This is a capture of me playing through Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using a real Street Fighter II Turbo cartridge. I'm using my favorite character, Ken, and playing on max difficulty (8 stars). I didn't lose a single round while playing on the highest difficulty and turbo setting. This playthrough is similar to my last one, except I didn't use the cheap strategy on Bison this time. However, I still had to use cheap tactics on Zangief and Guile because they're rotten bastards. Guile will stop everything with his Flash Kick, and Zangief will grab you from a ridiculous range with his Spinning Piledriver. So they deserve to be exploited. Like before, I'm playing with a four-star turbo setting. I've had some people request the hidden 10-star turbo mode, but I've tried it, and it's just flat-out absurd. I can't even react in time at that speed. I've been a Street Fighter II fan since The World Warrior first hit arcades in 1991. I remember the first time I played it at a 7-Eleven near my elementary school. I instantly got hooked and couldn't stop thinking about the game even during class. Of course, at the time, I didn't know how to do any of the special moves, but that didn't stop me from playing the crap out of the game. In fact, when I was only 7 or 8 years old, I entered a Street Fighter tournament hosted by that same 7-Eleven. They hooked up a bunch of Street Fighter II cabinets outside the store and had everyone play against each other in elimination matches. Naturally, I got my ass kicked in the first match, but I still had fun! Once I learned the special moves I started getting more proficient, and for Christmas of 1992, my brother and I received a brand new Super Nintendo as well as a copy of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. We played that game to death. I remember all the neighbor kids coming over to our house to play it and we would hold our own little improvised round robin matches. By that time I started clobbering everyone with Ken. Damn was it fun. I even remember that some specific friends of ours (two brothers) picked up a Super Nintendo just to get to this game. That's how popular Street Fighter was back then. A few years ago I replaced that World Warrior cartridge with a complete copy of Turbo because it's just so much better. One of my friends used to own Turbo, so I got to play it at his house as a kid. Plus I used to rent Turbo and Super Street Fighter II even though I owned the World Warrior. That's how fun the games were. Enjoy the higher quality footage. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. I'm using a standard SNES controller.

[Note: This video and description were originally posted on Youtube on October 30, 2014.] This is a capture of me playing through the 150cc Star Cup in Super Mario Kart for the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was captured directly from my Super Nintendo using a real Super Mario Kart cartridge. I wasn't originally planning on redoing my Super Mario Kart footage yet again, but Youtube announced support for 60 fps videos, so I decided to take advantage of that. Here's a neat little fact: during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, 60 fps was the standard frame rate for consoles and even handhelds. It was during the 32-bit/64-bit era that 60 fps no longer became the standard frame rate (at least for consoles). However, some games from that era did still display at 60 fps. Every Nintendo console and handheld (minus the Virtual Boy) was capable of and did in fact output at least some games at 60 frames per second. Whereas the N64 typically had low frame rates (often 20 to 30 fps for 3D games), some N64 games did output at 60 fps, and most NES and SNES games output at 60 fps. The GameCube of course had 60 fps games as well. I wanted to capture a bunch of old games in 60 fps to take advantage of the Youtube upgrade, so I contacted Tobias Reich (http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/) to find out if I'd need to buy a new capture card. It turned out I didn't need to. The Hauppauge was already doing this, so I just needed to properly deinterlace my retro console footage to retain the native frame rate. Tobias gave me a special deinterlacing filter to use in Virtualdub, and it works great. This new deinterlacing method not only preserves the game's natural frame rate, but also results in a clearer video as well. I think I received Super Mario Kart for Christmas of 1993. Before that I managed to play the game at another kid's house and instantly got addicted to Battle Mode. My brother and I played the hell out of this game growing up. It's amazing; one of the best in the Mario Kart series. The physics are excellent, the courses are fun and the music is incredible. However, this is easily the hardest game in the Mario Kart series. But I like a challenge, so that doesn't bother me. I used to race with Yoshi, but after a while I switched to Luigi since he has higher top end and is in a heavier weight class. Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal. I'm using a standard SNES controller.