[ashthedragon]

Just got the Monster World collection on XBLA, and it is absolutely amazing! it has a great intro, and lots of options, a "music box" section where you can hear all the musi from the threee games, you can slect the japanese,american or european rom, can select the screen resolution up to pixel selection....very, very good collection!!! in the alex kidd one you can even play a special game mode called "trial" where you have to reach certain archievements ingame, similar to the ones in Sonic Gems Collection. Very, Very good.

here is a video of the alex kidd one, I couldn't find the Monster World one, but its very similar.

[GagaMan]

I love the intro on these new releases. On the separated PSN versions, the intro shows all six games, but silhouettes the games you don't own yet. I have picked up Monster World IV and Super Hang On so far. Love these ports, I hope they keep cranking out more of these especially of arcade games.

[Icewarrior]

Ok, got Revenge of Shinobi and MWIV, just beat RoS and I have to say I'm really glad they got a new emulator around, those ports are perfect! They even have concepts art, challenges, jukebox and they even propose to select the region of the ROM!!
Finally SEGA pays a little more respect to its old games with an excellent emulator

[ICEknight]

Out if curiosity, which version of Revenge of Shinobi is being used now? The same one as the Wii Virtual Console's?

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 24 May 2012 - 02:28 PM

[Icewarrior]

I believe it is yes because the Spiderman boss is now pink. Also Musashi's face got edited on the main screen and mentions of Spiderman have been removed from the screen that follows SEGA.

This post has been edited by Icewarrior: 24 May 2012 - 04:48 PM

[ReBirFh]

Is it possible to extract the trial stages from Alex Kidd? the concept art and bonus would be welcome too.

[RACCAR]

I love the new theme of the main menu in The Revenge of Shinobi. Is there anyway to extract this one? I can't seem to find it anywhere...

These new compilations doesn't include the filter the older one had, based on the Super Eagle from Gens:



I liked it, I would love to see it back

[GagaMan]

I would personally love rips of all the remixes from these vintage collection menus. I am addicted to the Monster World IV one.

[87th]

Could somebody at least extract the backgrounds, please? There's some lovely concept art on those, and it's hard to appreciate in a darkened-out panel behind a game.

[Keith Stack]

ICEknight, on 12 May 2012 - 11:27 PM, said:

I see the only flaw in the MWIV translation is that they used "Prapril" as the romanization instead of "Purapril" like in Wonder Boy V, but everything else feels like an official translation from back in the day. It's kind of funny how they solved the translation problems with the second Pyramid dungeon.

So I can only recommend purchasing this.

I'm playing through the game for the first time on PSN, and I thought that second Pyramid dungeon statue-puzzle was pretty clever. What was it like in Japanese and the fan-translation?

[ICEknight]

Keith Stack, on 03 June 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

I'm playing through the game for the first time on PSN, and I thought that second Pyramid dungeon statue-puzzle was pretty clever. What was it like in Japanese and the fan-translation?

It's been a long while, but I remember needing a FAQ in order to solve it, in the fan translation.

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 03 June 2012 - 07:11 PM

[Sik]

Can somebody show me which of all the puzzles are you talking about? I don't remember ever getting stuck with the fantranslation.

[Keith Stack]

In each of the three pyramid dungeons you have to place the five statues in a specific order.

In the second pyramid dungeon of the recent official translation, the two hint scrolls state,

Spoiler

"When one's end is another's beginning..." and "Look at the statue names carefully..."

The solution is that

Spoiler

you have to place them order according to the first letter and last letter of the statue names: swalloW-WitcH-Horned owL-LeoparD-Desert turtle

I have no idea what the fan translation or the Japanese version are like.

[Sik]

For some reason I can't remember any puzzle like that at all o_O (and yes, I have beaten the game, which is why I'm asking)

[Cooljerk]

My favorite thing about all these new vintage collection releases is that they brought back an updated version of the iconic "SEEEEE-GAAAAA" jingle that most Sega consoles used to bring with. These releases are of a substantially higher quality than sega's old releases, and they stand out amongs the other retro-ports on XBL and PSN in general. Sega has been awesome on the DD front.