Thread 11928892

Favourite games? Any recommendation? Any homebrew/aftermarket worth playing?

What I've played so far
>Air Rescue
>Batman Returns (route 1)
>Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
>Cool Spot
>Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck
>Golden Axe Warrior
>Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
>Master of Darkness
>Ninja Gaiden
>Phantasy Star
>Sonic Blast
>Sonic Chaos
>Sonic The Hedgehog
>Sonic The Hedgehog 2
>The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck

I also played Shinobi and Astérix but got filtered towards the end, as well as Keisenden which seemed good but really hard. I tried the SMS versions of Double Dragon and SoR 2 and I didn't like them at all (even though the GG version of SoR2 wasn't bad)

We rarely talk about this system but since we don't have a janitor anymore I figure it's finally safe to do so without getting a month b& for "b& evasion" because he immediately assumed anyone talking about it was you know who

>>11928892 (OP)
>Batman Returns (route 1)
Lol that's a weird specification. I think it was novel how they gave you the chance of choosing difficulty per level rather than as a global setting. Any way, great game; have you played the GG version? It's basically a completely different game that merely uses the same assets.

Asterix is extremely good btw, easily on the top-5 system exclusives. Shame the sequel is crap.

The most obvious thing you're missing in that list is Wonder Boy III I guess.

>>11928892 (OP)
>SoR 1
>Alex Kidd
>Shinobi
>R-type
>Alex Kidd in shinobi world
>Power spike 2
>Cloud master

How's Psycho Fox? Been in my backlog for decades but I've never quite got to it

>>11928902
>Lol that's a weird specification

It's from my list and it's a reminder for myself to play through route 2 one of these days

>>11928892 (OP)
I like
Golvellius: The Valley of Doom,
YS (even if it's not a great port),
Miracle Warriors is pretty interesting too,
And Lord of the Sword is all aces.

How come you've played all that but not Alex Kidd?

>>11928965
>Miracle Warriors is pretty interesting too

I'm interested in it, I'm still hoping the Famicom version will get translated one of these days but it's a fool's hope

Phantasy Star Adventure or whatever it is called

>>11928892 (OP)
Psychic World
Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone 2
Golvellius
Power Strike
Power Strike II
Also it has the best version of Ultima IV, not even kidding

I have a genesis with a power base converter, so anything also on the genesis I likely just have the genesis version
notable games i've enjoyed
r-type
choplifter
wonder boy games
golvellius
shinobi

>>11928924
Why did ludos on the Sega System have such fucking hideous box art?

Is the final boss of Shinobi even possible without health upgrades? The shots of the tornado guys are unavoidable

>>11929383
Holy shit I did it after like 30 attempts. The tornado guy is all luck honestly, if he fires 3 shots at all 3 heights at the same time it's unavoidable. The final guy also takes a bit of luck depending on what he does, the best strategy is to get him stuck in a corner of the room to stunlock him to death.

ATM I really can't imagine doing the entire game in one go without using the level select code, between the pixel jumps, the statue boss, stage 5-1 and the final bosses... That's a lot to take in without using a continue. There are no upgrades at all in stage 5 btw all the children only give score.

>>11929162
It's such a cool system that every aspect of it, including that cute airbrushed box illustration style, successfully filters brainlets and/or zoomers

>>11928892 (OP)
Here are my personal favorites which I can recommend to anyone:

Aladdin
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Asterix
Asterix and the Great Rescue
Asterix and the Secret Mission
Batman Returns
Black Belt/Hokuto no Ken
Bonanza Bros.
Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Choplifter
Deep Duck Trouble starring Donald Duck
Dynamite Headdy
Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone II: the Tears of Opa Opa
Goldex Axe Warrior
Jurassic Park
Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Legend of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck
Master of Darkness
Ninja Gaiden
Phantasy Star
Rambo
Rastan
Shinobi
Sonic Chaos
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Wonder Boy
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Wonder Boy 3: the Dragon's Trap

It's always good to see the SEGA Master System get more love in here.

>>11930718
>Bonanza Bros


Are the levels/gameplay different from the other versions?

>>11928902
>Shame the sequel is crap.

I'm at 3-1 and so far I'm enjoying The Great Rescue more than the original. Sure the sound design is lacking (sometimes inexistant) and the hitboxes aren't always great, but the mechanics and level design are more interesting than in the original imo. In the OG I disliked how the challenge only come from hazards, especially in the late game where it felt like 90% of the rooms were hazard/trap rooms. Great Rescue also has proper boss fights and the graphics are excellent.

>>11928892 (OP)
>shinobi
Use the level skip to get past Mandara
I did back in the day

I like Sagaia on the SMS better than its more modern ports.

>>11928892 (OP)
Cyborg Hunter if you can (pretend to) plug in a second controller so you can get to the item-select screen

I can't believe I used Fusion so much for SMS emulation, even when using the colour boosting setting all the colours look so dark and washed out; I like bright colours and it's the SMS's strength, and Mednafen provides that.

The only issue I've found so far with Mednafen is that the bottom part of the screen in Cool Spot would glitch so I had to use Fusion for that.

>>11932440
It's 5-1 and all the flying ninjas that had filtered me for a while

Rescue Mission is neat if you can (pretend to) use a light gun
You defend three medics (think “lives”), but they’re totally different guys and the first guy is just slow at everything, the second guy is faster but takes naps occasionally, and the third guy is a hyper-competent ace at everything

>>11931792
It's been a while since I've played it, but I recall it being harder, and the fact it ditched multiplayer might make it the worst version for some, but for singleplayer it's the best one since it's fullscreen instead of only using half of it.

>>11932042
Secret Mission is slower and messier than first Asterix game and mostly derivative of it except for the occasional level gimmicks (which vary from memorably weird to plain obtuse) and the (2) bosses, but on the upside—and though it's still quite fever dream-ish—it feels more connected to the source material rather than seemingly extrapolated from a one-page outline by people completely unfamiliar with it like the first one did lol

>>11931792
>>11932557
Technically it's easier since the toughest enemies don't pop until later stages and the play area is larger, but losing co-op absolutely made it an inferior version. Also, having to pause to see the map is a drag.

>>11932584
ah so you were talking about Secret Mission and not The Great Rescue, which is the one I was talking about.

>>11932639
Right, I haven't played Great Rescue much myself, iirc it's a port of a Mega Drive game rather than an 8-bit exclusive

Okay I've beaten the Secret Mission as well. Overall I enjoyed it, it's just the platforming in Egypt that kinda sucks. It's obviously a lot shorter than the other two but that's from the fact that it was Game Gear game I suppose.
There are 3 bosses btw: Pirate ship, Egypt, and the end Roman boss

The Great Rescue is my fav of the 3

>>11932773
It looks like it uses similar mechanics and settings but the levels might be totally different, not sure though

>>11932457

>do nothing and
>keep pressing

jfc thats bad

>>11932939
Actually once the statues are closer to you, when they reach the middle point of the screen, you have to time your shots properly, if you don't and just spam and shoot as soon as you can you're going to die because it the second shot will hit the enemy while it's still in its i-frame

>>11932939
Actually once the statues are closer to you, when they reach the middle point of the screen, you have to time your shots properly, if you shoot as soon as you can you're going to die because the next shot will hit the enemy while it's still in its i-frame

>>11928965
>>11929068
Good picks.

Also, if you enjoyed Lord of the Sword, give Danan : the Jungle Fighter a try.
I'll add Zillion and The Ninja.

Do Master System light gun games work on Mega Drive with the gun?

>>11928892 (OP)
Uh oh.. you know who? I don’t know, was there a crazy master system anon?

>>11933092
Danan is mint, mate. Took my a few goes to get okay at it, but was really fun.

>>11928892 (OP)
Captain silver
Hang On
psychic world
Girl's garden and safari hunting(sg-1000)

>>11934061
god dammit, wrong image

nothing quite like it

>>11934185
I can't find any info about this online but I assume it's a 1 on 1 fighting game? Fighting games used to be so much more varied before Street Fighter II happened.

>>11934185
Maybe people would hate AI slop less if you niggers didn't try to inject it everywhere.

>>11933902
>>11933092
>Danan

Does this game have no continues?

>>11932042
>>11932584
>>11932908
The third Asterix game is kinda eurojankish even in its Genesis version but considering the second Japanese-developed one is equally mediocre you certainly can't single out that as the cause.

The first one is truly great though; even as a fan of Asterix I didn't mind how fucking weird and random it is because how downright fun and well-made it is.

>>11934073
What shader is that, anon?

>>11934427
Yep, no continues but the game is fairly generous with health bar and power-ups. You will die on your first playthroughs but as you discover health restoration/XP and get familiar with enemies the game gets easier.

That's why I compare it to Lord of the Sword, where the hero has a large health bar that's worn down by every mistake. Also a short range blade attack in common.

>>11935712
Yeah I actually I beat it earlier, it's pretty short and easy, too much so even, which is a shame because otherwise it has high production value.

I started up on Wonder Boy III afterwards, amazing game.

Master System graphics were capable of looking noticeably better than the high end of NES

>>11929162
MODS

>>11935767
Wait, that was on the master system too?

>>11935806
There's unofficial SMS conversions of these GG-exclusive games like Tails' Adventure or Sylvan Tale. Usually the mappers are all fucked up since the games aren't optimized to display a bigger view area than what was intended:

https://youtu.be/ssUfrl0mqO8

That also tended to happen with the Brazilian TecToy conversions of Legend of Illusion and other originally GG-only releases though lol

>>11935764
It's general that's true at least potentially, but those Game Gear screens aren't really representative of that fact since the GG had a much bigger color palette than the SMS (and funnily enough also bigger than the Genesis'!)

>>11928892 (OP)
>>No KENSEIDEN, the Onimusha of 8 bits.
COME ON, /VR/.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEp-eODfYcA

>>11935898
>Genesis: 512 color palette / 61 colors on-screen
>SMS: 64 color palette / 32 colors on-screen
>GG: 4,096-color palette / 32 colors on-screen

Obviously both 8-bit systems got the same on-screen color bottleneck, but depending on the ingenuity of the devs the palette work could make a big difference

>>11935918
I always appreciated Kenseiden as a classier Castlevania ripoff compared to Master of Darkness, which dropped any sort of pretense of subtlety lmao

>>11935918
>No KENSEIDEN

learn to read

>>11935780
>>11935776
>>11935772
>>11935769
>>11935767
>>11935764
None of these are master system screenshots

>>11935929
I don't mind clones if they're well made but Master of Darkness has some shit level design at times, and the game is also too short and easy

>>11928965
Miracle Warriors:
Have a party of 4
Only one can attack an enemy at a time.
Only one can get XP per turn.
Yet enemies can hit entire party each round.
What did the sega system mean by this?

>>11929162
Something something Tonka
The Japanese covers look fine

>>11937557
> buy herbs in stacks of 5
> inventory meant to cap at 20 herbs
> use 1
> you can now buy another stack of 5 for a total of 24

Same strat for maxing Sacred Nuts


> What did the sega system mean by this?
No idea, it's such a strange decision.

Either avoid enemies with party-wide attack or use a stone that blocks magic.
Still, there are some cool ideas like the reputation or dual currencies. The grotesque monster designs is a nice change from the usual fantasy bestiary, too.

SMS Ghouls'n Ghosts had some cool ideas, and is fairly easy by GNG standards, but too bad it's pulled back by a poor technical execution. It reminds me of NES GNG and not in a good way.

A middle ground between Super Off Road and Micro Machines. Not great but any means and in singe player only the final round of 5 races is actually challenging, but must have been fun in multiplayer. Still a nice distraction from Micro Machines.