Sega PC Games: An LGR Retrospective
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Date: 2022-04-14
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chimerschang
The PC version of Bug! is nostalgic to me and I recently picked up the Saturn version, seeing as how I've consistently had trouble getting the PC version running on modern setups. I find the differences between the two quite interesting.
The PC version has a more zoomed-in camera, making it a little less playable from what I can see, along with just a 2D background image in stages whereas the Saturn version has a polygonal 3D ground layer that gives a little additional depth, and changes the falling death animation. As shown in this video, when Bug falls off the level in the PC version, he goes splat against a black background, whereas in the Saturn version you actually see him hit the ground.
Outside of the fmv sequences, I also think the sound effects during gameplay are completely different between the two versions apart from the voice samples. Even though the music composition is the same, the instrumentation sounds different. I suspect this is because the Saturn version is using that system's sound chip whereas the PC version is using midi?
I'm probably the only individual on earth who cares this much about this lol.
EDIT: Also the backgrounds in the Saturn version have a bit of parallax going on that appears to be missing in the PC version.
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The PC version of Bug! is nostalgic to me and I recently picked up the Saturn version, seeing as how I've consistently had trouble getting the PC version running on modern setups. I find the differences between the two quite interesting.
The PC version has a more zoomed-in camera, making it a little less playable from what I can see, along with just a 2D background image in stages whereas the Saturn version has a polygonal 3D ground layer that gives a little additional depth, and changes the falling death animation. As shown in this video, when Bug falls off the level in the PC version, he goes splat against a black background, whereas in the Saturn version you actually see him hit the ground.
Outside of the fmv sequences, I also think the sound effects during gameplay are completely different between the two versions apart from the voice samples. Even though the music composition is the same, the instrumentation sounds different. I suspect this is because the Saturn version is using that system's sound chip whereas the PC version is using midi?
I'm probably the only individual on earth who cares this much about this lol.
EDIT: Also the backgrounds in the Saturn version have a bit of parallax going on that appears to be missing in the PC version.
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DiamondGrounds
I Found This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC In The Tech Section Of. Get This. MY LOCAL SUPERMARKET! And It Was Dirt Cheap (R15) So I Bought It! For Some Reason, I Couldn't Find Any Information On This Re-release Untill I Found Listings For It On Bid Sights! But The Image Of The Game In The Listings Didn't Match Mine! Mine Said -Sega Series-
On The Top, I Couldn't Find Any Info Or Even a Single Image On This Unknown Re-release (Sadly, It Isn't a Big Box Re-release. It's In a Standard PC CD-ROM Case) This Isn't My Only Time Finding Unknown Things, One Time I Found a Motorcycle Crash Bandicoot Plushie From Universals Studios For R15 (It Wasn't Of The Motorcycle Crash From Crash 3, It Had a Different Motorcycle Jacket And Gloves. I Couldn't Find Any Information On It But Except For a Single Image, It Was For a Ebay Listing Which I Couldn't Find Anymore! Let Me Know If You Know Anything On This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC
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I Found This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC In The Tech Section Of. Get This. MY LOCAL SUPERMARKET! And It Was Dirt Cheap (R15) So I Bought It! For Some Reason, I Couldn't Find Any Information On This Re-release Untill I Found Listings For It On Bid Sights! But The Image Of The Game In The Listings Didn't Match Mine! Mine Said -Sega Series-
On The Top, I Couldn't Find Any Info Or Even a Single Image On This Unknown Re-release (Sadly, It Isn't a Big Box Re-release. It's In a Standard PC CD-ROM Case) This Isn't My Only Time Finding Unknown Things, One Time I Found a Motorcycle Crash Bandicoot Plushie From Universals Studios For R15 (It Wasn't Of The Motorcycle Crash From Crash 3, It Had a Different Motorcycle Jacket And Gloves. I Couldn't Find Any Information On It But Except For a Single Image, It Was For a Ebay Listing Which I Couldn't Find Anymore! Let Me Know If You Know Anything On This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC
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-_DiGiTaL
Aaaaah bug! Sega's awful answer to Rayman! I miss the old days when I had my Saturn! Last console I owned before I discovered pc's at the age of 17. Took it apart, learned how to overclock my amd k6-2 500mhz to 550mhz, doubled the ram and kicked ass with my on-board 8mb rage pro! Games like kingpin life of crime and fallout and Half-Life, they created a love that has never died! I almost think it's a shame how commercialised pc hardware has become to the point that the top end gpu now costs 3k! And top tier system would cost more than many new cars do! Take me back to the perfect days of the GeForce 3s, 4s and the Radeons, always there when a GeForce was just that little bit too expensive!
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Aaaaah bug! Sega's awful answer to Rayman! I miss the old days when I had my Saturn! Last console I owned before I discovered pc's at the age of 17. Took it apart, learned how to overclock my amd k6-2 500mhz to 550mhz, doubled the ram and kicked ass with my on-board 8mb rage pro! Games like kingpin life of crime and fallout and Half-Life, they created a love that has never died! I almost think it's a shame how commercialised pc hardware has become to the point that the top end gpu now costs 3k! And top tier system would cost more than many new cars do! Take me back to the perfect days of the GeForce 3s, 4s and the Radeons, always there when a GeForce was just that little bit too expensive!
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Carstuff111
Ironic that, the first 3D Sega games I played, were on PC. And then I played the console versions, and for the most part, I to this day prefer the PC versions. However, some of the games were better on Sega hardware, and I agree that Crazy Taxi was better on Dreamcast. Thing is, I only got to play it once on Dreamcast. Daytona USA was arcade first for me, I did not like most of the console versions. but the PC did improve the look, even if it failed on the FPS. I miss the days of arcades.
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Ironic that, the first 3D Sega games I played, were on PC. And then I played the console versions, and for the most part, I to this day prefer the PC versions. However, some of the games were better on Sega hardware, and I agree that Crazy Taxi was better on Dreamcast. Thing is, I only got to play it once on Dreamcast. Daytona USA was arcade first for me, I did not like most of the console versions. but the PC did improve the look, even if it failed on the FPS. I miss the days of arcades.
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zadeisme
i dont know if you can help me or not but there was this rpg game i played when i was younger and i found it at sams club and my mom bought it for me and in that game was a collection of sega games and one game i remember playing i dont know the name of it but i remember it started out with me picking a few characters customizing their stats and stuff like that and then the game started. i know its vague but if you know what game im talking about i would really like to know what it is called
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i dont know if you can help me or not but there was this rpg game i played when i was younger and i found it at sams club and my mom bought it for me and in that game was a collection of sega games and one game i remember playing i dont know the name of it but i remember it started out with me picking a few characters customizing their stats and stuff like that and then the game started. i know its vague but if you know what game im talking about i would really like to know what it is called
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One3rdNinja
It just shows that for years, if you wanted to play games, you got a console. They were just better.
Sure PC-s overtook them in later years, but in the 80-s/90-s you were so much better getting a console.
I remember having Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and my friends PC version was utter shite by comparison. The music at colours were wrong, it was crazy bad when looking at what consoles at the time were doing.
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It just shows that for years, if you wanted to play games, you got a console. They were just better.
Sure PC-s overtook them in later years, but in the 80-s/90-s you were so much better getting a console.
I remember having Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and my friends PC version was utter shite by comparison. The music at colours were wrong, it was crazy bad when looking at what consoles at the time were doing.
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rolingthunder86
you should've at least gave a shoutout to the golden axe port. it's based on the genesis version rather than the arcade, with all the extra bells and whistles that entails (begginner and endurence modes and the extra final boss, uses the midpack sound driver (compettiter to ail/mss) for music playback, is the only sega dos port I know of with sound blaster support, and has loose sprites for all the characters.
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you should've at least gave a shoutout to the golden axe port. it's based on the genesis version rather than the arcade, with all the extra bells and whistles that entails (begginner and endurence modes and the extra final boss, uses the midpack sound driver (compettiter to ail/mss) for music playback, is the only sega dos port I know of with sound blaster support, and has loose sprites for all the characters.
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Carl
I played a lot of Sega Rally and Daytona USA's PC ports. Thing is, I still preferred playing them on my Saturn, since those PC ports had no Direct3D support for my Riva TNT and we're mainly coded to take advantage of MMX, so. they ran kind of iffy for me. When I upgraded to a P2-450 CPU things got better of course, but I was more into FPS's by that time and my interest in console games started dying out.
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I played a lot of Sega Rally and Daytona USA's PC ports. Thing is, I still preferred playing them on my Saturn, since those PC ports had no Direct3D support for my Riva TNT and we're mainly coded to take advantage of MMX, so. they ran kind of iffy for me. When I upgraded to a P2-450 CPU things got better of course, but I was more into FPS's by that time and my interest in console games started dying out.
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Anarx
yeh but when sounds sound that good, i loved going to news agents and buying The new Dizzy Game for my Spectrum. that was my week in late 80's, get pocket money, go local shop, then i go home and load games all night with errors. ahahha but that my fav buying Dizzy games at local shop on tape! and beano comics hahah
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yeh but when sounds sound that good, i loved going to news agents and buying The new Dizzy Game for my Spectrum. that was my week in late 80's, get pocket money, go local shop, then i go home and load games all night with errors. ahahha but that my fav buying Dizzy games at local shop on tape! and beano comics hahah
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XperimentorEES
Never knew Garfield & Sonic had a package game deal back then for pc, man the nostalgia!
Out of curiosity, have you heard of the sega genesis game called Viewpoint based on the arcade? Never got ported as far as I can tell, which is a shame because it's such a bizarre shoot'm'up lost to time.
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Never knew Garfield & Sonic had a package game deal back then for pc, man the nostalgia!
Out of curiosity, have you heard of the sega genesis game called Viewpoint based on the arcade? Never got ported as far as I can tell, which is a shame because it's such a bizarre shoot'm'up lost to time.
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