Batman Returns MD - Demo

[@MXRetroDev]

This demo was a 10/10. Perfect graphics, impeccable performance, and exceptional music. This represents everything the console can do and I would like to congratulate all the people responsible. I even found it curious that the horizontal aspect ratio was better on the Mega Drive and now the SNES seemed stretched as if the game had graphics made with it in mind.

[@PyronsLair]

@@MXRetroDev thank you, we really appreciate your feedback About the grafics, you are spot on, the original is one thats cases where the artwork was not optimized to snes aspect ratio, so it looks conpletely off On MD it is showed as the original pixel artist intends The history tells thats the project was originally to the arcade, but Atari has the license to this, and Konami only got for the Nintendo system, so they cut it heavyly to fit on the system

[@rustymixer2886]

​@@PyronsLairmerry christmas

[@xALK1984x]

🥴🥴🥴

[@Shinmsl]

@@PyronsLair probably in the original project they began development with the idea that Robin was going to be in the movie for the secondary character, because he was cut last minute from the movie and I imagine at that date the arcade beat them up had to at least be a 2 player coop

[@toysandjunk]

Just play the SNES version on an emulator and set the aspect ratio to "uncorrected". Problem solved.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

When you know how to unlock the power of the Megadrive!!!

[@TheSeventhForce]

Never realized how horizontally stretched the SNES original looked until now. Phenomenal work.

[@JeffHization]

The sprites are not stretched on the Snes, they were drawn for its display resolution. This demo is not using the Snes sprites.

[@phonedork]

@@JeffHizationthe snes crappy 256 mode is the same resolution as the original NES. Compared to the genesis 320 mode with a lot more horizontal pixels it is simply stretched by comparison. Plus the genesis runs twice as fast as the SNES

[@ItsPaybackTime89]

@@JeffHization Super croptendo, stretched graphics machine 😆

[@robvelor]

@@JeffHization Wrong, check the pinned comment comments.

[@al3xportugal132]

Obrigado pelo presente! Feliz natal para você e toda a equipe!

[@PyronsLair]

Nós que agradecemos!

[@nfdavis1]

Thanks for doing this. Was waiting today for this demo! Merry Christmas!

[@proyectomegadrive]

Thank you so much Pyron & Co. Merry Christmas and take care!🎉🎉🎉

[@Dirk1Steele]

Been looking forward to this since the announcement. Happy Christmas and keep up the amazing work!

[@petirgarda1005]

You, sir, are amazing! Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you sir Pyrons. Thank you!!

[@fredmetzge4666]

This plays, looks and sounds absolutely amazing! What a masterpiece of MD engineering.

[@GreyMatterShades]

Amazing work! Can't wait to try this out. Hope have a merry Christmas!

[@Crystallums]

It is amazing to see how it looks better on Mega Drive! Excellent colors, more fluidity and a better aspect ratio... wow! This is the port that we deserved more than 30 years ago. I hope to play it when it is ready! ❤🙏🔥

[@TheDonCursino]

Amazing job! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

[@GTSJoeG]

This project kicks butt. Thank you Pyron and team for doing this. Merry Christmas! 🎅

[@megagen88-b5w]

i really hope this is seen through to completion looking fantastic so far, top job guys, thank you for this christmas gift, all the best to you.

[@govir19]

Excellent for a demo, very good friend Pyron. I look forward to success in this project. Merry Christmas to the entire community. Sharau from Argentina 🇦🇷

[@Ozule]

Thanks a lot for this Xmas gift! Superb result as always. As some others mentioned here, I hope this will end in a full port of the original game. Cheers

[@blacksunshine7485]

Awesome! Merry Christmas!

[@aureliochiacchiarini2799]

Thanks to the develpment team for this wonderful Christmas gift!

[@Atilla7979]

Every aspect of this version is great. What a talent! Thank you so much.

[@CKadett]

Grato pelo presente de Natal! Toda a comunidade retrogame tem uma dívida de gratidão com os devs que eternizaram o Mega Drive. 👏🏻🎅🏻🎮

[@vcdecide]

Não acredito !!! Ò_Ó achava que era primeiro de Abril !!! pois diziam que o jogo não foi lançado para o Mega Drive devido a sua incapacidade limitante de fazer um Beat em Up com sprites grandes e 3 personagens na tela ao mesmo tempo... e agora isso de lançarem uma versão que não apenas iguala, mas supera com personagens grandes, resolução maior, co-op e 9 inimigos na tela ao mesmo tempo, além de etc de outras coisas inéditas graças ao Blast Processing ? isso não é um presente de Natal, mas sim uma grande heresia Natalina. Parabéns aos Hereges que estiveram envolvidos na produção dessa Heresia e Conspiração ! não dá pra acreditar que tudo isso é Blast Processing sem nenhum tipo de Chip Auxiliar !

[@tadeuferreira4059]

Eu não poderia me expressar melhor...

[@paulo0770]

​@@vcdecide Esse aqui é o canal super "imparcial" de comparação de games? Esse jogo deve ter sla quantas cassetadas de megas, cartucho seria pesadíssimo, Snes com a mesma quantidade de megas faria algo no mesmo nível em quantidade de inimigos, fora o som que continue sendo muito superior, viva o "blast processing" e feliz natal.

[@cannibale2145]

Pergunta sincera: o que é, de fato, este tal de "blast processing" e como ele está influenciando nessa demo? Se alguém puder me responder com honestidade, agradeço.

[@tadeuferreira4059]

@@cannibale2145, agora, se esse tal BP está influenciando em algo nessa demo ou se é puro talento do desenvolvedor já não sei dizer! Mas eu apostaria nesse último!

[@WelllingtonFernando]

​@@paulo0770 ta emocionado né? Senta e chora! Melhor senta e joga!

[@DeadlyGamingLV]

Thank you Pyron! I hope your holiday season is amazing. :)

[@7hornley-jdm]

So cool! I hope the full game gets completed, it deserves it especially from this talented team. Well done 🦇

[@thehumbleone1983]

I agree with you Pyrons and everyone working with Pyrons together is perfect match from what I can see it’s looking good and music / sound effects is great so I can happier Ly say Pyron and the whole team did a amazing work

[@zabustifu]

The download page says they don't plan to complete it. Emotional thrill ride. :\

[@RealNathanExplosion]

@@zabustifu I wonder why?

[@mbz6272]

@@7hornley-jdm awesome

[@shenglongisback4688]

​@@RealNathanExplosion pretty simple it was too demo that could be done as a childhood dream. But he is using this demo as a future working tool on future projects.

[@NOELZH]

Valeu pelo belíssimo presente Pyron, um Feliz Natal e um Próspero Ano Novo para você e toda família ;)

[@Rager_NR]

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Merry Christmas and happy new year!!

[@PyronsLair]

Happy holidays!

[@proximacentauri8256]

Is it only me or we were all misunderstood this and instead of a demo we were expecting a completed game? Anyway thanks for the effort!

[@zabustifu]

Same here, I thought it'd be the complete game. But in hindsight, it's understandable. Made me wonder how they could make it so fast, while my own project seems to advance at snail pace in comparison. Keeping such a big project under wraps until it's pretty much complete would have been very impressive.

[@zabustifu]

Oh... I found out it won't get finished, as explained on the download page. One disappointment after another. I wish this was made clear from the start, instead of building hype for this. Set the proper expectations, guys. :\

[@proximacentauri8256]

@@zabustifu Just read this: "We made this tech demo to test out various concepts and fulfill a dream I had as a teenager: to receive a port of Batman Returns for my favorite console. We don't intend to finish the game, but the good results we got here will be used in future projects."

[@zabustifu]

@@proximacentauri8256 Yeah, I've seen it. It's a shame. So many indie Mega Drive / Genesis games get started, but so few end up getting completed.

[@gabrieldias3479]

@@proximacentauri8256 I understand the frustration, but maybe it has to do with legal reasons? Some devs/groups are more willing to take risks than another? But I wonder if someone else was willing to do the complete game if the devs from this demo would be OK with it, would give their support etc.

[@gabrielbarreto5934]

Parabéns pelo seu esforço e pelos demais, sucesso sempre!

[@PyronsLair]

Muito obrigado 🙌

[@LV481]

OMG! I must share this, thank you so much.

[@dytallixx1268]

looks amazing! merry christmas :)

[@thierryminet7712]

I love this demo. It is a very great work. My only regret is that it is just the first level (even if I understand it is a lot of work). I hope in future that someone will do a completely version of this game on megadrive. Congratulations Pyrhon for this version and thank you very much.

[@eduprado8155]

Impresionante trabajo. Aún con un poquito de flickering este juego demuestra que la Mega Drive a menudo estuvo técnicamente infraaprovechada en su época.

[@MM80666]

Amazing job! This came out great. One of the all time great beat em ups!

[@boonefernandobsb152]

This engine remember me the engine of the game "death of superman"

[@dijabreu]

Devil´s Crash/Dragon´s Fury music during the storyline!

[@ulysses2162]

I'm just absolutely amazed by this. Yet again, you guys have pulled off absolute magic.

[@kofkkkof3919]

É do Brasilllll! Como sempre, trabalho primoroso.

[@segasaturnmaniabr]

Joguei em live e me impressionei com a quantidade de inimigos na tela e a gameplay nao sofre lentidão, levando o mega drive ao limite. Parabéns, estou na torcida para esse projeto estar completo sem nenhum percalço.

[@flink1231]

Ficou excelente! Parabéns! O scrooling da primeira fase ficou lindo. To impressionado com a quantidade de personagens e vozes, tinham tantas vozes no snes? Eu aluguei o jogo na época mas não lembrava dessa abundância heheh. As cores também estão bem melhores em relação ao snes. Wow!

[@rodrigomessiasschineider4544]

Feliz Natal! Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho e muito obrigado por esse presente!

[@edu_moonwalker]

Feliz Natal Pyron. Que bela iniciativa essa conversão de Batman Returns 👏🏻👏🏻✨✨

[@Wahinies]

Now THIS is how a remaster is done

[@jeremybowers3181]

Absofreakinglutley brilliant! Merry Christmas.

[@vicentereisdacruz1915]

Pyron o verdadeiro Papai Noel...

[@Juan_Pablo_81]

Impresionante! Espero logres conseguir todo el apoyo que mereces para terminar el proyecto 🎄💕

[@xLeNnUx]

Trabalho magnífico! Vai ficar so na primeira fase oi tem alguma chance de finalizar o projeto?

[@digaolima1021]

Meu brother, vcs estão chegando num nível de qualidade, equivalente ou superior aos programadores e artistas do passado! Que maestria, parabéns a todos os integrantes.

[@PyronsLair]

Vlw fechamento, é muito esforço e amor e todos os envolvidos 🙏

[@loftypancake]

This is so unbelievably amazing, excellent work

[@alexborges3562]

Essa demo está ótima. Surpreendente! Vamos apoiar para termos esse lindo jogo completo para nos orgulhamos do potencial do Mega Drive.

[@JAGUARHX]

Muito bom e melhorando a cada atualização. Feliz natal, amigo!

[@PyronsLair]

Pra você também, feliz Natal

[@antoniocsilsantos]

Ficou excelente, muita p4ncadaria e tela cheia de inimigos. Ao terminar a Demo ficou aquele "gostinho " de quero mais. Parabéns pelo trabalho!

[@antoniocsilsantos]

Ficou excelente, muita pancadaria e tela cheia de inimigos. Ao finalizar a Demo ficou aquele "gostinho" de quero mais. Parabéns pelo trabalho.

[@PyronsLair]

Muito obrigado 😁

[@oakley2001]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!

[@GuiSantosMUGEN]

Presentão! Feliz Natal Pyron!

[@EdineiLopes76]

Como sempre, sensacional. Trabalho fantástico, com paixão, técnica e arte.

[@UncannyBubbleGum]

Thanks a lot I'm about to play it right now! Merry Christmas!.

[@Aliens_Project]

As a Sega- & Mega Drive Fan I lstill love the SNES-Version so much and was always sad for the missing MD-Version. Now you make a Dream come true and giving me the greatest Chistmas-Gift in years…thank you🎉❤

[@Pito23]

Thanks a lot and Merry Xmas!

[@ofonruiz]

Thanks!

[@PyronsLair]

Thank you for your support

[@amaru1818]

I’m speechless… This looks, sounds and plays incredible. Congratulations to the whole team and thank you for this little marvel.

[@PyronsLair]

@@amaru1818 thank you man ✌️

[@marcosadrian65]

Just amazing mate i can believe what the megadrive can do here, in my opinion, looks a lot better on genesis, congrats on music, really good job!!

[@ricardoalvesdasilva9518]

O objetivo de vocês foi alcançado com sucesso, é uma excelente tech demo, dá para ver os limites do mega drive com ela, o que eu pontuo aqui como pontos fortes da demo são o preenchimento na parte inferior colocando a mureta com neve, a própria neve caindo, a cabine telefônica, a qualidade sonora, a escolha da palheta de cores, possibilidade de multiplayer, as fotos do batman e dos inimigos na Hud, e o tamanho e quantidade de sprites na tela ao mesmo tempo, isso tudo demonstra as capacidades do mega e a competência da equipe de desenvolvimento, genial, parabéns! Sei que é uma demo em desenvolvimento, mas teve umas coisinhas que achei estranhas também, o flick dos thin clown (sei que é coisa de ajuste, mas está engraçado😅), a voz feminina falando quando aparece o go (a do batman nessa hora ficou muito legal!), dois batman na tela (meus olhos bugam 🤭) e os sprites sumindo quando tem muitos personagens na tela ao mesmo tempo. Reforço aqui que isso é apenas a minha opinião pessoal, o projeto está maravilhoso, toda a equipe está de parabéns, muitíssimo obrigado!

[@terry-]

Great! Fyi, youtube clips the sound past 0db, so ideally you want to record your levels below that. so the sound doesn't get degraded. This video has the sound 5db past the limit of no degradation.

[@weerbox]

Incredible work! Thank you!

[@givagofilgueirabasilio2180]

Cara! Que trabalho super bem feito! Parabens! Você é um genio!

[@PyronsLair]

Valeu 😀

[@damwaterthomas1980]

Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone this year. 🎄🧑‍🎄

[@OldNick2010]

Parabéns pelo trabalho e esforço em manter vivo o grande Mega Drive! Gratidão eterna por esse presente de natal.

[@bredmaster]

blown away. Nice work.

[@brysew]

I noticed a few problems in this demo. Batman can't throw Batarangs, this is a very useful feature on the SNES. And it also seemed to me that capturing two opponents at the same time does not work quite correctly, they are very difficult to grab.

[@RetroSegaDev]

Insane! I can tell a huge amount of work has gone into this 👌

[@damin9913]

5:26 Enemy punched his partner in the back😂

[@Mauri5io]

Amazing work! when the full version will be available? Approximately...

[@fabiojuniooliveira6862]

Muito bom um port diretamente do Snes funcionando tão bem assim no Mega. A história dos videogames 16 bits poderia ter sido mudada caso os ports de Street Fighter também vindos do Snes fossem feitos com todo este cuidado!! E o melhor ainda: ocupando toda a tela do Mega! Visualmente incrível!! 🎉😊

[@hammerheadms]

Looks great. Awesome job with the samples, guys! This is the game we should have always got.

[@shannonbirt9267]

Looking absolutely superb. Sounds superb also , the PCM sounds effects are really clean is this using XGM or XGM2 sound driver or something custom ?

[@PyronsLair]

Xgm1 driver

[@NotaPizzaGRL]

@@PyronsLair It's really impressive how the sounds play without the channels cutting out. I wish this could be finished but it's cool that you al put out this demo. Merry Christmas!

[@EnuiNemesis]

Is here, is here!!! Merry Christmas!

[@patrickfreitas7537]

Feliz Natal Pyrons! Obrigado pelo grande presente!

[@continentalcosplay1243]

They do gotta finish this!!! They gotta!!! For 9year old me!!!

[@Drachenhannes]

Merry Christmas to you guys and thanks for all the great work you keep dedicating to this project! Could i offer an idea to make second player more visually distinct? Maybe add Nightwing. I know he wasn't in the movie but neither was a second Batman. And unlike the colorful Robin his mostly black suit would fit well with the aesthetic of the game. Maybe Robins sprite from Adventures of Batman & Robin for the SNES could be used as basis. Remove the cape, color correct the suit and the skintone and he'd make for a perfect Batman Returns Nightwing.

[@greyfox1127]

Spectacular! Just a brilliant game & also always loved the cutscenes in this so to see them on Megadrive is magical

[@gilpederiva]

Oh man, this game looks incredible. It's good to see how capable mega drive is.

[@TurricanRex]

This looks awesome. Merry Christmas. 👍

[@jairdiasdarochajunior7734]

Os verdadeiros heróis nao usam capa, eles fazem coisas que os demais achavam ser impossível. Obrigado Pyron por esse presente . Feliz natal a todos que amam o mega drive.

[@lcunha1900]

Caramba tio Pyron! Isso ficou bonito demais. 😮

[@aguia_azulino]

0:01 *"Oloko que presentaço de natal. Valeu pyron e que traga mais atualização do Batman returns MD project e que o TiagoSC não suma dos projetos em andamento, assim como foi no megaman x1 md e sonic 1 do super nintendo."*

[@MugenWorks-n2e]

Wow! Outstanding work. And two players…awesome

[@cybershadow6673]

Esse MD demo-tech é a versão de arcade que a Konami lançaria nos anos 90 / incrível mais elementos ação mais linear .. como o melhor beat 'em up de arcade-style dos anos 80s / 90s

[@slightlytwistedagain]

Looks fantastic. I have some suggestions if you're interested. One the things that can make beat em' ups tedious to play is how repetitive the progression is. I personally think the opening stage could be improved by breaking it up into three acts where each act fades into one another and have their own unique soundtrack. It's a little trick I notice Final Fight does to keep you interested so it might be worth experimenting with to make the overall experience more enjoyable.

[@FabioCosta-kc3sj]

Que marilavilhoso presente de Natal ! Parabéns Pyrons Lair por este magnifico port para Mega drive.

[@vinisasso]

You are making Blast Processing a thing again. This demo is incredible! Please, make the complete game, find a proper monetization scheme, you deserve to become rich devs. The Mega Drive is more than alive with your work, it is shining.

[@Toi_Viciao]

Menuda pasada, se ve increíble!! Muchas gracias por el regalo. Feliz Navidad!

[@alcione1977]

Totalmente excelente! Que venham novos projetos e ports (principalmente pra 32x e Sega CD)!

[@albertomarques7084]

Incrível, gostei de tudo quando ficar pronto vai ser melhor ainda!

[@AzerWal-n4r]

Pyyyyyyyron's!!!!!!!!! Seeeeeeegaaa!!!!!!!!! Thanks pyrons good work from morocco

[@megaodamassa]

Esse Papai Noel existe mesmo 😀. Noel Pyron. Feliz Natal irmão! Muito paz e saúde pra você e sua família. 🎄🙏

[@siqbr6261]

Parabéns Pyrom vc realmente um mago da programaçao basta agora so nao deixar os oportunistas venderem por aí o seu projeto como fizeram com Real bolt fatal fury sucesso

[@albey1816]

Fantastic Work guys. Is the DEMO going to be optimised to reduce Sprite flickering? And can you please add an "Attract Mode" to the DEMO?

[@marchechter5047]

Fantastic work ... looks great... well done guys

[@dirkvandijk6112]

What a demo! Gorgeous, fast playing, tons of enemies 😮 thanks Santa Pyron and all your talented elves !!! 🎉

[@abnercriollo-vy8hr]

Impresionante, un trabajo supremo! Mis felicitaciones a lord patrón!

[@grgmj1980]

OMG! The sounds are orgasm inducing.

[@DesmondBotes]

The stand out for me is the amazing sound! High impact and perfectly suited to the game.