MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: my obsession with arcade ports.

> i've talked about this before, but me dipping back into gif creation has re-sparked
> this obsession. for whatever reason, i'm comprehensively obsessed with the concept of
> trying to replicate arcade games on inferior hardware, including every technical
> detail and anecdotal story of the process. the 'console wars' is awesome also.
> there's some terrific stuff on youtube from developers that's just fascinating to
> hear.
>
> at any rate, i was playing "mortal kombat" last night (arcade/snes/genesis/gamegear),
> and it's very clear to me now that the genesis version is better than the snes for
> one particular reason - gameplay. when i compare these games, i'm totally discounting
> the gore/censorship issue; it's honestly not comparative topic as far as i'm
> concerned.
>
> throughout the 90's, most people were convinced that the snes version was better,
> including me; i still own it. if you see screenshots or hear audio from either game,
> it's so easy to think that the snes came the closest to replicating the arcade, but
> my fucking god... the gameplay is an abortion. i honestly can't think of another game
> with worse input lag. the worst part however is that jumping is badly calculated, and
> characters basically jump too far, which leads to an entire ecosystem of bad
> gameplay. the genesis version could be monochrome and sound like an atari 2600 title,
> and i would still prefer it to the snes.
>
> i can't get the segaCD version to work on fusion. the fmv plays, then black screen.
>
> [edit] "perfect sync" option in fusion fixed the cd issue. =)

SF2 is the same, the Genesis version of Special Champion Edition kicks the shit out of the SNES version of SF2/Turbo. Could Capcom compress the audio samples any further on the SNES? Blanka's roar on the SNES is laughable, as is the soundfont with looped instrument samples that must be a few hundred bytes long at best (if not in the tens of bytes). Never mind the tiny sprites, despite both the SNES and CPS having the exact same vertical resolution - all they had to do was squash everything horizontally by a third and it would have looked perfect, but no, they had to make the fighters tiny as well!