MSX Longplay [002] Contra 

I know, right? Aren't the VRC mappers awesome?

Try the Famicom one!! The BEST!

Verdade

Looks nice, but also incredibly choppy, as the MSX doesn’t seem to be able to do scrolling.

it’s because it’s not from Konami!!!! :D

@@PauloSilva111 But it's still hard as hell!!!! (Just kidding)

Ironically, Konami owns the rights to the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 since Hudson Soft merged into Konami back in 2012.

@@ValentinesEve1996 what good would that do now?

What

I do not consider this game to be the true Contra game...it is a decent port, certainly, but it honestly could have been handled better, and this port is also essentially the same thing that is also on the IBM PC from back in the day +Yu KiRo. Yes, it had a few good things, namely a life gauge, the ability to switch guns on the fly, the ability to keep said guns even AFTER you die in the game, a gun that could fire from the front AND rear, which should have appeared as a "D" power up in the NES/Famicom versions of the game, and a "V" if you wanted to up the ante and have a four way directional gun, AND more levels than any other version of Contra, but the enemy reactions in this port of the game were too slow, the turret guns were too lazily designed, the enemies, including the bosses, kind of are lazily designed, they lack the variety of their NES/Famicom counterparts, and it moved not unlike Super Mario Brothers Special for the NEC PC 98, which is to say, too damn slow to be any good (though, to its credit, NOT as badly as Haunted Castle for play on arcade systems, and its controls are also much better than that game). The music, while recognizable, honestly could have also benefitted from a bit more work.

Actually, the Famicom version of Contra (which wasn't a direct port like the NES one but rather a major enhancement) actually had a message that could be activated I believe with a button combo at the end which directly leads to the events of Super C.

@@paxhumana2015 He wasn't talking about gameplay, he was talking about story.

Well, that is, much like Vampire Killer and Castlevania, this game did get an NES port, +carajillodwsq.

MSX 2

@@paxhumana2015 In the case of Castlevania, the one on the NES is the original…

@@jendorei , and ditto for Contra, as the NES/FDS port of Contra came out a full year before the MSX version of the game. Still, I would love to see a much longer alien base and have the levels that came after the alien boss at the end of NES/FDS Contra that are in this MSX port of the game, as well as the extra levels that are in this port of the game as well, be before you get to the alien boss. Honestly, it would not be that difficult to add in the extra levels, since the same sprites are used in those parts of the game as they are elsewhere in the game.

Lots of (Konami, but also Capcom, Namco, etc.) games that were released on the NES also had MSX counterparts.

you’re forgetting Zemina - it was a console, it was an msx, and it was from the 80's

no there is a only bad ending in contra.....the cpc version as I remember....

I mead ,there won't be any aliens left

Airsh Bornely The MSX's limitations are a bit of an odd beast -- the MSX1 was basically a Colecovision, the MSX2 (as pictured here) was like an NES with better sound but no hardware support for horizontal scrolling (though a lot of developers found creative ways to program around this), the MSX2+ was the same as the MSX2 but with horizontal scrolling support and a few other added features (thus making it technically superior to the NES in most regards), and then finally, the MSX turboR was an absolute beast that almost felt like a predecessor to the TurboGrafx-16. The longevity of the MSX platform in Japan made for a huge variety in its gaming library -- from "primitive" games to titles that could potentially fool people into thinking they're 16-bit (look up footage of Space Manbow sometime!). It all depends on when the game you're playing was made, and how ambitious the developers were with the hardware.

+Airsh Bornely this is not a console, it's a computer

Ramiro1992 (Mr_X) Yeah, but let's face it, most people treated it like a console that just so happened to have a keyboard and a disk drive. ;)

Wyrdwad maybe but the msx was very unpopular compared to the nes, even with the master system the msx was not popular at all

Ramiro1992 (Mr_X) Not in the West, but it was HUGE in Japan. It was easily the Famicom's biggest competitor, blowing away the Sega Master System and pretty much everything else. That's why it survived in the marketplace over there for like, 12-13 years, and got so many upgrades and expansions during that time -- because people just kept buying it!

Inferior, you mean?

try "m" key - is the same second key as used on Nemesis trilogy, and etc.

Um, no, the FDS version of the game was called Gryzor and, in PAL regions, specifically, Germany, the game was called Probotector.

@@paxhumana2015 100% correct

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火把汽油就位！

刚看完他火箭车的视频，就来找这个了

Castlevania "Vampire Killer" also hadn’t

This port of the game honestly has a few things that are going in its favor.

The NES always wins

Vlad, The Aesthetic Starman no,dats a arcade port

morrison chele de un ordenador llamado msx.

Zemina sold msx hardware as game console in South Korea, back in the 80's too

MSX doesn't have hardware scrolling as it was a home computer not a games console. MSX hardware (audio, cpu, video chip setup) is almost identical to Master System except for the scrolling.

Rafael Lima msx 1 can't run msx 2 games

@@gunma747j not totally true, there were hardware kits that transformed msx1 computers into msx2, 2+ and turbo-r, this were quite common in Brazil in the 80's

@Jonathan Carter More levels that were nothing special, and surely Konami could put more effort to create the extra bosses

i guess Konami didn’t provide all the game assets to Bit2 then! :D

I agree totally!!!

Is just an opinion, instead I really like this port, especially the songs