They do? Did I miss something? Does anybody have comparison pics between the hucard & cd versions?
They do? Did I miss something? Does anybody have comparison pics between the hucard & cd versions?
So for the exclusively hucard players like myself (which of course are the true PC Engine games), how do you get past the face spitting monster at the end of stage one?
Here's my breakdown:
1. Megadrive version plays the best, but grafx aren't up to par with the other two.
2. HuCard - Hard as hell.. graphics are more crisp, colorful and have better animations than Megadrive.
Digitized voices are muted for the most part, save for your dying scream.
3. CD-ROM2 - A little less difficult, looks a tad better than HuCard in some areas, worse in others.
The game has to pause periodically to load more of the game(during play) and can
get annoying. Digitized voices are all there.. but BGM is same as the HuCard.
There you have it.
If you're already having trouble and you aren't even out of stage 1, there isn't much hope for you and this game.
Seriously, though, you just need to fly back and forth from the left side of the screen straight into the monster as the werewolf using your fly-kick. Watch the pattern that he throws the heads and develop a system to time your fly-kick so that you never land where a head is falling. If there are heads in your way as you fly, it's no big deal since you will obliterate them as you fly by. Once you get it down, it is really very simple, and you should be able to pass him without losing a single life bar.
I think I would like pressing up the jump more if I was using a joystick. I usually don't mind pressing up the jump in games anyways, but the controls in the PCE Altered Beast for jumping feel really stiff. I think that's the main reason why the game is harder for some people.
Good point ;) .I think I would like pressing up the jump more if I was using a joystick. I usually don't mind pressing up the jump in games anyways, but the controls in the PCE Altered Beast for jumping feel really stiff. I think that's the main reason why the game is harder for some people.
I think that Altered Beast PCE would be a lot harder to control jumping wise if SFII hadn't become such a big hit.
I think whiney butt people who need a jump button should just take a ave pad 3 and cut some traces,and mod it so button 3 works as directional button up.
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I like the detail in the pc engine one better. In the Genesis version the wolves look like retarded cows, lol. I know that people are ranting about parallax and such, but that was just added to make the game look like it could compete against the pc engine and arcade. If you think about it, that parallax isn't even supposed to be there.
Ghouls 'n Ghosts was also super f*cktastic with its jump button.
QuoteGhouls 'n Ghosts was also super f*cktastic with its jump button.
Well, though I generally agree that jump buttons are generally superfluous and can be awkward, I would have to disagree with Ghouls 'n Ghosts. Particularly Ghouls 'n Ghosts and not Ghosts 'n Goblins. And only because you have the ability to shoot up (by pressing up on the d pad). It would suck ass if every time you wanted to shoot up you jumped as well. ](*,)
Yeah.... Joe couldn't possibly have been more sarcastic. Not talking
QuoteYeah.... Joe couldn't possibly have been more sarcastic. Not talking
HAHAHA!!! Ok, I'll get his sarcasm someday. #-o Good grief. :|
Do not underestimate my fanboyism."
A guy on youtube calls the wolves sheep. I wonder how many other people who didn't read the manual couldn't figure out that they're supposed to be two-headed wolves? At least, I've always assumed they're supposed to be two-headed wolves... :PActually we've been calling them pigs here our whole life. :P
Hm, the Genesis graphics look much better in those screens that awack posted. I hope the PCE one has decent music.
QuoteHm, the Genesis graphics look much better in those screens that awack posted. I hope the PCE one has decent music.
I think that goes to what i and black tiger were saying about some of the art work being better in the genesis version, to be fair, the genesis one wont look so hot compared to the pc engine Altered beast on a TV due to the fact, for example the screenshots i posted have color counts for the pc engine AB of 63, 60 and 46, the genesis AB are 38, 36 and 27...so the genesis will look a bit washed out.
For what it's worth, I don't think AB is a good game to begin with. The only reason I've held on to the Genesis cart is because I like the music and it has just a bit of nostalgia value for me. The more I read and see of the PCE version, the less interested I am in getting it. But curiosity will eventually win out.
In my humble opinion, Sega should have based the Genesis DIRECTLY on the System 16B board.
How do you feel about the PCE Altered Beast?
I agree with everything you just said.But do you agree that if Arthur's foot isn't shown hiding behind tall grass when crouching down ruins the arcade perfection?
LOL That's the reason why I hate the Saturn version. Because of that it seems like a completely different game than the arcade.
It's the arcade that isn't Genesis-perfect.
A number of years back, I created a hack for the rom version. It replaced 'up' with select for jump. For people with the 3 button avenue pad. It played like the arcade and genesis version, IIRC, in that the jump button only jumped so high; you still needed to press up along with the jump button (in this case select button or button III on the ave pad) to get the high jump. I handed it out to a few people here, but it's been so long that I don't remember who.
I can't remember if I looked into the CD version or not, to alter the jump controls.
Altered Beast is boring, but it's slightly less boriing on the MD
I`ve never understood the whole concept of Altered Beast.Are you some shape shifting zombie,that can transform into weird animals and stuff to save some woman.Is that pretty much it in A nutshell?.