Chase HQ - on Sega Master System
1I hope you are all happy, safe & healthy whatever challenges you are facing right now.
Capture challenges. I had some issues with my capture card but those are mostly now sorted.
While I was trying to sort my capture card I ended up using an alternate solution & while capturing New Zealand Story & Chase HQ on Master System had to come up with an alternate approach as neither works well at 60 Hz (New Zealand Story plays way too fast including its music & Chase HQ the road graphics glitch like crazy). So I had to improvise a bit in order to capture from real hardware - in this case my PAL Sega MultiMega. Capture cards don't seem to play nicely with 50Hz although I got there in the end through the use of an OSSC. This is why these three videos look a little different - I've tried to crop all the overscan etc too.
Normal service should resume shortly!
Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:12 Game Intro
00:37 Round 1 Stage 1
03:01 Round 1 Stage 2
04:59 Round 1 Stage 3
09:44 Round 1 Stage 4
12:20 Round 1 Stage 5
14:58 Round 2 Stage 1
17:12 Round 2 Stage 2
This is Taito Chase H.Q. (or more commonly known as Chase HQ) on Sega Master System. This was a port of Taito's arcade hit that was hugely popular at the time & was ported to many consoles & home computers. I play a few rounds & stages here. For some reason I really struggled on Stage 3 but was fine on the others.
The port to Master System is very good with smooth scrolling, tight controls & reasonably faithful gameplay. While it was never going to capture the full graphical prowess of the arcade version it captures the spirit really well. The sequel - Special Criminal Investigations is also ported to Master System so I'll do a video of that at some point. I also have the compilation disk on Saturn which is a lot closer to the arcade.
This is one of the Master System games that should be played at 50Hz as the game has a number of graphical glitches if played at 60Hz making it basically unplayable. It's caused me to go down a rabbit hole trying to capture 50fps PAL video which has been a......challenge. Hence this video & the last two looking a bit different to my usual videos. Will be back to normal next time round!
This is my original PAL copy from back in the day played through a Powerbase convertor on my PAL MultiMega through a OSSC for ease of capture. Taito made some great games at this time & I have a fair few other Taito arcade ports I'll be showing soon.
As always if you enjoy this video let me know. As always this is running on original hardware. Also let me know if there are particular games or systems you'd like to see.
As always this is uploaded under the Fair Use Policy - no money is being made from this video.
Stay strong, stay safe and stay healthy - Grey Fox