Battle of the Ports

Sticking with the captain theme we have Captain Silver by Data East on this week's Battle of the Ports.

 

Power Instinct or Gōketsuji Ichizoku as it was originally called in Japan is one of the many 1 on 1 fighters that tried to cash in on the Street Fighter franchise but unlike many this has a lot of interesting and original ideas. In fact it was so popular in Japan that it went on to have 4 follow ups with the last appearing on the Neo Geo by Noise Factory.

Let's take a look at the original and it's two ports.

 

A little early this week since I'll be in work tomorrow.
Battle of the Ports - Crypt Killer

 

About the issues you are having with running (and I apologize if I am repeating myself or what someone else said) Windows 95 ports, I would recommend the use of a Virtual Machine. If you're wondering, it is emulating Windows in a closed environment, and is quite useful when you're trying to get old software to run. If you want more help with it, just ask. It would be able to get these games running with little to no issue.

 

Ah, Crypt Killer. Such a terrible game. If you think the graphics are bad, just imagine "playing" it on a 50" screen! http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2167

And the hardware being base on the PS1 is no excuse, just look what Namco was able to do with it till 1998.

Anyway, one of the arcades i used to go had that big machine . Even on weekends, when it was full, most people barely had any interest to play it. Some would play one credit and already realize how unfair and bad overall it was.

 

The problem with virtual machine is that I still need an old version of Windows. Something I sadly don't have.

It sure is an ugly game. God knows why they went with the sprite option over polygons.

 

I'd think buying a copy of windows 95 or something of that sort wouldn't cost that much, but then again, I can always be mistaken. Not saying you have to, just saying that if you can find an installation disc with product key that works at Hard-Off or Book-Off (I don't know which store would carry it if at all), it could help the show. Compatibility Mode isn't always the nicest to these games, and if I'm not mistaken, 95 is a 16-bit architecture, or maybe it's 32-bit... but otherwise, it wasn't designed to work with something that is 64-bit, which is the reason why old games don't work on 64-bit Windows.

 

I this video I was actually running the game on a laptop with 32bit windows 7. I did want to use my emulation machine originally but that's the one with the 64bit OS.

 

I know you were using 32bit, you had mentioned it in the video that it wasn't compatible with 64bit. It's partly the way that the game was built is the reason why it doesn't work on modern systems, since more ram could mean less compatibility (don't quote me on that). I was just making a recommendation in case you can ever manage to find old Windows versions, as it could help improve the show.

 

The game that excited many teenage boys back in the early 2000's. Dead or Alive 2 on this week's Battle of the Ports 2.

 

Time to pump yourself up and get ripped as we head out on a macho killing spreed with Dynamite Duke.

 

Was actually surprised this didn't received more ports, specially to european computers.

I don't think i ever seen this on the arcades, only remember the terrible western cover.

Anyway, the MegaDrive port is good for the time and the Master System one managed to capture the gameplay style. Too bad Sega messed with the difficulty.

 

Yeah, I'm also very surprised by the lack of European home computer ports. It's just the game you'd expect to see on those machines.

 

Great video as always. Kind of makes me want to pick up the MS port. It's not bad looking for a MS game.

 

Indeed. It's not bad at all. I bet it's not cheap these days though

 

Nah, checking ebay the euro copy goes for practically nothing. Most MS games are not worth a lot. Only a small handful of USA releases go for the near $100 price tag but other then that the rest are still pretty cheap.

 

Nice to see somewhere in the world Master System games are still cheap. In Japan they're pretty expensive.

 

Yeah, It's made being a late joiner/collector of MS (since I never had one as a kid) is much easier on the wallet. Also it's kind of crazy how more expensive the MS stuff in japan has gotten. I still want a SM3 one day.

 

A game I really don't care for but it was requested many times so here it is

 

A true classic this week with Bomb Jack