PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[nat]

I still haven't ever played Space Megaforce.  That's a game I'd like to pic up if I can find it.

Don't get too excited. Imagine Blazing Lazers, slowed to a crawl, with levels twice as long. The game plods, and I mean PLODS along.

[Black Tiger]

Wait, the Xanadu games are sequels to Legacy of the Wizard for the NES? Awesome!

Yeah and Sorcerian is part of the series too!

You got Dragon Slayer I, Romancia, Xanadu, Drasle Family (LotW), Sorcerian, and then all the legend of heroes / xanadu confusion.

And as I understand it, the Legend of Heroes series is independent of the Dragon Slayer: LoH/LoH: DS series.

[Joe Redifer]

Legend of Heroes cannot be independent of Legend of Heroes.  I am surprised that Ys isn't a friggin' Dragon Slayer game.  f*cking Christ!

[ceti alpha]

I still haven't ever played Space Megaforce.  That's a game I'd like to pic up if I can find it.

Don't get too excited. Imagine Blazing Lazers, slowed to a crawl, with levels twice as long. The game plods, and I mean PLODS along.

You paint quite the picture, nat. 

All I know is I need Spriggan.

[Tatsujin]

beside of the annoying bonus leves and the bit long general levels, super aleste is a actionfull shooter with having almost no rival on the SFC. some fancy use of mode-7 gives him some extra bonus.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Wait, the Xanadu games are sequels to Legacy of the Wizard for the NES? Awesome!

Yeah and Sorcerian is part of the series too!

You got Dragon Slayer I, Romancia, Xanadu, Drasle Family (LotW), Sorcerian, and then all the legend of heroes / xanadu confusion.

And as I understand it, the Legend of Heroes series is independent of the Dragon Slayer: LoH/LoH: DS series.

Here's how it goes, apparently, the director or producer of all of the DS games, had some stipulation that they be under the DS title, however alot of those games went on to be their own series in themselves.  The series under the DS label as I know it goes:
1-Dragon Slayer
2-Xanadu
3-Romancia
4-Drasle Family/Legacy of the Wizard
5-Sorcerian
6.1-Legend of Heroes 1
6.2-Legend of Heroes 2
7-Lord Monarch
8-Legend of Xanadu
9/Last of Dragon Slayer-Legend of Xanadu 2

Now Xanadu, Sorcerian, Legend of Heroes, & Lord Monarch all branched out into their own series.  For Legend of Heroes, starting with LOH3, none of those games have anything to do with the first 2, & so far, they're up to LOH7(coming out this year I believe), 3-5 are connected, 6 has 3 scenarios.  I think just plain Xanadu (besides having a sequal or 2) is also connected to Xanadu Next, but I'm not sure if it's connected to the LOX games.

Here's a wiki on it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Slayer_series

[blueraven]

Faxanadu for the NES is included also. Can't forget that one.

[Adol2009]

Knowledge of japanese is not required to play thru the game!  Also, it's technically called The Last of Dragon Slayer.  Not sure if that means, it's a part of Dragon Slayer 8, or if it litterally is 9, kinda of like how Legend of Heroes 1 & 2 together are aka Dragon Slayer 6.

There is
Dragon Slayer
Xanadu = Dragon Slayer 2
Romancia = Dragon Slayer 3 (IIRC)
Dragon Slayer 4
Sorcerian = Dragon Slayer 5
Eiyuu Densetsu/Legend of Heroes 1 = Dragon Slayer 6
Eiyuu Densetsu/Legend of Heroes 2 or Lord Monarch (depending of sources) = Dragon Slayer 7
Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu = Dragon Slayer 8 (clearly written as subtitle)

Then Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu 2 would be the 9th in the saga..

[Adol2009]

Faxanadu for the NES is included also. Can't forget that one.

Faxanadu is a great game,but you can consider it as a xanadu gaiden,not part of the saga.
I'd consider the same about Lord Monarch,since i saw sources considering ED2 as DS7 as well (i checked the SFC release,again,seems to be a soft coming out for the 10th anniversary of falcom,not specially made about the DS saga..?)
Anyway,there are many sources contradicting between themselves ^^

[Arkhan]

Legend of Heroes cannot be independent of Legend of Heroes.  I am surprised that Ys isn't a friggin' Dragon Slayer game.  f*cking Christ!

I got 3 Legend of Heroes games for PSP
lol

The DS series is the most confusingly awesome series of all time.

Lets pretend Ys is all a prequel to those games just for awesomeness sake

[Black Tiger]

I've got screen shots of pretty much everything for Panic Bomber, but I only have time to post these for now-


                                  PCE                                                                      SFC







EDIT: just managed to put these together before I'm done for the night. The SFC screens aren't matched perfectly, but it's all pretty much more of the same-

[ceti alpha]

Thanks again for the pics B_T. 

Well, I'm giving this one to the SFC. Except for the "Round 1/Map" screen, the SFC just looks better. It was also released a year later.

[awack]

Damn, i cant find my copy of Panic Bomberman, this is one i need to see in action.

[nat]

I disagree with Ceti-- I think the Duo version clearly takes the win here.

[Black Tiger]

Other than adding background artwork to the play area, everything is downgraded in the SFC version. It's not like many Genesis vs SNES ports where the increase in resolution comes with a big drop in color.

Still shots don't do either game justice, the PCE version is one of the highest quality productions for the system. Everything has nice little effects and animations. The title screen logo has multiple graphic effects each time it comes up, same with the "C 1994 Hudson Soft". The "Bomber" and "Hudson Soft" logos color cycle, the "Push! Run Button" jiggles around, while the background scrolls upward.

After pushing Run, the "letters" all fly across the screen individually. As you navigate between screens, they all rearrange and icons slide on and off the screen. In both versions the little Bomberman heads look around and react to the action.


Here are some shots from the arcade/Neo Geo version matched to the PCE version-









The "Continue?" logo in the PCE version color cycles. The Neo Geo version's music sounds similar to PCE PSG which is pretty cool.