SMS vs NES: What games were available on both platforms ?

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Originally Posted by cabear

i've had fun with both JP versions but i'd give the nod slightly to the nes, i dislike the driving sections of the sms version with a passion. Still the sms does have better use of graphics.

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I see I'm not the only one, I like the idea of driving stages to mix things up but those levels really suck and that's the first level of the game. Would have preferred a Moon Patrol clone for the driving stages.

Still some really nice visuals and the music is alright. That's another SMS title I had to settle for a GG release since we didn't get a NA release of the SMS one. It's cropped some but the game perspective is wide angle enough that it's not too bad.

The NES one is okay but the SNES version despite being the same game for the most part is blander in comparison, some nice background layer use on the NES for the T-Rex but for the 16-bit version it's all a little meh. Actually find the SNES HUD overlays quite annoyingly big.

Big nose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-5P9DeVy4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_DuYDIltI

Super Off Road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEg-xMxCXkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8HY5dQfKs

It's kind of amazing how ugly many NES games would often look

While they aren't the same game, they technically are cones and I guess I'd say Master of Darkness is a damn good commparison to Castlevania on NES. I may be very biased having grown up with the SMS here in the UK where SEGA were WAY bigger than Nintendo, but I absolutely love this game over Konami's beloved classic. Not that it's a bad game because it isn't..

I really wish they made a sequel and continued the francise because it had A LOT of potential, especially with SEGA's spin on the genre. They always had a knack of taking other gameplay genres and making it their own. I'm sure everyone can agree Streets of Rage is better than Final Fight for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyga46YRnvg

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Originally Posted by stika

It's kind of amazing how ugly many NES games would often look

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Yeah they could very often, far too often you would see sickly browns, greens, and yellows with high contrast. It's a decent color palette but if you don't choose colors wisely it can get hard on the eyes.:yuck:
Still SMS games can be ugly too for similar reasons, although those kinks could have been ironed out if the SMS had a stronger American popularity IE. more games=more refinement of what makes a SMS look best. I think I'm harder on SMS because it's so much stronger than the NES at graphics that when it stumbles graphically I get angry because it's more avoidable. :|

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Originally Posted by BladeJunker

Yeah they could very often, far too often you would see sickly browns, greens, and yellows with high contrast. It's a decent color palette but if you don't choose colors wisely it can get hard on the eyes.:yuck:
Still SMS games can be ugly too for similar reasons, although those kinks could have been ironed out if the SMS had a stronger American popularity IE. more games=more refinement of what makes a SMS look best. I think I'm harder on SMS because it's so much stronger than the NES at graphics that when it stumbles graphically I get angry because it's more avoidable. :|

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A few years ago I tried making a side-scroller that adhered to the Master System's resolution, sprite and color limitations. I never got too far into it, but it was an interesting experiment.

While there are exceptions, I always thought, in general, that the SMS had better graphics than the NES. I'm guessing it absolutely has something to do with better uses of color, as games just seemed to look more colorful on Sega, but as said, a dull brown gray look on Nintendo. Again, in general. Stuff like Mario and Zelda looked really good, but that's Miyamoto for you. But yeah, if anyone can show me an NES RPG that looks even remotely as good as Phantasy Star, I'd be utterly shocked.

I don't know if all Compile's games were ported to Master System, but Aleste is an amazing shoot 'em up that I prefer on SMS than NES.

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Originally Posted by stika

And the parallax scrolling on Jurassic Park is damned impressive. How did they manage that?

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It's still a single background with the tile rows moving at different speeds. The NES can do this too (although it needs the help of additional mappers on the cart, those were pretty common back then). But of course, this looks far more impressive than anything possible on the NES thanks to the bigger palette(s).

Batman: Return of the Joker have beauty parallax.

Captain Silver


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZeZQqgXSNwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYgaD9Qrg4

Captain Silver was listed on page 1.

It's a terrible game on both systems,but looks quite a lot better on sms.

Puyo puyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFE6Vl4bQtQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9BVqjpJIU

Strange! Black_Tiger dont did bullshit here after my last post?
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Originally Posted by segarule

Strange! Black_Tiger dont did bullshit here after my last post?
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Don't do that.


Also, I have to say I prefer the famicom version. The green wall in the Master System version is really unappealing

At moment we only debated about graphics and music in this comparisons. We not pointed to philosophical aspects. For example, Jurassic Park for Nes: Dr. Grant is a Dinossaur killer while that in SMS version Dr.Grant dont kill the prehistoric animals, only shot it with sedative.