wow thanks for posting this. i was searching for something like this back in the day and quickly forgot about the 3ds version.
i was in love with the psp game!
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Hi, I am addicted to weird/"interesting" ports/versions of games. Let's look at some examples!
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wow thanks for posting this. i was searching for something like this back in the day and quickly forgot about the 3ds version.
i was in love with the psp game!
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I mean, it's obviously Star Wars but ....please just include the proper name of the game and not just pictures?
My bad! I thought I did. Must have replaced the text when I inserted the pictures somehow. It's Star Wars Episode III.
God I want someone to remake Starfox 1 in HD with the exact original artstyle but just slick as fuck. Seems like something a small indie team could pull off these days.
The development for Elite and it's sequels are awesome and fascinating and the NES version is arguably the best, outside of the upgrades the Archimedes Elite port got, like 'living galaxy' (can wander in on on-going fights) and purchasable ships. The NES has a 2 player same ship co-op mode which is fun! Just wish there was some chill music playing (think Shadowgate/Deja Vu) while flying about.
Heres a video of someone completing the entire game!
How about Ultima 3 on GBC, the entire game plus a whole new extra story! Has all the PC features like the SMS Ultima IV, whereas the NES versions are more stripped down.
The concept is really nice, but it's too hard for my taste.
Oh yeah! I remember this mobile version of EPIII. Was a fun game
All of this is fascinating. As one user said, I really, really recommend Stop Skeletons From Fighting's Youtube Channel. It has a whole series dedicated to this topic.
GBA and DS versions were awesome - the same, a golden axe-esque fighter, very fun powers. DS version had a cool multiplayer space fighter combat game too.
It's on GBA and DS as well (the latter pictured in the screenshot above, but that much should be obvious).
I tried to check out that version but gave up on emulating it. I always wondered if there was an easier way. I don't think TNK is based on that version.
Wario Ware broke my heart with that Star Fox micro game because I hadn't played SF in like a decade and didn't like it at all, but after playing the micro game I thought "hey, that wasn't half bad!" so I went back to the original thinking it ran as smoothly and boy, I instantly remembered why I don't like it.
wow, great to see these animations on the 8bit sprites! Suprised i never seen this port!
The 3DS version is a port of the Dreamcast version. It also has an unlocked framerate, and plays at 60fps if you overclock a New 3DS with homebrew software.
I played through the GBA version of SC5 before the console one. There are some fun reinterpretations of the soundtrack in the GBA version.
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No idea if you'd consider it weird, but I I was recently surprised by the fact that a "port" of Il2 Sturmovik Birds of Prey exists on the Nintendo DS:
I was already surprised by the existence of Birds of Prey when it released on the PS3 / XBox 360, but never knew that there was a DS game released alongside those arcade-sims.
I was already surprised by the existence of Birds of Prey when it released on the PS3 / XBox 360, but never knew that there was a DS game released alongside those arcade-sims.
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YES! Yes, yes, YES!
Back on topic, another title for the Atari Lynx : Steel Talons
It's probably a remake, because there's no way in hell anyone could port the original arcade code into the Lynx. Yet despite the low resolution and single-digit frame rate, it's surprisingly playable and decent.
Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this a while ago, I still have lots of old Java games I used to play in my Nokia 3200 and 5200. Loved the Gameloft titles from that era.
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Is there an image that should have loaded for me but didn't? Because the post is completely devoid of any reference to a game otherwise.
No idea if you'd consider it weird, but I I was recently surprised by the fact that a "port" of Il2 Sturmovik Birds of Prey exists on the Nintendo DS:
I was already surprised by the existence of Birds of Prey when it released on the PS3 / XBox 360, but never knew that there was a DS game released alongside those arcade-sims.
Equally interesting is that the DS had 2 different versions of Trackmania, one of which was called Trackmania Turbo.
The Wii had a nice version too, including online sharing.
I imagine it had to be changed mostly because of all the ghosting that it would cause with these lights against the dark backgrounds.
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never had a quote not load. the quoted post I see in tehre is about JSR and Space Channel 5 on GBA, not Rayman.
No love for street fighter 2 rock em sock em robots?
I bet it has more options than this
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=rockman+neo+geo&_sop=15
T_T
I've known of this game for some time, and having gotten a Neo Geo Pocket some months ago...well I don't want to build an NGPC library, but this is a game I really want to get :S
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How so inferior? It had better lighting? They only dropped one level from the game.
TheMoon There is also Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for N-Gage, which evidently looks about the same as the DS version (Was released earlier i believe) aswell as Red Faction and Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm for the same system.
EDIT: AHA FOUND IT!
God of War Betrayal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War:_Betrayal
Supposed to have been quite good for a mobile game.
God of War Betrayal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War:_Betrayal
Supposed to have been quite good for a mobile game.
Wow, I gotta dig into the GBA library more. I always saw these ports as just cheap knock offs, but the unique aspects really has me interested.
XCom is awesome on PS1 (so was TFTD), but that's hardly exotic - both ports are basically 1:1 perfect to PC version, even slowdown occurs in similar places.
Anyway OT - it's not super-exotic, but DoA Paradise for PSP was a 1:1 port of 360 DOAX2, done in something stupid like less than 3 months. It's kind of fascinating it even runs at all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAL0Ib5zKEs
I found the DS port to be pretty interesting as well:
So obviously, no way the DS could run even a scaled down version of the then previous gen versions. The recreation is surprisingly faithful in intent though, including a combo system for the force powers (itself based on touch controls, allowing to use up to all six buttons), and some rather neat QTEs. Having to actually align your lightsaber to your enemy's is at least a bit more than just hitting the right button.
did you know that there was a commodore 64 port of shadow of the beast? and it was astonishing...how could they do it?
only came out on cartridge
only came out on cartridge
Man how could I forget those, they had different stories but they were basically remixed 8-bit remakes of X1 and 2, pretty serviceable too.
I'm having flashbacks of the Carnival of Stupid.
Alone in the Dark 4 had a Game Boy Color port. It was technically impressive, the backgrounds were the same as the PS1 version.
PS1 :
GBC :
But it played differently with some kind of upper view random battles :
The Dreamcast version is obviously the better looking one but I remember being super impressed at the PSX version and its light and shadows use and absolutely blown away by the GBC version in motion at the time.
With instant move macros, everyone did lol.
Zangeif was actually OP in that version.
Some amazing/weird/wtf ports for Sega consoles:
Duke Nukem 3D (Genesis)
Baku Baku Animal (MS/GG)
Street Fighter 2' (MS)
And another interesting one, Saints Row for PSP (Unreleased)
Duke Nukem 3D (Genesis)
Baku Baku Animal (MS/GG)
Street Fighter 2' (MS)
And another interesting one, Saints Row for PSP (Unreleased)