Good Downgrade Ports

>>3455298
Most of those were master system games originally though, which the game gear's hardware is based on.

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>>3455305
Interestingly actually the SMS version of Streets of Rage 1 & 2 aren't straight ports to the GG with slight adjustments to the colour & resolution. I think both 1 & 2 were built from the ground up for their respective hardware with different graphics, music and even levels included in one but then not the other. Here look at the SMS version by comparison to the vid the OP...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWThYuHTg4k

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This is a good thread OP.

I LOVED the game gear port of Samurai Shodown when I was growing up. My friend had a Game Gear and lent it to me a bunch of times. I loved the Neo Geo version at the arcades, but really liked this home port the best. One friend got the SNES version and it wasn't that great (the Genesis one was pretty good though).

I don't know what it was but the Game Gear one was just a bunch of fun. I also loved the Game Boy Mortal Kombat 1 port . It was stupid fun playing as goro with the cheat code and the chiptune music was great.

Since every Neo Geo Port before the Saturn was a downgrade, which games were ported that people like on other consoles? World Heroes 2 on SNES was really good - just more balanced and fun to play.

>>3455312
Wow I forgot just how terrible the SNES port was of Shodown - the Genesis one looks and plays so much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXr04OpxHg

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>>3455312
I'd believe it. Probably the same team who did the Game Gear port of Fatal Fury Special which is also surprisingly decent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auRr5UIb_2Y

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>>3455315
That's probably the most impressive fighter on a retro handheld followed closely by the GBC port of Street Fighter Alpha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1nAsPjMKzI

>>3455315
Hot damn, that is really good! I wish I would have had a Game Gear instead of a Game Boy for some genres. I mean, I loved the Mario and Wario Lands, Zelda, and a bunch of other nintendo GB games, but Game Gear really did some handheld genres really well like fighting games.

>>3455315
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auRr5UIb_2Y

That's amazing for an 8-bit system

>>3455325
Here is the Sam Sho port:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4fuFHtoA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtBotRj8JDQ
The Game Gear version of Gunstar Heroes is prettygood Because it was done by M2

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>>3455324
Yeah I mean, I just had the Game Boy back then too and it has an excellent library but I'm hard pressed to think of any particularly worthwhile console to handheld ports mostly due to the lack of colour. Once the GBC hit however, there's lots like the Mega Man Xtreme games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXAs1UQcGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5xbLa-jcE

>>3455329
Not bad at all, I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for it when I'm game hunting. Unfortunately even a lot of retro stores carry very little Game Gear stuff because it's one of those systems that just never caught on with the hoarder crowd likely due to the screen and their propensity for the buttons to crap out with age.

>>3455330
Aw yes, was that one ever actually released in North America though? If not that's a shame because I like kinda it better than the Genesis version

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SMS version of Bonanza Bros is awesome, I honestly prefer it over the other versions.

>>3455320

The King of Fighters games on GB play like a dream, love all of them.

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>>3455298

Ghouls n' Ghosts for the Master System basically changes the game into a slower-paced, less arcadey platformer with a new armor upgrade system

>>3455305 >>3455315 >>3455929 >>3455308

Sega's 8-bit versions used to be really great: either straight "lesser" but well made ports (like Bonanza Brothers) or from-the-ground-up awesome reimaginings (Sonic, Castle of Illusion).

Later on they got lazy and started churning out really shitty downgrades, such as Wonder Boy in Monster World

>>3455948
SMS Shinobi has nunchakus and bombs

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The Game Boy port (or rather, versions) of SNK fighting games were also pretty damn good.
They're similar to the Wonderswan SNK fighters like Gal Fighters and MotM.

>>3455308
>Streets of Rage IIs

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>>3455957
Which one, the first? because I believe there's also a Shinobi Shadow Dancer Port for SMS. Yeah here it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b790wPx5HmQ

>>3455971
Is it really a downgrade port?

>>3459147
from the arcade, sure. but if we started getting into downgrades from arcade then the list could cover pretty much every arcade port until the Dreamcast era.

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How about this Snake's Revenge LCD game? 99% of LCD games are shit but this one's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEHkeB_xcyM

>>3459662
Oh damn I forgot about these!

The Gauntlet and Pit Fighter Tiger hand helds were amazing. It looks so shit now, but I loved it when I was a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yfOYLIjKpM

>>3459662
Also, I don't know if you can downgrade any further than these things. I think that the old Pac Man board game is the lowest we can go.

>>3455971
>>3455948
i had no idea these existed

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>>3459919
>I don't know if you can downgrade any further than these things. I think that the old Pac Man board game is the lowest we can go.

It can go lower.

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>>3459916
Ah yes, reminds me of the Dungeons & Dragons LCD from 1981 which is itself based on a 1970s DOS game called Hunt the Wumpus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2OI7sVHjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVOw8gXl6Y

>>3455948
Ghouls 'n Ghosts was shit though, 1 enemy on screen and slow as fuck

>>3459662
Please tell me that doesn't cost hundreds.

>>3459992
Nah only like 50 bucks unless you want it still sealed MISB in which case, yeah hundreds.

>>3455315
>>3455320
Mortal Kombat 2 on the Game Boy was pretty impressive too. Looked and played really well.
Is a shame they fucked up 3 and 4 so fucking bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owtZyb69Ek

>>3460012
I want it mainly as a novelty and because I'm a MG fan, it doesn't have to be brand new. 50 sounds acceptable enough.

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>>3455312
>>3460028
Oh yeah I played the GB ports of MK & MKII a lot when I was 10. The Game Gear version is good too because of course it's in colour despite the sound being a little weaker than the Game Boy's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcWryFWc_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tnHzcKyOM

>>3460176
Oh shit I just realized the GB & GG ports of Mortal Kombat have different character rosters, The GB is missing Johnny Cage & the GG is missing Kano. That's weird since they're otherwise pretty identical ..y'know aside from the lack of colour on GB

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No mention of the GBC version of Donkey Kong Country? Y'all slippin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHP3JNwkQ8

>>3456771
That looks really good for a SMS game. The port of the first game isn't nearly as smooth.

>>3455298
I...did not know Streets of Rage had a GameGear port. Huh.

While I can accept a complete re-imagining, as in the 8-bit Sonic games, the example in the OP is obviously exactly the same game with less features. Even as a kid, you'd feel ripped off because you know there's a better, more popular version out there that everyone's playing.

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>>3461349
As a kid you wouldn't feel ripped off because it could be played anywhere (recess, the beach, car trips, etc) without lugging a Genesis, SoR cart, portable TV and generator with you. At least until if you were one of those spoiled brats who bought a Sega Nomad in 1995 like me

>>3461349
you could just play Zippy the Porcupine and laugh at all the Sonicplebs and their entry level games

http://youtu.be/5zeV-yi-iY4

>>3461453
Amazing the kind of stuff people can do with 2600s these days. Although I suppose even if they did know how to do this in the 70s, the capacity of the cart needed to fit something like this on would've been prohibitively expensive at the time.

I know some but they are just simple Puzzle games.

Puzzlow Kids/Puyo Puyo:
http://youtu.be/7fq0HJWoV1g

Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine:
http://youtu.be/dqm6SFHOIJ4

Puyo Puyo Tsuu:
http://youtu.be/cyniIo0mTgw
The GB port of Tsuu is very competent too (It's based on the SNES REMIX version with extra stages) but the lack of colors kinda kills it.

Puyo Puyo Sun:
http://youtu.be/b7j_ArIEbZg

Puyo Puyo 4 :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PprYn-z6R8o

Baku Baku Animal:
http://youtu.be/Hfh65I29Jd0

Tetris Attack:
http://youtu.be/0h_qETFoC94

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>>3461635
Don't forgot Wario's Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIvFciYszY

>>3455298
great game

>>3462082
I thought about Wario's Woods but does it really count as demake or port? The SNES and NES versions were released together and are very different from each other.

>>3462207
>very different from each other
how do you mean?

>>3462274
SNES version lacks a boss mode, while NES version lacks vs. AI. Also the SNES game was outsourced.

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I love that game. I'm kinda bummed because I've never found anything similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7UuDANIcLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9vrVknosUM

>>3462336
>I've never found anything similar.
Well there's Mindjack which has a similar concept lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-3t71VTG6k

>>3462274
Different features. The NES version isn't a direct port of the SNES version.
>NES version has only 7 (exclusive) bosses before Wario
>These bosses are beaten in a different way. The SNES version has a VS. COM battle with split screen but on NES there's only one screen with the boss inside it. You need to line up combos to win.
>You can't lift diamonds in the NES version
>Wario has a extra move in the SNES version (Egg)
>NES version has two kinds of Round Game
>NES version has a training mode
>You can change the control input in SNES WW

>>3462357
Meh. The base concept is the same but Mindjack is not fun at all.

>>3455298
the gameplay and graphic adaptations look really well done but the music is fucked. understandable but unforgivable when it's streets of rage 2

>>3462435
While I prefer the FM sound of the Genesis SoR OST better, I think the chip used in the GG which dates all the way back to the Sega Mk 1 in like 1983 does an admirable job and I still enjoy it.

>>3462445
it's not the 8 bit sound, i really like the sound of the game gear. they picked the wrong melodies to "compromise" on to fit the limitations. the initial stage 2 music is what got me most butthurt, that iconic arpeggio is just gone. original music would have been much better, but i doubt koshiro was involved with this game so they just tried to port the existing music and bungled it.
it's all subjective and i absolutely have a stick up my pretentious ass

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>>3462456
lol See I'm the opposite, I normally find the SN76489 PSG chip a little flat and shrill and gives me a slight headache when I listen to it too long. But SoR 1 & 2, the 8-bit Sonic and the SMS Ninja Gaiden are some of the rare examples of compositions on that chip I really like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keiQ1rRLJIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZoROzFTjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmI4cmpUPOs

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>>3462435
ooh speaking of brawlers and to bring it back on topic, Mighty Final Fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUPvwCcUo8

>>3456771
Not this guy but the he must mean the first. SMS Shinobi has nunchunks as melee upgrade from kick and bombs for ranged. I didn't even know those were absent from the arcade version.

>>3463004
Oh well Shinobi on SMS is okay but I personally much prefer its version of Ninja Gaiden as the definitive ninja game on the system.

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Although not exactly a direct port Metal Gear Solid for GBC is still one of my favourites in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOIe1bcWAn0

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All the NES and SNES Ninja Turtle games were phenomenal despite being downgrades from arcade versions.

>>3464672
>all
the combined total of TMNT games for NES and SNES that were arcade ports is 2 lol

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Who's with me on the Virtua Fighter ports for Genesis and 32X? Obviously the Genesis one is more of a downgrade than the 32X version but it still does an impressive job capturing the source material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oulNdGCcYE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-EIO0G7IQ

>>3464681
Two damn good ones!

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>>3464747
Yes, it's a shame we never got an upgraded version of Manhattan Project. Hey any of you nerds out there reading this, grab assets from the other TMNT arcade games/Hyperstone Heist and make it happen.

>>3464642
It's not a port in any sense, because it's an entirely different game.

>>3464705
I liked both.

>>3464705
Genesis VF isn't a downgrade nor port but a legit new game that does things in it's own way.

>>3466303
It recycles a lot of concepts, locations and assets from the other games.

>>3466346
What? It's VF2 just VF2 in as close a way as the Genesis can handle.

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>>3459662

DK and DKJR are my favorite LCD games, though they deviate a bit too much to call them just ports.

>>3459992

Most Game & Watch games are expensive, while most Tiger LCD games are cheap (for now).

>>3466893
This is true, but we're talking about downgraded ports. Ghost Babel doesn't take place on Shadow Moses, doesn't feature REX, the only characters between the PSN and GBC are Snake, Campbell, and Mei-Ling, and most telling has an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY.

>>3466989
>they deviate a bit too much to call them just ports
clearly since they swapped Mario or Mr. Game & Watch, I fuckin love that guy though.

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>>3467001
I'm just glad Pauline was able to find someone after Mario dumped her for Peach. In fact that should be Nintendo canon and they should be doubles partners in the next Mario Tennis game.

the Game Gear T2: The Arcade Game is really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDoyKgHLqgM

>>3468830
Oh nice, I remember playing thr Game Boy version when I was a kid but never thought that there might be a GG version too

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Stand aside, /vr/.

>>3471201
how is it better than Fatal Fury Special mentioned here >>3455315

>>3455971
Although it's based on the NES version it's an improvement over that, as it's much, much smoother, and the music is really good. Downside is that there isn't much screen real estate, but it's to be expected.