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Playing through Night Slashers as vampire hunter Christopher, using the "nslasher.zip" "Korean version 1.3" ROM placed in an install directory of the Steam game "Retro Classix: Night Slashers," running in MAME 0.119 (2007--the last 32-bit MAME, accepts just about any ROM) from the Windows 11 command line!
Blood and gore FX in this ROM are green rather than red--Wikipedia says the US arcade ROM was the same way. For this ROM, MAME 0.119 warns at startup "The video emulation isn't 100% accurate"; I'm not familiar with the game running on arcade hardware; what stood out to me is that the stagecoach near the beginning and the helicopter in later stages has transparency issues.
28:57 - zombie bowling!
Fun beat em up! The power moves take a lot of health but get mobs off your back so still feel kinda worth it. Christopher has cool kick combos! Cyborg Jake is a little slower, may have to try him some time. Martial artist Hong-Hua's attack animations feel a little weird to me, I suppose I'd probably get used to 'em if I gave her a real try.
I'm not into gore so the silly green blood works for me. ; ) |
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| | | One of the programmers was Yasuhiro Matsumoto, who had done programming on a lot of Technos Japan beat em ups, and was just off their Shadow Force. Maybe this helps account for the game's somewhat different feel from other Data East stuff? Hm well Data East had also done stuff like Edward Randy, Captain America and the Avengers, and Robocop 2, but I only see a few artist connections to those in MobyGames' credits--not planners or programmers.
Ah there is similarity in Randy's more realistically proportioned, rendered, and animated characters, vs lots of Data East's more cartoony stuff, so maybe that is the relevant connection. |
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| | | | The latest MAME in which this Retro Classix nslashers.zip ROM runs is 0.149--still warns "video emulation isn't 100% accurate." |
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