MSX fans?

Konami shut down the worlds biggest MSX forum , for apparently featuring too many of their MSX games.

I personally love the system, many exclusive games, even the fun VAMPIRE KILLER, the very first metroid/castlevania which came out months after the NES version.

I love Snatcher on MSX but the shooting scenes are way harder than Sega CD. SHALOM is a strange rpg with no battles, that i cannot figure out. There are translations in english ,spanish and portuguese .. nothing.

I just found a Space Harrier clone

http://www.romhacking.net/translatio...creenshot1.png


Best game I played on it was Xak 1 and Illusion City.. the music in Illusion City is much nicer than the remade Mega CD one. Dont know why they messed with perfection.

I've been thinking for a while now that Konami will be next in line for what's happened to Square-enix and Capcom. It looks like I was right. Way to go Konami. Alienating your fans and staunchest supporters always equals an increase in revenue. :thumbsup:

As for MSX, I could only ever get one out of three games to run properly on emulators, so I can't say that I was ever really into it. Still a great system, though. Too bad the US port flopped.

^strange, BlueMSX is by far the best emulator and has played at least every english or spanish translation ever made for the system. Along with stock Japanese games that needed no reprogramming (Vampire Killer, Knightmare 1 & 2 )

I almost always have it set to 'turboMSX' system setting , if that dosnt work then MSX2+ will

I'm a big fan of the MSX Gradius / Salamander games, as well as Parodius. Konami's SCC audio is great when it's not coming from that common MIDI adaption software.

Also, Vampire Killer came out after the FDS version of Akumajou Dracula...

Vampire Killer is a whole other game w rpg elements. Also Gollevious for msx is better in my opinion than SMS. There are two versions on msx but I may be wrong. War of the Dead 2 has a full translation despite being action. Fray is completely different from the PCE CD version.

I had an MSX in the 80s, but don't feel inclined to re-visit it nowadays.

I use blueMSX. I am a US native so we never really had the MSX as a mainstream computer. Regardless, I think it's a brilliant little computer. One of the best if not THE best Japanese 8-bit machines of its time. Very addictive games.

A quick look at ebay shows that not only are MSX games pricey, but holy crap the computers themselves must be made of gold and bald eagles' tears. They can't be that scarce. What are you doing, snerds? You gonna let some computer people spend more money than you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZJ64PgtgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE47OqHisWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJa0KH7CSzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0-2XrRegE

One of the coolest things about the MSX is how many different sound chips it has lol.

Kamal I think I love

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^strange, BlueMSX is by far the best emulator and has played at least every english or spanish translation ever made for the system. Along with stock Japanese games that needed no reprogramming (Vampire Killer, Knightmare 1 & 2 )

I almost always have it set to 'turboMSX' system setting , if that dosnt work then MSX2+ will

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It's been a while since I messed with one so maybe it's time I give it another ty.

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/...2909250_03.gifhe most underpowered between Pc98 FM TOWNS and x68000, yet most popular in Japan and worldwide


The system had many.Konami exclusives, and probably the most ports from other systems and arcades in gaming history, including the finally popular FF1, which was a port that improved unlike other ports that were from more powerful systems and how to downgrade.

That music for Undead Line is awesome.

It's funny how the MSX was an unofficial platform for Konami, just like the Turbografx was for Hudson.

My first real personal computer experience was an MSX2 at school, we played so many of those awesome Konami games.
I think they were all made for the MSX1 because they look pretty simple compared to the stuff you guys are showing off here.
But imo they were some of the best games I ever played, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2, King's Valley, Athletic Land,
Antarctic Adventure, those Konami Hyper Sports games, Konami Boxing, the racing games, etc etc.

Such great colorful games, with amazing music to boot.

I'm so happy that I was there from the start, to experience it all from the beginning.

Even the MSX1 can do awesome things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suF1QQvRClA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvpDem5oJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0icXsy01AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlyHC776vUQ

Micro Cabin loved to make games for msx. I should try Ys 3

Some more MSX1 love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5zNjCzKWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBljVdjYFvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DwpcGHz7l0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTyXNymHeSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2NnuSVaGM

Sf2 port. http://images.generation-msx.nl/soft...e/03d2d1b0.png

There's also this demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Usc0UeTGo

Wtf is that

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Wtf is that

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An MSX demo. Really impressive it can have such big characters duking it out. It's actually playable.

They shoulda finished it!

Would have been more impressive if they had actually stuck with the original SF2 artwork.

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Konami shut down the worlds biggest MSX forum , for apparently featuring too many of their MSX games.

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I want to participate in this thread, but all I can think about is...

http://altapeli.com/wp-content/uploa...01-620x350.jpg

"These fuckers think they can talk about OUR games? Copyright! DMCA! Shut em down! Then they'll have to buy our games instead of discuss them! Put the swords away guys, I took care of it!"

I never heard of Konami shutting down a forum, googling just gives me this thread and a lot of Metal Gear remake shutdown stuff.

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Konami shut down the worlds biggest MSX forum , for apparently featuring too many of their MSX games.

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Uh, reference? Are you talking about how that shut down that Metal Gear remake?

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I never heard of Konami shutting down a forum, googling just gives me this thread and a lot of Metal Gear remake shutdown stuff.

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Yeah, seems like OP has no idea what he's talking about and people jump to conclusions.

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There's also this demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Usc0UeTGo

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Haha. Why is Dhalsim's stage called "Mike Haggar's Stage"? :lol:

It's technically impressive though.

they shut down i forget the name of the forum was the largest and pretty much the mecca of MSX gaming. Of course its gone its deleted, I think they shut these guys down and they had to repatch what was left

http://www.msx.org/forum

pretty sure that used to be the site

A company can't just "shut down" an internet forum. I guess you're talking about Konamito.es?

http://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/ge...mited-one-page

If so, they were hosting copyrighted material owned by Konami, and Konami requested that they remove it. Then the site shut down of their own free will. Considering Konami is actively selling MSX games through the Virtual Console and Project EGG, it's not really surprising that they don't want websites to be offering them for free!

MSX on what console? I'd like to know

oh well, i got all the Konami classica already on my msx, no need for their censorship

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MSX on what console? I'd like to know

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I'm no expert, but I know there are games on the Wii Virtual Console, and also some on the 3DS VC and the Wii-U VC. Of course, this is the Japanese VC we're talking about.

course!

Pc98 would be THE system though. I used to have it running parralel (emu) to a program that would translate games on the fly (babe fish style), but it was great for stuff like Strategy RpGs even some traditional jrpgs. Now i cannot seem to get any translator to work with the pc98 emulator.

I really like the msx computer but i just couldn't find many games that appealed to me ,the english translation of snatcher is really nice and thats the main reason i got into msx but i found the game hard work compared to the sega cd version,the audio/visuals were a joy though.

Metal gear 1+2 i still havent got around to playing properly but they are available on mgs3 ps2.

Contra was shit compared to the nes version

Same goes for castlevania i much prefer the nes/famicom version

Some of the shooters are nice but im not the biggest fan of shooters

Most of the other konami games i thought were pretty bad and seemed to be slapped together in a day,it makes me wonder though what if konami didnt support it? there would hardly be anything to play!

Though the controls in Vampire Killer / Castlevania (troidvania1) on msx is much tougher than it is on NES , once you get the hang of the game pad you must be patient and accurated at the same time. Its not hard as Castlevania Adventure but its in the top 5 hardest Castlevania games i'd say

http://www.satakore.com/satengine/ph...a-Pack-JPN.jpg

does this play as good as it looks?
CONTRA MSX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Maej5IvbqA

The lack of scrolling is really annoying. Other than that it's a decent version.

^nice, thanks man. I know the controls on Vampire Killer are pretty damn hard. I wonder what other 8bit ports were "superior" or different enough (and good) to warrant a playthrough