Best Console for Shmups?

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Re: Best Console for Shmups?

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bigbadboaz wrote:
Obiwanshinobi wrote:..a soft-modded Wii quite contests that
Which of the two can run more advanced arcade titles? I would have assumed the Xbox due to the x86 chip.
No idea, but I believe it's about the first Xbox's power (many that-gen stuff ported successfully to it, such as HotD3 and Ghost Squad, be the latter only 30 fps).
I don't even have MAME on my Wii, though (playing MD, NES, FDS, SMS & GG games on it sometimes).
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If "best" = more shmups available, nothing will ever beat a PC due to MAME. The sheer amount of shmups you can get is mesmerizing.

Apart from that, my vote goes as well to a RGH X360.
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If we are going by unmodified consoles

1. Xbox 360 Japan
2. Playstation 3 60GB Japan (backwards compatible with PS1/PS2)
3. Saturn Japan
4. Nintendo Switch
5. Dreamcast Japan
6. Playstation 4
7. Genesis / Megadrive
8. Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine
9. Xbox One (backwards compatibility)
10. Neo-Geo / Neo-Geo CD
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Based on my personal experiences, I'm going with the Genesis/Mega Drive.
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My choices in order

Saturn
Genesis
PC Engine
Xbox 360
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Tokyo-J wrote:If we are going by unmodified consoles

1. Xbox 360 Japan
2. Playstation 3 60GB Japan (backwards compatible with PS1/PS2)
PS1 on PS3 adds like 3 frames of lag, and PS2 on PS3 is almost as bad IIRC
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I think PS4 and especially Switch might end up being the all the best shmup consoles eventually with the pace shmups are being released / announced these days (both ports and new greats like Devil Engine). Best thing is that those aren't region locked. You might need to get japan release from japan (digital or physical), but you don't need to buy japan console to play them, which is huge improvement already.
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I'm a big Cave and Qute fan, so 360 for me.

Dreamcast is also quite nice, though a lot of the shmups on DC aren't really to my liking.

TG-16 has some great shmups but I think there's also not a huge amount of variety, maybe. But playing TG-16 games on Wii Virtual Console is what got me heavy into shmups. Although playing Mars Matrix for endless hours as a kid was definitely what sparked the thrill.
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Re: Best Console for Shmups?

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Each generation:

- FC/NES
- PC-Engine (MD gets an honorable mention)
- Saturn
- DC (PS2 honorable mention)
- X360
- PS4
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