R-Type Arcade Vs PC Engine Super CD | Utterly Pointless Comparisons | longplay 

Inglebard doing the music for darkstalkers on the megasis/genedrive! What a dooooood..... Respecting my time too!!

I really wish Chris Covell had the time to complete his Supergrafx patch for R-Type. The reduced sprite flicker and higher resolution would help a lot with shoot 'em ups

Arcade version had a display of 384x256 and probably far more colours, while PcEngine was around 256x224, but graphics look pixel perfects (with slightly simplified palette range) so they added some extra scrollings. Still one of the best port, considering.

It's not the best conversion, but my favourite port is the Sega Master System version of the game. Of course, it's the one I had as a kid, so I'm fully aware that the nostalgia goggles play a huge part of why it's my favourite. It was still close enough to the arcade game in feel and enemy patterns, that I could practice on the SMS version to get high scores on the arcade game. It's a technical marvel that the SMS port was as close to the arcade as it was, even though it's a total flicker fest. The thing that ruins the Turbo version of the game for me, is the vertically scrolling playfield. I understand why it was done, as a lot of the sprites and tiles look almost pixel perfect compared to the arcade, and they had to compensate for the resolution difference, but I would have preferred that they re-draw the assets so that the entire vertical portion of the playfield could fit on the screen. It wouldn't have looked as good, but it would have played better, as R-Type was designed to be able to see the both the top and bottom portions of the playfield at all times.

Here it is, found a comparison of the differences between the original US & JP HuCard versions of R-type. Apparently there's a patch for the US version to be able to adjusted to run like the original JP version. But like I say, R-type Complete ended up using the US code for some strange reason. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-20WmEbptYnY.htmlsi=1YMalNj07q6EEEzY

First off, great work on the gameplay. You’ve clearly been playing it forever and have it’s number despite it’s difficulty. And I couldn’t agree more on the awful music on CD. Not to mention they could’ve easily added fake parallax and improvements with the extra ram on the SuperCD and simply didn’t. What’s funny is the hucard original actually has even BETTER music than the arcade lol. The PCB hardware is a bit harsh sounding while the hucard chip tunes are extremely melodic and pleasing to the ears. I love the hucard music and that makes it my go to version to play. So yeah, aside from seeing the cut scenes there’s not much reason to play the cd version. You did a great job comparing them kudos 👍🏻

For some reason, when Irem decided to port the entire game to cd, they used the US code rather than the Japanese code. For those that don't know apparently the Japanese version used a higher resolution and had something to do with vram, it all goes over my head. The word is that NEC in the early days had a mandate that a lower resolution be used at all times in games on the PC Engine. However when Hudson ported R-type, NEC apparently let the higher resolution slide in the Japanese versions, but then demanded the lower resolution mode when bringing it as one complete game to the US. A few years later, irem decided to bring it to Japan as one complete game with cinemas and rearrangements of the music, but according to various coders that have dug into the code, it's using the US code which uses the lower resolution and has more flicker. Why Irem did this is beyond me other than maybe a quick cash grab. Honestly by the point complete was made, they likely could have made even more improvements on the game because of understanding the hardware better, but apparently they didn't. Recently someone released a patch for complete so that it apparently uses the higher resolution mode, but I haven't tried it out myself yet. Only found out about it yesterday. Heres the patch for R-type Complete that adjust it so that it has the resolution of the original JP versions instead of the downgraded version of the US edition. www.romhacking.net/hacks/8349/

Excellent playthrough. I finally beat the PC-Engine CD version around 3am this morning. I'm going back and memorizing every level so I can 1cc the game. It'll be the only other game I've ever been able to 1cc. The other one is Super Mario Bros on the NES

Mega Drive homebrew version coming! Can't wait!

Good video. It's completely subjective but I personally love the level 1 CD music.

I was playing this yesterday on the MISTer (awesome device). I was on level 3 and died a lot. It does seem more doable than most shmups, if you can remember the patterns. IREM games had very high resolution in the arcades (384 x 256 which is even higher than CPS1). I imagine it was expensive hardware. I like the extra detail you get with this.

R-Type was a great shoot em up. The symbiotic design of the Bydo Empire's technology fused aliens, its intricate level design and snappy music made it a firm favourite. You have to laugh at the PCE CD level 1 music with the robotic "RRRR R-Type" as it starts, definitely belongs to that time of 90's CD arrangements. The Spectrum version was the first home port I had and considering the limitations of the hardware, it looked and played really well.

Very good comparison as usual....i own the dual Hu Card japanese release...pretty much a very faithful port and a fantastic near launch game, all things considered

Everything you need to know about Japanese fans of the PC Engine is contained in the fact they were willing to pay for the same game twice to get a nearly uncompromised port on early Hu-Card. Can you imagine Sega doing that with Ghouls N' Ghosts or Capcom with Final Fight? Anyways, my favorite port of R-type is the Spectrum version, just for the exciting behind the scenes drama where the developer was threatened with two different lawsuits....essentially, as a consequence of making the game too good. He wrote a book about it all, and it really explains everything you need to know about computer arcade ports. Second favorite is GBC, because it does exactly what you said the CD game should have. And because the Gameboy was my introduction to the series. It's like a lot of other firsts you never forget, even if they were nowhere near the best.

I love that version of R-Type on the PS3 where you can switch between 2d and 3d

Why not just showing the HuCard version, which had way fewer flickers than the CD-ROM version. Especially since you cut out the special content of the CD-ROM version anyway.

Yeah, I always hoped the CD version had improvement over the original Hucard version besides the music. Also, yeah like you said, the music choices for the CD version huh... weird

nice channel. i really like these pointless comparisons of my favorites

Top pc Engine Arcade conversion👍

The Sega Master System version of R-Type: you're missig out. ;-)

PC Engine Super CD is pretty spot on but the usual limitations of the pce like the lack of paralax scrolling (although they kinda tried on a few levels), flickering fest and lack of backgrounds which I don't get why they didn't implement them properly (maybe lack of time?), but overall I think this was a pretty good port. One thing I noticed the bosses sprites look on par and sometimes they look a bit bigger on the PCE. On thing for sure this port will never end up in the utterly trash series of videos jeje.

You're an expert!! How long did it take to get that good!?

the scrolling is smoother on PCE

I hope you had fun bashing the work of artists. In the west we could only dream of conversions actually better than the original such as this one. In Japan, it was customary to add cartoon-like artwork between levels to add a sort of a "story mode"even to hardcore arcade titles such as this one, and they look great. You keep complaining about flickering, but you forgot we're talking about an 8-bit machine who rivalled even arcade systems. And dude, nothing wrong with the soundtrack! Hats off to whoever played though, flawless execution.

I'm shocked at how poor the PC Engine CD is compared to the arcade version, i was honestly expecting it to be arcade perfect. I didn't know the console couldn't handle parallax scrolling, not even the PC Engine CD? That's lame. Also the anime cutscenes are pretty bad, Image Fight 2 did them much better.

George Lucas is still alive.

Would really help if you actually had arcade footage rather than emulated mame which isn’t the same as the arcade no matter how much you dress it up .