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1:04 Speaking of miracle ports, he definitely should cover the N64 port of Resident Evil 2 at some point. One of the most impressive ports ever Ft. Ungodly Amounts of Compression by Angel Studios The Ultimate Compression Wizards. They took around 1 GB of game (that's excluding repeat data across both PS1 discs) and took it down to 64 MB, AND got just about all FMVs on there. The FMV part is even crazier, considering N64 games didn't normally have them (or support them, for the most part). Angel Studios really went above and beyond for this port. Still one of my favorite ports of all time.

I really love Vinny's hole streams

I love how the Golden Axe death scream sounds almost exactly like the dedication scream in MS-DOS quality

"Capstone: The Pinnacle of Entertainment Software" Even though I never saw that particular Home Alone game before, I knew right away what players would be in for as soon as that infamous triangle phased itself into existence.

Fun legend: The Mega Man X port was done by the same (solitary) programmer as the infamous DOS-original Mega Man and Mega Man 3 games, just with a bit more direction to work from (as in, a game to port and not just a vague outline of the IP and how the character works in general), more experience, and a better development time cycle for what was expected.

The soundtrack to Outrun is widely considered one of the best of its time, and was a major influence on the synthwave genre. The MS-DOS port, meanwhile, is what electronic music sounds like to people who hate electronic music.

The "Dyna Blaster" thing is specifically because the Irish Troubles were in full swing at the time.

For future reference, Tandy graphics is just an earlier, proprietary version of EGA's 16-color mode pretty much; the only time you'd need to mess with it is if you get a rare game that supported Tandy but not EGA. In which case you'd have to use a custom DOSBox config because none of the later cards were backward-compatible with it as far as I know.

Aladdin DOS was my entire childhood. I'm glad that he enjoyed it, though playing through the Castlevania and Contra ports might've helped with that lol.

My copy of Mega Man X came with a free 6 button controller and it was only $20. So I was really happy with it

someone needs to teach vinny how to increase and decrease the cpu cycles in dosbox so he can fix the speed issues

Once we hit European computers, that's when shit hits the fan.

Vinny's new assigned watchlist: Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, The Emperor's New Groove, Hercules.

I almost died during Outrun, what the hell happened to the sound???

I grew up with DOS games. Wolfenstein, Golden Axe, Outrun... all with PC speaker sounds. I love them back then and still do. Glad you are checking some of these, Vinny!

Oh my god Vinny, your screams during the Golden Axe portion killed me.

1:01:10 - References to obscure cult films are what I'm here for. Repo Man is bloody great.

My first introduction to Megaman X was on DOS, and it never sounded like this. It was actually better than SNES. All you need to do is install the game with a better sound driver like AWE32, or GravisSound or something that doesn't sound utterly wretched.

1:04:55 How DARE you insult Draco like that Vinny! JK - It was a huge surprise to see Puyo in here to be honest Edit: She is actually a dragon girl btw and not an elf mate

1:21:00 The reason why they're so thin is because the sprites were ported from the SNES version, which doesn't have a square pixel aspect ratio. There's another PC port of SSF2T that uses the CPS original sprites, but the arcade version ALSO has non-square pixels, so it looks weird too.

The CGA graphics spec, as demonstrated beautifully by Contra, has only a few preset color pallettes for its main graphics mode, which cannot be altered. I think even back then, IBM (the creators of CGA) were criticised for how bad the pallettes were. I think it looked better on the CGA card's composite out port because of some...color weirdness, but the RGBI port carried the color as seen on Vinny, which is all that more modern cards support on their CGA backwards compatibility. By the time EGA came out, which allowed all 16 colors to be used in the same resolution, CGA was already far too established for games to just expect EGA cards to be present on machines.

Still hoping for the Amiga pack. That will melt Blinyor's mind.

There’s a reason why “Vampire Killer” and “Contra” on MSX went with single screens versus scrolling due to the limitations of the hardware, as well as a few other MSX Konami games that were released after the NES releases (with the exception of Metal Gear). The Gradius games on MSX had scrolling but it was very slow and choppy, however much more playable than anything represented here.

10:58 Remember that time 4 or 5 years ago where Vinny thought he was done with Plug and Plague and it turned out the series hadn’t even peaked yet?

I think it's funny that Ys is here when Nihon Falcom is like the only JRPG dev (or really AAA Japanese dev in general) that was/is SPECIFICALLY focused on PC. The game was originally for the PC-88, and is basically indistinguishable from the DOS version outside of graphical differences. So it's not even a bad port, it's just that Ys kinda sucked until Ys 5 which is why they went back and remade 1-4 in the style of 5. IIRC a lot of their games were only ever localized on DOS because NEC had basically 0 presence in the US. That's how I played Sorcerian. Edit: OK "sucked" is a strong word, but I genuinely don't get why they went with bump-combat when Xanadu and Sorcerian were both great and DIDN'T use it. They had their own jank, but it wasn't related to the combat. The OG Ys series is important for the development of modern ARPGs for sure, but it's aged like milk.

Vod watchers mute audio for 1:29:50 to avoid cataclysmic tinnitus.

The DOS version of Castlevania is reminding me of that Reactor plug and play with all the sounds playing over the music constantly.

It's actually very interesting and impressive that Dos Castlevania scrolls as well as it does. As Vinny and Chat mentioned, Commander Keen was the first 2D platformer on MS-DOS to feature smooth screen scrolling, and it was released the same year as Dostlevania: 1990.

this is one of my new favorite segments it’s so interesting and vinny is actually honest about the quality of the games unlike retro game channels on youtube.

CGA graphics certainly were one of the color palettes of all time.

I suppose there's nothing wrong with DOS SSF2, but it's kind of a port of a port. The good stuff is DOS SSF2 Turbo which I hope shows up in the future.

I've never felt such relieve in my life as I did when the home alone music ended.

Actually, Ultra was Konami. They created a subsidiary to get around Nintendo's limitation of games per year a single company could release.

Can you imagine growing up with only a MS-DOS computer at home, who has to resort to these various ports just to get a glimpse of what the NES kids were playing? I can because I was that kid.

I had that Mega Man X port, got it boxed from K-Mart, and it came with a six-button Genesis-style controller. Maybe it was the sound card I had but it sounded so much better than what you're hearing.

1:17:55 DOS Space Harrier was based on the Atari ST version, which is already bad. It was a victim of "rushed release" that Euro devs did with other games / PCs, compared with the versions on NEC & Sharp PCs being built different.

The reason why Aladdin's OST sounds good is because it is the same one from the Amiga port. It even has vocals in the main theme, but Booti skipped it.

Why is Vinny's quick AA screams during Golden Axe the funniest shit to me?

16:35 Titan A.E. was Don Bluth, who was sort of like a fractured version of Disney who left the company when all their movies started sucking in the early 80s and made better movies that were more like the way Disney used to be in the 50s and 60s (until Disney started getting good again in the late 80s and kicked Don Bluth's ass)

my terrible summer daycare as a kid had the castlevania port. glad to know it actually sucks and it wasn't only that i was bad at games as a kid.

Did Kevin McAllister just straight up murder that dude...?!

I wish Vinny would stream the proper versions of Metal Gear 1&2. I love those games.

imagine your mom asking you to turn down the volume, but you can't because the game uses the PC speaker/beeper to produce it's sounds.

Man I never knew how many well known series they ported to dos

To correct the chat, the DOS version of Ys is not the original, it's a port created specifically for the Western market. The NEC PC-88 line were not IBM PC compatible machines, despite bearing the PC name. The original PC-88 version did indeed have much better music and sound.

video was uploaded at 4:20 pm for anyone curious

I like the idea of a remix of the bomberman main theme, and this music might be a little better if it wasn’t made using brown notes…

Duke Nukem was Apogee. Commander Keen was early iD. Even earlier was Dangerous Dave.

Titan AE is way overlooked. It's a great movie, but everyone circlejerks over Treasure Planet being the "underrated gem space animation" even though Treasure Planet is really just a rip-off of Titan AE.

During the McDonald game I had to skip because the sound was legit making me sick

Dyna Blaster is a port of Bomberman '94 from the MSX2, so you can listen to the music there :D

Vinny going on a not-so-subtle diatribe about corporate pride during the Bomberman segment👍

Wow, I will never take how competent the remake of Ys 1 is for granted ever again

Vinny talking about an alternate reality where there's yearly Paperboy sequels instead of Call of Duty... is this commentary on conscription of the youth since the paperboys are putting their lives on the line?

I'm gonna defend Dyna Blaster till the end. My mom still plays it on her ancient win98 laptop. I think it's a decently competent port. Also, DOS Alladin? Played a ton of it. I think it's also a pretty good game.

Love this segment!

I'm glad chat told him to try settings and configurations on a couple games to see the extent of the port. I know Vinny has said himself Sunday is not to be thorough or comprehensive, but i feel he has been lacking in some of these compilations lately, completely disregarding some effort that should befall to him, like selfsucc.

I think the version of PortHole with genuinely good parts should be called PortGold. Because a hole is a hole, but sometimes, you find gold.

I feel like whoever makes these packs should throw in some instructions on how to configure each game properly. It's tiring to hear Billy cluelessly proclaim "ASSSSSSS" when he's playing a game with CGA graphics and internal speaker audio, oblivious to the fact that DOS games usually needed to be configured through a separate program than the main application in order to improve the audiovisual experience.

Wait, Mega Man X port is done by the same guys who made the infamous Dos Mega Man? Seems lije a huge improvenent.

1:13:42 Damn, Gydney and Kloyd are so good at this game.

You could make the argument that Harry and Marv were going after Kevin instead of the jewels because they saw an opportunity for revenge. I think it's like that in the movie, too.

I had the computer version of Mega Man X. the version I got had a controller packed in so that was a double win. As far as I remember it played just fine.

1:22:00 I'll be that guy. Not necessarily superior but perfectly cromulent. If you extrapolate from a natural keyboard layout for fighting games you end up with what eventually became a Hitbox controller.

There's some novelty in PC speakerfied versions of familiar tunes I suppose. I've spent some time on MS-DOS Aladdin back then (with no music unfortunately). It gets difficult fast and I never got good at the bonus level. I remember playing Dyna Blaster a bit at some point, but SNES and PC Engine options are much better of course. The real good stuff was Atomic Bomberman on Windows. Lots of singleplayer and 2P in Golden Axe. Never got much further than the Great Eagle letting you off at the castle. 27:13 27:27 27:56 28:58 Sad about the MIDI music but with no SNES I was real glad to have a PC port of MMX/RMX. The (Windows) version I played did not allow using Rolling Shield on Sigma's final form which made beating it as kid require many many tries and subtanks grinding. 54:16 - Tandy Nightmare. I don't think I ever really understood what I was supposed to be doing in Paperboy. Still played it quite a bit. I got Street Fighter II in a Gravis Gamepad Pro bundle. I never got the game to work back then. Controller was alright though. It had that joystick thing that you can screw into the D-pad. That snapped off after one too many drops to the ground. I didn't realize the MS-DOS ports of MMX and SSFII were given to the same people.

Ultra Software was an alias for Konami, so they can publish more games at a time than Nintendo would allow.

Ah, the return of Simon Belmon't. Would have preferred to see it with the AdLib burpstep music, since we'd already heard the internal-speaker version. Also, does anyone know if it had a VGA mode? Kinda weird for a 1990 game not to.

"Questionable MS-DOS ports" {plays Puyo Puyo for _Windows_ 3.11} YOU HAD ONE JOB, VINNY!

Golden Axe!. I played that port on my dos pc, I even had cheated using a 'resident memory editor' basically, you ran something, pressed a key combo in game, and it opened up a program that allowed you to search values in memory or whatnot. I recall I used it to get 255... or a huge number of potions. And learned that apparently the potion power did go up when you were somehow 'holding' more potions that thegame normally let you normally keep, since, I was able to one shot anything with a magic use, except death adder at the end, that one took magic blasts.

"Were they on drugs?" 1990's programmers: Uhhhhh....

Curious to know if you can get the Hadouken in this Smega Man X DOS game

the percussion on dos aladdin are so good wtf

Didn't know mcdonald land had a dos port. It'd pass these days for a indie game (esp with a improved soundtrack with the original as a option)

18:23 This game was originally released on the Turbografx 16 and it's one of the first games in the series (that why there is only one power up in each stage.) This port is consider bad because of the music and removing some enemies and attacks from bosses. Also, I don't think Hudson made this port themselves.

Comparing CGA + PC Speaker Contra Vs. VGA + Sound Blaseter Aladdin is like comparing the C64 with the Neo Geo. PC Tech marched ahead since the late 80's.

The weird color palette is becaue the game is running in CGA graphics mode which is restriced to 16 colors

Dyna blaster is a port of the turbo grafx 16 version of bomber man

57:28 I think I remember the MS-DOS port of OutRun.

Vinny, explode the exit in Dyna Blaster for a special stage.

Does anyone know where Vinny started saying “Oh him? Don’t worry that’s just Duende”

Robert cop is pleading with you in Morse code.

1:17:34 I think I remember the MS-DOS port of Space harrier too.

As a 90s PC gamer, it really is quite embarrassing just how bad most of it was on PC back then, particularly considering what the Amiga and Atari ST could do in the mid 80s.

Iirc Super Street Fighter 2 is the only good version of Street Fighter on DOS

big fan of some of these games

I think the outrun port's music is amazing for a pc speaker, I enjoyed it as a kid, and yes the arcade has very, very impressive and pleasant music, the arcade one.

Wow, that Castlevania... 1. Why would they make Simon's skin gray instead of pink or yellow? The base sixteen colors gave a lot of better options for his color scheme. 2. Why would they map subweapon to up+attack when a PC keyboard has like a hundred buttons on it and that control scheme was only used on the NES due to a limited number of face buttons? 3. Why would they map jump to Enter instead of the more intuitive Alt or Ctrl? (Before the invention of the Windows key, those were good game buttons because they're big and fingers rest casually near them when another major control is the spacebar).

Getting the feeling the frame rate's not capped on any of these.. might explain the damn near instantaneous deaths, as technically you are still getting the s, but those frames are not as slow as they're banking on them initially being back then same way alot of older games will set their internal clocks to your frame rate, so they didn't exactly have a smooth transition from 30 to 60 That paper boy version looks like one i'd seen ported onto a gba cart

53:10 snake can hit the griddy

🎶"He is a ro-bert he is a cop, and he control`s like shittt"🎵

I'll never get why they decide to use the snes version of super street fighter ii for their dos port. Since the people behind this one is more competent than the ones that handled the port of the world warrior.

7:00 is this contra a dos game, or an old tiger electronics game?

An alladin game with a soundtrack that doesn't sound like farts.

Watching Vinny stumble through sound and video drivers makes me realize I know way too much about old PC hardware. I would've probably screamed in chat why certain options would _never_ work, especially in old regular DOSBox. (DOSBox-X is so much better at emulating a bunch of this...)

just wanted to say, Golden Axe really reminds me of Legend 3D from PS1

I'm glad we got to hear some of the worst of SoundBlaster/AdLib today, lol.

I remember buying the CD-Rom version of Mega Man X at Kmart for 10 bucks back when they used to sell big box PC games 25+ years ago. The only cool thing was Capcom would add a PC gamepad with some of their titles so if you got something like Super Street Fighter 2 it would come in this huge as box with a 6 button controller.

54:20 Metal Gear Teletext

Hey love the video, you are using dosbox? The game runs too fast, it can be cycled down, the sound is fully adjustable from pc speaker to mp 401, a dos game is a blanket term, every pc was different