Battle of the Ports - Hard Drivin' - ハード ドライビン (Show #26)
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A game that I loved playing in the 80's every time we went on holiday to the seaside, this is Hard Drivin' from Atari.
In this video we take a look at 12 different versions of the game. Actually, 10 different versions as the Saturn and SFC / SNES are really Race Drivin' which is basically Hard Drivin' with an extra course.
Time Code:
00:25 - Arcade
02:33 - Mega Drive
05:04 - Super Famicom / SNES
07:44 - Amiga
11:05 - Atari ST
16:08 - Sega Saturn
18:39 - Sega Saturn (Real Mode)
20:19 - MS DOS
21:45 - Atari Lynx
24:13 - ZX Spectrum
27:43 - Amstrad CPC
30:16 - Commodore 64
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If only the Super Nintendo version used the Super FX chip(which Starfox used), then it would have at least been playable.
Yeah, It may have even been better than the MD version.
I'm actually surprised that Argonaut never ported Race Drivin' to the SNES using the FX chip. Jez San actually did that amazing Game Boy port, which was surprisingly smooth and easy to play. I'm sure that with his porting skills, combined with his deep knowledge of the FX co-processor, he could have made something which played very smoothly.
both suffer bad fps...only MSDOS running high FPS without any chips...all it need ram and intel cpu
For a brief time during my childhood, I owned an Atari Lynx which came packaged with Hard Drivin' as well as Ninja Gaiden, Batman Returns, and an American football game.
The Atari Lynx version, whilst technically impressive, is ruined by it's awful sluggish controls and lack of tracks.
Sound was basic.
The awful oversteer though, ugghhh..
27% from ST Format at time of review
40% C+VG GO! Magazine
The Lynx ver is so hard to control.. youre so right. What challenge to just complete the loop or stay on the road lol.. im trying!
I've played Genesis version of Race Drivin since my childhood , and this game still looks impressive.
Powerful Genesis processor can do the things that SNES processor will never can , even with Super FX chip.
The Genesis version also has a f*cking map editor , that even more impresses me.
Thankfully , i don't have SNES since childhood (In Russia it wasn't very popular due to high prices on console and games) , because almost all multi-platform versions on SNES sucks in comparison with Genesis , and Race Drivin is not exception.
This was 2 years ago but still; you are really missing out on a lot of great games if you don't want to play Snes games just because there are more multiplatform games better on the Genesis, because the Snes probably has more exclusives games than multiplatform ones, or at least arcade ports that didn't come out on the Megadrive.
This had no reason to be ported to Saturn outside of a collection. Sega Rally, Manx TT, and F1 Challenge were out on Saturn then...
Fuck you im getting this for nostalgia in my modded saturn
I'm not sure if I spent more time running into that cow in this game or the horses in Daytona.
hahaha, I know where you are coming from there on both games :)
As far as I know, Amiga version came first than the Megadrive one. I remember at the time some review magazines that about the Megadrive version said:"Looks like Tengen forgot to convert the Arcade, and instead converted the Amiga version!".
MCMXC5 i wish they did the same thing for race drivin,on the megadrive is the same game but on the amiga is a really big improvement,if they ported the new amiga version sega would have had some good arcguments for sega does what nintendon`t
+MCMXC5 Yeah, but as far as converting this game is concerned, the Mega Drive *is* basically the same as the Amiga. The custom graphics facilities of each machine are essentially irrelevant as they're not of benefit to a "true 3D" polygon game, and neither has hardware-based polygon support. So most of the heavy lifting is going to be done by the CPU... which is a 68000 running at almost the same speed in both cases.
The arcade machine has an additional twin GPUs it uses for the polygon calculations, so the Mega Drive is far closer to the Amiga than to the arcade.
Of course, this assumes that the Amiga version was written as well as it could have been- given the hardware- in the first place.
Yes:(
Pity the amiga version was another straight ST port: had they used blitter performance could have been a bit better - is not that more detailed than FA-18 interceptor in example;
Calling the C64 version the pinnacle of crap is actually insulting to crap! The developers of that abomination should be sued for crimes against humanity!! 🤣
Now that's embarrassing since I had that game. Anyway really love the videos. Keep up the excellent work.
i expected this game to have a shit ton of bad ports, because the arcade game graphically demanding and there arent too many good game devs then, its no surprise to me, all you can do is pretend to enjoy ehat you got, and hide the pain.
Saturn's Real Mode looks decent. Considering it's textured version of a game released in 1989, of course. Still better, than non-texture version.
It amezes me that not only 8bit machines can render polygons at hardly playeble speeds, but even most 16bit versions struggle to run the game at a smooth frame rate along with laggy controls.
It's average that despites the C64 uses sprites(wich saves alot of intensoive cpu power,but it's just slower then other 8bit versions,hell even the gameboy version has polygons but some magically how runs smoothly.
c64 version doesnt use sprites, but c64 has the slowest cpu amongst popular 8 bit computers.
My latest "Shit Game Time" commentary is up and this time I cover the C64 version of this game, I also rate it on the "sgit-o-meter" at the end, you may enjoy it :-)
th-cam.com/video/LwC7llwrXdU/w-d-xo.html
Vitor Vilela's SA-1 hack for SNES Race Drivin’ makes the game surprisingly good. Tried it with a flash cart.
I'd say it becomes even slightly better then MS-DOS port!
I've not had the opportunity to try that but I am interested to see how it performs.
I prefer the arcade version. I do have the arcade version on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 on my Nintendo GameCube.
Wow, I remember back in 1989, watching that HUGE loop in a cabinet.. like.. WTH????? Really impressive piece of tech for its time. Saturn version frame rate is so inconsistent LOL
The Arcade was cool back in the day. I loved watching it.
The Lynx is from the 80's which is even more impressive
You have to have the "crashed" music, IMO. I could just imagine Robert Stack narrating all my crashes on the Genesis version; it was brilliant. :)
Oh my! It used to cost 50p to play this in the arcade as I recall, which was a lot at the time.
Still better value than the home computer versions that were utterly hopeless.
Lol, I know. I remember being at one of the arcades in Blackpool asking my dad for 10 pence pieces to play some arcade games. We came across Hard Driving and my dad was like "Bloody Hell! 50 pence a game. That's daylight robbery!" 🤣. How times have changed.
Yay, I love this game! The arcade game always amazed me, and I had the Genesis/MD version (which I actually think is a really good game, despite the flak it gets from everyone). Also glad Race Drivin' was included just so the traveshamockery of the SNES version could be included. Shame you didn't include the GameBoy version, though.
Oh man, I forgot about the GB version. During the editing of this video I was thinking about a GB port but for some reason I decided there wasn't one. I really should have checked that out before the final edit.
It actually doesn't look that different than the ZX Spectrum version... when I saw that one in the vid, it instantly reminded me of the GB version.
Fantastic comparison. Thank you. I belive there was also a Playstation version. Curious how it compares to the Saturn in your opinion.
Ah, yes I beleive there is. Most likely it's a port of the Saturn version since that came first.
The ST version is so much smoother than the Amiga one...
never could pass up a hard drivin cab without playin it. still one of my favorite arcade games. unfortunately its never had a good home port. when midway arcade treasures 3 came out I got so excited thinking it would support the force feedback wheel, but it doesnt. what a wasted opportunity.
I clearly remember asking my dad for 3 10p pieces to play this game in Blackpool when I was a kid. Most games were only 10p a go back then so 30p must have been pretty expensive :)
Retro Core Same here, most games were 25c, but Hard Drivin' was 75c, and when Race Drivin' came out, it was a whole $1 to play... it even had a bill feeder on the side of it! It's still the only arcade game I've ever seen with its own bill feeder. On my $5 weekly allowance for arcade games (my parents bowled on a league, so I spent every Friday night in the arcade), I didn't play very much of either of these, and whenever I did I was terrible cuz, you know, what 10-year-old is gonna be good at driving in a simulator? I didn't even know what a clutch was!
The Lynx version should have been better. Look how well S.T.U.N. Runner turned out.
Saturn is good in arcade mode... I don't care for real mode. The BGM in real mode is great, but the textures & added roadside objects didn't turn out so well. A lot of the roadside objects add distracting pop-in which isn't in the arcade.
I think the Lynx version of Stun Runner is better because the actual track is not made of polygons. This leaves more Cpu power for the actual "cars".
@@RetroCore Scaled sprites? I know Lynx is good with them. Might have been better to make Lynx Hard Drivin' this way.
I've seen a video of the NES prototype one & it's actually decent. It surprised me, with the NES not having sprite scaling or much CPU power. The stunt track loop actually looks better on NES than SNES. Tengen shouldn't have given up on that.
Yep, Lynx Stun Runner uses sprites or background tiles for the corse effect or at least it does for the tunnels.
The NES hard driving demons pretty impressive.
@17:30 delivery truck driver be like "TURN AROUND NOW! THIS ROAD IS A FUCKING LOOP!"
ZX spectrum version whilst missing the cow, does have the skid pan, which is missing on ST and Amiga versions.
Don't say that. Some Amiga fan boy will post with an excuse. Atrai fans won't. Isn't that strange.
@@RetroCore I'm an Amiga fan and I feel the ST version is superior.
I thought the Genesis version was gonna be the shitty one haha.
Surprisingly not.
Also Forgot GB Release
There's a Playstation version too: Race Drivin' a GO! GO!. Haven't played it but it looks like a further enhancement of the Saturn version, with some annoying co-driver speech and perhaps extra tracks.
+Silanda Just what we don't need, a crappy Saturn Port with annoying speech. Saying that I will have to check it out.
+Silanda I love Race Drivin' a Go! Go! it's a nice game
uh sega genesis was definitely not a smooth framerate. It's a slide show... what like 3fps?
It's the game that came with my MegaDrive, forced in a bundle in fact before Sonic was even out. God that frame rate was even worse than I remembered, but I did love it.
Is it just an emulation thing, MD vs Genesis, or does Hard Drivin'? actually look and run slightly better then Race Drivin' on the Genesis? I have Race Drivin' myself so buy Hard Drivin' too fells redundant, but if it does indeed play slightly better, it might be worth it.
They're both two different games so there will be differences between them. Race Driving is more complex which could be the reason why it may run slower.
but but star fox was the first 3d console game according to nintendo fanboys everywhere!
Haha, that's because they're idiots. The Mega Drive had loads of 3D games way before Star Fox. Man, even earlier consoles such as the Game Boy had some wire frame 3D games.
Star Cruiser in 1990, good night! :P
C64 had a terrible port. If you wanted good racing experience you should get .Street rod or Stunts
OMG! The SNES version looks like running Crysis on onboard graphics!
How did the developers released this game? They said "we achieved a 3FPS performance, it's ok to me", and there it is. 😂
Hehe, yeah the SNES version is terrible but then again we only need to look at the who published it. Yep, T. HQ. Everyone of there 16 but releases was terrible.
Isn't this Stunts? I had this game on MS DOS and loved building tracks for it.
Nice, I wasn't expecting this game :)
Oh Hard Drivin', a soft spot for me. It was one of my 1st 3D experiences in video games along with Voyager and both on my Atari ST around 1989. It was really something special, this feeling of gettin' lost in a virtual world, which became so real...
More recently I discovered the Mega Drive port + the Genesis port of the sequel, Race Drivin', and both are pretty good. I prefer the latter thanx to the added content + the better sound FX when you start the car engine ^^
As for the others ports:
- The Saturn one is great, already in my checklist but I know I need it (and even more now that I watched your video and learnt about the resolution & frame rate improvements).
- Amiga/Atari ST ports look okay but if they play that bad... (I haven't played the ST version since ages so at the moment I really can't say anything about its playability).
- The ZX one, quite impressive for the system.
- The SNES port is crap, SNES can barely do anything 3D without the Super FX.
- The C64 port is even worse, complete horror.
I never had the opportunity to play the arcade original but it was groundbreaking for its time.
Also I know it's a Hard Drivin'-based video but considering the few more Race Drivin' ports maybe a video which cover the 2 games would have been better/more convenient? Another reason for this: the Game Boy port (yes, Game Boy) of Race Drivin' which is surprisingly good.
And last thing: I know there's a Race Drivin' a Go! Go! game for the PS1 which seems kinda related but not sure about this. Any idea?
Anyway thanx for the video dude, it was pretty cool.
I nevr knew Race Drivin' was on the Mega Drive. I'm going to have to check that one out to see how much nicer it looks compared to Hard Drivin'.
+Retro Core
There's no visual improvements, only one audio improvement which is the one I previously stated i.e. the better sound FX when you turn on the car engine. Then there's the added content (new cars & tracks).
It's a US exclusive release that's may explain why you never heard about it.
Retro Core The game engine is identical, so the framerate and poly count aren't any better... it just has the two extra courses and cars added in.
Race Drivin' a Go! Go! is somewhat similar to the Saturn port, except that Real Mode was replaced with entirely new tracks. It still has the different cars from the Saturn port, though.
+The Dude
Thanx for the precisions. I'll check it if I can find a video.
Also , i forgot to mention that MD Race Drivin runs faster than MD Hard Drivin , that makes this game a best 3d racer on the system(Virtua Racing don't count cuz' it uses the chip)
I don't think I've ever seen Race Driving on cartridge. It sure never got a Japanese release.
There Is A Prototype Unreleased NES Version Two!
This is literally the worst game possible for the SNES to attempt without any custom chips, and shows the raw power of the Megadrive and Atari Lynx processors.
It sure does. The SNES just can't move polygons without help.
Good lord. Those Speccy, C64, Amstrad versions were pure AIDS. I would rather play ball in a cup than that garbage.
Back in the day the games didn't seem as bad as they are now. It was a whole different game back then.
I forgot how terrible the C64 version was. Yikes!
There was a PS1 version released in Japan called race driving a Go Go
Whats the point in the lynx version it looks totally unplayable.
Good job, I didnt realise how shit the C64 version was. What a rip off.
Most of us fondly remember the classics only to realise that they were actually awful.
11:14 I am so sorry to anyone using headphones...
Do you know you can center the steering with Space key on Spectrum and probably, on CPC too? that's makes the driving easier. You forgot the fantastic Gameboy version.
I didn't know that. Kind of annoying though having to let go of the joystick to hit the keyboard.
Yeah, sadly I missed the GB version :(
@@RetroCore I have to try that one. Technically the GB and Lynx are both handhelds from the 80s. I love my Lynx but HD was pretty dreadful on it.
I know the video is old but there is a Playstation version of the game too. It is just like the Sega Saturn, though.
It's featured In my Race Driving video.
More like "impossible driving" due to 5 fps on most home ports.
The Mega Drive version is actually very playable. Give it a try some time :)
i have the mega drive version and it is pretty fun
Amiga and ST versions are 8-10 FPS
The ZX Spectrum conversion took 5 months to code, runs about 5 fps and it's code and data tables are used in the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 versions.
The ST and Amiga versions took 6 months to code, ST lead platform, frame rate between 8-10 fps, 150 objects on-screen at same time, according to the coders.
I just don't understand why the never made a Jaguar version!
Game was far too long on the tooth, Club Drive intended as something of a spiritual successor.
The Spectrum & Amstrad versions can become playable with practice. The key is knowing what they've done to the controls.
The Accelerator appears to control the rev counter, so if you set the revs to 4, then let go, the car will accelerate to 60MPH (same place on the speedo), then stop accelerating.
As for the steering, there's an indicator on screen showing where on the analogue axis the steering currently is, with left an right moving along that axis. The key to straightening up, is that there's a dedicated button for it - SPACEBAR. If you play with keys, then use of the spacebar makes it very easy to straighten up, and once you've grown accustomed to the framerate and collision detection, which were terrible, then it's possible to really master the game and get round the course several times before beating the Phantom Photon.
Was'int there a Gameboy version? I could of swore I saw it on Ebay a few times, would of grabbed if I had played it on a emulator first to see if it was any good or not.
Yes, there is a GameBoy version. I didn't know about it when putting this video together.
that would've been a interesting port to have on this, there was also a ps2 port that had very crap phisycs engene and is one of the worst ports of the game (next to the zx spectrum port).
The gameboy has Race Drivin'
Brilliant comparisons. I just fired up my 030 A1200 - the game runs so smooth its unreal. Still uncontrollable though :-(
Here's the NES version; th-cam.com/video/_kwO5HLvwEA/w-d-xo.html
I had the megadrive and C64 versions of this game. The C64 was so disappointing considering there was a stunt car game using polys that was pretty good already out.
I read that the C64 game was made within 1 week or 10 days due to a big mess up with the first developer who was meant to be working on it.
Retro Core yeah a lot of C64 games were like that. Pretty much anyone could make games lol.
I'm also curious as to how popular the original was in Japan. The game had an attention to detail that I think the Japanese would have appreciated. I know Namco released a poly racer 'Winning Run' around the same time and always wondered how the two compared.
I would imagine that Hard Drivin' was pretty popular back in the day. The reason most American games are not popular in Japan is well, they're crap more often than not. Hard Drive ' was not.
Got this game with my Sega Megadrive 2, japanese import, hacksawed to fit xD
As I wanted a N64, my mom wanted to see if it was really as needed... So she bought a stinkin' pile of secondhand Sega...
She still occasionally plays Sonic 2 on it. Makes me wonder if she wanted it herself.
I remember my dad hacking up my Batman Mega Drive cart so it would fit in a pal console.
On both sides? xD Hmm, let's see if our xbox 360 imports work that way too xD
Mark van Werven thankfully not.
The thing with the Japanese Batman import is that the cartridge is square unlike normal Japanese games. This meant both sides had to be hacked off.
My Hard Drivin' cart has both sides hacked off indeed, still has burrs from sawing, about 20 years back xD
Fun times...
Really? That was all the graphics the Saturn could offer?
of course not but probably the best Time Warner could come up with it seems :p
Pinacle of crap ... I think that sums it up perfectly for the C64 version.
What really disturbed me was that the SNES version pretty much got the praise belonging to the arcade version in magazines ... having grown up with that one it did a good job at keeping me away from the arcade version which I only checked out much later - to my very surprise being a playable and enjoyable game.
Yeah, a lot of mags were all pro SNES just like they were for the PlayStation. A game could be total crap yet get fantastic scores. Thankfully there were some mags that did tell it how it was, Race Drivin' on the SNES is a steaming heap of crap.
There was a Game Boy version of Race Drivin'.
That's right. I only found out after this video was published.
PlasmaPower I like GameBoy version
For the Amiga there was an enhanced version that came out later called Hard Drivin 2: drive harder which improved the frame rate and controls
Is there like an invisible wall in the Atari ST version
I'd guess so. All other versions have one.
Wow. Another great vid. Will have to pick this up on saturn or xbox.
A game I rented for my MD a lot back then just for some cheap laughs: running over the cow and laughing at the instant replays of my own crashes. Many years later I was playing it on MAME and on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 on the PS2, again, just for the cow and the crashes. And now I still play it for the cow and the crashes.
As Supertramp sang, some things never change.
I'm sure most people who played this back in the day loved running over the cows. It was certainly something I kept doing 🙂
How could we stand those screechy 8-bit bleeps for hours on end as kids?
We had great imagination unlike child gamers today.
+Retro Core That is true
I prefer the late 80s arcade games now though
You forgot the Gameboy version...
Yes, I know. At the time of making this video I didn't know there was a GameBoy version. Sorry.
The game would have run better on the amiga if you used an accelerator card.
That's kind of like saying it would have ran better on the SNES if we OverClocked the system. For these videos games must be judged using stock settings.
@@RetroCore No no no, that's not what i meant: the Amiga line of computers had accelerator cards later in their life to boost their processing power over the stock cpu... my A1200 has a Blizzard IV 1230 accelerator card, running at 50mhz... it makes the games run much better (there are some comparison videos with accelerated and non accelerated amiga gameplay)
I see your point there. But while that's a good bonus for Amiga owners we have to keep in mind that the game was developed for use on the base Amiga 500 which is what most people were using or at least in the UK that's how it was.
I notice that you keep trying to drive on the right side of the road although some sections of the track have UK style driving (although not all, which is quite weird).
Since you are from the UK yourself and are living in Japan and thus are clearly a left side driver I guess this says a lot about how video games habits can easily override real life ones in that context. ;)
Yep. Video games and the real world are not related at all :)
My first amiga game along with power drift, out run and chase hq
Imagine this game in psx 4....its will be cool
Hey, have you tried the prototype version of Nes Hard Drivin?
Nope. I didn't know there was one. Now that I do I'm interested in knowing how it looks.
Here is an article. If you Google you may find the rom ;)
www.lostlevels.org/hard-drivin/
Filipe Lana
cool, thanks.
Surprised the Megadrive/Genesis looks playable. Where were the C64 play testers?
And good video.
Yeah, Hard Driving on the Mega Drive isn't too bad for it's time. I got a lot of fun from it back in the day.
If this came out when 3DFX brought out the Voodoo series 3d cards, it would have easily eclipsed the FPS games.
+Nighthawke70 Actually, Atari it used a 3D acceleration of 3dfx Voodoo in the arcade machines of "San Francisco Rush" of "Rush" game series, this are a little spiritual evolution of the Hard Driving
No playstation port?
The real port of Hard Drivin' was Stunts (a.k.a. 4D Sports Driving) by Broderbund Software.
Now that is a good game.
I thought Hard driving was a crap imitation of Stunts for the longest time, as Stunts played so well, and hard driving didn’t.
Aww, no Gameboy love.. It was actually one of the better ports too.
Although I had no idea there was a Saturn version, might have to track that down.
Sorry, I didn't know about the game boy version at the time. I wish I did because that would have been an excellent addition. As you said, it's meant to be a pretty good port.
The Gameboy version is up there with the MD port. It's actually fun, which is more than can be said for some ports (lookin at you SNES). Also, there is a prototype of the unreleased NES version out there. Would have been a cool little bonus, but can't fault you for not including that =P
13:45 that reminds me of the 11 foot 8 bridge
im 99% sure I played this on game boy :\
You did. It was also on the GameBoy. I forgot about that version when making this video.
@@RetroCore So I wasnt dreaming. I remember it being impressive , but I was also 10 years old :p
If I remember, there was another DOS port that played pretty much like the Atari ST version with better framerate and worse colour. The DOS version shown on the video if I remember, was released late, like in 1995.
+Valentin Casanova .You says for the "Hard Driving II. Drive Harder" it's a better version, but that was released in Amiga and Atari ST too
Nope, what I'm talking about is about this one: th-cam.com/video/h2DUlfcSOKs/w-d-xo.html
I'm guessing you use a XRGB to Capture card for your setup? Have you tried using a sync cleaner?
I used the Framemeister XRGBmini to capture the Saturn footage but everything else in this video was done via emulation from a laptop direct to the desktop's capture card via HDMI. My other show, Retro Core from the new series (coming soon) will use only real hardware. No emulation at all.
I look forward to it. I love seeing all these comparisons + videos. I use a Xrgb mini to Capture card for my setup as well. (I use a avermedia live gamer portable and it works fantastic for strange resolutions).
Retro Core I am assuming that the reason you are capturing your laptop's video output instead of having the emulator save a video of the session is that this causes too much of a load on the CPU which makes the emulation worse?
Mame has a great feature which allows to record your session's input which lets one play the game at full frame rate, then you can replay these inputs while recording the video in an uncompressed .avi with the emulator faithfully playing each frame before saving it. Unfortunately, I don't think many emulators have such a feature. WinUAE does not have it as far as I can recall which is a shame since that would definitely make it simpler for you (and many others) if it had.
Laurent Giroud hi, Yes I know about the video record options on some emulators. This is a great feature but as far as I know they all record at 29.9fps. Battle of the Ports is actually filmed in 60fps which is what most retro games run at. I'd actually like to fillm using the emulators but I'm afraid that it would put too much stress on the laptop.
Retro Core I think Mame records exactly at the frame rate the game is playing at but it's very possible that other emulators are not that flexible.WinUAE which is the best for the Amiga does not even have an official documentation for the feature... I'm starting to think I could probably give a look at the source code and see if it can be easily adapted to output at the actual frame rate the Amiga is running at (usually 50 fps for PAL games and 60 for NTSC).
This said, when playing PAL version of games on the Amiga you cannot obtain 60 fps, some kind of upscaling to 60fps is necessary. Since you are using a capture card you are essentially sampling the emulator's output at the desired frame rate regardless of the actual emulator's display refresh rate.
I wish I could say I this explains the choppy scrolling of the Amiga ports but alas these are usually so crappy that they almost all have choppy scrolling in the first place so it's hard to tell if the 50 to 60 fps sampling is causing it. :)
definetly see why they didnt call it fast drivin
What about the Jaguar port?
Jaguar port? This game wasn't on the Jaguar. I think you may be thinking of the awful Drive Club game.
The MD version is actually not half bad.
I have to admit that I enjoyed it back in the day and still like to give it a quick play every now and then.
why you didn't play the arcade version?
? Do you mean on the video? It's the first version shown.
no i mean when you show the arcade ver you didn't put a credit or play it
Ah, I think I remember I had completed all the filming only to notice I had forgotten to press record when playing the Arcade version. Probably due to time constraints I just quickly put the game on and recoded the rolling demo.
oh ok
Looks good on the Saturn, speed is impressive
retrogamer33 sadly its still a little bit dull.
thanks for the uoload.
can you put strider to your hamepage in 60fps ?. thanks
In a few weeks. I can't put stuff up there withn a certain time period due to my channel partner's conditions.
Retro Core
oh Ok, this makes sense. its a good compromise.
in a few months its 60fps on YT also. would like to see older Battles seen in new shine.
didingding
I won't be uploading the older one in 60fps to TH-cam as that would mean two versions of the same show hosted on TH-cam. But all new shows will be uploaded to TH-cam in 60fps as well as the official site.
Well saturn is my favorite
I did enjoy the Saturn version back in the day. Just a shame the pop up is so bad.
You and I have a very different definition of a playable framerate
Obviously compared to modern games it would be concidered unplayable but for its time the likes of the Mega Drive version was respectable.
Retro Core my guy I love your channel but respectfully disagree. I always considered hard drivin to be my worst md purchase, tied with sword of sodan 😁
Ah, Sword of Sodan. Now that is a stinker of a game
12:58 overtake a car on the looping :D
The car is actually coming towards me. You can see it enter the loop on the other side as I do. Still, some lucky driving :)
Hello, are you from Japan?
Yes I am but I'm not Japanese, I'm British :)
from a technical perspective the Spectrum and Amstrad versions are incredible.
The Genesis version is horrible 😡😡Anyone want it?? Let me know,Thanks🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
*Raises hand*
Great compilation! I'd love some time with the arcade game again but I doubt I'll ever find a place to play it here in the northeast. If I ever have the money and the space I'm buying one for myself. It's a shame that none of the ports could do justice to the original, even the Midway Arcade Classics version completely dumbed down the controls to make it gamepad friendly.
It's a shame that the area are classics version is dumbed down :(