Then you should just focus on the Mega drive version as the Arcade version lacks the extra bosses and is more repetitive. Less interesting.
Plus the upside is the Mega drive version BUT with arcade graphics, color and sound. So that would make your version unique. Most of us just emulate the mame rom anyways when we want to play the arcade.
Hi this is great!
Are you open to feedback? The mega drive ALSO had a port of this.
But the neat thing about that one is that it made some interesting QOL improvements. They added a couple of extra bosses to the game, basically moving one or two of them around, to make the game a little less monotonous. Since fighting the gargoyle again and again got monotonous. But the Mega lacked a lot of colors and missed some backgrounds.
So this is promising because it looks MORE like the arcade!
Any chance thought of adding that additional content? The factory level, for instance, has a new cool spider boss right after fighting the second gargoyle. Check it out if you are not familiar.
7:06 timestamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdRVNqjS1k
Few questions. Using the scorpion engine to program this? That's the rage these days.
Also, is this only for the purpose of making a demo? Or do you plan to take this all the way.
Yes, do Palma as a 'what-if' extended level. Doesn't have to be much. But it was always a bit of a letdown, and a cheat, that they simply blew up Palma just to cut corners and deliver a game within the limits of the deadlines and cartridge space.
If I were you, I'd borrow some elements from the Sega Ages version, maybe some of the cut scenes, to give this game a little more spectacle.
One way to improve upon the original is to complete the game, as some of it was left uncompleted because of deadlines. Have backgrounds during battles, instead of that awful blue grid. It was fixed later on in the PS2 Sega ages version, but would look cool on a retro game like this. Also, since Palma is destroyed I always thought it would be cool if we could visit it BEFORE it gets destroyed. Even if for just a little bit, to search a small part of it or something. That way the game won't feel like it was cutting corners. Which was one reason why they blew it up.haha... This way they only had to do two planets, etc. Just some thoughts.
