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    Vampire Darkstalkers Collection

    Can't see a thread for this, so I thought I'd post a few quick impressions, as I got the game from Play Asia today.

    The pack contains ports of the Vampire/Darkstalkers arcade machines Vampire, Vampire Hunter and Vampire Savior, as well as the rejigged Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Savior 2 machines. The games seem well converted and are, I assume, pretty much arcade perfect. In addition to the arcade mode, each game gets a versus mode and a fairly good training mode, too, and there are full command lists available in-game for each character.

    As with the Street Fighter 3 and Hyper Street Fighter PS2 conversions, the display is hi resolution and interlaced with the game scaled up to fit, rather than preserving the original non-interlaced low resolution. You get various screen positioning and scaling options, plus you can toggle filtering on and off and adjust the flicker filter, so it's not too hard to find a decent compromise between pixelation and blurriness.

    There seems to be a few unlockables in the game. For one, there's an art gallery with getting on for 200 images in it, more than half of which are initially locked. The manual also shows a "secret game" option, which looks to be a version of the game with all the characters in, but I could be wrong. There also appears to be a hidden character called "Dee" in the game.

    Game's in English for the most part, but the story text is in Japanese. Although there's a Secret Option menu for each game, there doesn't seem to be a way to switch to English, as you could with the Saturn Vampire Savior.

    All in all, as long as you don't object to the resolution/scaling thing there's not much to fault with this collection as far as I can tell. A great set of games, well converted to the PS2.

    Street Fighter Alpha Collection next please, Capcom. And stick SF3 1 and 2 on it as well.

    #2
    Originally posted by JamesS
    Street Fighter Alpha Collection next please, Capcom. And stick SF3 1 and 2 on it as well.
    Capcom are on a bit of a retro flex atm, I'd wager that a SFA collection will be out in the near future, it is a more popular franchise than the Vampire series afaik so it makes sense to release it. The Vampire collection is just them testing the water

    With regards to SF3 NG and DI, I don't hold out much hope for them, DI is my favourite of the SF3 series as well

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      #3
      Is this in anyway similar to the Dreamcast collection that was released?

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        #4
        IIRC, the DC game was basically Vampire Savior but with all the characters available, and with play modes to emulate the mechanics of the older games in the series?

        This pack has all of the arcade games separately, in their original forms. It also has a special version of VS that contains all the characters, much like the DC game, plus a new character that they've created for this compilation.

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          #5
          Thanks for that dude, sounds really excellent.

          Do fancy this a bit since I've been enjoying Capcom Fighting Jam today.

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