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[Spank_Magnet]

An ex-colleague of mine posted an update on his retro shooter Xeno Crisis. Now available on SNES.

Xeno Crisis IG Announcement

 

[jufonuk]

Sweet

 

[Dacvak]

Been meaning to try this for a while. I wonder if the SNES version is better than Genesis.

 

[Krathoon]

OOOOh. I might play this on my Supa Boy Gold.

 

[German Hops]

Those load times are horrendous, though.

 

[RoboFu]

Ehh this single screen shooter has been around for a while now on NeoGeo and I think the Genesis? I mean its cool but its not that cool bieng a single screen shooter.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Those load times are horrendous, though.

A cart game with load times? . Guessing they went for smaller ROM chips and had to compress a lot of data for decompression at runtime on the system.

ROM's pretty expensive, after all.

 

[64bitmodels]

Ehh this single screen shooter has been around for a while now on NeoGeo and I think the Genesis?

now that's news to me. I knew nothing about a Neo Geo version.

Anyways we need more retro indies like this. I'd love to see more modern day genesis games in the future.

 

[Katatonic]

Got it on Switch. Pretty good Smash TV style shmup.

 

[Krathoon]

The cart costs too much. Just get it on gog.

I was going to order it, but it it like $70.

Someone will dump the rom.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

The cart costs too much. Just get it on gog.

I was going to order it, but it it like $70.

Someone will dump the rom.

That's about how much SNES carts costed new back in the day. Larger games like JRPGs were even more expensive.

So, it's normal in that context

 

[SpiceRacz]

Played the hell out of it on PC. Great game.

 

[cireza]

Runs like a SNES game alright: lower res and less sprites.

Still a pretty good job, of course. But what's the point if you don't try to exploit the strengths of the SNES ? This will only lead to an inferior game to the MD original.

 

[cireza]

It seems that the SNES version is using an enhancement chip. As seen in the comments here :

They say that they would have eventually managed without it, but still interesting to see such solution in the end.

I remember a fighting game called Ballz that actually used a chip on SNES but not on Mega Drive.

 

[cartman414]

Which chip? Compression?

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

This game is really getting around. I played the hell out of it on Dreamcast, it’s good

 

[cireza]

Which chip? Compression?

They didn't disclose which one it was but this is most probably an additional CPU.

 

[cartman414]

They didn't disclose which one it was but this is most probably an additional CPU.

Ahhh. Did the Genesis version use one too?

 

[cireza]

Ahhh. Did the Genesis version use one too?

No, the Genesis game is a standard game like all others on the console. You don't have additional chips on Genesis, with the exception of Virtua Racing and the modern games Pier Solar and Paprium. Everything was 100% the stock console.

They shared that it would help them fight against piracy, which is certainly true.