/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7294042]

ITT: Ports that people might not know exist

[Anonymous No.7294052]

[Anonymous No.7294259]

[Anonymous No.7294467]

>>7294042
A console port of a pc rts, I'm sure it was trash.
>>7294259
Ah then this gets posted and I remember playing it and liking it!! Fuck

[Anonymous No.7294482]

>>7294042

[Anonymous No.7294483]

>>7294042
There's a DOS port of Wipeout that i think many people aren't aware of

[Anonymous No.7294494]

>>7294042
the original port of FF8 on pc

[Anonymous No.7294501]

>>7294482
Everyone knows of this. For all the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous No.7294523]

Twisted Metal 1 on PC.

It's an exclusive Japanese release, pretty rare.

[Anonymous No.7294527]

>>7294483
i think they are but its a nightmare to get running.

[Anonymous No.7294528]

Twisted Metal 2 on PC came out on US, so it's a slightly more known port.

[Anonymous No.7294532]

Lunar Silver Star Story Complete on PC.

Released in Korea only, pretty bad port.

[Anonymous No.7294536]

Biohazard Survivor on PC, released in Taiwan only. The port is chock full of glitches.

[Anonymous No.7294541]

>>7294042
>>7294052
>>7294259
They were all terrible ports
>>7294494
FF7 was also ported to PC in 1998

[Anonymous No.7294542]

>>7294541
>FF7 was also ported to PC in 1998
yes, both ports were pretty shoddy and badly rated

[Anonymous No.7294563]

>>7294542
Maybe at release, but the PC version was superior because of modding.

[Anonymous No.7294568]

Rockman Collection for PC, released in China.

This isn't the shitty DOS games, it's a port of the NES games. Shit is mythical and impossible to find.

[Anonymous No.7294580]

Suikoden 2 had a PC port, but unfortunately it was only released in China.

[Anonymous No.7294583]

I seem to remember there being (a) Korea-exclusive PC port(s) of one or more of the PS1 and maybe PS2 Mega Man X games, long before the Mega Man X Legacy Collection. I'm not a huge fan of the series myself, but I remember an old pal of mine talking about them.

>>7294568
Are you sure you have the right boxart? Or did they really use X art to represent the NES games?

[Anonymous No.7294595]

>>7294580
Suikoden I was also released, in Japan, Korea and China.

[Anonymous No.7294601]

Best version of Ecco the Dolphin coming through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v70PdZHvgI8&t=40m11s

[Anonymous No.7294603]

Best version of Ecco the Dolphin coming through

[Anonymous No.7294610]

This came out only in Europe 3 years after the GameCube version

[Anonymous No.7294615]

>>7294583
I don't even know if it's the official boxart, because you can't find it anywhere, but it exists.

http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/articles/Asian.php

As for the old MMX ports:

Mega Man X had a PC port released in Japan and the US.
No MMX 2 port.
Mega Man X3 in US, EU and JP.
Mega Man X4 in US, EU and JP.
Mega Man X5 in US, EU and JP.
Rockman X6 in Japan and China.
Rockman X7 in Korea only.
Mega Man X8 in US, EU and Japan.

Megaman Legends 1 was released on PC on US, EU and Japan.
Legends 2 was Japan only.

[Anonymous No.7294629]

You know that disastrous handheld which had mafia involvement? Well it managed to get SSX 3.

[Anonymous No.7294635]

>>7294615
>Rockman X7 in Korea only.
That's probably the one I was thinking of, thanks. I guess the other, non-Korean ports got mixed with that one in my memory, which is why I thought there might be multiple Korea-exclusives.

[Anonymous No.7294640]

>>7294615
>Legends 2 was Japan only.
You can access an English version in the debug menu, but it has no voiceovers. Fans have been working to add them into the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkVwVOWlhE

[Anonymous No.7294645]

>>7294629
3 was also on the N-Gage, under the name SSX Out of Bounds.

[Anonymous No.7294649]

>>7294483
Wipeout 2097 (XL) has a windows port as well.

[Anonymous No.7294690]

>>7294042
was there ever a fucking console were Doom WASN'T ported.

[Anonymous No.7294696]

>>7294042

[Anonymous No.7294701]

>>7294645
There's also "SSX On Tour" for PSP which, despite appearances, is a port of 3, rearranged and given a coat of paint in an attempt to resemble the console version of On Tour. They did at least manage to get skiing in. The area in this screenshot should look familiar to anyone who's played SSX 3. This is the area near the end of the level R&B, or as On Tour PSP calls it, "Fast Forward".

[Anonymous No.7294751]

Ps2 had Return to Castle Wolfenstein. numeber of Treasure or maybe secrets, cant remember drunk, gained a buff to either maximum health, armor, or ammo pool.

[Anonymous No.7294774]

>>7294690
No

[Anonymous No.7294782]

Never saw anyone comment on the PS2 port of Unreal Tournament.

It supports both Mouse and Keyboard on the USB ports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFah3uQBwA

[Anonymous No.7294785]

>>7294696
What the fuck, this must be horrible.

[Anonymous No.7294813]

[Anonymous No.7294826]

>>7294785
well, surprisingly, its actually dogshit

[Anonymous No.7294979]

[Anonymous No.7295337]

Shadows of the Empire for Win95, who even wanted that

[Anonymous No.7295404]

>>7294042

[Anonymous No.7295981]

>>7294527
not really

[Anonymous No.7295986]

>>7294979
Crysis is good. But not retro, so gtfo.

[Anonymous No.7295989]

>>7295337
people who dont want it to sound,look and run like shit?

[Anonymous No.7295994]

City Connection came out on MSX, making the NES release technically not the worst port of the game

[Anonymous No.7295997]

>>7294482
Shocking and unexpected post

[Anonymous No.7296003]

>>7294042

[Anonymous No.7296009]

[Anonymous No.7296030]

>>7294782
No online makes it pretty pointless

[Anonymous No.7296034]

>>7296009
Many Sonic games were ported to PC. Sonic CD, Sonic & Knuckles collection, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic R, Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic Riders. What's puzzling is why Sega hasn't put them all on Steam.

[Anonymous No.7296038]

>>7295989
Ironically the game played even worse on most hardware at the time. Then when the hardware got better it played way too fast. There were only a couple of extremely specific configurations that could play it properly.

[Anonymous No.7296190]

>>7296030
hey all you need is 4 PS2s, 4 TVs, 4 ilink cables, and a firewire hub for 4 players at once

[Anonymous No.7296294]

>>7294042

[Anonymous No.7296297]

>>7296294

[Anonymous No.7296457]

>>7296038
and? the point of pc games is that you have the hardware too make it play, if you don't, than wait a few years, why does it matter if you can't play a game at the release?

[Anonymous No.7297454]

>>7294528
>>7294523
Jet Moto also has one

[Anonymous No.7297590]

>>7296457
Read more than one sentence you ADHD zoomer
>Then when the hardware got better it played way too fast.
https://youtu.be/wnDzrsDNtoU?t=573

[Anonymous No.7297603]

>>7297454
Fuck, i need this

[Anonymous No.7297646]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKv7Tva2vEU

Okay this one never came out but it would have been cool. Whoever was in charge of porting heroes games must have sucked back then. I had it for mac and it ran like shit when the cpu inside was roughly the equivalent to a Pentium 2.

[Anonymous No.7298091]

Does this count as porting a console to PC?

[Anonymous No.7298654]

>>7295989
it would still sound , look and run like shit because thats how that game is

[Anonymous No.7298658]

[Anonymous No.7299021]

It's actually reasonably decent, especially compared to the likes of SF2 and MK on the Game Boy.

[Anonymous No.7299248]

Post quality or good ports.

[Anonymous No.7299345]

>>7294690
CD-i. It wasn't powerful enough to run it no matter what hardware add-ons it had.

[Anonymous No.7299362]

>>7294701
>>7294785
>>7294826
This is actually decent for a console rts

[Anonymous No.7299369]

Don't count on Nightdive remastering and re-releasing this one.

I guess maybe it's not too surprising, Turok 3 was the only game in the series to not get a PC port, but Evolution didn't get one either, at-least in North America, and also this port came out in 2004 after Acclaim was already dead, and the mouse aim is completely-fucked making the game damn near unplayable.

[Anonymous No.7299374]

>>7294042
it was going to come out for dreamcast but it got canceled

[Anonymous No.7299382]

>>7299248
terror from the deep also got a psx port but it was in europe only

[Anonymous No.7299392]

>>7299362
Personally, I found SSX On Tour for PSP leaves much to be desired as far as console RTS games go.

[Anonymous No.7300057]

>>7294042
>click on this thread thinking it's a joke
>that someone made that image for fun
>no, it's actually real

[Anonymous No.7300083]

>>7294523
Why would they only release the PC port in Japan, when that would have made way more sense in the west?

[Anonymous No.7300085]

>>7295337
This is the only version I've played.

[Anonymous No.7300087]

>>7295404
No shit people didn't know this one, it was never released.

[Anonymous No.7300091]

>>7298658
This was a pretty good port. They also made a similar port for the Playstation, but they couldn't find anyone to publish it, for some reason, which is a shame, because I think the people who really loved the port of Doom on the Playstation would have loved Quake as well (assuming they didn't game on PC I mean).

[Anonymous No.7300138]

It's a weird mess, graphics have their charm but controls could only be awful. Don't know why anyone would have wanted to play Baldur's Gate in PlayStation, I guess they ended noticing that too.

[Anonymous No.7300167]

>>7300138
That's another one which never was published. It looks pretty rough here, with noticeable load times clicking in menus (and an especially long one for opening your inventory, lol), overall the speed of the game looks fucking dire, and I say that as someone who played it on a really not strong enough Windows 98 PC of some sort back in like 1999 or 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY0abDtvaHU

Imagine being that 18/00 dweeb and rerolling over and over for that shit in this version. The menu theme is kinda nice though.

[Anonymous No.7300197]

>>7294532
This was released in Japan as well.
The Korean version has English music and voice acting. I think this is when Korea was still skiddish about releasing anything with Japanese voices (see the Korean version of the Jojo arcade game).

[Anonymous No.7300203]

>>7300167
A forum thread about the last leaked build as it came out:
http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=2218

It has a few mildly interesting posts.

[Anonymous No.7300214]

>>7295986
You have it backwards, friendo

[Anonymous No.7300271]

>>7297590
Yeah I read that a bit too late, still that only counts for a some games, not yours though, I remember playing Shadows of Empire on a Compaq with S3 in 2000 or so and before GOG released a better working (for modern Windows) version I played it again a few years ago on a Win7 system which I'm still using with NOTHING going to fast, everything worked correctly

[Anonymous No.7300281]

>>7294610
I have this one.

[Anonymous No.7300284]

>>7294483
>>7294649
the fuck? Everyone know Wipeout got a PC version.

[Anonymous No.7300285]

>>7294690
VMU

[Anonymous No.7300287]

>>7296009
>>7296034
This.
How the fuck those ports are "unknown"?

[Anonymous No.7300292]

>>7294042
>Now that the dust has settled, what are the, dare we say it, most shocking and unexpected ports of retro gaming?

[Anonymous No.7300301]

>>7294696
Very good port with fancy graphics
C&C is not a very deep strategy game anyway
I bought it but the one who loved it was my brother, he beat every mission
Too bad we never got Red Alert
PSX got C&C, RA and the RA expansions but with the same DOS graphics, it's perfectly playable too.

[Anonymous No.7300307]

>>7295404
They took this from us
>>7295337
PC ports of console Star Wars games from that era are always glitchy, unoptimized and subpar
Rogue Squadron is too easy because the hardest enemy, the tower that shoots heatseeking missiles, is completely broken
Many such cases

[Anonymous No.7300330]

>>7299382
Was it worth playing? The first game had unique cutscenes

[Anonymous No.7300554]

>>7296003
What exactly does the N stand for?

[Anonymous No.7300652]

>>7300554
Nokia

[Anonymous No.7300712]

>>7300554
Nigg....

[Anonymous No.7300749]

>>7294494
i own this one

[Anonymous No.7300752]

>>7300554
:^)

[Anonymous No.7300754]

>>7299369
i was thinking of replaying this with the pc port but i guess i'll try it through dolphin instead
i know it's a shit game but i enjoyed it on ps2

[Anonymous No.7300757]

>>7294690
Apple Pippin?

[Anonymous No.7300760]

>>7294615
How is the PC version of Legends? PS1 version is one of my favorite games.

[Anonymous No.7300771]

>>7300749
What was so bad about that port? i only heard people saying it sucked for some reason

[Anonymous No.7300776]

>>7300057
It's surprising that most people don't know about it. When I first read about this game on a magazine, it was about the PS2 version.

In fact, I first played Warcraft 2 and Diablo 1 on PS1 and only later learned there were PC versions.

[Anonymous No.7300780]

>>7300771
personally i had no real problems playing it, but the soundtrack is kind of shit compared to the psx version

[Anonymous No.7300925]

>>7294042
I'm not even talking about the technical aspects of the PS2 port (I don't care much about that) but fuck this was one of those early games that came on a CD instead a DVD. The blue PS2 CD games were notorious for being rather loud inside the drive but this game for me was the absolute worst. Usually there's just a humming sound with these of varying loudness. But AOE2 inside the PS2 drive produced vibrations so strong that even the table the PS2 was placed on started to vibrate. You could even feel the vibration in your feet on the ground. I stopped playing this game since I was concerned about that it might ruin the dvd drive of my PS2.

I had a couple of these loud CD games (not counting the demo CD's of some magazines) like Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland and Squaresoft's All Star Pro Wrestling I and II with these problems, but this game was by far the worst.

[Anonymous No.7300956]

>>7300925
Smarter=louder hehe

[Anonymous No.7301065]

>>7300925
I wonder if there's a technical explanation for this?

[Anonymous No.7301070]

[Anonymous No.7301595]

Just found the GBC version of Daikatana (thanks to Kikoskia)
>Its honestly the superior version of the game compared to how shitty both the PC original or the N64 port are

[Anonymous No.7301651]

>>7294603
Ecco and Comix Zone came with my windows 95 computer. Ecco was pretty legit

[Anonymous No.7301762]

>>7294610
You can buy it digitally on amazon of all places last I checked.

[Anonymous No.7301860]

>>7301065
It's not that hard to figure out. The native PS2 CD-ROM games just rotate at a much higher speed than the DVD games or the PS1 CDs when using the backward compatibility.
Or from someone at reddit of all places:
>The reason why is that DVD and CD rotate at different speeds in optical drives. 1x is the base speed for the lowest standard data transfer rate. The ps2 drive does 4x for DVD and 24x for CD. That means CDs spin 6x as fast, which means they make more noise. You can see this in a computer optical drive where CD tops out at 52x and makes a lot of noise, while DVD tops out at about 16x.
>DVD can transfer more data per rotation of the disc so they don't need to spin as fast to load a program into memory.
>The noise is vibration of the system from the drive motor, and vibration of the disc against air resistance.

But I guess this is only half of the truth why especially the Disc of AoE2 "behaves" that badly. Maybe the balance of the CD combined with its rotation speed is also a factor. I always cringe when I see people putting paper stickers on their optical discs (also libraries and rental shops did this), since this is a recipe for disaster. Well, the PS2 CD-ROMs at least don't used those but I guess at this high speed maybe even the printing on the disc (or if it's just slightly off-centered) could be become an imbalance or those blue/violet PS2 CD-ROMs just were made rather cheap? Who knows?

[Anonymous No.7301867]

>>7300925
>>7301065
The PS2 CD-ROM drive is 24x, that's a lot faster than the PS1 2x drive.

[Anonymous No.7302093]

>>7300754
Same.

Bare in mind PS2 is the only version where you can gib corpses, so the other ports don't feel as visceral and gory, but they've otherwise got superior visuals and audio quality.

[Anonymous No.7302113]

>>7299248

[Anonymous No.7302138]

>>7301070
Looks awful

[Anonymous No.7302142]

>>7302113
Another 'why did they bother?'

[Anonymous No.7302313]

>>7302093
>Bare in mind PS2 is the only version where you can gib corpses, so the other ports don't feel as visceral and gory
oh goddamnit, that was pretty much what my fond memories of the game consisted of lol

[Anonymous No.7302472]

>>7294813
Plays better than the original imo.

[Anonymous No.7302510]

Princess Maker II for the Macintosh, for all 4.5 Japanese people who used a Macintosh for gaming.

[Anonymous No.7303778]

>>7301595
Thanks to the fact that it's a completely different game which is developed by completely different people, who probably just glossed over the plot and characters for the main game and then did their own thing with the material, I can imagine it's a lot better.

The PC game isn't great, though if you patch out all the bugs, and you patch out the companion AI, it's actually a pretty decent (if unremarkable) FPS. I hear the multiplayer deathmatch is supposed to be pretty good, I haven't tried it, but I'm willing to believe that given John Romero's fixation on multiplayer deathmatch, a fixation so great that it seriously affected the development of Doom 2, Quake, and Dai-Katana.
The man seriously made less levels for Doom 2 and Quake than he was supposed to because partially, he was so addicted to multiplayer deathmatch (one of the other reasons was him getting up to so many side projects).

>>7301860
>people putting paper stickers on their optical discs
GAH!

[Anonymous No.7303794]

>>7300925
I played this game alot on PS2 back then.
I don't remember this louder driver issue.

[Anonymous No.7303802]

>>7302142
Maybe it worked with the mouse?

[Anonymous No.7303803]

>>7294259
This is actually really good. It is also the only RTS game with a couch co op mode that I know of in which you share the base. It's really fun, great experience

[Anonymous No.7303828]

>>7303803
>couch co op mode in which you share the base
That's actually fucking genius for a console RTS.

[Anonymous No.7304191]

[Anonymous No.7304194]

[Anonymous No.7304224]

>>7294785
This is what it looked like. 100% 3D graphics (probably the earliest RTS to be so), since the N64 was unable of rendering 2D. Ported by Looking Glass, yes, the one and only.

[Anonymous No.7304241]

>>7304224
>100% 3D graphics (probably the earliest RTS to be so)
It definitely wasn't

[Anonymous No.7304283]

>>7304241
>rebuttal without argument
Why do retards do this?

[Anonymous No.7304384]

Pic-related had a DOS port which was one of the rarest games in existence, and was only discovered and dumped within the last couple of years.

[Anonymous No.7304385]

>>7304384
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.7304407]

This is an interesting case. The DC version is actually the original, and was latter ported for PC (which is the far more known version)

[Anonymous No.7304414]

>>7304283
I am not the one too retarded to use google search. There were several prominent 3D RTS before C&C on the N64. Battlezone, Total Annihilation, Warzone 2100, War of the Worlds, Urban Assault, ect. Educate yourself consolefag.

[Anonymous No.7304417]

This is complicated, it's ported from PC to Xbox, and then the Xbox version was ported back to PC as Condition Zero

[Anonymous No.7304421]

>>7304414
>he actually spent over an hour of researching just to reply
Look at him, look at him and laugh

[Anonymous No.7304439]

Those are all classic PC games you ignorant fuck

[Anonymous No.7306380]

>>7304224
>since the N64 was unable of rendering 2D
Actually it was really capable of doing 2d, even moreso than the ps1 but 3d was more fashionable at the time.

[Anonymous No.7306393]

>>7306380
That game isn't real 2D. It's textured flat polygons.

[Anonymous No.7306403]

>>7306393
Not a gamedev, so spare me. Isn't that how you did 2D games from the 5th gen onwards?

[Anonymous No.7306426]

>>7306403
When people say the N64 doesn't do 2D i think they're referring to the fact that it has no dedicated 2D hardware, which doesn't matter a ton because you can easily do a 2D perspective in a 3D environment
The only drawback in the case of the N64 is that the 2D winds up looking blurry

[Anonymous No.7306431]

>>7294690
genesis
no, sorry, 32x doesn't count

[Anonymous No.7306450]

[Anonymous No.7306518]

[Anonymous No.7306686]

>>7304385
TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF

[Anonymous No.7307916]

[Anonymous No.7307920]

>>7306431
Doom was never ported for Genesis, but something else was

[Anonymous No.7307953]

>>7301070
>>7306450
How does this play? Reviews were bad it seems.

[Anonymous No.7307960]

>>7307953
I've played it. No point and click, you control the characters directly and move them around in real time. Lack of hotkeys make the game dependent on confusing button combinations, which is hard to get used to. The devs clearly tried on this port, but in the end of the day, this really isn't a game (or a genre) that you'd want to play on a console.

[Anonymous No.7308074]

>>7307920
This port is pretty rough, but not as rough as the port to that Tiger pseudo-PDA.

[Anonymous No.7308081]

>>7307953
aside from the loading time, everything else is fine.

[Anonymous No.7308091]

>>7307960
Me and my sister played this game so much back then.
I can't relate to your complaints.

[Anonymous No.7308094]

>>7308091
You can't relate because you didn't play the PC version

[Anonymous No.7308129]

>>7307920
It's pretty much a reskin of Wolfenstein 3D.
>>7294052
Is that port really that bad?

[Anonymous No.7308265]

>>7308129
>Is that port really that bad?
A quick glance at some youtube footage makes it look okay.

[Anonymous No.7308269]

>>7308129
Duke3d on Genesis only has the 2nd episode, Lunar Apocalypse, since it was the least detailed and therefore the easiest to port.

[Anonymous No.7308316]

I emulated it a bit, but it seems faithful. Moreso than the Gamecube version, even.
>>7308074
I can't grasp the existence of Tiger.com games.
The Sonic Jam one was absolutely pathetic, from the gameplay I've seen of it.

[Anonymous No.7308326]

>>7308269
Duke Nukem 3D on the Genesis didn't "port episode 2" because it's a Wolfenstein 3D style corridor shooter, aside from the ripped textures it looks preciously little like anything from Lunar Apocalypse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhCpc9cSBr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_eaBwblOak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-hlLMpg-_I

It does approximately nothing that the real game does.

[Anonymous No.7308335]

>>7294042
You think that is weird? THIS exists.

[Anonymous No.7308339]

>>7308335
And this too

[Anonymous No.7308348]

No, Bad Company wasn't the first console Battlefield game.

[Anonymous No.7308370]

>>7308339
>Age of Empires
>Mythologies
What ever happened to "Age of Mythology"?

[Anonymous No.7308375]

>>7300554
You already know, it's Ndvance

[Anonymous No.7308384]

>>7308335
Ah yes, the one with the bug that can brick the cartridge.

[Anonymous No.7308387]

>>7308339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlPbEnyi7R0
wow the audio quality is amazing for a DS game. Still a bit fuzzy but its really good.

[Anonymous No.7308398]

>>7307916
One of the rare cases where the PC version is definitely superior

It has a superior resolution and better loading times than BOF4 on PSX.

[Anonymous No.7308401]

I had the PAL version of this, with language selector and everything. The German voices were hilarious.

[Anonymous No.7308402]

>>7294690
PC-FX

[Anonymous No.7308423]

This is a port of the PS1 version of Wizardry, identical except for the text font. Less accessible and considered inferior from the original.

[Anonymous No.7308453]

>>7294696
Why did they never port red alert 2 to anything but pc

[Anonymous No.7308458]

>>7308129
RCT on the Xbox is a pretty much perfect port. But you play it with an Xbox controller.

[Anonymous No.7308468]

Raven shield

[Anonymous No.7308472]

>>7308453
They ported RA3 for consoles

[Anonymous No.7308481]

>>7308335
>>7308339
How bad are they?

>>7308384
Not a good start.

[Anonymous No.7308484]

>>7308481
Never played them, only know that they exist

[Anonymous No.7308550]

>>7308481
They seem to have decent reviews. They aren't RTS games though, its more like civilization.

[Anonymous No.7308562]

[Anonymous No.7308590]

>>7308481
They are good

[Anonymous No.7308606]

>>7308453
because only PC fags like to roleplay as communists

[Anonymous No.7308616]

>>7308453
Because the RA universe is cringy shit

[Anonymous No.7308626]

>>7304407
The hell is this? I've never heard of it. Or at least, if I have I probably assumed it was just a mod.

[Anonymous No.7308629]

>>7308401
>>7307916
both of these surprised me, had no fucking clue.

[Anonymous No.7309223]

King's Field for PC

[Anonymous No.7309234]

The Neverhood for PS1

[Anonymous No.7309263]

>>7309234
Falls more under "ports that have no reason to exist"

[Anonymous No.7309303]

[Anonymous No.7309345]

>>7297603
It's on myabandonware

[Anonymous No.7309359]

>>7309345
That site spreads viruses

[Anonymous No.7309375]

I sometimes randomly remember this and get pissed off

[Anonymous No.7309408]

Yes, this is real. I owned it

[Anonymous No.7309420]

I suppose this isn't THAT strange, considering Maniac Mansion was ported to the NES.

[Anonymous No.7309426]

>>7294580
>>7294595
Suikoden was also on Saturn
>>7294690
No native DS, PSP or Vita port, which is kinda surprising.

[Anonymous No.7309438]

>>7309408
it is and it isn't real, since its a bootleg

[Anonymous No.7309461]

SimCity 2000 for the SNES

[Anonymous No.7309467]

>>7309461
The most surprising thing about this port is that in spite of being such a late title, and being, well, Simcity 2000, it DOESN'T support the mouse.

[Anonymous No.7309479]

>>7309438
I checked it out and..

>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is an unlicensed game for the SNES by Peruvian scene organization Twin Eagles Group. In actuality, it is a hack of Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos. Notable features include Sonic's new ability to kick, and missions to free Marios from cages (upon which the latter exclaims his name). On some emulators, the game freezes completely after four levels.
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_4_(SNES)

That'll be a no then.

[Anonymous No.7309484]

>>7294523

nip-moon logic,
its from all that 16th century portugese rape and hispanic monkey blood embedded into their chinese DNA

(all of these statements are actually correct)

[Anonymous No.7309485]

So it's just a hack of a completely different SNES game, not a port and especially not one of the actual Sonic 4.

[Anonymous No.7309487]

>>7309479
So Mexican Sonic is just Speedy Gonzales, uh, never thought about that, checks out.

[Anonymous No.7309502]

>>7309461
This is awful. All of the PC to console ports games in this thread look absolutely dreadful.

[Anonymous No.7309512]

This looks awful. All of the PC to console ports in this thread look absolutely dreadful.

[Anonymous No.7309571]

It's not a sidescroller like the NES game, it's the original game crammed into a GBC cart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XiUvMowedA

[Anonymous No.7309663]

>>7309571
I have to admit it looks surprisingly good at times, and I guess it's kind of impressive on the technical level, but man, oh man. Kind of reinforces my opinion that Dragon's Lair is best enjoyed on YouTube.

[Anonymous No.7311949]

[Anonymous No.7311965]

>>7308348
I remember having this for the multiplayer. It was pretty fun to tk people in it

[Anonymous No.7311971]

>>7311965
Hotswapping needs to be a thing again

[Anonymous No.7311976]

>>7294259
>Exclusive mission that's still considered canon for the series
Weird

[Anonymous No.7311980]

>>7300083
Maybe the US PC distribution deal they made fell through

[Anonymous No.7311981]

>>7299248
Actually pretty fun, although the save takes up most of a memory card

[Anonymous No.7311983]

>>7300554
It's a pun, meant to sound similar to "Engage".

[Anonymous No.7311986]

>>7306426
>>7304224
>since the N64 was unable of rendering 2D
I thought that was because of limited cartridge space for storing 2D Sprites rather than hardware limitations

[Anonymous No.7311989]

>>7304407
>>7308626
He posted the wrong image.
What he's referring to is Blue Shift which was first created for the Dreamcast port.
After that port got canned, the extra campaign was ported to PC as an expansion pack along with the Dreamcast models (referred to as the High Definition pack)

[Anonymous No.7311993]

>>7309234
This was actually so popular in Japan that the JP publishers made their own weird Gun Hockey spin-off game.

[Anonymous No.7311994]

>>7311986
Everything "2D" in a N64 game is just a flat 3D polygon, as if it was a cardboard cutout.

[Anonymous No.7311995]

>>7311994
So even in a game like Starcraft these are all 3D?

[Anonymous No.7311996]

>>7311993
And in the West, a PS1 exclusive platformer sequel was released, Skullmonkeys.

[Anonymous No.7311997]

>>7311995
SC uses prerendered sprites

[Anonymous No.7311998]

>>7311997
So are they actually 2D or not?

[Anonymous No.7312000]

>>7311989
No, Blue Shift was never released on DC. Paranoia was.

[Anonymous No.7312002]

>>7311998
Not rendered by the console

[Anonymous No.7312005]

>>7312002
then it is 2D

[Anonymous No.7312014]

>>7311995
Yes. It's essentially this. You won't notice if done right.

[Anonymous No.7312015]

>>7312005
It doesn't prove that the N64 can handle 2D, anymore than DKC "proves" that the SNES could handle 3D (without meme Super FX chips)

[Anonymous No.7312019]

>>7312000
>Blue Shift was never released on DC
It started development as part of the DC port

[Anonymous No.7312024]

>>7312019
>It started development as part of the DC port
Yes, but never got a physical release, like this

[Anonymous No.7312027]

>>7312024
Is that an official Valve-sanctioned release or a fan thing?

[Anonymous No.7312028]

>>7300554
MRS. OBAMA, GET DOWN!

[Anonymous No.7312029]

>>7312027
On Dreamcast it's official. Even got a ESRB rating, and comes in a official case. On PC it's just a mod.

[Anonymous No.7312037]

[Anonymous No.7312040]

>>7294042
Resident evil on sega Saturn. It was the first having a challenge mode (the equivalent of a mercenary mode).

[Anonymous No.7312067]

Today it's the only accessible way of playing an early version of this game

[Anonymous No.7312071]

Funny the only the Xbox was getting ports of all the great PC games of the early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.7312075]

[Anonymous No.7312080]

>>7312075
That's not a great game, no matter the system.

[Anonymous No.7312081]

[Anonymous No.7312085]

Sometimes, the Gamecube got to partake on these ports of PC games. It's the PS2 that was always left out, like the Wii/Wii U/Switch were later.

[Anonymous No.7312090]

>>7312071
The original non-expansion version crashed sooooooooooooooooo much. I still played the shit out of it and it left me with permanent "save anxiety". Always have multiple saves and save every 10 minutes or you'll lose everything. Also if you have too many saves you can't load any at all and the game becomes soft locked until you manually delete them outside of the game. PC suffered this issue too

[Anonymous No.7312094]

>>7312071
Probably because it had PC infrastructure before Sony hoped on that train with PS4.
And when PS2 did get more ambitious PC ports, they were either compressed/cut up to fit the RAM (Max Payne, levels were segmented with more loading screens) or completely redone to work on the hardware (Splinter Cell)

[Anonymous No.7312102]

>>7312094
That isn't even the shittiest Max Payne port

[Anonymous No.7312104]

>>7312102
That's more of a separate game based on the regular version rather than a port.

[Anonymous No.7312116]

>>7312102
>>7299021
>>7301595

different version =/= port

[Anonymous No.7312127]

>>7312116
I'd say that it still counts if the game has the same name and cover. That said, sometimes there WAS actual GBA ports, and they're invariably all terrible.

[Anonymous No.7312153]

Cue some shitty comparison of some faggot bragging that the PS3 HD version (released in 2011), looked better than the PC version (released in 2002), and therefore consoles are better than PC

[Anonymous No.7312157]

>>7312153
I remember the MGS2 PC port being worse than the MGS1 PC port

[Anonymous No.7312164]

>>7308481
They're completely different games, not even in the same genre but they're okay for what they are.

[Anonymous No.7312172]

Few people played the PC ports of classic Resident Evil. Even fewer played the port of Dino Crisis 1. And even fewer so played the port of Dino Crisis 2.

[Anonymous No.7312181]

>>7312157
PC gamer here. I won't play mgs2 on pc because I now the sword requires R analog sticks.

[Anonymous No.7312185]

>>7312085
>>7312081
I was so mad that Gamecube didn't get Jedi Academy even though it got Jedi Outcast.

[Anonymous No.7312187]

>>7312181
Also pressing Esc instantly closes the game while in MGS1 it let you save without needing to call.

[Anonymous No.7312213]

If you're a shitter that just HAS to save anywhere and cannot handle having to restart after failure, play this version on an emulator and use scrubstates.

[Anonymous No.7312228]

What's weird about this version is that the game uses the Turok engine, which is intimately associated with the N64, and yet there's a PS1 port. Either version you play, this game is crap.

[Anonymous No.7312229]

>>7312181
It plays okay after installing a fanpatch that fixes visual bugs, boosts the framerate, and adds xInput support. A good alternative for PC's that can't run it well on PCSX2.

[Anonymous No.7312231]

>>7312228
South Park also ran on the Turok engine and got a PS1 port... and it's Godawful- significantly worse than the N64 version and probably one of the worst games on PS1.

[Anonymous No.7312256]

[Anonymous No.7312262]

>>7312256
Don't be deceived by the "exclusivity for the Playstation" label, this is just Descent 2

[Anonymous No.7312309]

>>7312231
It got a PC port as well. That one's considered better though, I believe.

[Anonymous No.7312385]

[Anonymous No.7312390]

[Anonymous No.7312402]

>>7299369
>>7300754

I heard gamecube is the best version

[Anonymous No.7312404]

Never got completed, but an alpha build exists

[Anonymous No.7312405]

>>7312385
This game is unplayable ass on ps2

[Anonymous No.7312410]

>>7312405
And it's little better on the DC. The Xbox port of SoF2 is also pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.7312423]

And then there's the "why'd they even bother?" ports

[Anonymous No.7312440]

>>7312402
It's the closest to "decent" of an largely shitty game.
It goes GC > Xbox >>>>> PS2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> PC

The Xbox and PC ports are the only ones that deliver the "active wildlife" that was promised, but are marred by serious problems, muddy graphics and stuttering framerate on the Xbox case, extreme instability and broken everything (engine, physics, scripting, you name it) on the PC case

[Anonymous No.7312454]

Not all ports are bad. This one has an exclusive episode, and it's possible to use the treasure to buy upgrades and items (giving an incentive to collect them). But misses multiplayer.

[Anonymous No.7312456]

>>7294467
>I'm sure it was trash
it's excellent for what it is

[Anonymous No.7312458]

>>7294782
it's on dreamcast too

[Anonymous No.7312465]

>>7300554
nuggets

[Anonymous No.7312526]

>>7294259
Anyone got a screenshot of the guy who played with this game during most of his childhood? Not actually playing the game, but he used the cartridge like it was a toy.

[Anonymous No.7312548]

>>7300554
It means they banned it in China

[Anonymous No.7312640]

>>7312440
I liked looking at the little animals and lemmings on the ps2 version.

[Anonymous No.7313278]

Good thread, gonna try out some of these ports.
>>7294610
I heard that the PC version managed to be inferior to the console release, not really surprising if it's true because Sonic Team.

[Anonymous No.7313345]

>>7312423
PC isn't safe from "why'd they even bother?" ports either

[Anonymous No.7313883]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RQko_2xtpA

[Anonymous No.7313963]

>>7313883
>Almost a minute to load a game
Impressive.
On the other hand, that port doesn't look bad.

[Anonymous No.7313985]

>>7309234
There seemed to be several cases of Western-made PC games getting Japan-only ports for the PS1.

For instance, Beavis & Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, complete with a Japanese dub! https://youtu.be/dgKJCXRee4g

Other examples I can think of are the PS1 and Saturn ports of the DOS game Quarantine (called Hard Rock Cab and Death Throttle), the Saturn version of Phantasmagoria (just called Phantasm), and the PS1/Saturn versions of Dark Seed.

[Anonymous No.7313990]

>>7313985
The Saturn version of Phantasmagoria I think that most CDs for any single game of that era, with 8-discs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5AKfh4QQPk

[Anonymous No.7313992]

>>7313985
>Japanese dub
That's hilarious
Also MKII had a JP PSX port.

[Anonymous No.7314038]

continuing the trend of bizarre gba ports. ever wanted to play a pc space combat sim 6 years late and on a tiny gba screen? one positive is that it actually plays a lot more like wing commander 1 or 2 than prophecy because of the vastly simplified gameplay and controls.

[Anonymous No.7314493]

[Anonymous No.7314515]

>>7307916
I remember it crashing in that first dream sequence I think. Could never fix it.

[Anonymous No.7314518]

Comix zone pc, has some pretty interesting differences in graphics and sound.

[Anonymous No.7315369]

>>7312040
Also had Ticks, a unique enemy

[Anonymous No.7315374]

>>7314038
Speaking of, remember Elite on NES?
https://youtu.be/RE_rdYHVhA4

[Anonymous No.7315396]

>>7314515
The master race experience. I remember this shit happening so much despite having a fairly good PC at home.

[Anonymous No.7315475]

oh my

[Anonymous No.7315508]

>>7308348
Aw yeah, the Driver:San Francisco of shooters. It had no right to have such a cool idea. But that's ACKSHUALLY not a port, but a spinoff game.

[Anonymous No.7315525]

Not a port, but isn"t it weird that there was a Japan-only PS1 Theme Park spin-off. It did get ported to PC but without the Theme Park IP(?????)

[Anonymous No.7315526]

>>7312172
>>7307916
What the hell? Put these on Steam/GOG, Capcom.

[Anonymous No.7315535]

>only released in Brazil

[Anonymous No.7315562]

>>7294042
there's a version of diablo 1 with swedish voices for the ps1

[Anonymous No.7315569]

>>7312067
I don't know how it works exactly but apparently you can download older versions of games directly off steam. There's no UI for it so you need some external program for it or something.

[Anonymous No.7315576]

>>7294259
I use to say N64 had no good games. Was I wrong?

[Anonymous No.7315581]

>>7295986
It was released before 2008 so it is considered retro.

[Anonymous No.7315587]

Surprised no one posted this yet

[Anonymous No.7315595]

[Anonymous No.7315603]

Remember when it was the SNES that was getting all the cool RPGs?

[Anonymous No.7315608]

[Anonymous No.7315615]

This and Pandora Tomorrow got nice side scrollers on the GBA, they were sure better than the awful DS Port of Chaos Theory

>>7312102
This was actuallly pretty good by GBA standards
The only downside is that it's half of original game's length

[Anonymous No.7315624]

>SNES or Genesis?
PC

[Anonymous No.7315626]

>>7312423
Could say the same about console ports of Mafia

[Anonymous No.7315632]

>>7315624
The Lion King game also has a PC release

[Anonymous No.7315640]

Continuing the "why'd them even bother" saga

If you want to play this on your PC, just emulate a console version, for your sanity's sake

[Anonymous No.7315646]

Some ports are just sad

[Anonymous No.7315647]

>>7308335
Doesn't look too bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgR1z_A_BYk

[Anonymous No.7315651]

[Anonymous No.7315652]

>>7315646
And yet, EA keeps doing them. Why are they so scummy?

[Anonymous No.7315657]

This isn't really a game, but it's too odd not to post.

[Anonymous No.7315660]

>>7315646
>>7315652
I guess because the sport is popular among third worlders, but the again third worlders are also the most likely to just pirate the game anyways.

[Anonymous No.7315675]

Another unnecessary shitty port

[Anonymous No.7315702]

The Saturn might have the worst console port of Doom, but has the best port of Hexen, proving that it was the fault of the porting process, and not the console itself, that was faulty.

[Anonymous No.7315705]

>>7315702
As much as I like Hexen(the art and atmosphere, not actually playing it) I'd rather nail my balls to a burning tree than playing it on any console.

[Anonymous No.7315718]

>>7315675
Shitty? It's a great port

>60fps
>better visuals with shitton of graphics options to tweak and adjust
>no loading times
>runs smoothly even on modern systems

your opinions are shit

[Anonymous No.7315720]

>>7312423
Probably the longest loading times I've ever seen in my life.

[Anonymous No.7315756]

>>7315675
PC version was clearly superior though

[Anonymous No.7315818]

>>7312071
>>7312090
Yup, the longer you played, the more prone to crashing it was. Game needs to keep track of every single cell (location/room) - what’s contained within, what got looted already, which NPCs were killed and where to place the bodies etc. Basically shitloads of data, to the point the Xbox couldn’t handle it anymore and it’d crash randomly. Shame, because playing Morrowind with a controller is peak comfy. Guess you could uplod your save to PC every now and then to „wash” the file of needless clutter using some tools, but what’s the point when you already have a PC that can handle Morrowind? Even more pointless if you have some sort of a proper pad and the means to connect it to your computer. Still a better console TES game than that shitty N-gage dungeon crawler.

[Anonymous No.7315876]

>>7315818
Same shit with Fallout New Vegas on PS3, had to convert save files and finish it on PC.

[Anonymous No.7316152]

For PC

[Anonymous No.7316165]

Now for some weird handheld ports of classic PC platformers/sidescrollers

[Anonymous No.7316171]

>>7316165

[Anonymous No.7316174]

>>7316171
This is a port of Duke Nukem 2, not the shooter games

[Anonymous No.7316183]

>>7316165
>>7316171
>>7316174
Didn't know about these, thanks

[Anonymous No.7316190]

>>7316165
Woah I need to check this out

[Anonymous No.7316192]

>>7316190
Nevermind it looks like garbage

[Anonymous No.7316198]

Now for something really fucking obscure. The never released DOS port of Super Mario Bros 3, made by none other than Id Software, as a proof-of-concept of smoothscrolling in PC. They offered Nintendo to make it official, but the offer was rejected, and so they made their own original platformer, Commander Keen. And the rest is history.

But just imagine an alternate scenario where Id becomes a Nintendo-for-PC converter developer instead of creating Doom and shit.

[Anonymous No.7316207]

>>7316198
After seeing it in action I can understand why Nintendo didn't accept their offer.

[Anonymous No.7316209]

>>7316174
It's actually pretty good, too. I wouldn't call it as much a port of Duke Nukem or Duke Nukem 2, as I'd say it's a re-imagining of them.

[Anonymous No.7316229]

oi love me manic miner simple as

[Anonymous No.7316236]

Yes, Donkey Kong COUNTRY on GBC, not Donkey Kong LAND.

[Anonymous No.7316238]

>>7316198
Based Nintendo telling Americans to gtfo. Microsoft was not getting shit

[Anonymous No.7316243]

>>7316165
This wasn't a port of the DOS version, looks like a completely different game. Looks painfully average but I could be wrong.

https://youtu.be/EkRzn5f3ifU

[Anonymous No.7316365]

>>7315576
Yes, but for completely different reasons.
>>7312526
What the fuck are you talking about? I have never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.7316495]

>>7294042
One of the few games to use the d-pad.

[Anonymous No.7316583]

Did you know that the Gamecube had MILITARY SHOOTERS?

[Anonymous No.7316591]

>>7316583

[Anonymous No.7316597]

[Anonymous No.7316614]

>>7294541
>FF7 was also ported to PC in 1998
The FF7 PC port is a bit better known. It's also the version of the game all of the later ports are based on. (Like the recent switch port). One easy tell is how the character models/textures are slightly different compared to the PS1 original.

[Anonymous No.7316659]

>>7296030
The PS2 version of UT came out during an era where a lot of people straight up didn't have computers but had consoles. The inclusion of 4 player splitscreen was great for its time and makes the game still replayable as a result.

They also improved things like the singleplayer ladder system and the UI overall.

[Anonymous No.7316671]

>>7316659
No excuse, as the Dreamcast version, released earlier, had online

[Anonymous No.7316683]

>>7316614
Yeah the characters have dumb mouths in the PC version

[Anonymous No.7316693]

>>7316671
Anon the PS2 version of UT was a launch title for the Playstation 2. The Network adapter for the PS2 didn't become a thing until 2 years later

[Anonymous No.7316701]

>>7316693
No excuses. Older tech had it at release.

[Anonymous No.7316709]

>>7316701
The SNES had the X-Band Modem when the Sega Saturn didn't, where's Sega's excuse there? Why did the Saturn port of Doom lack online multiplayer when the SNES could do that years ago?

[Anonymous No.7316718]

>>7316709
>comparing third party crap (that were at best a novelty) with official releases
Snoyggers deserve the rope

[Anonymous No.7316721]

>>7316709

[Anonymous No.7316727]

>>7308616
oh and muh peace through power bald hitler isn't?

[Anonymous No.7316778]

>>7316718
Why do you want to console war so badly? Are you a child?

[Anonymous No.7316785]

>>7316778
I'm merely stating facts. You're the one sperging out on defending the inexcusable, and seething for free.

[Anonymous No.7316797]

>>7311989
Dreamcast models never made it to PC. They were modified for the HD Pack or completely changed

[Anonymous No.7317135]

>>7315675
The fuck nigger, that's a great port. The game is shitty, but the port is good.

[Anonymous No.7317168]

>>7317135
>that's a great port
>Objectively worse ost
>great port

>The game is shitty
Explains your shitty opinion

[Anonymous No.7317195]

>>7317168
Soundtrack isn't bad though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QznVkJu-k3M

[Anonymous No.7317254]

>>7317195
The main menu theme is almost identical to the PS1 theme. The level themes however are garbage
https://youtu.be/eMckLZ8fb38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppEwcQc1RQ

[Anonymous No.7317264]

>>7304194
Actually the best version. Has some cool 3D effects and models missing from the DOS version.

[Anonymous No.7317269]

>>7317264
Yeah the PS1 version of UU is a more 3D game it's a weird port since it would be a novelty to play on the PS1 similar to Diablo's port but it was only released in Japan so it was never translated to English.

[Anonymous No.7317814]

>>7308348
i loved the mission where you parachute onto the island in this (i think it was on the Chinese side?)

also the multiplayer was pretty fun, although trying to communicate via the on-screen keyboard was a nightmare. by the time you could say "let me in the helicopter" it would already be on the other side of the map.

[Anonymous No.7317847]

I've never seen anyone comment on the Panzer Dragoon port on PC.

[Anonymous No.7318042]

>>7294042
There were PC ports of Cyber Troopers: Virtual On and Sonic R among others, in the early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.7318082]

>>7315615
shame they didn't take the chance to make a metal gear clone.

[Anonymous No.7319937]

>>7308348
Oh yeah the body surfing one, that was an interesting turn for Battlefield.

[Anonymous No.7319950]

>>7299248

[Anonymous No.7319958]

>>7307916
You just reminded me that the Western release got censored. Anyone have a JP copy of the PC version?

[Anonymous No.7319959]

Even had an exclusive character, Earthworm Jim.

[Anonymous No.7319963]

>>7319950
>takes up all 15 slots on your memory card with one save
Still worth it. A lot of people used to give TFTD shit, mainly because it was brutally and savagely hard, I mean squad wipe you on the first turn hard as aliens could now use grenades and the grenades were now powerful enough to wreck the full screen.

[Anonymous No.7319967]

[Anonymous No.7319969]

>>7319959
The PC port of Tony Hawk 3 also had an exclusive character, Doomguy.

[Anonymous No.7319978]

>>7319969
did they literally just rip the quake 3 model and use it in this game lmao

[Anonymous No.7319981]

[Anonymous No.7319986]

>>7319969
>5ft 8in
Doom Manlet

[Anonymous No.7319987]

>>7319986
that's when he was 10

[Anonymous No.7319989]

>>7319978
Looks like it. Just give him some new animations and they're good to put him in the game, why do more unnecessary work when iD was cool about it?

[Anonymous No.7319990]

>>7319978
i am almost certain thats exactly what they did with spiderman in THPS2, since both that game and Spiderman for psx were developed by Neversoft.

[Anonymous No.7319993]

Another "why did them even bother" port, the most egregious example actually

[Anonymous No.7319994]

Persona 1 had a PC port

[Anonymous No.7320000]

[Anonymous No.7320009]

>>7320000
The only reason I ended getting one of these.
Shame it didn't work with Command & Conquer. RTS on Joypads is a unique hell.

[Anonymous No.7320010]

Digimon World 1 for PC, released only in Korea

[Anonymous No.7320015]

>>7316597
Iirc this is a completely-different game from the Xbox 360/PC versions- and it also plays like utter dogshit. I rented it back in the day and quickly regretted it.

>>7319993
Cool game but yeah the PS1 port is awful. The only "ambitious" PS1 port from stronger hardware I can think of that's actually decent is probably Hydro Thunder.

[Anonymous No.7320021]

The unreleased Unreal port for PS1. What the fuck they where even thinking?

[Anonymous No.7320024]

[Anonymous No.7320028]

For PC

[Anonymous No.7320032]

This was a so-so game on PS1, I don't think it was any better on PC

[Anonymous No.7320041]

>>7320032
wasn't this at one point meant to be under the streets of rage license? Back when that was struggling to make it to 3D

[Anonymous No.7320042]

This thing was ported to just about anything in the 90s (except the N64, lmao fuck Nintendo)

[Anonymous No.7320046]

>>7320024
>this was released in a world during a Bush presidency, for a flip phone, prior to the conclusion of Malcolm in the Middle, in a time before social media and face masks, and has 8bit graphics
>lol not retro

[Anonymous No.7320049]

>>7320042
this thread is about ports people don't know exist, not games we all know were ported everywhere

[Anonymous No.7320050]

>>7320000
This port had a pretty slick studio soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.7320051]

Was this any good?

[Anonymous No.7320057]

Bowser could randomly show up to destroy your city in this

[Anonymous No.7320064]

>>7320024
This was SUCH a shitbiscuit.

[Anonymous No.7320067]

Some say that this is the definitive version of the game, even.

[Anonymous No.7320071]

>>7320051
Had the N64 version. It was alright, it was fun dismembering the enemies and it was pretty scary for kid me, but it was pretty clunky, when i went back to it years later i got bored pretty fast after the first couple levels.

[Anonymous No.7320075]

>>7294563
yeah i played it in 2005ish? had music mods, bug fixes, and the models from the fights in the overworld. was better than ps1 release by then

tho ending the game with a counter instead of omnislash was kinda uneventful or funny, dunno if that was a pc only bug

[Anonymous No.7320078]

>>7320067
I have the beta of when westwood were trying to get Command & Conquer on genesis, it's very broken and would never have shipped, but it was in the works early on.

[Anonymous No.7320094]

>>7320078
I know of an attempted port of Commandos for Genesis

[Anonymous No.7320095]

>>7320071
I know about both the N64 and PS1 versions. What I asked was specific to the PC port.

[Anonymous No.7320114]

>>7320075
>that midi music
god that was bad, the entire soundtrack was mutiliated

[Anonymous No.7320131]

>>7300776
same for diablo 1, ps1 version is decent tho, controls are a bit jank but not too bad, i dont think it really had any differences from the pc orignal

[Anonymous No.7320150]

>>7320114
I believe you needed a proper soundcard for it to sound decent, you can find it on youtube. I had a mix of the orignal ps1 music, black mages and the advent children soundtrack modded in.

[Anonymous No.7320159]

>>7320150
I didn't have a sound card back then, but I also had the psx version too, I got the PC port because I wanted to cheat more and my gameshark just wasn't cutting it, back then there were so many fake or broken gameshark codes. It was a shitter to get working on my Voodoo 1 too, PC life was harder back then, having to rely on magazine coverdisks for your patches, drivers and utilities

[Anonymous No.7320169]

>>7315587
All I remember is that the levels were cut down in size and it had FMV cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.7320174]

>>7320169
Extra detail was put into the levels to compensate

[Anonymous No.7320184]

>>7320174
Also the dialogue was altered a bit. For example, Walton doesn't explain to Bob who UNATCO is in the opening cutscene like some kind of autismo and it flows better.

[Anonymous No.7320192]

>>7320174
>>7320184

[Anonymous No.7320213]

>>7315647
Oh weird that its like a tactical turn based thing.
Kind of surprising there aren't more RTS on the DS, the touch screen controls would've made them pretty viable compared to like N64 ports. Ys Strategy is the only one I can think of thats like a proper real time strategy game.

[Anonymous No.7320215]

>>7320184
Back in the day, the devs intended to backport the improvements of the PS2 version into the PC version (more detailed character models and backgrounds, ragdoll physics, higher quality OST, better dialogue), but never went through it

[Anonymous No.7320219]

>>7320215
I didn't like how the Half Life HD models from the failed dreamcast port and the ps2 port made it into the PC game with blueshift, Barney looked so wrong compared to the rest of everything else.

[Anonymous No.7320226]

>>7320057
Sim City for the snes is great, I think most people know of it though

[Anonymous No.7320230]

>>7320219
The PS2 models are much more detailed than the DC/HD versions. Have full facial animations and move much more naturally

[Anonymous No.7320234]

>>7320226
It was common here, I had to get it when I wanted ActRaiser instead, nobody carried it here.

[Anonymous No.7320248]

>>7300771
midi soundtrack was the only real downside

[Anonymous No.7320257]

>>7320131
Has colored lighting and couch co-op, but shit framerate and no mouse to play with. Might also have lacked procedurally generated dungeons and many quests, but I can't remember for sure, so take that with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.7320272]

>>7320057
SimCity was very popular. Meanwhile the SimCity 2000 SNES port...

[Anonymous No.7320291]

>>7320067
Dune 1 (the adventure game) was also ported, but for the Sega CD.

[Anonymous No.7320306]

>>7315587
If Unreal Engine games didn't memory leak and crash Open PS2 Loader this would probably be the version I'd play the most. Comfy.

[Anonymous No.7320320]

>>7320291
improved over dos graphics?

[Anonymous No.7320324]

>>7320078
Didn't know about this, is there footage of it online or a ROM?

[Anonymous No.7320337]

>>7317847
I've heard that the PS2 Ages version is the best way to play it nowadays but I haven't tried it.

[Anonymous No.7320345]

>>7320067

It's different and has A E S T H E T I C S. PC is just lame proto-CnC.

[Anonymous No.7320354]

>>7320324
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR32HLk0bhk
The ROM is out there, it's not hard to find.

[Anonymous No.7320376]

An obscure port of an already obscure game.

[Anonymous No.7320379]

>>7320376
... and it's sequel

[Anonymous No.7320381]

>>7320291
>>7320067
No Dune 2000 or Emperor: Battle of Dune. Only games in the series worth playing.

[Anonymous No.7320389]

>>7320272
That was a really bad port

[Anonymous No.7320392]

>>7320379
And now the reverse. This is a game that everyone at most played the demo in some early PS1 demo disc, but never the full game itself. And... it had a PC port.

[Anonymous No.7320395]

Not as known as the PS1 version, but has a much better cover

[Anonymous No.7320398]

>>7320376
giger is cool and all but this game looks shitty

[Anonymous No.7320406]

>>7307916
Hmm, reviews seem to say that this is a shoddy port, and also has a good chance not giving a white screen error on modern computers. I'm not having any luck with dgVoodoo or Dnwnd.

[Anonymous No.7320416]

[Anonymous No.7320425]

[Anonymous No.7320432]

The original was never ported for PS1, but the sequel was

[Anonymous No.7320443]

>>7320425
>>7320432

[Anonymous No.7320474]

An early example, from the time Nintendo still licensed games

[Anonymous No.7320480]

>>7320474

[Anonymous No.7320481]

>>7320443
Its kinda funny. The idea of a horror game on gameboy was mocked back in the day, but now the indie gaming scene is flooded with gameboy inspired horror games.

[Anonymous No.7320490]

>>7320480

[Anonymous No.7320491]

>>7320481
there's at least one recent gameboy horror homebrew that I know of, as well. spinach LCD must have negative aura energy or something.

[Anonymous No.7320660]

>>7320051
It's fine. Not compatible with high refresh rate monitors though, plays in turbo mode at 120hz.
Has special support for specific video cards so depending on your config it might not work. I play on a Voodoo 2 and it's good.

[Anonymous No.7320663]

the absolute madmen

[Anonymous No.7320680]

[Anonymous No.7320692]

[Anonymous No.7320715]

Some ports just make you go "dafuq?"

[Anonymous No.7320731]

>>7308401
Beyond the Dark Portal is nearly impossible to beat with a controller, trust me I tried. Dunno why I wasted all that time, considering I had the actual PC version.

[Anonymous No.7320739]

>>7311981
The best part of PS1 Diablo is it being much easier to pick things up, especially Rings. Nothing more annoying than hearing a ring or amulet drop and then not being able to find it, even using the zoom in, hoving your mouse slowly over objects/obstacles where you can't see over.

[Anonymous No.7320910]

>>7315603

no

[Anonymous No.7320915]

>>7320910
The soundtrack in this version was pretty wild

[Anonymous No.7320917]

>>7320715
god that must be awful, i have to play it

[Anonymous No.7320921]

>>7320715
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsB6glqZIx0

[Anonymous No.7320925]

>>7308339
>>7308335
not even a port desu

[Anonymous No.7320946]

>>7317847
loved it back then.

[Anonymous No.7321034]

>>7320398
It's not really a very good game. It's interesting to look at, they actually licensed Giger's art and all to digitize and use in the game, so that's nifty, but beyond that it's a point and click adventure game, and a pretty bad one. It's the kind where the logic and procedure is kind of arbitrary and asinine, and you just have to figure out whatever non-intuitive thing to do when and in what exact order, and make sure to do it all before 3 in-game days.

Dark Seed is best enjoyed by watching a longplay on YouTube, you'll get all the good mileage out of it that way. There's a sequel, but I don't know if it's any better.

[Anonymous No.7321039]

>>7321034
>Dark Seed is best enjoyed by watching a longplay on YouTube
i would say most if not all of point and click games are best enjoyed like that

[Anonymous No.7321046]

>>7321039
I wouldn't go that far. Games like Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis has some real logic to it, there's really no bullshitting in the puzzles, and it has some nice story and voice acting to go with it which makes it enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.7321078]

>>7296294
Whoa, how is this version?

[Anonymous No.7321216]

>>7319959
Ive got a copy of this. Never got to play it tho.

[Anonymous No.7321371]

>>7319967
that's just silly.

[Anonymous No.7321382]

>>7320663
I played the PlayStation version. It was awful.
E.T should be banned from video games.

[Anonymous No.7321394]

>>7321039
kys pleb

[Anonymous No.7321402]

[Anonymous No.7321441]

>>7319993
Ambitious but why do they bother if the ps1 can't obviously handle such a big game like that. Content wise it features everything, though that frame rate is not worth it. If you want a good console port then get the dreamcast version or wait for the remaster to come out.
Anyone else here gonna get the remaster? They're adding in some cut content.

[Anonymous No.7321569]

>>7311989
Why was it canned anyway? You can download the ROM online and it seems pretty complete to me. Awkward to play as is any FPS on console of course

[Anonymous No.7321697]

>>7321569
It was canned simply because the Dreamcast itself was canned

[Anonymous No.7321785]

>>7320021
I won't image the low frame per second. Also, those situations where you have to aim often up or down and strafing...

[Anonymous No.7321808]

>>7321569
Try Quake 3 for Dreamcast.

Half Life looked and played like shit on all consoles.

[Anonymous No.7321820]

>>7312153
xbox phat also had MGS2 Substance
>>7304417
We had this haha. There were full games for a surprising while.
>>7309303
Say what you want but it came with classic Doom and you could do 4 player couch coop, it was a blast.

[Anonymous No.7321851]

>>7294042
Not sure if this qualifies, since I'm pretty sure a lot of folks don't even know the original game, but this one's still kinda interesting - Hellboy: Asylum Seeker for PS1. https://youtu.be/tghmDDN0orw

It's a port of an earlier PC game called Hellboy: Dogs of the Night, which originally came out in 2000 (pre-dating the movies). This PS1 version came out in 2004. It's apparently the second-to-last non-sports game on the system.

Apparently the devs who ported this got the license for cheap and rushed out a quick port to cash in on the first live-action Hellboy movie. The original game's pretty janky, but the PS1 version is a complete mess, with tons of bugs and huge chunks of the game cut out entirely.

[Anonymous No.7321874]

>>7321034
>There's a sequel, but I don't know if it's any better.
A plot twist hinges on the main character realizing that his mother lied about locking his bedroom closet when he was a child.
That alone should tell you everything.

[Anonymous No.7321889]

>>7320376
Not an official port, but some enterprising Chinese bootleggers actually ported Darkseed to the Famicom for some ungodly reason.

https://youtu.be/Y3Jas_Rvyug

[Anonymous No.7321990]

>>7321808
Half-Life on the PC is the GOAT

[Anonymous No.7322028]

Altered Beast? On Nintendo? Sega would never.

[Anonymous No.7322091]

[Anonymous No.7322241]

Great thread

[Anonymous No.7322603]

>>7322028
Space Harrier and Alien Syndrome got NES ports as well

[Anonymous No.7322612]

>>7320915
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_NARJXLmg
Its amazingly different than the rest of the series and its great

[Anonymous No.7322650]

>>7294979
15fps

[Anonymous No.7322674]

also had a split-screed coop mode

[Anonymous No.7322695]

>>7322674
I actually like this over the PC version. It's surprisingly fun with the limitations and still manages to have a load of items to choose from. The shittiest town in the story mode was the movie set

[Anonymous No.7322804]

>>7320921
these were great desu, Bustin' out and Urbz especially. Even if they were essentially an adventure game where you're slowed down by having to eat, sleep and piss.

[Anonymous No.7322830]

The Sims games on consoles are mostly trash, because they only have a tiny fraction of the content as on PC. Castaway is a gem though and very different from any other Sims game.

[Anonymous No.7322908]

There was a half-life port for the PS2 with coop, played it on emulator once

[Anonymous No.7323286]

This and Doukyuusei 2 had "clean" SNES ports, somehow.

[Anonymous No.7323287]

>>7316236
based game and opinion

[Anonymous No.7323294]

>>7322674
based way to play the sims. couch co-op with your bro or girl

[Anonymous No.7323497]

>>7321874
>A plot twist hinges on the main character realizing that his mother lied about locking his bedroom closet when he was a child.
That's got me interested enough for me to ask you to spoil the rest of it for me, because I really don't want to go and play Dark Seed II.

>>7321889
This always fascinated me.

[Anonymous No.7323745]

>>7322830
The Sims Bustin' Out was pretty enjoyable. The first Sims game to have usable vehicles even before the PC game and a pretty creative set of items to buy like that sonic wave shower.

[Anonymous No.7324060]

Sometimes I think about this and I don't remember if it was something real or just a weird dream I had.
Technically it wasn't a port but it was really close to a GBA Tekken 3.

[Anonymous No.7324082]

>>7322695
couldn't find working. iso file, I wanted to play it with my gf in spite of hating the game itself... There's also a game called Sims Castaway that was made exc for ps2

[Anonymous No.7324154]

>>7323497
OK, so the plotline of Dark Seed 2 is that the main character from the first game, Mike Dawson is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. The thing is, Mike is a gigantic loser and gets shit on by basically everyone. Eventually shit happens and he has to travel to and from the Dark World in order to stop a beast known as the Behemoth (which looks nothing like you'd expect something called a "behemoth" to look). At some point, Mike visits a fortune teller at a carnival who tells him various hints. At some point, Mike learns that the last thing he needs to kill the Behemoth is in the Dark World version of his house and the only way in is through a portal in the same place. It's a mirror in the closet in his bedroom. He never tried opening it because his mom supposedly locked it when he was a kid, because he was afraid that monsters would come out of it. He never tried opening it since.
Also the true murderer in said murder investigation, who also murders Mike's shrink and Mike himself at the end of the game, is Mike's cooler Dark World counterpart, who's also a shapeshifter. And who may or may not be Mike's alter-ego. It's one of those endings
I recommend watching at least the last few minutes of a longplay or something. Some of it just needs to be seen rather than told.
https://youtu.be/cqz5_pkURv0?t=8487 (2:21:30, if it doesn't start there)

[Anonymous No.7324384]

>>7312526
That sounds fucking hilarious and now I wanna see that.

[Anonymous No.7324387]

>>7313345
I was playing the PS2 version of this the other day, it was pretty fun. Should I opt in for the PC version instead?

[Anonymous No.7324391]

>>7315535

This looks like a Zero Tolerance mod.

[Anonymous No.7324598]

>>7324391
Isn't it a lot more primitive than Zero Tolerance?

[Anonymous No.7324806]

>>7324082
https://archive.org/download/RedumpSonyPS2NTSCUPart2/Sims%202%2C%20The%20%28USA%29.7z

[Anonymous No.7326213]

>>7316693
They should've released Quake 3 much later so it would've been ready for online and maybe even compatible with keyboard and mouse, but no, they just had to fuck things up.

[Anonymous No.7326247]

>>7320219
Barney bugged me the most. It was mostly the helmet, it made him look a special needs child.

[Anonymous No.7326278]

>>7320230
>move much more naturally
lol no they dont, they still move like robots, all stiff and shit.

[Anonymous No.7327018]

>>7312213
wait, is darkforces hard? It suffers from "what/where the fuck do i go" syndrome but it's not difficult.

[Anonymous No.7327051]

>>7309303
This was fun. Much better than the HL2 xbox port.

[Anonymous No.7327117]

>>7322830
You, sir, are based. I spent many a weekend renting this from the video store and beating it. I watched a lot of those survival shows when I was a kid and this was kind of my way of vicariously doing that stuff. Fun fucking game.

[Anonymous No.7328904]

>>7319969
>>7319978
>>7319986
Best part are his starting stats. Doomguy cant jump lol

[Anonymous No.7329760]

>>7312029
>>7312024
BUT HOW???

[Anonymous No.7329773]

>>7294042
Wasn't the version for Nintendo DS basicly a medivial Advance Wars clone and not a RTS?

[Anonymous No.7329775]

>>7294467
Those post were the best "shit" to ever own.

[Anonymous No.7330384]

>>7306518
why the fuck would anyone want this when the collection has all of them?

[Anonymous No.7330415]

>>7296003
Kek. Saved

[Anonymous No.7330440]

>>7316236
it was great, fuck land.

[Anonymous No.7330667]

>>7320680
that was only unknown in the us caus sony of america was against 2d games

[Anonymous No.7330792]

>>7320921
>>7320715
My sister had Bustin' Out and I played the ever loving shit out of it.

[Anonymous No.7330805]

>>7330792
I was bustin out in your sister

[Anonymous No.7330852]

>>7315705
>the art and atmosphere, not actually playing it
die in a fire

[Anonymous No.7331036]

>>7330852
>shooting/fighting isn't very fun, most of the weapons are dull and feel like they lack punch (you also only get four), and the monsters range from nothing special to being tedious
>exploration is lackluster
>puzzles are just a bunch of key and switch hunting, either really straightforward to the point of feeling like pointless busywork, or needlessly obtuse, throwing a switch and getting a vague message that something changed in some other barely specific location, or that you 'solved a part of a puzzle'
>pseudo-RPG trappings, but there's no real quests and no characters to interact with, it's like a long dungeoncrawl, except that it's boring
I'm sorry that I don't find it very engaging, but there's a lot of other games which have serious flaws which I find a lot more enjoyable than Hexen.

[Anonymous No.7331586]

>>7319959
I know Soul Blade came later, but BAT always felt like a cheap rip-off of the rip-off.

[Anonymous No.7332659]

>>7294542
Ports were fine so long as you had dedicated MIDI hardware and didn't use dogshit general MIDI built into Windows.