ITT: Good 32x games

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Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:22:32 2014 No.1576854 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Good 32x games

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:25:31 2014 No.1576860 File: 131 KB, 640x480, Tempo_(32X)-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This little guy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:29:54 2014 No.1576872 File: 147 KB, 640x898, kol_45112_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter on the 32x.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:31:47 2014 No.1576874 >>1576872 I'm gonna be a little daring and go as far as to call this the best hummingbird game of all time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:34:31 2014 No.1576882 >>1576872 Who would win in a fight, Kolibri or the crows from Ninja Gaiden?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:37:51 2014 No.1576896 Knuckles Chaotix, Kolibri and Virtua Racing DX are the only 32X games I could get into. Then again, I haven't explored the library that much.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:40:11 2014 No.1576904 Virtua Fighter

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:41:05 2014 No.1576905 >>1576854 it's good but the color scheme is weird.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:43:15 2014 No.1576912 >>1576854 Were those characters created from the start? I'm not a Sonic expert and I saw them in Sonic Heroes, and I was like what the hell are these guys, a crocodile and a bee?

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:45:35 2014 No.1576923

>>1576912
I think save for espio they are all scrapped design suggestions for sonic. Mighty even shows up in an old arcade called sega sonic or something and vector was supposed to be part of a rock band that would play you sound test music in the original sanic the hedgehog.

Look it up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:45:53 2014 No.1576924 >>1576860 Oh my god this is gorgeous. I had never heard of this game before. Thanks for giving me a reason to look out for a 32x. I might pick up the Game Gear version too.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:48:12 2014 No.1576934

>>1576923

If I'm not mistaken, some of these characters appeared in some of the more obscure Sonic titles before Chaotix. I know Mighty the Armadillo had made prior appearances. I think Vector the Crocodile and Charmy Bee are original characters created for the 32X, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:03:38 2014 No.1576998 File: 27 KB, 320x224, blackthorne-32x2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:06:59 2014 No.1577013 >>1576912 I'm really glad they had a comeback in Sonic Heroes

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:12:29 2014 No.1577025 File: 152 KB, 512x814, jf_tempo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1576860 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UJYutcJ6yM YO HOMIE, IT'S HIM!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:12:39 2014 No.1577026 >>1576923 >>1576934 That's pretty interesting. Thanks bros.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:16:14 2014 No.1577038 It has a great port of Space Harrier. In fact I prefer playing that instead of emulating the arcade version. Blackthorne is pretty awesome too.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:17:15 2014 No.1577041
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>>1577026
Pic related is how the sound test mode would've looked.

And this is the arcade game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOiXU3Ibwc
By the way, Ristar was based off a yellow rabbit that was also a proposed design for Sonic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 13:37:56 2014 No.1577097 File: 338 KB, 850x1191, segasonic_flyer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1576934 >I know Mighty the Armadillo had made prior appearances. Yup. This is thing was an arcade game you had to play with a trackball. Pretty cool stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 14:53:34 2014 No.1577330 >>1577097 who the fuck is Ray? is he a squirrel? also, do you think Mighty and Ray have been redesigned to Knuckles and Tails?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:32:27 2014 No.1577470 >>1577330 I think he was supposed to be a flying squirrel. Sonic 2 was made before SegaSonic, so who knows why they made Ray in the first place.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:39:23 2014 No.1577505

>>1577330
Ray is supposed to be one of them flying squirrels.

Segasonic came out in 1993, a year after Sanic 2 came out. And considering that Mighty eventually showed up in Chaotix alongside Knuckles, I'm not sure you can really talk about these two as scrapped designs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:47:41 2014 No.1577531 >>1577470 Anyway I'm sad that Mighty didn't even appear in Sonic Heroes or later. this retro character wasn't a bad design choice at all even though he's technically Knuckles.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:49:26 2014 No.1577540 >>1577470 >>1577505 that's pretty interesting. thanks for explaining. I'd love to see them both again and send Knuckles and Tails on vacation for a while.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:51:45 2014 No.1577547 >>1577505 >I'm not sure you can really talk about these two as scrapped designs. damn, Ray the flying squirrel sounds like a more sensible design than some mutated fox with two tails acting like he can fly.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:57:24 2014 No.1577567
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oh damn:

>Before Sonic the Hedgehog was introduced to the gaming industry, one of the character concepts, an armadillo, was considered as one of mascot choices for Sega to be introduced in new video game series to success in console market business against Nintendo. The mascot was going into either a hedgehog or an armadillo, due to both species having the ability to roll into balls, and after that hedgehog was chosen. Due to this, some believe that Mighty is the prototype of Sonic, or was evolved from the armadillo concept.

>The character concept was later reused in the arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog and later in Knuckles' Chaotix. His character designer was Manabu Kusunoki.

http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Mighty_the_Armadillo

who would have thought? if they had decided against Sonic as a Sega mascot we would talk about the Mighty the Armadillo franchise today.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 16:01:27 2014 No.1577582 File: 9 KB, 353x163, Sonickmightysheet.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] even the sprites are the same.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 17:53:07 2014 No.1578060 >>1577097 >loved Ray and Mighty >they're essentially Tails and Knuckles prototypes >kept hoping for a reboot-ish SegaSonic action puzzle game where they use individual abilities to pass obstacles >Sonic Heroes already happened. Welp.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:13:09 2014 No.1578112 File: 291 KB, 500x750, 1371264282790.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Charmy was based off of a bee charcter with the same name that originally appeared in an obscure manga from the early 90's. Amy originated there as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:15:21 2014 No.1578117 File: 96 KB, 500x333, cvbloodletting.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one Oh, wait...

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:26:14 2014 No.1578143

Knuckles' Chaotix isn't actually a good game though...

Also, I'm very interested to hear about Tempo. I'd never heard of it before. I'm a big fan of several of Red's games, like Hagane, Spike McFang, and the Bonks. I didn't know Red had tried to start another platformer franchise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:31:59 2014 No.1578156 >>1578112 Name of that manga?

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:34:40 2014 No.1578161

>>1578143
The worst problem was the way most levels were copy pastes of each other. There's a debug menu with level select that makes it a lot more bearable.

I think if you're emulating, it's worth a run. Also I tried playing 2 player mode with a buddy and it was completely atrocious.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:35:11 2014 No.1578162 >>1576924 Check out Super Tempo on the Saturn. It's way better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:46:19 2014 No.1578209 >>1577041 Why couldn't we have gotten this game instead of 3d blast? Or at least a port on the saturn.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:49:17 2014 No.1578225 >>1577567 Eggman was one of the concepts for the hero before he became the bad guy. All they knew going in was that they had to have something that could out-Mario Mario.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 19:10:41 2014 No.1578282 >>1576905 It's the real Sonic colour scheme. Not the realistic one. I miss the Sonic1/CD/Chaotix art style

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 19:37:46 2014 No.1578383 >>1576904 This is actually better than the Saturn version. >>1576860 Most underrated gem ever. It's not perfect, but barely anyone even knows about it at all here.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 19:39:33 2014 No.1578395

>>1578383
I could never score attack to get the last couple trophies. I went as far as savestating and slowing down emulation and griding at the bonus minigames. Which play like shit by the way.

I honestly don't think it's possible. I think the highest I got was a Ferrari or something, and the score gauge thing still went way up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 20:08:14 2014 No.1578525 >no mention of Star Wars Arcade Why?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 21:51:04 2014 No.1578882 >>1578225 >All they knew going in was that they had to have something that could out-Mario Mario. they succeeded in my opinion. even today.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 02:47:40 2014 No.1579586 >>1578156 http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%28manga%29

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 05:05:53 2014 No.1579740 File: 159 KB, 630x700, bags bumpy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1576904 >widescreen support

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 05:13:30 2014 No.1579752 >>1578525 Shadow Squadron is better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 05:33:02 2014 No.1579774 File: 1.07 MB, 323x150, 1361497952294.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1576872 >Penny Arcade references

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 07:53:08 2014 No.1579861 >>1579774 Not the guy, and I haven't read their shit comic since the mid 00's, but It is a pretty fun and tough game by the guy who did ecco the dolphin (so you know it's loaded with eyecandy).

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 08:32:44 2014 No.1579889 BC Racer

Anonymous Mon Apr 28 10:04:48 2014 No.1580008
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>>1578143
>Knuckles' Chaotix isn't actually a good game though...

nigger i'll fight you

Seriously though, I really, really enjoyed Chaotix. A big part of the reason why is the fantastic soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-axPO7pwgg

It's also super bright and colorful, like any good platformer should be. I also love how the backgrounds are designed with that very distinct Sonic sensibility in mind, what with multicolored blocks and strangely geometrically correct trees and whatnot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 10:06:03 2014 No.1580010 File: 100 KB, 300x225, Knuckles_Chaotix_Final_Boss.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1580008 Oh, and it has the most radical-looking final boss to ever be featured in a Sanic game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 10:39:46 2014 No.1580054 File: 189 KB, 670x426, 32xafterburner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty much arcade perfect. Best version I've played, though I haven't played it on Saturn.

Anonymous Mon Apr 28 11:25:04 2014 No.1580124
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>Color depth and animation fidelity that surpasses the SNES version.
>Retains the god-tied soundtrack, the superior 6-button layout and the super responsiveness of the original Genesis version.
>Adds in the little cutscenes and the voice clips that were missing in the Genesis port.

The best home version by a country mile.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 13:07:03 2014 No.1580338 >>1576874 Haha I agree, though I can't say it ever held my interest enough to beat it. Always got bored once I lost focus on the beautiful background.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 13:25:59 2014 No.1580369 >>1577582 Chaotix started on the Megadrive, look up Sonic Crackers. They literally edited Sonics sprite into Mighty, and Tails was axed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 13:48:25 2014 No.1580396 >>1576854 i really want to play this game

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 14:23:20 2014 No.1580458 >>1580396 There's nothing stopping you as from what I remember it plays well through emulation. Unless you mean you want to play it on actual hardware and don't have the game yet.

Anonymous Mon Apr 28 17:04:25 2014 No.1580795

>>1580008
>It's also super bright and colorful

but the color scheme differs from other sonic titles. why is that? it seems a lot more dark and purple looking in general. what was the reason behind this? because I do like the game, I just sometimes get a bit depressed playing it at 3 am looking at these color shades.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:36:30 2014 No.1582139 File: 97 KB, 640x891, 3045_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey Doombots, how was this thing?

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:40:05 2014 No.1582145

>>1582139
Port qualities compared to it's contemporaries:
Graphics: A
Sound FX: A
Music: F-
Level total: D

Not as good as Doom PSX, but, definitely better gameplay than Doom SNES. This *was* Doom for thousands of kids.

Just.. the music. It's like listening to Mickey Mouse give assbirth to a broken Casio.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:43:17 2014 No.1582150

>>1582139
It's actually not bad. The only downsides are the lack of levels and the sound being lower quality. It plays smooth and looks pretty good.

PS1 Doom is the definitive early console version, but the 32X version at least plays faster and smoother than the SNES version.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:46:40 2014 No.1582154 >>1582145 >>1582150 Good to know, thanks. I guess I'll be keeping it in my collection after all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:50:26 2014 No.1582161 >>1582139 Was this the one with the shitty music or no music at all?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:52:03 2014 No.1582164 >>1582161 Fart music. Was there a port of Doom that had no music? Or are you thinking of Duke Nukem 64? Because that's the only PC->Console FPS port I can think of without music.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 02:53:52 2014 No.1582165

>>1582161
The one with the worst music of any game on any Sega system.

The Jaguar version is the one that doesn't have any music. The 3DO version is the one that plays in a teensy, tiny little window. The SNES version is the one that has no ceiling or floor textures and is actually the game remade in a custom engine. The 32X version also only has the first two episodes and is also missing levels; it's actually impossible to find the BFG in it without cheating.

Listen to this nonsense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM
Surely every single other 32X game has better music, right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 03:10:01 2014 No.1582186 >>1582165 Most 32X soundtracks just sound like higher quality Genesis tunes, but Doom is just exceptionally bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-axPO7pwgg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7tHKVtd7Jk Just a couple of quickly found examples.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 03:29:50 2014 No.1582227 >>1582186 Some 32X music is impossible on GENESIS though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DYuCcs5S4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM76zVfE7jQ

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 11:09:10 2014 No.1582872 >>1582164 >Was there a port of Doom that had no music? The atari Jaguar one had music only in the cutscenes

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 16:04:16 2014 No.1583436 >>1582186 >>1582165 How Doom should have sounded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBQVcf37Xc

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:19:39 2014 No.1584220
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>>1578117
W-why..? ;_;

http://www.oocities.org/the32xmemorial/xGameList.html

>Konami's Dracula X was one of the most anticipated of all the announced 32x titles and its cancellation marked a turning point in the console's short life. Based on the now-classic (and mighty expensive) PC Engine CD game of the same name, Dracula X was to correct the mistakes made on the slow-moving and graphically underwhelming Super Nintendo port. Dracula X for the 32x is NOT a version of the later Castlevania: Symphony of the Night which appeared on the Playstation, or the import Saturn's Dracula X, which was nearly identical to the Playstation game.

Few things make me as depressed as when I'm scrolling through that "Unreleased" section and think of what could've been had Sega not fucking ruined its own credibility with the 32X and released all of that shit on the Saturn instead...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:28:32 2014 No.1584243 >>1584220 >graphically underwhelming Super Nintendo port What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:29:47 2014 No.1584250 >>1584243 I guess he means in comparison to Rondo of Blood.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:35:11 2014 No.1584264

>>1584250
It really isn't. Being CD-based gave Rondo of Blood the advantage of graphic content but the PC Engine was still more limited in its actual abilities than the SNES. There are some graphical effects that Dracula X has over Rondo of Blood in fact. It's a very nice looking SNES game.

Plus it's not really a "port".

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:37:28 2014 No.1584273
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>>1584250
But Dracula X has much better graphics than Rondo of Blood. The only real issues are the scenery doesn't change as often as it did in Rondo so you're stuck looking at the same tiles and backgrounds for longer, and the colors are a bit washed out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:39:31 2014 No.1584283 >>1583436 Holy shit, this music nearly rivals the PC version....why Sega, why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:41:20 2014 No.1584289 >>1584283 >why Sega, why? What did Sega have to do with it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 21:44:07 2014 No.1584296 >>1584289 Just seems there was either no quality control on Sega's part or ID did jack shit for sound programming

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 22:47:57 2014 No.1584460 >>1584273 >But Dracula X has much better graphics than Rondo of Blood. It also has a better soundtrack, too. CD quality aside, the actual renditions sound much better on the SNES, I thought.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 22:52:43 2014 No.1584476
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>>1584273
>>1584460

>Dracula X has much better graphics than Rondo of Blood.

if you liked washed out colors and stiff animation

>It also has a better soundtrack, too.

if you like cheesy midi and repetitive music arrangement

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:01:52 2014 No.1584504 File: 214 KB, 256x224, stage1animation.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1584476 I said myself the colors are washed out, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:05:37 2014 No.1584515

>>1584220
The 32x never should have happened. There is absolutely no way it could have not been a flop. The Sega CD COULD have succeeded with real support with decent games, it was released very early in the console life. 32x came out when people knew the Genesis was on its last legs.

>>1584504
Seconding the Dracula X love. Looks and sounds great. Especially compared to Castlevania 4. And sure it looks a bit washed out, but at least it doesn't have baffling uses of color like Bloodlines (which I actually like better than X, I'm just willing to admit that X looks and sounds better).

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:07:16 2014 No.1584519 >>1584504 the fire effect looks kinda a cool, shame everything else looks so bad it's like playing a flash game on newgrounds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuxgAAPXKk4

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:14:07 2014 No.1584534 File: 16 KB, 256x223, stage4-1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1584519 >shame everything else looks so bad I'm sorry, but I really don't see it. It looks perfectly fine to me, if not well above average.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:20:31 2014 No.1584557
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>>1584519
>>1584534
Also, as much as I love Rondo, it's pretty damn ugly in places, and even when it looks its best it still usually has obvious tiling and feels like it desperately needs more colors.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:24:31 2014 No.1584569 File: 18 KB, 256x224, nicebucketsandcharacterbadeverythingelse.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1584557 More Rondo of Blood being ugly. I don't like to do this but my hand has been forced.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:26:05 2014 No.1584574 >>1584534 >>1584557 screenshots are not showing the difference in animation quality they are not remotely comparable, dracula x is comically awkward

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:32:55 2014 No.1584606 >>1576860 Tempo justifies the existence of the 32X. Even though the Saturn game was better.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:34:19 2014 No.1584614 >>1579752 But no one mentioned Shadow Squadron either.

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 23:35:33 2014 No.1584625

>>1584460
I agree. There's something to be said about excellence from limitations. The SNES version has more charge and oomph to it because they didn't have all those fancy CD-quality instruments available to them so they found other ways to make it sound good.

Anonymous Wed Apr 30 17:44:13 2014 No.1586557

>>1584220
I... don't think that summary is correct. 32X Castlevania was meant to be a real sequel to Dracula X. It would've been set at the same time as SotN, except instead of Alucard you would play as the guy in red who has to go kill a possessed Richter. It would've played like a platformer Castlevania, using all kinds of spiffy background polygon effects, sprite scaling, particles, and transparencies. It could've been the greatest CV game of all time, but Konami shitcanned it and absorbed the team and their resources on Bloodletting into the SotN project. One of the reasons why I hate IGA and his stupid idea that nobody likes Belmonts anymore and it should play like Metroid. That FAGGOT ruined the CV franchise long before the horrible 3D games even happened.

Anonymous Thu May 1 00:41:13 2014 No.1587540
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>>1586557
>real sequel to Dracula X
>spiffy background polygon effects
>Castlevania: Bloodletting
>greatest CV game of all time

Where are you getting all of this from? This sounds fucking awesome.

>tfw we'll never get a game set during the 1999 Dracula War

Anonymous Thu May 1 01:16:48 2014 No.1587607

>>1586557

>except instead of Alucard you would play as the guy in red who has to go kill a possessed Richter

You're wrong on that part, IGA actually said that you would play as Richter and the guy in red was a rival anti-hero type that was trying to kill Dracula first and would do anything to stop you.

Anonymous Thu May 1 01:19:29 2014 No.1587616
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>>1587607
>rival anti-hero type that was trying to kill Dracula first and would do anything to stop you

>hmm, Hugh sure is acting shifty as all fuck
>I dunno, it's probably nothing

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 07:06:28 2014 No.1588062 >>1577097 Good god Ray is fuckin creepy as shit. Archie made him into such a little cutey~

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 08:50:24 2014 No.1588128 >>1580124 The framerate was shit though. >Retains the god-tied soundtrack ...from the genesis port. That soundtrack was shit. No home version had the bgm from the arcade. Not even the Saturn version.

Anonymous Thu May 1 14:03:57 2014 No.1588519
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>>1588128
>That soundtrack was shit.

Probably the best piece of music in the entire franchise, and it's exclusive to the Genesis version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWG3tBpOZ78 [Embed]

Matt Furniss is so fucking based that his adaptation of the soundtrack sounds better than the original. Wrap your mind around that shit.

The lesser graphical and audio capabilities of the system drove the port to a darker and more grimy presentation, which gelled so well with the Mortal Kombat premise, and the music/SFX felt so much more meaty than the SNES version.
It feels like the definitive console experience, with it's own unique style, rather than a shoddy attempt to better emulate the arcade original.

Anonymous Thu May 1 14:55:05 2014 No.1588609

Maybe one of you guys can help me. Im trying to remember the name of an old Genesis / SNES game where you had a massive collection of guns and could turn into a morpball for no reason. The game was very gritty and dark looking but the game-play was fast and intense for a platformer. You played as just some army guy fighting off alien bugs or something along those lines.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 19:48:16 2014 No.1589252 >>1580124 >The best home version by a country mile. Even if it was, it's still a rubbish game.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 1 19:50:11 2014 No.1589259 >>1584273 90% of the game doesn't look good at all. There's a very small handful of nice backgrounds/effects (like the fire in the first level) but apart from that it's extremely dull.

Anonymous Thu May 1 20:52:47 2014 No.1589410
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>>1589259
I'm well aware that things look pretty dull - pic related is more or less the kind of graphics the game has most of the time - but even so, the worst you could really call this is average. I'd say it's like this maybe 60 or 70% of the time.

Dracula X is average looking for the majority of the game, with the occasional area that looks fantastic.

Rondo of Blood is all over the place. It looks alright for the majority of the game, but it has a decent amount of areas that look terrible, and it never looks as good as Dracula X at its best.

So, overall, I'd have to give graphics to Dracula X.
That's all I'm saying.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 19:06:53 2014 No.1591563 >>1588609 Uh, Super Metroid?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 19:26:07 2014 No.1591637 File: 13 KB, 320x224, megaturrican-03.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1588609 Sounds like you mean one of the Turrican games to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 20:03:45 2014 No.1591715 >>1582145 Kind of a shame about the music. If only they had spent more time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBQVcf37Xc

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 20:12:17 2014 No.1591728 >>1589410 individual frames can be seen, the animation is -that- choppy the still screens don't look bad but it's not an accurate representation of how the game looks in motion at all

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:13:09 2014 No.1591868 >>1576860 That was the first thing that popped in my head

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:14:34 2014 No.1591874 >>1576860 >Tempo will be forever forgotten along with Ristar Why Not even Sanic racing brought this glorious fucker back

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:16:29 2014 No.1591882 File: 1.15 MB, 1807x1512, Bonanza_Bros._2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1591874 I was just glad to see these guys. Of course they got axed for the sequel.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:28:59 2014 No.1591915 What the fuck Sega They have so many fantastic franchises with tons of potential and they all get treated worse than Star Fox. Bull shit, that's like if Nintendo stopped all of their franchises except Mario and Pokemo-- oh wait.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:36:56 2014 No.1591940 >>1591915 Is it SEGA or Sammy causing this, both?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:40:25 2014 No.1591953 File: 676 KB, 1255x1118, ASR_Opa-Opa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1591882 Lots of great characters got taken out in the sequel. Racing Transformed's cast sucks compared to the original's.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:42:17 2014 No.1591960 >>1591940 Both Shit like that happened before advance 3

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:44:58 2014 No.1591970 >>1591915 Sonic is treated worse than Star Fox. Every other SEGA series that isn't Total War or Football Manager gets no games.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:47:17 2014 No.1591976 >>1591940 Not having a console to support with high quality and varied titles caused it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:49:21 2014 No.1591986 >>1591970 >Sonic >treated bad It still gets games. Regardless of whether you like them or not it's better treatment than Star Fox

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 21:59:04 2014 No.1592018 >>1591874 Ristar was in Sanic racing. Kind of. It's a shame that if they were going to represent the 32x in Sanic racing, they would use those third-tier Sanic characters from Chaotix instead of the little grasshopper.

Anonymous Fri May 2 22:00:46 2014 No.1592027

>>1584289
>>1584296
Sega didn't document the sound hardware at all on the 32X leaving anyone except 1st party development high and dry. They barely document the processors or video/gfx software either. That said, some third party devs started to figure it out like Zyrnix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWZbydnlZE

>>	Anonymous Fri May 2 22:24:00 2014 No.1592064 >>1576860 One thing I noticed about Tempo is how fluid the animation is.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 3 11:49:23 2014 No.1593195 File: 296 KB, 700x1000, 32x_cosmiccarnage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] COSMIC..........................CARNAGE

>>	Anonymous Sat May 3 12:00:39 2014 No.1593227 >>1577025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOut-C37rbw&feature=player_detailpage Cleaner version of the Tempo theme is found in the Saturn sequel.

Anonymous Sat May 3 14:15:42 2014 No.1593554

>>1592027
that's not true, i have the leaked 32x sdk doc and hardware is pretty well documented, including sound hardware, which is nothing complex by itself if you understand how PWM samples work.

what was missing was good library support to use hardware efficiently because game devs starting from that gen generally hated having to reinvent the wheel and deal with barebone hardware directly instead of focusing on software itself.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 3 14:18:43 2014 No.1593563 >>1592027 processors were SH2 from Hitachi, they were fully documented (like ~600 pages hardware and software manuals ) so it must be something else, probably dealing with dual CPU architecture wasn't as easy in reality

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