Either way, with Saturn dying, and Nintendo not giving a damn, PSX ports were the only way to enjoy good ports of our favorite fighters outside of the arcade. PSX owners were happy to have them, and the load times weren’t bad enough to turn them away.
Before anyone pipes up questioning stuff like the Alpha 3 & Jojo’s port, graphically & audio-wise, they were great. Only issue is game-play differences from the arcade version, combos & tactics no working the same, etc, which has always been a given in port transition.
Edit: speaking of Capcom port’s here mainly. SNK’s efforts were largely trash.
Then i’m sure the 360 version of skullgirls results in much nostalgia lol.
Again, magic memcart! (yeah sony didn’t have it, I’m just being snarky :p)
Edit: And seriously, all the important fighting games had Saturn versions (excepting Namco and Toshinden but the latter is stretching ‘important’ a lot). I know this is a PSX appreciation thread, but the truth’s gotta be told!
Saturn might have been a good console, but the biggest problem was there wasnt enough. Sega had a lot of good games in japan but never game to the u.s. And most people do not import games unless you are a hardcore gamer. Not to mention all the support ps1. N46 also did very well, thanks to mario 64, mario kart, Zelda Oot, Smash Bros, Golden eye, and saturn of course couldnt really compete with N64 also in the U.S. So basically Sega fucked them selfs
As a big Saturn fan the only games i imported were X-Men Vs SF, MS Vs SF, and Strikers 1945 II. Was sad to see those titles not get a U.S release. When i learned of tricks to get them to play on a U.S system, i just HAD to get them. Sega of america be damned.
Still remember the moments when i first successfully booted up X-Men Vs Streetfighter with the cart-swap trick(before i discovered the action replay pro).
Rival Schools 2 was Japan-only if I’m not mistaken.
Yeah those SegaBase articles are absolute gold. These days there are a lot of dumbass hipster retrospective articles/Youtube videos on gaming history that leave out tons of vital information, say “annnd the rest is history!” a million times, and miss the point entirely. There might be a minor pro-Sega slant in that article, but it covered everything you needed to know*. *Depressing stuff but every Sega fan needs to archive that site in case it crashes or something.
The 2 start up screens (White Sony background and then the shimmering sound effect with the original PS logo) really make me quite emotional. PS was a huge deal back then and I was pretty young so it’s a pretty big deal for me.
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Every single time
Goodbumps
A sudden feeling that makes me so happy to be alive
The sound effects during that start up still make me feel as if I am on the horizon of experiencing something mind boggling and brand new to this very day.
Uhh first first game I played tehcnically was the Tomb Raider demo I believe. Got the console pretty much around release time. The original Crash Bandicoot was my first game I owned I think. Hard to remember though, born in 89 and the PS released late 95.
Strider 2. <3
For racing, Chocobo Racing and Crash Team Racing.
For rpg, every Final Fantasy game, Breath of Fire, and Chocobo’s Dungeon.
For fighting, Mvc1, Tekken, Marvel vs Street Fighter,Rival Schools, and Street Fighter Alpha.
Can’t name most of them from top of my head.
nah, Rival Schools 2 came out on Dreamcast in the U.S. as “Project Justice”. The thing that pissed me off is that they didn’t bother to keep the character creation in there, so America got the game without the part of it that interested me the most… and there was some hassle of a situation in the way of me importing at the time, and I eventually just gave up on that and got the inferior “no character creation” American version. That whole fiasco still irritates me even now.
Sheeeit, there were some good music tracks in that as well… my favorite was probably “On the Rooftops of Sunshine High School”…that shit was perfect for the wild action going on in that game… this also had a very “Saturday Morning Cartoon” vibe to it, imo [media=youtube]Ga5qf9sHki0[/media]
Talking about this. The fighting game portion was basically the same as RS1 but it added extra bits to the storyline, introduced Ran (the photographer) and Nagare (swimmer dude), and added a bunch of minigames and other stuff. I never played it.
Got my PSX for Christmas with Battle Arena Toshinden. Still have both and amazingly the console still works fine. For whatever reason when I replay an original PS game I still do it on on that system. It’s crazy to think I was still buying new PSX games at retail when I first joined SRK. Crazy how time flies, yo.
