Normal Hu Cards that made best use of PCE hardware?

[reson8er]

I was just curious as to what the general consensus is on the Hu Card that showed off the PCE the best is. 

It would be easy to say Sapphire with AC but I think the topic is more interesting for normal Hu Cards with no help from peripherals/add on equipment.

For the heck of it, we could even break it up into categories.

From what I've seen, Coryoon/Air Zonk really amazed me graphically, and the Music in Devil's Crush remains some of my favorite of all time.

So what are your opinions?

[Necromancer]

Magical Chase has a few graphical tricks up its sleeve that aren't seen much elsewhere, but I wouldn't say it's art in general is anything special (not that it's bad either).

[majors]

Parasol Stars that that stretch effect that happens at the start of the levels.

New Adventure Island is mad full of color even if a bit flat. I love the style of graphics in Legendary Axe. Dungeon Explorer uses stereo sound very well. Blazing and the Soldiers all still wow me in the visuals (and sound).

Of course SF2CE is the best showcase of HuCard hardware, even if the game is not your cup of tea. Parallax bitches! 

[reson8er]

Parasol Stars that that stretch effect that happens at the start of the levels.

New Adventure Island is mad full of color even if a bit flat. I love the style of graphics in Legendary Axe. Dungeon Explorer uses stereo sound very well. Blazing and the Soldiers all still wow me in the visuals (and sound).

Of course SF2CE is the best showcase of HuCard hardware, even if the game is not your cup of tea. Parallax bitches!

Totally agree on the Soldier series, NEC and Compile really set the bar high.

[Dicer]

Psychosis(paranoia) is a bit of a looker...

R-type was pretty damned close to the arcade, sadly split for the PCE


Sure there is more but those popped to mind.

[Mathius]

Yeah the stereo used in Dungeon Explorer allowed the creation of some awesome music to rock your ass cheeks off to. To hell with the guy on HG101 who called the PCE's PSG capabilities, "Terrible."

Agreed on Air Zonk. The parallax used is eye-meltingly scrumptious.

Tatsujin was one damn fine late arcade conversion. I can think of only one major detail missing from the Acrade and MD ports, that being no flames forming on blasted foes. And to top it off the soundtrack beats its FM synthesized big brother in audio quality.

[Tatsujin]

yeah math, the missing flames are my biggest hurting spot in that game. if it had those, it would be just 100%!!!

[Tatsujin]

sure street fighter II' is some aaawesome huey in every aspect.

[lukester]

1943 kai is ridiculously impressive, but not well known.

Also, half serious about bravo man.

[Black Tiger]

1943 kai is ridiculously impressive, but not well known.

Also, half serious about bravo man.

You're thinking of 1941 Counter Attack. But both are well known.

[ClodBuster]

From my own small collection, I think Bomberman 94 makes good use of the hardware. It is very colorful and has detailed graphics, making it easily match or even surpass SNES games. The chip generated music plays nicely on the ears, especially the level 1 and battle mode tunes are catchy. The underwater levels apply a very cool filter, from which I have no idea how it could be technically achieved. And it has support for five player simultaneous action.

Overall, a good package which ticks many boxes.



EDIT: From what I can see, the Genesis/Mega Drive port called Mega Bomberman had less colorful graphics, sounded worse and did not have the graphics filters.

[nodtveidt]

I vote for Atlantean.

[lukester]

1943 kai is ridiculously impressive, but not well known.

Also, half serious about bravo man.

You're thinking of 1941 Counter Attack. But both are well known.

Sorry I really do mean 1943. Tons of enemies and parallax, with lots of bullets all at once, with no slowdown except for 2 seconds for literally one time. Also some gigantic bosses, though there is flicker.

And this was all with 4 Megs.

And I will also add Darius plus. That conversion floored me, and they still added extra bosses.

But 1941 was proof that the Supergrafx needed to live longer though.

[Otaking]

I was just curious as to what the general consensus is on the Hu Card that showed off the PCE the best is. 

Coryoon instantly springs to mind with its crazy amount of layers of parallax scrolling.

[Tatsujin]

1943 kai is ridiculously impressive, but not well known.

Also, half serious about bravo man.

You're thinking of 1941 Counter Attack. But both are well known.

yeah, 1943 kai is anything else than impressive for PCE standards.