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leicamaster
10-26-2008, 09:19 PM
Although this console may not be very populary I love the Amiga. I wanted to know what is your favorite games on the CD32?
icbrkr
10-26-2008, 09:55 PM
Super Stardust, Pirates!, Speedball 2 are the first ones that spring to mind.
some gorgeous games on CD32 indeed
Also Alfred Chicken, Gunship 2000, Simon the Sorcerer, The Labyrinth of Tim, Elite II, Fields of Glory, Zool 1 and 2, UFO Enemy Unknown, Worms, the pinball titles, Emerald Mines, Alien Breed, Dizzy Collection etc...
Leo_A
10-27-2008, 12:44 PM
Lotus Trilogy
j_factor
10-27-2008, 02:59 PM
Benefactor, Cannon Fodder, and Liberation.
Ze_ro
10-28-2008, 02:07 PM
Liberation.
Awesome game, though I'd recommend a mouse to play it with... the interface is pretty brutal if all you have is a gamepad.
I'd agree with pretty much all the picks people have already mentioned... though I'd add: Beneath a Steel Sky, Impossible Mission 2025, James Pond 2, and Superfrog.
Stay away from Total Carnage and Battletoads. The CD32 versions are absolutely terrible.
--Zero
Graham Mitchell
10-29-2008, 10:15 AM
I can't vouch for the CD 32 version as I don't have personal experience with it, but D/Generation was a GREAT PC game, and the youtube vids of the CD32 version look about the same, just with crappy voice acting and music.
Also, this game is much-hated, but the CD32 version of Microcosm is probably definitive. It's the only version that allowed you take branching paths--something they had been trying to do with every other version but never made it work. If you dig Psygnosis stuff, CD32 Microcosm might be cool.
fishsandwich
10-30-2008, 05:17 PM
No GUARDIAN? Come on, now! It's Starfox without the rails in true 3-D. Blocky & simplistic 3-D, but still.
Second on Battletoads being just flat-out dreadful. Push "up" to jump? Did they just not know they had more buttons to work with? LAZY.
kedawa
10-30-2008, 06:37 PM
How well is CD32 emulated?
I've always had too many headaches with UAE to get into Amiga emulation, but most were due to it not being focused on a single hardware configuration.
OldSchoolGamer
10-30-2008, 08:02 PM
Super Skidmarks by Team 17!!!!!
j_factor
10-31-2008, 12:55 AM
Super Skidmarks
That is a good game, but damn, worst title ever.
Leo_A
10-31-2008, 01:00 PM
How so? It doesn't sound bad for a racing game.
I'm sure you do, but you do know what a skidmark is right? Its not just some word they made up for the game's title.
j_factor
10-31-2008, 04:09 PM
How so? It doesn't sound bad for a racing game.
I'm sure you do, but you do know what a skidmark is right? Its not just some word they made up for the game's title.
Yes, I know what a skidmark is. I also know what a pearl necklace is, but if someone says "I gave her a pearl necklace", I'm going to chuckle.
Ze_ro
11-01-2008, 09:33 PM
Second on Battletoads being just flat-out dreadful. Push "up" to jump? Did they just not know they had more buttons to work with? LAZY.
No, you've got it wrong... You use the red button to jump. Incidentally, you also use the red button to attack. When you're standing still, pressing the button makes you attack. When you're moving in any direction, pressing the button makes you jump. It's absolutely brutal, and makes the game damn near unplayable. I'm convinced these people never actually played the game before they released it.
This exposes one of the primary problems with the CD32 library: Many of the games are straight ports of Amiga 500 games. Occasionally, they were enhanced with FMV, CD music or other additions, but more often they just took the disk version and burned the same data to CD and called it a day.
Since everyone with an Amiga 500 only had one-button, Atari-style joysticks, this means that unless the programmers went back to work, the game would only use a single button on the CD32 controller. Pretty wasteful, considering there are 7 buttons available.
You also get stupid games asking you if you want sound effects, or music, or both. Why in the hell would I not want both? On Amiga computers, this made sense, because some models didn't have the resources to do both at once, but the CD32 does... so why even give me the option? Some even stupider games don't even give you the option for both, so you're stuck with one or the other (Battletoads does this).
How well is CD32 emulated?
I've always had too many headaches with UAE to get into Amiga emulation, but most were due to it not being focused on a single hardware configuration.
Well, I've never tried it, but as far as I know, UAE itself is the best (only?) option for CD32 emulation...
--Zero
kedawa
11-01-2008, 09:41 PM
Since everyone with an Amiga 500 only had one-button, Atari-style joysticks, this means that unless the programmers went back to work, the game would only use a single button on the CD32 controller. Pretty wasteful, considering there are 7 buttons available.
Actually, the A500 supports two joystick buttons, but there are very few games that take advantage of the second button. R-Type II is the only game I ever owned on Amiga that uses both, but it rocks with the SMS pad.
Ze_ro
11-02-2008, 02:58 PM
Actually, the A500 supports two joystick buttons, but there are very few games that take advantage of the second button. R-Type II is the only game I ever owned on Amiga that uses both, but it rocks with the SMS pad.
Turrican II does as well... I have a CD32 pad plugged into my Amiga 3000, and it really helps in the games that DO support extra buttons, otherwise you have to get your foot up on the desk so you can hit the space bar in the heat of the moment or some garbage like that (anyone remember doing this in Contra for the C64? I sure did).
The problem is that mabe 1% of people actually had more than one button, so most companies just didn't bother.
--Zero
robotriot
11-02-2008, 03:45 PM
I also recommend Banshee and Disposable Hero, they're pretty good shmups. And also The Misadventures of Flink, certainly the most beautiful platformer on the CD32 :)
OldSchoolGamer
11-03-2008, 05:33 PM
How so? It doesn't sound bad for a racing game.
I'm sure you do, but you do know what a skidmark is right? Its not just some word they made up for the game's title.
LOL! Google Skid marks + underwear, or on second thought maybe not.........
Leo_A
11-03-2008, 05:36 PM
I forgot I was dealing with a bunch of people with dirty minds... :)
I meant these of course.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Bremsspur.jpg
And no, no one has to be worried about clicking on that link, lol.