PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[Black Tiger]

  This is the kind of stuff that is brought up every time people matter of factly state that the SNES version is the exact same, only with better graphics and more stages.

The PC Engine version also doesn't slow to a crawl in the same spots as the SNES version, even though it tosses around more sprites/action.

[SignOfZeta]

It always seems like there more room for animation in PCE games, even the HuCARD ones.

[Digi.k]

Last bit of Parodius Da!  Hot Lips

PCE


arcade


SNES


Gonna sleep bbl

[Digi.k]

Daimakaimura - stage 1 guardian

Genesis


Supergrafx


stage 2 - guardian

Genesis


supergrafx



Stage 3 guardian

Genesis


Supergrafx

[esteban]

X 1,000

[Black Tiger]

These kinds of animated screenshots are where PC Engine games are going to start looking less impressive when you see everything, including parallax or the lack thereof.

Those Daimakaimura pics are the perfect example.

[shubibiman]

Lack of parallax in Daimakaimura SGX ? Are you sure ?

Gradius 2

Arcade :



PCE :

[geise]

Gradius 2 is so good on the pc-e.  Digi.k, thanks for all those comparison pics.  I love looking at this stuff.

[Black Tiger]

Lack of parallax in Daimakaimura SGX ? Are you sure ?

Cherry picking spots where one version has parallax when the other doesn't is going to lead to a lot of examples that don't favor the PC Engine.

[Digi.k]

forgotten Worlds,  the layered scrolling on the genesis tho is awesome!  if only they were able to put that in the pce version....


pce



Genesis


pce



Genesis


pce



genesis

[Digi.k]

cotton

arcade


pce


arcade


pce


EDIT

Gradius II

Arcade


PCE

[Digi.k]

parodius da!

Parodius Da is a strange kettle.  It's a competent piece of software but not all the levels feature layered scrolling but where there is background layers.....Is the pc engine here displaying more layers of scrolling than it's daddy on certain levels like this graveyard one?

arcade


pce

[Digi.k]

ok this gonna be the last gifs as I think I am overkilling it.

parodius Da!

arcade


pce (again is the pce version here displaying more layers of pink cloud)?

[Black Tiger]

I've always believed that Parodius Da! started out as a PC Engine project and perhaps like other Konami releases, got held back to support Nintendo's launch of the Super Famicom. The differences don't make sense otherwise. There was no reason to redraw some of the artwork to make it cruder or even just different and some of the missing parallax only makes sense if it didn't already exist in a previous version.

Stuff like these pics are the most damning evidence. Why design a background with tiles in repeating strips without scrolling like that, unless it was originally catering to the PC Engine? Why have a parallax layer scrolling verically but not horizontally over the layer behind it, unless it was designed with the PCE in mind.

Just the same, why release Gradius on a tiny 2 meg HuCard in '92 and cut some of the content and samples?

[Otaking]

I'd "forgotten" how much better the PC Engine Forgotten Worlds is compared to the Mega Drive version.