAAA LETS GOOO
This video made me realised just how long I’ve been watching Vinny, I am too young to have ever had a NES and my uncles all had Sega for some reason but hearing Zelda 2 music makes me immediately nostalgic because I’ve watched Vinny play it so many times
I bet you could make Punch Out look pretty sick with this
Now that's a great idea! I'd love to see an HD version of the OG Punch Out, that's one of my favorite games ever made
Picture this, as an HD remake of the original:
Little Mac is in the ring for the final fight against Mr. Dream. The bell rings, and right as contact is about to be made, Mike Tyson lands a massive haymaker on Mr. Dream, knocking him out cold in one punch. Tyson comes from the crowd, clocks Mr. Dream, and challenges Little Mac to the REAL final fight.
@@AarturoSc i think he's just saying that it would be cool to see in an ACTUAL HD remake, which would also be sick
Friendly reminder to check out more of Luminist's work including the rest of his remakes of Metroid music remade with analog synths!
0:04:17 - Rippers.
0:13:42 - I actually knew what I was getting into with this stream because I watched St1ka's video on them a week back or so.
0:22:50 - Metroid Zero Mission Ganon
0:32:16 - Vinny provided Mario voice clips for use with these overlays.
0:39:21 - Dr. Wily is germinating the forest with Miracle-Gro.
0:40:37 - Don't pick Guts Man. Don't pick Guts Man. Don't pick Guts Man. 0:40:46 0:41:04
0:55:38 - Looking it up, Virus actually had that dog animation on the lower left.
I wish I knew about that last game sooner. I had just put a few .pocket games into an SD card for my Analogue Pocket a week ago.
The Metroid one seems to be based on Mother, which is my personal favorite way to play Metroid 1. Got the enemies in doors fixed, the map, and Mother originally updated the NES sprites to just…better NES sprites
Somehow I didn't realize it was based on more than just a graphic/audio replacement when it had a modern file select screen, but instead instantly took notice of it starting you with 99 energy instead of 30.
23:24 i was laughing the entire time and then vinny goes and says "what's wrong chat :)"
Fun fact, link sprite is actually official as it was from the scrapped satellaview Zelda II remake that was only shown in some magazines, the sprite was found on the gigaleak, there are some other stuff of Zelda as well like adult Mario sprites for Yoshi island or donkey Kong 3 protagonist sprites for a scrapped donkey Kong 3 sequel game that was being made on Yoshi island engine.
It's technically impressive, but the mixels in the Metroid one look so bad. It looks like someone slapped her sprite in paint and scaled it down.
Ohhh shoot they got Luminist's synthesized Metroid soundtrack! Amazing
Some of these remind me of like, 2015 era Minecraft texture packs... and that's not a good thing
I actually never owned a nes, we were poor and for one of my big bro's bday we got a famiclone called PolyStation, it was one of those 9999-in-1 shits and it had Nuts & Milk and I loved that game so much alongside SMB...
Those Chinese 9 billion games in one consoles were a godsend to my poor family
That Ice Climber one is fuxing GORGEOUS.
some of these remind me of flash games
People are trashing this, but some of them actually do look really good.
There's a rom hack of Metroid that gives it the save system of the FDS version I think?
I hope there's a part 2 to this. Would love to see more games that got this treatment, questionable or otherwise.
39:29 LOL ... this part is amazing
Spot on Mega Man 8 Dr. Light
why does link keep briefly turning into some king's quest or robin hood looking dude
It's unfinished. This is also noticeable for you RPG Maker enthusiasts, with the tiles and such.
@@ilikecurry2345 I know but why that and not the og sprite
Hearing Vin talk about playing the original Metroid really makes me wanna go back and give it a try. Sadly my only experience with it was playing Zero Mission whenever that was, but i have an older brother that sings it’s praises a lot like Vin does so hopefully I’ll get around to it soon.
Do not play Metroid 1, Anyone saying any praise is pure nostalgia, Even hardcore Metroid fans tell you to avoid Metroid 1, Its completely outdated
If you MUST play it, play some of the fan remakes like Metroid Planets, and even then you'll get tiered soon
@@jesusramirezromo2037 There is value in playing it, he game is still entirely playable and can be pretty fun. Giving it praise isn't a bad thing at all.
@@Zero-ds9wsyeah but Zero Mission really is soooo much better. There's not really any point to playing the original unless you want to observe it from a historical perspective.
@@FutaYuuta Without a doubt, Zero Mission is objectively better in essentially every way, but this does not mean the original is without merit or value, since there were many changes ZM did that they're almost different games entirely.
The praise for Metroid 1 comes from people who played it at a single digit age. It's a different experience if it's one of your first games.
Zelda II is one of my favorite games of all time, I really want to see that one at its full potential.
You get my utmost extra respect for giving that Metroid intro the listening respect it deserved! It was a fantastic version of it!
Video games are an amazing art form.
In Zelda I HD, majority of sprites are taken from Cadence of Hyrule. The skeletons with hats are based on a skelly from that game, same hat, color palette and face. Just changed the body.
yeah, didn't like it much. if they were just going to take art from other games they should've gone with BS Zelda instead.
oh I cant wait for the SOUL/SOULESS screencap memes these games will spawn
they've already existed for weeks.
Vinny making a limbo of the lost callback. Never in all my years would I have thought to hear that gem again it was so out of left field lmao
That Metroid Into is pure Synthwave Gold!
So this is literally "What if Nintendo made a TurboGrafx-16"...
I'm so confused by how the Castlevania one has such good graphics but then the music is some sort of anti-aesthetic hodgepodge
There was a freeware game from a while ago called "Lyle in Cube Sector" that I think does this right. It's NES-style, but with things unavailable to the original hardware. An expanded palette, an extra layer of parallax, expanded sprite memory for particle effects, and a lot of subtle polish that stops it from crossing the border into SNES or Flash game territory. A bit like playing a cart with custom chips, or deck enhancers or something.
goddamn duck hunt is really beautiful
6:56 It took me like two minutes to even see what he was talking about here. It's definitely not "too obvious", only someone who already knew of that block's relevance would have their eyes gravitate towards it so quickly.
Hearing the Metroid intro music made me realize that a more grown-up movie adaptation of Metroid done with the style of James Cameron's Aliens would be phenomenal....
Are these even actually using the NES games at all? They just seem like someone made a flash game that tried to emulate it like all of those mario/sonic flash games. I dont recall Samus ever being able to machine-gun like that.
They're basically ROM hacks mixed with texture packs
whoa, this is awesome thanks for introducing me
That Metroid one also looked like a flash game. SNES graphics and NES sprite limitations can breed uncanny valley, I'll tell you what.
Damn thank you for letting the music play on the Metroid
The HD Zelda 2, Megaman Ice Climber, Contra, Metroid, and Castlevania looked fantastic, they add a whole new flavor and really give the games more depth and soul, I’m surprised no one in chat spoke up about Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES existing and essentially being what Vinny was playing but just with NES Soundtrack.
Would love it if that Zelda 2 gets finished by Thanksgiving.
Thank you for listening to the opening theme. That was legitness
Zelda 2 is my favorite & is super promising! I can't wait to see a more finished product.
Your Dr. Light Impression was hilarious. The stuttering and accent is spot on.
For those wondering, the Metroid intro was from an album named Metroid Resynthesized
It's amusing how some of the people making these get it and how some of them just completely do not get it. Pretty cool overall though.
This'll be nes graphics in 2013
Most of the better hacks here don't increase the resolution to HD, but use more colors, making them look like SNES ports (like Super Mario All Stars).
That's the easier way to do it, since it retains the art style. Increasing the resolution requires new art which has to be high quality. Contra pulls it off, but it takes a lot of skill to come up with something higher resolution which still looks good. (It's also not very high resolution, so you're still trying to do something like a vintage arcade game.)
It's hard to do this sort of thing well since you're still bound by the limitations of the NES original (including how the sprites are chopped up). Almost all of these are very good efforts in their own right.
35:55 Entertaining indeed. As a kid this was one of the games that I had on my Famiclone and it was also the only game that my late father actually knew how to play and he would play it with me.
Also, the fact that it has a level builder made it one of my most played games of all time, I think. And while the tile options aren't exactly mind blowing I tried to draw with it.
I just sincerely wish that booti would pls acknowledge the level builder which he ignored every time this game has come up on things such as Plug & Play :(
I kind of don't want to criticize these because they are labors of love, but half of them look a bit shite.
When vinny said these are nes games with pngs over them and since the pack is "hd" nes games I was really expecting this to be some program that procedurally pulled pics off google to replace sprites, like replacing ground blocks in mario with actual jpegs of dirt etc.
I'm both pleased and disappointed that's not what this is.
Zelda's adventure mad me happy. Making crap games and movies good is an art form of its own and even more challenging than making a good game from scratch, and I always wanted to see people remake those games.
Oh hi Vinny!!!