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Decathlete Collection - PlayStation 2 - Edit mode, playthrough with events from all games [UHD 4K60]
10Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 15: Decathlete Collection is a collection and remake of Decathlete / Athlete Kings, Winter Heat and Virtua Athlete 2K. It contains the events from all three games along with the characters and allows you play the original games or edit a tournament together from all three games. Sounds great in practice, but what you get is a bit of a lazy mash up that doesn't look as good or play quite as well as the original games.
Yes, the Saturn ports do look better and more colourful, than this rather bland update with some rather ugly character models in this new graphics engine. The gameplay doesn't feel quite as tight and even on a digital PS1 pad. Worryingly the Aerial event from Winter Heat also seem to have a major issue, where it is virtual impossible to clear without a rapid fire pad as if you select anything other than a blue difficulty, the push button target becomes far too high. We couldn't clear green let alone red.
Including Virtua Athlete alongside Decathlete seems a bit pointless, as Virtua Athlete includes only seven events and all feature in Decathlete. The gameplay changes are minor at best between the two and the characters from Virtua Athlete are boring and nondescript. This collection seems to use elements from Virtua Athlete's HUD along with the characters portrait art from the original games. It's still fun to play, but the lack of extra content and the fact the missing characters from Decathlete weren't added into Winter Heat and vice versa, shows what a lazy port this is. One for die hard Sega fans, everyone else should get the original Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast releases.
Also known as: SEGA AGES 2500シリーズ Vol.15 デカスリートコレクション
Release: 2004
Developer: 3D-Ages / スリーディー・エイジス
Publisher: Sega /セガ (Japan Only)
Format: Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) / プレイステーション2
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 25: Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box is also available on the PlayStation 3 in Japan as a PSN download: https://store.playstation.com/ja-jp/product/JP0177-NPJD00012_00-0000000000000000
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Footage is captured directly from original hardware in this case a Modded PAL PlayStation 2 console, via YPbPr (Component RCA connector) captured via Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro using a open source scan convertor (OSSC). Upscaled to 4K to improve the video bit rate.
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