Goron_3 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 It's still an excellent collection, and yes they didn't include Sonic 3 + Knuckles on the collection because they will want to release it on XBLA in a more lucrative fashion, but at least we will get it eventually and it will have the full 200G of achievements (at least) that it deserves plus the multiplayer bit will probably be online, that was good fun back in the day. ^^ Also did anyone notice that next to the Sonic 3 screenshot on the back of the box they made a typo and put 'Sonic 2' next to it? I shit you not, pretty shoddy if you ask me but no matter... the collection still seriously owns and I hope they make more based on Mega CD / 32X in the future. I doubt S3&K will get released on XBLA. Around Unleashed would have been a good time to release it but don't think we'll get it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerMonkey Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 finally completed robotniks mean bean machine...what a pain in the arse that game is at times so frustating (didnt use passwords) WAS going to get street fighter 4 as well but was 35 quid in shops...and 26 on play etc so will buy off there soon ...first time ive ever played alien storm today pretty decent alex kidd is awesome forgot how good that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Well after saying only the other day i didn't know when i would get this i went and got it today, lol. Loving abit of retro goodness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 i cant seem to unlock Phantasy Star 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 i cant seem to unlock Phantasy Star 1. Sonic 2, two players, defeat first boss = Phantasy Star unlocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerMonkey Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 ive noticed that one achivement mentions artwork...wheres that? is that the boxart thing in the "museum"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 ive noticed that one achivement mentions artwork...wheres that? is that the boxart thing in the "museum"? Yeah you have to look at the boxart and the cartridge shot of every megadrive game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 So what do ppl prefer to have there display radio in to play these games in? 'Box style with borders either side' or 'full widescreen'? Also what do u think of the 'smoothing' option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Smoothing option has been present in the XBLA titles and it is made of fail. That's how they justify putting "improved HD graphics!" on the back of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funktion Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 So what do ppl prefer to have there display radio in to play these games in? 'Box style with borders either side' or 'full widescreen'? Also what do u think of the 'smoothing' option? The games in this collection look great on my HD TV with "regular" graphics (I believe there's a bit of upconverting going on). I never use the "smoothing" options, because they totally ruin the games' look (the filter makes quite a few details on the graphics disappear, such as lights on buildings, ...). On a SD TV set they appear to make the graphics a little clearer (but again, detail is lost), but on HD TVs the effect is very distracting, I'm yet to find a single person that prefers to have these filters turned on. As for the aspect ratio, I have been playing them in Widescreen. But I didn't simply use the "full widescreen option", this option leaves quite a few information offscreen, so I manually stretched every single game to fit my TV, without leaving any traces of the border and without cropping anything (it took me almost 2 hours to do this to all games... ). This collection is a steal, especially compared to the price of these games on the Virtual Console. The emulation is good (again, with the filters off), the selection of games is pretty good as well (although by now I own most of the games multiple times, between the original Megadrive cartridges, other compilations, XBLA/VC releases, ...), and the extras are nice, especially the 7 bonus interviews (it's something I love to watch, and for me a must for these kind of releases; I would have loved to see a documentary about the console/developers as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 Surely that just means to complete the first level three times, once with each character? What are the save features like for this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Save feature is great, you just press the back button, go down to save, done! and it saves the exact state, simple. And if you're referring to the Streets of Rage achievement Cube, yes it's just play the first level three times, once with each character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Backbone are lazy for not changing the boxarts and not renaming beyond oasis as The Story of Thor on the box cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Backbone are lazy for not changing the boxarts and not renaming beyond oasis as The Story of Thor on the box cover. Yeah very lazy work there. I also noticed on the back cover it says 'sonic 2' on the side of one of the pictures when it is quite clearly a pic from Sonic 3 (Angel Island Zone to be exact) Just got all the achievements on this now! yay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I also noticed on the back cover it says 'sonic 2' on the side of one of the pictures when it is quite clearly a pic from Sonic 3 (Angel Island Zone to be exact) Also did anyone notice that next to the Sonic 3 screenshot on the back of the box they made a typo and put 'Sonic 2' next to it? I shit you not, pretty shoddy if you ask me Allready noted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Allready noted. Ah right, so u did, lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Ah right, so u did, lol.... Yeah, it's damn shoddy of Sega not to notice though lol also to a lesser extent with the American Boxart but despite all this I really love the collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegoMan1031 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Yeah, it's damn shoddy of Sega not to notice though lol also to a lesser extent with the American Boxart but despite all this I really love the collection. Yeah its great (the collection not the lazy artwork...). Started up a save file for sonic 3 before. There is so many games in this collection i can relive or in some cases try for the first time! (Never played through Golden Axe 2 & 3 for example!) Very happy that i bought this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerMonkey Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 when finished with tomb raider legend gunna start a go on shining force 2 soooooooo good shining force 2 is havent played it in ages. anyone else gunna be playing the RPGs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 anyone else gunna be playing the RPGs? I've said it before and I'll say it again, the collection is worth it for Phantasy Star IV let alone the other in the series, so needless to say I will be playing through it again on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerMonkey Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 have hoped that the achivements were gunna be ALOT harder to get. for example getting a achivement for completing sonic not just getting a chaos emerald. getting 20,000 points on medium or hard on columns...not easy getting someone promoted on shining force 1 and 2 just of top of head the only good achivement ive worked for is the one for completing mean bean machine (not got round to vectorman 1 and 2 yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.C.G Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Awww yeah, just got 1000 G on this beast :awesome: I know that some of the achievements weren't the hardest to get, especailyl if you play the games formulaically but damn it was fun, there were even one or two games on this collection that I hadn't played / played properly before so it was a well worthwhile experience. I saved the unlock Phantasy Star by defeating the first boss in Sonic 2 with both characters till last, borrowed my bro's profile had two controllers (both on each leg) alternately jumped on the boss to score two hits each time and to finish off had Sonic and Tails jump from alternate sides of the big capsule at the end and land simultaneously in the middle. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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