Thread 11941443

its time to settle this once and for all.
which machine had the best games and why are you not in a position to judge this?

Auster spotted

NES Popeye

Speccy Popeye

>>11941473
grimace ahh mfer

Please not this shit again

>>11941479
speccy has horrible colour clash...ACK

>>11941497
It was programmed by Don Priestley, obviously the guy knew what he was doing.

>>11941480
nintendies have a pathological hatred for the spectrum, a machine they never knew about until 2023 but see it as some kind of rival. this issue needs to be addressed.

both if them. if you can't enjoy different forms of graphical fidelity, what are you doing here? speccybong is an odd man lmao

>>11941535
I'll be honest when I say the only speccy game I've ever played so far was Peter Pack Rat, and it was for its funny-ass loading screen. I get they tried to make him look "strong", but it seriously looks like some furfag drew him LMAO.

>>11941443 (OP)
t. britbong

>>11941550
Worse, an Aussie.

>>11941552
>aussie
>britbong
same thing

>>11941443 (OP)
>Lets compare a home computer from the 80s with a handheld console from the 90s.
Why?

>>11941561
Fair enough, Australia was an island for British prisoners anyway.

>>11941547
disturbing

>>11941564
If I had to guess, some surface-level similarities in how they display "monochrome" graphics?

>>11941564
lurk moar

>>11941443 (OP)
No love for Zniggy?

>>11941613
Zniggy Goes Znigging is a classic

>>11941443 (OP)
>OP got so bootyblasted in the other thread, he had to make another one to pee and poop his pants
lmao

>>11941443 (OP)
Ok, you got us. You win.

>>11941547
This does look like something I'd jack off to.

>>11941619
not seeing a list of gameboy games. whats the delay?

>>11941632
>gameboy games
mario, zelda, the list goes on

>>11941630
Yeah, the thunder thighs aren't helping matters.

>>11941642
kek

>>11941443 (OP)
Mario Land is an early GB game, later games like Mario Land 2 and Wario Land look vastly better.
I don't really know much about the Spectrum but I think MSX games look better on average.

>>11941443 (OP)
>playing the spectrum vs being on the spectrum
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, give me pokemans and neetbux

>>11941673
Does the GBC count? If so, SMB Deluxe is a strong contender for one of my favorites. Screen crunch aside, it offers some pretty neat enhancements. (VS. Boo is easily my favorite mode.)

>>11941683
BTW, funny you mention both the MSX and Speccy in the same sentence, because European MSX ports were lazy copy/paste Speccy ports.

>>11941547
seems decades ahead of its time

Why are we comparing a microcomputer to a handheld???

>>11942078
For the same reason OP compares a microcomputer to everything.

>>11942078
study OPs image ..... S-L-O-W-L-Y

Fuck off, wojak posting retard.

Stay, gigachad posting genius.

>>11941443 (OP)

Posting that image muddies the issue needlessly. I have never played a single ZX Spectrum game and I love Nintendo, including a number of Game Boy games, but I have always, since the Game Boy was new, thought that its graphics hardware sucked, and I have always, since I first saw Spectrum screenshots online, thought that its graphics hardware was cool. The rainbow coloration on black with oddly limited color mingling was strange but pretty. It isn't perfect but it looks better than the Game Boy does.

None of this has much to do with the quality of the actual games.

>>11941471
>>11941473
There's a lot more polish on the graphics for the NES version, but the Spectrum does have an odd charm to it with its purer color palette and seemingly more detailed graphics.

>>11941443 (OP)
Are there any universal Speccy emulators that specialize in gaming for the system?

I could care less about emulating its computer package suite, I'm juts interested in the games for it. Preferably an emulator that does whatever is needed after mounting the rom/tape to launch it automatically.

>>11941443 (OP)
Gameboy had tons of great games, Speccy didn't

>>11941443 (OP)
This meme's comparing a technically impressive ZX Spectrum game with a literal Game Boy launch title that does nothing to flex that system's capabilities.

>>11942827
You know what, I'll take your offer.

>>11942827
the only point I can deduce from OP is Mario Land for Game Boy looks better

>>11942810
i wonder what happened to this guy. did he eventually troon out completely or it was it a bad joke that keeps him up at night?

>>11941613
ZNiggy was the last good moment of this board before everything went to shit.

>>11942859
Was a girl, and the constant comments about her being a guy made her self-conscious and stop posting.

>>11942845
That kind of reinforces my point because I was actually trying to defend the Game Boy. Super Mario Land is a piss poor example to use if you want to showcase its capabilities.
Of course, this is an unfair comparison too because it looks like you picked the shittiest looking ZX Spectrum game you could find, and there are naturally plenty of them since it was an early 80s home computer. I don't consider myself a big Speccy enthusiast, and I'm not even a bong, but I know that system can do a lot better.
I'd like to see a fair side by side comparison, because I feel like the two systems could trade blows.

>>11942876
Oh absolutely, I can easily bring up a fairer side-by-side comparison of what each system is capable of. Stunt Car Racer and Race Drivin' are great examples of polygonal limit-pushers for each respective system. (I was tempted to give a shoutout to the Speccy port of Power Drift, but I thought drawing 3D would be a better stress test.)

>>11942896
That's more like it. Someone should do a video on this.
What makes this even more interesting is that besides using a similar CPU to the Game Boy, the Speccy had a lot of games that were essentially monochrome to get around the attribute clash that was common with color graphics.

>>11942921
I'm surprised the Game Boy didn't get a port of Elite. Shockingly, the NES got a port of it though. (But it's PAL only, because yuros seemed to know how to abuse the 2a07 better.)

>>11942937
>Someone should do a video on this.
I highly recommend the following YouTube channels
>Sharopolis (Does videos on limit pushers across various platforms)
>Retro Core (Known for his Battle of the Ports series, which goes into extensive detail on the differences between ports)
>White Pointer Gaming (Has a few videos where he peaks into debuggers and goes over how certain effects in games are achieved.)

>>11941683
GBC is effectively the same piece of hardware. If we're going to include Speccy with ram expansion as the same computer, then yes, GBC is the gameboy.
So, what looks better than Shantae or Pokemon G/S on spectrum?

>>11942958
If we were to include homebrew? I'd say Castlevania: Spectral Interlude looks the best for a spectrum game. However, it looking "better" than Shantae or Pokemon G/S is a highly subjective matter.

>>11942937
I think part of the reason the demoscene flourished more in PAL land is because 50hz is a lower target than 60hz, so it's easier to pull off impressive graphical effects on European NESs and C64s. Interestingly, the PAL versions of these systems both have CPUs clocked slightly lower than their NTSC versions.

>>11941443 (OP)
mario land is unironically better than speccy r type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLmpjWTTnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiQxq98OYfA

>>11942958
The GBC's color capabilities beat the living tar out of the Speccy's, and its CPU is over twice the clockspeed, so I don't think it's a fair comparison.

>>11942859
it was never a guy

>>11942984
I wouldn't even dream of comparing the spectrum to the original GB (which frequently had fun games that ran at a decent framerate, and had sound effects and music at the same time). Blame OP for making this a thing.
I don't even have anything against the Spectrum really. It's cute. Kids made terrible broken games for it. I get the charm.

>>11941547
>looks like
The only person who would draw an anthropomorphic rat like that IS a furfag.

>>11942087
He appears to be a flaming homosexual.

All shitposting and my preference for the gameboy aside I do have a soft spot for the Rare/Ultimate games for the Speccy. I'm sure there's some other decent ones you can dig up too.

>>11942981
Goddam, Mario Land is so fucking soulful. Those tunes get you right there.

>>11943017
the fact it can play more than one sound simultaneously already makes it 100x better than anything on the speccy

>>11943052
Technically the speccy IS capable of sound via the AY-3-8910, but it's only on the 128k models.

>>11942896
Mike Day did a Spectrum port of Hard Drivin' with 3d physics, opponents, replays and ghost car all in 48kb.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/4813/hard-drivin/credits/zx-spectrum/

GB Power Drivin' is based on that
https://www.mobygames.com/game/5755/race-drivin/credits/gameboy/

>>11943069
*GB Race Drivin'

The GB is basically peak video games, if I'm honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzYhNsoPvM4
You need more?

This is one of the most autistic and forced gaming machine feuds I've seen in a long time.

>>11941443 (OP)
The ZX Spectrum looks like absolute fucking dogshit and the frame rate makes it 1000X worse.

>>11943103
He gave up trying to pick fights with the NES, and thought he could finally win by going after the GB.
You've got to see the comedy in it. Watching him fall flat on his face over and over again.

>>11941443 (OP)
yes
speccy looks likes shit compared to gameboy games. I would much rather have a consistent four color palette of green or black and white (in the case of the gameboy pocket) over rainbow vomit. Also sprites were often better designed on the gameboy anyway.
This is like those "thing japan" memes that don't consider the fact that cities are genuinely better planned and designed in Japan than America what with America having shit or no public transportation, "one more lane" that always gets cogested, having to own a car to get to somewhere that any other developed country you could just walk to in five minutes or less, no skyscrapers or high rise buildings just trashed out strip malls and convenience stores with gigantic parking lots and law enforcement too pussy or castrated to do their job.

It’s the color pallet. Four shades of gray compliment each other better than cyan+pink+pure neon green+pure yellow

fagjaks on /vr/?

Just sayin, the GB version of R-Type is also way better. Doesn't run at 2fps, and sound like a budgie shitting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aK1WBg09Y

>>11941443 (OP)
One of them has timeless classics even if its limited to just 4 colors
The other is a dumb handheld for toddlers

>>11943859
All the Spectrum classics like platformer with no combat or screen scrolling, and some game that was way better on another system.
Belter, mate. Get stuck in.

>>11941473
It's the yellow skin that makes this look bad.

>>11943627
>fagjaks on /vr/?
4chan has been dead for years, and while /vr/ was one of the better boards its inevitably going to get basedjakked/sloppified like all the other boards
we're only a few steps away from /vr/ turning into /v/ 2.0

>garish colors that look like a child's crayon kit
vs
>4 shades of black/green

>>11943627
/vr/ doesn't have moderation anymore.

>>11944795
That explains why frogfags and soifags don't have their images deleted anymore. I remember pre-hack, mods at the very least deleted that kind of cringe.

>>11941443 (OP)
Speccy a shit but no cap the aesthetic fits r-type frfr

>>11941519
I thought everyone just laughed at it because the games were ass? Segafag here btw

>>11944826
I'm just bullying that one guy, because he constantly tries to pick fights he can't win, and throws actual tantrums when people refuse to stop liking Mario. If anything, I have a moderately positive opinion of the Spectrum.
Not that I'm about to play any of it's shitty games or anything, lmao

>>11944628
It's not already /v/ 2.0?

Zedex is a cooler shorthand than “speccy.” I’m not even a bong but I adopted that term.

>>11941443 (OP)
Gameboy has better looking graphics in general. The spectrums color capability is not very useful. And whilst there are few good looking games on the spectrum, in general they look like shit due to color clash.

>>11943625
>This is like those "thing japan" memes that don't consider the fact that cities are genuinely better planned and designed in Japan than America what with America having shit or no public transportation, "one more lane" that always gets cogested, having to own a car to get to somewhere that any other developed country you could just walk to in five minutes or less, no skyscrapers or high rise buildings just trashed out strip malls and convenience stores with gigantic parking lots and law enforcement too pussy or castrated to do their job.

You sound like a retarded, uneducated, and incredibly jealous turd-worldie, holy shit lmao.

>no high rise buildings or skyscrapers
>no public transportation
>cops that are too afraid to do their job
>in America
LMAO

>>11943547
>This is like those "thing japan" memes that don't consider the fact that cities are genuinely better planned and designed in Japan than America what with America having shit or no public transportation, "one more lane" that always gets cogested, having to own a car to get to somewhere that any other developed country you could just walk to in five minutes or less, no skyscrapers or high rise buildings just trashed out strip malls and convenience stores with gigantic parking lots and law enforcement too pussy or castrated to do their job.

You sound like a retarded, uneducated, and incredibly jealous turd-worldie, holy shit lmao.

>no high rise buildings or skyscrapers
>no public transportation
>cops that are too afraid to do their job
>in America
LMAO

>>11943069
I guess it makes sense for Argonaut to base their Race Drivin' port off Mike Day's speccy port. IIRC, weren't Argonaut primarily microcomputer devs pre-X?

>>11944628
>we're only a few steps away from /vr/ turning into /v/ 2.0
It's been /v/ 2.0 when jannies would ignore GBA and Dreamcast threads opening the floodgates to sixth gen.

speccy is SHIT