PCE, SNES and Genesis Screen Comparison.

[ginoscope]

Digi,

Those gifs are amazing thanks for sharing them.  I really miss arcades in general.  Last week I took my kids to a dave and buster and they had a new Luigi's Mansion arcade and it felt like the 90s again and experiencing a new arcade game you never played before.

[Digi.k]

vigilante

arcade


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[Digi.k]

ninja spirit

arcade

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arcade

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[shubibiman]

Wow ! Irem were pretty good at porting their own games !

[Digi.k]

mr heli no daibouken

arcade


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[Mathius]

This may piss off some fan boys of other consoles but I think the PCE's brighter colors suits the IREM ports quite nicely.

[Digi.k]

Genpei Toumaden

pce


arcade


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[esteban]

Digi.k, don't stop!

[Digi.k]

Parodius, the graphics in this game were not done as well as in other arcade ports such as chiki chiki boys, forgoten worlds and dynasty warriors on the pc engine.

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Actually it is, look at the 4th set of pics.  Ug.

Oh going back to this old post!

the colors are not that great but personally I think it is a little more accurate than SNES version

SNES


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[Digi.k]

Salamander

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[Digi.k]

Fatal Fury / Garou Densetsu Special

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SEGA CD

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[esteban]

Don't stop.

[wildfruit]

Love these goky gifs

[NightWolve]

Salamander

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I was introduced to this Konami shooter as Lifeforce on the NES, and was quite pleased with the purchase! One of Konami's greats with lots of replay value, worth checking out!

[VenomMacbeth]

Genpei Toumaden

I love you for this.

[Digi.k]

Splatterhouse

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[esteban]

Le Splatt.

Don't stop.

[Digi.k]

World Heroes 2

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SNES

[TheClash603]

PCE looks comparable in every screen shot except the raft in Fatal Fury.  I love looking at these.

...don't stop?

[NecroPhile]

Great gifs, Digi.  Thanks for making and sharing 'em.

[Digi.k]

Lords of Thunder (Winds of Thunder)

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Sega CD

[Digi.k]

snatcher
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[Mathius]

I keep forgetting WH had line scrolling. Mighty impressive port.

[Mathius]

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

[Digi.k]

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

you are right, I just booted it up and the car taking off scene is not like that shown in the gif but on the pce that scene has like some kind of subtle shaking.

[Digi.k]

I swear all these gifs is killing my page loads!

Bloody Wolf
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[CrackTiger]

What gifs don't depict well enough, is that the Bloody Wolf arcade runs at half the framerate.

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

you are right, I just booted it up and the car taking off scene is not like that shown in the gif but on the pce that scene has like some kind of subtle shaking.

Did you boot it up in an emulator? Those shaking sprite chunks are how emulators most often screw up PCE games.

[shubibiman]

Those are sweet ! I'm always stunned at how the PCE could handle faithful ports of arcade games that were released from 1987 (R-Type) to 1994 (World heroes 2). How many systems could do that ?

[esteban]

Those are sweet ! I'm always stunned at how the PCE could handle faithful ports of arcade games that were released from 1987 (R-Type) to 1994 (World heroes 2). How many systems could do that ?

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[ToyMachine78]

This thread revival has been great.

I'm pretty amazed at how well the PCE versions stand up to the arcade.

It makes you wonder why the PCE/TG was looked at as inferior to the Genesis and SNES.

[CrackTiger]

This thread revival has been great.

I'm pretty amazed at how well the PCE versions stand up to the arcade.

It makes you wonder why the PCE/TG was looked at as inferior to the Genesis and SNES.

The media said so bitd and since then casual gamers just fire up random roms with non-Japanese sounding names in emulators.

[Digi.k]

Special Criminal Investigations

Arcade

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[Digi.k]

Legend Of Hero Tomna

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[TheClash603]

SCI looks much better in the arcade, but Tonma's almost photo realistic graphics just look odd in the arcade.

[Digi.k]

SCI looks much better in the arcade, but Tonma's almost photo realistic graphics just look odd in the arcade.

I wonder why they changed the characters face and made it more plump.  Although I love it in the arcade Tomna looks a little ghoulish there.


RTYPE

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[shubibiman]

The lack of parallax is very frustrating in some exemples : some ports could have been perfect and not only near perfect.

[ccovell]

The mountains showing in the distance to the right of the cliffside in PCE S.C.I. is a pretty clever effect. 

[EvilEvoIX]

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

Why would this be a major difference?  Stronger Processor or just poorer optimization?

[Digi.k]

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

Why would this be a major difference?  Stronger Processor or just poorer optimization?

What gifs don't depict well enough, is that the Bloody Wolf arcade runs at half the framerate.

Unless it's the gif processing the image differently but the Sega CD Snatcher seems to animate much more smoothly.

you are right, I just booted it up and the car taking off scene is not like that shown in the gif but on the pce that scene has like some kind of subtle shaking.

Did you boot it up in an emulator? Those shaking sprite chunks are how emulators most often screw up PCE games.

I'd say about 98% of these are from emulation and taken from youtuber vids..

[Digi.k]

Tatsujin

arcade

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[NightWolve]

Now that's a shooter!

[Mathius]

Now that's a shooter violent fuck in the ass! 

[NightWolve]

Now that's a shooter violent fuck in the ass! 

Well...that certainly paints a *much* different picture than what I had in mind, Matt, but s'all good! 

[CrackTiger]

I'd forgotten that Tatsujin does have a little bit of "real" parallax in the arcade version, but the Genesis version doesn't for some reason.

[Mathius]

Now that's a shooter violent fuck in the ass! 

Well...that certainly paints a *much* different picture than what I had in mind, Matt, but s'all good! 

I'm lucky to get passed the first level boss in that version haha

I'd forgotten that Tatsujin does have a little bit of "real" parallax in the arcade version, but the Genesis version doesn't for some reason.

The one thing I did give the PCE version props for, other than the best rendition of those tunes in any version, is they kept the little planets dotting the star field in places. I love little details like that. It always confused me as to why the MD version didn't have them. Probably a deadline issue.

[Digi.k]

Beraboh Man /Bravoman

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[CrackTiger]

The clouds in the sky scroll at different speeds, adding a greater illusion of depth in the PCE version.

The underwater scene has more "scrolls" in the PCE version, for what it's worth.

Still weird how they went with such different colors, as though they were too used to working on Famicom games or something.

[shubibiman]

I've always thought Namcot were lazy when it came to porting their own game to the PCE. And yeah, it often looks like they considered the PCE as just a powered-up Famicom. They could have done so much better. When you see how Irem managed to port their games, it's a completely different story.

[Digi.k]

Raiden arcade vs hucard

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[esteban]

Awe.

Some.