I'm one of those sic pups who finds Sonic CD to be absolutely atrocious (hate the levels, hate the segments/loading for the time travel stuff, hate the bonus levels, etc.) I'm also one of those who think Vampire's Kiss (or Dracula XX/whatever if you want) isn't all bad, and who also think Rondo of Blood is horribly overrated in the same forbidden fruit type of way that Sonic CD has somehow achieved "greatest game on earth, but I'm not sure if I've even played it"-status (and that the PSP remake is absolutely awful in many ways except from its launch price vs atrocious content.) Aaaaanyway, to not derail this into hatred; When it comes to the young days of CD-ROM... talkies and CD-DA enhanced audio tracks and stuff didn't really wow me much. They were a cool and nice gesture and stuff. Anyway, this little jingle is what crawls in the back of my mind everytime someone tries to zap me back in time to the days of when I got my first "state of the art" computer into the household (a mighty 486DX66 w/8mb ram, later upgraded to 16mb, a Sound Blaster card and a 2x CD-ROM... what a beast she was!)
Yeah You know there aren't even any pits in Sonic CD? I sorta agree on the Drac X side SORT OF. Rondo of Blood is EPIC with the secret 2nd route you kinda need a map to find and the boss rush just before the final full stage. Plus the scope of the game and Maria being Playable (once you find her) XX isn't horrible. Just suffers KOF XII syndrome, it seems rushed and unfinished
I agree with the thought here. But the color problem actually could have been avoided in the stock hardware if Sega didn't make such poor hardware design decisions. The Sega CD should have included a new VDP similar to the 32X having a new VDP. But if they did they would need to cut some of that other silly shit they stuffed into the Sega CD to make it cost an arm and a leg.
I loved all the 2D sonics. Longed to play Sonic CD but parents never would get me a mega CD (can you blame them?) Manged to finally emulate it (with the JP soundtrack, through a stereo, with a controller) and I think its monkey shit.
OK I just Beat Dracula X (94% Just have to rescue the girl in the clock tower I think) SO...what do I play next?
Winds of Thunder and Gate of Thunder, I played both for a few minutes. Wait is Gate and lords the same game? I forget But yeah I've played both Of thunders for a few minutes.
No, Winds of Thunder is the Japanese version of Lords of Thunder, Gate of Thunder is the predecessor, which doesn't have a lot in common with Lords besides both being horizontal shooters...a couple of minutes? Oh come on! :lol:
I bet we're talking about emulation here, you can't expect people playing games they didn't need to pay the big bucks on. Like "oh yeah I luv Sapphire, Drac X, Kaze Kiri,... only idiots buy it though, look man, I play it from my harddisk on a full HD PC screen and it looks badass, fag! I so cool!" :lol:;-) Sorry, I'm just so allergic against this "ain't Gate of Thunder the same as Lords of Thunder?"-confusion and then this "both a couple of minutes" thing. Also it's late, ugh OH:
WoT and GoT were my two most played games when I had a Duo-R; they're both totally awsome shooters. My biggest disappointment ever though is the Neo Geo CD. I mean, seriously SNK, WTF? I'd love to have a Front Loader along with KoF '94 - '03, all the Slugs, MotW, Blazing Star... and who knows what else may have eventually graced the system too. Had the machine actually been designed correctly, I think the Neo Geo scene would be a lot different to what it is now (for the better) and there would have been a much healthier homebrew scene.
What wowed me was the introduction to the Turbografx-16 w/ CD-ROM and copy of this: In 1991, I traded around 30 NES games to help cover the cost of the Turbo CD peripheral and a copy of Ys Book 1&2. You should've seen me back then. I thought it couldn't get any better than this :lol: Months later I would be introduced to PC Engine CD-ROM2 / Super CD games at a local buy or rent domestic / import video game store. I saw the future of CD-ROM games way back then despite the load times. It wasn't until I was really blown away by this CD machine: with a copy of Kileak The Blood / DNA Imperative :lol:
8-year-old-me could get that yard-sale CD-ROM drive to work on the 486... I got it to load the drivers that one time (after reading up on it), but then it ate shit when I got into Windows. So we didn't have proper CD-ROM anything until the next computer, which was a Pentium III. I think slightly after, we finally got a Playstation. And that was the bee's knees for a very long time. "OMFG" (paraphrased) - me seeing FFVII FMVs for the first time. As for Lords of Thunder: I got it relatively cheap for Sega CD about 6 months ago. I wasn't fully aware it was a decently expensive game, but I had heard the name before (this was bought locally). No 'effing way I would have been able to play it for only "a few minutes" unless someone shot me in the face after those minutes were completed.
The sad thing is the Sega CD version of Lords of Thunder suffers from the Genesis's limited palette and even more annoying for some retarded reason they fucked with the audio tracks making the Sega CD version not sound as pleasant as the TG16 version. Still a wonderful game, but it's best played on the PC-Engine/TG16. I don't think that the NeoGeo CD was marketed to even succeed anyway. I imagine it was very expensive too. And really there was no need for a NeoGeo only CD-ROM system. The Sega Saturn and Playstation should have been able to handle good ports of them. Sega Saturn actually could have, Playstation was pathetic though. If you ever play Metal Slug X on PS1 it will make you sad.
yeah once I got the PCE Iso I deleted the Sega CD ISO. I jsut got my mitts on the newest version of Magic Engine too. SWEET I don't have to change my laptop resolution to get things to right right now.
Just throwing this out there, I enjoyed playing Lords of Thunder on my PC-Engine DUO far more than I did on any emulator. Unfortunately I sold my DUO cause for a time I didn't have anything other than a LCD where it looked like shit.
I would too if I A had room for another console and B could afford all the games. BUT the hires filters in Magic Engine DO make the games prettier.
yeah. they used to use a lot of dithering in the MCD version. you won't recognize this much when playing via AV cable, but on S-vid or RGB, the differences are quite huge. also it's incomprehensible why they had changed the already perfect T's Music!!
Well fixing it on the mega CD is easy replace the song tracks and reburn it or play in emulator whichever..
Well sometimes things can be enhanced by changing music tracks in an ISO for example the Mega/Sega CD Fatal Fury Special just had the neo geo tracks but the ISO had those tracks as MP3s. I replaced those songs with arranged ones. I'm still figuring out what to do with Samurai Shodown CD and Final Fight CD.
