Originally posted by Drift King EX:
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First off Cosmic Smash isn't anything ground breaking, the DC could do it in it's sleep.
I know you own a Naomi, but your still wrong about those other games, maybe spawn, cause I have not played that, but I put A LOT of arcade time in on Power Stone 1 and 2, and the DC versions are the exact same game, I got the import Power Stone 1 the week it was released in Japan, and had played that a full month and a half before the game even came out in the USA, so believe me I could tell instantly if the arcade version looked better.
Considering I play all my systems on an arcade cabinet anyways, it's easy for me to tell, maybe if you compared a TV set running power stone to an RGB monitor running it, i'm sure it would look better.
As for the 2-D games you listed, that's just silly, aside from the split second load times, their the EXACT same games as the Naomi, I don't know if you know this, but the Naomi IS a dreamcast, Sega STV games on saturn are the SAME as the arcade versions, minus the load times. The Dreamcast/Naomi is the same setup, STV and Naomi have more ram, because the games aren't run off CD's, so it has much more to load.
Dreamcast doesn't need as much ram, because it can store all of the game on one CD, and load things when it needs.
Naomi is cool, I used to own an STV too, but there is no difference between that and a Saturn, think what you want, but the DC is the same with little loading.
The Capcom vs. SNK 2 machine here actually plays slower than it does on DC, but that could just be they have the speed clocked lower in the bios.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Power Stone and Power Stone 2 I agree are very close and I have ran them side by side in a pair of Dynamo Hs-5's. There are more jaggies on the DC versions though. As far as the rest I must disagree! Any of the 2d fighters are better for this reason. Lets say for instance Marvel VS Capcom 2. You get Tag lag on the DC version and when you load up large combo's and draw from all three characters the animation slows down without a doubt. You lose frames of animation for sure. The Characters are also a tad bit smaller and the game runs slower.
As for Capcom VS SNK once again the animation just isnt there. And Spawn well thats just a blow out!! Spawn Arcade has different abilities, the graohics are better and the poly's are way more rounded. The DC does a great job but as far as I am concerned with the Naomi you get what you pay for and that is true Arcade excellence!!! Anything else is a port, nothing more, nothing less. Caris I wish you lived closer so I could show you what I mean.
