Ultimate Game Guide

Embraceware Software Inc

In-app purchases

About this app

Ultimate Game Guide is a great gaming and collecting resource for the NES and Super NES.

The free version provides full functionality with complete information on 40 games for each system. Information for the entire library for each system is available via a one-time in-app purchase for each.

FEATURES:
• Game reviews and screenshots, including games released exclusively in Europe and Australia.

• Info for each game including genre, publisher, developer, release date, number of players, special features, availability, and estimated price.

• App and community game ratings - judge them yourself and influence the guide!

• Collection tools to track games owned, including boxes and manuals, with the ability to add games to a "want" list.

• Powerful search engine to filter the game library by rating, publisher, developer, current price, collection status, release date, and more!

• Popular hardware devices, controllers, and console variants.

• Cart variants, promo/special cartridges, and even test cartridges included!

• Gaming info - tips, codes, and passwords!

• All game prices are automatically updated daily!

Ratings and reviews

Purchased the Ultimate NES app in January 2018. I looked it up today after seeing some stuff on the N64 book, and find that it has been replaced with this. The new app seems fine, but it's asking me to pay for the NES library access. Given that I already paid once and have evidently lost access, that's not going to happen. You would think I would either keep access to the old version, or the new version would detect the purchase on my account. As it stands, I get a trial version, apparently.

-sigh- my review disappeared in the middle of writing it so here I go: Pat and his team have done an excellent job putting together an app that truly lives up to its name, as this is THE ultimate guide to the NES library. It is especially helpful for cataloguing your library, quickly checking prices and citing reviews of games you are interested in, and while it is a near perfect tool for any NES collector, there are a couple features I would like to see improved. One feature I would like to see added is a search bar always available at the top of the screen, even on game pages, that doesn't save your previous save so after cataloguing one game you can quickly move on to the next. This would be especially helpful when cataloguing a large library for the first time, as I had to back out to the search result screen and delete my previous search every time I wanted to find another game. Also, it wasn't until I began writing this review that I figured out how to add games to the "wanted list". Granted, there is text that explains that you should change the value owned to a number less than 0 to add to the wanted list and I see why it is the way it is, but I would've rather seen an option on the main game page. Finally, I would like to see label variants separated the same way test cartridges are, if it weren't for swiping at the game page I wouldn't have known how to select the newer yellow label Metroid cartridge instead of the original black label variant. I am rating this app 5/5 stars because it does exactly what it says it does, and my only complaints are for ease of use and fluidity, just some quality of life improvements, but those features are in the game in some way as it is, they could just be more accessible in my opinion.

When it works, this app is perfect. It catalogues every game, physical console, controller, and keeps track of the value of your collection, as well as a wanted list and many other things. However, I have not gotten the app to open so I could actually use it more than once in the last month or so. I'll download it, add a game or two, and then it will crash while loading every time after that. UPDATE: As of 7/6/2020 the app works again, and better than ever.

What’s new

- Performance improvements and minor bug fixes.