Haha, I love it! The fact that you guys went out of your way to try hardware/os/drivers that would work to run the game makes it kind of special. And, honestly, this version of the game seems to have a ton of charm.
Game developers were learning how to make gameplay fun and efficient during the 90s. Trying various things to see what works and what doesn't. Sure this game was super challenging and hard but I still really enjoyed it. It was fun for my little sister and I to find out how far we could get and what the next level would look like. I loved it on SNES. Unfortunately I didn't know it existed on PC, there's no way a kid was aware to compare it back then unless they had a friend who had it on multiple systems which was rare I think
When I was young I bought a PC version of Resident Evil. I got it home from electronics boutique only to find out it only ran on 3dfx graphics cards not the ATI one I owned.
Console ports in the 90s were always a bit of a lottery from what I remember, like it was 50/50 if they would run out of the box. Specially games from Japanese studios for some reason.
We didn’t have a computer back in those days, I was ten at the time. I remember going over to friends places and trying to play games on their computers, it would take hours just to get things to run. I felt so lucky that I owned a Megadrive and could just plug in my games and go for it! My friends loved coming over to mine so we could actually just play!
@@armorgeddon it was 23 years ago. I could be wrong on which card it needed. I do remember my computer had an ATI card because my version of MechWarrior 2 that came bundled with the computer was some ATI edition.
With all those loading screens one thing is clear, this game was designed for next-gen ultra fast SSD hardware. Day one on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
30:00 these levels look amazing... I mean even look at the purplish shadow on the mountains.. Most games would just do a black or dark dark blue shadow, but these mother truckers actually thought about how shadows get their color from the surface AND the blue scattering of light in the sky. In such a simple game, with just 2d paint tools to make the art, the artist actually thought about that. Insane..
I miss the old format DF Retro, where John would pick a title and analyze it's (and it's various ports') technical achievements for the time instead where you just play retro games.
I had this game on PC when I was a kid! God I miss this so much, the console versions just aren't the same. They didn't have the lost pilot episode as collectibles.
I had similar issues with ATI 3D Rage drivers with Mechwarrior 2's ATI 3D accelerated version. The newest dated drivers seem to work with DirectX and OpenGL but completely lack the low level proprietary API that the game relied on. I had to use the drivers from the CD the card shipped with. Maybe something similar is happening here and it's defaulting to an inefficient code path if the ATI low level API is missing.
I completely understand I'm in the minority when I say I owned the first Bubsy game on the SNES and my little sister and I absolutely loved it! What could possibly go wrong? It was silly and fun. Sure it was really easy to die, I think it would've really benefited from a 3 hearts life system instead of 1 hit KO's. But still the challenge of the game was fun because my little sister and I were always curious what the next level was going to look like and if we could make it there. We never did beat the game because it was really hard. But that did not stop us from trying! I don't think people should be so hard on the game for being challenging. it was the 90s and game developers were still learning how to make gameplay fun and efficient. it was a very experimental time for video games. We've come so far and video games have improved dramatically!
I played this game in my whole life but... Still can't start it on windows 10 natively without vmware. Are there any solutions like dgvodoo for other games? It was an utterly mainstream version in my country in the early 2000s
Recently there was a redump of the Japanese version of Super Bubsy for PC. Would be interesting to know if they just repacked the game for the Japanese market or actually changes things in game.
I had this, along with sonic CD on my old windows 95 pc waaay back in the day. Downloaded it again and cannot get it to run. Seems im not the only one lol
Never understood the fascination with Bubsy. It got great reviews in magazines back in the day, but even then I thought it was in actuality a very bad, incompetently designed game.
I found it funny that before they made Busby they made someone right a short essay on what makes Mario/Sonic fun and on that essay they point out that they like how the games have no fall damage.... so naturally they add fall damage to their game =b
I mean, truth be told, falling damage can work. It's just the camera that was too zoomed in and it didn't allow for much prediction of where Bubsy can land or not. But in the instances where you know Bubsy can land (i.e. not a Cliff), you not gliding is pretty much your fault, considering how easy that is.
Great looking game! I wish I could play that on my PC. I play Bubsy on SNES (on emulator) and it's a great game, hard to play at the end, but it's still fun to play it.
Why am I here? (Other than that I really like DF Retro plays) Why are you here? Why are we doing this to ourselves? What is the meaning of life and living? Are we living in a multiverse? How can the universe both seem to be expanding at a faster rate all the time, be conceptually endless and one, still theoretically able, to travel faster than the speed of light, therefor past its expanse? Or are the definitions of "endlessness" and borders a human figment, an indication of our inept capability to comprehend things beyond our comprehension? And why is Bubsy so smug? These are the questions we keep asking ourselves. I played through the first Bubsy on the SNES with a friend several times. Why did we do that? It will remain a mystery. Even to me. Forever unsolved. As a sidenote: playing this game made me physically nauseous. Like in: needing to throw up. A combination of its garish visuals, soulcrushing, strenuous plug and play sound effects, "jaunty" music, the floaty, unprecise controls and "less good" camera which kept sagging behind making me seasick. Not to mention the "innovative and brilliant" idea of having the camera turn upside down constantly while Bubsy river rafts on his ass, as he's also at the same time spinning around in circles. It had the same effect on me as riding a rollercoaster whilst being stomach sick. The puns though... they're so bad they become good. Or maybe it's the definition of Stockholm syndrome. I don't know anymore... Help! I need help! Good stuff! Good times!
i beat bubsy in claws encounters of the furred kind on the snes back in the day. took forever. game was way too long. but i do have fond memories of playing it.
I played this back in the day on a PC with a 100MHz 486 CPU and 1MB of video RAM, the Bubsy launcher would warn me about the VRAM being insufficient and the game ran very poorly, but I still beat it.
It's crazy when I play game like Half Life Alyx then watch a video like this. It's incredible how far games have come in my lifetime. I can't even begin to comprehend where gaming will be in 25 more years. I can't wait to find out though.
Yo, Mondo, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Bubsy was NOT one of the best 16 bit platformers of all time! Not one of the best 90's platform mascots of all time!
If anyone would like to know how to get this game working without any specific hardware needed, i figured it out. Working perfect on my Windows 10 PC with RTX 2080Ti
Hi Matt! I got the original CD and I've been trying to get it work on my Windows 10 PC, but I couldn't make it so far. How did you do it? Could you help me, please? Tks!
Yeah, not calling you a liar, but this game is notoriously hard to get working, and afaik, no one has gotten has done so on modern hardware, besides your comment. Can you divulge what you did please?
The graphics are really good, but the music pales in comparison to the Genesis version. Also, watching this reminds me why I did like the game (at least for a rent), and how by just tweaking some things (3 hits until death, some longer runs without obstacles), this game could have been really fun, and more of a classic.
I never thought the first SNES game was bad, but it was tough. It implies that you move fast, but really, it's better to take your time. This version should, in fact, be given a full update to its code, et cetera, and petition whoever owns the property to release a version on an appropriate source port. You up to it?
It's cool to see it running well, unfortunately it is fucked up on my 98 rig..but i still prefer the SNES version, those low frame rate animations are awful and the graphics, while definitely higher res and reworked, look plastic and unnatural. Kudos for the episode, Bubsy doesn't get enough love these days.
Nice Video. Can we put on our conspiracy hat and wonder if the game was purposely gimped on non-ati cards? I mean, it looks bad for ATI to release a game that runs better on its competition.
Dang. I can't find a copy of this to buy anywhere that I normally shop for old games. How rare is this thing? I want to play it, but I prefer to buy a legit copy before I go sail the seven seas.
I would like to see some talented programmer make a patch for this game so it will run correctly on modern systems and even older ones alike. There was a guy that made a "fixed" version of Metal Gear Solid on PC as well as another guy that did the same for Metal Gear Solid 2 so I am sure that it is possible although those two are newer games than that version of Bubsy. I hate to see games become abandonware.
The DF crew loves some of the worst retro games. Most people who played these games have nostalgia for them all up until they try to play them again, and here we are watching a masterful playthrough of Busby.
I really like how this channel is both about new technology for videogames that will revolutionize it all, and Bubsy.
Ehehehehe
Oh no, it's happened again. There's another Bubsy video on our channel. Whelp...
*sees self out*
Thank you for that, John. 👍
Here's to hoping this becomes its own series. Our four-pawed hero deserves all the recognition he's finally getting.
Haha, I love it! The fact that you guys went out of your way to try hardware/os/drivers that would work to run the game makes it kind of special. And, honestly, this version of the game seems to have a ton of charm.
Don't waste our tax money that way! Give us MiSTer!!!
Oh my god I had this as a kid.
It's sad that the Bubsy sold on Steam is the SNES version emulated, what a wasted oportunity.
@@davis1228 They are the SNES versions.
so fucking true
the windows version is way better.
Game developers were learning how to make gameplay fun and efficient during the 90s. Trying various things to see what works and what doesn't. Sure this game was super challenging and hard but I still really enjoyed it. It was fun for my little sister and I to find out how far we could get and what the next level would look like. I loved it on SNES. Unfortunately I didn't know it existed on PC, there's no way a kid was aware to compare it back then unless they had a friend who had it on multiple systems which was rare I think
Some day, eventually Super Bubsy will get released on steam or GOG.
no one can run this game...
When I was young I bought a PC version of Resident Evil. I got it home from electronics boutique only to find out it only ran on 3dfx graphics cards not the ATI one I owned.
Console ports in the 90s were always a bit of a lottery from what I remember, like it was 50/50 if they would run out of the box. Specially games from Japanese studios for some reason.
Yep. I remember we bought a card that could run it in 1997. Happy days!
We didn’t have a computer back in those days, I was ten at the time. I remember going over to friends places and trying to play games on their computers, it would take hours just to get things to run. I felt so lucky that I owned a Megadrive and could just plug in my games and go for it! My friends loved coming over to mine so we could actually just play!
Resident Evil PC had a release that only ran on PowerVR cards, but the usual one did support accelerators other than 3dfx Voodoo, too, AFAIK.
@@armorgeddon it was 23 years ago. I could be wrong on which card it needed. I do remember my computer had an ATI card because my version of MechWarrior 2 that came bundled with the computer was some ATI edition.
Move over Crisis. The new question for 2020 now is
“Can it run Bubsy?”
Looks superior to the SNES and Genesis versions when it runs well. The sound quality is a lot higher.
The Genesis sound quality is rather subpar.
Accolade's custom sound engine left a lot to be desired.
@@usagijojo Yeah. Though I think the Genesis version plays really well at least.
use one of those gigabyte sized midi soundfonts and it's a lot better
Wow! What a gorgeous version of the game!
Jeez, the d-pad on the Gravis Gamepad is really squeaky.
I remember playing this so long ago on my uncle's PC. Loved it so much.
Pilot's license? What for?
Flying?
@@mabalito Wooosh
To make a TV series of course.
Oh sure, let's all touch the bubster!
Thank you for Bubsy video
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yeah I am dying for DF Retro of F-ZERO GX for 5 years and you make this
this was a really nice video as a bubsy fan i quite enjoy it :)
With all those loading screens one thing is clear, this game was designed for next-gen ultra fast SSD hardware. Day one on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
Wow major props getting good capture of this game. I've also been trying to get it to run smoothly and didn't think it was possible.
30:00 these levels look amazing... I mean even look at the purplish shadow on the mountains..
Most games would just do a black or dark dark blue shadow, but these mother truckers actually thought about how shadows get their color from the surface AND the blue scattering of light in the sky. In such a simple game, with just 2d paint tools to make the art, the artist actually thought about that. Insane..
Great looking old school platformer
This looks sharp but they should've made more frames of animation for Bubsy.
I hope someone will make this version of Bubsy available on a current platform.
I own all of the necessary hardware to play this game. Now I can put the nearly useless Rage Pro to work, lol.
Still not as useless as Kyro 1... well Kyro2 is not much better.
This game works really well on my Pentium 233mmx with an S3 Virge and Voodoo 1.
I miss the old format DF Retro, where John would pick a title and analyze it's (and it's various ports') technical achievements for the time instead where you just play retro games.
We all
I’m not a fan of lets plays either. They make most money with least effort though
He still makes those but they’re much more time-consuming to produce.
But these let's plays aren't replacing those videos.
@@lirfrank but they are being replaced as they are getting more rare and rare. In 2020 so far we saw a whopping 3 videos in original format.
This game and Big Red Racing are lost games from my childhood windows 95 PC
And POD! And RCT!
@Idn I never played this but I loved Big Red Racing. It was a lot of fun that I spent many, many hours playing.
4x4 evo for me
@@lwaves yeah same here. BRR was ahead of its time. It had it all cars, tanks, helicopters, spaceships, boats
I had this game on PC when I was a kid! God I miss this so much, the console versions just aren't the same. They didn't have the lost pilot episode as collectibles.
I had similar issues with ATI 3D Rage drivers with Mechwarrior 2's ATI 3D accelerated version. The newest dated drivers seem to work with DirectX and OpenGL but completely lack the low level proprietary API that the game relied on. I had to use the drivers from the CD the card shipped with.
Maybe something similar is happening here and it's defaulting to an inefficient code path if the ATI low level API is missing.
I completely understand I'm in the minority when I say I owned the first Bubsy game on the SNES and my little sister and I absolutely loved it! What could possibly go wrong? It was silly and fun. Sure it was really easy to die, I think it would've really benefited from a 3 hearts life system instead of 1 hit KO's. But still the challenge of the game was fun because my little sister and I were always curious what the next level was going to look like and if we could make it there. We never did beat the game because it was really hard. But that did not stop us from trying! I don't think people should be so hard on the game for being challenging. it was the 90s and game developers were still learning how to make gameplay fun and efficient. it was a very experimental time for video games. We've come so far and video games have improved dramatically!
Does the PC version allow you to save at all? And has anyone managed to get it working on modern PCs/cards yet?
I played this game in my whole life but... Still can't start it on windows 10 natively without vmware. Are there any solutions like dgvodoo for other games?
It was an utterly mainstream version in my country in the early 2000s
Yay, more Bubsy content. 💜
Recently there was a redump of the Japanese version of Super Bubsy for PC. Would be interesting to know if they just repacked the game for the Japanese market or actually changes things in game.
I had this, along with sonic CD on my old windows 95 pc waaay back in the day. Downloaded it again and cannot get it to run. Seems im not the only one lol
Never understood the fascination with Bubsy. It got great reviews in magazines back in the day, but even then I thought it was in actuality a very bad, incompetently designed game.
i agree
I found it funny that before they made Busby they made someone right a short essay on what makes Mario/Sonic fun and on that essay they point out that they like how the games have no fall damage.... so naturally they add fall damage to their game =b
I mean, truth be told, falling damage can work. It's just the camera that was too zoomed in and it didn't allow for much prediction of where Bubsy can land or not.
But in the instances where you know Bubsy can land (i.e. not a Cliff), you not gliding is pretty much your fault, considering how easy that is.
Great looking game!
I wish I could play that on my PC. I play Bubsy on SNES (on emulator) and it's a great game, hard to play at the end, but it's still fun to play it.
Why am I here? (Other than that I really like DF Retro plays) Why are you here? Why are we doing this to ourselves? What is the meaning of life and living? Are we living in a multiverse? How can the universe both seem to be expanding at a faster rate all the time, be conceptually endless and one, still theoretically able, to travel faster than the speed of light, therefor past its expanse? Or are the definitions of "endlessness" and borders a human figment, an indication of our inept capability to comprehend things beyond our comprehension?
And why is Bubsy so smug? These are the questions we keep asking ourselves.
I played through the first Bubsy on the SNES with a friend several times. Why did we do that? It will remain a mystery. Even to me. Forever unsolved.
As a sidenote: playing this game made me physically nauseous. Like in: needing to throw up. A combination of its garish visuals, soulcrushing, strenuous plug and play sound effects, "jaunty" music, the floaty, unprecise controls and "less good" camera which kept sagging behind making me seasick. Not to mention the "innovative and brilliant" idea of having the camera turn upside down constantly while Bubsy river rafts on his ass, as he's also at the same time spinning around in circles. It had the same effect on me as riding a rollercoaster whilst being stomach sick. The puns though... they're so bad they become good. Or maybe it's the definition of Stockholm syndrome. I don't know anymore... Help! I need help!
Good stuff! Good times!
The visual is pretty good.
i beat bubsy in claws encounters of the furred kind on the snes back in the day. took forever. game was way too long. but i do have fond memories of playing it.
Love this game ❤️
The gameplay in this video says a lot about how much Bubsy you've played. A lot of Bubsy.
I played this back in the day on a PC with a 100MHz 486 CPU and 1MB of video RAM, the Bubsy launcher would warn me about the VRAM being insufficient and the game ran very poorly, but I still beat it.
It's crazy when I play game like Half Life Alyx then watch a video like this. It's incredible how far games have come in my lifetime. I can't even begin to comprehend where gaming will be in 25 more years. I can't wait to find out though.
Yeah same, I feel we are getting to the point of diminishing returns though.
What do you use to upscale DOS games from original hardware? Do you mind sharing your setup? Is it a datapath card? Extron upscaler? OSSC?
i had this game on the mega drive\genisis, loved it
I want this.... I knew there was a reason to hang on to all those old ati cards
This is the only version of the game I ever played
Lion King on PC was so gorgeous in comparison to consoles, better sound, and better frame rate. Hated playing it years later on emulators.
Have you tried running it in WINE? Linux and OSX users on WineHQ report that it works just fine with some minor tweaks.
Gonna have to figure out how to emulate this on modern PC's.
pcem. needs a powerful processor, tho, and it isn't very easy to set up.
Err
Why? ;)
For some strange reason I loved this game on the SNES.
I know it's johns series, but man would i love a df retro from Richard.
You guys never covered Panzer Dragoon Remake.
At least you're committed to the bit. 👍
Videogamedunkey would be proud!
Bubsy, one of the all-time greats.
Yo, Mondo, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Bubsy was NOT one of the best 16 bit platformers of all time! Not one of the best 90's platform mascots of all time!
I see sarcasm is hard to tell through text, but it should be pretty obvious.
Are you sure that's a 256 color game? It looks like 16-bit colors at the least. Even then, you'd need dithering to get that smooth purple background.
You should try it connected via MIDI to a Roland Sound Canvas.
Bubsy is kind of a meme these days, but I’d honestly play it over a lot of other 16-bit games, including a bunch of “classic” JRPGs.
Bubsy baked AF in the thumbnail
If anyone would like to know how to get this game working without any specific hardware needed, i figured it out. Working perfect on my Windows 10 PC with RTX 2080Ti
Hi Matt! I got the original CD and I've been trying to get it work on my Windows 10 PC, but I couldn't make it so far. How did you do it? Could you help me, please? Tks!
Yeah, not calling you a liar, but this game is notoriously hard to get working, and afaik, no one has gotten has done so on modern hardware, besides your comment. Can you divulge what you did please?
The graphics are really good, but the music pales in comparison to the Genesis version. Also, watching this reminds me why I did like the game (at least for a rent), and how by just tweaking some things (3 hits until death, some longer runs without obstacles), this game could have been really fun, and more of a classic.
I had it for the mega drive and it was a chore to play because of the cheap deaths and insanely long levels. A better level design could've helped
Oh man, I used to own this! Boxed copy and all! I wonder where it went...
How would it run on a virtual machine?
Oh, please look at the PC98!
Where's Modern Warfare 2 Remastered video of Xbox One version?
This looks great. This is the version Steam should be selling.
DF Retro so it must be Sunday!
Monday
Definitely looks better than the Genesis/Mega Drive version, having said that I played the game heaps on Mega Drive back in the day.
I never thought the first SNES game was bad, but it was tough. It implies that you move fast, but really, it's better to take your time. This version should, in fact, be given a full update to its code, et cetera, and petition whoever owns the property to release a version on an appropriate source port. You up to it?
Probably one of those "For best performance, please purchase our newest ATI video card" things, as in the shit wont work on all those "lesser cards".
Another near 50min video about Bubsy!
I think Mr Linneman is trolling us at this point 😁
100%
It's cool to see it running well, unfortunately it is fucked up on my 98 rig..but i still prefer the SNES version, those low frame rate animations are awful and the graphics, while definitely higher res and reworked, look plastic and unnatural.
Kudos for the episode, Bubsy doesn't get enough love these days.
Nice Video. Can we put on our conspiracy hat and wonder if the game was purposely gimped on non-ati cards? I mean, it looks bad for ATI to release a game that runs better on its competition.
Shame they didn't add any option to zoom out the camera. That was the biggest drawback of the first Bubsy games.
Is the scrolling actually that bad in person?
Dang. I can't find a copy of this to buy anywhere that I normally shop for old games. How rare is this thing? I want to play it, but I prefer to buy a legit copy before I go sail the seven seas.
I would like to see some talented programmer make a patch for this game so it will run correctly on modern systems and even older ones alike. There was a guy that made a "fixed" version of Metal Gear Solid on PC as well as another guy that did the same for Metal Gear Solid 2 so I am sure that it is possible although those two are newer games than that version of Bubsy. I hate to see games become abandonware.
Strange the music this video opens with is actually based of hymns I used to sing in Church at school.
Why didn't bubsy two fur include this as well as making super bubsy 2 a thing is beyond me.
No... Those are just emulated super Nintendo ports
@@ccateni28 i know that, I'm just wondering why aren't they just super bubsy plus a new super bubsy 2 thing
This bubsy fanatism needs to stop lol
Also, imagine building a pc for this.
If u havent watch Videogamedunkey u should. Hes funny and fun and is aways sayibg that Bubsy is the best game lol.
"This bubsy fanatism needs to stop lol"
It won't. The Bubsy fandom is real and we won't be stopped by hate.
bubsy master race
The original Bubsy was a good game, pretty fucking hard though.
And in the end nothing was lost.
So... DF Retro: Captain Claw when?
Original Bubsy is underrated.
When is Warfare 2 Remaster coming? That games runs as 1620p on Xbox One X
90's PC master racer
I think I played a bootleg version of this game with that black duck from Disney. It was a gameboy game with 38 games
Bubsy 3D is the true beast
gotta say, they're really good at bubsy lmao. I suck ass at this game. He must play alot.
I could make it to the train stage as a kid lol
Aero was amazing, but it's nothing compared to Aero 2
GREEEENNNN DAWWWGGG!!
Vic Mignogna is the new voice of Bubsy in the newest game. Unfortunately I haven't heard much about him lately. 🙁
Its already confirmed by developers and all that Vic never voiced Bubsy.
Besides, he always had that Max Casella vibe to me, as in the new game, he sounds like a mellower version of Daxter.
Seriously.
DF Retro is best DF
The DF crew loves some of the worst retro games. Most people who played these games have nostalgia for them all up until they try to play them again, and here we are watching a masterful playthrough of Busby.
Please do Soldier of Fortune 1-2 and Aliens vs Predator 1-2 already!
Other W95/98 action/platformer games that also use Hi res 2D graphics:
Jazz Jack Rabbit 2
Get Medieval
Klaw
One day there'll be a DF Retro Play of Audi's Bubsy CDi homebrew. Unfortunately.
Was Super Bubsy the origin of Mantle? :D
SomeCallMeJohnny says Hi.
Feel the bubs!
Legend has it if you play Bubsy 7 days later you die.