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Time for a change... I think this sums me up pretty well:

Things tend to turn out well when you worry, so that's probably good. - EmP

I still <333 wolves, though.

OK. Felix was nice enough to recommend a few easy NES ROMs to download so I could write a review for this tourney. They included Bubble Bobble, Parasol Stars, and Rainbow Islands. I've been leading towards RI.

However, searching the 'net for this game, I discovered something...

That there are two "versions" of the game. There's an old version and a new version, the new one being at least 400kb more. I'm not sure which one to download because I don't know what the difference between the two is. And if there's a huge difference, that could determine how I rate the game.

Any suggestions?

Also, feel free to recommend more ROMs - I might want to check more out later after this thing.

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NES recommendations that are underappreciated:
Super Dodgeball
Legendary Wings
Bad Dudes
Adventure Island
Karnov

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Isn't Bad Dudes supposed to suck?

I'm pretty sure there is only one version of NES Rainbow Islands. It's officially called Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2. If there is another version that's larger, maybe it's an altered one? I don't know. The official one is JP only, and its graphics are its greatest weak point (I think).

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Thanks, pup - I'll keep those in mind for later.

And after talking for a bit with Felix about this, turns out I mistook any "old versions" for something else entirely. >_> I somehow didn't notice that what I was looking at was really the Arcade version. ^^; Silly me. Though I suppose I can blame part of my confusion for Gamefaqs' way of listing games - it had just "Rainbow Islands" listed under NES, so... yeah. >_>

Anyway, ew - what happened to your avatar, Felix? You didn't... o.o; close your account and leave us for good, did you? Your blog's showing... nothing... I know you said in your tournament topic that stuff came up, but... I didn't know it'd be that bad... I hope everything's OK...

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I had a whole list of suggestions for you last night but my internet crashed as I went to submit it.

I recommend (going by what you rated):

Super C
Super Mario Bros 3
Clash at Demonhead
Dragon Warrior IV
StarTropics

Also get Gens and either SNES9x or ZNES so you can play Genesis and SNES ROMs respectively. 8-bit sucks for the most part.

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Thanks sportsman. I'll keep those in mind, especially the Dragon Warrior one, too. Shame your computer lost the original list, though.

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Cheetahmen 2

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