/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8725642
nice bait

DID U KNO
Twisted Metal 1 has a japanese PC port

>>8725667
>Only For Nintendo 64

How did Nintendo keep getting away with this?

>>8725642

For me, Art of Fighting on SNES

doesn't get much worse than this

>>8725695
in what else is this on? computers?

>>8725667
Also, Command & Conquer. I just recently became aware that the Saturn, N64, and PS1 each had a port of Command & Conquer 1

>>8725706
That and GBA

>>8725676
Starcraft 64 is indeed only for the Nintendo 64

>>8725667
>Splint screen action
>zero lag
Check mate pc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoccumWjZkM
Always thought Final Fantasy 1 was an NES exclusive, never realized it got a port to the MSX with improved sprites.

>>8725780
Metal Gear got a Commodore 64 port but sadly it was based on the shitty NES version and not the MSX.

>>8725642
Bought this back in 2007. I had played it on PC at my friend's house already, but I thought thia was a pretty good port. Controlled about the same and the graphics weren't a huge downgrade.

>>8725667
This game sucked. Absolutely atrocious trying to control an RTS game with the N64 controller. Weird hotkeys, imprecise cursor, surprisingly small resolition.

Every once in awhile god punishes me by reminding me Deus Ex PS2 exists.

>>8725814
There's nothing wrong with that port. The small changes did not actually alter anything story or gameplay wise.

And Sonic CD to PC as well.

>>8725642
This is often cited as a weird port, but what exactly is weird about it?

There's this Dreamcast Japanese exclusive RTS developed by Smilebit called Hundred Swords, that somehow has a localized PC port

>>8725830
there's nothing particularly weird about it other than it running at 15 FPS for the whole game. It's more like unnecessary.

>>8725642
This one weirder.

>>8725667
I have a copy of this, if you want a more challenging StarCraft well here you go

>>8725706
It's a PC game ported to Xbox. Very similar extreme compromises that affected the Xbox ports of Half Life 2 and Deus Ex 2, except here it stutters and chugs to the point of near unplayability considering it's a high speed action FPS. Interesting but terrible conversion. >>8725748

>>8725642
Virtua Fighter 2 for the Mega Drive / Genesis, I mean why?

>>8725937
>welp 2D is 100% dead and irrelevant forever so let's do this I guess

https://youtu.be/ApsAMzhbAhk

>>8725874
Valve had some weird licensing in Asia.

>>8725937
>I mean why?
because the megadrive rules

Driver 3 on the GBA
Max Payne on the GBA
Ultima Underworld on PS1
Spider-Man 2 (6th gen licensed movie game) on PC (completely different game than console version)
007: Nightfire on PC (completely different game than console version)
SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom on PC (completely different game than console version)

Everybody knows Mega Man DOS, but it's still really fucking weird there are three original Mega Man games for DOS.

>>8725642

>>8725982
>Wave Man
>Torch Man
>Blade Man
>Oil Man
All lies! Also,
>there are three original Mega Man games for DOS
Fun fact: there's only two: Mega Man & Mega Man 3. They skipped 2 for some reason

this one

pokemon for the sega pico

The first NES Ninja Turtles ported to DOS
The NES version of Metal Gear ported to DOS

>>8725667
>Star Craft 64
>Only for 64

Seems redundant

>>8725681
That was pretty good aside from the loading times, wasn't it?

Tower of Druaga on Game Boy
Dragon Slayer on Game Boy
Ghosts n Goblins on Game Boy
Torneko Mystery Dungeon 3 on GBA

>>8726027
And the fact it would fuck up your VMU with random save sizes.

>>8726034
thats what 4x vmu are for

Wipeout & Wipeout XL for both Saturn & PC

All those Saturn-era Sega ports to PC.
>Virtua Fighter
>Virtua Fighter 2
>Last Bronx
>Virtual-On
>Sakura Wars
>Sakura Wars 2
>Bug
>Bug 2
>Sonic 3D Blast
>Sonic R
>Panzer Dragoon
>Daytona USA
>Sega Rally
>Sega Touring Car
>Manx TT Super Bike
>Virtua Cop
>Virtua Cop 2
>Enemy Zero

>>8726101
Descent 1&2 on PS1
Forsaken on both N64 & PS1

>>8725681
Is this legit or just a repro?

>>8726101
>Sakura Wars
>The PC version was twice licensed for release outside Japan; a Chinese version was released in Taiwan and mainland China by Dysin Interactive on August 17, 2001[106] and a Russian translation was published by Akella on January 11, 2006
I still remember this. Akella started as a company that sold bootlegs

>>8725821
I could be spoiled since I played it on PC for the first time in 2010, but the PS2 version really doesn't play anywhere near as well imo. I guess I've only tried it with a controller now that I think of it

More shite than weird but I digress

Marathon 2 on Windows

>>8726101
what´s so weird about this

>>8726227
Mega Man Legends on N64 & PC
Mega Man Legends 2 on PC

>>8726229
The fact they were taking the time to port Saturn games to PC rather than make/localize more Saturn games. Also, as another anon mentioned, the official Russian localization of Sakura Wars 1

>>8726238
>port Saturn games to PC
half of those games are arcade ports not saturn

>>8725642
Hmm, it must be at least 2 weeks since you made this thread.

Must have really grinded your gear to hold off that long.

>>8725947
I prefer the mods made based on that. To the hell with pay to win shit.

>>8726016
>>8726004
>GBA games with full open world
These and GBC port of Driver were pretty impressive

>>8726502
driver is the only gbc game I own and play, and its epic. driver 2 on gba sucks tho

>port of the sims 1 base game to sixth gen consoles
>it's in 3d before the sims 2 was even a thing on pc
>has a weird story mode added to it
always found this a strange but interesting port, i believe it was the only semi-direct sims console port for like a decade as all of the sims 2 console ports had barely anything in common with the pc original from what i remember

>>8726007
I had this. I don't see why you'd play it unless you're really obsessed with Street Fighter. Even as a kid I could tell it was pretty meh

>>8726010
This has got to be ass

>>8726567
having played both thesims on PC and gamecube, I wouldn't really call that a port, there's just too much different between them, the neighborhood, the floors/wallpapers, the items, etc. and the campaign/story you mentioned

>>8726646
Mortal kombat on gameboy is even worse.

>>8725642
The Xbox port was my first experience playing Half-Life 2. I didn't have a PC that could play games at the time.

>>8725821
cope

>>8726238
PC was far stronger than saturn and saturn was dead outside of japan

>>8725681
I would've played through this but it literally requires an entire vmu

GB/GBC Aladdin is a port of the Genesis game

>>8726116
Repro

>>8726671
if you use the ps2 mouse maybe its not so bad

>>8726308
But they're ports of the Saturn versions, not the arcade versions
>>8726725
But wouldn't the effort/cost of porting them to PC be greater than the effort/cost of localizing more games for the Saturn? Considering all the QA involved with making sure the ports work on multiple PC configurations, and the (assumed, on my part) potential of piracy compared to the relative unlikelihood of Saturn piracy?

I remember back in like 7th/8th grade being hyped for Half-Life 2, but one of my friends was like "I have it, it fucking sucks!", but he had the Xbox port, not the PC version.

>>8726979
>But they're ports of the Saturn versions, not the arcade versions
no

And I enjoyed it back then

first tomb raider on psx is a weird port, because that game was original developed for saturn.

>>8726979
This was in the mid-90s, piracy of cds only really came at the end tail of the 90's, we euros were far more PC oriented. I had Virtua Fighter and Panzer Dragoon on the PC and I still have both discs. Saturn was so absolutely dead here.

>>8727046
That's not a port that's a different game with an original plot and characters

This one is surprisingly very good, they even kept the original graphic novel cutscenes and some voice acting

>>8726724
I accept your concession.

>has more polygons than the pc version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa63pXJZUUM

tekken on the nes, not official but still weird

Dragon's Lair crammed into a GBC cartridge, in all of its compressed and pixelated glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XiUvMowedA

>>8725821
>>8726027
the thread says weird ports and you keep commenting like it says bad ports

>>8725946
it's like a scuffed killer instinct

>>8725642
Half Life 2 is the first game that can never be retro CMV

>>8726010
Used to play this with my cousin, we'd build towns together and make up lore and stuff.

>>8726947
Snes Aladdin bros, what happened?

>>8725667
There was a huge post about how a guy played with this cartridge all the time as a kid. Just the cartridge not even the game itself.

>>8725642
owned this as a kid.
this game markets itself as rayman 3 but resembles rayman 2 more in terms of storyline, characters and levels.
it was still kino, though.

>tfw the 8-bit Game Boy Color demake of Daikatana is the best version of the game

>>8725821
It was good for its time but any toaster nowadays can run Deus Ex so it's pointless except for being a historical curiosity.

>>8725823
>tfw no native PC ports of Sonic 1 and 2 with MIDI music

>>8727098
>>8727046
the thing about gba (games, ports, ) is that was the firs "really" powerful handhled ever.

>>8726010
Ds version was weirder

port of a java game

>>8725667
how do you even play this on n64!? also why wasn't it ported to other systems with more buttons?

>>8725807
>>8725642
>eyes are extra green
nice touch
Remember the load times and framerates were pretty bad...but if you didn't have a solid pc to run it, it was the next best thing. It was still fun even with it's limitations. It's honestly impressive the xbox could pull HL2 and Doom 3 off, that stuff was next gen material for consoles. Even DOA Ultimate was.

>>8726947
I may be wrong, but GB and GBC Aladdin are two different ports of the same game, Genesis Aladdin. And the original GB one suck.

>>8728486
The games were western ports. They don't have the rights to port Capcom's Aladdin.

>>8729528
A pretty good game - the sequel is better. Framerate sucks but can be improved if you overclock on a DSi or 3DS.

>>8726013
Not a port.

>>8727046
Thanks doc

>>8729560
idc

>>8729557
who would play tm on the ds tho

>>8727957
That's impressive, holy fuck. How many people had to redraw it all as spritework?

>>8729352
>port

That's an original game underneath the same IP and it also isn't AoE II in name.

Having a story mode makes the game interesting to play. So you can finally beat a The Sims game

>>8728460
based

>>8725874
i always wanted to play the full version of this port as i think an arcade mode for HL2 with bonus missions looked like it would've been fun.

>>8725947
my favorite will always be the L4D2 arcade port with nick & coach replaced with japanese highschooler and ellis & rochelle replaced with chris redfield & sheva.

>>8726028
>Torneko Mystery Dungeon 3 on GBA
Chocobo Dungeon on WonderSwan
Evolution on Neo Geo Pocket
Shiren the Wanderer GB on PC
Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden on PC

>>8725667
This is the apex example of weird console ports, even worse then Diablo 1 on PSX. What were they thinking?

>>8726009
>GAME.COM
>the dot is actually silent

What were they thinking???

>>8728495
How? What would you even do with just the cart? He must have the 'tisms.

>>8729867
Just like Battle.net

>>8729907
You’re not supposed to say Battle Dot Net?

>>8729867
>>8729986
I owned a game.com and always pronounced the dot.
I swear the startup jingle said “game com, dot too.”

>>8725667
Played more of this than I'd like to admit

>>8725821
The gameplay and maps are wildly different.

>>8729986
I guess if you're actually referring to the website to download the client, you would pronounce it "battle dot net". Otherwise, if I'm referring to the service/client itself, I just say "battle net". Sounds more natural.

Myst and Riven on PS1

>>8725937
Genesis does what Nintendon't

>>8730004
>I owned a game.com
how was it?

>>8726567
>sims 2
>can't get two story
>have a mansion bungalow.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

>>8727046
>chinatown wars on DS
>it's actually good
>works well with touch controls
who would of thought?

>>8727131
you could use a keyboard with it too.

>>8725807
The loading was pretty crap but back then it was a kino port imo

>>8726567
I love this port. Fuck Dudley and his shitty friends worst level in Story mode

>>8730620
dont forget ur mouse, microphone and camera anon

>>8726567
One summer break my cousin and I played this a lot for some reason. 2 player Sims was max comfy.

>>8730758
yessir

>>8729847
I feel like a retard for almost believing it

>>8730958
It actually was ported to the PS1 but suffered from serious bugs, long load times, and other issues so it was cancelled but has since been leaked.

>>8730958
No, it's real. It was cancelled before the official release, but pre-release builds have leaked.

>>8729847
would be cool tho. assets retooled into some form of diablo like action rpg.

>>8730758
That is a very handsome camera.

>>8731002
true

>>8730958
It certainly was a thing. I remember considering to play the converted version on PSP.

>>8726685
I can hear that picture.

>>8731131
Isn't there also a GBA Serious Sam?

>>8725823
I have a friend who swore by the PC port of S3&K. I watched him play, just thinking to myself "why the fuck does the music sound like that?"

>>8725982
3? I only know of MM1 and 3, unless you count the china tactics game.

I think every main X game is on pc besides 2. Also Legends 1.

>>8730617
DS was the lead platform for Chinatown Wars. PSP and smartphone versions were ports.

>>8729860
PS1 Diablo is good though, local 2 player diablo is simply max comfy.

Got ported backwards a generation and with more content

>>8729686
i played Pets so much as a kid the pause menu music is permanently burned into my head
it's funny how when you're a kid you have infinite time to fuck around, but when you're an adult you feel guilty for playing games where the point is just to "have fun"
https://youtu.be/rPNcRMlCk7w

No idea why the series went from 360 and PS3 to 360/PS3/PS2 to 360 PS3 again. That said, DW2 PS2 is a ton of fun and just as good as the next gen versions.

Pretty decent and faithful port too considering how underpowered the PSX is.

>>8725937
>>8725946
Also Space Channel 5 on GBA. Another originally 3D game “baked” as a 2D title. I suppose I’m the audience for these titles as I enjoyed all of them, and am rather amused by such things.

>>8731595
cool stuff

>>8731850
its better on the dre-

>>8726478
lol

cs java

>>8730356
the gameplay is nearly exactly the same. some maps are cut up into chunks. there are new higher poly character models and altered geometry. new and higher quality textures are used as well.
this is the first version of the game i ever owned. gaming mags and G4TV got me excited as fuck for invisible war, so after i bought and beat that, i found deus ex the conspiracy at walmart for 20 bucks around 2003 or so. i also played half life on ps2 before PC.
some elements of the ps2 version are "better", but the worst part of the PS2 version is the altered lighting. everything is far more lit up than the PC version and there is less fog, so it loses atmosphere.
picrel is a nice cherry picked image showing some of the superior PS2 creative choices.

>>8732467
Here is an example of the lighting differences. PS2 is definitely much brighter.

>>8732469
>>8732467
to be fair the pc version can be hard to see on lcd monitors

>>8732469
and finally the new character models
>>8732471
agreed, but the darkness really adds to the experience. i am assuming the ps2 version is brighter to account for a 480i image on a consumer tube, or it's a problem with unreal engine 1 on PS2.

worth noting the ps2 screenshots are 640x480 progressive running on PCSX2, the PC screenshots is the game running with the DX10 renderer with AA enabled.

and actually finally, i'd like to add that the game plays amazing with a controller on PS2 and the UI is inutitive which was a huge accomplishment for a pc port back then.

anyone who shits on the conspiracy never played it.

i think it would be an interesting project to port the PS2 version into the PC version, at least it's best elements.

>>8732306

horrendous port of kino racer on psp

>>8732483
not retro gtfo out of here

>>8732491
came out in 2005, though

>>8732520
so did you faggot

>>8732523
I don't see the problem, Dominator came out on psp and ps2, is dominator retro on ps2 but not on psp despite coming out at the same time?

>>8732528
yes. the rules explicitly state that the hardware has to be 2001 or earlier, while software can be up to 2007.
nintendo ds and psp are not retro, now get the fuck out of here.
don't worry though, they will be considered retro next year.

>>8725937
I was still buying new Sega Genesis games in 1996. Shit was still insanely popular where I lived (we were pretty poor).

>>8725823
I had sonic CD, 3&K, Sonic R, and 3D blast, all for PC

>>8732528
This is a good reason why PS2 shouldn't be retro.

>>8725642
weird ports according to:
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/subject/weird%20ports/

>>8732716
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/weird%20ports/type/op/

>>8725667
>>8725667
I've played through the entire campaign, including brood war, in Starcraft 64. It's not too bad once you get used to the controls. The last level of the regular campaign and the last couple on brood war are quite a bitch though.

>>8732716
bonanza Bros?

>>8732872
master system port
>Bonanza Bros.[a] (sometimes written Bonanza Brothers) is a 3D-style, 2D side-scrolling stealth action game developed and released by Sega in 1990. It is one of the earliest arcade games powered by the Sega System 24 arcade system board. It was ported to various home systems, including the Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-CD, and several home computers.

>>8732889
i know but why is it a weird port?

Japan-only PS2 port of Might and Magic 8

>>8733174
BECAUSE IT JUST IS OKAY??

>>8733617
how dare you

>>8732619

>>8732303
Some dude recreated CS in Flash on Newgrounds back in the 2000's. Honestly it was well made for a flash game.

>>8735821
The light gun game?

>>8733381
Japanese versions of D&D adjacent games (M&M, Wizardy) always have good artwork.

>>8736630
Did Katsuya Terada draw that?

>>8725642
Age of Empires 3 on Java and N-gage

Xanadu Next for N-Gage. (Actually, the N-Gage version was the original and the PC version was the port)

this is also the only version of doom that i ever played through

>>8737037
it was worthy?

>>8725982
Fucking Oil Man? Turns out a robot master with that name already existed before Powered Up

>>8737341
The name Blade Man was also recycled for Megaman 10.

98 BR only Master System game

>>8730970
>>8730973
>>8731106
neat, I never actually knew that

>>8726004
This was an insane port

>>8725823
>Y2K friendly

>>8730987
This was actually pretty good though. The only downside to the port is that magic is practically-speaking impossible to use because of the low screen resolution severely limiting the range of spells, and the fact that you cannot specifically select targets, you have to sort through all the enemies based on their proximity to the player. So if you're fighting some imps next to you and there's something bigger and badder that you'd rather use your spell on, you're basically SOL because you have to press R2, hit the dpad to select the spell you want, press triangle, then hit R1 until the target cursor selects the enemy, then cast the spell. Meanwhile you're been hit 15 times by the imps and are probably about to die.

This is a PS2 game ported to PSP so it counts. It's the fucking hardest in its entire series and one of the hardest games From Software has ever made. The levels are ported accurately, as in, you get no extra leniency for playing this even harder way, the only form of help is that AC3 and Silent Line can forward their saves to it (unlike in PS2 where only Nexus could IIRC). Even mapping all functions of the game to controls is an ordeal.

>>8737524
I did play the portable versions of AC3 and SL and it was a hell of a lot of fun. Just learn to claw or use a Vita and you can overcome the control issues.

>>8737528
Those I completed easily, LR is another story

>>8737256
since i payed 25€ on the game cartridge i would say yes

>>8729775
Both of these are floating around online and are pretty easy to get going.

>>8725642
Unironically my favorite Sims game, though it had nothing in common with any of the others.
Also had the best soundtrack.

>>8726010
pissed that this was only in Europe.

>>8725780
Holy shit it's beautiful...

>>8725874
>>8729775
I played it when I visited Japan back in 08. It's a goofy port. I played through a sorta-streamlined Ravenholm except you don't have the Gravity gun yet the level wasn't redesigned around it being missing, so like you have the entire introductory portion where you're supposed to be getting used to it disarming all the zombie traps or using sawblades to kill shit are no longer doable. Like there's one trap that you just have to eat because you can't disarm it and it's in a doorway. Still neat just for the novel control scheme

>>8729537
I had Star Craft on N64, it wasn't as bad as you think. You needed an expansion pack to play split screen two player and also for Brood War. The only thing it had going for it was you could select more units. You could select 18 units at once as opposed to 12. Basically it was just to play the campaign. I couldn't beat the Zerg Broodwar campaign because the controls weren't there to quickly move around. Specifically the Omega mission.

>>8727131
>>8730620
I noticed this when I first went online and got railguned into oblivion. Love the port though, very good 4 players splitcreen multiplayer.

THE WORST
I bought warcraft 2 for ps1 thinking it was a different game than warcraft 2 for pc because it had another title. I had it for pc as well and had already finished it...waste of money -_-
>>8725642
I had this game on the bawks. wasn't too terrible

>>8725642
Good port just wish it had deathmatch multiplayer like Half Life 1 on PS2, I loved playing that with my friends.

>>8729873
I'm guessing he used the picture of the Marine on the cartridge cover to pretend it was an action figure.

>>8725814
Having played this and the PC version extensively I don't think this was a bad port. Some areas get a little chopped up but there are at least differences in the levels besides just dropping load screens more often. Also the cutscenes in Conspiracy > in engine Unreal dialogue

>>8725667
>>8725748

The Saturn had some weird games on it.

A port of the 16 bit Addams Family games that were (sort of) based on the Raul Julia movie

>>8737520
The graphics also suck balls compared to PC. Great that you can run though.

>>8741119
clearly based on the cartoon, dingus

>>8727957
the madmen

>>8741094
I still play the N64 port of Command and Conquer. It lacks fmv which is a bummer because of how kino they are, but it gains 3d units and buildings.

>>8725937
What’s baffling is that Sega had a very competent 3D chip for the Genesis, the SVP. They were always trying to save a buck instead of pushing the envelope.

Sierra's JPC to IBM conversions.

>>8741261
Yeah, but it would be a poor strategic move for them to put an add-on chip to VF2 Genesis when they already had VF1 on the 32X. VF2 Genesis in 3D with the add-on chip would mark up the retail price, yet still look worse than its 32X predecessor, so what's the point?

>>8741261
it would be interesting to see a flat-shaded SVP port of virtua fighter or something on genesis

probably not great (you can only really do ~20fps max with a decent screen size with 3D on genesis), but it would be interesting.

>>8741335
Not to mention, everyone that bought a 32X for VF1 would now be like "why the fuck did I buy this piece of shit add-on console when Sega just proved they could do Virtua Fighter without it? Sure, it's worse, but it's close enough!"

>>8725830
Nothing. Zoomers just don't realize how big HL2's release was and that naturally there'd be a port on the most powerful home console at the time.

>>8741152
yes that is the weird part

>>8739686
Got JP release, oddly not know RTS title over there or Konami right.

>>8725780
I want to watch 8bit theater again now

Porting a 7-CD FMV point and click game to the Sega Saturn with an additional CD, and said port also being Japan-only

>>8741823
Why? It wasn't even a Japanese game to begin with.

>>8741098
>>8741094
No, those were normal games, but, I mean I am the biggest PSX defender in this forum, but people tend to forget that before psx, sega and nintendo got almost every 3rd party games.

>>8741423
why is a cartoon having games with multiple ports weird?

>>8741843
There were a surprising number of U.S. PC games that got Japan-exclusive ports to consoles (usually Saturn or PS1), not just Phantasmagoria. There were ports of The Neverhood, Return to Zork, Dark Seed 1 & 2, Quarantine, Beavis & Butthead in Virtual Stupidity. There were even completely unique remakes/ports of the original Zork and Ultima Underworld made from the ground up.

I've heard speculation that it was because PC gaming wasn't much of a thing in Japan at the time, so they pumped out these ports of Western games to the more popular consoles in Japan instead.

>>8742476
But playing RTS on console is such a weird concept. The only RTS specifically made for console up to that point, to my knowledge, was Herzog Zwei. Sure, the Genesis also had Dune 2, but it just seems like something that's more natural to play the PC version.

>>8742597
Wizardry 7 on PS1

>>8736952
All the Java ports they put on flip phones sucked. Even ones that really shouldn't have like FF1.

>>8726567
>>8730768
i remember wasting lot of time with Sims 2 on Xbox back when i was kid, my favourite ways to spend time was starving sims, making them piss themselves, and obviously sex. Console and TV was in room alongside living room, everyone was seen by glass door. I remember one time i played Sims 2, when there was family party in living room and all i did was sex sex sex. Later my sister called my disgusting, and that visitors saw everything i did in the game. Kek, those times

BTW i was pretty autistic as a kid. I loved retelling myself walkthrough of game i currently played (as my own walkthrough by memory but never written anywhere, i was just talking to myself). I also loved retelling game plots to my sister, and reading her fragments of video game magazines. One time i was retelling her plot of Conker, and she was quite appalled by subplot involving pitchfork that hanged himself, she probably thought its kid game by fluffy look of it

Sonic Spinball for GBA

... They removed the options music. Sad.

>>8742680
Doom RPG was interesting.

>>8742476
Look mate, they're weird from my point of view. A RTS on a Console is just odd, especially if its a port.

>>8732480
Played the DS port of this once.
Once.

>>8731595
I didn't know that, I always figured that it was one of those games that came out right at the beginning of the PS3 that they also happened to put on the PS2. Weird as shit

>>8725642
not retro, but when else am I going to get to talk about this weird fucking thing?

this was ported by the same guys who made the obscure games (hydravision entertainment), ended up coming out earlier (or at least, was definitely finished much earlier) than the next-gen version and it's really fucking weird with what seems to be an early draft of the plot instead of the final one, mechanics that are broken as fuck, similar but also somewhat different than the next-gen ones and that idk how they got working on a ps2 with such a newbie team

I just don't understand it. You should play it, if you manage to beat it without killing yourself first you'll be left looking like an idiot without any idea what the fuck happened in the ending, or really, through the whole game

also there's a reference to obscure in the game, try finding it

>downgraded 8-bit audio
>slightly upgraded graphics (but with a much smaller screen)
>janky Mode-7 graphics
>even more slowdown than the GBA version
>somehow managed to faithfully port Final Fantasy IV when Final Fantasy III didn't end up on the WonderSwan Color

>>8745092
>>janky Mode-7 graphics
Tell me more, I have no idea what the Wonderswan was capable of.

>>8742593
because they sprite hacked a game based on the movie into a game based on the cartoon

Pretty fun desu

>>8732829
Was it fun?

>>8726101
Do even half of those work on modern PC without broken shit like dxwind? All I know of is the Sonic R mod.

>>8736245
Worked well for the DS. Then they made a Android/iOS version a few years later with micro credits and it all went to shite. Money's money, I guess.

Yukikaze, a Japanese Xbox exclusive that's pretty much an Ace Combat clone licensed from an anime, isn't actually Xbox exclusive. It had a PC port

>>8729531
underrated game

>>8727046
That's a unique game and not a port of anything. Pic related is a port however and even uses the same engine as GTA Advance, I hear it's supposed to be really shitty and almost impossible to complete.

>>8745469
that pc port is impossible to find though

>>8745919
It's on archive.org (or was, at least)

>>8738902
Also the closest port aesthetic-wise to the PC version, I'm actually shocked how on point it is compared to the jank Urbz 2 reskin that the other console ports got. But apparently Maxis codeveloped or were at least involved with the PSP version, so that makes sense.

>>8745149
https://youtu.be/e0vJcSIZDyc?t=18
The SNES FF4 uses mode 7 to have a slight tilt to the world map when in an airship.
Wonderswan FF4 warps the bottom of the screen.