Gradius 1 for PS4

[Marc]

Anyone picked this up, and know if it displays and controls OK? At £7.99, they've priced this well beyond impulse purchase price for a game I've been playing for 30 years.

[CStarFlare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp8mLVhUUIY&app=desktop

[alamone]

It's ported by Hamster, they include all three versions (Gradius, Nemesis US/UK) and have lots of options
for control remapping, video (including fake scanlines), etc. No input lag. Pretty good port if you ask me,
and easier to play on your big TV rather than hauling out the PCB.

[Pretas]

Better change that title fast, you could give some people here a heart attack thinking it's about a new Gradius on PS4. You misspelled "Gradius" too.

[Blinge]

Fucking GRADUS

[alamone]

I don't think anyone really expects much from Konami these days so I doubt anyone really thinks it's a new one.

[ciox]

Fucking GRADUS

DARUS is more to my taste.

[BrianC]

I prefer R-Typo

[jepjepjep]

I've been playing the Arcade Archives version of Gradius over the past few days and I've been impressed too. I was surprised because of that youtube video showing a lot of input lag.

Can any of you guys translate this better than google? This site seems to talk a little about the lag: http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2142261727751559301

[alamone]

Whoever is accusing this port of having lag is just misinformed. It actually has less lag than the actual PCB.

[jepjepjep]

I actually played this port back-to-back against the PS1 version on the same monitor (PS1-> XRGB-3 B1 mode -> monitor) and it felt very similar. That's great to hear confirmation from you alamone. Did you test it yourself against the pcb?

[Kollision]

this thread made me giggle

tks

[CloudyMusic]

Whoever is accusing this port of having lag is just misinformed. It actually has less lag than the actual PCB.

It was Mihara who (I believe) first posted a video that demonstrated some lag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kar0yRFAo8c

I don't know if he just overlooked some other cause of lag in his TV setup, but I had assumed at the time that he wouldn't have made that sort of mistake.

[trap15]

Mihara was just being a dick as usual. It's totally fake.

[system11]

Yeah this port is fine. I regulary go fishing for new Hamster games on JP PSN.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Mihara was just being a dick as usual. It's totally fake.

Who is this Mihara person?

[Ed Oscuro]

GRADUS by Peter Molyneus, now on Kickstartus.

[Pretas]

Mihara was just being a dick as usual. It's totally fake.

Who is this Mihara person?

Vice president of Arika, and an opinionated active figure in the JP arcade scene. He led a tragically unsuccessful attempt at getting Ketsui ported to PS2.

[Blinge]

GRADUS by Peter Molyneus, now on Kickstartus.

The first person to fly through the door on final stage becomes god.

...and everyone else has to kill and replace him.

[BIL]

Mihara was just being a dick as usual. It's totally fake.

Wow, I took that video seriously when it first appeared. :/

We love the games, Mihara-san! Even if you'd possibly gas-chamber us for enjoying while gaijin! ;-;

[copy-paster]

Gradus ?
R-Tepy or Daruis much better.

[Marc]

Oops - title edited.

Who am I kidding, it'll be nice to have the game on my main system so no doubt I'll end up buying this later. So what else is up on PSN JP?

[Casey120]

Not badus so I'm actually going to grabus !

[jepjepjep]

On the J-PSN they have a bunch more arcade games:

• Ninja Kid 2
  Ikki
  Cosmo Police Galivan
  MagMax
  A-JAX
  Butasan
  Crazy Climber 2
  Gradius
  Syusse Oozumou
  Mr. Goemon
  Scramble
  Raiders 5
  Double Dragon
  Terra Cresta
  Exerion
  Karate Champ
  City Connection
  Nova 2001
  Solomon's Key
  Moon Cresta
  Renegade
  Wonder Boy
  Bomb Jack
  Exciting Hour
  Rygar
  Crazy Climber
  Ninja Kid

It looks like they've only released a few of these in the US and even fewer in Europe. The only other one I've tried out is Rygar and it seems to be a pretty good port too.

[Kollision]

I liked the thread's previous title better

[xxx1993]

Gradus ?
R-Tepy or Daruis much better.

Yeah, right...

[Pretas]

On the J-PSN they have a bunch more arcade games:

They're all craptacular ports by Hamster, the same shovelware company that released Haunted Castle and several other old arcade games as MAME-on-a-disc for PS2.

[trap15]

Have you ever tried any of them?

[Chaos Phoenixma]

well the video CStarFlare links pretty much hints at this being a badly done job. That's just showing the attract sequence which is going slower than the Arcade version. But it's enough to put someone off from getting it since there's a chance that it runs slower than arcade elsewhere too.

[alamone]

It is sad that some old man's ranting would prevent someone from buying this fine port.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.