Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 I found that where they may have lost something minor in translation, they often gained something unique as well. More levels in Golden Axe, scrolling playfields in Altered Beast, tweaked gameplay in most, etc. With a 14mhz modded system some of that missing smoothness of scaling and speed is brought back to many of those ports. Sega really brought it home with the two player coop fighting games and Capcom and Konami Arcade ports. The Golden Axe stuff and Bare Knuckle games are really fun and exclusive. Shinobi sequels were excellent and with a Power Base Converter you could get all of the Joe Musashi stuff up until Shin Shinobiden. Although, you did say "other than Sega". I really like playing Smash TV on my cabinet with two arcade joysticks. TMNT is extremely well done. I wished they would have kept a lot of the level design in Toki as it just looks like a lot of recycled background chunks in 'Going Ape Spit". The game plays well, though. Sailor Moon has some pretty big reductions in color and level design ,but is cute and fun. Williams and Arcade classics carts are really good in my opinion. Forgot mentioning Hyperstone Heist. That is a great one! When I was younger I remember seeing the Toki game and I didn't look too closely, but I literally thought it was "Toki Going Apeshit" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Snow Bros. on Genesis is a really good port of the original arcade game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintendolover0620 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 All the Mortal Kombat games are good on the Genesis. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_rodder Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 If you pick-up or already own a 32x, the ports of Afterburner and Space Harrier are well done. Not yet mentioned, add to your list Two Crude Dudes Virtua Racing was very good on the 32x also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Virtua Racing was very good on the 32x also. Yeah and for the regular Genesis too. I'd say there are more good to great ports of arcade games on the Genesis than not. Really is a great system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 For me the Genesis is second only to the Atari 2600 when it comes to my favorite systems for arcade and arcade-style games. Many people have already mentioned the Golden Axe and Mortal Kombat series, and the original MK on the Genesis has always been (and probably always will be) my favorite Mortal Kombat game on any system. Mortal Kombat II is loads of fun too, but at this point I'm just getting too old and my reflexes/memorization abilities aren't quite up to the challenge of the later and more combo focused MK3 and Ultimate MK3. As a kid I always loved the Mortal Kombat series and never cared for Street Fighter very much, but these days I do have a lot of appreciation for Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition on the Genesis too. Samurai Shodown is great as well, aside from a bit of slowdown when you're playing with or fighting against characters with animal companions. Fighting games aside, I think my favorite arcade ports on the Genesis are probably Raiden Trad and Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi. Neither are direct arcade ports and both were revamped a bit for their home console release, but they each just ooze style and awesomeness in typical Genesis fashion. The dog in Shadow Dancer has to be one of the coolest characters to ever grace a video game, and don't even get me started on the music in Raiden Trad! It's just... well, listen for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txnVM5xL004 That is the sound of 100% pure unadulterated Genesis awesomeness. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Raiden Trad ... Neither are direct arcade ports and both were revamped a bit for their home console release, but they each just ooze style and awesomeness in typical Genesis fashion. By "revamped" you mean severely downgraded, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 By "revamped" you mean severely downgraded, right? Honestly I wouldn't know, since I have never played the original arcade versions myself. What I do know though is that the Genesis releases are both tons of fun to play and great games in their own right. They may not be the most accurate arcade conversions in the world, but they're still my favorites on the Genesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thekng123 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) power base converter or power base mini + vigilante, r-type, and bubble bobble Edited July 24, 2015 by Thekng123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianC Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Also, not arcade ports but "sequels" that are really good are Space Invaders 91 and Ultimate Qix. As strange as this sounds, Ultimate Qix actually is an arcade port. The original name of the game is Volfied and it plays very similar to the arcade version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Gamer Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 good ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnT1KoJ09A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) Not very good imo. Very sloppy port, totally rushed graphics not using the colors well. Edited August 17, 2015 by 108 Stars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 power base converter or power base mini + vigilante, r-type, and bubble bobble I'd add Rampage too, best home version from that era IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I'd add Rampage too, best home version from that era IMO. I didn't know Bubble Bobble came out for SMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I didn't know Bubble Bobble came out for SMS. It did, and it is a great version. Unfortunately rumor has it the European version has a bug that prevents you from reaching the end. I can not 100% confirm this as relieable though. The Brazilian version is said to have this fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 The SMS has a lot of games you wouldn't believe, when you look at the European and Brazilian releases. Even Mortal Kombat got an official SMS release. And II. And 3! I can say Bubble Bobble is at least as good on the SMS as on the NES, though it doesn't quite sound as good. The extra range of the NES's triangle-wave channel makes a lot of difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 It did, and it is a great version. Unfortunately rumor has it the European version has a bug that prevents you from reaching the end. I can not 100% confirm this as relieable though. The Brazilian version is said to have this fixed. This bug? http://www.smspower.org/forums/13537-ProblemWithBubbleBobbleROM Sounds like it was an emulator issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I know many might disagree with me, but I really liked the Genesis ports of the two Data East arcade games "Midnight Resistance" and "Captain America and the Avengers". The former lost a bit (single player-only, and many comprimises to make up for the lack of rotary stick) while getting an even better version of the soundtrack while the latter (only two-player) just seemed like a really fun port of the arcade game to me (and far more tolerable than the SNES port, music-wise). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 i can really only judge on my nostalgic memories but i thought the punisher was awesome it was vibrant and smooth on my genesis i also liked paperboy at the time most arcade games were either tournament fighters or beat up the same guys while walking down the street road blasters is good i play the heck out of it on my lynx it and rampage too bad there wasnt a genesis version of rampage it jumped a generation then came out on ps1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Stars Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 The issue with Punisher is not that it is a bad game in general, it is just a very sloppy port. I could improve the visuals a lot and get it closer to the arcade just by actually using more colors (the game does waste a lot of potential there) and reorganizing them. Sometimes things look even like it is a bug and colors were lost in some faulty graphics conversion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thekng123 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 as for the genesis i'd say rainbow islands, although it only came out on the megadrive in japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 If were talking in terms of arcade accurate as much as possible, many of the Namco and Atari arcade games that were released for the Genesis are very close like Burning Force and Roadblasters. Gauntlet 4 is basically the first Gauntlet with extra features and amazing music I might add. Rolling Thunder 2 is almost exactly like the arcade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Gauntlet IV I have, it's only IV in spirit if you play the non-arcade mode which has a quest setup and some other mode I forget. But if you do arcade mode it's a carbon copy of the original, very hard to tell it isn't being emulated or something if you just watched it for awhile it's that good. I've got Rainbow Islands too on a MD multicart (vintage) and i'd agree it's quite close, a good choice on that one. The added comment about some others from specific makers fits as I had Phelios in the past and it's very nicely done, wish I still did. I think Raiden would be another that seems pretty spot on, never did the arcade version but the old Windows95 game was an arcade port and it I did have and it looks/feels like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 I posted in this thread 8 years ago, but I have no new answers - Flicky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dire 51 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 The OP also said PC/Amiga ports, so I thought I'd chime in with a couple: Star Control (my go-to version of the original SC since it was released) Stormlord (unless no nude fairies are a dealbreaker, but there's a patch for that anyway 😂) Shadow of the Beast (Japanese version only, it received improvements over the Genesis version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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