/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2542456
Awesome. Looking forward to it.

>>2431521
If you crank it up to its fastest speed setting, the first one can actually be the fastest in the entire series. But I don't think many people tried to play it on that speed. The few times it still gets tournaments they run on the middle speed. I will say that I think the first game has the best presentation in the series. The whole monster move vibe really comes through well in everything. The stages' original color schemes are also a lot better than the Night Warriors recolors.

>>1734956
The Dreamcast one being an odd Hyper Street Fighter 2-esque mashup that doesn't faithfully represent the original games (especially the first two).

If I had to hazard I guess, I suppose things unfolded like this:

>Capcom decides to release some ports of old games as early filler PSP titles.
>Despite never having been a big hit, they decide to take a risk and make one of those ports Darkstalkers.
>They base it on the Dreamcast version since it was the most recent port at the time, thus probably having easier code to work with. It offers a sort of "all in one" approach that they hop will please the somewhat divided Darkstalkers fanbase (despite the Dreamcast release itself having not been particularly well-received due to its inaccuracy to the source games)
>It sells like crap in the west (big surprise, it's never had a fanbase there), but does alright in Japan. However Japanese fans continue to express their desire for an accurate recreation of the original arcade experience.
>Capcom thus decides to take the plunge and do a fully-featured, arcade-accurate Darkstalkers Collection and releases it for the PS2.
>After the PSP release they know it won't sell in the west, so they don't even bother.

Granted, that's just my guess. Also I've heard that the favorable reputation the Darkstalkers Collection received is what led to the development of the similar Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, which of course did get brought to the west.