"Arcade's Greatest Hits" discs on PS1, quality work?

[BIL]

I'd really like to get a few Western 80s arcade compilations - got tons of good ones on the Japanese side now. Are Digital Eclipse's Midway, Williams and Atari "Arcade's Greatest Hits" compilation discs on PS1 well-regarded? The game selections look really good, just wondering if the emulation is solid or if they're the kind of comps best avoided.

Alternatively, if anyone knows of better Western arcade comps for later systems, I'd appreciate the info. Trying to figure out which sets have what reps now, but it seems there's a lot of these things.

[Krimzon Kitzune]

Although the PSX Williams disc is known for using emulations, they aren't perfect. As an owner of the disc myself, I can say that for a fact.

There are some things you need to know:

1.) Graphics appear slightly messed up for all games. The sprites and everything are there, but they seemed to be "warped" a bit, like as if the pixels aren't entirely perfect (can't find a better way to describe it)? It's not really bad though, unless you're counting on absolute pixel perfection. Maybe some kind of filter could have fixed this?

2.) Stargate is retitled "Defender II" in home ports, including this one, due to legal issues (there was never a Defender II arcade cab). Despite this, the game appears to be the same as it's Stargate-titled arcade version.

3.) There is a flaw in Defender's emulation that makes it impossible to change the settings in its test menu (although still accessible), and the game is stuck on free play while the other ones aren't.

4.) Controls are simplified for Defender and Stargate/Defender II so that all movement works with a d-pad, unlike the complicated arcade set-ups.

5.) Sinistar only has eight-way directions in this version, instead of the 49-directional movement in the arcade version.'

That's all I can think of for now.

[BIL]

Thanks for the detailed info, much appreciated. I was already a bit less enthused about these particular discs, having done a bit of reading in the meantime... might just stick with MAME for now, since an accurate Defender is one of the main draws for me.

[Despatche]

This was later ported to SNES, which I have somewhere. I think they fixed those Defender problems.

[louisg]

I've got the first one on Saturn (Midway collection). It's worth it for the (seemingly) stoned-out interview with Dave Theurer.

[Drum]

Midway Arcade Treasures I am pretty sure has all the content of the PSX Williams disc. I'm not sure about the emulation - it seemed ok to me.

[Krimzon Kitzune]

This was later ported to SNES, which I have somewhere. I think they fixed those Defender problems.

They did, but all of the games on the SNES and Genesis ports were reprogrammed (I think).

Oh yeah, I think the PS1 disc uses custom-defaults instead of factory default settings for each game. Don't quote me on that because I haven't played it in years and I don't have a PSX or PS2 anymore (for now, at least), but I think I had to restore the default settings for each game at one point.