Best game on each emu.....
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Geez, depends on what you like!
There have recently been some good threads about C64 and prior to the PCEngine games that everyone enjoys, you can check those out for some good recommendations for those systems. I understand where you're coming from, I don't want to miss out on a great game just because I didn't know about it either!
Some of my favorites:
C64 - Airborne Ranger, Trailblazer 2, lots more
PCE - Shinobi, Bomberman Series, Klax, PC Genjin (Bonk), Mesopotamia, Ninja Spirit and all the shooters.
SMS/GG - All the Sonics, Speedball II, MS Pacman, Streets of Rage, Marble Madness, Zoop, RPGs, Rygar, Rastan (cruddy conversion, but I LOVED the arcade game, will disappear if MAME can support it!), more...
NES - Donkey Kong, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Joust, Puzznic (its like Vexed for the GP32 if you liked that), Ninja Gaiden series, Super Spike Beach Volleyball, Spy Hunter, more...
SNES - Smash TV, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Flashback, Magic Sword, F-Zero, Bubsy, Prince of Persia 2. Looking forward to many more as the emu improves, most of these run well enough one emu or the other.
GB/GBC - Haven't tried too many games, but there is a pong version I like here
Spectrum - Again, haven't tried many and don't know the system well, I enjoy 180 and Chuckie Egg from what I've tried. Dizzy games (here and C64) seem good also, haven't tried too much though.
MSX/MSX2 - Thexder and Firehawk (Thexder 2) - I'm biased based upon the hours on end I spent with Thexder growing up, but I LOVE the games; Gradius/Nemesis 1-3, Metal Gear 1 & 2, King's Valley 2 for MSX2, Aleste/Aleste Gaiden, Burgertime, Flicky, Loderunner 1&2 (graphics are bad, but work
), Arkanoid 1 &2, Penguin Adventure, Arctic Adventure, Vampire Killer (Castlevania).
GP32 games - My favorites are X-Rick, GP-Asteroids and Sokoban. Arcano was great but too short. I haven't tried any commercial games yet, will be getting a few from JoyGP 1) in hopes they're decent and 2) to support the service, I think this is the one way GP32 has a chance with non-homebrew games, by exploiting the ability to download commercial games directly for less.
Some of my favorites:
C64 - Airborne Ranger, Trailblazer 2, lots more
PCE - Shinobi, Bomberman Series, Klax, PC Genjin (Bonk), Mesopotamia, Ninja Spirit and all the shooters.
SMS/GG - All the Sonics, Speedball II, MS Pacman, Streets of Rage, Marble Madness, Zoop, RPGs, Rygar, Rastan (cruddy conversion, but I LOVED the arcade game, will disappear if MAME can support it!), more...
NES - Donkey Kong, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Joust, Puzznic (its like Vexed for the GP32 if you liked that), Ninja Gaiden series, Super Spike Beach Volleyball, Spy Hunter, more...
SNES - Smash TV, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Flashback, Magic Sword, F-Zero, Bubsy, Prince of Persia 2. Looking forward to many more as the emu improves, most of these run well enough one emu or the other.
GB/GBC - Haven't tried too many games, but there is a pong version I like here
Spectrum - Again, haven't tried many and don't know the system well, I enjoy 180 and Chuckie Egg from what I've tried. Dizzy games (here and C64) seem good also, haven't tried too much though.
MSX/MSX2 - Thexder and Firehawk (Thexder 2) - I'm biased based upon the hours on end I spent with Thexder growing up, but I LOVE the games; Gradius/Nemesis 1-3, Metal Gear 1 & 2, King's Valley 2 for MSX2, Aleste/Aleste Gaiden, Burgertime, Flicky, Loderunner 1&2 (graphics are bad, but work
), Arkanoid 1 &2, Penguin Adventure, Arctic Adventure, Vampire Killer (Castlevania).GP32 games - My favorites are X-Rick, GP-Asteroids and Sokoban. Arcano was great but too short
. I haven't tried any commercial games yet, will be getting a few from JoyGP 1) in hopes they're decent and 2) to support the service, I think this is the one way GP32 has a chance with non-homebrew games, by exploiting the ability to download commercial games directly for less.Its well done although it could use a little tweaking. My only problem has been that I haven't figured out how to switch disks when needed (SD-Snatcher & Aleste 2 were the two I was messing around with). A better virtual keyboard would be awesome as well (there's only support for about 4 keys, they are needed occasionally though so thats good, would just like a full keyboard).
It supports .dsk and .rom files for sure, don't know about any others, they can be zipped to save space. The loader for zip files only loads the first file from the zip at the moment, so make sure the files are individually zipped if you do so. There's a gamma control as well, great for bad lighting or games like MG2 that are almost too dark to play w/o it.
As for the games you mentioned, Vampire Killer and Metal Gear work great (as you might guess, I mentioned them above ), I couldn't find Gryzor, but heard its basically Contra, and have a working version of that, never tried AshGuine 2 and SD-Snatcher had 3 disks I believe. Firehawk (one of my favorites) is for MSX2 as well (the original, Thexder is MSX1)... doesn't make overly great use of it graphics wise, but its still a blast. Unfortunately Firehawk has 2 disks as well, but I haven't gotten far enough for that to be a problem yet!
Ryleh (the developer) coded a great piece of work... good sound and graphics, very good compatability!
It supports .dsk and .rom files for sure, don't know about any others, they can be zipped to save space. The loader for zip files only loads the first file from the zip at the moment, so make sure the files are individually zipped if you do so. There's a gamma control as well, great for bad lighting or games like MG2 that are almost too dark to play w/o it.
As for the games you mentioned, Vampire Killer and Metal Gear work great (as you might guess, I mentioned them above
), I couldn't find Gryzor, but heard its basically Contra, and have a working version of that, never tried AshGuine 2 and SD-Snatcher had 3 disks I believe. Firehawk (one of my favorites) is for MSX2 as well (the original, Thexder is MSX1)... doesn't make overly great use of it graphics wise, but its still a blast. Unfortunately Firehawk has 2 disks as well, but I haven't gotten far enough for that to be a problem yet!Ryleh (the developer) coded a great piece of work... good sound and graphics, very good compatability!
