Dune II [1992] DOS vs Amiga vs Sega Genesis (Version Comparison)

[@icuric4077]

Genesis first console to have real RTS.

[@GreySectoid]

My favorite game of MS-DOS era.

[@leg0sam555]

Sega has the most epic intro

[@benevans7564]

I'm amazed they got this to run on the genesis/megadrive at all.

[@maxfram17]

Mega Drive version superior to DOS in all way, except voice and fmv.

[@HairFU]

Ram is really the problem here. Interms of processor power the Mega Drive is more or less the same then an Amiga.

[@leighbyford635]

@@HairFU Its mainly to do with the mega drive not being a bitmapped system, as to why it looks not as good. Its GPU is completely set up for 2d side scrollers. A lack of video ram at 64kb is also an issue. System ram maybe an issue, I don't know. Assets are all on rom though and transfer speeds are fairly quick for the era. The main ram would be for running the program. The lack of Rom size would be a large limiting factor too. The Sega wasn't built to do these kind of games and it shows.

[@digimaks]

@@leighbyford635 I disagree about "looks not as good". To be honest I think genesis version graphics look more serious. DOS and AMIGA version looks kinda toy-like.

[@smyle78]

maybe Dune 2 was the first game that I totally fell in love as a child. the PC version. it was so legendary and iconic. probably I copied it from a school pc with many floppy 5,25 disks and brought it to home.

[@ParallelSyntax]

DOS had the best graphics, intro and GFX. Amiga has the best music. Genesis/MegaDrive has the best sprites.

[@digimaks]

Soudns about right. But about music - I think Megadrive had very catchy tunes, that many still remember.

[@orhunkabakli]

@@digimaks Amiga has the best music "quality" but it misses all the great ingame songs from the PC version. Unfortunately they made the game so that it could run on an Amiga500 with 512k chip + 512k fast memory. (common practice back in the day). If they targeted AGA Amigas that could make use of more memory and faster cpus, we would have gotten the best version of the game.

[@javierjp2090]

Amiga version only has a single loop as music...

[@ParallelSyntax]

@@javierjp2090 No it had atmospheric tones in different pitches fading in and out. The FM sounds were very in-your-face IMHO.

[@ParallelSyntax]

@@orhunkabakli It was a missed oppertunity. I suppose they didn't want to spend the extra on creating an AGA version. Pity. Especially as the game was barely playable on a stock 500 with an extra 1/2 meg.

[@PetrKrátký-n2e]

Sega have some limitations, but it has the best music. Although emulator output here is terrible. Sound of a sonic tank cannon doesn't really sound like a kicked cricket. On a real Megadrive/Genesis, that sound sounds really good, like waves of air.

[@dannyhartwig7595]

sega variant was nice but unit limit was a pain.

[@Mails013]

The Mega Drive version is best by far. It might not have the colours of the PC but it's FM Synth makes the best music and it's moving faster in terms of FPS than all the rest.

[@dmitriikopylov7033]

Sega version is the worst.

[@casusbelli9225]

@@dmitriikopylov7033 The best.

[@hardkoregamer1981]

I enjoyed the Sega Genesis port and think it's a solid port idc what the naysayers think tbh!

[@staple72]

Genesis OST slaps hard!

[@bluetooth2677]

I have copy of this game for SG. It actually still holds up.

[@digimaks]

If only it had mouse cursor-garrison for multiple units + online play capability! Think Sega version is the best.

[@gugudias19]

A timeless masterpiece

[@HelmutKohlrabi]

In '94 I defended the PC version over the Genesis version just because, but nowadays the Genesis version is the best one. They also fixed some of the game mechanics like infinite palaces and such plus the sprites are indeed lovely. Musically, PC with a Roland MT-32 (or nowadays Dosbox with Munt) kicks ass but the Genesis FM sound also is quite good. I think the Amiga version loses out overall. Diskette swapping, reduced palette and lower fidelity graphics and less buildings IIRC turn this version into a loser.

[@casedistorted]

I only ever played the Dune Sega version as a kid growing up, and I played it religiously. It was probably my most played game on the Genesis as a kid growing up, I just loved it so much.

[@gbxgbxgbx]

I remember having the graphics you show as DOS on my Amiga 500 1MB...

[@YoungGarrett]

The Amiga version is clearly inferior in most ways, however! If you go back to 1993 this game would work on ever Amiga as it is shown. The PC version of Dune would need a very specific setup to run with that beautiful midi music.

[@casedistorted]

I remember the intro music for Dune on Sega Genesis being a little bit faster paced.. edit: yeah the music on sega genesis is WAY slowed down, so its ruined.

[@FinalVibes]

I wonder if the sample shown here was an a PAL system, which is 10Hz slower than NTSC.

[@sombra1111]

Genesis wins

[@ReinMixTape]

hmm I got Dune Ii for the mega drive a couple of weeks ago, but I gotto complete some other games first. Mega Drive version looks to have the best game play, but the Mega CD version really makes up for the lack of FMV opening on the Mega Drive side.

[@javierjp2090]

Mega CD version is Dune from Cryo, a completly different game.

[@djaccount5458]

Amiga version have best music

[@davidkulhan1908]

pc MASTER RACE :)))

[@ButcherGrindslam]

Nope. Controls and gameplay are much better on Mega Drive.

[@sombra1111]

@@ButcherGrindslam Absolutely. After playing the Genesis version, I never went back to the DOS version

[@andersonklein3587]

Wow, the Amiga version is barely playable.

[@impactsuit9871]

It played a lot better in a 1200, but I agree, completely unplayable in anything less

[@blumcole]

@@impactsuit9871 yeah. i still have the game for my A1200 and never ran that slow.

[@slivkask8329]

That is not true. I played it back then on my Amiga 500 Plus as well as my friends. It had nice sounds and voices in comparison to MSDOS version that was just beeping.

[@orhunkabakli]

The game was programmed for bare minimums on Amiga (A 7Mhz Amiga500 with 512 chip + 512kb fast memory and no hard drive). It was what most game companies did to maximize profits. For PC, they targeted all markets. The game could even be run on an 16mhz 286 without ems memory (thus no speech). Most games had at least 3 different graphics modes (EGA , CGA, VGA). They even supported different sound cards. I'm sure if they made games like they did on PC so that they supported better Amiga hardware (faster cpus, more memory, AGA (A1200 and 4000), RTG, (graphics cards), AHI (sound cards), We would have gotten the best version of most of the games on Amiga except 3d games requiring chunky graphics modes.

[@YoungGarrett]

@@orhunkabakli I wonder how much the PC that would run Dune 2 as it appears in this video would have cost in 1992.

[@neilthomas6042]

Read the book, watched the films and TV series, didn’t play the game.

[@DDRmails]

oh jeez, at sega you used not 44khz sound rate and no SuperHQ, so it messed up. (btw there is PAL version) Если ты с кеги фьюжн писал - нужно superHQ включать... есть звуковые артефакты которых не было на оригинальной сеге. Например в таз мании звук перестает питчить где не надо

[@sombra1111]

The genesis version is SO much better than the others though...

[@DDRmails]

@@sombra1111 agree.

[@Valet2]

чертовски согласен. халтура полнейшая

[@abcdef2069]

amiga was THE pc brand name and MS-DOS was an OS name, how can they compare two different things, anyway, amiga looked bad enough, glad i didnt buy amiga. as for sega it looked repulsively horrible, why would they even buy the console games that they couldnt even save games except for the check points.

[@fixpontt]

the PC version is far superior to the Amiga, the sega crap is a joke like all console games, also you can adjust the game speed to be much faster than in the video