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Tech and Homebrew => Turbo/PCE Game/Tool Development => Topic started by: ParanoiaDragon on February 05, 2012, 09:08:22 PM
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I thought I'd start a topic here, & just see what kind of interest there would be for something like this. I've often thought about the idea of porting some Lynx games to the Turbo/PC Engine(keep in mind, I don't have an specifc plans or anything), & have thought about what games I'd like to port most. Ofcoarse, I'd have to get a coder at the very least, that has some mild interest. I'm pretty sure I can get a sprite artist or 2 onboard, & then I'd do the music.
One of the ones that comes to mind, is Slime World, however, there's already a Slime World on the Turbo & Genesis. And while I feel they could've done a better job, it just doesn't seem like it'd be worth it to do a slightly better version of that game. If anything I miss the most, it's the slime in the bg, seems like it'd be an easy tile pallette swapping, but I'm not coder. There's also Skweek on the Turbo, though, I don't think it's the exact same game, & Skweek is probably on some PC's for all I know. There were 2 versions of Pit Fighter(Hu card & CD) that still haven't seen the light of day, plus, it's technically an arcade game.
Dirty Larry. If I did that one, I would like to add some more moves, as well as add some more guns. Not to mention, I don't believe there's any music ingame. I recall there being a tune or 2 at the begining, but, like quite a few Lynx & Jag games, it's one of those that doesn't have level or boss music, so, I'd have to come up with some original stuff for it. I'd also maybe take some idea's from Technocop for Genesis. Atleast in the people blowing up department.
Kung Food. Once again, I would want to add more moves, that game had potential, but I don't recall it being all that fun, nor do I recall music ingame. I'm too lazy to boot it up. We'll eventually have a brawler in the works for the Turbo, so this(& possibly Dirty Larry) could maybe use that game's engine.
Guantlet 3. I think the Turbo could easily handle it. It'd need more music, I'd probably remake anything I can find from any of the other Guantlet games so that there's more dungeon tunes. I'd assume, like the Dungeon Explorer games, it could be 5 players. We could probably pull off the sprite scaling easily with frames of animation, though, if a level is really heavy on different types of enemies, there may just not be enough memory, atleast as a Super Cd.
Hydra & Turbo Sub. However, they'd probably take a hit in the scaling department. It's hard to say, especially with Hydra, if there'd be enough memory to have that many frames of animation for, well, everything.
Xybots. I think someone even suggested porting that over, though, I don't think it was someone who actually is a part of the homebrew scene. Even still, it(& Hydra) were both arcade games, so, not technically Lynx exclusive, though, AFAIK, there were no ports, atleast, not on a console.
Toki. Once again, arcade game, this one with several ports.
Electrocop. Probably not doable, atleast, not as-is. Maybe someone could come up with some ideas.
Gates of Zendocon. I'd want to atleast have 3 choices of main weapons, though, there's plenty of shmups on the Turbo.
Power Factor & Switchblade 2 could both probably be pretty cool, including the adding of music for Switchblade 2, I think Power Factor had music.
Viking Child. This would be a cool one, maybe speed it up slightly, add music. It's kind of got a Wonderboy in Monsterland feel, though, I think it may not be an exclusive Lynx game though.
So, any thoughts, anything you'd really like to see maybe some day hopefully if my dreams come to fruition? I've got too many projects right now at the moment, but, still, doesn't hurt to dream.
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Now that is an odd question.
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Hehe, yeah, I'm a bit of an odd one. I deffinitly like the underdog systems, no doubt there!
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Definitely Toki. It's a shame it was not ported on the PCE. It's a great platformer.
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It would be cool to have a game like Zaku for TurboGrafx-16.
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It would be cool to have a game like Zaku for TurboGrafx-16.
2nded
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It would be cool to have a game like Zaku for TurboGrafx-16.
Air Zonk. ?
I second wanting Toki. That games sweet.
If anyone were to do something like this, it would be TailChao, seeing as he made Zaku and all.
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I never really followed the Lynx, but I always wanted to play S.T.U.N. Runner. I loved playing that game in the arcades and thought it looked pretty good on the Lynx. Was it ever ported to the Genesis or some other system?
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I never really followed the Lynx, but I always wanted to play S.T.U.N. Runner. I loved playing that game in the arcades and thought it looked pretty good on the Lynx. Was it ever ported to the Genesis or some other system?
Pretty sure it was ported to the Genesis.
I only have a handful of games for the Lynx, and the only ones I'm really interested in are Road Blasters, chips challenge, and Summer Games.
But the Lynx is just so horrendously had I never play it. That said, if you ported a lynx game to the PCE it might actually become playable.
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S.T.U.N. Runner was never ported to the Genesis/Megadrive as far as I am aware of. Apparently there are some home computer versions out there. I'd love to see the Lynx version ported to the TG16/PCE though!
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You can't forget the pack-in, California Games! Surfing still gets the most play on my Lynx. Ninja Gaiden and Rampage are two other favs of mine. I could also get behind some Toki.
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S.T.U.N. Runner was never ported to the Genesis/Megadrive as far as I am aware of. Apparently there are some home computer versions out there. I'd love to see the Lynx version ported to the TG16/PCE though!
Looks like you're right - I thought I'd seen it around ebay, but I guess my mind is playing tricks
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Chip's Challenge!
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Most of the games I'd like to see were ports (Roadblasters, APB, Paperboy, Rampage). The only entirely original game that I can think of that I wouldn't mind OBEYing is Dracula the Undead; I'm a sucker for point and click adventures, plus I'd finally get some use out of the mouse.
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Xenophobia would play awesome on PCE!
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The only game I really liked on the Lynx was Shadow Of The Beast, and well... already done. :)
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Roadblasters would be tits as well.
that game is one of my favorite into screen driveydoom games.
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Seems pointless converting a Lynx game which is already a conversion. You may as well convert the arcade instead.
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Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden. :P
It seriously would be cool to have those games on Turbo/PCE with arcade faithful and upgraded versions. I like the upgraded graphics of Double Dragon Genesis, but they did a terrible job with the music.
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Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden. :P
It seriously would be cool to have those games on Turbo/PCE with arcade faithful and upgraded versions. I like the upgraded graphics of Double Dragon Genesis, but they did a terrible job with the music.
Indeed. Both DD & NG could easily be done. As it is, NG never got a console port, the closest thing was the Lynx version, along with the VC version of it which I did purchase.
Someone mentioned STUN Runner(which, techinicaly is an arcade game). Originally, I just didn't think the Turbo could do it, since we can't do true scaling(I'm assuming the Lynx uses sprites & tiles for its version), & we really can't push any poly's(it was a polygonal game, wasn't it, or was it something different). However, Gunboat & Falcom have "some" poly's. Maybe it could be done with a mix of tiles & poly's?
Chip's Challenge would be cool, & AFAIK it's not on any other system. Toki would rock hardcore. I kind of think of it as a Lynx game, since the Lynx was the system that exposed me to it, but I know there's an arcade game, as well as Genesis & NES. Just in general, Toki would be awesome!
Oh, & speaking of Zaku, I did hear that someone involved with that game, is now working on a PCE project, but I don't know any more then that.....perhaps a port or sequal of Zaku? Should be easy!
And APB would be great, though, it's also not a Lynx exclusive. Xenophobe however is kind of it's own version of the original game, so that'd be cool.
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Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden III would be nice.
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Oh, & speaking of Zaku, I did hear that someone involved with that game, is now working on a PCE project, but I don't know any more then that.....perhaps a port or sequal of Zaku? Should be easy!
Well, TailChao made that huCard thing. The MC Genjin and all of that.
but I would not be surprised if he's working on some PCE game.
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I don't think there was anything on the Lynx that wasn't better somewhere else. Go to the original first.
Also, arcade Ninja Gaiden was not nearly as good as the original.
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I don't think there was anything on the Lynx that wasn't better somewhere else. Go to the original first.
Also, arcade Ninja Gaiden was not nearly as good as the original.
You mean that you prefer some other version to the arcade original?
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I always enjoyed playing RASTAN on the Lynx, but I would go to the original if we were to port it to the PCE.
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How about The Guardians: Storm over Doria or Distand Lands.... of course I guess now your going to tell me the games had to have been released on the Lynx.... whatever :roll:
:D
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I don't think there was anything on the Lynx that wasn't better somewhere else. Go to the original first.
Also, arcade Ninja Gaiden was not nearly as good as the original.
You mean that you prefer some other version to the arcade original?
Allow me a correction. The NES NG incarnation is better than the arcade version. That said, both came out in 1988, so they might have been developed in parallel rather than the NES version simply being a re-imagining of the arcade.
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How about The Guardians: Storm over Doria or Distand Lands.... of course I guess now your going to tell me the games had to have been released on the Lynx.... whatever :roll:
:D
I'm still waiting for Songbird(I think they own both?) to finish those up....then we'll talk about porting them! :D
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A port of Rampart would be pretty cool. Hell, might even put that in the dos port thread. :P
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A port of Rampart would be pretty cool. Hell, might even put that in the dos port thread. :P
Rampart is awesome. I played it in the arcade mostly, but that is a great game.
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Chip's Challenge!
This!!
I played it more on the PC than on the Lynx, but still a fun little game :D
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I played the crap out of Chip's Challenge on Windows 3.1!
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I don't think there was anything on the Lynx that wasn't better somewhere else. Go to the original first.
Also, arcade Ninja Gaiden was not nearly as good as the original.
You mean that you prefer some other version to the arcade original?
Allow me a correction. The NES NG incarnation is better than the arcade version. That said, both came out in 1988, so they might have been developed in parallel rather than the NES version simply being a re-imagining of the arcade.
The arcade version was released almost a year earlier, but like Strider it doesn't matter if the NES version was started before the arcade game was released. The games are completely different styles/genres and many people like arcade games from our childhood and would to see them on our favorite consoles. Plus the PCE already has NES Ninja Gaiden, but could use more beat em ups.
I know that the NES Ninja Gaiden is much more popular, but if it was judged without blind nostalgia, by the standards people use to criticise non-classics, the gameplay would be considered broken, like Night Creatures.
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Yeah, I don't know when in 1988 the arcade NG was released. I played it some in my local arcade and was quickly frustrated. As a beat 'em up, I find it to be a poor one. Your attacks seem to have no priority. An enemy can almost always overpower your attacks and usually has better range. There are a lot of great beat 'em ups out there and I don't think this one is one of them. The PCE homebrew/porting scene doesn't need games like this. It needs better ones.
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Yeah, I don't know when in 1988 the arcade NG was released. I played it some in my local arcade and was quickly frustrated. As a beat 'em up, I find it to be a poor one. Your attacks seem to have no priority. An enemy can almost always overpower your attacks and usually has better range. There are a lot of great beat 'em ups out there and I don't think this one is one of them. The PCE homebrew/porting scene doesn't need games like this. It needs better ones.
Well I liked it. And I LOVE the music.
But for general beat 'em ups, I'd rather have Alien Storm.
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Someone mentioned STUN Runner(which, techinicaly is an arcade game). Originally, I just didn't think the Turbo could do it, since we can't do true scaling(I'm assuming the Lynx uses sprites & tiles for its version), & we really can't push any poly's(it was a polygonal game, wasn't it, or was it something different). However, Gunboat & Falcom have "some" poly's. Maybe it could be done with a mix of tiles & poly's?
Faceball also does polygons, but it's in a window, and even then it's kinda chuggish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb8tzYuIlYo
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NG arcade is teh cool! Yeah, it's not perfect, but I still love being able to grab onto overhead stuff, & flipping enemies, etc. If a conversion was ever done, I'd personally want to tweak the gameplay ever so slightly so it more fair.
I forgot about Faceball, I only remember it chugging on multiplayer. I wasn't sure if those were poly's though.
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Oh, NG arcade had a lot of neat ideas, and the music was pretty good, but the final implementation of those ideas was pretty weak. It needed some additional refinement, IMO.
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Too easy; Viking Child. Zarlor Mercenary, Rygar, California Games, and Basketbrawl!
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I've always loved the game STUN RUNNER. Especially the arcade version but the lynx wasn't too bad either.
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Actually, STUN Runner is one of the main reasons I originally bought a Lynx BITD, I think the other reason was for Ninja Gaiden!
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.... Rygar....
Nah, I don't like this version, I take the NES one though :)
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I used to plug an endless supply of quarters into the Arcade Ninja Gaiden as a kid. I was hooked on it. Sure it has it's faults, but what game doesn't? I'd love to see it on the PCE!
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like Strider it doesn't matter if the NES version was started before the arcade game was released. The games are completely different styles/genres
I know this is offtopic, but how about a PCE port of the NES version of Strider? It would be neat to see a version of that game without so much flicker and jitteryness.
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Deffinitly, that's one of those NES spinoff's I'd love to see on the Turbo someday!
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like Strider it doesn't matter if the NES version was started before the arcade game was released. The games are completely different styles/genres
I know this is offtopic, but how about a PCE port of the NES version of Strider? It would be neat to see a version of that game without so much flicker and jitteryness.
Yeah, I don't like the arcade game but the NES version is pretty cool and already has some very nice tile art that would look amazing with only recoloring.
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I'd like to see Sitchblade 2, Ninja Gaiden, Rygar and Xybots done.