Best & worst ACDs

[runinruder]

Madou Monogatari is the best ACD game and one of the greatest PCE games ever made.  Art of Fighting and Kabuki Itourryoudan are also very good.  And 3x3 Eyes, while not Arcade Card exclusive, is a must for its AC-enhanced cinemas (not to mention it's a cool comic). 

[Tatsujin]

Such feats are amazingly simple when you have such a huge memory pool to utilize. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that they look awesome.

and also it doesn't change the fact, that such incredible and awesome looking effects where played by a tiny bastard 8-bit hardware made in '87.

[Tatsujin]

I think sapphire is very good vert scrolling shooter, not as good as spriggan or nexzr though, sapphire is of course more famous for being a technical showpiece than for its gameplay but what a showpiece, for example the Egypt boss transforms into a giant mecha type thing then he starts spinning on his axis while rotating around the screen with incredible animation at the same time huge orbs feel the screen, i don't remember any slow down or flicker...HOLY HELL, let me repeat... HOLY HELL.

HOLY HELL!! YES

[Black Tiger]

What does Popful Mail add when played with the ACD card?

I tried to figure that out the other day, but it kept crashing in Arcade Card mode and I ran out of time.

[guyjin]

TRU FAX: The Arcade card makes the PCE more powerful than the playstation. 

The greatest is of course Kabuki Itouryoden, followed by Fatal Fury Special and World Heroes 2.

I'm not a big fan of fighting games, especially since I'd have to get a get a 6 button controller (right?)
If you had to choose only one of those 3, which would you pick?

If bicompatibles count, then Popful Mail is one of the very best as an actual game, plus it has very nice aesthetics all round. If you're not a fighting fan, then I'd rate Popful Mail the best by far.

I'll look it up.

[awack]

Quote from: The Old Rover on Today at 06:16:04 PM
Such feats are amazingly simple when you have such a huge memory pool to utilize. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that they look awesome.

Absolutely, the neo-geo fighters, kabuki itouryodan and its great animation, mad stalker with its large, well animated, fast moving sprites but then you look at strider and instead of saying to yourself, holy hell you say, what the well, sure, in some ways its better than the genesis port but you cant help but think that it should have been so much better.

[SignOfZeta]

Sapphire might be a little overhyped, but it really is a rock-solid game overall and certainly worthy of much of the praise it gets.

Yes, its very nice. Clearly the #1 ACD but...it could have been better. The art direction in Sapphire is just all over the place. I realize that since time travel is part of the plot that this sort of thing is inherent, but it could still be half as coherent as it is technically impressive. Also the sound effects are annoying and loud. The music seems nice but its quieter than the music in, say, LoT, so I can't enjoy it as much over the shitty sound effects.

Its a nice game, but I really think both Gate of Thunder and Lords/Winds of Thunder are very much better. Also there are quite a few SCD shooters I keep hearing are great that I've never had a chance to play that are also probably better.

Fatal Fury Special is also very nice, but now that the MVS cart can be had for $10 its not very relevant. The whole point of console ports of Neo Geo games was that you could afford them, so now all the Neo Geo ports, as amazing as they are, are pointless.

[GUTS]

Popful Mail isn't a very good game on Turbo CD, it's OK at most.  Sapphire should definitely be crowned the best arcade card, I don't know why it's even up for debate since everything else is old archaic fighting games or shit like Mad Stalker that just plain sucks.

[nodtveidt]

There may still be some games to come that challenge Sapphire's crown.

[Tatsujin]

but not within the ACD category

[nodtveidt]

I wouldn't have said it otherwise; of course it's in the ACD category!

[Tatsujin]

i mean, there's no game within the ACD category, which is able to come up challenging Sapphire

[nodtveidt]

We'll see about that...

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, knock yourself out buddy. Code away. Code away.

[shubibiman]

but it could still be half as coherent as it is technically impressive

I totally agree with that statement.

To me, Kabuki Itoryoudan is the best and most impressive ACD game. Still, I've never played Madou Monogatari so I couldn't tell about this one. Neogeo ports are really impressive, too (World Heroes 2 is the best port IMO) but as it has already been said, I'd rather play them on my AES system (which is better than the MVS, not t'echnically of course as they are the same thing but just because I like AES carts better).

Sapphire is of course very impressive but I hav eto say that sometimes, graphics are rather lame (like this kind of lion boss in stage 2).

Mad Stalker is ok but too repetitive.