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These are the details that sorely need documenting in the emulation space. With so many games that were ported across systems with a lot of varying capabilitie

These are the details that sorely need documenting in the emulation space. With so many games that were ported across systems with a lot of varying capabilities, and quality of programming, we need good insight into what versions of the classics are best represented on what platform. I stumbled across /v/s gaming recommendations and they are chock full of little tidbits like this that I can't find anywhere else. Anyway, I was looking at amiga emulation and what is worthwhile pursuing on it (since home computer ports often involve the disk swapping and other headaches), and there wasn't a lot of info out there. You'd think a community as allegedly passionate as the Amiga people would have a lot of details on things like this. Instead the last time I looked the recommendation was "Turrican II" which doesn't blow my doors off.

dissent 3y ago
I don't know if it's possible to appreciate Turrican 2 if you didn't play it back in the day, but it was really good at the time and I remember it fondly. In this instance, it was on several platforms but the Amiga version was the definitive one by a mile. The inflection point was probably 1992, anything after that is likely better on other platforms. Much higher clock speeds and more memory become unbeatable once VGA and Soundblaster became the norm. Also check out Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 on the Amiga and compare to the SNES, it's embarrassing. And I loved the Amiga dearly...
- jjbinx007 3y ago
  My friend and I both had Amigas in the 90s and they did feel special at the time. A few years ago we felt nostalgic and emulated a bunch of games, and while it was nice to play them again some of that magic had been lost. Some time later we were round at a friend's house and he had a real Amiga 500 hooked up to an Amiga monitor and a joystick. He loaded up Turrican 2. All I can say is playing the game on real hardware was a far more satisfying experience than playing on an emulator. My friend played it for about half an hour and was hooked! I can't really define why it is that real hardware feels better. It's probably placebo but that's not the whole story.
  - Jensson 3y ago
    Amiga emulators often don't do the music correctly, Amiga had very special sound hardware. Turrican 2 has really good music using their own homemade audio code, getting a bad quality version of that just doesn't feel the same. Modern computers can easily get the same sound of course, but it is hard to emulate that sound based on the original game data.
- ptek 3y ago
  Final Fight was aimed at 512K Amiga with disk drive read access. Also SNES version of Final Fight didn't have 2 player, had a smaller screen resolution and ROM access and had the original developers (CAPCOM) do the game, a big difference from a single programmer who had to do both the Atari ST and Amiga version. Yes the Amiga releases could have been better

dissent 3y ago

I don't know if it's possible to appreciate Turrican 2 if you didn't play it back in the day, but it was really good at the time and I remember it fondly. In this instance, it was on several platforms but the Amiga version was the definitive one by a mile. The inflection point was probably 1992, anything after that is likely better on other platforms. Much higher clock speeds and more memory become unbeatable once VGA and Soundblaster became the norm. Also check out Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 on the Amiga and compare to the SNES, it's embarrassing. And I loved the Amiga dearly...

jjbinx007 3y ago
My friend and I both had Amigas in the 90s and they did feel special at the time. A few years ago we felt nostalgic and emulated a bunch of games, and while it was nice to play them again some of that magic had been lost. Some time later we were round at a friend's house and he had a real Amiga 500 hooked up to an Amiga monitor and a joystick. He loaded up Turrican 2. All I can say is playing the game on real hardware was a far more satisfying experience than playing on an emulator. My friend played it for about half an hour and was hooked! I can't really define why it is that real hardware feels better. It's probably placebo but that's not the whole story.
- Jensson 3y ago
  Amiga emulators often don't do the music correctly, Amiga had very special sound hardware. Turrican 2 has really good music using their own homemade audio code, getting a bad quality version of that just doesn't feel the same. Modern computers can easily get the same sound of course, but it is hard to emulate that sound based on the original game data.
ptek 3y ago
Final Fight was aimed at 512K Amiga with disk drive read access. Also SNES version of Final Fight didn't have 2 player, had a smaller screen resolution and ROM access and had the original developers (CAPCOM) do the game, a big difference from a single programmer who had to do both the Atari ST and Amiga version. Yes the Amiga releases could have been better