The Mega Man Anniversary Collection on PS2, Gamecube and Xbox used the PS One version of X3 which also had that intro. Honestly after playing that version for so long at the time and now playing the SNES version, I prefer the SNES version. The PS One version would show a animated FMV for each maverick when you select them, I also stopped liking those and prefer it show the maverick intro like X1 and X2.
because they wanted to preserve it's lEgAcY using the original title. Which I get but would've been nice to have as an option. Same goes for the MM classic collection by having the updated versions as an option. Missed opportunity
I remember renting the SNES version once at a Hollywood Video across town and they never carried it again because it was right when SNES stuff stopped being carried. And emulators couldn't run it for some reason at the time. AND it was a super expensive rare game. Didn't know the Saturn version had such a nice little anime!
The most likely reason is that X2 and X3 had a Cx4 chip in it. It was used to create wireframe effects in both games and if emulator didn't support the chip it wouldn't run.
Fun fact: There's an entire generation of adults who were born after Sega stopped making consoles. That's not related to the comparison, I just thought it was a neat "Damn, I'm old!" fact.
Not so old as... You can be just about 5 years older than someone who was born after Sega's last console the Dreamcast (1998)... Fun fact: Companies back then were producing consoles one after another in a very crazy speed... From 1990 to 1998 MANY consoles were released: Super Famicom, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Atari Jaguar, Philips CDI, 3DO, Apple Pippin, Sega Dreamcast and many others... Therefore... Because so many consoles were released in 8 years... Literally Sega released a console every 4 years and a shit-ton of add-ons literally every year... It's easy to say... A person born before the Dreamcast is not necessarily so much older than a person born after the Dreamcast..
I was expecting the Saturn version to mop the floor with the SNES version, surprised how well it compares. Obviously the Saturn has the FMV and better audio, but besides that the actual gameplay was far closer than I expected.
The audio is even up to debate. The SNES version has a very punchy rock mix of the tunes where the Saturn sounds like jazzy elevator music renditions of the themes.
Honestly I dont think the fmv works in this case and I love the saturn. If you compare the quality with the flying spider for example, it looks sharper on snes because compressed fmvs have become dated by modern standards. The scrolling also looks smoother on snes in that section (look at the cloud movement).
i miss this type of music. Street fighter's ready to fight, the music that plays when ryu and ken fights bison, and roll's theme in marvel vs capcom. They're leagues better than what capcom does today.
Soundtrack wise, I prefer the SNES soundtrack. The Saturn soundtrack (same can be said about the PS1 version) sounds like it has some jazzy theme going on that it doesn't fit in with Megaman X3 when it should have the hard rock & metal music going on like in the SNES version.
Music is a subjective topic. I prefer the music in the Sega Saturn/PS1 port The music of the SNES version is...lame. OK, some few tracks are good like Zero's theme but the rest are just there. Also, although I grew up with the SNES trilogy, I ended up liking the music style of the PS1 trilogy more.
@@meganinten0078that’s probably just X3 lol, I remember thinking how bad this sounded compared to X and X2. Gravity Beetle and Toxic Seahorse are nice along with the ending themes.
There's a few tracks on the CD version that sound better (Neon Tiger's theme and the End Credits theme as examples) and then there's the others that are forgettable (Blast Hornet's theme and Doppler Stage 1 theme).
Capcom actually used this type of music often during this era. Check out street fighter's "ready to fight", street fighter's "itsoshisato setsunasato", and roll's theme in marvel vs capcom "kaze yo tsutaete". It was their identity back then.
@@meganinten0078 was wondering if I was alone here. Glad I'm not. The PSOne/Saturn arrangements were awesome, especially Blizzard Buffalo's stage which was just hauntingly beautiful and perfectly befitting his stage. Capcom blew it so bad with the Legacy Collection. I couldn't be bothered to pull the trigger. They used the wrong version of X3.
I will give the win to the SNES. Saturn version looks slightly better, but they should have done a lot more with the leap in capabilities of the Saturn over the SNES. They inserted some FMVs and pretty much called it a day.
@@alxxz the music is good, but the sound effects are pretty bad. X’s charge sound effect sounds so gross compared to the SNES version. There are a couple SNES tracks that I like better, like Doppler Stage 1 and Blizzard Buffalo, and some that are tied like the intro stage, but on the whole I think the 32 bit OST is better.
But in the days , when I was 15, I would have preferred the FMV because it was "cool" and different, but nowadays I would go for the pixel art intros all the way.
Indeed, 2D pixel artwork fits better for the intro imo, since the whole game is a 2D game. I also don't like the borders left and right in the Saturn port. I'll stay with the original.
The Saturn version is actually the only version of this game that I have *not* played! I must say, the MMX games actually map to the Saturn controller pretty well. I must say though, I strongly prefer the Super NES version of MMX3 to the 32-bit versions. The gameplay just feels so much smoother, and the sound effects and music fit better.
I always found it humorous how in the anime intro, X is just standing around doing nothing while a bunch of people get blown up in their cars, just waiting for the robots to come to him rather than trying to stop them.
@@AltimaNEO SNES is stretched. If the pixels are kept square, the aspect ratio of its 256x224 resolution is 8:7 (rather than the usual CRT aspect ratio of 4:3). The Saturn doesn't offer a resolution as low as that, and so they opted to centre the image (still with the 8:7 ratio) and add borders.
@@Vegeta-79 well. Sometimes you can forget a game is in 32 column mode like nearly all the EA games. But you are losing a third of the play area which isn't so bad if the pitch is arranged vertically. But you are not getting square pixels in 32col (compatibility mode). 40 col mode is a square pixel at 4:3 aspect which is 320px x 240px. 32 column mode is 8:7 aspect which is 255px horizontal. But if you use ntsc aspect you won't get a square pixel.
@@Vegeta-79 To be honest I play Master System in 4:3 and that only has 255 horizontal pixels. But take Fatal Fury 2, which uses large images of people's bodies and the wrong aspect ruins it. You also lose fidelity, although you can line up 255 into 640 pixels I think, without blending colours across pixels.
It's not that easy to force the correct aspect on Mega Drive emulators because the only fully compatible one with it's own front end is Fusion which doesn't offer 1:1 pixels. Mednaffe ui can do 1:1 pixels. But the Mednaffe UI program might give the laymen some issue's as it's not as easy to use as Fusion. Avoid RetroArch.
Booted up my snes9x just now, I see snes game is stretched like here when playing in 4:3, but it looks correct like on saturn if you select in options aspect ratio to be 8:7. If you're gonna play on emulator, play in 8:7. Congratz on saturn devs for maintaining correct ratio when porting.
Is it more likely that the Saturn port is running at a higher resolution and thus because they didn't want to stretch the image they decide to make the image smaller by adding the vertical side bars?
Eu que cresci jogando a versão de CD no Megaman X Collection e a de SNES no SNES Station, ambas no meu velho PS2, gosto das duas igualmente. Mesmo que algumas músicas da versão de SS sejam fraquinhas, mesmo com a qualidade de CD, tem arranjos que são muito bons que merecem destaque. Os meus favoritos são os remixes dos temas do Blizzard Buffalo e do Crush Crawfish 😊
Honestly, I'm gonna stick with the SNES version. the game was basically built for the SNES anyways. aside from the FMV cutscenes & CD Quality music/sounds, It really doesn't offer anything new. The cutscenes drags the game a bit more & you got loading times to top it off. The SNES has shorter cutscenes & no load times, it basically throws you into the action. I also think the new CD Quality music in the Saturn/PS1 version sounds kinda unfitting for a Megaman X game. I don't mind Techno music but when I think of Megaman X music, I think of a more Heavy Metal/Rock style music like what the SNES trilogy does.
Wait this game had a sega Saturn release? I’m quite familiar with a lot of these games. Even the dos version with those cyan and magenta colour mode with pc speaker noises. The only sega mega man game I knew of was for the mega drive
The Saturn got versions of MM8, MMX3 and MMX4. X4 is just like its PS1 counterpart with some subtle differences. Some stage songs have an intro before the stage itself begins, they added ripple to the water, and transparent objects use dithering rather than the PS1's native transparency. And MM8 got extras the PS1 version didn't have, such as CutMan and WoodMan as mini-bosses. They come with all new sprites and remixed themes from MM1 and MM2. Sadly you don't get their attacks when they're defeated. It also had a Bonus Mode with artworks, voice test and music test. And some songs are sightly different due to different instrumentation (except for Tengu Man's stage, which uses a completely different bgm)
Por coincidência joguei e zerei hoje,na minha opinião as músicas ficaram melhores no SNES,a intro stage é a minha favorita e estragaram nas versões de Playstation e Saturn
i remember that my older brother rented x3 from blockbuster when it was still around and played on the snes and had the animated boss intros was that a blockbuster exclusive megaman x3 cardtridge?
Honestly, I’d prefer the SNES version. It’s not my bias towards Nintendo that’s making the decision. I just think the first 3 Mega Man X games are SNES games first and foremost. That’s not to say the Saturn/PS1 version isn’t impressive for the time though. 🙂
I like the saturn port for the music & the FMV's. I've just seen & heard the snes version too often so it's nice to see another version that's also on my favorite system. One issue I have with this game is the aspect ratio. It's off compared to the snes version because the saturn lacks a video mode that closely matches the snes. But besides that it's fun
Here i prefer the SNES version over the Saturn or Ps1 ports because: - I didn´t like the added FMV, it has poor quality and everything looks very jagged as if they did a bad downscale from the original source. - The music. The Ps1 and Saturn soundtrack don´t fit very well with the prior X games, the soundtrack sounds more "jazzy" while the Snes sounds more like Heavy Rock that the seires was known for. - Loading times, at least on the Ps1 version, the Saturn version doesn´t seem to suffer much from it though.
The intro is cool, but the rest of the fmv is crap. I don't like the music in any of the versions, 32 bits is too clean and doesn't fit, and Snes is too harsh, and almost every music uses the same instrumentation. sounding too similar to one another It's much worse than the music of X and X2.
I'm good with the FMV. That's cool and of course it's gonna look like shit. especially by today's standards. Im sure it looks great on a CRT. BUT THE MUSIC...that's unforgivable. Moving to a Jazzy theme than the hard rock OST for the game was an ass move.
@@Samanosuke1138gamers need to stop comparing 30 year old games to "today's standards". It's so absurd. The FMVs look fine for the time, that's all that matters. Of course it doesn't look good as the witcher 3.
Por mais que eu ame de coração animes e o velho Saturn/PS1... Eu prefiro a versão do SNES... Os consoles de 32 bits deixaram esse jogo muito "feliz"... As musicas estão muito... sei la não encaixam... com a "vibe" do jogo... Ja a versão do SNES é muito mais seria... O que condis com a historia do jogo... Até mesmo a intro eu prefiro a do SNES com aquela musica de futuro distópico e militar!! E olha que eu amo animes!! Para eu achar a versão dos 32 bits melhor só se o jogo fosse refeito completamente graficamente falando!! Caso esse X3 tivesse gráficos como o X4 ai sim não teria como dizer que a versão dos SNES seria superior mas esse não é o caso!! Infelizmente as versões de 32 bits foram uma oportunidade perdida!! Eu ate hoje sonho como ficaria lindo esse jogo com os gráficos do X4!!
The different music changes the whole feel of the game for me. Its like when they put Wolfenstein 3-D for the 3DO and went with orchestral versions of the lame music from the Mac version, instead of the better PC compositions.
SNES wins. I don't know why they made a weird border and squashed image in the Saturn port but it was a bad decision. (edit: it's most likely the SNES' original resolution with square pixels)
PC Windows 95 verison of X3 is the only version with a hard mode, eg an actual change, and contains all the videos from the saturn version. People don't seem to know this version exists along with its GIANT big box. You think the SNES box artwork is nice, multiply that by 2 with the BIGBOX of a PC version of this era.
1:25 La primera vez que vi esa escena de ese intro anime dije "Vaya! No sabia que X era tan agil!" 1:37 Oh no! La rubia 😒 Detesto que despues del X3, Zero se apoderó de la Saga X y le quito todo el protagonismo a X Todo porque Zero era el consentido del Keiji 'Inafunado' Inafune 😑 3:06 Yo antes pensaba que estaban atacando la casa de X y que eso era el primer stage Ahora que lo pienso ¿Donde vive X? 🤔 Hemos visto el hogar del Megaman original pero nunca el de Megaman X ¿Acaso no tiene? Pobrecito.
Se nota bastante la lentitud en animaciones y carga del saturn frente al SNES, además se ve cómo tiene que detener al SNES para que el saturn cargue todo 😂😂😂
Bueno eso es obvio, la versión de saturn tiene que cargar escenas de video además de tener un soundtrack en calidad CD a diferencia de snes que tiene una calidad de audio más comprimida.
The Saturn version with that cool intro video and better sound quality is my pick. A good intro video is always great for setting the mood of the game. Also it’s cool the boss characters get their own short animated video.
wtf I didn’t know the Saturn version of X3 had all these FMVs Also the cropping on Saturn is strange and it looks like it also experiences more frame drops than SNES oddly enough
Yeah fun to think saturn is the only port where u have the game in original aspect ratio 8:7 with bezels in a 4:3 tv. But this only happened cuz saturn minimum resolution is 320x224. While megaman on snes is 256x224.
Just based on the Intro stage, the SNES version has better music. There is a such thing as too much and unfortunately, the saturn does this. Removing the hard electronic guitar from Zero's theme was an interesting choice. And giving the stage a more jazzy feel than an urgent feel through the music was not...ideal...?
If you were to compare X3 for Saturn and PS1, you'll see that the Saturn version uses the correct 4:3 aspect ratio while the PS1 version just stretches the game to full screen.
All the contrary, the Saturn is showing the wrong aspect for this game unlike the Ps1 and Snes that show the correct 256x224 resolution in 4:3 aspect ratio.
SNES cant do 320x224, while as Saturn cant do 256x224, and since the saturn's gameplay is in a frame, logically we can claim its the SNES resolution within Saturn's one. The lacking 64 pixels are compensated with this frame, same thing with previous VCDECIDE with ghost n goblins 3 comparison. As for PS1, it supoorts both 256x224 and 320x224, not stretched but snes authetic
Gameplay Graphics look better on the SNES. The FVM stuff of course can only be done on a CD system. Though I feel thats just fluff. I'd skip past all the to get into the game.
this game was made for a 256x240 resolution, so, Snes is better, even if just for that. Things can get really small on Saturn, depending on the size of the TV.
Tienes toda la razón, el juego de Saturn en realidad es un port y no está a la altura de un juego de Saturn. Saturn podía hacer verdaderas obras de arte en 2D. Capcom era de hacer cosas como ésta y lanzar los juegos una y otra vez con pocas diferencias.
Rockman X3 vs Rockman X3 Special Edition Well for one thing the Special Edition added animated cutscenes. Production values seemed really high with some quality animations. However the opening cutscene for the intro when X and Zero destroyed that machine the image quality plummets. Fans of the original will be frustrated with the Special Edition do to the cropped image display compared to normal widescreen. Stick with the Super Famicom version unless your a dedicated Rockman fan and collector. Rockman X3 Special Edition 3 Stars I was bored so I made into a movie review. Don't take this seriously.
Megaman X 3 : April 1995 (Super Nintendo) June 1996 (Saturn, Playstation) Also available on PC. Official book of tips in japanese version. The 8 boss : The order to fight them easily : Blizzard Buffalo (weak : Blast Hornet weapon : Parasite Bomb) Toxic Sea Horse Tunnel Rhino Volt Catfish Crush Crawfish Neon Tiger Gravity Beetle Blast Hornet New evil : Dr Doppler
If you're going to compare the Japanese versions of both games, at the very least use the correct controller. You're using the NA Super NES controller on there instead of the Japanese Super Famicom controller.
I was actually surprised to find out I'm in the minority that prefers the CD music (though TBF I don't think either are that great).I'd say the PS1 version is the best version of this game since it runs at the original resolution. The X Collection comes close since it also does that, but the CD audio is noticably more muffled. This Saturn version is good but if you don't have a modern scaler, the borders and skinny aspect ratio are pretty distracting. It does have a higher FPS for the opening movie compared to PS1, and interestingly, the Saturn video was used in the X Collection versions.
I also prefer the CD arrangements myself, especially for Blizzard Buffalo's stage. God, that one was just hauntingly beautiful and perfect for a cold, desolate stage.
What happened here why is the saturn chugging compared to the snes lmao (specifically the slowdown, I'm aware saturn doesn't do 8:7 and looks like it scrolls slower)
🤔 *O áudio fica ao contrário aqui pra mim nos fones de ouvido 🎧... na direita que eh o do Saturn fica o som do SNES e na esquerda q eh do Super Nintendo, fica o som do Saturno.* 😵💫
Oh my God...that Saturn intro...was beautiful!! 😭 Why the hell wasn't THAT the version in the Legacy Collection?! ;_;
The Mega Man Anniversary Collection on PS2, Gamecube and Xbox used the PS One version of X3 which also had that intro. Honestly after playing that version for so long at the time and now playing the SNES version, I prefer the SNES version. The PS One version would show a animated FMV for each maverick when you select them, I also stopped liking those and prefer it show the maverick intro like X1 and X2.
@@ChrisMS0815 I dunno, Gravity Beetles Intro is one of my favorite enemy intros ever
BILZZARD Buffalo
because they wanted to preserve it's lEgAcY using the original title. Which I get but would've been nice to have as an option. Same goes for the MM classic collection by having the updated versions as an option. Missed opportunity
One More Time is the best song in the MMX series! 🎵
I remember renting the SNES version once at a Hollywood Video across town and they never carried it again because it was right when SNES stuff stopped being carried. And emulators couldn't run it for some reason at the time. AND it was a super expensive rare game.
Didn't know the Saturn version had such a nice little anime!
Using X was SOOO hype. And then permalosing him from dying was crazy.
The most likely reason is that X2 and X3 had a Cx4 chip in it. It was used to create wireframe effects in both games and if emulator didn't support the chip it wouldn't run.
@@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航That's Zero, dingus
@@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航 You mean ZERO, right?
The reason being it uses a custom chip.
1:34 *Zero cuts Vile in half*
Zero: 😄👍
X:😄👍
Look up the lyrics for the song.
@@carlaaaventureira5256 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's funny that Zero reverted back to his X form a moment later. Didn't notice this back in the day.
@@varshard0 I never noticed that lol. I guess the animation team was on a tight budget
I just finished X3 for the Saturn this weekend, very timely comparison.
Is there an english patch or was it in japanese?
@@SeanUCF Japanese.
It's a cool port. I made sure to try it out when I first got a saturn & it's great! Every now & then I do like to go back to the snes version though
Fun fact: There's an entire generation of adults who were born after Sega stopped making consoles. That's not related to the comparison, I just thought it was a neat "Damn, I'm old!" fact.
Nah, youngsters, in their early 20s
Still an adult, also im 19 and myself have a Genesis (Megadrive), and a Dreamcast.
I’m one of those adults that were born after Sega stopped manufacturing hardware.
Yo tuve todas las consolas de sobremesa de Sega, siempre fui Segador.
Not so old as... You can be just about 5 years older than someone who was born after Sega's last console the Dreamcast (1998)... Fun fact: Companies back then were producing consoles one after another in a very crazy speed... From 1990 to 1998 MANY consoles were released: Super Famicom, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Atari Jaguar, Philips CDI, 3DO, Apple Pippin, Sega Dreamcast and many others... Therefore... Because so many consoles were released in 8 years... Literally Sega released a console every 4 years and a shit-ton of add-ons literally every year... It's easy to say... A person born before the Dreamcast is not necessarily so much older than a person born after the Dreamcast..
I was expecting the Saturn version to mop the floor with the SNES version, surprised how well it compares. Obviously the Saturn has the FMV and better audio, but besides that the actual gameplay was far closer than I expected.
The audio is even up to debate. The SNES version has a very punchy rock mix of the tunes where the Saturn sounds like jazzy elevator music renditions of the themes.
Honestly I dont think the fmv works in this case and I love the saturn. If you compare the quality with the flying spider for example, it looks sharper on snes because compressed fmvs have become dated by modern standards. The scrolling also looks smoother on snes in that section (look at the cloud movement).
i miss this type of music. Street fighter's ready to fight, the music that plays when ryu and ken fights bison, and roll's theme in marvel vs capcom. They're leagues better than what capcom does today.
A versão de SNES é impressionante!
Verdade, a versão do Saturno só presta a abertura
Soundtrack wise, I prefer the SNES soundtrack. The Saturn soundtrack (same can be said about the PS1 version) sounds like it has some jazzy theme going on that it doesn't fit in with Megaman X3 when it should have the hard rock & metal music going on like in the SNES version.
Music is a subjective topic.
I prefer the music in the Sega Saturn/PS1 port
The music of the SNES version is...lame. OK, some few tracks are good like Zero's theme but the rest are just there.
Also, although I grew up with the SNES trilogy, I ended up liking the music style of the PS1 trilogy more.
@@meganinten0078that’s probably just X3 lol, I remember thinking how bad this sounded compared to X and X2. Gravity Beetle and Toxic Seahorse are nice along with the ending themes.
There's a few tracks on the CD version that sound better (Neon Tiger's theme and the End Credits theme as examples) and then there's the others that are forgettable (Blast Hornet's theme and Doppler Stage 1 theme).
Capcom actually used this type of music often during this era. Check out street fighter's "ready to fight", street fighter's "itsoshisato setsunasato", and roll's theme in marvel vs capcom "kaze yo tsutaete". It was their identity back then.
@@meganinten0078 was wondering if I was alone here. Glad I'm not. The PSOne/Saturn arrangements were awesome, especially Blizzard Buffalo's stage which was just hauntingly beautiful and perfectly befitting his stage. Capcom blew it so bad with the Legacy Collection. I couldn't be bothered to pull the trigger. They used the wrong version of X3.
I will give the win to the SNES. Saturn version looks slightly better, but they should have done a lot more with the leap in capabilities of the Saturn over the SNES. They inserted some FMVs and pretty much called it a day.
The Saturn version sounds like hot ass, too
Maybe the developers were getting a feel of the new hardware at the time, since this is the first Mega Man X game released for the SS and PS.
@@SullySadface The Saturn, PS1 & PC music is awesome buddy!
The Saturn's in-game graphics are basically the same as the SNES!
It only looks "crisper" because it's in a smaller window with a frame around it.
@@alxxz the music is good, but the sound effects are pretty bad. X’s charge sound effect sounds so gross compared to the SNES version. There are a couple SNES tracks that I like better, like Doppler Stage 1 and Blizzard Buffalo, and some that are tied like the intro stage, but on the whole I think the 32 bit OST is better.
i put this game in my Saroo cartridge for my saturn and loading times are super fast , the intro is so cool!!!
Hi from Venezuela ,I'm a sega saturn fan.
I used to be a Sega fan, I bought genesis and Dreamcast, after that I gave up on them, they sucks, now I have PS4 and Nintendo switch.
@@Indiana-r9b 🤡 much
@@Indiana-r9b Bro, compared 30 and 20 year old consoles with more powerful current consoles 💀
Good for you
@@Indiana-r9b you kind of had no choice but to give up on them after the Dreamcast though🤣
But in the days , when I was 15, I would have preferred the FMV because it was "cool" and different, but nowadays I would go for the pixel art intros all the way.
Indeed, 2D pixel artwork fits better for the intro imo, since the whole game is a 2D game. I also don't like the borders left and right in the Saturn port. I'll stay with the original.
The Saturn version is actually the only version of this game that I have *not* played! I must say, the MMX games actually map to the Saturn controller pretty well. I must say though, I strongly prefer the Super NES version of MMX3 to the 32-bit versions. The gameplay just feels so much smoother, and the sound effects and music fit better.
Those MegaMan X3 animations are so good, I still have the realmedia files for them that I downloaded 20+ years ago
congrats on 100K subs!🎉🎊
サターンには横256ドットモードが無いのが残念だ！😅
Wow what memories! I'll definitely stick with the SNES one.
I always found it humorous how in the anime intro, X is just standing around doing nothing while a bunch of people get blown up in their cars, just waiting for the robots to come to him rather than trying to stop them.
Isso sim é conteúdo de qualidade!
call me crazy but it seemed that boss seen at 6:27 Boss Sprite seems bigger then the Saturn one
Mega man x games had so cool artwork
Saturn hands down. Mainly because of the superior controller.
SNES Forever!
So is the aspect ratio on the snes stretched compared to the saturn? or is the saturn shrunk down?
I think I prefer the SNES music and sounds.
@@AltimaNEO SNES is stretched. If the pixels are kept square, the aspect ratio of its 256x224 resolution is 8:7 (rather than the usual CRT aspect ratio of 4:3). The Saturn doesn't offer a resolution as low as that, and so they opted to centre the image (still with the 8:7 ratio) and add borders.
como o snes é foda o audio bate o cd do saturno pqp snes forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sega is, basically an intro of Anime
I prefer the PS1 version. But sadly the FMV videos are stuttering, unlike the Saturn version.
I remember that X3 intro on Saturn was everywhere back then! Only released in Japan.. and I was like, "UHHH! I want to watch this Megaman X movie!!!"
I was super lucky to get this game when it was cheap.
I found out how to correct the aspect on my Mega Drive games after all these years. Now I can't play those games otherwise.
You mean 4:3 aspect ratio?
@@Vegeta-79 well. Sometimes you can forget a game is in 32 column mode like nearly all the EA games.
But you are losing a third of the play area which isn't so bad if the pitch is arranged vertically. But you are not getting square pixels in 32col (compatibility mode).
40 col mode is a square pixel at 4:3 aspect which is 320px x 240px.
32 column mode is 8:7 aspect which is 255px horizontal.
But if you use ntsc aspect you won't get a square pixel.
@@Vegeta-79 To be honest I play Master System in 4:3 and that only has 255 horizontal pixels. But take Fatal Fury 2, which uses large images of people's bodies and the wrong aspect ruins it. You also lose fidelity, although you can line up 255 into 640 pixels I think, without blending colours across pixels.
It's not that easy to force the correct aspect on Mega Drive emulators because the only fully compatible one with it's own front end is Fusion which doesn't offer 1:1 pixels.
Mednaffe ui can do 1:1 pixels. But the Mednaffe UI program might give the laymen some issue's as it's not as easy to use as Fusion.
Avoid RetroArch.
X3
X4
Masterpiece ❤❤❤
Booted up my snes9x just now, I see snes game is stretched like here when playing in 4:3, but it looks correct like on saturn if you select in options aspect ratio to be 8:7. If you're gonna play on emulator, play in 8:7. Congratz on saturn devs for maintaining correct ratio when porting.
Again that is not the correct aspect ratio. The game was intended for 4:3 aspect.
@@jsr734 Once again you're wrong re read the comment
Is it more likely that the Saturn port is running at a higher resolution and thus because they didn't want to stretch the image they decide to make the image smaller by adding the vertical side bars?
@@MrReedEnt Yup, the Saturn's lowest resolution is higher than the lowest resolutions available on PS1 and SNES.
@@jsr734 on 4:3 all chars look squashed
I did not know there was a Saturn release
was gonna say the same thing. Did they do the same for X1, X2?
@wavnino1 As far as I know, no. X1 did get a PSP remake bit the SNES version of X2 is the only version.
Megaman X3 SNES cartridge 'alone' is about $500 $CAD, right now.
Both are amazing!
Eu que cresci jogando a versão de CD no Megaman X Collection e a de SNES no SNES Station, ambas no meu velho PS2, gosto das duas igualmente. Mesmo que algumas músicas da versão de SS sejam fraquinhas, mesmo com a qualidade de CD, tem arranjos que são muito bons que merecem destaque. Os meus favoritos são os remixes dos temas do Blizzard Buffalo e do Crush Crawfish 😊
Honestly, I'm gonna stick with the SNES version. the game was basically built for the SNES anyways. aside from the FMV cutscenes & CD Quality music/sounds, It really doesn't offer anything new. The cutscenes drags the game a bit more & you got loading times to top it off. The SNES has shorter cutscenes & no load times, it basically throws you into the action.
I also think the new CD Quality music in the Saturn/PS1 version sounds kinda unfitting for a Megaman X game. I don't mind Techno music but when I think of Megaman X music, I think of a more Heavy Metal/Rock style music like what the SNES trilogy does.
My favorite of the series with the best level design and secrets and the music was epic!
Wait this game had a sega Saturn release? I’m quite familiar with a lot of these games. Even the dos version with those cyan and magenta colour mode with pc speaker noises. The only sega mega man game I knew of was for the mega drive
The Saturn got versions of MM8, MMX3 and MMX4.
X4 is just like its PS1 counterpart with some subtle differences. Some stage songs have an intro before the stage itself begins, they added ripple to the water, and transparent objects use dithering rather than the PS1's native transparency.
And MM8 got extras the PS1 version didn't have, such as CutMan and WoodMan as mini-bosses. They come with all new sprites and remixed themes from MM1 and MM2. Sadly you don't get their attacks when they're defeated. It also had a Bonus Mode with artworks, voice test and music test. And some songs are sightly different due to different instrumentation (except for Tengu Man's stage, which uses a completely different bgm)
Por coincidência joguei e zerei hoje,na minha opinião as músicas ficaram melhores no SNES,a intro stage é a minha favorita e estragaram nas versões de Playstation e Saturn
I love that opening song from Mega man x 3 anime opening. The bass line and everything that comes with it =D.
i remember that my older brother rented x3 from blockbuster when it was still around and played on the snes and had the animated boss intros was that a blockbuster exclusive megaman x3 cardtridge?
Honestly, I’d prefer the SNES version. It’s not my bias towards Nintendo that’s making the decision. I just think the first 3 Mega Man X games are SNES games first and foremost. That’s not to say the Saturn/PS1 version isn’t impressive for the time though. 🙂
What so impressive about the Saturn/PS1 version though? FMV? Seen that before.
A very good example of a game where two people could have played the same exact game but have gotten completely different experiences.
I like the saturn port for the music & the FMV's. I've just seen & heard the snes version too often so it's nice to see another version that's also on my favorite system. One issue I have with this game is the aspect ratio. It's off compared to the snes version because the saturn lacks a video mode that closely matches the snes. But besides that it's fun
I like the anime cutscenes for the saturn version, but I absolutely prefer the snes sound and ost over the saturn/playstation version.
Here i prefer the SNES version over the Saturn or Ps1 ports because:
- I didn´t like the added FMV, it has poor quality and everything looks very jagged as if they did a bad downscale from the original source.
- The music. The Ps1 and Saturn soundtrack don´t fit very well with the prior X games, the soundtrack sounds more "jazzy" while the Snes sounds more like Heavy Rock that the seires was known for.
- Loading times, at least on the Ps1 version, the Saturn version doesn´t seem to suffer much from it though.
Yeah, the 32-bit ports of this game were completely unnecessary as they added nothing to the game itself.
The intro is cool, but the rest of the fmv is crap.
I don't like the music in any of the versions, 32 bits is too clean and doesn't fit, and Snes is too harsh, and almost every music uses the same instrumentation. sounding too similar to one another It's much worse than the music of X and X2.
I'm good with the FMV. That's cool and of course it's gonna look like shit. especially by today's standards. Im sure it looks great on a CRT. BUT THE MUSIC...that's unforgivable. Moving to a Jazzy theme than the hard rock OST for the game was an ass move.
@@SomeOrangeCatIt gave the people the option to play them on Saturn. Not unnecessary. Sorry.
@@Samanosuke1138gamers need to stop comparing 30 year old games to "today's standards". It's so absurd. The FMVs look fine for the time, that's all that matters. Of course it doesn't look good as the witcher 3.
Why is the audio playing at the same time and not switching back-and-forth?
SNES is the BEST 😎
the Japanese Ending on PS1/SS version is INSANELY better than the SNES ver. and PS1/SS European ver.
X3 is not my favorite, but for sure is the best!
Woow the SS ver is truly impressive
Zero is THE coolest mega man character ever!
I always felt the SNES version better, even on the music department when the Saturn/PS1 was unfitting and the SNES felt with more power.
Por mais que eu ame de coração animes e o velho Saturn/PS1... Eu prefiro a versão do SNES... Os consoles de 32 bits deixaram esse jogo muito "feliz"... As musicas estão muito... sei la não encaixam... com a "vibe" do jogo... Ja a versão do SNES é muito mais seria... O que condis com a historia do jogo... Até mesmo a intro eu prefiro a do SNES com aquela musica de futuro distópico e militar!! E olha que eu amo animes!! Para eu achar a versão dos 32 bits melhor só se o jogo fosse refeito completamente graficamente falando!! Caso esse X3 tivesse gráficos como o X4 ai sim não teria como dizer que a versão dos SNES seria superior mas esse não é o caso!! Infelizmente as versões de 32 bits foram uma oportunidade perdida!! Eu ate hoje sonho como ficaria lindo esse jogo com os gráficos do X4!!
The different music changes the whole feel of the game for me. Its like when they put Wolfenstein 3-D for the 3DO and went with orchestral versions of the lame music from the Mac version, instead of the better PC compositions.
Funny how the gamecube and ps2 version had the animated intro and boss intros but the 2018 re-release did not.
Why is the "Saturn" controller an 8bitdo M30 with a SEGA logo slapped on it?
@@coatlessali I was about to say the same thing!
Muy buena la conparasion saludos desde cdmx 😮😮
I think both are great.
SNES wins. I don't know why they made a weird border and squashed image in the Saturn port but it was a bad decision. (edit: it's most likely the SNES' original resolution with square pixels)
Snes has stretched images. Saturn gives us the original resolution.
Resolution on the Saturn version seems right. SNES looks stretched.
Sega Saturn si sabe poner introducción muy chévere
the snes game is prettier, but the sega entry is cooler, so what matters to me is the game itself
PC Windows 95 verison of X3 is the only version with a hard mode, eg an actual change, and contains all the videos from the saturn version. People don't seem to know this version exists along with its GIANT big box. You think the SNES box artwork is nice, multiply that by 2 with the BIGBOX of a PC version of this era.
Is the sega Saturn 8:7 aspect ratio? Snes looks wider...
I forgot to watch the left side of the screen lol
1:25 La primera vez que vi esa escena de ese intro anime dije "Vaya! No sabia que X era tan agil!"
1:37 Oh no! La rubia 😒
Detesto que despues del X3, Zero se apoderó de la Saga X y le quito todo el protagonismo a X
Todo porque Zero era el consentido del Keiji 'Inafunado' Inafune 😑
3:06 Yo antes pensaba que estaban atacando la casa de X y que eso era el primer stage
Ahora que lo pienso ¿Donde vive X? 🤔
Hemos visto el hogar del Megaman original pero nunca el de Megaman X ¿Acaso no tiene? Pobrecito.
Se nota bastante la lentitud en animaciones y carga del saturn frente al SNES, además se ve cómo tiene que detener al SNES para que el saturn cargue todo 😂😂😂
Bueno eso es obvio, la versión de saturn tiene que cargar escenas de video además de tener un soundtrack en calidad CD a diferencia de snes que tiene una calidad de audio más comprimida.
7:56 👍
Dustman: Aqui sale el pana Blizzard Buffalo
The Saturn version with that cool intro video and better sound quality is my pick. A good intro video is always great for setting the mood of the game. Also it’s cool the boss characters get their own short animated video.
The Saturn soundtrack sounded thin.
wtf I didn’t know the Saturn version of X3 had all these FMVs
Also the cropping on Saturn is strange and it looks like it also experiences more frame drops than SNES oddly enough
Do my eyes deceive me, or is the Saturn version displaying the correct integer scale?
Yeah fun to think saturn is the only port where u have the game in original aspect ratio 8:7 with bezels in a 4:3 tv. But this only happened cuz saturn minimum resolution is 320x224. While megaman on snes is 256x224.
Just based on the Intro stage, the SNES version has better music. There is a such thing as too much and unfortunately, the saturn does this. Removing the hard electronic guitar from Zero's theme was an interesting choice. And giving the stage a more jazzy feel than an urgent feel through the music was not...ideal...?
If you were to compare X3 for Saturn and PS1, you'll see that the Saturn version uses the correct 4:3 aspect ratio while the PS1 version just stretches the game to full screen.
In other words the PS1 uses the same aspect ratio as the source material, the SNES game.
All the contrary, the Saturn is showing the wrong aspect for this game unlike the Ps1 and Snes that show the correct 256x224 resolution in 4:3 aspect ratio.
SNES cant do 320x224, while as Saturn cant do 256x224, and since the saturn's gameplay is in a frame, logically we can claim its the SNES resolution within Saturn's one. The lacking 64 pixels are compensated with this frame, same thing with previous VCDECIDE with ghost n goblins 3 comparison. As for PS1, it supoorts both 256x224 and 320x224, not stretched but snes authetic
The SNES version was 256x224 instead of the full 320x240. That was very common on the SNES to use that resolution
@@crestofhonor2349 No, the Saturn version was 320x240 instead of the full 256x224.
ROCKMAN X3 not Mega Man X3
Gameplay Graphics look better on the SNES. The FVM stuff of course can only be done on a CD system. Though I feel thats just fluff. I'd skip past all the to get into the game.
this game was made for a 256x240 resolution, so, Snes is better, even if just for that.
Things can get really small on Saturn, depending on the size of the TV.
Tienes toda la razón, el juego de Saturn en realidad es un port y no está a la altura de un juego de Saturn. Saturn podía hacer verdaderas obras de arte en 2D.
Capcom era de hacer cosas como ésta y lanzar los juegos una y otra vez con pocas diferencias.
Pq diabos a versão de saturn tem essas duas barras laterais ?
Rockman X3 vs Rockman X3 Special Edition
Well for one thing the Special Edition added animated cutscenes. Production values seemed really high with some quality animations. However the opening cutscene for the intro when X and Zero destroyed that machine the image quality plummets. Fans of the original will be frustrated with the Special Edition do to the cropped image display compared to normal widescreen. Stick with the Super Famicom version unless your a dedicated Rockman fan and collector. Rockman X3 Special Edition 3 Stars
I was bored so I made into a movie review. Don't take this seriously.
snes Bigger sprites, better Sega music, more fluidity, in-game videos
Megaman X 3 :
April 1995 (Super Nintendo)
June 1996 (Saturn, Playstation)
Also available on PC.
Official book of tips in japanese version.
The 8 boss :
The order to fight them easily :
Blizzard Buffalo (weak : Blast Hornet weapon : Parasite Bomb)
Toxic Sea Horse
Tunnel Rhino
Volt Catfish
Crush Crawfish
Neon Tiger
Gravity Beetle
Blast Hornet
New evil :
Dr Doppler
Huh…Saturn version seems slower for some reason. I wonder why
If you're going to compare the Japanese versions of both games, at the very least use the correct controller. You're using the NA Super NES controller on there instead of the Japanese Super Famicom controller.
The Saturn controller is off too
I was actually surprised to find out I'm in the minority that prefers the CD music (though TBF I don't think either are that great).I'd say the PS1 version is the best version of this game since it runs at the original resolution. The X Collection comes close since it also does that, but the CD audio is noticably more muffled.
This Saturn version is good but if you don't have a modern scaler, the borders and skinny aspect ratio are pretty distracting. It does have a higher FPS for the opening movie compared to PS1, and interestingly, the Saturn video was used in the X Collection versions.
I also prefer the CD arrangements myself, especially for Blizzard Buffalo's stage. God, that one was just hauntingly beautiful and perfect for a cold, desolate stage.
Intro are so crazy. But the ost dont the same ora like snes
It's funny. Sega has objectivly the better sounds, but it does not trigger the nostalgic for me ^^ - feels even wrong ^^
What happened here why is the saturn chugging compared to the snes lmao (specifically the slowdown, I'm aware saturn doesn't do 8:7 and looks like it scrolls slower)
Quick and dirty port. They spent more time slapping on window dressing than optimizing the game code.
Man idk if this is controversial but I’ve always felt the snes soundtrack was way better than the Saturn one.
Na minha opinião todas as versões são boas, mas classifico dessa forma: 1° snes, 2° PS1, 3° Sat.
a versão do Sega Saturno é boa mas eu prefiro a versão do Super Nintendo.
Ive always wondered where this opening came from i thought it was like the jp intro but nope its sega can when nintendont.
X is basically Indiana Jones
Nice intro but i prefer Snes version
The same problem as we've saw in Super GnG
Other than the cut scenes, it's basically the same game. Getting a new gen console really didn't buy you much, did it?
Nice anime scenes but music is distorted on sega, doesn't hold the "epic" tune that we heard on snes.
Zero theme no snes ficou melhor que no saturn
A abertura do Saturno da um banho, mas a gameplay me pareceu exatamente igual.
🤔 *O áudio fica ao contrário aqui pra mim nos fones de ouvido 🎧... na direita que eh o do Saturn fica o som do SNES e na esquerda q eh do Super Nintendo, fica o som do Saturno.* 😵💫