/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4293568]

What are some of the best arcade ports?

[Anonymous No.4293583]

Snes
>Super street fighter ii
>Arkanoid
>libble rabble
>capcom beatemups except final fight

genesis
>insector x
>chiki chiki boys
>strider
>zero wing
>hellfire
>snow bros
>marble madness
>marvel land
>rolling thunder 2
>space harrier (32x)
>after burner 2 (32x)

PC Engine
>forgotten worlds
>Pang
>gradius
>gradius 2
>darius plus/super darius
>salamander
>Raiden
>kyuukyoku tiger
>rainbow islands
>fatal fury special
>1943 kai

some of these ports have extra content

[Anonymous No.4293601]

>>4293583
Ok but street fighter is better on genesis

[Anonymous No.4293604]

>>4293568
Nba jam on genesis

[Anonymous No.4293615]

>>4293583
tfw space harrier is garbage without 32x

[Anonymous No.4293794]

>>4293601
"super" street fighter 2, buddy

[Anonymous No.4293814]

>>4293583
PC Engine ver of R-type is pretty cool too

they added an extra portion to the boss of Stage 6

[Anonymous No.4293853]

>>4293568
King of the Monsters 2. The arcade version was a trap with a completely random grappling system despite all the button prompts telling you otherwise, and it was changed in the home versions.

Gradius 3
Samurai Shodown for genesis
Super Smash TV

[Anonymous No.4293857]

Literally every Naomi game on Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.4293882]

>>4293568
>not the genesis version
now ya fucked up

[Anonymous No.4293890]

>>4293568

Super Darius and Super Darius II for PC Engine CD.
Both were essentially the completed versions of each game (complete with all the originally planned bosses and levels) whereas the arcade versions were 85% of what they had planned.
Sadly, they're not widescreen, but given the resolution of NTSC television, that's probably a good thing.

[Anonymous No.4293898]

>>4293601

Genesis Street Fighter II was better than the first SNES Street Fighter II,
but it's neither better or worse than the SNES SFII Turbo.

[Anonymous No.4293925]

>>4293890
Pretty sure super Darius 2 is more of a remix, most of the bosses are completely different. The sprites are also low resolution and unlike super Darius, the screen size is a big issue

Super Darius added bosses from Darius 2, then Darius plus was a hucard version with a couple less bosses than on cd

[Anonymous No.4293929]

>>4293615
The turbografx version is remarkably smooth but lacks checkerboard

[Anonymous No.4294150]

>>4293568
COWABUNGA

[Anonymous No.4294315]

>>4293857
YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH

[Anonymous No.4294352]

Mr Do (SNES)

[Anonymous No.4294358]

Super Smash TV (SNES)

[Anonymous No.4294401]

Renegade was an average arcade game, but a classic home computer game. Could just be them having lower standards, though.

[Anonymous No.4295878]

>>4293568
Contra, Super C, and Jackal for NES are all superior to the arcade versions.

[Anonymous No.4296087]

>>4294401
nes version did add some areas

[Anonymous No.4296102]

>>4293568
Bloody Wolf (PCE)- adds a second campaign
Mercs (genesis)- adds a second campaign
1943 Kai (pce)- adds a significantly better second campaign
Marvel Land (genesis)- adds many extra levels
Gradius 1 and 2 (pce)- both have an extra level, arcade perfect
R-type (pce)- adds an extra boss, excellent graphics though flicker is annoying
Side Arms special (pce)- adds an extra mode with new bosses
Rainbow Islands (pce)- arcade perfect, you can also save your game and go back to get the secret items from previous worlds
Rolling Thunder 2 (genesis)-3 extra levels

[Anonymous No.4296804]

>>4293568
SNES wins again!

[Anonymous No.4296817]

>>4294150
hell yeah!!

[Anonymous No.4296827]

>>4293794
>>4293583
Super Street Fighter II had shitty sound on snes

[Anonymous No.4296854]

I'll always have a soft spot for Legendary Wings on NES. I managed to snag a complete in box copy at a hole-in-the-wall game store for $20.

[Anonymous No.4296860]

>>4293853
>>4294358
Came here specifically to mention Smash TV. They toned down the gore a bit but other than that it's a fantastic port that I think even sounds better than the arcade game.

>tfw I will never beat it

[Anonymous No.4297739]

>>4293853
>Gradius 3
lmfao is this a joke? it's a fucking disgrace on snes in constant slowdown because the hardwares so wank and it's barely a port given how much they changed.
>>4293583
>>capcom beatemups except final fight
So many people claim knights of the round is a great port but having played it side by side with the cps1 original i can't believe how bad it is.

[Anonymous No.4298285]

>>4297739
I cut Gradius a lot of slack because it was a launch title, it was straight up amazing at the time. It didn't stick around in arcades long where I lived either.

Anyway the arcade version had crazy slowdown too, I don't remember the SNES version being much worse unless you picked ripple or the blob lasers. The real shit is that you lost every single powerup when you died.

[Anonymous No.4298939]

>>4298285
>Anyway the arcade version had crazy slowdown too, I don't remember the SNES version being much worse
It's miles worse, the arcade is at least smooth with slowdown and challenging whilst snes is wayyy to easy and cut a bunch of stuff for the shit hardware.

>>4298285
>The real shit is that you lost every single powerup when you died.
As it should be in gradius, recoveries are part of the skill but that said if you're dying ever in the snes first loop on defaults or even hard you're a complete fucking mouthbreather.

[Anonymous No.4299073]

Dynamite Dux 1:1 port fucking WHEN?

[Anonymous No.4299128]

>>4293583
>any version of SF2 on SNES
>good port
>no turtles in time

[Anonymous No.4299157]

>>4293898
>>4293601
they aren't even the same version of the game

>SF2: World Warriors
-8 characters
-released on SNES

>SF2:Championship Edition
-12 characters
-4 of them are the boss characters
-both players can select the same character(mirror matches)
-balance changes for the returning 8
-released on Genesis
-insanely popular in china(this was the last iteration they got)

>SF2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting
-12 characters
-4 bosses have more diverse normals
-original 8 all get a new move(dhalsim can teleport, ken/ryu can tatsu in the air, etc...)
-game is fuck faster
-more balance changes
-characters now have multiple color palettes
-released on SNES
-insanely popular in the US

>Super SF2: The New Challengers
-16 characters
-4 new characters
-balance changes
-game is slowed down
-graphically updated some sprites
-released on both SNES & Genesis

>Super SF2 Turbo(ST)
-33 characters
-1 new character(Akuma)
-super meter added
-game is faster, but not as fast as 'Hyper Fighting'
-new moves for a lot of characters
-balance changes
-can now tech throws
-can select "Old" version of characters that have various properties changed, effectively doubling the roster
-"Old" characters have no supers and cant tech throws
-released on the 3DO

[Anonymous No.4299250]

>>4293583
>Snes
>>Super street fighter ii
It's shit. They fucked up the colors, the resolution is tiny (256x192 compared to the arcades 384x224), the audio quality is significantly downsampled, and it's missing about half the frames of animation.
Turbo is a better port than super.
>capcom beatemups
Those are mediocre m8. Fire up mame some time and actually compare them.

[Anonymous No.4300553]

>>4298939
>looping Gradius
This is an absolute cry for help. Please just play Ketsui like a normal shmup neet.

[Anonymous No.4300930]

>>4293882
The Sega version is alright but it's barely a port, it's pretty much an original game

[Anonymous No.4303190]

GEN
Ms. Pac-Man
Golden Axe
Super Hang-On

SAT/DC:
Nearly all of them that it featured

[Anonymous No.4303541]

>castlevania for amiga
improved artwork
better music