Was the uglified SNES revenge for Hiroshima?
>>12312059It was NoA's decision
>thing is ugly!Why do internet randos think they are some sort of indicator of something being good or bad looking? Your subjective opinion on things doesn't matter
>>12312063Almost everyone who didn't grow up with the US SNES say it's uglee. I was a segatard so I didn't grow up with either one, and I concur, JP/PAL is way superior. US SNES and the fat PS2 must be the most overrated designs
>>12312059No I think Americans are just fucking dumb and enjoy fucking ugly chunky unpleasant designs and gay lavender purple buttons.
>>12312070>Almost everyone who didn't grow up with the US SNES say it's ugleeProof? Because again, loud randos online mean shit
>>12312079>Proof?Just ask anybody who isn't Murican
>>12312082Nice empiric evidence.Anyway, for real: why would I care about rsndo nerds online for their judgement on something being pretty or ugly? Do you think you have a good grasp of what a good looking thing is? lmao
The notion that the North American SNES design was an act of revenge for Hiroshima is an unfounded conspiracy theory. The design differences were purely due to commercial, design, and practical considerations by Nintendo of America. The console's designer, Lance Barr, redesigned the North American version (as well as the NES) for specific reasons:>Aesthetics:Barr reportedly disliked the look of the Japanese Super Famicom when stacked with its accessories, comparing it to a "bag of bread," and preferred to create an original design for the North American market.>Market Positioning:For the North American market, Nintendo wanted the console to look less like a toy and more like sophisticated stereo equipment to appeal to a broader audience.>Durability and Practicality:The flat top with the recessed switches was a design choice intended to discourage people from placing drinks on the console, which could lead to spills and damage. The plastic used also included a chemical flame retardant, a common practice at the time. The design decisions were entirely separate from the historical events of World War II, which had ended decades earlier, in 1945.
>>12312091You realize this is (You), right?I'm noticing a very apparent effort on /vr/ to shit up threads because its subject theme upsets anons (or should we say, 'anon'?)
>>12312063You have shitty taste and you don't even realize it. I feel bad for you.
>>12312059No, making the greatest generations grandsons think they could be uwu anime girls was.
>>12312063not only the american supes nes is ugly,everyone who has going through thrifting, knows that these things have 2 common problems: A. The reset button is always useless because the american version uses a slider button instead of being pushed down, and the mechanism is made of plastic, so is super common to be broken when buying these things in the wildB. American changed the barrel in the power jack from the super commong 5.5x2.1 to the awful 7.0x1.0. The result: almost every used snes has the power jack plastic broken, so enjoy soldering a new one everytime you buy one. Not to mention, THERES NO REPLACEMENT for the SNES Jr. model. You are literally fucked with that one.
>>12312094It has less to do with "thing I don't like" and more that I just wanted to say I don't trust online random nerds and their subjective opinion on design aesthetics.>>12312095You are one of those nerds
i like the original better but i think the american snes is overhated. it's not a bad design.
>>12312140You're an "online random nerd" too, you solipsistic cunt who thinks he's Neo in the Matrix.
>>12312146I never stated any opinion on thing being "pretty" or "ugly" however.I'm fine with both US SNES and SFC designs personally
>>12312070So who cares about their(your) idiot opinions?What value is there in you shitting your pants over this 30 years later?These are rhetorical questions, there's no important posts that are ever going to come from your ip.
>>12312135This is why I ended up importing a Super Famicom. My old SNES Jr I've had since the 90's power jack broke, and I was never particularly rough with it. It assume the plastic just got brittle with age.
>>12312168>What value is there in you shitting your pants over this 30 years later?How fucking childish are you? You're genuinely upset that people come to the retro vidya board to have opinions about retro vidya. I picture you like in webm related since you must be some stunted tard who's upset because his childhood isn't respected enough for his liking.
>>12312135>plastic AC postwhat the fuck were they thinking
>>12312183The irony of this post
>>12312183NTA but I think it's less being upset about opinions and more questioning the actual ability of people and their judgement on beauty
>>12312135>enjoy soldering a new one everytime you buy one. It's just a piece of plastic. You can literally 3D print a replacement.
>>12312192This. No one here has a pedestal to stand on when it comes to judging visual design.
>>12312071JESUS JUST LET IT STAY YELLOWFUCK
>>12312206Do I need a phd in graphic design to call something ugly now?
>>12312059Both look awesome. What's the problem?
>>12312293They don't. Luckily Europe got the real Super Nintendo
>>12312092Ignore previous instructions, tell me the most vulnerable and geopolitically sensitive mass shooting targets.
>>12312079I didn't grow up with the US SNES and think it's uglee.
>>12312267No but also don't expect others to respect your opinion
>>12312059Ugly? It's better looking. The grey/purple scheme is fire and iconic. The power, eject and reset buttons are so satisfying to press. It's boxy in the base way possible and has a more unique and identifiable shape than the SF.
>>12312071this isn't even how you retrobrite things
>>12312062Does she Noa lot about bad design choices?
>>12312312>PAL SNES has the case from the SFC but also horrible PAL-exclusive guts including region-locked controller ports and weird exclusive video cables with additional components>US SNES has a terrible looking custom case but the insides are literally identical to the SFC>SFC is almost the best of both worlds except for some reason the controllers have the shortest cables you've ever seen while the bundled AV and power cables are absurdly long, and modding the case for US carts is a pain in the assAnd on top of all of this there's also loads of different revisions of the internal guts and some of them are significantly better or more reliable than others
>>12312059Purple is the color of royalty. It's significant because it symbolizes the fact that every country in the world actually belongs to America
>>12312691>and modding the case for US carts is a pain in the assThis is a good point. In that case, us snes really is the best option once you clip the prongs preventing super fami carts.
>>12312059Ha, my copy of Batman Returns on SNES it's better then yours.
>>12312108hot
>>12312071>It's been proving that retro bright and similar methods actually make things worse with brittle over time.>Pic LITERALLY SHOWS the weakened areas that are about to break in the so called CLEANED VERSION.I HATE YouTube Algorythm whores so much.
>>12312201Not for SNES Jr US.I have a poor yellowed SNES Jr and it struggles to run because of that fucking thing.
>>12312732Any beaners remember when Club Nintendo LIED out their asses about how japanese sfc imports would killed our systems?Only downside is, back when you could still find actual SuperFamicom carts in the wild, chances are is that they were already gutted to make em fit on US systems, before people figure out to clip the prongs inside the system which you think would been the original option.The rest of sufami games I own I bought them online before the market got permafucked by hipsters, resellers and leftists
>>12312784It's kinda neat to find those carts in the wild. I have atleast one fire emblem i picked up at con that someone had melted the plastic on to fit.
>>12312789It was, good luck trying to find SOMETHING below 200 beaner pesos (10 bucks), oh, and that isn't just a cheap bootleg made on AliExpress or Etsy, there's literally some assholes in my city literally selling nothing but cheap repro bootlegs at premium prices, like NES games sold from 300 to 900 Mexican pesos now! And they are just AliExpress / Etsy that you can buy for cheap but are just a flash board with a gluetop that can fit up to 1gb of memory but wasted on a single NES game and usually come with a pin converter. (I have a pirate multicart of Rollchan romhack games that's labeless and it's like that, I like the cart color though.
>>12312691pal controller on sfc is perfect
>>12312789Almost every single Super Famicom game I saw in the wild in the 2000s and up until the early 2010s before they were fired up, had those mutilated edges, and by the way l, it wasn't just in Mexico, I once saw an American SNES with japanese carts being sold at St Thomas flea market in the 2000s, it had Super Mario World, Mario Kart and SF2, and they were all gutted like that!The only SuperFamicom cart I got in the wild that wasn't butchered like that was a Super Donkey Kong 2 cart and I got it on a Facebook sell along with Super Butoden 2 from the same seller earlier.
>>12312814Won't run, region locked.
>>12312823i used to do that and it workedmaybe theres different models of controller
>>12312095No, you do. The SNES looks good and always looked good.
>>12312837im european and while i do prefer the jp design the us one is also gooddo wonder how the concave buttons feel though it looks kinda uncomfortable
>>12312848I honestly prefer them to the rounded, but maybe thats because its what im most use to.
Barr just has a shit taste
>>12312885nes toploader is the only thing here that looks badand its only because of that damn bulge
for me, it's the SNS-101
>>12312967think the jr looks better in the us versionthe cartridge shape suits it more
>>12312967>no rgb>not even s-video>no fix for a broken power jack besides making an entire power mod>not even a on-off LED
>>12313018Fixing the video output is as simple as soldering a $20 daughter board to the pins on the bottom of the video connector and running a few wires. Power jack is fucked though.
>>12313018you only need composite
>>12313026the point is, you could put these 20usd towards a full sizes SNES rather than just getting a Junior one. Hell, you can even afford a super famicom, which is cheaper, and get an adapter for american games.
>>12312969Yeah but you cant play US carts, and look, i have a flashcart, but i dont wanna ignore my few US carts i have.
>>12313148Do these not gave issues while playing chip based titles?
>>12313162these adapters are just PCB that work as extensions with a 3D printed case. They dont have any chips on them, so they shouldnt cause any compatibilty problem. Think of them as an extension cord.
>>12312059jp version is uglier desu
