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Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:38 pm
by RyaNtheSlayA
Godot102 wrote: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.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:47 pm
by Godot102
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:Godot102 wrote: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.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:11 pm
by 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.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:03 pm
by dogman91
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:Godot102 wrote: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.
Pulsar_t wrote: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

).
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:16 pm
by BoringSupreez
dogman91 wrote:RyaNtheSlayA wrote:Godot102 wrote: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.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:28 pm
by RyaNtheSlayA
I was indeed being sarcastic, however, the Launch Base track is better IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnM9DhRKUYWould love to hear that with Genesis instruments.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:56 pm
by mrDude
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:40 pm
by 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.
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:27 pm
by Godot102
I prefer the gen soundtrack though Ice cap stage 1 and carnival night act 2 are kinda catchy
Re: 640x480 PC 2D platformers?
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:17 pm
by theclaw
Megaman X3 and X4 should be looked into.