640x480 PC 2D platformers?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

A few sonic and mega man games were ported to pc. You could look into Sonic and knuckles collection or Sonic CD. I would recommend getting the steam versions of those games.

But then he'll miss out on the awesome MIDI renditions of the music.

[Godot102]

A few sonic and mega man games were ported to pc. You could look into Sonic and knuckles collection or Sonic CD. I would recommend getting the steam versions of those games.

But then he'll miss out on the awesome MIDI renditions of the music.

While that's true, he wont get "WOOOO C'MON!" for the bosses or any of the other awesome digitized voice samples.

[Pulsar_t]

Those games had a native 240p resolution.

And sorry, I haven't played that Genocide game in ages.. I guess virtualisation is too much trouble

Are you willing to consider newer platformers? Plenty of indie titles support custom resolutions.

[dogman91]

A few sonic and mega man games were ported to pc. You could look into Sonic and knuckles collection or Sonic CD. I would recommend getting the steam versions of those games.

But then he'll miss out on the awesome MIDI renditions of the music.

That was actually my first experience playing a Sonic game; definitely one of my favorite games of all time bar-none! Later I discovered how horrific the Carnival Night music sounded on the Genesis versus the entirely new track for the PC MIDI file though... oh dear. I like Launch Base's music better with the MIDI version as well. Ice Cap: definitely prefer the Genesis version but the MIDI version was decent as well.

And sorry, I haven't played that Genocide game in ages.. I guess virtualisation is too much trouble

Are you willing to consider newer platformers? Plenty of indie titles support custom resolutions.

I discovered Gish which has 800x600 resolution, but yeah I supposed I've moved on from this search and accepted that there aren't really any games like this. Virtualization might be something worth looking into for this game to run, eventually (maybe ).

[BoringSupreez]

A few sonic and mega man games were ported to pc. You could look into Sonic and knuckles collection or Sonic CD. I would recommend getting the steam versions of those games.

But then he'll miss out on the awesome MIDI renditions of the music.

That was actually my first experience playing a Sonic game; definitely one of my favorite games of all time bar-none! Later I discovered how horrific the Carnival Night music sounded on the Genesis versus the entirely new track for the PC MIDI file though... oh dear. I like Launch Base's music better with the MIDI version as well. Ice Cap: definitely prefer the Genesis version but the MIDI version was decent as well.

I think Ryan was being sarcastic about the "awesome MIDI renditions of the music." The PC versions of the Sonic games had horrible music compared to the Genesis ones.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I was indeed being sarcastic, however, the Launch Base track is better IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnM9DhRKUY

Would love to hear that with Genesis instruments.

[mrDude]

Abuse-1996
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SbQ242Wwk

[Menegrothx]

You might want to look into late Atari ST (+Atari Falcon?) and Amiga games, they had more arcade and console games than PC. No Jazz jackrabbit 2-level stuff, but some nice looking games nonetheless
Just a wild guess, but if you're really hardcore, you probably might find some fine looking 2D platformers from those Japan exclusive PC platforms (FM Towns, Sharp X68000) too.

[Godot102]

I was indeed being sarcastic, however, the Launch Base track is better IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnM9DhRKUY

Would love to hear that with Genesis instruments.

I prefer the gen soundtrack though Ice cap stage 1 and carnival night act 2 are kinda catchy

[theclaw]

Megaman X3 and X4 should be looked into.