Xeno Crisis for the Super Nintendo Unboxing and Gameplay
Вставка
- Опубліковано 16 кві 2024
- Xeno Crisis is now on the Super Nintendo and I Unbox this game, show gameplay, and compare it to the Sega Genesis Version.
More info: shop.bitmapbureau.com/collect...
----
Xeno Crisis Neo Geo Version: • New Neo Geo Physical R...
Xeno Crisis Sega Genesis: • Xeno Crisis for the Se...
Xeno Crisis Sega Dreamcast: • Dreamcast New Release ...
Subscribe if you like the content!
/ @johnhancockretro
🔴My homebrew games here swlovinist.itch.io/
🔴Merch! the-immortal-john-hancock.pri...
🎮 TikTok: / immortaljh
👾 Facebook: / immortaljohnhancock
💻 X: / swlovinist
🎮 Patreon: / swlovinist
💥Instagram: / immortal_john_hancock
🔴Binge watch some of my playlists below:
🔴Evercade Playlist bit.ly/EvercadeVids
🔴Bad Video Games: bit.ly/3iM8cDW
🔴Homebrew & Aftermarket Games: bit.ly/homebrewafter
🔴Ranking Videos: bit.ly/3nL5Yol
🔴Switch videos: bit.ly/2MH9Cl9
🔴PlayStation videos: bit.ly/3HoTgFZ
🔴Affiliate links below:
🔴Switch OLED: amzn.to/3Hrq8OC
🔴Xbox Series S: amzn.to/3OdCXhE
🔴Evercade VS: amzn.to/47Yzmhw
🔴New Quest 2/3 users can get $30 in store credit!
www.oculus.com/referrals/link...
🔴NES Themed Mouse: amzn.to/3sFCs6O
🔴Tonor TC30 microphone: amzn.to/35AWtUq
🔴Sony Alpha a6100 Camera: amzn.to/3HdqEyT
Xeno Crisis was sent to me from Bitmap Bureau for content coverage. The views expressed in this video are of my own. - Ігри
John Hancock and new games
Definitely gotta scoop this one, ty for this John :)
I still play this for the Vita. I love it 😊😊😊
I like Xenocrisis and how there are ways to become a higher level player with use of the dodge/roll and the melee attack.
That looks pretty cool! Like an updated smash TV!
That's awesome!!!
Yes, this is on Vita.
Somehow when I watch a John Hancock video popping up I know it’s gonna cost me money… I already have the GameCube, NeoGeo CD, Dreamcast and MegaDrive version but I’ll buy this one as well. Thanks for de video John!
Awesome video John! I have this on the Genesis and it’s tough as nails. I’m intrigued by the Super Nintendo version. I think the SNES controller would be perfect for this game. As most games, it’s better co-op.
I would have liked to see the SNES version of this game, utilize the sound chip of the SNES. While the soundtrack is outstanding, it sounds like a Genesis game!
Wish they would have SNES'd up the music.
A great game. I'm glad they made a SNES version. I have it on Steam and on the Evercade. Thanks for the video, John!
Cool!)
Looks to be running in the lower snes resolution. Making things look larger but the stage smaller.
I am waiting for the physical 7800 release for my 2600+. Would also buy for the PC-Engine
Its a great game and its cool to see more ways to play it! I'll probably end up on every system! (But probably not the BBC Micro) Either way, always cool to see how they adapt this to new ports!
That would be cool if they had a Hack version of Smash TV which had this character instead.
How is it sounding like FM synth? Does the cart have the MSU functionality and it's just playing a CD quality rip of the MD soundtrack?
I got mine this week, sadly it won’t boot on my Analogue SuperNT
The game just hits a black screen everytime I turn the console on
The contacts are looking brand-new
Can anyone help me?
Make sure you have the latest firmware for your Super NT
@@johnhancockretro It worked 1st try after updating the firmware! Thanks!!
The sprites remind me of Devils Crush on TG-16
The lower resolution makes everything look super-deformed. The additional voices are nice, though (compared to the Genesis version). Love the Genesis version.
A good port. The SNES cart has a special chip inside to help run the game. Seeing the side by side reminds me of how impressive the Sega Mega Drive is, especially since it runs the game with no slowdown at a higher resolution on base hardware alone, that is 2 years and change older than the SNES. They could have added more voices to the MD version, but at the time they wanted to keep the ROM at 32 megs.
Yeah, that chip has allowed the SNES version to basically directly mimic the Genesis FM sound while also adding in a lot more voice samples at slightly higher quality, which is a cool wee bonus to get here.
I actually think they could have added a bit more to the SNES version, especially given how long it took to come to the system, but the port is such a high quality, with only a few concessions and even some added features specific to the SNES version (proper transparency, extra environmental effects like mist and rain in some levels, all those additional voice samples, the awesome dual 8-way movement and 8-way firing controls as standard for every SNES player, etc), that I can't really complain.
If we can get a bunch more new indie/homebrews like this for the SNES going forward, it's going to be good times.
This snes port was considered impossible, it's clearly a feat it's running on the snes, of course with a enhancement chip to achieve 60fps.
@@inceptionalYou are ignoring the fact this port would've been impossible without the enhancement chip, how convenient. 😆
What's the special chip that's used called?
This game does NOT use an enhancement chip.
Will it play on a retron 5
We'll need some cheat codes later 😅. Infinite everything!
I wonder if they'll ever port this Game to any Home Computers like the Commodore 64 or the ZX Spectrum
The music is so good, I'm picking it up! Can it do 2 players co op?
Yes
PCE/TG16 Duo port time :) maybe lynx or 2600m
Snes with Sega Genesis music samples.
As much as I like both the Sega genesis and Super NES, I would like to get Xeno Crisis for the Sega genesis (Since it is my All time favorite video game system )
I'm getting Super Smash TV vibes from this game, looks pretty cool.
Fantastic game! So hard though. Never even made it to the third stage. 😅
You can do it!
Yes sir. Xeno has a physical release on the Vita :) What a fun game.
Indeed it is!
This game reminds me of Smash TV and that's a good thing. Will definitely get it. Good playthrough and cool video John!👉🙂👈
It’s on several consoles including the n64 and GameCube 😊
@TheSupersmash97 oh wow thanks for the information!👍
@@HECTORMONTALVO-le9cnyep I got both n64 and GameCube physical but GameCube needs to be modded in order to play
@@TheSupersmash97 alright.🤙
I really wanted to like this game, but I have the Steam version on PC and the difficulty is just ridiculous even on easy.
I like old school hard, but when enemies spawn on top of you and bullets are hard to see, it starts to lose it's fun factor.
Xeno Crisis is now probably one of the most ported games, along with Prince of Persia, Outrun, and Paperboy. Will we ever see it on the Atari Jaguar and 3DO?
How long until this game gets ported to Samsung Refrigerators?
Looks good on snes and switch lite ps5 sega
Reminds me of Smash TV
and its out of stock
I bought it on Genesis, Neo Geo, and Dreamcast. Dreamcast is my favorite by a lot. It has the enhanced graphics and sound, but a button layout like the SNES. The Neo Geo version plays the worst by quite a bit.
Is it me or do the rooms in the SNES version look smaller?
SNES has a lower horizontal resolution (256) than then Genesis (320).
@@blitzerblazinoah6838 It's stretched to fit the 4:3 format, so, basically, no.
The rooms are smaller. They were redesigned slightly to help fit the smaller resolution that the SNES has. The two factors unfortunately make things look a bit squashed.
I love this game I have it on the Dreamcast
I didn't expect the music to sound just like on the Genesis. Is like the snes is using a different sound chip. I have that game like in everywhere, Switch, XBOX, Steam and Genesis, so no more ports for me😅.
SNES sound chip is different, using samples instead of frequency modulation.
the snes port is streaming the music off the cart. It's not using the snes sound chip.
Dis Smash TV have bosses between levels?
I think it has bosses if I remember correctly.
It's important to never continue or you won't get the ending
👍👍™️
It looks like a better version of Smash TV yo yeehaw!
❤ I'm glad I picked this up for the Evercade and Switch. Wonderful game that deserves a place in anyone's collection. Feels like something that would have been a big hit if it was released in the 16-bit era.🎉
Rom pleasy
Genesis version is higher resolution.
Nintendo weren’t messing around when they named this console ‘Super’
It should have come with a red cape attached to it
Indeed, that the Xeno Crisis videogame version for the SNES, is mo pretty to look at, when the player is at a transitional menu; because of its better ram memory, that allows a better colour pallet.
Still, when one starts to go through the gameplay, the SMD looks better; because of its mo fluid in-game animations; due to its better CPU processor.
So, SMD version of that same videogame, is better. Because it has: mo satisfying overall gameplay, than the version from the SNES.
Have you played both versions side by side or are these just assumptions biased on popular opinions? ;-.)
@@atarijaguarsgarage8873 If a kid, from the early 1990's; was mo interested in watching pretty menu screens, than, interested in watching an array of fluid screen animation...
Then, that same kid, just had to go buy or get: one of those early IBM Home computer; in order to be able to spend, some of its hours -> just watching the multicoloured screen saver, slideshowing.
@@aberdeenkiko Lol, none of those screen animations are remarkable for the SNES hardware. In fact, the SNES is just as good with those games as the Genesis and better in some areas like color detail and effects. Games run at standard 60Hz, not slideshow or screensaver, what you are talking about?
@@atarijaguarsgarage8873 "Have you played both versions side by side or are these just assumptions biased on popular opinions? "
That's exactly what they are.
Thanks for the comparison footage, John.
I like some improvements, still is a port, a good one, but I feel Genesis is overall the best suited version, but for a SNES collector this is a good option to enjoy a great game.
Well, this is very clearly a great port to SNES.
Having said that, obviously it's not as optimal for that system as it could be, since it's ultimately just a port of a game specifically designed for Genesis from the get-go, and this SNES port is not talking full advantage of things like all the extra colours, additional background layers, Dolby Surround sound, etc. But it's still very high quality regardless. It comes with a few concessions, like the smaller size of the rooms horizontally, but adds in some proper transparency effects, extra environmental effects like mist and rain in some levels, many more voices at higher quality (courtesy of the added chip), slightly shorter loading times into the levels, and obviously a default dual 8-way movement plus 8-way firing control scheme that is pretty much ideal for this type of game and maps brilliantly to the SNES' standard controller.
It's just great to see a new game for SNES at this quality level.
PS. Nice to see some real high quality footage too. Most videos of the SNES version are just from it playing on a CRT recorded at a distance with a video camera, which is understandable given there's not actually a digital version of the game on SNES and most people won't have a setup where they can capture direct footage like this, so it's nice to finally get some really clean and sharp footage here. It even shows the slight difference in colours between the two versions there, with what looks to be slightly warmer tones and more contrast on SNES, which is interesting given the SNES version doesn't actually display any more colours like it could have.
The snes version also has the worst flicker and puny screen out of all the ports, the snes is outdated, that's why it took 5 year's for a port, ha ha.
You talk completely in malarkey.
You are delusional, you have delusions of grandeur, you ignore everything in front of you.
The snes is clearly outdated, the snes version of xenocrisis has the worst flicker and smallest screen of all the ports, it took 5 year's to come to the snes, it was the most difficult port due to the inferior hardware.
THE SNES IS OVERRATED!
You know, all you smug snes wads talk so much crap about the genesis, that it's weak, it's 8-bit. But now the cats out of the bag. The snes is outdated and basically obsolete without a enhancement chip, and still the xenocrisis port has the worst flicker, glitches and smallest screen. The snes version of xenocrisis has earned the tag of the impossible port.
SNES version has the best gameplay cos its pad is more suited for this type of game, see Smash TV, while playing on the Genesis pad feels a lot clunkier.
The genesis version is still considered superior, after all it should be cause it's a genesis game, the snes port wasn't even thought to be possible, but they added the MSU 1 enhancement chip.
It is without a doubt, the worst version that Bitmap has developed.
The extra voices or forced transparencies where they are not necessary do not justify the gameplay being so unpleasant compared to any other version.
The art of the game is deformed, from the transition scenes to the graphics of the game itself trying to fit into an aspect ratio for which it was not intended. The much more limited number of rooms variety also does not help to opt for this version. And the flickering that shows mainly 2 players, does not help to want to replay it either.
Anyone who has this cartridge (myself included) will see the RaspBerri Pi logo serialized with a 133MHz dual-core ARM that you need to be able to process this game. If we add to that that the cartridge hardware itself is also responsible for streaming the sound, I wonder how much of the base Super Nintendo hardware is helping the game run?
We can only be sure of the use of its PPU since it shows all limitations that cause it to remain behind the rest, such as the resolution, limit of pixels per line that it can draw or the inefficient management of sprites that it offers us in addition to the loss of useful numbers tiles in the rest of the versions.
Are you annoyed/upset because Xeno Crisis on SNES has a chip in the cart, which in this case has allowed it to have way more audio/voice samples at slightly higher quality than the original Genesis version?
Using additional chips in carts was relatively common on SNES, as can be seen in a whole bunch of SNES games like Pilotwings, Super Mario Kart, Doom, Star Fox, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mega Man X2/X3, Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Star Ocean, etc.
Enhancement chips have also been used in recent Genesis games like Paprium and Pier Solar too.
I'm not sure why this seems to be such a big issue for you here in this particular case.
And the SNES version of Xeno Crisis, while it has some concessions due to the fact the original Genesis game was originally never designed with SNES in mind at all, also has slightly nicer colours, multiple proper transparency effects, additional environmental effects like fog and rain in some levels, slightly faster loading times into levels, and a default dual 8-way movement plus 8-way firing control setup that is perfectly suited to the awesome standard SNES controller.
Now, could it be even better on SNES than it is--yes. But it's still a great port overall, so kudos to the developer there.
Also, if Super Smash TV can run on SNES at a solid 60fps with loads of intense action on-screen and in two-player too, even when the system is still stuck running in SlowROM mode at 2.68 MHz, which is only 70% of the SNES' full CPU speed, a whopping 70% slower than the Genesis CPU and 30% slower than even the Master System CPU on paper, I think it's pretty clear that the SNES could run a game like Xeno Crisis even without an enhancement chip. Your take on the fact it uses an extra chip here is an example of correlation, not causation.
Anyway, regardless, the SNES has a great port of the arcade twin stick shooter Smash TV (and Robotron 2084 and Total Carnage too), and now it also has a great port of Genesis Xeno Crisis as well. Awesome stuff.
Here's hoping it gets both many more great ports like this, and indeed many great new games made specifically for it too, going forward.
@@tay3177 Who cares if there's a coprocessor. Did you get this butthurt when you found out there were coprocessors in modern indie/homebrew games like Paprium and Pier Solar on Genesis.
For the record, "PAPRIUM is the second game, after VIRTUA RACING, to boast its own "acceleration" chip. This chip, DT128M16VA1LT aka "DATENMEISTER", was developed in-house by WM, is used by PAPRIUM primary as a audio chip and adds extra audio channels for both music and SFX. We used a back-door left by SEGA and rest assured: This is not some lame MP3 or WAV player, this is live digital audio in same fashion as the highest-end arcade machines of the 90's" - WaterMelon
Or do you only reserve such bitter and childish reactions for new SNES games.
At the end of the day, it's a great port. And, along with some compromises that are the inevitable result of the game not originally being designed with SNES in mind at all, it even managed to improve on the Genesis version in some notable ways. Some of those things can be attributed to that coprocessor, like all those additional voice samples and possibly the slightly faster loading times into the levels, and some just the stock SNES, like the proper transparency effects, the added environmental mist and rain in some levels, and the vastly superior default controls that every single SNES owner gets to enjoy as standard on the brilliant controller that came in the box with every SNES.
You are definitely not in the same authentic place at all, but I personally can't wait to see more great ports like this on SNES, and ideally eventually even some games specifically designed for it and made to take full advantage of all its particular capabilities and features in the future too, be it displaying loads more colours, proper transparency effects, more background layers, full screen 60fps Mode 7 at times, 8bpp 256 colour images at times, 512x448i resolution at times, playing in Dolby Surround sound, and using all the SNES controllers' buttons, etc.
And you can repeat it's the worst playing version all you want, but, with that amazing SNES controller and the ideal dual 8-way movement and 8-way firing plus shoulder button grenade and roll setup as standard, I've heard most people say this is actually the best playing version of the game, or certainly one of the best.
@inceptional No. In none of the games you mention is there a coprocessor that would be the envy of a Dreamcast.
The problem is that even with a Raspberry Pi inside, this game is flawed in a large number of factors that make it by far the worst playable version of them all.
Regarding the sound, have you really tested the game on the same TV against different versions? I mention this because the quality is no better than other versions, even during some loads (second and fifth bosses of the game) the sound becomes strident and intelligible for several seconds. I have been able to verify this with other users who have the game. What there is is a greater number of these voices compared to versions like Genesis. Of course, a cartridge with practically unlimited memory with that extra hardware should have even more.
Whether it could be better or worse on SNES is simply theorizing. What this game gives us in its version is what it is. You can fantasize about "could..." "maybe..." "if he had..." the reality is that the product that has come out is undoubtedly something far below what has been offered to date.
You talk about Smas TV and its 70% speed due to the 2.68MHz clock frequency. The thing is that you don't earn a "30%" profit with a Fast-rom. The absence of general registers of the main processor depends largely on access to RAM, and access to said memory is still 2.68Mhz. This "Fast-rom" upgrade can provide a 15-16% improvement, not much more.
Also, you talk about games that work very differently. They are the same genre but Smash TV maintains a static VRAM, while Xeno Crisis demands a lot of tile refresh and this depends on the bandwidth and I can tell you from personal experience the pain of It's hard to configure it and try to make it dynamic without losing performance.
It bothers me that this port does not use "more than SNES", to replicate both fluid gameplay and quality music it has had to use external hardware and has been left with the use of the tool that penalizes this type of games the most, its PPU.
Also, this port is by far the most expensive. Due to the price increase of this version, the rest of the versions (such as the Genesis version) have suffered a joint price increase, from €54.95 to €79.95
In short, we have the most expensive, least playable and fun version of all the versions that requires a coprocessor and its own sound hardware to come close to the rest of the versions. And yet, it is the best homebrew that SNES has received to date.
PS: The user I responded to seems to have deleted his post after my response.
A publication full of speculation and data misinterpreted by him in which he also makes some statements out of ignorance. The relative data he mentions about the SNES CPU is wrong. The need for chip implementation that he comments on is wrong, the comparison of Smash TV with Xeno Crisis on a technical level does not make any logic. The slightly better use of color and sound that he claims to have is a subjective opinion that he uses as a legitimate claim.
All this because I don't have the same opinion as him after my experience playing Xeno Crisis in various versions.
@@inceptional It's funny how your message appears and disappears like flickering in this version of the game.
And also, with data added again wrong!
Do you call anyone whose opinion doesn't agree with yours a fanboy?
I can safely call you a hypocrite, because I notice that you appear in every message in the comment box when the opinion towards this version is not like yours.
What hurt me when you mentioned that Paprium uses a chip?
You EDITED that after my answer. I don't have the Paprium game, nor am I interested. What's the point of bringing it up?
Here we are talking about XENO CRISIS of the Super Nintendo version, the only one that has an improvement chip and that does not use ANY other version and even so, these versions without a chip are clearly superior both playably and economically.
I don't know why you have to list the features of a console that I've been hacking for 26 years. For this reason I am more critical of this port since it only uses the SNES PPU, when it has other qualities that could have led to another type of port being made.
This butthurts you when people think it is the worst version when you try it and compare it with others?
Let's talk facts about this version of Super Nintendo:
- It has a lower resolution, a smaller playing area, a smaller amount of variety of access to each level so it has a smaller number of rooms, it suffers a lot from flickering, the art is deformed at both 4:3 and 8:7 AR, due to At the smallest amount of area the game is overwhelming, the difficulty artificially increases this fact, it has various errors in the sound when loading certain tracks, it is the most expensive version due to the need for an external processor, it lacks detail tiles in the maps, the metasprites of the bosses like the first and the third are above and sticking out from the background and their details, there is flickering even in the options menu!
Have you played the game on Super Nintendo?
In the text edition do you make a percentage comparison on the clock speeds between 65C816, Z80 and M68K? Is this serious? Based on these speeds, do you confirm if a game can run on one console or another?
Do you know that one of them bases their instructions on RISC and the others on CISC? Do you know the demand for communication between components that each system requires for each instruction? Did you understand anything about what I said about Smash TV and its static VRAM versus a dynamic VRAM of continuous refresh of Xeno Crisis tiles and how this makes them internally completely different games to run?
If you don't like my comments or opinion and experience towards this game, don't come. Misinterpreting the data you have, that ends up confusing people. And if you don't know how to interpret them, don't use them.
*Snes is Better Genesis same 8 bits bad color bad Audio*
Didn’t know this was being released on the snes John, as soon as I watched this vid tried to order but can’t because there moving facility’s 🥹.
Same here…
The game that will rival Doom for number of ports
Got mine for Sega
Can't wait for the Virtual Boy release
🤣🤣🤣