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scott:

--- Quote from: insektmute on February 19, 2013, 05:40:16 pm ---Need a little more detail in the two above cases. Stuff like TATE mode is good to know, but doesn't give enough of a clear picture, and HD graphics is actually more vague than it sounds - is it true 16:9 or letterboxed? 4:3? forced filtering or optional? Have the graphics been upscaled and blurred (and to complicate this, is it that way because the 360/PS3 is set to do it, or the port itself looks that way)?

If we can't discern how a port stacks up to the original, I won't add it to the main list until we can get a little more to go on.

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Yea. Like I said. I don't really pay attention to details that much. But figured it would be useful to know what little info I could provide.

insektmute:

--- Quote from: scott on February 20, 2013, 12:58:56 pm ---Yea. Like I said. I don't really pay attention to details that much. But figured it would be useful to know what little info I could provide.

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Yeah, which is why I opted to add them after all. TATE support is a good thing to know, and I'm kinda looking at this as an iterative process anyway, where we're routinely changing/updating stuff as we're able to find out more.

kimimi:

--- Quote ---Bakumatsu Rouman: Gekka no Kenshi 1-2 PS2/JP - Massive frame rate stutter, arranged soundtracks are distorted.
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As somebody who owns both the PS2 pack and LB2 on MVS I really haven't found the above to be true at all. I'll bet there are some minor differences, but you'd have to run them side-by-side to spot them. Then again, I do find when people critique Neo Geo ports two frames missing in one background and they're all "Worthless! Ditch this $20 collection and buy each game for $100+ instead!".

Also there's the not insignificant bonus of online play on the PS2 version (probably shut down at this point).

insektmute:

--- Quote from: kimimi on February 21, 2013, 09:34:12 am ---
--- Quote ---Bakumatsu Rouman: Gekka no Kenshi 1-2 PS2/JP - Massive frame rate stutter, arranged soundtracks are distorted.
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As somebody who owns both the PS2 pack and LB2 on MVS I really haven't found the above to be true at all. I'll bet there are some minor differences, but you'd have to run them side-by-side to spot them. Then again, I do find when people critique Neo Geo ports two frames missing in one background and they're all "Worthless! Ditch this $20 collection and buy each game for $100+ instead!".

Also there's the not insignificant bonus of online play on the PS2 version (probably shut down at this point).

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Yeah, Neo stuff definitely seems to be more contentious than most. I found the audio and frame rate problems to be pretty distracting when I played the PS2 compilation, but I also didn't think much of the Dreamcast and PS1 ports, so I've mostly stuck with MAME. The Neo-Geo CD versions are pretty good though, if not 100% perfect, and the redbook audio is a nice touch, but the load times are a bit hard to swallow.

I *think* the online play is dead on all the NeoGeo Online Collection stuff, but for people in the US like me, it never worked in the first place :(

So it's a toss-up. I'm inclined to go with my memory of it and the general consensus on the Last Blade comp, in part because that one in particular seems to stand out as exceptionally bad by Neo fans, but I may leave a note that you disagree with that consensus, so people at least know there's a dissenting view. Thoughts?

kimimi:
I'd be happy with just the removal of "massive" from the description to be honest, I don't claim the PS2 compilation to be perfect but I don't think it's bad enough to warrant such a strong negative as that.

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