Battle of the Ports - Power Drift - パワードリフト (show #12)
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In this episode of Battle of the Ports we take a look at the amazing Yu Suzuki arcade racer, Power Drift and it's many home versions.
Time code for each format
00:37 - Arcade
01:56 - Sega Saturn
04:15 - Dreamcast
05:47 - PC Engine
07:57 - Amiga
10:00 - Atrai ST
11:41 - Commodore 64
13:24 - Amstrad CPC
17:16 - ZX Spectrum
19:10 - MSX
22:01 - MS DOS - เกม
8 bit home micro coder (Z80 based micros) John Mullins, never saw any of the coin op assets from Sega, everything was done from scratch, with coin op used as a reference.
ZX Spectrum was lead version., the Amstrad CPC with MSX as an afterthought.
Once Spectrum version was finished, CPC version 85% complete and MSX version around 100% complete as it was just a case of linking in different libraries and replacing misc graphics and sound assets.
Pc Engine's arcade ports are really amazing considering it is 8 bit (ish)
I used to play the C64 version quite a bit. It was FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
Love the arcade soundtrack to this game!
Just been playing this on the Turbo Grafx Express using an Everdrive, Aside from the Dreamcast Saturn and 3ds I'd say this is the best port, Now if this was 1990 I would have been blown away playing this on a handheld back then, Some lucky kids would have been happy!
It's a shame the Mega CD version never saw the light of day :(
@@RetroCore That's typical Sega, Never does what the fans ask for, Until recently at least. 2 games I would have liked to have seen that were long rumoured, Power Drift on Megadrive or Mega CD (Pref CD) and Daytona USA on 32X! Oh and also Destruction Derby 2 on the Saturn would have been sweet
Also try PC Engine versions of Afterburner and Out Run. They were the best home conversions on hardware contemporaneous with the arcade original, plus they're both HuCards so could work in the Turbo Express!
That axis-tilting is why Power Drift is one of the _very_ few driving games that made me a little bit motion-sick, and I _loved_ it! The axis-tilting is fookin' _essential._ If it doesn't have axis tilt, *_it's just not Power Drift!_*
And the greatest sin of the Spectrum/Sinclair ZX _and_ MSX versions? All the drivers and all the cars look the _same._ If I'm making some other driver eat my dust, I like to know who that driver is! Is it Harry? Is it Lucy, or Michael, or Jason, or Jeronnimo? _I can't frickin' tell!_ I only know that it's not Emily because I _always_ played Emily. Emily is the sweetness! If they ever remaster Power Drift, Emily should be its mascot. ^_^
Holy shit!! I knew you can do amazing things with sprite scaling and rotating, but this...just beyond anything I've imagined. It's just...WOW!!
I take it this is the first time you've seen Power Drift? Just imagine seeing this back in the day. It was even more amazing :)
Retro Core Yes. I completely missed arcade era and videos like yours, help to discover old gems.
Considering that I nearly lost my jaw after seeing special effects in Contra 3, I'd say I would have been completely paralyzed for several minutes from awesomeness of this game. Seriously, it's really cool. And your videos are very cool as well.
Also, I was surprised at the quality of the Commodore 64 port. I always thought of C64 as a lowly machine that is capable of only some really primitive stuff and all of sudden, a some ports of arcade games look really nice and even playable.
At the same time, I am puzzled by the quality of Amiga ports - I had an impression that Amiga was a very powerful machine which was capable of awesome graphics and music and suddenly most of the arcade ports are outright bad. It's like complete reverse of stuff that I knew. It's nice.
In general the C64 is reasonable at arcade ports but in the case of the Amiga they are awful 90%of the time.
The arcade version was brutal hard clearly designed to get them coins. I had (still have ) the C64 version which is a great game. Actually, i have both for emulators but prefer the C64 for gameplay and nostalgia.
No, no, trying to play it with the Joystick on ST and Amiga does not make it more controllable at all! Time ago, the italian version of the review magazine C+VG asked the programmer ZZKJ why the 16 bit versions of Power Drift were so slow and uncontrollable. ZZKJ answered:"When I told Activision that porting all that graphics would have created slowdowns and confusion, they answered me that it was not important, and that I had to put on the screen as many cars as possible at the same time. I accomplished the orders..."
Haha, great quote, thanx for that!
Nice work Activision... not
I remember exactly this interview and these words.
Thanks to Activision's meddling, you get a game that looks good in screen shots but falls apart immediately once it's in motion.
Your videos are now my favorite TH-cam channel!
Cheers man!
You need to check out M2's 3DS port. It plays just like the original, and even has new characters like Alex Kidd, Hang-On guy, and that Flagman from OutRun.
I don't think that was out at the time of making this video but I would like to check it out at some point.
It was out on the 3ds as part of Sega 3D Classics Collection.
Seriously Yakumo, you're a freaking legend. If there's any way I can help you raise your views let me know.
Thank you! The best thing you could do to help my ratings is to spread the word about my channel via the likes of Twitter and facebook. I'd be so happy if you could help :)
The C64 port was awesome! Loved playing it :)
The Amiga version is painful to watch.
I'd love to see a Dreamcast handheld with the most important games.
Maybe a Circuit Sword can do that...
Use DOSBox for the MS-DOS version and lower the emulation cycles so it can run at the correct speed.
I did try that but then it crashed :( Maybe it was a bad dump of the game?
Yakumo1975 I have a genuine copy of this game from the PowerHits Sports compilation CD so I can confirm this game runs correctly on Windows 8.
First, get this custom build of DOSBox from here: ykhwong.x-y.net/
There's a reason for this that I will get to last.
Second, use a fixed cycle of 3000.
Third, run PDCONFIG.EXE in the game's directory so the sound and video settings are as good as they can be.
Fourth and optional for awesome music from this game. Acquire the MT32_CONTROL.ROM and MT32_PCM.ROM files somewhere. These are the program ROM and the sound ROM needed for Roland MT-32 emulation in the custom build of DOSBox. Put these files in the same directory as the custom build of DOSBox. Select "MT-32" as your MIDI device in DOSBox under Sound. Run PDCONFIG.EXE and select "ROLAND MT-32/LAPC-1" as your audio device.
Then be blown away by how good it sounds. Try this on other game games (e.g. Sierra and Westwood games) that support Roland MT-32 music and you'll never go back to Adlib/Sound Blaster FM music again.
There is also MUNT, an MT-32 emulator, if you prefer to use the official DOSBox build. You will need to set that up individually and manually connect DOSBox to MUNT yourself, but you do get a cool simulated LED display of the Roland MT-32 module that sometimes shows custom messages from the game.
Wow, so much information. Thanks for that. I'll take your advice and try that out. hopefully it will all work out fine for the next video.
I played it on my C64, never knew it was a port from an arcade game. I remember only that the game was very funny to play and very very smooth.
I loved the amiga version, played it to death 😅
Surprised by the good Commoddore 64 version!
I´m guessing the Yu Suzuki Dreamcast disc is quite expensive now? :P
Yeah, the C64 version is really nice to play and the music is fantastic. Good old SID chip music.
Hmm, not sure on the price of Yu Suzuki Game Works these days.
If you make it to the extra stage in the arcade game your car turns into the plane from afterburner O_O
love these port comparison vids
That's great. I used to love watching them myself but sometimes they never featured the games I wanted to see which is why I started my own :)
also the home computers like the spectrum amiga etc i do not see them in many vids i guess thats more of a european thing i used to have them when i was a kid
I think you're right. I had a Com' Plus 4 for my first ever computer followed by a Master System then a Mega Drive in 1988.
Yakumo1975 had a spectrum 48k as my first computer then a 128k followed by amiga 500/600/1200 was after that i got consoles
You sure had a few computers. My friend had a Spectrum 128 while another had an Amiga 600. Our next door neighbour had an Amstrad CPC with disc drive, oohh. oh and another friend has a Vic 20 :) So I was also pretty lucky as a kid to be able to sample so many different machines.
The Commodore 64 version looks great!
This looks amazing on the 3ds
The Amstrad CPC version is impressive :)
The first arcade game I ever beat! I love power drift and had it for the C64 too I never could get it on dreamcast though.
To get it for the Dreamcast you'll need the Yuu Suzuki Game Works book. The book comes with a GDROM which includes 5 games.
I know, I've tried two copies but they won't work on my pal system I can't get past the start screen :(
bummer :(
I managed to get a copy of game works for Dreamcast! And it's so much fun :)
And, in any case, C64 always has its dignity. What an unforgettable computer.
3DS Master Race!
The ZX Spectrum uses upto about 40% of its cpu cycles to generate sound. And can completely consume it when multiple voices are being synthesized. As for the dos port. If you are using DosBox, for some games the performance settings can give the game a false sense of clock based instruction counters. It would be interesting to try on real PC hardware to see if it is any different. Most programmers learned by 1991 to not program to a specific cpu level, but use actual real time counters. Maybe this game doesn't do that. Wing commander 1 and 2 are other examples that are too fast on anything more than a 386 dx25.
Yes, the MSDOS appears to be running way too fast, just look at the timer
And I have a strong impression as if C64 and MSDOS versions were made by the same people, they are extremely similar to each other
Bloody hell.
PC Power Drift was £29.99 and you needed an 8 Mhz machine with EGA graphics and sound card to get the best from it?
Elite owners only then.
So if I get the Japanese Saturn version of this game which I’m highly considering, is it close enough to being arcade perfect to where you would have to take a magnifying glass to your CRT TV to see the differences ?
No. The way the track moves isn't Arcade perfect. The Dreamcast version is though. But if you couldn't tell the difference from this video, then what does it matter? As long as you are happy then that's important.
Retro Core I have one more question retro, I’ve been currently playing Neo Geo battle coliseum for my Japanese PS2, and I’ve been searching all over the net for an answer to this question but can’t find any
In the settings menu of Neo geo battle coliseum you can change the screen to normal or soft, what’s the difference between the two, Someone said the soft option makes the TV screen look identical to the Sammy atomous wave arcade version screen
What would be your choice between the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast versions?
Hmm, probably the Dreamcast since that is basically they arcade version running in a higher resolution. The Saturn version is really nice however the graphics aren't quite as sharp as the DC version plus it sort of cheats when it comes to the tilting axis. The whole screen tilts rather than the actual track.
Retro Core also iirc, the Saturn version runs at 30FPS while it's at 60FPS on Dreamcast
but on Saturn there are some exclusive modes which maybe are worth the go, i still don't know, but anyway this version is in my wantlist (already have some Saturn Sega Ages, great serie!)
@@ryzmaker11 what are they exclusive modes in the saturn version?
Actually the saturn version gives me a headache... im sure on the dreamcast it will be less painful for my eyes because of the 60fps
Amiga version is a shame, I prefered to plys with CPC version
"YOU ARE A HANDSOME BOY!"
MSX version pwns all.
Com'on SEGA do a sequel!!
One of those games that just shouldn't have been attempted on the poor Miggy. Still, it sounded okay...........
I'm surprised the Genesis didn't get a port of this.
The game was originally scheduled for a release on the Mega CD but was quietly cancelled.
I'd rather they try to put it on the 32X, look how well Space Harrier turned out in that.
I think we all know why it never came out the 32x. Still, at least it finally arrived on the Saturn which is very close to the Arcade but not perfect. The Dreamcast though is perfect.
I'd like if they made a 3DS port of this. That would be cool.
PlasmaPower There is a 3DS port. However it's only available on the Sega 3D Classics Collection. (Which is the one that's available outside Japan!)
The c64 version was scaled back to better fit the hardware so isn't really the same game but bloody good . Amiga version just way too slow, which was odd as programmed by ZZKJ the guy that did superb version of super hand on , which was very good in the amiga
Maybe ZZKJ was given one of those famous UK publish deadlines. You know, make a triple A game in 2 weeks 😢
@@RetroCore think u right there , I was excited for this game when I seen he was handling the port.looked great in still screen shots
@@RetroCorehe wasn't allowed to code it in the fashion he wanted, management insisted he have as many cars on screen at once, as possible.
The C64 version is better than you'd expect, with its smooth game play. I'd take it over the Amiga any time. Sega Saturn is close, just not arcade perfect. Dreamcast version is still the GOAT unless Sega brings PD to current consoles.
Hey where is the 3ds port
Take a look at when this video was made.
Uk press strikes again 🙄
C. C. I, joint C64/Amiga review, no issues with C64 one, but the Amiga review...
Points out jerky frame rate, making it nigh on impossible to see what's going on at times, so you have to often guess which direction to go, it's way too easy, doesn't make full use of Amiga capabilities, plays worse than the C64 version.
So pretty ropey, yet pulls in a 72% score.
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Classic 🤣