Midway Arcade Treasures Vol. 2

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Originally Posted by sethsez

Well, I just got back from best Buy and played this for an hour or so.

The MK complaints are overblown. MK2 has flickery shadows, and no other discernable flaws (well, other than the ones that were in the arcade game in the first place). MK3 has flickery shadows and slightly muffled audio, which is annoying, but hardly a deal-breaker for me. They're still the best versions of the games you can get at home, especially MK2.

Oh, and Primal Rage is perfectly emulated, too. :noob:

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Hmm...feeling a little better now.

How did Rampage: World Tour, Total Carnage and Xenophobe fare?

Oh, and you asked me to remind you about the Susperia soundtrack...here's that reminder. ;)

Am I the only one excited about arcade perfect Pit Fighter?

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Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

Am I the only one excited about arcade perfect Pit Fighter?

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Yes, I just played this a bunch and it's definitely worthwhile. The MK's are much better than their SNES, GENESIS, PS1 counterparts.

Well, as long as they're better than the current ports available, it's not that bad.

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Originally Posted by Fighter-X

They edited the ending when Mega was about to kill Wily, and they took out the word "Damn, I was careless".

Other than that, I saw no problem.

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Yeah, that really bugged me. They throw in a nice, mature moment and it's killed in a "perfect-port" anniversary edition. Bah on them.

Yeah, it bugged me too, but hey, what can you do?

I got the Xbox version and EVERYTHING seemed just fine to me. All I noticed was the flicking shadows in the MK games and thats it. You can even change the difficulty in some of the games. Good stuff. No framerate problems with Hard Drivin either.

Oh yeah, all the games run in 480P so they wont look like shit on your HDTV's. I was worried about that.

Yeah, as a few other people have said, these are definitely the best home ports of MKII and 3 available, minor issues aside. They're certainly far better than their Saturn and PS1 cousins, as well as the emulation in MAME (which is far from perfect).

Oh, and Dolemite, I got caught up over the weekend but I should have that shipped out sometime soon.

Got my copy today for Xbox and it works fine. Its worth it for a certain titles, but some games are pretty crummy like Krazy Krooz'r. And man Arch-Rivals is a borning and cheesy basketball game, APB is a confusing game to try and just pick up and play for the first time. But man is it GREAT to be able to play arcade perfect Primal Rage and the best ports of MK2 and 3.

That's pretty much how I feel. A bunch of these games suck (Spy Hunter II, I'm looking directly at you), but a few of them (MKII and 3, Primal Rage, Gauntlet II, Xybots, Total Carnage and Rampage World Tour) are fun enough to more than justify the price.

I'd also forgotten how much fun MK3 is. I've played more of it than MKII.