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[Johnny Undaunted]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater Johnny, I'm interested in knowing more about the Rad Racer port. The only Highway Star I know of on MSX is Way Limit's 1983 car maze game.

My bad! Having only heard of it by name, I always thought Highway Star on the MSX was the same game as Rad Racer (since Rad Racer was also called Highway Star in Japan), but I found I'm wrong. Silly me! Square did ported a few of their early games to the MSX (including the original Final Fantasy) before they went Famicom-only. They even made a game based on Aliens on the system.

[gameoverDude]

Originally posted by StriderKyo
The X68000 was Japan's answer to the Amiga, as near as I can tell. They look like they had a pretty kickass lineup, and maybe one day when I'm feeling evil I'll teh r0mZ0r my way through it.

Maybe one day somebody will publish a collection; we're already getting bits and pieces with things like Castelvania Chronicles.

And I'll warn you now 'zeed- I'm getting red-X-o'mania on that first post.

X68000 has some nice stuff on it. The thing was practically as powerful as a CPS II board. Super Street Fighter II on it looks perfect from the screen shots I've seen of it- and CPS I games like Strider & Final Fight are also dead-on. Only a handful of games like R-Type, After Burner, or Space Harrier suffered in the translation, and they still turned out acceptable.

Many late 80's arcade games like Pac-Mania, Alien Syndrome, etc. saw perfect ports on the system. It's a shame the X68000 wasn't released in the states, even if only as a Marty type console.

[Technosphile]

I've been waiting for a feature on the MSX, thanks Neo.

I'd buy that Spectravideo for SD Snatcher alone.

-Tech

[Frogacuda]

Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted
Not everything on the MSX was pure gold (Contra and Dracula were much better in their original NES incarnations), but the best is sure worth it.

Actually the Dracula game was on MSX first. and unlike Metal Gear, what they added to the NES port was good. And Contra originated in the arcade.

[epmode]

i really haven't done much research, but are there english translations for the msx versions of metal gear 1 and 2?

[Johnny Undaunted]

Originally posted by Frogacuda
Actually the Dracula game was on MSX first. and unlike Metal Gear, what they added to the NES port was good. And Contra originated in the arcade.

No. You're the one who's wrong. The Famicom Disk System version WAS the ORIGINAL Akumajo Dracula, not the MSX version (that's a common misbelief here). The MSX version came out a month later in Japan and was Konami's first MSX2-standard game. If you beat the MSX version, the Famicom team is even mentioned in the ending credits. Trust me, I know my Konami.
http://homepage1.nifty.com/sugimo/dracula/series.htm
http://homepage1.nifty.com/sugimo/dracula/staff.htm

Vampire Killer sucks because they tried to make it more of an Adventure game by forcing you to find keys to get to the next stage. Finding the keys can be a real bitch when you're in a hurry and the lack of a save feature hurts the game (although you can use the Game Master cart to access a hidden Stage Select).

And yes, I know Contra was an Arcade game first, I was talking home versions.

Originally posted by epmode
i really haven't done much research, but are there english translations for the msx versions of metal gear 1 and 2?

Yes. There was an official English version of Metal Gear 1 released in the Netherlands, but only half of the text was translated (they took out Steve, Diane's annoying boyfriend). USomeone's doing a more complete translation, but in the meantime you can download the official English ROM in your most trusted ROM-site.

Metal Gear 2 has been translated to English and can be found here.

[Frogacuda]

I stand corrected ^^;

Originally posted by epmode
i really haven't done much research, but are there english translations for the msx versions of metal gear 1 and 2?

Yeah. Well technically the MG1 was released in english, but there's a trans of 2. Very good one, at that.

[epmode]

Originally posted by Johnny Undaunted
Metal Gear 2 has been translated to English and can be found here.

thanks.

[Johnny Undaunted]

Originally posted by Technosphile
I've been waiting for a feature on the MSX, thanks Neo.

I'd buy that Spectravideo for SD Snatcher alone.

-Tech

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Spectravideo is MSX1-only and SD Snatcher is an MSX2 game.