Universal Soldier was a bastardized port of Turrican 2 on the Mega Drive. It's hated (quite rightly so) for fucking over a classic Amiga game and replacing the sprites with ones that (don't in the least) resemble the namesake movie license it got slapped on with. Get other that fact, and it's still a goodish game with great music (imo at least).
Anywhos, today I learnt there was a cancelled SNES port of it. This one, OMG, has ZERO saving graces.
Your ears might bleed from hearing the game's audio. You have been warned!
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10-21-2016, 04:58 PM #1Stuck in the Past Shining Hero
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Universal Soldier (SNES) WTF?!
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10-21-2016, 09:15 PM #2Outrunner
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Yep, I've known about it. I really wonder if that music was still in the placeholder stage, or if they were planning on shipping the game like that.
To this day, I'd still love to see someone look into UniSol Genesis' code and see if any of the outright deleted Turrican 2 content still exists. The music certainly does, and it would be cool to have a "restored" Turrican 2 on Genesis to have all three of the original trilogy on the console.
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10-21-2016, 09:39 PM #3Outrunner
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This, +9000.
Originally Posted by Metalwario64
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10-22-2016, 01:05 AM #4Master of Shinobi
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The Genesis port of the first Turrican wasn't all that great either. I'm mostly not too flattered with the framerate. It's obviously converted sloppily from PAL and runs too fast in the NTSC version. It's also one of those pre-TMSS titles, but that's aside from the game itself. Unfortunately, a lot of PAL Amiga ports to Genesis run like this in the NTSC versions. I think the Japanese version of Shadow of the Beast is one of the few instances where they actually managed to correct all the ugly glitches that plagued most of these games.
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10-22-2016, 02:11 AM #5End of line.. Shining Hero
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There is a Super Turrican 2 on the SNES.
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10-22-2016, 02:16 AM #6Outrunner
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To be honest, I've never checked that one out, and don't want to, because everything I've seen of it is devoid of the Turrican "soul". Originally Posted by gamevet
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10-22-2016, 09:28 AM #7Hero of Algol
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Super Turrican 2 is a pretty good game, but a terrible Turrican sequel. Too different, and not for the better. The excessive focus on minigames and super linear levels is totally unlike Turrican.
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