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Genesis or SNES version?

>> No.2543313

>>2543306
Sega CD

>> No.2543316
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2543316

>>2543306
Sega CD is best, bro

>> No.2543320

Sega CD or Saturn

>> No.2543332
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>>2543313
>>2543316
Come on now; the SNES version's got lens flares and shit

>> No.2543343

>>2543332
Also missing an entire level.

>> No.2543346

>>2543332
>lens flares
So JJ Abrams played this version?

>> No.2543381
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>>2543332
sega cd is the special edition with arranged soundtrack, some new areas, the big bruty and intestinal distress levels and the secret dark room thing. Most importantly you can skip the second tube level altogether.

>> No.2543426

>>2543332
With worst resolution, dulled down music, and missing a level.

>> No.2543559

>>2543306
PC because PCs always has the best version of a multi-plat game.

>> No.2543560

Even Nintendo picked the Genesis version for the WiiWare re-release

>> No.2543580
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2543580

Why did all big 90's western cartoon platformers die?

>> No.2543582

>>2543559
pc version is the same as the sega cd, except that you have a neat level select menu that doubles as a save game

>> No.2543589

>>2543559

Not the case with Virgin's Aladdin.
Not the case with Street Fighter II: The World Warriors

>> No.2543596

>>2543589
The SNES had a much better Aladdin game by Capcom.

>> No.2543598

>>2543580
they never were too big

>> No.2543605

>>2543598
Have you never lived in the 90's. Fucking everyone played games like Keen 4.

>> No.2543626

>>2543596

I agree, but that's irrelevant because they're different games, so not multiplat.

Virgin's Aladdin was released on both Genesis and PC, and the PC version was worse.

>> No.2543671

>>2543580
Because the industry shifted to 3d, and cartoon graphics were as ill suited to that as realistic graphics for 2d were.

>> No.2543681

>>2543306
First game: Sega CD, or perhaps PC.
Second game: SNES, but make sure you grab the Saturn version for the delicious CD Audio. PC version also had the same audio, even though it was missing a level as I recall (I think it was Lorenzo's Soil).

The Saturn version unfortunately changed ALL the background graphics, and a lot of them were completely different and much less impressive.

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>>2543681

Agree with this guy, although some backgrounds in the Saturn version of 2 are impressive, mostly because of the parallax effect. The first level looks stunning on Saturn. The problem is that controls aren't as tight as they are on the SNES ver.

>> No.2543765

pc version :)

>> No.2543781

This is the rare game where the Genesis version had better music.

>> No.2543787

>>2543741
Are those blocky blue things supposed to look like that? I'm seeing a lot of mishmashed 8x8 tiles.

>> No.2543792

>>2543787

It looks a lot better on a CRT.

>> No.2543802

Between those two, Genesis. Play the Sega CD version if you can.

>> No.2543807

>>2543741
>mostly because of the parallax effect.

Which is funny because on most other levels they fucked up the parallax a lot compared to the SNES game. Puppy Love has 3-4 layers of parallax on Saturn (and a garish orange volcano theme), while the SNES one had per-line parallax (with a desolate "house in the middle of nowhere" look).

The Saturn could do linescroll no problem, so there was zero reason to change all of that, let alone rework the level graphics entirely.

>> No.2543879

>>2543426
>dulled down music
You must really like fart noises.


SNES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aM4TB19tPw

GENESIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q9eezKd-wY&hd=1

>> No.2543881

>>2543598
Nigger, 2D plats were the FPSs of the 90s.

>> No.2543883

>>2543879
You must really like underwated muffled farts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRzQFzz_rWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3HY3XM1L0

>> No.2543885

>>2543881
No, FPS games were the FPSs of the 90s.

>> No.2543890

>>2543879
You must really like underwater muffled farts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRzQFzz_rWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3HY3XM1L0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMUG2GnLb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRkHqw58PPk

>> No.2543916

>>2543885
i don't think you get it

>> No.2543928
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>>2543332
Wrong answer fuckface

>> No.2543932

>>2543807
it's true, but I'll take Saturn puppy levels over SNES/MD ones in a heartbeat

>> No.2543940

>>2543932

Puppy Love on Saturn has the controls fucked (which is why it only requires 3 rounds, instead of the original 5, and it gives you a lot of HP). it's very hard to time your moves well on the Saturn, whereas on SNES I could do it flawlessly (if I was concentrated enough).
Also, while the volcanic background in Saturn wasn't bad, I found the original background to be more moody.
Still, levels like Anything but Tangerines or the circus level have gorgeous background work on Saturn ver.

>> No.2543950

>>2543306

Saturn version.

>> No.2543996

Is the Sega CD OST identical to the PS1/Saturn OST or no?

>> No.2544023

>>2543996
The first game isn't on PS or Saturn.

>> No.2544038

I never got what anyone saw in these games. They weren't that good. Maybe it was just the wackiness that appealed to people.

>> No.2544072

>>2544038

Yes, it was the presentation, coupled with decent gameplay. It has great visuals, humor and music, it's worth playing through it.
I like playing through EWJ2 better is because I actually like the so-called "gimmick" levels.
EWJ's run n' gun gameplay is alright, but it's no Contra or Gunstar Heroes.

>> No.2544091

Windows 95 version, not DOS.

>> No.2544731

>>2543381
Intestinal Distress is in the vanilla Mega Drive version as well.

>> No.2544862

>>2543940
15 rounds of puppy is just too much, even more when the game has no real passwords.

>> No.2544876

>>2544038
quality of animation and sound, challenging but fair. MD version shows some technical mastery as well, Tubes and bonus stage are pretty impressive.
EWJ1 is plateform gunning with some gimmick levels.
as >>2544072 said EWJ2 is actually more about gimmicks than plateform gunning. But for a game this long it lacks a true password system (except on PS/SS versions).

>> No.2545119

>>2543346
This was a PT Anderson game, remember?

>> No.2545125

>>2543306
I only have emulators.

What order and systems to finally get into Earthworm James?

>> No.2545287

Saturn version of EWJ2 is a disappointment, soundtrack is good but doesn't add anything new like Special Edition did

if the original team had been on that port you know it would have done something great but they had already started on Neverhood by that point, figures

>> No.2545324

>>2544862
the game HAS passwords. But you need to collect those three weird items on each level to get them.

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2545389

>>2545125
Sega CD

>> No.2545428

>>2545324
that's the ps1 version
in the 16 bit you "unlock" the level under level select, except that the carts had no battery save to actually keep them unlocked

>> No.2545430

>>2545287
neverhood isn't by shiny, that's tennapel own pet project with universal studios
shiny went on to make mdk, wild 9

>> No.2545442

PC Windows version.

>> No.2545446

>>2545389
hahaha what the fuck, is that an actual ad?

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2547795

>>2545389
>>2545446
more?

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2547797

>>2547795

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2547803

>>2547797

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2547808

>>2547795
>not this version

>> No.2547835

>>2547808
>>2547803
>>2545389
>disregarding gorgeous early 90s babes

NOW THEY'RE EXTINCT

I WOULD LEGIT STAB SOMEONE IF IT MEANT THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THEM COULD REAPPEAR

FUCK I'M MAD

>> No.2547845

>>2545389
>>2547795
>>2547797

Ah, the good ol' days.

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2547846

>>2547803

>> No.2547869

>>2543559

Not the case with Spider-Man 2.

>> No.2547882

>>2547835
But anon they're still around, just in their 50's and MILF-y and thick. Google Sarenna Lee.

>> No.2547886

>>2547882
That absolutely won't cut it.

80s babes are gorgeous because they're fit, among other things.

>> No.2547934

>>2543890
You must really like fake notes played on a casio synthesizer by a one handed retard with one finger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Jl7jOoweM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzvGJd66yts&hd=1

>> No.2547971

>>2547934
I have a 1980s Casio PCM synthesizer, and it sounds way the fuck better than that SNES version.

>> No.2547987

>>2547971
>PCM synthesizer
That usually entails PCM samples on top of frequency modulation, like for when a note starts.

I wonder how music would sound if a frankenchip of OPN2 and SPC700 was a thing.

>> No.2548013

>>2547987
>That usually entails PCM samples on top of frequency modulation, like for when a note starts.

Wrong, it's a pure pcm synth. Wavetable synthesis, is what they called it. MT-540 if you want to look it up. The demo music was damn nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHOQh77onw

>> No.2548019

>>2543580
Only Sonic survived, and Sega HAD to remind us they could make good Sonic game like Sonic Gen, but they just don't want it to happen again.

>> No.2548096

>>2547934
>>2543890
>>2543879
stap.
While EWJ1 music is miles better on MD, EWJ2 on both consoles have their strengths. Snes have the edge on most, but Villi people on MD is mind blowing with the clever use YM2612 noise to generate underlying notes.

>> No.2548121

>>2548013
>Wavetable synthesis

Even the SC-55 was a wavetable synth but it still ran on top of a LA like engine which operated with FM.

>> No.2548478

When I was 18 (26 now) I went back and finally beat this because I couldn't as a kid. Goddamn it's feel great to get my CRT TV out and play all my old Genesis games.

>> No.2548524

>>2547934
Is the SNES vesion supposed to sound better? it sounds muffled as shit, the Genesis version captures the tension and strength of the theme a lot better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeP5_JsXoH4

>> No.2548557

>>2543626
>i-it's different games so it doesn't count!

typical pc fag

>> No.2548565

>>2543916
what's there teo get

>> No.2548678

How's the HD version?

>>2545389
>Time Gal
10/10 taste would fuck

>> No.2548709

>>2548678
fans like to shit on the hd remake because they added exclusive multiplayer maps that don't fit in with the rest of the game. you can just ignore those maps, that was part of the publisher's deal though, it wasn't the devs fault.
apparently I just fond out through this thread it's also missing the pitch dark secret room

>> No.2548734

>>2548709
>fans like to shit on the hd remake because they added exclusive multiplayer maps
that's not the only reason people shit on it

>>2545430
Nobody implied Neverhood was by Shiny, Tennapel and his team weren't around for the Saturn version of EWJ2 because they had already split up after making the MD/SNES versions

He practically took the entire EWJ team with him to Neverhood, expect Perry, Nick Bruty, and Tallarico

>> No.2548739

>>2543559
>PC because PCs always has the best version of a multi-plat game.
Console up, almost never.
PC down, pretty much always.

>> No.2548746

>>2548734
>He practically took the entire EWJ team with him to Neverhood
sauce?

>> No.2548747

>>2548734
also you forgot andy aster

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2549073

>no Windows 95 port of Earthworm Jim 2