Pretty sure the only difference with Final Fight Guy was the new invincibility power up and the trick where you can recharge your health meter on stage 5 by walking up and down the screen in front of the dog.
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The chap who did the speccy version of R-Type has written a free book about it! You can get it from his site here http://bizzley.com/
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Originally posted by nakamura View PostYeah. The millions of ports, the Mode 7, the vibrant colours. The machines were worlds apart.
MegaCD version for me, by the way. Colour pallet aside, it's by far the best home version. I even prefer playing it over the newer arcade perfect ports.Last edited by sj33; 08-09-2013, 22:11.
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Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33 View PostIn fairness, that doesn't really change the fact that the hardware was completely unrelated to the Snes.
MegaCD version for me, by the way. Colour pallet aside, it's by far the best home version. I even prefer playing it over the newer arcade perfect ports.Kept you waiting, huh?
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Just to further expand on the home ports, Bob Pape who did R-Type for the speccy also did Rampage
"When converting an arcade game to another system it helps to have the actual arcade machine there in front of you, something you thinkwould be totally obvious to most people but unfortunately Designmaker couldn't stretch to getting hold of a proper Rampage arcade machine which made mapping out the game a little difficult.
So in keeping with the Designmaker ethos of 'make do' Andrew and I met up at an amusement arcade in Swansea one evening with Kightley. The three of us played on a Rampage machine there for an hour or so, shovelling in coins for as long as we could. Designmaker couldn't even afford a video camera to film the screen - and I doubt if we'd be allowed to use one in the arcade - so I came up with a cunning plan.
I had a portable cassette recorder in a backpack with a microphone draped over my shoulder so I wouldn't need to hold it and every time a new screen appeared I'd try and describe how many buildings there were, any special features that appeared, what the between-game newspaper headlines said etc. and hopefully try and transcribe what I'd said later on. It really was as low tech as that but luckily the game was quite repetitive in nature so I just about got away with it. Later on I received a video tape of someone playing Rampage which helped flesh things out and which probably came from Catalyst..... speaking of which."
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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostI thought that too. FF Guy is the same as normal Fight Fight isn't it? Just with Guy instead of Cody. That's why I didn't bother with the normal Final Fight on the SFC.Last edited by S3M; 09-09-2013, 11:40.
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Battle of the Ports - Double Dragon is now on YouTube. The 60fps high quality version will be up for download in a week.
Please think about being my patreon, Thanks!http://www.patreon.com/bofp---------------------------------------------------------------------Battle of the Por...
Battle of the Ports - Double Dragon.
Video time listing
00:40 - Arcade Original
2:40 - Mega Drive
4:42 - Atari ST
5:23 - Amiga 500
6:12 - GameBoy Advance
8:10 - Game Boy
9:51 - Game Gear
11:25 - Master System
12:57 - Famicom (NES)
14:13 - Amstrad CPC
15:25 - Commodore 64
16:22 - ZX Spectrum
17:23 - Atari 2600
18:33 - Atari 7800
19:37 - MSX
21:06 - XBOX 360
Enjoy
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