PS1 Raycrisis a perfect port??....

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:32 am

Finally got that video of Raycrisis, and it definately looks like my kinda shmup! So, how close is the PS1 version in terms of graphics and sound? I know Raystorm was pretty much perfect; that's why I was wondering about this one.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:48 am

The reason Raystorm was such a good port, is because that ran on PS1 arcade hardware.

Ray Crisis is definitely not an exact port by any means. The arcade version runs from ROM on the same powerful hardware as Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revision. Meaning a port to the PS1 was always going to be overly ambitious. The PS1 port has clearly worse graphics and loading times. Both of these shortcomings are significantly helped when running it on a PS2 in smooth/fast driver mode, but it still won't be arcade-exact.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:59 am

Wow, thanks TF!

Well I do have a PS2, so that should work out well! How much of a hit did the sound take in the PS1 port?

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:30 am

dave4shmups wrote:How much of a hit did the sound take in the PS1 port?

I don't know. I don't think much because I noticed the PS1 version has absolutely splendid audio... no complaints there.

Defcon 5 · Post by **Defcon 5** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:50 pm

I played both of them I just say, WOW to the Ps1 ver. With Texture filter it looks a little neater then the pcb version.
I really see no big differences in both versions ( after watching the arcade version at home ).

And Raycrsis isnt expensive so take it

gigadrive32 · Post by **gigadrive32** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:10 am

dave4shmups wrote:Finally got that video of Raycrisis, and it definately looks like my kinda shmup! So, how close is the PS1 version in terms of graphics and sound? I know Raystorm was pretty much perfect; that's why I was wondering about this one.

the PS1 Raycrisis is definitally not a perfect port, or even almost a perfect port. noticable downgrade from the arcade's graphics - that's to be expected since arcade Raycrisis runs on a board, Taito's GNet, that is more powerful than Playstation or even the board used for RayStorm: Taito's FX-1B, which itself is slightly more powerful than Playstation.

the GNet board (which is a heavily upgraded PS1) is probably a similar leap over the standard PS1 and FX-1B board that Namco's System 12 board (Tekken 3) was over PS1 and System11.

http://www.system16.com/taito/hrdw_gnet.html

that said, Raycrisis is still a reasonable conversion of the arcade, since PS1 and GNet share the same basic architecture - its just that GNet is turbocharged

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:13 pm

Thunder Force wrote:
dave4shmups wrote:How much of a hit did the sound take in the PS1 port?
I don't know. I don't think much because I noticed the PS1 version has absolutely splendid audio... no complaints there.

The music pause before a boss in the PS1 version does NOT happen on the G-Net one. Chalk that up to limited RAM in the PS1 console. RayCrisis is probably cut down about the same amount as Tekken 3 on PS.

Night Raid is about perfect except for the lack of 2P mode. That could be due to another ship on screen taxing the system more and causing slowdown. NR's abstract graphics may not have been as processor intensive as RayCrisis' stuff.

shmups.system11.org

PS1 Raycrisis a perfect port??....

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