1824: Like a Dragon Gaiden's SEGA arcade--on PS3! Sorta! Daytona USA, VF2, Fighting Vipers, etc!
2On PS3, playing SEGA games like or at least sort of like the five SEGA arcade games you can play in "Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name"--which I just played on PC, for comparison.
My other Sega games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMQRqt9EV0wyUMlITImklVm
0:00 - XMB
5:33 - Sonic the Fighters
16:07 - Fighting Vipers
27:56 - Virtua Fighter 2
44:37 - Super Hang-On
51:30 - M2 credits
1:18:12 - Daytona USA
1:28:37 - wrap!
Sonic the Fighters
No screen filter here on PS3 and you've got access to move lists and higher difficulty settings and stuff so this version is technically better (my pad mashing was way more successful than in Gaiden; probably less input delay but I didn't measure), unless maybe you feel strongly about being able to run it at higher than 1080p as I would guess you can on PC if you've got the right hardware.
If I really wanted to play the game it would be PS3.
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Fighting Vipers
I like the clean Model 2 look here on PS3, it's way less visually noisy than the Sega Model 3 Fighting Vipers 2 in Gaiden--fewer flashing FX on the eyeballs, too. And the Model 3 games run at slightly reduced screen size in Gaiden. Plus you've got move lists and higher difficulty settings here. And I do like that nutty, almost abstract night truck stop stage w/ the distant town that almost looks like Seattle. But I haven't seen all the stages in FV2 and I haven't played it on an arcade stick yet--so can't compare the games gameplay-wise really; on pad they both felt pretty mashing-friendly, but certainly more flashy stuff happened when mashing in FV2. I wasn't in love with FV's gameplay when I did play it on a stick.
I'm not in love with the cheesecakery in either.
Still have to try FV2 in Gaiden on a stick.
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Virtua Fighter 2
Lots cleaner than the Gaiden version visually, w/o Gaiden's scanline filter, & you've got move lists & higher difficulty settings (oh & these PS3 ports have online; no match in my hasty, frightened check). Otherwise felt about the same mashing on pad: still got toyed w/ & destroyed by Pai (she maybe let me get a HAIR closer here? slightly less input delay? don't know really).
PC version is more convenient. Gaiden's filter, torment of a hint more input lag... Dang I'd have to do a test. Wish I could wean myself off fixed platforms.
... PS3.
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Super Hang-On
Well, it's a SEGA motorcycle game; it's way better than Gaiden's futurecycle Motor Raid so this is more of a contest w/ Super Hang-On in Yakuza 6, which I also have on PC.
In the PS4 version of Y6, in this stand-alone arcade port on PS3, & in RL according to arcade info site KLOV, SHO runs at a 10:7 screen ratio.
In Steam Y6, SHO runs at a narrower, 4:3 screen ratio: I'm running at 1080p, SHO should be 1540px wide, but it's only 1440px wide. (Same w/ the other PC Y6 retro games I think.)
Both versions credit M2, but on MobyGames, for Y6 M2 only get "Game Development Assistance"--sounds more like Sega reworking M2's old code. Only about 50% crossover between M2 PS4 credits on MobyGames & the more numerous names in this 4-yrs-older PS3 ver.
SHO in Y6 has a "VERY EASY" cab, alongside EASY & NORMAL; the PS3 version has two harder than NORMAL options, & EASY--but no VERY EASY--plus an option for a "stand up" arcade version harder than the default mini-bike sit-down cab. Couldn't get as far on the easiest PS3 settings as I could on VERY EASY in Y6, even after...
Remembered SHO has Turbo: hit 280 km/h, hold Turbo AND Gas to keep TURBO engaged. M2's remapping forbids mapping both to 1 button; I don't want to have to hold ONE button, much less TWO.
On PC, w/ Steam Input I can map both to 1 button & have it toggle, so don't have to hold it. Happy joints.
PS3 version has online leaderboards I forgot to check. & 3D TV support.
PC version for SHO.
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Daytona USA
Forgot the game specifically doesn't let you remap gas and brake. It doesn't support d-pad for steering. The steering is incredibly unresponsive--and grotesquely juddery--forcing you to resort to the super twitchy drifting mechanic on all but the mildest turns. This was not a good experience. Probably a lot better on the actual arcade cab.
Even the texture filtering is awful.
I'll stick to Sega Racing Classic 2 (Daytona 2) in Gaiden on PC. (Plus there can use Steam Input to set Gas as a toggle so my touchy ol' joints don't have to hold it.)
3/17/24
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