Just to go along with what's been said, from having played them back at the time, the SNES version was lacking the blood, but was the better conversion in general imo.
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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostI think they are all **** I do remember people going on about how much better the MD version was to play back in the day though.
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The audio would probably have been 16bit 32khz, same as the arcade, in fact the chances are they just crossed the audio straight to the SNES without resampling it.
It was that crap hardware filter that Nintendo added that just ruined the audio, couldn't notice it back in the day, but it has aged very badly.
Early games/developers would have used a development kit without the filter and probably never actually played music back on a real snes, they wouldn't have heard how bad it made it
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I just don't agree at all. Yes there are some extremely muffled games but also many incredible sounding ones.
Vortex
Turrican
Contra
Castlevania
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Donkey Kong Country
Act Raiser
Rock N Roll Racing
And so on. The MD was extremely limited technically but also produced some amazing stuff.
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Another good episode, the MD version wasn't glitched the arcade extra version has the same black backgrounds. One thing that annoyed me with a lot of the of the home computer ports is they totally removed the final 3 islands meaning you never got to see the proper ending as after all 7 diamonds were collected you just got the bad ending and that was your lot.
Still one of my claims to gaming fame is i can clear rainbow islands on one credit, that includes all 10 levels with the diamonds in order to get the secret doors to appear in the boss rooms it's a massive task to do and i have only managed it a couple of times but it was satisfying as hell. Probably one of Taito's greatest games even now there are powerups so rare that you will only see them a few times in all the times you play as they are triggered by doing very specific things in the game like collecting a red potion so many times or after playing 500 games, i love just how many secrets are hidden away in that game.
I remember been the poor kid amongst my friends i had to make do with the spectrum version while i was super envious of my friends amiga version, lol at the poor speccy been unable to do the colour orange so having to make the orange diamond flash between red & yellow
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