The (Not As) Many Ports of Earthworm Jim 2 | Retro Rampage
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Earthworm Jim, released in 1994, was such a huge success that a sequel was released the following year, and it continued in the footsteps of its predecessor by being ported to a bunch of different platforms! Just like before, each version has its own subtle differences from the rest, so from the Genesis and SNES to MS-DOS and even the Sega Saturn, which one comes out on top? In this episode, Jonathan reviews and goes in depth with every major version of Earthworm Jim 2.
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Facebook: / rampagingrex
Instagram: / rampagingrex
Retro Rampage Episode Playlist: • Retro Rampage Episodes
My quest for a Chip Butty: • Quest for the Chip Butty
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro/Chip Butty Quest
1:54 EWJ2 Game Overview (Genesis)
9:58 SNES Version
12:29 Sega Saturn/PS1 Version
17:23 DOS Version
18:42 Game Boy Advance Version
20:25 Outro
#EarthwormJim #SegaGenesis #SNES - เกม
That Saturn soundtrack
MAN IT’S SO GOOD!!
Damn right
The Saturn and playstation had worse collision , enemy and bosses doesn't bounce back when shot making the game harder, in the other hand the SNES version has a MSU patch with the Redbook music making it probably the best version to play.
In Puppy Love, you can press one of the buttons to make Jim dive to catch puppies too far to catch normally. There's also another button to turn Jim around to catch puppies right behind him.
4:42 that splat sound was timed perfectly
Earthworm Jim 2 is my favorite game ever. Although I can agree that it has a bunch of faults. Still a great game
The first game will always be my favorite, but I do enjoy playing through EWJ2 from time to time. What's your preferred version of the game?
@@RampagingRex I grew up with the PS1 Pal version so it’ll be my favorite because of nostalgia and because I paid a pretty penny for it. But I think the Saturn version is better.
@@RampagingRex I actually enjoy “Puppy Love”, mostly because I played Game and Watch’s Fire before hand.
@@RampagingRex Genesis & Saturn
No ps1 is better
The Genesis Instructions actually told us, that the level is Villi People but in the Game It’s Jim‘s now a Blind Cave Salamander
Depends on where you are in the world.
I just watched the first earthworm Jim video and was wondering where the second one was and boom! just got uploaded!
I've never seen a chip butty with salad in it in my life!
The idea repulses me to my core.
Liked the video for the chip butty reference anyway.
Gotta be honest, I had no idea what exactly went into a chip butty aside from french fries, so I just ordered a random sub with fries on it. Was still pretty good though!
@@RampagingRex its english so you want real chips not thin fries (you guys would call them steak fries i guess) n a barm or between regular sliced bread. buttered with maybe some ketchup. but you have made me hungry and your love for EWJ is wonderful. I used to draw him alot in school too :)
@@RampagingRexyeah it's just bread, butter, thick chips and sauce in a chip butty. I think you were saying buddy? 😂
I'm definitely one of those people that prefer the second game over the first and its honestly one of my favorite platformers of all time now. and I'm actually glad they decided to be so experimental with the gameplay because it at least gives people the option of whether they want a more straight forward platforming experience like with the first game or if they want a platformer with way more variety like in the second game but that's just my opinion and I really love your videos man.
The earthworm Jim 2 port on gba has to get an award for impressive but didn’t work
Much like a Chip Buddy is a French Fries Sandwich, there's a neat kebab close to where I live that sell Shawarmas, which are effectively the kebab version. And they are EQUALLY awesome! Anywho, the long awaited sequel. Gotta say, this is an incredible follow up, I'm amazed I didn't comment earlier. And I found I came back to this and the first episode for comparison differences after streaming the first game for a channel milestone. Might hold off on streaming No. 2, given the certain copyright claims that Moonlight Sonata is sure to throw. Argh, the plight of EWJ2 having such delightful moments accompanied beautifully by the work of Beethoven! Great episode Rex!
Why do they copyright claim ludwig von beethoven music? They were made before copyright was a thing.
Butty not Buddy 🎉
*Butty
I loved the skit at the beginning,
Chip Buddies are amazing lol
What also helps is how much quality was put into this video, subbed
As earthworm jim says: Tender
15:15 I recognize that industrial rhythm loop from E.G.G.M.A.N.
Puppy Love is why I play the game on easy mode. It ends after 3 rounds instead of 4.
I just discovered you channel and when I saw this at 16:11 I instantly subscribed. Keep up the good work!
A Chip Butty is more than just a fries but optionally can have either ketchup, a brown sauce, mayonnaise, or malt vinegar as a condiment.
Loving these videos, great work!
every day I want Jim in Fortnite.
the suit could use Jim himself as the pickaxe.
snot, the glider
his backpack holding snot, backbling.
various weapons could easily be added, for example----Iron Man's Unibean = the Plasma shot lol
This is fantastic, I loved how the Earthworm Jim games took advantage of different hardware! I hope this guy does more reviews of console ports.
Holy Sheetz! You live in a blessed region.
I feel so dumb. For decades I didn't understand why a the homing missile was a house. It wasn't until I heard you say it out loud that I realized it's "home-ing"
Wait, they made a GBC game based on the cartoon? Never knew that!
They did, but it's not good at all and I wouldn't recommend playing it unless you're a diehard EWJ fan.
@@RampagingRex As an EWJ, I can’t help but say EWJ3D feels more like an EWJ game than Menace 2 the Galaxy.
There's one more version of this game... the EVERCADE VERSION!
SNES msu1 as well aka the Nintendo playstation version as well.(with Redbook audio)
I really like this game, besides I can only get a chance to play it on the snes service on Nintendo switch, yeah you heard it right: this game is even in that service, but anyway, I made far til puppy love 2, and overall it only had two faults in my opinion:
1: you were true about the puppy love part in the first review: sometimes I lose many puppies that I have to rewind
2: I may be not addicted to the snott swing, but that life in anything but tangerines is straight up stupid
Let’s hope Jim really makes a comeback been missing him for some years now 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
I just watched ur ewj 1 ep and thought.. hmm i hope he did do ewj 2.. and bammm uploaded 2 weeks ago 😂💪💪
Sheetz!! Ah, I see you are a man of culture.
Really enjoyed your video man, instant subscribe!
What is the music on the video's end card(22:16 to 22:40)???
The reason for that question is because the song heard at the end of the video is a really rocking tune!!!!!
Nice video!
This and the video on the first game are… Grooovy!
I just watched and enjoyed your two Earthworm Jim videos but was bummed to see you didn't do one on 3d. Give the people what we want, there are dozens of us!!
Wow, so cool to see such a recent video on this game!
Edit: hold on, you prefer a password system over a level select? Why? What's the catch here?
That sandwich looks good
Lorenzo’s Oil was probably cause TenNapel and co. left Shiny after EWJ2’s release
Good to know the original earthworm Jim is on genesis mini
Man, never know about shield move! Спасибо!)
awesome!
I was looking for which version to play and this was incredibly helpful. Sounds like the DOS version is best (updated soundtrack without the weird Saturn backgrounds) excluding the missing second level, think I'll play that and just play the Genesis version separately up to Lorenzon's Soil.
16:14 ah Look Who's Talking
Well done 👍
There is also 3 nes versions that are unofficial and here are what they are:
The first one was by a taiwanese development team known as "Shin-Shin" which were ex-developers from a taiwanese company known as "Sachen" and it only has 4 levels that being "Anything but Tangerines" "Puppy Love (Part 1 only)" "Lorenzo's Soil (No soil at all)" and "Udderly Adducted" but my rom of it does not have lorenzo's soil in it and this port only has 2 guns that being that the "Plasma Gun" obviously and the "Finger Gun" you have to select between weapons to whip due to the nes only having 2 action buttons and this version had passwords and parts of the stages are separated into different levels due to limitations and also there is no snott backpack and also this port was published by yet a other taiwanese developer that being "Ka Sheng".
The second one was by a taiwanese development team known as "Super Game" which actually is a division of a taiwanese developer that being "Realtec" and this port has 7 levels that being "Anything but Tangerines" "Inflated Head" "Puppy Love Part 1 and 2" "The Ville People" "The Flyin' King" and across we have "Udderly Adducted" and jim can not whip and you have infinite ammo in it and you only have the plasma blaster though you have the snott backpack the physics in this port are very bad with a very awful hurtbox but the music slaps but isn't faithful to the original but interestingly it uses the konami sound engine and it is missing the "Well done" screen and when the game ends it just resets for some reason and also it has no options menu so like your not going to know the controls at first but we are not dumb we know how controls are in nes games and that is what I can say with this port.
The third one was by a chinese development team known as "Waixing" though this port is known as "Happy Biqi 3 - World Fighter" and I don't know much about it rather than it literally replacing most of the characters with more generic ones and you now play as a boy named "Biqi" and it's just the worst of the worst the music is not the same (Except for puppy love) and the sprites are butt ugly I can't say more of those it just exists though it is the only port to include "See jim run, Run jim run" and that really is all.
Weird how they cut Lorenzen's Soil from the DOS version, there really is no reason for the level to be missing other than they were crunched for time and programming the sand physics would've taken too long. Either way, it's a shame that one of the best levels in the game was cut, yet all three Puppy Love levels remained intact.
That's one version I'll never play then. Lol
you can get the saturn's soundtrack on the snes version with the use of msu-1 patches
Are you saying chip butty or chip buddy.
As a yorkshire lad I feel its my job to check.
Butty is slang for buttered bread. Back in the 50s butter was a luxury item so you wanted folk to know if your bread was buttered.
They would even just eat bread and butter sandwiches
It's chip butty
My favorite is (PS1)(SEGA SATURN)
I have Jim 1 and 2 on the Gensis Online and Super Nintendo Online for my Switch accordingly. Good times!
Agreed I love anything but tangerines sega Saturn it’s a masterpiece but anyway other than puppy love I love this game and keep up the good work 👍
Have you ever tried the nes bootlegs of 1 and 2?
Oh wow XD this review says some of what I said in my own review of the game, even some things about the different versions of the game. Yeah, Jim 2 is always an iffy case to me because, while I like it, it's nowhere near as fun as the first one to me. I think I described it in my review as "the first game is more fun to play while the second one is more fun to watch" when I got to 2 (was covering both games in that review) due to the improved animation quality and stuff =)
I love the soundtrack of the 32 bit versions, but something about it feels off gameplay wise. I think it was due to being ported by a different developer. My favorite is the SNES version.
There are subtle differences in the 32-bit versions. The buttons are mapped differently by default unless you go into the menu and change them, and Jim's jumps feel slightly floatier. The higher resolution on the Saturn also makes the sprites appear slightly smaller. I'd recommend the DOS version so you'll still have the CD soundtrack, but with Lorenzo's Soil missing, it might be best to just stick with the SNES version.
Ps1 music is miracle
There's an MSU-1 patch avalible for the SNES version that lets you have the CD audio in that version. So you have the best of both worlds.
It's especially weird that they didn't have the ability to switch weapons in the Genesis version, since... well, other games figured out how to do this without the 6-button controller. Like Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - lightly tap Start to switch weapons, hold it to pause the game. EWJ2 on the Genesis should've had the same deal.
19:13 What voice and what game
I own the japanese Sega Saturn version...cool game but i much prefer the original one over this...that chip buddy at the end looked different than the one at the beginning, ahahah...more tomato...less fries xD
Is there anything special about the Japanese version
@@HrvojeGrahovacQuiz. Removed
@@alelauguz so I've seen in a video. Apparently, Jim has a small cult following in Nippon
You tell me that the first oje was meant to be Genesis exclusive, and LESS THAN A MONTH they regret? Man, not even Dreamcast.
What’s the pun for flyin king lion king?
Yeah it's Lion King, since that was released the year before EWJ2.
Does the Saturn version have long load times?
It has load times, but they're not that bad. Around 10-15 seconds each.
I had the Playstation port as a kid, so it's great to hear I grew up with the best version. Played through the Genesis version on Nintendo Wii a little while ago, and I could swear something was different! ...and now I know why. But... was somebody else freaked out by the naked salamander stage in their younger years!? I always felt really creeped out whenever I played it, and the quiz meister at the end was so scary to me that I almost stopped playing the game. I would just close my eyes and answer the questions blindly until I passed that sequence.
0:36 you got 200% of health
4 minutes later...
4:41 you got %100000 of health
you previesly "if times up, it makes an earthquake that makes you loss a lot of health"
*an earthquake starts and makes a fryse fall off of the chipbuddy
you got %1000 of health
4:48 Same for me
Have you heard of the mClassic?
Where can you buy a chip butty?
Saturn and dos are the definitive versions and snes is the best handheld entry
TIL that Primanti's specializes in Chip Buddys
I find it more beautiful, easier and funnier than the first one. I have it on PC, I don't know which is the best version.
Nope its more harder
Lorenzo's Soil is the reason I didn't beat this game on my PS1 as a kid, not because it was difficult, well not just because it was difficult, but because the skeletons along with the music and the darkness terrified me. I would have played on if I had one of the 16-bit versions, because they aren't scary, at least not in this level.
Good
Now it's on NSO.
No PS1 version?
Yeah! No ps1?!
I mean other than slightly better parallax scrolling on Saturn, both 32-bit versions are identical.
@@mariojoan903Yes.
The hell? I had no idea the shield existed...
I never minded puppy love (I sort of like it honestly). I really really don't like The Flying King tho.
The Saturn and playstation had worse collision , enemy and bosses doesn't bounce back when shot making the game harder, in the other hand the SNES version has a MSU patch with the Redbook music making it probably the best version to play.
The problem I have with the game is too much puppy love it ruins the place of what could’ve been some awesome platformer levels
My thoughts exactly. I can appreciate what they were trying to do by changing up the gameplay style every level or so, but it felt unfocused so I still prefer the first game. It definitely needed more levels like Anything But Tangerines.
funny how they called it "totally forked"... what is it with earthworm jim and making puns of swears???? lol
Your videos rock, nicely edited and conceived. I like the commentary, even if your speech is a bit too fast at times (I'm Italian and sometimes I cannot follow your discourse), but it is still enjoyable and interesting. I hope you will produce a lot of these videos, because I really enjoyed this one. About the game: they did such a wonderful job with the SNES version this time, visually it destroys md version and stands up well against the 32 bit versions: it is probably the best way to enjoy this game, while the first one looked like a poor port.
Is there any incarnation of this game for nintendo switch? Or for any way to play it all today? I still have my SNES, but loaned the game to some jerk 20 years ago who never gave it back. PS. I LOVE PUPPY LOVE!! Especially when they splat.
I already play the gba version
Don't Do That
I own a snes classic edition and it’s broken😢
20:10 What about earthworm Jim 3D?
I... actually kinda like Earthworm Jim 3D.
@@RampagingRex that’s fine
I could switch weapons in the snes version
First!
Console wars did it
You forgot the port for evercade
That one is just the Super Nintendo version with the Nintendo logo removed at the start.
Ok
@@iliketrainskid541it's show me your movés Not ok
Aight then.
*Alright
Cut the filler. "Play the one most accessible to you." ......
No fukkin shit
Woahhh… take it easy big guy
Super Nintendo version sucks! It's like you all conspired to praise her. Music on sega is the best, graphics on sega is the best! Just look at Jim in the dog love level, on the sega it's more detailed and sharper animation, and the proportions of the houses on this level are more correct, while on snes the proportions are not logical. On snes, the level in the caecum is not beautiful, there are a lot of crooked sprites, the color palette is boring when on sega the colors are bright, expressive. In the TV show, the presentation itself is better on sege. The second level on snes is completely buggy! He digs the ground incorrectly, the ground is digging in pieces of glitches. The very resolution of the game on snes is several times smaller than on sega. On the level king of the sky on snes, if you fly to the end of the level without a ball, there will be no boss! And the animation itself of the fall of the slug on snes is not complete in both animation and voice acting, and only on sega this moment is complete. On the sega level in the cecum, you can go without bursting a single lamb, on snes it is not possible to do this. You can go to the second level on sega by digging up all the ground on the level, this moment is thought out on sega, not on snes. The continue animation is the best on this one. Before the start of the level, the splash screen in the sega version plays music, but it doesn't. Sega has many unique hidden walkers that are not in the snes version. For example, you knew that the first level on the shoga can be passed in a circle as many times as you like! It's fun, on sega every level is unique and special, every level has a lot of fun, which can't be said about the snes version. The last level on sega is subjectively better. There are more cheat codes on this one. Only the sega version has a shield. The version on sega is generally prettier and exciting, I'm not talking about an erection, but about the emotional excitement that the game on sega causes in children. The version on snes objects is much worse, a pathetic copy of the original version on SEGA GENESIS❤
Thank you so much for also reviewing and doing Earthworm Jim 2 awesome you were able to do both games 🤎🤎🤎