I dunno Patchy, I've enjoyed many hours saying
"Hoo hoo!" and
"GAT DAMN" with my Capcom Generation 4 port of Gun.Smoke, which was the basis for my famous STGW commentary and even more acclaimed ST! Painstaking cross-reference with MAME and doujin superplay DVD indicates highly-accurate conversion! Input response as pin-sharp as the golden points on Billy's sheriff's badge! Or the dread shuriken of NINJA, who tends to scurr newbies and enjoys pride of place in my sig.
Comparing PS4 CAS1's 1943 to CG1's, it had an annoying playable-but-noticeable drag. WORSE THAN WHAT I HAD indeed.
And that was that, oh well. Never patched AFAIK.
I do hope CAS2 sharpened the fuck up to M2/Hamster input response standards. I'll get it anyway for Magic Sword, as it's only the STGs with their innate pinpoint-precise twitch movement where the marginal lag bugs me. Strider and Daimakaimura play fine, albeit no better than my PS1 discs (arguably a bit worse, in the former's case, with PS1 Strider being a meticulous ex-DECO rebuild - fucking Ouroboros MKII and his shitty PCB collision dunking me in the middle of MEIOU's genocide manifesto!).
It's all a bit unfortunate that devs who understand The Hard Gaming is first and foremost
a tactile process seem so thin on the ground. I don't give a
ONE RAT FUCK how many dumb trophies and goober CRT filters you've stapled onto your emulator front-end. If your input response is muddy, I'm out the door bitch! I do all my
~retro gayming~ (gunshot) on the same beat-to-shit 12in Sharp CRT with red/white cables I used to watch bootleg porno tapes on in highschool! You think I give a fuck?
I'd sooner stick with the lovably bent PS1 version of Raiden II than a laggy true emulation. Same for DX. I don't do PC emulation, it makes my wiener soft and floppy like cheese, but I'd certainly do that if it came down to it. (this is in the alternate universe where I don't have fuckoff hundreds of superbly-emulated/ported games to get competent at & write about
fousands, if you include console-original stuff! as you should!)
NB it ain't about the money either. I'd happily pay whatever the AAA RRP is for individual ACA-style releases of the games I want from CAS1+2, if they performed comparably. No problem at all. You wouldn't believe the inane shite you end up spending money on when you get old, Patchy! $60USD for hundreds of hours of
~retro gayming~ (chair kick) fun? That ain't
SHIT