Author Topic: Scans of unreleased games (Read 1700 times)

herr-g · « **on:** October 20, 2006, 10:54:03 AM »

Hello everyone,

i thought it would be quite interesting to publish some pictures of games that couln't make it to the market. So i took a deeper look through my PCE mags and made some scans for you. Enjoy!!

Meikyuutou Special (Irem):
Looks like a pretty nice game. Anyone got a ROM dump??

SG: Galaxy Force II (NEC Avenue):
Imagine what we could have had..

Survival Runner (Home Data):
Obviously HomeData wanted to publish a Beat'em up. Maybe it's better they didn't...

Splendid Saga (NCS):

Wardner no Mori (NEC Avenue):
Unfortunately only made it on the MD. I'm sure the PCE CD-ROM version would have been way better.

Xexex (Konami):
I'm not sure if it was only rumored, but imagine they had released it ...

Tengen:
This preview mentions some upcoming (or finally not) releases by Tengen for our beloved console. The report tells about Marble Madness, Peter Pack Rat and Klax. I'm very happy that at least Klax has been released wich is still one of my favorite games. As you can see the Marble Madness screenshot is from the AMIGA version.

Power Console:
Do i need to say more? Just can't get enough of it

Tsushin Booster:
Imagine Final Match Tennis Network matches ...

I know i had some pictures of Missile Fighter wich i couldn't find in my research. If i find it i'll post it immediately. That was for sure one of the most promising titles that didn't make it to release.

PCEngine Forever!!

Digi.k · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2006, 11:28:37 AM »

I remember that galaxy force II stuff too!

rolins · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2006, 11:37:29 AM »

Was that Rambo in Suvival Runner?

herr-g · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2006, 12:03:02 PM »

It isn't named in the text but indeed the images seem to be digitalized from Mr. John Rambo.
As far as i can read it the text tells about an adult type of game where only the title demo has been presented so far.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2006, 12:39:20 PM »

I love Wardner, a PCE version would be awesome.

Man I hope that more unfinished PCE games get leaked in some kind of playable form.

Of course, I'm still waiting for PC Cocoron to make the rounds.

esteban · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2006, 01:03:06 PM »

herr-g, awesome scans, thank you!

herr-g · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2006, 01:11:37 PM »

You're welcome

Ninja Spirit · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2006, 02:59:07 PM »

Xexex?! I'm real mad now....man it would've been awesome if it was on Super CDROM2

Too bad, the only way to play Xexex at home, back in the day before emulation existed was the minigame on Ganbare Goemon 2 for Super Famicom in which you played the second stage.

Keranu · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2006, 03:50:12 PM »

Thanks a lot, herr-g; excellent scans! All of those games look great, I would've really loved to see Marble Madness and Galaxy Force II on PCE the most out of those!

Joe Redifer · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:55:59 PM »

The Galaxy Force II scan (the second one with a bunch of pics on it) is clearly of the arcade version. I've seen those pics before when they were in Mega Play being shown as the Genesis version early in its life. Of course that version didn't look anywhere near that good. But The Turbo does have that arcade feel so it would probably be 100% exact to the arcade in every way, especially with the brilliant NEC Avenue behind the scenes. Has NEC Avenue ever let anyone down? No way.

Keranu · « **Reply #10 on:** October 20, 2006, 06:13:54 PM »

Well I trust and believe in Johnny Turbo, so I do believe that GFII would've had the arcade feel . But beside the point, NEC Avenue did a fantastic job on After Burner II and Street Fighter II' (and I would even say Space Harrier, though most would probably disagree), so I personally think they could've done a decent job on GFII.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #11 on:** October 20, 2006, 07:08:56 PM »

Forgotten Worlds is the best Capcom arcade to home port of the 16-bit generation and Side Arms PCE HuCard is arcade superior.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #12 on:** October 20, 2006, 10:06:39 PM »

no way on GFII. those pix looking just amazing. I even can feel the smooth scaling/rotation/zooming out of the pix. those are 100% from the arcade and 0% from a PC engine hardware. check out the scaled details and the palette. even the saturn version lacked to the original.
but of course, who didn't like to see a conversion in those days?!

Tatsujin · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2006, 10:08:46 PM »

Quote from: "Black_Tiger"

Forgotten Worlds is the best Capcom arcade to home port of the 16-bit generation and Side Arms PCE HuCard is arcade superior.

and don't forget daimakaimura

sunteam_paul · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2006, 10:16:47 PM »

I can't see a GFII conversion being any good at all really. The original arcade game lacked the fun and playability of something like Space Harrier and with the graphical flair removed on the 'Engine the game would be pretty much limp. It would have been an interesting experiment, but probably no fun to play.