PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[NightWolve]

Now that's a shooter!

[Mathius]

Now that's a shooter violent f*ck in the ass! 

[NightWolve]

Now that's a shooter violent f*ck in the ass! 

Well...that certainly paints a *much* different picture than what I had in mind, Matt, but s'all good! 

[Black Tiger]

I'd forgotten that Tatsujin does have a little bit of "real" parallax in the arcade version, but the Genesis version doesn't for some reason.

[Mathius]

Now that's a shooter violent f*ck in the ass! 

Well...that certainly paints a *much* different picture than what I had in mind, Matt, but s'all good! 

I'm lucky to get passed the first level boss in that version haha

I'd forgotten that Tatsujin does have a little bit of "real" parallax in the arcade version, but the Genesis version doesn't for some reason.

The one thing I did give the PCE version props for, other than the best rendition of those tunes in any version, is they kept the little planets dotting the star field in places. I love little details like that. It always confused me as to why the MD version didn't have them. Probably a deadline issue.

[Digi.k]

Beraboh Man /Bravoman

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[Black Tiger]

The clouds in the sky scroll at different speeds, adding a greater illusion of depth in the PCE version.

The underwater scene has more "scrolls" in the PCE version, for what it's worth.

Still weird how they went with such different colors, as though they were too used to working on Famicom games or something.

[shubibiman]

I've always thought Namcot were lazy when it came to porting their own game to the PCE. And yeah, it often looks like they considered the PCE as just a powered-up Famicom. They could have done so much better. When you see how Irem managed to port their games, it's a completely different story.

[Digi.k]

Raiden arcade vs hucard

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[esteban]

Awe.

Some.

[NightWolve]

Good ole Raiden, a reason to fire up the MAME emulator.

[Digi.k]

Namco you really should have pushed the pce further for this release... I so wanted this to be that 6-8mbit Namco game....Although I was NOT disappointed with the pce's interpretation of the music here.

Dragon Saber
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[ccovell]

Namco and Taito were a little bit lazy in playing to the PCE's strengths, graphic fidelity being one of them.  You have to forgive Namco a little bit, though, as their system 2 arcade hardware (Splatterhouse, Dragon Saber, Ordyne, Bravoman...) had 8 bit-per-pixel (256-colour) graphic tiles, when most other hardware at the time (PCE, Genesis, SNES, Neo-Geo, CPS-1, Sega Arcade units) used 4bpp (16-colour) tiles.  They're obviously unportably lush.

[Digi.k]

Strider  Arcade VS PCE

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[touko]

Strider really needs a SGX version ;-)