15 Largest SNES Games in ROM Cartridge Size

In the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, Nintendo was notorious for dragging out the life-cycles of their consoles, which gave developers plenty of time to perfect their programming and graphical techniques to make the most of the hardware.

The Super Nintendo spent many years giving us joy and developers had all the time in the world to perfect their games and optimize the amount of content they could fit into such a small memory (While the Super NES can address 128 Megabits, only 117.75 Megabits were actually available for cartridge use). With hindsight, it's nothing short of miraculous that games like Chrono Trigger or Donkey Kong Country could be achieved in such a limited space. Isn’t it?

But there are even more impressive milestones in the SNES catalog. In this video we discover the biggest games (from biggest to smallest) in Nintendo's 16 bit catalog. Not only do we tell you which games are the largest, we also accompany you with detailed information on gameplay duration, the type of roms used, how they are compressed and whether the games used special chips (e.g. SPC7110 or S-DD1) to make them run prodigiously on this console.

Intro and Outro Music

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Games Featured

0:00 Intro
00:22 Chrono Trigger
01:12 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
01:49 Rise of the Robots
02:27 Terranigma
03:22 Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
03:57 Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling '96 - Max Voltage
05:05 Killer Instinct
05:41 Tokimeki Memorial - Densetsu no Ki no Shita de
06:15 Doukyuusei 2
06:48 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
07:21 Street Fighter Alpha 2
08:36 Tsukikomori
09:21 Tales of Phantasia
10:01 Tengai Makyou Zero
10:51 Star Ocean
11:27 Outro

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