Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors - Arcade vs PS1 vs PS2 Comparison 

Nice! I really like Darkstalkers, please do Night Warriors (Darkstalkers 2), Arcade vs Saturn!

Nice video. The Darkstalker series is so underappreciated. =/

Back in the PS2 era, I bought Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection since I have a PS2 that can play Japanese imports. I still play it when Halloween rolls around.

Thanks for the Portuguese subtitles man. Our community of old fighting games here is giant, and i apreciate your dedication to translate this excelent videos for us. ☺

AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA I'm loving these videos. I always hear about how the PS1 and Saturn ports lost frames from the arcade originals, but I never really had the ability to compare since it's not as if I had both versions AND the arcade at home to see the difference. This PS1 era of Capcom fighters is still my favorite. I hope you cover NightWarriors and Darkstalkers 3 when you have the time. :)

Surprisingly decent port for the Ps1 this time!

You have shown me something I’ve always wanted to see. Now I finally understand the impact of dropped frames. Thank you so much!

I always thought Victor had weird animation when I played it on PS1. Brings back great memories. Also, the music still sounds amazing. Time to listen to the OST while doing work.

I have this Darkstalkers PS2 collection (along with both US PS1 Darkstalker games on PSN, and both Japanese physical releases for PS1, and both Japanese Saturn releases for the series), and I must say, that PS2 collection has everything you could want from the Darkstalkers, and more (that art gallery).

So many fond memories of Darkstalkers. Still love this game. And its completely nuts to know it was released in 94 with the level of sprite animation it has. Enjoyed it a lot on Sega saturn.

And to this day the lack of a stateside release for the PS2 Vampire Collection is still the biggest travesty to befall this series.

Awesome analysis, I’d love more videos like this.

I really would love to see a comparison between Rival Schools 1 for Arcade vs PS1 port... I hope you read this..

After owning the Japanese PS2 collection for almost 15 years, I just find out that I can play as the bosses! Mind blown! To be fair, I usually bypass the first game to play Night Warriors instead.

Aw yeah! I've been waiting for this comparison video for a long time. I'd definitely go after the Vampire: Darkstalkers collection. Can't wait for the next video.

Excellent job! I love your videos! I hope you continue with vampire hunter and vampire savior

you can't imagine how i love this video! thank you

psygnosis did a pretty good job, even with ps1 known shortcomes.Usually large characters sprites and stage were the most sacrificied,but was a low price to play this in home back in 96.

Excellent job! Thanks for allowing Pt subtitles. I love Darkstalkers series, such a shame Capcom doesn't give the value this franchise really deserves.

Pretty good observations put into video form. Many thanks. I still enjoy the first game tremendously and own the PS1 original and PS2 collection. I play the PS1 version the most even if there are frames missing. And yes, the biggest eyesore was always Aulbath's crouch animation haha.

I think Darkstalkers looked very nice on the PS1 for it being a 32 bit system.

I'm really suprised that Darkstalkers never came out on the Sega Saturn when so many other Capcom 2D Fighting games did during the mid 90's.

Nice to see that Darkstalkers is still being talked about. Jon Talbain will always be my favorite fighter. 🐺

Great job with the animation frames comparison. The PSX port is nice, but it's so weird how some characters maintain ALL the idle animation frames, and some others have them cut SO MUCH (Rikuo, Victor, Anakaris, Huitzil)

I never liked how the timer went by too fast IMO when you played on a higher speed. Capcom sure was change happy back in the day too. Red Earth probably had the biggest amount of name changes as I could recall.

Thanks for this! Back when these games were new, it's very hard to compare what was lost in the PS1 conversion. Big beautiful sprite based game like this is RAM constrained. Sony haved the RAM from 4 to 2MB in order to save on cost, and games like this suffered for it.

One time I played the US version on my broken PS1, and the game froze and for 3 seconds, I could hear the Japanese theme, "Trouble Man" play before it said it couldn't read the disc.

Tenho gostado muito destas comparações. Obrigado.

Excellent comparison mate!

First ever fighting game i played on arcade so fun...

6:08. People need to understand that slowdown ≠ framedrop.

Sempre curti demais essa primeira versão de Darkstalkers nos Arcades, mas por alguma razão nunca fui muito fã da versão PS1.

No arrange music this time? Thanks to you for your work!

Obrigado pela legenda em português brasileiro. Esse jogo não teve versão para o Saturn?

Thank you! Very informative!

Darkstalkers is back along with Red Earth, Cyberbots and Pocket Fighter! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ll46OAcwPJI.html

That's too bad how come Street fighter Alpha/Zero collection for the PS2 came out since June 2006 back then, not too long ago. I guess they decide to leave vampire collection it in Japan instead it didn't made it to the US. Well it's a fun video I watched, thank you for uploading the video. 😉✌️👍

Cool video. I have been playing the JP PS1 version recently, and it’s def not a bad port. What’s your take on Darkstalkers 3 EX edition?

When you started to talk about the name differences I thought you will explain why that happens, I think Huitzil is better than Phobos, and Rikuo is better than Aulbath... I've tried to find out why but it's impossible...

I love these comaparisons between ports, brougth me back a lot of my childhood memories in the arcades.

What emulator and graphics filter do you use for CPS2 in your video?

Chain combos didn’t exist for this series until Vampire Hunter, it’s why the combos are referred to as Hunter Chains

Your videos were fantastic, and this was my hobby befor 15 years. I loved comparing the original and home versions of Capcom, Snk and even some 3D games. But I have one note that you would like to accept without misunderstandings. You are taking a long time to release a new video.

The greatest villain quote of all time: *AAAAAAAAAA* *AAAAAAAAAA* *AAAAAAAAAA* *AAAAAAAAAA* -Pyron

New sub! Love all the detail

Loved that scanline shader

I don't think that I've ever played any Darkstalkers game to this day but if any of them were released on the PS4 Store then I would buy them instantly 👍

Great job, love your videos and the animation counts. Also, I believe the music in the Japanese FMV intro is from the horrible US Darkstalkers animated series.

Quais shaders você usa para deixar esse efeito de scanlines tão bonito? Obrigado pelo ótimo conteúdo!

Me sinto em casa com esse jogo!

Great video, I love the Darkstalkers series. Are you running the PS2 version on an emulator? The resolution looks wrong, somehow smaller than the PS version.

Can someone explain to me why the Sega saturn intro video is different from the Ps1? and actually suck a different character selection.

Darkstalkers 1 and 3 are currently on sale in psn store for 3.24$ each (2.99$ with plus membership) do you think it's worth the purchase despite some compromises from the arcade ver.

A versão de ps2 é somente port do arcade? Ela possui transparência real ou é dithering? Os chefes tem final nela?

Capcom should release a Darkstalkers Collection for the PS4 already.

Saturn hands down the best when it came to 2D fighting games especially DARKSTALKERS

Surprisingly the PS1 port is the only North American home console release of this game. I still don’t understand until this day why the ps2 collection was Japan only and why Darkstalkers resurrection was just the second and third game and not the first. I believe the first Darkstalkers was supposed to come out for the Saturn but it got changed to Darkstalkers 2 and the ps1 got Darkstalkers 1 after the Saturn already had Darkstalkers 2. Capcom with their craziness

O primeiro Darkstalkers só saiu pra PSX e o segundo só pra Saturn, ou estou enganado?

Resizing the image won’t get this to match up between PS1 and arcade no matter what you do. The interface elements were either shrunk down like the health bars, or moved around like pretty much everything else.

Very very good job 👍❤️

nice video

How do you even get the second color?

Yoshiki Okamoto recently posted a video about the development of the PlayStation port on his channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VW0nUPwgmAA.html It's in Japanese only, so use the auto translator to tide you over until there is an English sub version of it on his English channel.

I love this game and video

Wow I really like to get the vampire collection on ps2 ^^

Great video! T+

Ok guys so What is the difference between Darkstalkers, Vampire Hunter and Vampire Saviour??

Does Capcom have any plans on reviving the franchise?

Like many, I had the PS1 ver. growing up and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wasn't aware of the aninlmation differences, here in the UK, back when I was in my mid teens! Looks like Rikuo and Huitzil got dealt a rough hand though! I was gonna say "no love for Sasquatch"... but you did squeeze a very, very small segment of him on his stage. And of course, great video as always, although, not sure you need to 'waste' (subjective to opinion) time creating intro segments to these games as most of us flocking here know the score. Not for me to dictate, but deffo here for the comparison spots, not for a history lesson (god, I sound like an insufferable dick, sorry!)

Se o PS1 tivesse uns 8MB de RAM e uma CPU correndo na casa dos 70 mhz todos os arcades teriam ficado intactos nele. Só que um hardware desse nível não ficaria barato de produzir em 1994

Capcom Fighting Collection! 😎👍

Não sabia que o Morrissey tinha feito música pra Capcom hahahahaha

*SEGA SATURN hands down!* ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

The music is intensely missed 😩

O Saturn tem a fama de ter os melhores jogos em 2d,mas olhando alguns jogos do ps1 as coisas não são bem assim,o ps1 entregou ótimos jogos em 2d,Darkstalker é um bom exemplo.

The ps1 was good ver not that bad.

I have darkstalkers for ps1. It is slowwwwww but plays well. Victor suffers from animation cuts though. :(

What about Dem loading times?

The ps2 version is good but it has problems with display screen , they look smaller.

😮Yeah 😮

After all these years I read in Diehard Gamefan magazine during a preview article that Psygnosis was rumored to be the developers behind the PS port. Those Brits sure know how to code!! They did an excellent job. Capcom should've hired then to do the Marvel games and their crossovers too.

You shoulda compared the arcade version with the saturn version because no one today will go and hunt down the ps2/3 version of this game. The ps2/3 sucked at 2d whereas the saturn excelled at it.

Jeez, I never realized how much was cut out of the Playstation version. Even the animations that did remain look much more choppy than their arcade counterparts, and everything looks so much darker. That's the version I'm used to playing so I never really noticed, but ouch, definitely a lot worse than the arcade original it's based on. Still not bad compared to some of Capcom's other PS1 ports, though.

Hey whares the saturn port

Lord SHAEN sojka tomlinson.©️®️.

When's marvel 2?

Unfortunately, the game was not released on Sega Saturn

The ps2 collection is literally built of the Street Fighter Alpha Anhology.

The PS1 version has much better colour than the Arcade version 👍

Nada mal a conversão pra PS1, não entendo a fama de ruim pra 2D desse console.

Saturn wins :)

The Japanese music was terrible and didn't fit the game at all. I'm so glad they removed it from the NA version.