Easy?! Easy is too hard. I fought the stupid thing for half an hour and I couldn’t win anything. I give up. I am never going to play this stupid game ever again. All it does is bring me hatred and shouting and yelling. I think they forgot to check and see if it’s even beatable. Man I wish I was a game tester. I’d give this back and say “Make easy actually easy and not impossible.” Is it just me or can I not actually sense 3-D images with my eyes? I guess there’s something wrong with my eyes and I can’t make out the depth of the VB. Or the game sucks. What really made me mad is once, the ball landed on the line and called it in when it was clearly out. I suck at playing anything. I’m just a stupid failure when it comes to playing video games. I wish someone would make a game where “Easy” is actually “Easy” and not “Impossible.”

I find even hard not hard enough.

But after entering the extra difficulty code, even easy becomes impossible.

I usually play as Yoshi. He’s the fastest and it’s hard to miss the ball with him.

And I agree, the depth isn’t noticeable on this game, even though it’s obviously there if you use an emulator with anaglyph mode.

i found the game to be pretty easy. it isn’t the best tennis game out there, it is flawed, and stripped down to the basic mechanics. once you learn to direct the ball a bit it isn’t all that challenging to out play the cpu characters.

i only really notice the depth when fixating on the background. i think the drawn lines confuse our brains because they clearly are forcing a fake depth, something we are so used to seeing in 2d sports games.

i always test the depth and 3d effect by closing one eye to see what it looks like when flat. then i open both and get a greater sense of what the game was trying to accomplish.

Lester Knight wrote:

i always test the depth and 3d effect by closing one eye to see what it looks like when flat. then i open both and get a greater sense of what the game was trying to accomplish.

Yeah that’s a great practice and I’ve found that you can really study how the earlier games made their depth effects by taking a side by side image in Mednafen and study the differences.;-)

What? Mario’s Tennis is really easy. As said before, all you do is just hit the ball into areas where the computer opponents can’t hit it. A good one is to hit the ball onto the right side of the net, without going into out of bounds. Most computer opponents will try to hit the ball but will end up walking backwards following it, without hitting it.

As for hitting the ball yourself, the game is really forgiving in that regard. There’s a wide area of margin that is acceptable with most characters.

Yeah, I thought the game was way too easy (because the AI isn’t very good). Pretty much my entire game consists of hitting the ball to the left side of the court, then if they hit it back to me, hit it to the right side.

DogP

Don’t give up on it yet! When I first got it, I was in a similar situation. I thought it was ridiculously hard too! But after I played it a few more times it just kinda ‘clicked’ or something. Now it all makes sense and is MUCH easier!

Give it a few more tries, maybe the same thing will happen to you too.

PS
Toad FTW ( obviously 😛 )

I really enjoy this game because for me if I play often then I win and if I play once a week or less VB wins. Back in 95 I had to play all day for many days to get a winning streak. It does escalate in challenge especially in the secret hard play and I as the user become Donkey Kong Jr. the least athletic of the characters.

I WON! I beat Toad 6-2 playing as Mario. But I still think the game is too hard. But it is impressive seeing as how the ball’s movement can be far or near. I can’t judge distance very well though, so I don’t know when I can hit the ball I think is my main problem.

Congratulations!