I remember when I started collecting Saturn games in 1999, I got this from the pawn shop for $15 the same year. Best home conversion of the first two of the series hands down.
@@segasaturn6800it seems to be about the same price now. I just got it for about $6 in Japan so you can probably find it for less. Maybe more in the States at a shop.
A series I never knew in the 90s. Didn't find it till maybe 10 years ago. Almost instantly became my favorite fighting series. Awesome characters and not jerk off hard to pull off moves. Gorgeous graphics. Capcom, make a new Darkstalkers already!
I bought my Saturn specifically for this game. All of my friends thought I was crazy, as at the time the Saturn was obviously trailing behind PlayStation, but I didn’t care.
I was obsessed with this game back in the day. I still wish I had my copy of Diehard Gamefan's strategy guide. It had lots of great artwork and full color pages featuring all the attacks and even some of the animation frames captured.
I still have mine but the cover fell off. It was overpriced. It had all of the frame data & hit priority though, which I don't recall any western publication at the time doing anything like that at all, No other western gaming publication took fighting games as seriously as gamefan did.
Capcom really loved them some Sega Saturn after basically totally ignoring the Sega Genesis, their Saturn output in Japan was insane, and also having the matching cd case spines that really look great, all lined up on the shelf👍
Tragic, since most of these games could've been amazing on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. By 1997-98, 40-60 megabit games were commonplace, and 120 megabits was the hard limit of the system. With its chunky pixel 2-pixels-per-byte arrangement, the Genesis could've managed very decent versions of these 2D arcade hits looking and sounding almost as good as the Saturn. Worse, the SEGA CD had been out since 1992 and was perfectly capable of 500MB of assets, as well as the arcade scaling, rotation, and warping (and multiple PCM sound channels) to get that outstanding arcade effect three full years before Saturn would hit the market. Making use of the 320x448i mode and changing background and foreground pallets while moving down the screen, roughly 200 colors could be displayed at one time instead of the old 61 out of 512. And more Sega CD addons were sold outside of Japan than Saturns even by 1998 when they were all being sold at a loss or put on clearance!
@@MaxAbramson3 That would be prohibitively expensive on the Genesis, and the SEGA-CD had neither the RAM nor the CD-ROM speed to play this without massive compromises to animation/color/loading/sound. Not to mention that SEGA Japan had washed their hands of the Mega Drive _well_ before 1998.
Your videos are so well-informed, enthusiastic, and really sweep me into a warmer nostalgia cloud since playing these games on my Saturn as a kid make up a number of positive memories. I've loved fighting games my whole life and Saturn's library of them was beyond rad.
I remember reading in Gamepro a close look about Night Warriors being exclusive to the Sega Saturn. I was in 8th grade, and I knew after reading that article that I was going to choose Sega’s 32 bit monster as my 5th Generation console.
When I bought my used Sega Saturn back in 2008, this was one of the games that I decided to purchase with the console along with "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo". Now that both games are playable on modern cosoles such as the Nintendo Switch, it really saves me the trouble of having to set up my Sega Saturn just to play them, especially since "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge" has always been my most favorite game in the Darkstalkers series despite most people prefering the third game to come out afterwards.
Some of my favorite gaming on my Saturn was with this game! It was incredible to see all it's arcade glory come home. Paired with the awesome saturn controller, it was incredible! Thanks SLX for highlighting this gem!
This is the type of game ive wanted you to talk about for a while! Darkstalkers was one of the best of that era and its awesome to see you talking about it finally
Nice review. The saturn never ceases to amaze me. The stages in this game on both saturn and arcade, are really lovely, especially Aulbath/Rikuo's stage.👍
I had this on the Saturn. Also imported Vampire Savior back in the day. Notably Morrigan's command input for her super attack Darkness Illusion would become the same command for Akuma's Raging Demon.
Nobody has ever made a more fluid 2D fighting game till this day. And the music is hypnotizing. You can't found these cool sounds anywhere else 😢 Okamoto talked about this series on his UA-cam channel as well. He didn't said that clearly, but you can assume by what he said they came to Saturn because Sony didn't cared about Capcom too much 😂
By Okamoto, I presume you mean Yoshiki Okamoto? Interesting that Sony didn't care much for Capcom considering how big Resident Evil would become, but I also guess this game came before RE, which I recall was Capcoms first really big 3D title, and Sony back then was REALLY all-in on 3D, I recall.
To the best of my recollection, at least, Night Warriors was my second-favorite fighting game that I owned on the Saturn after Street Fighter Alpha 2. And I even owned the RAM expansion and X-Men VS Street Fighter. But I loved Night Warriors even more!
Japanese players still play this at tourneys, its one of those classic games that stood the test of time like Super street fighter 2 and KOF98, the Saturn is such a great console, especially if you like fighters.
Darkstalkers was a revelation to me. It has so much more personality than Street Fighter in my opinion. I’ve always been sad that it can’t achieve the popularity of SF2 itself. I love the characters in this game! Night Warriors brought my favorite fighter: Hsien-Ko.
People can say whatever they want about the Saturn and it’s 3D graphics capabilities but one thing nobody can deny that when it comes to Capcom arcade ports during the 32 bit era, the Saturn was truly a 2D monster.
Darkstalkers is one of my most favourite fighting games ever. The characters and the entire backgrounds, really shows a lot of personality to it. The opening of this game still looks amazing.
Hey, SLX! I remember playing the first Darkstalkers version back then in the arcades, and when I played this one I was blown away... I loved everything about it, and when it came to the Saturn, I was able to enjoy it at home... And what a GREAT SURPRISE it was, when I found out that we could have both Stage and Character colors and also de music from the first version as well! Man, it's even possible to have everything randomized, it's simply AMAZING! One of my favorite fighting games of all time! Darkstalkers 3 might have more characters to choose from, but the Gameplay and the style on this one is much more to my liking... AWESOME port, hands down. Nice video, man, cheers!
Vampire Savior was one of my favorite games ever on the Saturn, and definitely my favorite Capcom fighting game. This series is seriously under appreciated - like so many other video games from the early days..
All about my Saturn. Never had one growing up but I just picked up a model 1 a month or so ago. I had an N64 and was mostly a Nintendo kids. Saturn’s a neat system with some great games I’m happy to experience. Always love the Saturn content.
Great video, dude. One of the all time best Saturn games. My buddies and played the hell out of it for months on end in the mid to late 90s. One of the few CIB games I have for the Saturn that was extremely cheap when I bought it. Hope to see a video on Vampire Saviour.
Night Warriors is my favorite fighting game ever. Damn it's so beautiful, I love how colorful the characters and backgrounds are. I like it even more than the 3rd entry because the backgrounds here and much prettier (and each character has their own stage, not shared backgrounds like Darkstalkers 3). I played it so much in the arcades that I was in heaven when I heard there was a home version on the Saturn.
This game and Wipeout were my first two Saturn games and I loved both! I was so into the Saturn that I didn't even get a PS1 until after I already had a N64. FF7 and Blood Omen were the big reasons I finally caved and bought one.
As somebody who would like to start playing Sega Saturn games, this video emphasizes something that’s personally bugging me about the console: so many of its arcade ports (which are supposedly among its best games) were amazing for their time but are basically obsolete now. In the case of the Darkstalkers games: near-perfect emulations of the arcade versions are available for just $1 or $2 through Capcom Arcade Stadium. So, unless you’re a collector, is there any reason to play the Saturn versions here in 2024?
Amazing game. I never understood why there was the discrepancy in screen proportion on capcom cps2 conversions on saturn, but this is usually the only nitpick, showing how close to perfect were these ports. Morrigan and Lei-Lei ftw!
It’s because Sega Saturn resolution on those games was like 320x240 while the arcade game was 384x224. So in that sense, it was lower resolution however the assets were kept at the same scale as the arcade.
It is a must have for any Sega Saturn collector. I'm a Capcom fan. It was a bummer it was a SEga Saturn exclusive, but it's an exclusive that made the system worth buying.
Great game, I have Vampire Hunter & Vampire Savior myself. I don't even wanna know how much the US versions go for. I gotta say, I have more fun with Savior, but this one's nice to come back to.
I Thoroughly enjoyed Darkstalkers 3 on the Sony Playstation. I mean, unless you are a super hardcore arcade-head, you aren't going to miss these "missing animations" at all. My friends and I sure didn't care and we played Darkstalkers in the arcade regularly.
Such a wonderful underrated series. I'm gad Capcom decided to give us all the games in a sweet collection for modern platforms and I hope they make a new entry :-)
Plus Resurrection which is also really nice. I’m looking to sell my Saturn copies because I no longer need them. Too bad no modern release of the Marvel fighting games except Marvel vs Capcom.
I'm so happy years ago at my local flea market I found and bought Darkstalkers (longbox) on PS1 for like $20 or $25. Money well spent! Wish it had the manual though.
Great review! Darkstalkers was one of my favorite 2D fighting series growing up. Capcom honestly worked some miracles getting arcade games to a near-perfect conversion on the Saturn (especially ones that used the RAM cart)! These Saturn arcade ports were the best way to bring the arcade experience home in the '90s! Of course, now you can just run the arcade original on just about anything, which makes it all a moot point now. 😋
The Capcom Fighting Collection (I know, I was a sucker for preordering it not knowing it'll be dead on arrival) was my 1st exposure to the Darkstalkers' series. Heck, that installment is how I come across having Hsien-Ko being my favorite Capcom fighting girl. ^^;
Ha, just yesterday my co-worker bought a Saturn in its original box plus Vampire Saviour and the 4 MB expansion. I was considering to buy it myself, but I couldn't decide and he was faster 😅 I know I will end up buying one too, SLX is truly a powerful influence 🤣
Useless fact for westerners: Whenever you see “Hs” in Mandarin, it’s pronounced like “Sh.” The jiāngshī (“stiff corpse” Chinese vampire) fighter’s name is pronounced “Shen-ko.”
This was one of the childhood Saturn games for me and I played it long after the saturn had been put to rest. Never cared for darkstalkers 3, the ps1 port. It was okay but it just didn't feel as fun. Honestly This Panzer Dragoon Zewi and Sega Rally was my Saturn go to trio.
I always see others complain that Capcom treats the Dark Stalkers series like a wet food stamp and i agree. I've always liked the style of these games and the unique characters.
I preferred X-Men: CotA and SF Alpha. Really liked the 4MB Vampire Savior Saturn port though. It just felt like a fuller and a more complete version of Darkstalkers.
You are confusing RAM with ROM when you talk about the size of Nightwarriors. The CD-ROM format had adequate space for the entire game and the RAM size of the SATURN and the CPS2 arcade was similar. The problem was moving all of the animation frames through the system cache of a CD-ROM system compared to an arcade machine, which is why animation had to be cut.
No, I meant it exactly how I said it. Night Warriors is 550 megabits, with half of that being animation alone. The tiny RAM in the Saturn could not hold the animation of 2 characters, so it had to be cut. I know the arcade game itself comes on ROM boards but I was not comparing it in terms of actual storage of the ROM, but how much of the game could be held in the Saturn's memory at one time.
I remember when I started collecting Saturn games in 1999, I got this from the pawn shop for $15 the same year. Best home conversion of the first two of the series hands down.
Nice
Is this game expensive now?
@@segasaturn6800it seems to be about the same price now. I just got it for about $6 in Japan so you can probably find it for less. Maybe more in the States at a shop.
@@segasaturn6800yes very
A series I never knew in the 90s. Didn't find it till maybe 10 years ago. Almost instantly became my favorite fighting series. Awesome characters and not jerk off hard to pull off moves. Gorgeous graphics. Capcom, make a new Darkstalkers already!
I bought my Saturn specifically for this game. All of my friends thought I was crazy, as at the time the Saturn was obviously trailing behind PlayStation, but I didn’t care.
The Sega made games and 2D games on the Saturn hold up the best from 32-bit Era. Few PS1 games hold up as well.
I was obsessed with this game back in the day. I still wish I had my copy of Diehard Gamefan's strategy guide. It had lots of great artwork and full color pages featuring all the attacks and even some of the animation frames captured.
I still have mine but the cover fell off. It was overpriced. It had all of the frame data & hit priority though, which I don't recall any western publication at the time doing anything like that at all, No other western gaming publication took fighting games as seriously as gamefan did.
Capcom really loved them some Sega Saturn after basically totally ignoring the Sega Genesis, their Saturn output in Japan was insane, and also having the matching cd case spines that really look great, all lined up on the shelf👍
It's because the Saturn was actually popular in Japan. Genesis was huge in the US but pretty niche in Japan. At least compared to the Super Famicom.
@@abletothink Popular for arcade gamers. The arcades were still very active in Japan.
Tragic, since most of these games could've been amazing on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. By 1997-98, 40-60 megabit games were commonplace, and 120 megabits was the hard limit of the system. With its chunky pixel 2-pixels-per-byte arrangement, the Genesis could've managed very decent versions of these 2D arcade hits looking and sounding almost as good as the Saturn.
Worse, the SEGA CD had been out since 1992 and was perfectly capable of 500MB of assets, as well as the arcade scaling, rotation, and warping (and multiple PCM sound channels) to get that outstanding arcade effect three full years before Saturn would hit the market. Making use of the 320x448i mode and changing background and foreground pallets while moving down the screen, roughly 200 colors could be displayed at one time instead of the old 61 out of 512.
And more Sega CD addons were sold outside of Japan than Saturns even by 1998 when they were all being sold at a loss or put on clearance!
@@MaxAbramson3 That would be prohibitively expensive on the Genesis, and the SEGA-CD had neither the RAM nor the CD-ROM speed to play this without massive compromises to animation/color/loading/sound. Not to mention that SEGA Japan had washed their hands of the Mega Drive _well_ before 1998.
@@abletothinkthe dreamcast was not popular at all in japan, yet capcom supported it massively, so no to your statement
I watch all your stuff but I always enjoy your Saturn coverage. The passion bleeds through the screen. Great video.
I remember seeing this as a little kid, and actually being too scared to play… but too fascinated to look away.
Your videos are so well-informed, enthusiastic, and really sweep me into a warmer nostalgia cloud since playing these games on my Saturn as a kid make up a number of positive memories. I've loved fighting games my whole life and Saturn's library of them was beyond rad.
I remember reading in Gamepro a close look about Night Warriors being exclusive to the Sega Saturn. I was in 8th grade, and I knew after reading that article that I was going to choose Sega’s 32 bit monster as my 5th Generation console.
Yes the man has returned.🤘😆🤘
When I bought my used Sega Saturn back in 2008, this was one of the games that I decided to purchase with the console along with "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo". Now that both games are playable on modern cosoles such as the Nintendo Switch, it really saves me the trouble of having to set up my Sega Saturn just to play them, especially since "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge" has always been my most favorite game in the Darkstalkers series despite most people prefering the third game to come out afterwards.
This felt like playing a cartoon ❤
It still looks great today.
The creators had inspiration from the animation of Hannah Barbera as well as the colors in Disney.
The cheat code also allowed you to turn the game into the first Dark Stalkers game, with the music and rules from the previous edition.
A great spooky season review to watch 🎃🎃🎃
Some of my favorite gaming on my Saturn was with this game! It was incredible to see all it's arcade glory come home. Paired with the awesome saturn controller, it was incredible! Thanks SLX for highlighting this gem!
This is the type of game ive wanted you to talk about for a while! Darkstalkers was one of the best of that era and its awesome to see you talking about it finally
This was one of the earliest games I got when I started collecting for the Saturn. It really showed just how much of a 2D powerhouse the Saturn was.
Great game, great conversion, AND great video. Happy Halloween! 🎃
Good video. You know I actually reviewed/ranked EVERY single Capcom fighting game for anyone interested!
That game is really perfect to play in Halloween, is great the review you gave it.
Discovered this fantastic franchise very late on dreamcast but it became an all time favorite of mine
Always a pleasure, SegaLord X!
Cheers to your well deserved success. 🍻🍻
3D was the look at the future but Darkstalkers' animations are mega impressive even to this day.
Great review of a great game. I love playing Night Warriors at home...and the Vampire Savior just blew me away!
Nice review. The saturn never ceases to amaze me. The stages in this game on both saturn and arcade, are really lovely, especially Aulbath/Rikuo's stage.👍
I had this on the Saturn. Also imported Vampire Savior back in the day.
Notably Morrigan's command input for her super attack Darkness Illusion would become the same command for Akuma's Raging Demon.
Always great content from Sega Lord X!!
A few years back, I came across Night Warriors in the game room of a campground/RV resort--played for hours. It was the best part of the trip.
This was one of my first Saturn games. I got it disc only used for like 10 dollars.
Nobody has ever made a more fluid 2D fighting game till this day. And the music is hypnotizing. You can't found these cool sounds anywhere else 😢
Okamoto talked about this series on his UA-cam channel as well. He didn't said that clearly, but you can assume by what he said they came to Saturn because Sony didn't cared about Capcom too much 😂
By Okamoto, I presume you mean Yoshiki Okamoto? Interesting that Sony didn't care much for Capcom considering how big Resident Evil would become, but I also guess this game came before RE, which I recall was Capcoms first really big 3D title, and Sony back then was REALLY all-in on 3D, I recall.
To the best of my recollection, at least, Night Warriors was my second-favorite fighting game that I owned on the Saturn after Street Fighter Alpha 2. And I even owned the RAM expansion and X-Men VS Street Fighter. But I loved Night Warriors even more!
Japanese players still play this at tourneys, its one of those classic games that stood the test of time like Super street fighter 2 and KOF98, the Saturn is such a great console, especially if you like fighters.
Darkstalkers was a revelation to me. It has so much more personality than Street Fighter in my opinion. I’ve always been sad that it can’t achieve the popularity of SF2 itself. I love the characters in this game! Night Warriors brought my favorite fighter: Hsien-Ko.
People can say whatever they want about the Saturn and it’s 3D graphics capabilities but one thing nobody can deny that when it comes to Capcom arcade ports during the 32 bit era, the Saturn was truly a 2D monster.
Bought this and Street Fighter Alpha 2 with my Saturn in 1997.
Shout out to the best retro gaming channel on UA-cam.
Sega Lord, you're the best!!
Keep doing gods work, man!!
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Darkstalkers is one of my most favourite fighting games ever. The characters and the entire backgrounds, really shows a lot of personality to it. The opening of this game still looks amazing.
Hey, SLX!
I remember playing the first Darkstalkers version back then in the arcades, and when I played this one I was blown away... I loved everything about it, and when it came to the Saturn, I was able to enjoy it at home... And what a GREAT SURPRISE it was, when I found out that we could have both Stage and Character colors and also de music from the first version as well! Man, it's even possible to have everything randomized, it's simply AMAZING!
One of my favorite fighting games of all time! Darkstalkers 3 might have more characters to choose from, but the Gameplay and the style on this one is much more to my liking...
AWESOME port, hands down.
Nice video, man, cheers!
Such an amazing game on the Saturn.
Capcom tapped the ram on the Saturn for this one, but did a phenomenal job!
Anybody else notice that in the background of Victor's stage there are machines that were ripped straight out of Edward Scissorhands? :P
Vampire Savior was one of my favorite games ever on the Saturn, and definitely my favorite Capcom fighting game. This series is seriously under appreciated - like so many other video games from the early days..
All about my Saturn. Never had one growing up but I just picked up a model 1 a month or so ago. I had an N64 and was mostly a Nintendo kids. Saturn’s a neat system with some great games I’m happy to experience. Always love the Saturn content.
a legendary saturn exclusive of its time
Great video, dude. One of the all time best Saturn games. My buddies and played the hell out of it for months on end in the mid to late 90s. One of the few CIB games I have for the Saturn that was extremely cheap when I bought it. Hope to see a video on Vampire Saviour.
Night Warriors is my favorite fighting game ever. Damn it's so beautiful, I love how colorful the characters and backgrounds are. I like it even more than the 3rd entry because the backgrounds here and much prettier (and each character has their own stage, not shared backgrounds like Darkstalkers 3). I played it so much in the arcades that I was in heaven when I heard there was a home version on the Saturn.
The most impressive part of the graphics is that Victor's butt cheek animations pre-date Dead or Alive's jiggle-physics by two years.
The lady who designed him knew what she was about, and let that vision inspire her to innovations in the jiggle-field.
THis was my favorite gameeeeeee......
This game and Wipeout were my first two Saturn games and I loved both! I was so into the Saturn that I didn't even get a PS1 until after I already had a N64. FF7 and Blood Omen were the big reasons I finally caved and bought one.
As somebody who would like to start playing Sega Saturn games, this video emphasizes something that’s personally bugging me about the console: so many of its arcade ports (which are supposedly among its best games) were amazing for their time but are basically obsolete now. In the case of the Darkstalkers games: near-perfect emulations of the arcade versions are available for just $1 or $2 through Capcom Arcade Stadium. So, unless you’re a collector, is there any reason to play the Saturn versions here in 2024?
Amazing game. I never understood why there was the discrepancy in screen proportion on capcom cps2 conversions on saturn, but this is usually the only nitpick, showing how close to perfect were these ports.
Morrigan and Lei-Lei ftw!
It’s because Sega Saturn resolution on those games was like 320x240 while the arcade game was 384x224. So in that sense, it was lower resolution however the assets were kept at the same scale as the arcade.
@@Darknight0681 yeah, the question is deeper, more like "why can a machine display some resolutions, but not others?"
rented that game probably over 30 weekends.
Your the only person I have heard give it credit.
Heck yeah. New video. Live the content.
This game and Panzer Dragoon Zwei were the reasons I bought the Saturn.
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Looks like a fun game 😀
It is a must have for any Sega Saturn collector.
I'm a Capcom fan. It was a bummer it was a SEga Saturn exclusive, but it's an exclusive that made the system worth buying.
Great game, I have Vampire Hunter & Vampire Savior myself. I don't even wanna know how much the US versions go for. I gotta say, I have more fun with Savior, but this one's nice to come back to.
I Thoroughly enjoyed Darkstalkers 3 on the Sony Playstation. I mean, unless you are a super hardcore arcade-head, you aren't going to miss these "missing animations" at all. My friends and I sure didn't care and we played Darkstalkers in the arcade regularly.
Such a wonderful underrated series. I'm gad Capcom decided to give us all the games in a sweet collection for modern platforms and I hope they make a new entry :-)
Plus Resurrection which is also really nice. I’m looking to sell my Saturn copies because I no longer need them.
Too bad no modern release of the Marvel fighting games except Marvel vs Capcom.
I'm so happy years ago at my local flea market I found and bought Darkstalkers (longbox) on PS1 for like $20 or $25. Money well spent! Wish it had the manual though.
Great review! Darkstalkers was one of my favorite 2D fighting series growing up. Capcom honestly worked some miracles getting arcade games to a near-perfect conversion on the Saturn (especially ones that used the RAM cart)!
These Saturn arcade ports were the best way to bring the arcade experience home in the '90s! Of course, now you can just run the arcade original on just about anything, which makes it all a moot point now. 😋
I remember when this was new in the arcade 😢
I was always amazed at how well capcom could take advantage of the hardware of the Saturn. Just spot on ports of classic arcades man
My favorite fighting game Franchise. Still have my original PS1 games and recently grabbed a Japanese Saturn and those versions.
The Capcom Fighting Collection (I know, I was a sucker for preordering it not knowing it'll be dead on arrival) was my 1st exposure to the Darkstalkers' series. Heck, that installment is how I come across having Hsien-Ko being my favorite Capcom fighting girl. ^^;
If you like this, import Vampire Savior with the 4MB cart that eliminates loading times!
This game breaks mule's balls!
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Cool review...i really appreciated the arcade comparison....CHAIN COMBOS were already present in the 1st Darkstalkers game though
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Rikuo’s theme is so awesome, and brings back memories of dark nights in the fall of 1995!
I'm still waiting for a modern day Darkstalkers game 🤞
I loved the guard reversals, it reminds me of the counter system in Dead or Alive I liked so much.
Remember the Darkstalkers cartoon we got in the 90s? It was something….
Underrated game and the epidemy of 2d games even to this day. Too ahead of the time of release. Timeless piece of creativity and revamp
SegaLordX is the man!
one of my all time favs 🥹💚💜
Ha, just yesterday my co-worker bought a Saturn in its original box plus Vampire Saviour and the 4 MB expansion. I was considering to buy it myself, but I couldn't decide and he was faster 😅 I know I will end up buying one too, SLX is truly a powerful influence 🤣
The fighter that Capcom forgot.
Pyron was also unlockable in the PS2 game Capcom Fighting Collection.
This is a must play for the Saturn!!
This series needs a revival
This was so cool back inthe day
Good vid. I missed out on many 2d sprite fighters as I had already moved to 3d games like Virtua Fighter and Tekken
Useless fact for westerners:
Whenever you see “Hs” in Mandarin, it’s pronounced like “Sh.”
The jiāngshī (“stiff corpse” Chinese vampire) fighter’s name is pronounced “Shen-ko.”
Why does Felicia’s stage sound like hydro city zone?
Darkstalkers was my game in the 90s. I played the hell outta that game. I think soul calibur came out in the same year
This was one of the childhood Saturn games for me and I played it long after the saturn had been put to rest. Never cared for darkstalkers 3, the ps1 port. It was okay but it just didn't feel as fun. Honestly This Panzer Dragoon Zewi and Sega Rally was my Saturn go to trio.
Heck yeah. I always loved the characters
I always see others complain that Capcom treats the Dark Stalkers series like a wet food stamp and i agree. I've always liked the style of these games and the unique characters.
Along with Street Fighter Alpha 2 this was also one of my favorite fighting games to have on the Sega Saturn.🕹🎮🧟♂️
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If you own a Saturn and not this game.. what the hell are you doing? Still have my SLX copy of Vampire Savior. The best version.
It was a good game back in the days
I feel this one is better balanced than 3. It was so bloody perfect, even my non-gaming friends thought it was fun back in the day.
If I'm not mistaken it was Sega that low key ported this to the Sega Saturn not capcom.
I put so many hours into this game as a kid
I preferred X-Men: CotA and SF Alpha. Really liked the 4MB Vampire Savior Saturn port though. It just felt like a fuller and a more complete version of Darkstalkers.
I saw it in the arcades and played it like once.
You are confusing RAM with ROM when you talk about the size of Nightwarriors. The CD-ROM format had adequate space for the entire game and the RAM size of the SATURN and the CPS2 arcade was similar. The problem was moving all of the animation frames through the system cache of a CD-ROM system compared to an arcade machine, which is why animation had to be cut.
No, I meant it exactly how I said it. Night Warriors is 550 megabits, with half of that being animation alone. The tiny RAM in the Saturn could not hold the animation of 2 characters, so it had to be cut. I know the arcade game itself comes on ROM boards but I was not comparing it in terms of actual storage of the ROM, but how much of the game could be held in the Saturn's memory at one time.
I bought this game when it came out for my Saturn plus the game fan guide. Still got guide.