sixteen-bit
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You guys are making me want that Kriss Kross game.
Don't miss the bus on this one.
You guys are making me want that Kriss Kross game.
I just want to ask , what sort of crack was Gamepro on when they made this review?
On money, probably. Sounds like the marketing department wrote that one.
I hate how hard Sega pushed the weird live-action FMV for the Sega CD in the US. There was so much more to it than that.
On money, probably. Sounds like the marketing department wrote that one.
I hate how hard Sega pushed the weird live-action FMV for the Sega CD in the US. There was so much more to it than that.
A IBM PC/Sega CD hybrid would have been every gamers dream back then
Too bad they only got the MegaDrive instead
At least Amiga's could be converted to CD32
One night in Neo Kobe
Is the best futuristic game opening theme to this day. Seriously could see that working as some anime intro (or even 80s/90s live action crime drama). I haven't played the game, yet have had the theme stuck in my head since the first "hidden gem" video I watched.
TheEnforcerJustifier works with this right?
Yup.
Gotta give it up for Pleasure of Tension as well. Its such a great track, and it wasn't redbook CD audio, but just the Genny (with maybe a bit of a boost from the Sega CD.)
....and the Mega CD would forever be known as the console that couldn't provide crystal clear video, and always had the "grainy" effect to it, which really showed up the limitations of the hard-ware...
I'm surprised a Policenauts-esque project isn't go for that yet.
You couldn't do this in the Genesis game. (by this I mean run into the flagman)
Bingo. See also the 10-minute climactic Zophar vs. Lucia sequence in Lunar~Eternal Blue (major spoilers) for an experience of beauty and terror. You can bet that this kind of PCE-like capacity is what Sega had in mind when they designed the system's capabilities, not the dumb low-fi digital video that flooded the foreign markets for whatever reason (probably in reaction to the same stuff on burgeoning CD-ROM PC games). Criticizing the MCD for having bad movies in Sewer Shark is like criticizing the Super Famicom for not being a very good toaster.
I think part of the reason is that most of the audio in the game isn't subtitled, and the game has a LOT of it. That makes it rough to do a working translation, unless you want to fandub. And dubbed UY that isn't from the BBC just feels wrong, and hell that dub is wrong in and of itself.
BBC? UY? ....whaaa?
And you'd have to hack subs in, I guess. Was Policenauts originally subbed in JP?
Yes it was.
As for the BBC UY dub:
Look upon its works ye mighty and tremble
Still better than any of the US dubs, probably because it is just batshit insane.
I remember the BBC dub. If I remember correctly they only did like two episodes.
That's not FMV. It's a mix of sprite animation and background scrolling, which was very common on the PC-Engine (since it didn't support actual FMV). Lunar and Lunar EB used the same techniques. Notice the awkward pauses? That's the system loading the next "scene".
You can even see some scaling and rotation in there. that's pretty cool, to be honest. They did a really good job making it look like a real anime series intro.
Imagine if the SNES-CD was released....it would have blown away the Mega CD for sure...
I love(d) Popful Mail. Such a wonderful game that I wish had more than just the Sega CD game. It's one of my "Unicorn" games, hoping I find it in the wild so I can buy it and adore it,
Thing is though it is true what some people say...
Amen. It was actually Sega's warm-up. MCD gave Sega capabilities to keep up with the animation-enhanced games of the PCE, Nintendo's only serious console rival at the time in Japan, and the Saturn subsequently outsold the MD in Japan. Nothing had the capabilities of a PC CD-ROM in those days, and that wasn't the point. (Reminds me of this, a bit.)honestly this "sega-cd WAS the beginning of the end for sega hardware" and pot shots onverall on it can go kick rocks - it was a great system add-on with a fantastic library, get outta here with that mess
For what it was, the sega-cd was an ill-conceived system, and it definitely was the beginning of the end for Sega in the hardware business...to go from making the Sega CD your future from 1991 onwards, only then a year later to start work on the Sega Saturn which was to be the ultimate successor to the MD, but then even after that release the 32x...as well...it was a company spiralling out of control in terms of having a singular focus on one hardware platform only.
Hell even the 3DO and Jaguar CD may have put the Sega CD in the shade within a year if circumstances were different for both firms (ie not being outrageously priced, and better developer support..) The Mega CD in some respects wasn't future proof tech...as if post 1991 onwards Sega would go onto prosper on the hardware scene...
Makes you wonder why they ever bothered getting into the hardware sector, if ultimately it was going to bring the firm to its knees....
For what it was, the sega-cd was an ill-conceived system, and it definitely was the beginning of the end for Sega in the hardware business...to go from making the Sega CD your future from 1991 onwards, only then a year later to start work on the Sega Saturn which was to be the ultimate successor to the MD, but then even after that release the 32x...as well...it was a company spiralling out of control in terms of having a singular focus on one hardware platform only.
Hell even the 3DO and Jaguar CD may have put the Sega CD in the shade within a year if circumstances were different for both firms (ie not being outrageously priced, and better developer support..) The Mega CD in some respects wasn't future proof tech...as if post 1991 onwards Sega would go onto prosper on the hardware scene...
Makes you wonder why they ever bothered getting into the hardware sector, if ultimately it was going to bring the firm to its knees....
Makes you wonder why they ever bothered getting into the hardware sector, if ultimately it was going to bring the firm to its knees....
Well the SNES CD was slated to be a 32-bit addon, so of course it would have had an advantage in addition to coming out years later. Sega had to do a lot of cost cutting to reach sensible production costs (to the point where some prototypes actually caught fire due to the CD reader IIRC), and even then it was a pretty expensive addon. That's the price they paid for being an early player on the CD-ROM market.
Yes it was.
As for the BBC UY dub:
Look upon its works ye mighty and tremble
Still better than any of the US dubs, probably because it is just batshit insane.
Holy shit this is fantastic. I wish the entire series was done like this.
Okay, more EGM on Mega CD!
Eat your heart out ^ SNES Mode 7, lol.
Okay, more EGM on Mega CD!
yeah, Nostalgia & Faria both look dope - shame about Cosmic Fantasy as well