2nd revision of PCE Juuouki Altered Beast [+Found!]

[Necromancer]

'Tis cool that this is confirmed to exist.

Countdown 'til Tobias makes a anniversary box set with the fixed disc, protein shake, and dragon cock dildo......

[Punch]

64 kb of VRAM is a lot of space and I feel like there must be enough space at least for two distinct players and all stage enemies, if not you could probably do something, anything other than trying to pretend that the CD is part of a hucard like it does stopping every 5 seconds or so to """""bankswitch""""".

They probably did the least amount of effort to make the hucard code run on a CDROM and that's infuriating because it could be much better.

[Necromancer]

It definitely smacks of peeps not knowing what they're doing, whether they weren't familiar with the how to use the hardware (and didn't have time to learn) or because they just weren't that talented.  There's plenty of other non-super cd games that look and play better, so surely a much better port was possible.

[Black Tiger]

I don't know, it may also be due to (Nova, the developer hired by) NEC Avenue's inexperience when working on early titles. Better organisation of resources and compression may help stuff more err.... stuff into memory at one time and could improve the game.

Remember, these are the guys who used a different color for the hud strip than the background it touches, instead of reworking assets to blend into a single color of shadow/sky, just using a black strip, or just using freaking sprites, since they wouldn't have broken the horizontal limit.

[Black Tiger]

I have a copy of Altered Beast CD that I bought new and opened. This thread got me thinking that maybe there's a good chance that it was left unopened because it was a late re-issue, when the game was no longer as big of a deal.

Sure enough, I just tried it out on my TurboDuo and it stopped scrolling after I got the wolf form. :/