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A few days ago, Gaming Age added some new screens to their preview of Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play for PSP.
In particular, there are some excellent (doing my Steve Ritchie impression here
) looking screens of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Mortal Kombat 3.
I don't know if I can link to Gaming Age's screens (I had some difficulty last time I tried), so I'll use IGN's for now:
These games look outstanding!
Here's something I've noticed: The three Mortal Kombat games don't appear to have the "widescreen stretch" applied to them, like we've seen in preview screens for most other games in this PSP compilation. The graphics appear virtually perfect, with no distortion.
This brings me to my concern: Is the widescreen stretch completely optional, as it was with Namco Museum Battle Collection? Or, is it going to be forced on every game that isn't part of the MK series?
Some games don't look too shabby, even with the stretch applied. Take a look at Rampage and Paperboy for a couple of examples:
However, a few other games suffer from terrible distortion when stretched. See Joust and Gauntlet for examples where the text and sprites are negatively affected:
I really hope that the stretch can be disabled, so that we can play conversions that are (in most cases) pixel-perfect replicas of the quarter-gobbling originals. I know that a handful of these games (such as the aforementioned Rampage and Paperboy) actually ran in a higher resolution than the PSP's 480x272. The majority of the other games ran somewhere in the general neighborhood of 320x240; the three MK games running at 400x254 are probably the highest resolution games that didn't exceed 480x272. For those games, I'd really like the option to play them at their original screen resolutions.
Here's something else I've been thinking about. The disc has an M rating, likely because of the inclusion of the three MK games. Without them, this package probably would've gotten E10+ or maybe T. I wonder if this is limiting the audience, and omitting them (perhaps spinning them off into a separate disc) would enable this to sell to a broader audience? Then again, they might figure that most of the people who care about the other games are adults anyway. Personally, it doesn't bother me, but I guess it would be nice for salespeople to be able to sell this to kids so they could enjoy Klax or Marble Madness without their parents complaining about the big letter M in the corner of the box.
At $29.99, this looks like a fantastic deal. It will be out in just a few days; I hope it turns out to be really good!
In particular, there are some excellent (doing my Steve Ritchie impression here
) looking screens of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Mortal Kombat 3.I don't know if I can link to Gaming Age's screens (I had some difficulty last time I tried), so I'll use IGN's for now:
These games look outstanding!
Here's something I've noticed: The three Mortal Kombat games don't appear to have the "widescreen stretch" applied to them, like we've seen in preview screens for most other games in this PSP compilation. The graphics appear virtually perfect, with no distortion.
This brings me to my concern: Is the widescreen stretch completely optional, as it was with Namco Museum Battle Collection? Or, is it going to be forced on every game that isn't part of the MK series?
Some games don't look too shabby, even with the stretch applied. Take a look at Rampage and Paperboy for a couple of examples:
However, a few other games suffer from terrible distortion when stretched. See Joust and Gauntlet for examples where the text and sprites are negatively affected:
I really hope that the stretch can be disabled, so that we can play conversions that are (in most cases) pixel-perfect replicas of the quarter-gobbling originals. I know that a handful of these games (such as the aforementioned Rampage and Paperboy) actually ran in a higher resolution than the PSP's 480x272. The majority of the other games ran somewhere in the general neighborhood of 320x240; the three MK games running at 400x254 are probably the highest resolution games that didn't exceed 480x272. For those games, I'd really like the option to play them at their original screen resolutions.
Here's something else I've been thinking about. The disc has an M rating, likely because of the inclusion of the three MK games. Without them, this package probably would've gotten E10+ or maybe T. I wonder if this is limiting the audience, and omitting them (perhaps spinning them off into a separate disc) would enable this to sell to a broader audience? Then again, they might figure that most of the people who care about the other games are adults anyway. Personally, it doesn't bother me, but I guess it would be nice for salespeople to be able to sell this to kids so they could enjoy Klax or Marble Madness without their parents complaining about the big letter M in the corner of the box.
At $29.99, this looks like a fantastic deal. It will be out in just a few days; I hope it turns out to be really good!
