galfordo said:
I can't really comment on the FF2 port .... couldn't bring myself to buy another one after the sting of FF1.
Anyway, I must disagree with you, SonGohan, about the SF2 port for the SNES - unless the FF2 port was waaaaayyyy better than the FF1 port, in which case this doesn't really apply.
Of course none of the ports were spot-on back then, in any category, but I just thought that the SF2 port was closer in every conceivable way than the FF1 SNES port (gameplay, sounds, music, graphics, backgrounds, etc.). Oh, and as a naive youngster I was hoping (foolishly) to have the voices and scaling present in the FF1 SNES port ... oh well.
I just brought up FF2 because it was a port.
Honestly, back then, it was all about the games. I look back and realize how much of a gamer I really was. I rented Art of Fighting for the Genesis just to be able to experience a different AOF that was found on the SNES and Neo Geo. I looked at the back, and knew it wasn't going to be anything like the arcade. Doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to have fun with it.
I knew SF2 was missing frames, had different pitched voices, none of the cool glitches the arcade version had, different combo timings, and smaller resolution. It was still fun to play, though. Same went with all the ports. There were two different sides to gaming for me. One - the arcade, two - at home. I played WH2 at the arcade, and WH2 at home. Both similar games, but not exactly the same, but I wasn't trying to play the arcade version at home, either. There wasn't a Neo on the shelf, it was an SNES. I didn't expect 150 megs of power with that, and you shouldn't either.
Still, I find it hard to believe that you just up and quit playing
any and
every port that came out solely because of FF1. Back then the FFS port was rockin for the SNES, as was WH2. The AoF port was suprisingly close to the arcade version as well. Especially with the zooming, voices, special moves, and it had a cool little vs. cpu you could play so you could use the entire cast.
I just think you're really over-playing the port hating. It's easy to say that kind of stuff now, but back then that's all you had. We didn't have 6,000 arcade games sitting in a little box on our desk available at a whim. So I stand by what said earlier - either you guys were the pickiest little children, or you're just playing up how bad they were, looking in retrospect.
, which was heaven on earth 
