Snatcher for Sega CD

[Keranu]

I want to play those Cobra digital comic adventures for PCE, but since you said there is a Sega CD one (which should be in English), I better check that one out so I can understand it.

[Black Tiger]

I want to play those Cobra digital comic adventures for PCE, but since you said there is a Sega CD one (which should be in English), I better check that one out so I can understand it.

The Sega CD version is an awesome port of Cobra II PCE and has some of the best writing and voice acting in an english game. Plus lots of appropiate swearing(very funny and entertaining).

It also appears to be a direct adaptation of one of the original comics that I've seen.

[Keranu]

K3wl.

[esteban]

Don't forget It Came From the Desert! That never made it to Japan either

Though I agree, Order of the Griffon is a much, much better game

[TJ]

Cobra for SegaCD is okay, but the pace is extremely slow compared to Snatcher. Still, it's a great piece to have in your collection because you don't see too many of them, and it's one of the earliest US console games I can remember that features both profanity and boobs. =)

The cool thing about SegaCD Snatcher being US-exclusive is that there are some parts of the game that only we got, such as...

*SPOILER ALERT!*
...the Outer Heaven club, where all the patrons are Konami game characters like Goemon, Simon Belmont, and Sparkster (as opposed to the PCE version where they're all sci-fi characters like the Giger Alien, Kamen Rider, Guyver, etc); and the ending, when Metal Gear MkII is rebuilt as a Genesis/SegaCD combo unit.
*END SPOILER ALERT!*

I've played through my SegaCD Snatcher I dunno how many times, I love that game the most...but incidentally, I don't have the PCE version, although I do have the Snatcher Pilot Disk and a kickass Japanese guidebook/fan book for PCE Snatcher. Gotta get around to adding the actual game to my collection I guess.

[Black Tiger]

Cobra for SegaCD is okay, but the pace is extremely slow compared to Snatcher. Still, it's a great piece to have in your collection because you don't see too many of them, and it's one of the earliest US console games I can remember that features both profanity and boobs. =)

The cool thing about SegaCD Snatcher being US-exclusive is that there are some parts of the game that only we got, such as...

*SPOILER ALERT!*
...the Outer Heaven club, where all the patrons are Konami game characters like Goemon, Simon Belmont, and Sparkster (as opposed to the PCE version where they're all sci-fi characters like the Giger Alien, Kamen Rider, Guyver, etc); and the ending, when Metal Gear MkII is rebuilt as a Genesis/SegaCD combo unit.
*END SPOILER ALERT!*

I've played through my SegaCD Snatcher I dunno how many times, I love that game the most...but incidentally, I don't have the PCE version, although I do have the Snatcher Pilot Disk and a kickass Japanese guidebook/fan book for PCE Snatcher. Gotta get around to adding the actual game to my collection I guess.

Snatcher's pace is only faster if you know what to do. You can get stuck(like I did for years) if you don't know what to do in one area while several are open to you.

Since Cobra's more straight forward, once you get stuck, choosing every command available in each room is all that it takes to move on.

Snatcher PCE and Sega CD have many difference, too many to list here. One of the main difference is a bunch of extra Snatcher battles at the end of the Sega CD version. The last chapter in the PCE version is 75% cinemas.

[Ninja Spirit]

I own Snatcher for Sega CD and Japanese Sega Saturn. What exactly is the Pilot Disk anyway? Is it like some "omake" kind of stuff?

and the ending, when Metal Gear MkII is rebuilt as a Genesis/SegaCD combo unit.
*END SPOILER ALERT!*

Metal Gear's new look is different for the ending for each version. Depending on what version it is, Metal Gear MkII will be in the form of its corresponding console.

[TJ]

I own Snatcher for Sega CD and Japanese Sega Saturn. What exactly is the Pilot Disk anyway? Is it like some "omake" kind of stuff?

Yeah basically. It's got a "trailer" for the game that consists of a bunch of dialog scenes and cutscenes, a demo where you can play through the first portion of the game, character profiles with artwork and voiceovers, a few music tracks, and an interview with some Konami people where they show digitized pictures of them with voiceover.

Metal Gear's new look is different for the ending for each version. Depending on what version it is, Metal Gear MkII will be in the form of its corresponding console.

I figured as much.

[Keranu]

Don't forget It Came From the Desert! That never made it to Japan either

It didn't? I didn't know that, but I guess it easily makes sense since it's American and they probably didn't want to bother dubbing it because no one out there would probably give a shit about the game, haha. I'm still probably it's number one fan!

Snatcher PCE and Sega CD have many difference, too many to list here. One of the main difference is a bunch of extra Snatcher battles at the end of the Sega CD version. The last chapter in the PCE version is 75% cinemas.

K3wl, I didn't know that as well. So the last chapter in the PCE version has cinemas that weren't shown in the Sega CD version? Are they any cool? I haven't played the PCE SCD version, but I want to give it a go, mainly for the music, pilot disc, and to watch out for any differences (like the porn tape thing).

[Black Tiger]

Snatcher PCE and Sega CD have many difference, too many to list here. One of the main difference is a bunch of extra Snatcher battles at the end of the Sega CD version. The last chapter in the PCE version is 75% cinemas.

K3wl, I didn't know that as well. So the last chapter in the PCE version has cinemas that weren't shown in the Sega CD version? Are they any cool? I haven't played the PCE SCD version, but I want to give it a go, mainly for the music, pilot disc, and to watch out for any differences (like the porn tape thing).

No, the last chapter of the PCE version pretty much has you sitting back and watching an hour and a half of cinemas after a few moves. The Sega-CD version adds a couple fights before the long ending.

I've played the PCE game through several times and never found the robot porno, but I've also never used a walkthrough either, so someone might have pointed it out. But I think that there's only an english walkthrough for the Sega CD game.

The Pilot Disc has the original colors of most of the early screenshots of the game before they got changed(like the city's switch from orange to green).

The Sega CD version has a lot of the graphics either redrawn or touched up(ie: wrinkles in the naked 13 year olds towel). But not always for the better. The PSX & Saturn versions are mostly based on the Sega CD revisions of the overall art(plus added blurred out censorship!).

Snatcher uses mostly PSG music in interactive areas, so thats a noticible difference to the Genesis' system generated music in the same places.

Again, there's so much more between the different version, I could pretty much go on about every scene in the game.

...like when Gillian jumps out of his runaway car at the last second before it blows and grabs onto the back end of Random Hagile's motorcycle in one version(I believe PCE) and winds up running behind with his tie caught in the bike like an idiot in the other version.

[Keranu]

...like when Gillian jumps out of his runaway car at the last second before it blows and grabs onto the back end of Random Hagile's motorcycle in one version(I believe PCE) and winds up running behind with his tie caught in the bike like an idiot in the other version.

I don't think that happened in the Sega CD version, so it's probably the PCE version that does that.

Also is there anyone here that prefers the PSG music of the PCE version compared to the Genesis? I might prefer the PCE's music since I generally love PCE'S PSG way more than Genesis' FM.

[Black Tiger]

...like when Gillian jumps out of his runaway car at the last second before it blows and grabs onto the back end of Random Hagile's motorcycle in one version(I believe PCE) and winds up running behind with his tie caught in the bike like an idiot in the other version.

I don't think that happened in the Sega CD version, so it's probably the PCE version that does that.

Also is there anyone here that prefers the PSG music of the PCE version compared to the Genesis? I might prefer the PCE's music since I generally love PCE'S PSG way more than Genesis' FM.

Yeah I love the PCE music and although I didn't hate the Genesis music, it didn't have the same affect on me.

Of course, I played the Sega CD game years later and it wasn't as big an impact overall as it was playing the PCE version during the(relatively) young days of the Super CD.

[TR0N]

Btw yall if ya need a, Snatcher site that compares each version try this.

http://community-2.webtv.net/LiquidSnake/ThePolicenauts0/page2.html

[FM-77]

Hey I just realized, did we ACTUALLY score a point against Japan on Sega CD Snatcher?

THERE IS NO MEGA CD VERSION  

Not sure if you're serious or not, but there is a Mega-CD version all right. Maybe not a Japanese version, but there isa PAL version of Snatcher. And there's no "Sega CD" in Europe. Only Mega-CD.  

[Black Tiger]

Hey I just realized, did we ACTUALLY score a point against Japan on Sega CD Snatcher?

THERE IS NO MEGA CD VERSION  

Not sure if you're serious or not, but there is a Mega-CD version all right. Maybe not a Japanese version, but there isa PAL version of Snatcher. And there's no "Sega CD" in Europe. Only Mega-CD.  

Yeah, I think thats why he mentioned Japan.

But, there is also the 'asian'(not Japan) market, which looks official for the Mega-CD generation. I know that Sega puts out hardware for the 'Asia' region.

Lords Of Thunder was released for this market on what is called Mega-CD there, but it never came out in Japan.

I say this of course, from what I've seen in auctions over the years. Asian sellers selling Mega-CD games whose packaging resembles the U.K. more than JP, but they claim that it'll only run on JP region hardware.

I've owned an Asian Sega Saturn system or two, so I know that there was real hardware released there.

Of course, technically, the Turbografx-16 was released in an Asian country(Korea? Singapore?) and we never see that stuff for sale on the secondary market.