Konami's X-Men Arcade coming to Saturn!

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[@philipcohen7192]

One, I just got so excited I missed turning onto my street, 2 this amazingly looks like 60 frames per second, 3, while I am super excited to see things like this an snes or genesis port would really be something. Much love to these programmers who attempt this stuff.

[@philipcohen7192]

@@FloridaEbikes I wouldn’t mind a stripped down port. Beat ‘em ups from around that time were translated. People love turtles in time. Captain commando. Street fighter alpha 2 was from 1996 and translated. Alpha 2 was a 13 mb game and X-men was a 4mb game. I am no game developer but I believe if you can port castlevania symphony of the night to the genesis you can port X-men.

[@FloridaEbikes]

@@philipcohen7192 it can definitely be done especially on the Genesis, it's basically an arcade board. I guess I'm just past old games ported to systems that they should've been on in the 90s. If this came out on official disc I'd buy one but I've no need of a burned copy.

[@apollosungod2819]

So you're devaluing the fan made Sega Saturn demo because you prefer to see this game on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis? What screwed up logic you sure have right there... neither of the SNES or Sega Genesis could handle the 2d graphics prowess of a high end 2d graphics arcade board. Didn't you notice how the TNMT arcade ports lost the four player aspect and the extra character sprites filling the screen?

[@apollosungod2819]

So why don't you program the game yourself?

[@MRSAUltraviolet]

It wouldn't work and it look like hot garbage bro.

[@MahmoudEhab2023]

man, now we need a demo like that for mvc1 on the saturn

[@Telzrob]

Now we need Revenge of Death Adder! These two games should have been on the Saturn during the original run.

[@WeskerSega]

@@Telzrob Many beat 'em ups should have been on the Sega Saturn, since there are so few of them, due to the genre popularity declining during the 32 bit era compared to the popularity it had during the 8 bit and 16 bit era (most of the 16 bit era beat 'em ups on the arcade were left unconverted partly because of that). Not having Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder is a crime, and many others from Capcom and Konami would have been great too. What we have in buckets are definitely 1vs1 games, especially from Capcom.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

Would it be like the weird PS-One game or the arcade original?

[@MahmoudEhab2023]

@@MacUser2-il2cx oh definitely be like the arcade just like the mshvsf and xmvsf ports

[@georged7627]

This is a must buy 🙏🏾

[@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189]

This is brilliant and and the target machine is more than capable for the size and amount of sprites required.

[@RetroCore]

I'd say. The stress test with all those sprites on screen in the demo doesn't even phase the Saturn.

[@nobodytonobodysbusiness]

So much effort into this. Crazy endeavor.

[@PistNRods]

Hopefully they finish it. A lot of these arcade ports go uncompleted after the demos. Understandable considering the amount of work required.

[@RetroCore]

Fingers crossed this one is completed. The fact it's being done on the Saturn is special.

[@angelriverasantana7755]

This has lotsa potential and I notice a little improvement over the cabinet release! And that is the extra rotation effect added to the Sentinels' scrap metal limbs as they blow up

[@RetroCore]

It sure does have potential. I hope the developer is able to complete the game.

[@shotgunl]

I saw and downloaded this the other day, but I haven't got around to trying it out. It definitely looks like a slick conversion. It's not my favorite Konami beat-em-up, but I had a lot of fun time playing 6-player version at a local amusement park with friends back in the 90s; good memories.

[@Rave79-egc03]

My 5 yr. old son and me play started playing this when he was 3 yrs old using M.A.M.E. because he recognized Wolverine... Gonna play this classic with him again soon. Thanks for this vid, hope the developers finish it

[@IBM_9001]

Nice! This is one of my favorite classic arcade games, and a Saturn port would go a long way for keeping it accessible via emulation. Sure, you can emulate it in MAME, but it's had sound and graphics issues for ages now that never seem to have been fixed yet.

[@WMARUoriginal]

I would have been so psyched if this had originally released on the Saturn back in the day, but I'll still gladly play now. Big cheers to the developers!

[@DREADFALCON13]

This actually feels like a real console port, at least a demo version of such. Imagine if it is completed, they work on an arranged soundtrack.

[@RetroCore]

Indeed. I know this is a very early version but we can see the promise this offers.

[@JustPeasant]

Always great to see a group of individual do this sort of projects (mods & conversions) out of love and passion for the good stuff. And then there are OFFICIAL "HD remasters" that are making a shame of the original releases for easy and quick buck. Kingpin: The Life of Crime ReLoaded is a dumpster chimpa disaster🤢🤮

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Not everyone doing remasters can be Nightdive.

[@SFTaYZa]

Chimpa lol

[@JustPeasant]

@@SomeOrangeCat Nightdive Studios and Alcon Entertainment joined forces to do Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition. It didn't came out well.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

​@@JustPeasant vs the large number of remasters that Nightdive did perfectly solo. Sounds like the problem with Blade Runner wasn't them.

[@JustPeasant]

@@SomeOrangeCat The game's source code wasn't preserved (available). They attempted to reverse engineer the game with their proprietary KEX engine, thus the half baked result.

[@newtypepunk9967]

This makes me want a port of Konami's Aliens game, but projects like this are always great what if's, no doubt it would have sold well.

[@blazingsoulhunter2862]

Now to imagine a Saturn port of The Simpsons Arcade from 1991 done as a homebrew. Possibly done by the same team as the X-Men Arcade Saturn port.

[@jennyfox2612]

I find it funny that this actually runs better than the original.

[@ravagingwolverine]

I read about this yesterday. It's cool to see it. X-Men arcade is a favorite of mine. It is endlessly fun for me. I can play it over and over. One of the details I read was they're recreating the game as they have no original source code. That means they're just observing the game's behaviors. I'm sure there will be some differences, which is fine. As it is, there are differences between different versions of the arcade. The US version handles the powers differently and has a couple of longer stages. Some versions have power ups. The enemy waves are different. Damage is different between versions as well. I wonder how they'll handle it. The arcade version also does a bit of minor shenanigans with boss hit boxes to try to take an extra quarter from the player now and then. It's really minor, but most of the bosses are invincible to one hit when their life is low. It gives them an easy counterattack against unsuspected players. On the flip side, the game doesn't scale the difficulty as much as other Konami games with more players in the game. The demo does look very nice so far, though I have to say that Cyclops is my least favorite character to play. There are more character differences than there seems to be at a glance.

[@seamusboucher383]

This is a pretty cool demo.

[@SirJonSoda]

those shadows!

[@RetroCore]

Yep, very nice.

[@TheAlphaOmegaX3]

Im in! Looking forward to full release.

[@JoeSantini]

Thank you for sharing this! Next stop. THE SATIATOR!

[@RetroCore]

You bet!

[@thrillington2008]

Its already shaping up to be a great port

[@RetroCore]

I'd say. We can already see a large number of onscreen sprites and some scaling effects.

[@killerb2099]

There's a link to an updated version of this with Storm on the creator's KZbin channel

[@dudacy]

It’s a shame Konami didn’t convert this to home consoles back in the day, and we had to wait to 2000’s to get it into home, and for a limited period. This is a nice effort to convert it to Saturn, but there’s still a long way to go yet.

[@RetroCore]

Indeed. This is more a proof of concept but what is here is looking good.

[@gammaphonic]

This is sick. I hope they manage to complete the port someday. Then maybe Simpsons arcade?

[@ostiariusalpha]

The Simpsons has a pretty simple color palette, and it's already being ported to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. A Saturn port wouldn't hurt though.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

@@ostiariusalpha If Symphony of the Night can work on both Genesis and Saturn, so can the Simpsons. Long Live Konami!

[@ostiariusalpha]

@@MacUser2-il2cx SOTN on the Genesis is a hardware pusher, and Pigsy is doing fantastic work. Simpsons on the Saturn is more like making the console punch below its weight.

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

A dream of mine is that Someone ports the Full Alien vs Predator Capcom game onto the Saturn or DC.

[@madsceptictrooper6803]

I can't understand why Capcom didn't port the Alien vs Predator arcade game to Saturn.

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

@@madsceptictrooper6803 It was originally supposed to release on the 32X but the failure of the add on canceled it. Then for some reason they threw away the idea all together.

[@ravagingwolverine]

@@madsceptictrooper6803 With situations like that, it's usually a matter of licensing or timing. With licensing, it's possible Capcom's license ran out after a certain point, or it was for arcade only with another company getting console rights. With timing, by the time they would have ported it, beat-em-up games had slipped in popularity and there might not have seemed to be as much interest, at least in the view of the decision makers. Either way, it would have been cool to see it get port as it's a great game.

[@Gridseeker]

The arcade game begged a 32 bits console port. Sure, very likely it wouldn´t be a perfect arcade port if it was developed, but I bet it would be quite close if Konami themselves ported it to Saturn or Playstation.

[@RetroCore]

On the Saturn with 4MB Ram there's no reason why it wouldn't be arcade perfect.

[@DarkbluesEXE25]

X-MEN Arcade in SEGA Saturn Port Wow

[@kupamon]

If the saturn was able to run a more complex game like dungeons and dragons shadow over mystaria, it should be capable to run an arcade perfect port of Xmen

[@stormxjp]

I'm so pissed Konami didn't ported those games to Saturn at the time 😢

[@n64fan60]

I have this on PS3. Classic game!

[@GetLostGames1]

If this was a release on that console it would have saved the entire project!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

It really wouldn't. One game wasn't gonna reverse all of the ill instilled in their fanbase.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

X-Men, Turtles in Time, Cowboys of Moo Mesa, Sunset Riders, The Simpsons, not one of them on Saturn.

[@RetroCore]

Cowboys of Moo Mesa is understandable. I'd never even heard of the TV show or game until about 10 years ago.

[@apollosungod2819]

I know that Konami's X-Men arcade game was a bit simplistic which was why it featured a large screen and six player action but I can't help but feel the fan dev is gonna have a huge challenge getting the six player mode to run... Pretty sure if somehow Konami would have converted the game back in the day that they could pull off six players too so long as they had their top devs and obviously Guardian Heroes runs six player action too and of course the Sega Saturn hardware itself can handle this game and even surpass it with more sprites on screen at 60fps but I truly wonder if he can pull off the six player mode.

[@GeordiLaForgery]

This is so cool.

[@tdawg135]

x-cellent

[@Tempora158]

The music in this demo is recorded from either an old version of MAME or the Xbox 360/PS3 release (which themselves are using MAME emulation) because the audio levels are wrong in the exact same way; the FM synthesizer chip volume is too loud while the PCM chip is too quiet, so the melody generated by the FM synth is overpowering the accompanying digitized samples.

[@RetroCore]

Hopefully they'll fix that once the game is completed.

[@topofbones]

Oh my God! Is frustraiting like the original one 😂

[@Midekai]

I am not used to this game at 60 FPS haha

[@frankwhite2072]

Are they going to make it compatible with the Bomberman multitap so the game can be played six player?

[@RetroCore]

That would be cool. Fingers crossed.

[@gordyowl9455]

It's not working on my Fenrir, it doesn't load the first stage of the game 😢 It keeps freezing during the loading screen

[@RetroCore]

Bummer. Maybe there's a firmware update for the Fenrir? The file I linked to is the exact on I used via my Saitator. I guess you could burn it to a disc and do the old disc swap trick?

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

Is it possible that you can have a CPU player for up to 2 to 6 players? If so, then how is this going to work?

[@RetroCore]

Two multitaps.

[@Idelacio]

Can it do 6 players though? ;p

[@RetroCore]

That would be possible but whether the developer implements it is another thing.

[@Idelacio]

@@RetroCore Not really serious, tbf needs ultra windscreen. Otherwise the screen would be a bit crowded!

[@mightyfilm]

I always wished someone would make some sort of ROM hack that gave the characters their Saban cartoon likenesses and replaced Dazzler with Jubilee.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

This was more or less advertising for the X-Men pilot. A sequel would be cool. Maybe have Beast in there too?

[@mightyfilm]

@@MacUser2-il2cx The pilot was at least 3 years old by the time this was released. I'd say the likely theory is that the Saban series was in development around the same time as this game and Konami wanted to cash in on it, but weren't given any material to go off on, so they just used the available pilot. Kind of like how The Simpsons arcade was heavily influenced by the available first season at the time. Shame they couldn't pull a Turtles in Time and didn't give either game a sequel with more available resources.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

@@mightyfilm I think it's more of a crime that none of the X-Men video games ever used the Saban cartoon theme song! Even freaking Spider-Man on the SNES and Genesis used the cartoon theme song from Spider-Man!

[@mightyfilm]

@@MacUser2-il2cx That's because those Spider-Man games were specifically supposed to be the cartoon series. I would say it's a shame the Capcom produced SNES X-Men game didn't use the theme, but that soundtrack is just amazing as is.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

@@mightyfilm I still would have made one cartoon game just to hear it. :)

[@FloridaEbikes]

That's cool but I can fire up the 6 player version on my pc anytime for like the last 20 plus years. This was an obvious miss by Sega and konami in the 90s but why now.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

Arcade 1-Up has it.

[@FloridaEbikes]

@@MacUser2-il2cx Those cabs are pretty nice but hard to justify when i have multiple ways to play already. Also the room. I have multiple hobbies and bikes take up a lot of room.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

@@FloridaEbikes I have one mountain bike. :)

[@FloridaEbikes]

@@MacUser2-il2cx nice dude, that's all you need.

[@AltimaNEO]

But can you use the multi tap?

[@RetroCore]

Not at the moment.

[@AltimaNEO]

@@RetroCore Oh man, it would be killer if they got it working though. 6 player Xmen on Saturn

[@sobesons]

Genial!

[@OM19_MO79]

No offense to your excitement or the people who are coding this but this “port”, just like many others, is so unnecessary, not to mention copyright infringing. There are better ways to play this game and if you are going to modify a console to play it, a PS3 or an X360 at better options to play it (I you couldn’t but the game when it was available, that is).