Absolutely awesome games that are unfortunately at a ludicrous rrp price. Note, right now Fanatical has these for nearly half price. I paid 32 AUD instead of the 60 AUD at Steam, but I knew I was taking a chance from the reviews.
All my worries were unfounded as these are great ports with imperceptible input lag, and UNLIKE Castlevania and Contra Collections, have proper aspect ratio corrected large screen modes (in a nutshell, 4:3, whereas Contra and Castlevania only offer that with horrendous overbearing fake scan lines on the Steam releases). They have the original pixel modes which is a much smaller box with bars on top and side of a modern display, or a proper "full" mode that eliminates top and bottom bars, makes the game a pleasant size to enjoy on even a small monitor, and keeps everything in ratio with bars at the sides. Just like a typical emulator. Konami, PLEASE add this mode to Contra and Castlevania collections. The console versions have it, PLEASE update the Steam versions!
And now, the scan lines are just on/off rather than having to choose a certain mode with or without them. They are terrible as always, so I recommend off.
Rocket Knight are a trio of games (one on Snes and 2 on Genesis) that are action platformers with wonderful 16 bit presentation and music. Easy to learn, very hard to master.
A must for those who love action platform games.
Konami have resolution choices, so this is indeed 4K and I can choose windowed size if I want to play in a window.
For 30 AUD I can't complain whatsoever, 10 bucks a classic game, much cheaper than buying them on the second hand market as cartridges, but at 60 AUD it's a bit ridiculous for an emulation front end of three 16 bit roms. My advice is to keep an eye on sales if you really want to buy this.
I recommend it cause I love the original games, and these play just like it. That's what I paid for and what I wanted.
Edit, I am going to add more info after playing for a bit longer. I will still keep it at recommended cause the games all work and the emulation is good.
BUT,.. had I paid the RRP of $60, I'd be returning it and probably would have left a negative. Konami have a lot of cheek in some aspects with this.
Whether it's worth it to you entirely rests on your fondness for the original games AND if you are using an Xbox layout controller.
You see, there is no button remapping. Yes, I am not kidding. So I can't comfortably use any kind of Sega Genesis clone pad for the 2 Genesis games, cause the button layout is designed for a diamond face button layout controller. Even Piko Interactive, which are THE worst emulations on Steam, have button remapping. Seriously now Konami, for $60 AUD? Seriously?
And another mention about that CRT option. It is SO bad, does Konami even TRY their own CRT filters even for a few minutes? Look at CRT Royale in retroarch, heck, even Sega's option in the Genesis collection is decent and way better than this.
I am starting to get what people mean by absolute bare bones, it feels like a $14.99 USD/$20 AUD collection at most, honestly. I can't believe I have to play Genesis games with a snes type layout controller because I can't remap two buttons. Wow. I mean the 8bitdo SN30 Pro 2 I use is decent but it's no substitute for the retrobit saturn pad in comfort or d pad accuracy.
Nevertheless, I will play it, I will finish all 3 games, and then in the future if I ever want to play them again I'll likely fire them up in a GOOD emulator with button remapping.
WTAF.
