Battle of the Ports - Silent Scope (サイレントスコープ) Show 460 - 60fps
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Time Code
00:28 - Arcade
01:57 - Dreamcast
04:24 - PlayStation 2
05:53 - Xbox
07:16 - Gameboy Advance
08:53 - Mobile
10:02 - All versions side by side
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Hello I am Yoshinobu Saito, the character designer of Silent Scope.
I watched your video very fondly.
Thanks for the great video.
Cool! Thanks for giving us this game and stopping by to leave a comment!
Wow! Thank you for making Silent Scope and I hope you're doing well in other games outside of Konami! I wonder if the other people who worked on this game like Shigenobu Matsuyama and Harumi "Jimmy Weckl" Ueko had a official TH-cam account!
え〜、凄いだ！私のビデオ見たことを有難うございます。
I played Silent Scope a lot on the Dreamcast. It was on of my favourite games of the time! Thank you for the cool design. It reminds me of the original Leathal Enforces a little.
Thanks for your work on this game. I completed the story mode for the first time today on ps2 and I really enjoyed it.
Got this at my local arcade. The small screen in the gun sight is impressive considering the age
This game is for sure a hidden gem of the arcades(probably home as well), as I rarely saw it out in the wild, but when I did, I always tried to drop some quarters on it. I'm not sure how well it ever did in the home, but I will assume not to well, as this was a game designed for the unique controls of the coin-op, and without the rifle, it would never be the same. Thanks for showing some love to this title, as some of these ports I never even knew about.
I think it must have done okay for the house me as the following games also got a port.
3:57 "Watch out! The enemy is going to shoot!"
Yeah, I'll get around to him in a minute.
Lol, yep. That's quite a common occurrence in this game.
@@RetroCore Wifey: "That's it! You're sleeping in the couch tonight!".
Had this back in the day on the Dreamcast and really enjoyed it.Never saw it at the arcades
“But as a cheap 2nd hand game, sure, why not” could be the title of my game collection.
I thoroughly enjoyed this on Dreamcast. Its a quick game but fun to master.
And I even liked the GBA for what it was.
Had no clue it made it to Xbox, and with a 3rd game I've never played!
Adding that to my grab list forsure.
Cool video. Nice education.
Thanks for watching.
7:23 Yes, man, I can believe it! Every single franchise in the history of gaming got seemingly ported to the GBA whether it made sense or not to do so! Cool to see a BotP episode that's 6th gen only, it doesn't happen very often. As the Silent Scope Collection was never playable on the 360 via backward compatibility, I understand you finally got an OG Xbox, or is it emulation on PC? If so, it looks legit to me.
It does seem that every games was concidered porting to the GBA. Even arcade games like Crazy Taxi ended up in it.
The Xbox footage you are seeing here is taken from a real Xbox. Xbox emulation doesn't run this game. It reaches the game select screen then complains that the disc is dirty 😅
@@RetroCore maybe "the disc is dirty" is a super smart copy protection that we aren't aware of.
I really enjoyed this on the Dreamcast. Thanks to Redream, I can actually play that version on this very phone.
Nice!
@@RetroCore It really is. I supported the developer by upgrading Redream to the $5.00 HD version, because his work is fantastic. If you're using an older, underpowered phone the free version is just as good though.
Interesting. I had a magazine that talked about the upcoming Dreamcast release. I only really knew about the story because that's what they talked about and all the screenshots only showed the scope being used, so I just thought it was a weird game and never had the curiosity to check it out again. It's a really cool concept
I really love playing Silent Scope. It's a great story.
The cool thing about the Xbox version and it's dopey looking gun (I have it CIB) is that it's HDTV compatible so it works on modern TVs, a rare thing.
Are you certain? I've seen several sources that state it only works with CRT :(
I have the Pelican Gun,too and it DOES NOT work with modern LCDs. Only CRTs!
But he isnt that wrong. I remember on some versions the Packaging stated it is compatible with HDTVs.
But i think its in terms of when the Game came out. I think they ment 100hz CRT TVs with that. NOT LCD Panels.
Am I right in remembering that the VMU worked as a sniper screen and actually showed enemies on it when you were aiming at them?
Man I really need to fish this one out again I used to love it.
It does get pretty tough. I think playing it via the Xbox light gun would be the easiest option.
I loved the Arcade version of this, it was so cool with the sniper rifle! I have the Dreamcast version still and it's a great port. What a brilliant BotP 👍🏻
I wonder why the Dreamcast version wasn't made compatible with its light gun accessory. A greatly missed opportunity.
@@ultraspinalki11 absolutely!! Such a shame, the only let down of an otherwise great port
The ports are not light gun enabled because that would have been unbelievably complicated to work with the magnifier cursor representing your rifle scope. The Dreamcast compatible light guns only interact with the screen for a split second after pulling the trigger, but for the magnifier cursor to actively follow your aim would require constant interaction, which would make the game unplayable. You would need a Wiimote style gun that coordinates with external motion sensors to make that work, and that tech didn't exist for home consoles till after the Dreamcast had been discontinued.
Thanks for watching.
I've played the Arcade once back in the very early 2000s. It was good but surprisingly the home ports are still fun. Well, at least they are on the Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox.
@@RetroCore I didn't even know the GBA got a port! It looks like an interesting version, I'll have to see if I can find a cheap copy.
Now here a game I haven't played in the Arcades in years Mark. I use to be on this game so much that others would ask me can they play after your finished. 8^)
Anthony...
I've always meant to play this again, pretty sure I tried it only once in an arcade but enough to experience the screen scope setup. Last time I looked I was chasing the Xbox port because it had a gun peripheral, yeah kind of goofy Mountain Dew green thing heh.😉
I forgot about the GBA one, yeah it's not very ambitious with the graphics as I'm sure it could do either polygon environments or polygon people based other 3D games I've seen on the platform. At least they had the sense to not use an overly lossy image format, hate to be zooming in on JPEG artifacts.😄
Java version sort of fulfills what I speculated on for the GBA port. Polygonal environments definitely keeps the active 3D camera system of the original game intact.
I have some fond memories of this game back in my arcade journey days. I feel like the only systems that could have somehow done these games justice would be maybe the Nintendo DS and WiiU.
Silent Scope is my favourite Light Gun game. I bought it for my Dreamcast back in the day. There was a Silent Scope arcade cabinet in the Airport where I worked. The gun was massive LoL. I enjoy the long distance sniper assassin aspect of the game. It's similar to playing darts. I never completed the arcade mode I got to the last level boss which I think was a butch woman in a room full of crates. She was too tough for me. I felt like the hit detection was a bit dodgy. Perfect head shots that wouldn't register especially in boss battles. Today I play on the Xbox version which is great because you get all 3 games on one disc. But I feel that the scope cursor is a bit too sensitive to control compared to the Dreamcast version even after adjustment in the control menu. The scope cursor either moves a bit too fast or a bit too slow. I never had that issue on the Dreamcast. But with practice I can just about live with it. We are missing these gallery arcade shooters in today's gaming. You need proper skills to be good at games like Silent Scope.
Konami should have made an expensive at-home peripheral that modeled the sniper rifle. I spent a ton of time and a bit of money trying to track down Guncons for Time Crisis for my PS1 back in the day. Maybe a giant military rifle replica in the hands of kids is without taste, after all.
There are the Pelican Scope lightguns for Xbox and Ps2. Xbox version has an sensor to detect if you are looking down the Scope.
Was the arcade cabinet actually a light gun game? It may have been an analogue sick disguised as a gun the way Operation Wolf was. I have this for DC and it plays well. It's a pretty shallow experience but it's great for what it is.
Thank you for the analog stick info for Operation Wolf 👍
It was not a light gun game. The screen inside the rifle scope did all of the hit detection, so no need for any light gun interaction with the main screen.
@@ostiariusalpha thought that might be the case.
Another great BotP. I never did try the arcade Silent Scope though I know the mall arcade had a cab (maybe it was SS2? One of those). I only ever played the Dreamcast version, and that I borrowed a bit later in 01 from a buddy in just because he had high praise for it. Well...I only found it to be okay. We had both played (and were playing) stuff like Rainbow Six and Counter-Strike, so I guess between that and my general lightgun-game love, he thought I'd enjoy it a lot. It wasn't bad, but I just couldn't really get into it. I knew it was on PS2, but never realized it was on XBox or GBA. That week or so on the Dreamcast is the only time I've played any of the series, and it really didn't make me want to go out and try more. Again, it's not a bad game, but if I'm going to play a lightgun game,, I'd much rather play a House of the Dead, Time Crisis, or Virtua Cop game or even Lethal Enforcers II or Revolution X. Don't know why this game didn't click for me.
All the big boy console versions are pretty much the same to be honest. I'd say the Xbox and DC via VGA are the best options to play.
"Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! You've lost your touch!" God, what a toxic workplace.
Sounds like my real work place 😂
Hey there Retro Core! Nice job on this Battle of the Ports video!
Say, Since "Puzzle Bobble Everybubble" is going to be released soon, maybe you can make a Battle of the Ports video of "Puzzle Bobble"/"Bust-A-Move" to celebrate the release of "Puzzle Bobble Everybubble" if you are alright with that!
I hope you make more good Battle of the Ports videos and other types of videos you make too!
I'll add Puzzle Bobble to the list. It won't be this coming week though as I've already filmed this week's footage.
@@RetroCore That's nice! I do understand it won't be coming out this coming week but I can't wait to see it when it is made!
Apparently 2 weeks ago substantial progress was achieved regarding Silent Scope emulation. I expect that game to run fine in the distant future :D
Nice, I wonder how long it will be.
Still, in regards to this game it's nit such as big deal as the home ports are basically identical.
Had this on the Dreamcast, not even sure why, as without the Arcade Sniper Rifle, it lost an awful lot for myself.
It's too shallow for long term play.
I did like the idea of using the VMU as your scooe, but in practice it just fell short of the Arcade Rifle.
I agree that the home ports lost a lot without the Arcade style gun.
Worth mentioning that the Dreamcast mouse works with Silent Scope.
I did not know that. Thanks!
This is exciting, because i love also the Game Gradius 4 and based on the Hornet Konami Hardware and Silent Scope is also the Game for this Hardware. It should be maybe also some unofficial reamke from Lethal Enforcers. As Light Gun Shooter are many Elements included like on the Lethal Enfrocers Series. Great Review from you.
Thanks.
This game does remind me of the original Leathal Enforces quite a lot.
Why I missed this episode?
It surely was a fun game for its Times. Too bad it didnt end up at PC, I can imagine it being much more playable with Mouse controls
I've heard that the Dreamcast and PS2 versions work with a mouse but it isn't mentioned on the packing.
@@RetroCore Yup, can confirm that. I played it with the mouse on Dreamcast. Made aiming a lot easier, but I remember it still being quite difficult, because something was a bit off. Maybe the sensitivity was too low and the crosshairs moved too slowly? Can't remember what the exact problem was. Maybe the Dreamcast mouse just wasn't that good.
I'm pretty sure you can use a mouse with the dreamcast version not sure about ps2.
pretty sure the ps2 version also support mouse, I can confirm the second game does
@sergito2040 I've not tried a mouse on ps2 I know mouse support is hit and miss with newer mice on ps2.
I know the Japanese DC box does not say it supports a mouse. That's not to say it doesn't but officially it is not mentioned.
As for the PS2, I have no idea.
This is probably the last light gun game I played during the true arcade days, which were running on fumes at this point. As for the ports, a light gun game that doesn't use guns just sounds wrong, however I completely understand building a sniper rifle for the ports would have caused all kinds of issues, never mind just the money one, the xbox port might be worth picking up since it has the option of a light gun, but they're all great ports by the look and sounds of it, but yeah nothing will match the arcade with the actual sniper gun. Also the GBA must have had a quota to get every port no matter what lol.
Hi There Another great video i loved this in the arcade in blackpool but found it hard to play as im small.
Does the MAME version of this work or would dreamcast, ps2 or xbox be better??
As you can see from this video, the MAME version does not work.
I'd go with the Dremacst or if yoh want a gun, the Xbox version is the only one that offers gun support.
I remember game got average reviews in Polish magazines, main complains were lack of light gun support and very high price for game that could be finished under an hour...
Yeah, it wasn't too well received anywhere due to that lack of gun support. .
4:48 but it does support mouse controls on the ps2
No idea. I don't have a PS2 mouse. The box doesn't mention it.
@@RetroCore I actually use a logitek laser mouse , I think you can use any kind of laser mouse around
Nice video. But I wish you included pictures of the various lightguns on the consoles. I don't know what they look like so it doesn't mean anything when you say the Xbox lightgun was funky looking.
This game and Airforce Delta/Deadly Skies are the only instances in which Konami did anything really worth with the Dreamcast. How sad.
And airforce Delta can't even run in VGA mode which is sad. I did really like that game as well. Especially flying through the enemy base. That was pretty cool.
I did enjoy the Pop'n Music games too. There are 3 on the Dreamcast. DDR was also on the Dreamcast, 2 of them. Finally there was the anime Blade game. That was also enjoyable but yeah, Konami never really gave their best on the Dreamcast. Their biggest and probably best game, Castlevania was canceled.
@@RetroCore There's some good news with the VGA in Airforce Delta/Blue Skies. Dreamcast-Talk user TapamN has been doing VGA hacks/patches for games which didn't support VGA, among them is this game, and there's also others like Bangai-O, Psychic Force 2012, Seven Mansions and the first two KOF games.
Regarding the games you mention, I don't mean they aren't good games, but they are mostly bemanis and the interactive animes which truly have some appeal. In that same lot you could introduce some sports games like the International Track & Field and the Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakkuu game. But they are not high profile games, unlike Airforce Delta/Deadly Skies and Silent Scope, which really are the only ones which make great use of the system, both of them by the same developer (Konami Yokohama, it seems this studio was the only which really bothered to try something on the Dreamcast).
There's people who put Konami efforts for the Sega Saturn in question because of their not so desirable quality development in games like Crypt Killer, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Genso Suikoden and Vandal Hearts, but hey, not only you have all those games on the Sega Saturn (except for maybe Crypt Killer, the others are AAA titles), but also titles like Snatcher, Policenauts, all the shoot' em up games/collections which are massive, some other sports games (more or less the same as the Dreamcast ones, there's two Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakku games, another realistic baseball game, and you don't have Track & Field or NBA game like in the Dreamcast but there's a football game) and even the Tokimeki Memorial games if those are you thing. Even with the shortcomings, Konami on the Sega Saturn simply trounces Konami on the Dreamcast, both in quantity and quality.
BRO! No one’s ever done this sleeper arcade GEM THANK YOU RETRO! 😍😍😍
You're very welcome.
@@RetroCore and next battle of the ports I really really would like you to do the segas ferrari f355 challenge ❤️❤️🥰 if you could please 🙏🏼 I love that Naomi / dreamcast arcade game
I'll add it to the list. The next BOTP will be an arcade game that was ported to the Saturn, PlayStation and Windows 95.
@@RetroCore oh lol ok :) what arcade game would that be ?
LOVE THIS GAME! Never played it, though... but it was a pretty nice sniper simulator by Konami.
It was good for what it is.
Seeing how functional is the GBA version, I think this game could have easily run on the SNES. It actually would have been a great Super Scope game!
Indeed. The SNES or any 16 bit console could reproduce the GBA version with ease.
Wow ! *sexy saxophone intensifies*
Man the GBA port is such a weird creature, consider how did you go from the arcade game that was meant to be played with the sniper and crammed it into a GBA cartridge with a tiny screen and not much pushing the 3D
My late friend Eric had a seizure while playing this for the Dreamcast, prompting him to chuck it down the stairs.
The whole console? Sounds like your buddy Eric had more issues than just photosensitive epilepsy.
@@ostiariusalpha Probably explains why he is my late friend Eric, doesn't it? 🙄
@@jamesburchill7522 I mean, you could have amicably gone your separate ways, or he died heroically while saving a child. I wasn't exactly hoping for the worst here. 😅
Wow, I didn't think this game could give someone seasures. I guess thats why they have various flash options to choose from.
Sorry to hear about your friend though.
Good vid.
Thanks.
Yeah i have my ugly Pelican Sniper Rifle Lightgun for the Xbox. With a sensor that switches to the Snipping Reticle when you look down the Scope. Super Cool and biggest Lightgun in my Collection.
Thats the Closest it can get to the original Arcade Machine.
There was a version of the Gun for ps2 but afaik, it didnt had the sensor to detect if you are looking down the scope.
The gun is cool but kind of ugly as you said.
you know there was a rumor that in a certain window you could zoom in and see a nude pic in this game ........ and the "hurry up and calm down" drove me crazy the few times I played this
I think the nud picture is probably an urban legend.
Hi. Can you fix the timecode typo for the mobile port in the description?
I'll have a look when I get home tomorrow.
Thanks for letting me know.
EDIT : I could fix the time stamp from my phone 👍
I remember playing this when I was a kid, it was very cool to play but the mounted rifle was also a bit heavy to move. So I was pretty much horrible at the game.
This looks like a real chore to play without the light gun.
Yep very true or maybe I suck at these games
It's not that bad as long as you can memorise which button remove the scope and slow it down.
I'm amused by the Java version enemies just doing squats during a firefight. Also, can't but wonder, if a Wii U port might have been, interesting. With the secondary screen as the scope, maybe even some silly plastic rifle butt to mount it on....
A Wii U port would have worked, kind of.
They really need to calm down with those "calm downs!" I think I play this game at the arcades before........it was hella fun! Who knew being a peeping tom actually heals you, Konami with the knowledge!
Lol, it's no wonder the captain is constantly telling the player to calm down. His heart must be pumping from all those lovely ladies.
Didn't know this game has a Dreamcast port.
Did it was a Japan exclusive title?
I think it may have gotten a EU released as well.
@@RetroCore released in UK
, 2000-11-17
Im like the sound driver on the GBA version! Its fells well done with a clean stereo sound too. Its make sense as this game dont banger the GBA CPU hardware very much, nor its required to do. This is just like the Pinball Dreams.
I would have liked to have seen some 3D in the GBA version. It could have easily done what the mobile phone version did.
They might have tried it, but opted to using 2d only. No idea, howover but, im do still like the sound driver used.
Doesn't the Dreamcast and the PS2 both have mouse support? Also you can use the vmu as your scope.
I know the Japanese DC case doesn't mention mouse support but that doesn't mean it's not supported. So yeah, it may do.
I think you forgot to include the iOS version of silent scope that was released about a couple of years ago
Ah, I didn't forget. I just don't own any ISO devices.
Sad to see that Dreamcast & PS2 ports didn't have that lightgun support, otherwise the gameplay would be easier. Also it would have been nicer if this game were to be released on Wii (at least on Virtual Console) since Wii Remote is perfect for this kind of game
I have this on Xbox fun game. Wish Microsoft could have made this backwards compatible with the Series X.
Same here but I have the DC version which is just the same so no real loss I guess.
Really for Gameboy😱
Yep. Seems everything ended up on the GBA.
@@RetroCore
It made some sense.... with over 80 milions gba sold you could find several fools
"-Wow"
would have been Great on teh WiiU
Remember this in the arcade... i actually wasn't that interested in it at the time. I guess i found it fiddly
It was an interesting game but for most people, we did look rather silly playing it.
I guess the narrator wants you to calm down🤷♂️
Lol, I guess so too.
Even with all of its quirks, I still prefer this kind of Sniper game over more modern ones due to having a more controlled, cartoonish violence depiction instead of more realistic, over-the-top, gruesome action. As for why there was never a sniper rifle nor gun-shaped controllers, there's another explanation: after the 9/11 events, Sega and most of their associate videogame companies took the informed decision of not to build nor market gun-shaped toys nor accessories in honor of the victims and their families. It was a time to mourn the deceased, after all and any reminder of those dark events was politically incorrect, something that Sega didn't want.
I need to fire up my Xbox.
hard to emulate bc mouse controls.
You must not have watched that segment because it's slow, choppy, and the audio has massive stuttering; controls are not the issue.
Yep, you're correct.
it's the Arcade emulation that's at fault, not because of mouse controls. This game in arcade form just simply isn't emulated well.
You forgot the iOS version. The worst version of all.
I didn't forget it, I just don't own any ISO devices, only Android.
Actually, that's not true, my wife's company phone is an iPhone but we can't install games on to that.