PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[Joe Redifer]

I always thought EWJ looked "fat" on the SNES version, but that was just because of the lower resolution of the SNES.

[guyjin]

Those were great shots.  Some of those Rondo sprites were definitely seemed to pop up later in SOTN.

No doubt that SOTN is better looking, but Rondo sure did age well for a game on an 8-bit system!

WHAT?!

How dare you say such a foolish thing. Did you not see those eye-slicing jagged lines? nasty stuff. 
The PCE does not feature jagged jaggies, and is therefore better.

[Joe Redifer]

True, the PCE features smoooooth jaggies! 

[Arkhan]

8 bit!?!?!

its 16!

O_O

 

lol



Yeah the sprites in rondo look smoother.  SOTN has all those PSX sprite doodling swirly things going on where it looks like a 10x zoom of a 16x16 sprite lol.  Too much jigglejaggle

[spenoza]

Is jigglejaggle a technical term? Is that why the Firefox spell checker is flagging it?  ; )

Yeah, Dracula X is truly an impressive game, especially when compared to the SNES Dracula X.

[Tatsujin]

especially when compared to the SNES Dracula X.

that game is the biggest disapointment in whole history of all dracula games!

[awack]

Zero Wing

                     pce                                                    genesis

[boogiecat]

As usual the PC Engine version of that game is the superior of the two..The Mega Drive version had its strong points also..

[ceti alpha]

As usual the PC Engine version of that game is the superior of the two..The Mega Drive version had its strong points also..

I agree. It's not a blow out, but the colouring on the PCE port definitely brings it ahead on this one.

[Tatsujin]

again here. the sad thing is that the pce missing parallax and shows more flickers. but on the pure visual comparison, they're most equal.

[termis]

Wow, the Genny EWJ looks horrible with all the dithering (almost reminds of the old-school EGA Sierra games).  For any of you that have the RGB mod on the genesis the genesis, do you actually see all the dithering?  And if so, does that tend to dilute the benefit of the bright & clear color factor a bit?

As for Zer Wing, it's about 60/40 for me (edge: PCE) on this one.  The parallax might bring the edge back to the Genny's court if I saw it in action.

[Necromancer]

As for Zer Wing, it's about 60/40 for me (edge: PCE) on this one.  The parallax might bring the edge back to the Genny's court if I saw it in action.

Same here.  I'd like to see the 'chicken wire' area in action, 'cause it looks like total poo in that screen shot.  Of course, I could overlook that just to see "All your base are belong to us" in action.

[Arkhan]

Neither looks superior in that one... they both have enough ups and downs to be on par with each other.

[sunteam_paul]

Hmm it's 50/50 for me, but I do prefer the music on the Mega Drive version compared to the PCE CD tunes.

[Tom]

Wow, the Genny EWJ looks horrible with all the dithering (almost reminds of the old-school EGA Sierra games).  For any of you that have the RGB mod on the genesis the genesis, do you actually see all the dithering?  And if so, does that tend to dilute the benefit of the bright & clear color factor a bit?

 Yup. You can see the dithering just fine with RGB out.

As for Zer Wing, it's about 60/40 for me (edge: PCE) on this one.  The parallax might bring the edge back to the Genny's court if I saw it in action.

 IIRC, the PCE version does have some parallax. But I give the edge to the PCE version if only for the fact that it's a 64k RAM CD game, not SCD.