Black flag is amazing and heavily recommended for the start. Then I recommend unity, syndicate, and origins.

Which is a common complaint among people that don't play them. "Anime turn based JRPG waifu bait trash" and other similar phrases.

They don't learn the fundamentals of the genre and can't see the nuance. All JRPG are the "same".

Yeah saying that all fighting games are the same is like saying all RPGs are the same.

"The Fundamentals" of fighting games are not understood by most players.

They focus on being able to input the commands to do the cool looking combos and those look mostly the same in all fighters.

I've tried, I can't do the genre myself lol. It's just too fast and too much is needed to learn before you actually truly understand the nuances.

Only genre I can't get in to.

Yeah many people just don't understand how technical they can be.

I feel like I would only buy it if you felt you a regular controller was not adequate but its your money, one controller or 6 games on sale

It's not to hard to do just watch a yt vid. I have a few Famicom games. Much better on a retron though with a language pack.

Edit: Oh fuck me for skimming the post. You said "Super" which means I'm an idiot. Yes, the Super NES had two little plastic tabs that prevent you from inserting Super Famicom carts. I recommend flush-cutters over pliers, or again you can just buy an adapter if you're concerned about breaking the plastic.

The metal tabs are the contacts in the cartridge slot. In the NES, there is a known defect where they flex away from the carts with use. If you remember blowing into your old carts, that's because Nintendo of America was aware of the problem but did not want to issue a recall.

The solution that worked most of the time was to remove the cart and reinsert the game, hoping it would make better contact the second or third try. But they didn't want to tell people that, so they social engineered a solution by suggesting it was dust on the terminals.

Pulling the tabs a bit to bend them out improves contact with the terminals, but be warned you run the risk of breaking the tab off and destroying your Nintendo. I don't recommend doing it unless you frequently get the purple flashing screen of sadness. There are also some hobbyists that will do this repair for you (in exchange for money, of course).

The Famicom had a different slot design that did not suffer the same problem. In fact, it has a completely different sized carts with fewer terminals. You cannot (easily) modify an American NES to fit Famicom games by messing with the metal tabs.

You can get an adapter, or even make one by acquiring and sacrificing specific NES carts that were basically Famicom internals with an adapter built in. I would recommend buying a proper adapter and skip the DIY stuff. Famicom games will play on the NES with no modification on the system required.

TL/DR: No, you shouldn't do that, because that's not how you play Famicom games on an NES. You might want to do it if you get purple screen.

treat yourself my dude! look at some of the prices of your wife's cosmetic stuff lol.

Microwave it

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Probably dont jab your console with pliers

Are you fucking up your home budget by buying it?

Yes? Don't do it.
The joy of having it might get overshadowed by the guilt of being irresponsible with money.

Otherwise, go for it. If you earned it, you earned it.

Try Amazon. Some time you can spilt the payments on items. How I got my scuf controller without my wife killing me.

I don't think the benefits of the controller are worth the price. There's a million other things you could buy for the the price that will give you that same feeling. Hell, you could buy a switch lite for that price.

ehhhhh so here's my only thing right.

like i've been in your place, you buy something to make yourself feel better, but if its not worth the money now you feel worse that you spent X amount on thing that really didn't make you happy. 200 for a controller is pretty steep in my eyes. have you actually used someone elses to make sure you really really want it and can notice a difference?

As long as it’s not all pixelated I’m mostly fine with it

Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness.

Does your wife act like that in any way? Do you think any of your stress is because your wife doesn’t approve of you playing video games or spending money on them?

yea. in reality its been like that a lot of my life. Sucks lol

$200 for a controller is insane

That’s not good, man. I hope you can overcome that. You deserve fun things as long as you’re taking care of everything you need to.

Dope, I added an edit above but I’d honestly just discuss it with the wife and explain it.

see, i have this wierd thing. Even though im almost 30, whenever I buy anything my mom voice appears in my head like Prof. Oak when you try to ride a bike "Do you REALLY need it?"

yea the $$ is the key thing right now, but NO WAY am i buying a VR (thats more than the console lol)