questions about SNK ports on Super Famicom.
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I'm like 60% sure this is a troll thread, but in case it's not: the only neo geo games I've played on the SFC were fatal fury special and samurai showdown, and they were both pretty bad ports. The SFC was just not powerful enough to run neo games with any sort of faithfulness, I'd stick to ps1/2 and Saturn ports if you're looking to play snk games on a home console.
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2020 was actually more fun on the SNES but it's been a while since I last played it. Anyway, "playable" would be the appropriate description of those ports.
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The SNES could have had versions of these games that were faithful from a gameplay perspective, but SNK always licensed their games to shit companies that probably didn't even have access to the original source code, and so they don't even play the same.
There could have been SF2 SNES quality ports of Neo Geo games, but Takara sure as fuck wasn't capable of doing it. The real reason the 32-bit+ ports were better wasn't just because the machines had better hardware but also because SNK did them themselves.
There could have been SF2 SNES quality ports of Neo Geo games, but Takara sure as fuck wasn't capable of doing it. The real reason the 32-bit+ ports were better wasn't just because the machines had better hardware but also because SNK did them themselves.
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fatal fury 1 was good on the genesis/megadrive. fatal fury 2 had a good port on the genesis and snes. fatal fury special, art of fighting and samurai shodown on the snes was payable, but a far cry from the originals.
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Yeah your right the Saturn is the right way to go i already know that.
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As usual, Bogard is right on with this one. Although the snes versions of the games were playable enough, growing up I always felt that the genesis/mega drive ports of the snk/neo geo fighters just played better than the snes ports for some reason (except the terrible genesis World Heroes port). Even though the genesis ports usually lacked some features (no Billy in Fatal Fury 1, etc), the gameplay just tended to feel closer to the originals.
The old 16-bit/32-bit console ports are fun to go back to for nostalgic reasons, but are largely obsolete due to all the better ports/compilations available nowadays.
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Art of fighting on snes/sfc is pretty good. Now it's not a perfect port by any means but it's good in its own way. Takara added supers for all the characters, and flushed out the ending.
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The Genesis versions were probably better because the Genesis used the same CPU as the real Neo Geo so the original gameplay code could be largely reused.
The SNES versions were probably rebuilt from the ground up not using anything that resembled the original code.
The SNES versions were probably rebuilt from the ground up not using anything that resembled the original code.
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i don't understand whats wrong with you
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I gave up trying to figure this out LONG ago...
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You need to get your AF/SW games straight.
The first Aero Fighters wasn't on the Neo geo.
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Uhh, guess again.
The SNES/SFC ports with trying/playing IMO are..
World Heroes 1 - Looks and sounds great. It's fun to map the attacks to 4 separate buttons. Sunsoft did this one!
World Heores 2 - Doesn't look as good as the first 1. (Saurus did this one) However, the engine is a bit more...flexible than Neo WH2.
Art of Fighting 2 - It's almost like a regular fighting game, as opposed to a boss AI- exploitation simulator. You can also map attacks to separate buttons.
Of course. Not counting nostalgia, It really depends on how much of a kick you get out of a limited bizarro take on a game you likely have access to a superior form of. It's almost as if you have to really love a game to enjoy/endure the subtleties and nuances these ports have. It's all they're really good for.
Also, 32-bit ports although perhaps obsolete, are in a different league than the 16-bit ports IMO.
Also, I like Genesis/MD Fatal Fury 2 more than NEO FF2, largely do to the juggle codes.
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Takara was just a publisher. The 16-bit Neo ports were done by a variety of developers. Monolith, Saurus, Sunsoft, Galbrain. None of them were as good as Capcom, obviously.
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i know but like... its close