Has a game ever felt wrong in your hands?

Well? Has a game ever felt wrong in your hands in any way? About 2 hours ago I was at my friends house and he showed me some of his ROMS. I was playing his LEAGLE ROMS when I saw that he had A Link To The Past. Well I had never played it before and always wanted to so I did and the second I got to the place where I had to insert my name I stopped. It just felt strange, so I went and played some of his other ones. One of my other friend says that some of the gamecube games just don't have give off the Nintendo feel into your hands like the old ones did. So anybody ever experienced somthing like this?

Actually, almost every ROM that I have played has felt different, including Link to the Past, Super Mario Bros. 3, etc. But the way I look at it, playing it some is better than not playing it at all

Definately. I call it the "Game Feeling", a simple obvious yet effective name. Certain games have their certain "Game Feeling". Series should, if they are good series, all have the same "Game Feeling". All the Gameboy Zelda games gave me the same type of feeling, it's very undescribeable, but it was a weird feeling. Then, I played TWW, which gave me a totally different feeling. And at first I thought it was wrong... but I started to like TWW's feeling better than the gameboy Zelda's feeling. Now, the GB Zelda's feel "wrong". This happens witha ton of games... they aren't "wrong", they just have their own unique feeling that they give you when you play them... that;s how I see it.

Yes, playing teh game as a ROM will add some guilt to what could have been a good feeling. And getting more ROMs will make that build up...

It's probably because of how clunky the keyboard feels vs the controller.

Maybe you just felt wrong about playing a bootleg of a classic game. That makes sense.

I know exactly what you mean, Jehuety. I've played a few different ROMs but I lack the determination to play any of them. For some reason its always one million times better to play it on the original console.

Yeah. When you have been playing consoles since you were like six, the feeling of not being able to let go of the joystick or tossing it against the wall in anger, is just kind of missing when playing on a keyboard. I played some SNES ROMs some time back at a friend, and he had this SNES like controller attatched to his PC. I played with it, but that didn't really feel right either. Looking at a monitor from a chair just next to you is just somewhat different from looking at your TV from your bed. The way real games are supposed to be played.

All this just goes back to my childhood I guess...

OK, first of all, what the heck is a ROM? Second of all, I've gotten a game feeling before. For instince: ZELDA! I dunno, just every time i play a zelda game it makes me feel happy, like its Christmas or sumthin'

Well, a ROM is basically some kind of console game turned into a computer program, and is opened using an emulator emulating a console. So to say it straight, ROMs allow you to play old console games on your PC. There are some legal issues with that though, and if you read the rules here at ZU, you'll see that if you are sharing ROMs here, chances are that you're going to get banned.

Just to get that straightened out...

Playing a game on a ROM will go a long way towards removing that feeling.

(I know you are all talking about ROMs, but I do have a confession to make about playing a game that feels wrong)

The day I bought my GBC, I went to a local AMES store and asked for one. Sadly enough, all they had was the display model. The elderly clerk rang up the manager if it was ok for me to purchase it, eventhough it was there very last one. She said ok, and I was excited. When the old woman took it out of the display case, I noticed something...there was a game still inside the GBC! Now here comes the confession. I didn't say anything. I just thought "Hey if they notice something, they would take it out" but they didn't. I gues because they don't know that much about GBC, or electronics in general, that they just rang it up and put it in a bag. When I walked through the metal detector, I was expecting for the alarms to go off....nothing! I walked over to the car with my father, drove home, opened to see what game it was and it was Earth Worm Jim. Thank god it was Earth Worm Jim because if it was a Zelda game, I wouldn't live with myself by playing any more of the Zelda series. Well I was bored that summer, I started to play, but everytime I played it was as if the elderly store clerk was watching me steal that thing over and over again. That's when I knew I had to get rid of it. I stopped playing for the rest of the summer, and one day I went to EB (Electronic's Boutique) and asked if they bought used games (I didn't know at the time that they did). That's when I sold Earth Worm Jim emediatly(sp?). After that day I sorta had a better concious(sp?) about it, but it feels even better whenever I confess it. Now that game, really felt wrong in my hands.

Originally Posted by Mondo Man

OK, first of all, what the heck is a ROM? Second of all, I've gotten a game feeling before. For instince: ZELDA! I dunno, just every time i play a zelda game it makes me feel happy, like its Christmas or sumthin'

A ROM is a "Read Only Memory".
Basicially, a CD-ROM is a Compact Disk-Read Only Memory... I think..

Anyway, to quote GameFaqs...

Originally Posted by GameFaqs

ROM stands for "Read Only Memory", a type of computer chip that permanently stores data. In the world of game piracy, it generally referrs to the ROM(s) of a video game cartridge that have been transferred to a computer file.

You know, you could dispatch this weird feeling of yours by transferring a ROM to an empty cartridge, though I've never done that... Nintendo deserve it anyway, GBA games are way overpriced, and it's not everyday you see good games for it. Hey, sounds like just like Gamecube.

Originally Posted by William Zelda4ever

You know, you could dispatch this weird feeling of yours by transferring a ROM to an empty cartridge, though I've never done that... Nintendo deserve it anyway, GBA games are way overpriced, and it's not everyday you see good games for it. Hey, sounds like just like Gamecube.

Flash Cartridge?

Thats a better way of storing roms on a cartridge. Its a bit like a CD-RW...
Anyway, I'm not sure if we're supposed to be discussing these sort of things.

I will not go deeper on this topic I've brought up, but yes, after putting the ROM on an empty cartridge using some sort of program, you can play the cartridge just like it was a real copy. I've never done it, but I know a person that has.

Originally Posted by jehuty

Well? Has a game ever felt wrong in your hands in any way? About 2 hours ago I was at my friends house and he showed me some of his ROMS. I was playing his LEAGLE ROMS when I saw that he had A Link To The Past. Well I had never played it before and always wanted to so I did and the second I got to the place where I had to insert my name I stopped. It just felt strange, so I went and played some of his other ones. One of my other friend says that some of the gamecube games just don't have give off the Nintendo feel into your hands like the old ones did. So anybody ever experienced somthing like this?

Actually, there are no legal ROMs, if he bought them online then (he is stupid, and) they are still illegal, if they are backup copies, same thing. (Look in the back of a Nintendo instruction manual.) Anyway, you get that feeling becuase it's
1. It's a game you didn't own or really have a right to own.
2. Your playing on a keyboard, that changes the whole gameplay experience. 3. You probably didn't want your first experience of this wonderful game to be on an illigal copy of it.
and William Zelda4ever, GBA games are not that overpriced, if they really were then people wouldn't buy them, beleave it or not it does cost money to design, program and manufacture these games, Nintendo doesn't just pull them out of the air. (Also Nintendo is a company, they are out to make money, they have no obligation to price things where people can afford them, it's good buisness sense to do that, but they don't have to, especially when they have a monopoly over the handheld game market.) Stop trying to justify the illegal theft of game data. (and games period.)

Originally Posted by jehuty

Well? Has a game ever felt wrong in your hands in any way? About 2 hours ago I was at my friends house and he showed me some of his ROMS. I was playing his LEAGLE ROMS when I saw that he had A Link To The Past. Well I had never played it before and always wanted to so I did and the second I got to the place where I had to insert my name I stopped. It just felt strange, so I went and played some of his other ones. One of my other friend says that some of the gamecube games just don't have give off the Nintendo feel into your hands like the old ones did. So anybody ever experienced somthing like this?

It wasn't really the game, It was more or less how I won it.

See, I was playing Advance wars 2 black hole rising ROM. I wasing using lots of cheats for it, like infintie moves, and things like that. And when I finished, I felt really bad during the end of the last song. That song still makes me sad