Bloodlust Soft.'s Legacy

Holy sh*t this video was a b*tch to upload. I could've uploaded it yesterday when i recorded the footage,but my sh*tty internet didn't wanna work with me. I do kinda like this game despite it's flaws. The main flaw of this game is that it's hard to avoid getting hit by the enemies and obstacles. And if you lose all your lives it's game over and back to the beginning of the game. I guess now you see why i used the unlimited health cheat. It's a shame cause i do think this franchise had potential. I never beat the game by the way,cause the unfair difficulty and i didn't feel like playing the whole thing. But now that clearly changed when i wanted to see if this game works 100% on the old Genecyst emulator for MS-DOS. Overall it does work well enough. The only minor issue i found was the sound. The music does kinda struggle with keeping the correct tempo,and some ADPCM samples and PSG sounds play in a kinda innacurate way. Outside of that,i think i would've been happy with this if all i had was this back when this emulator was still kinda new. Also, there is a couple issues that happened at 21:52 My antivirus was reminding me of something and kinda messed up the recording since the emulator was turning the Z80 emulation on and off. So yeah,that wasn't me. And oviously,i had to edit out when the antivirus message decided to pop up. Just a small clarification.

Playing this on the Genecyst emulator definitely has it's pros and cons. A good thing is that if you know how,you can get rid of slowdown. A bad thing is that the emulator doesn't seem to be able to handle displaying sprites upside down,making one of the last sections in the game kinda unplayable. But who knows,maybe that happened because i overclocked the game's speed to get rid of the slowdown moments. There's also some lighting effects that are not emulated. As a result,they are completely missing. Kinda reminds me of how some early SNES emulators never bothered to emulate transparency effects. But overall,i would not recommend playing this on Genecyst. Again,it's nice to have the timing option to avoid the games slowing down,but the not so good early state emulation is almost a deal braker with this game. I don't mind the lack of some visual effects,but i do mind not being able to see what the hell is going on during an upside down section.

The emulation may not be the best,cause i noticed some PCM samples played with the wrong pitch,but it's definitely better than what the later release of this game would offer. I'm talking about the version of this game that you can play on the 2010 reboot game for PS3 and Xbox360,the sound emulation there was severely lacking. And it's more shameful when a late 90's DOS emulator like Genecyst offered far more accurate sound. Also yes,i know it looks like i'm using save states in the video,but this still counts as a no death run,cause you can clearly see that i never needed to use a single save state.

Nothing like playing an "ordinary" sonic hack when having a headache. cause i had a headache when i was playing this. Shouldn't have drank that beer.

I remember the first time i heard of this game was on a magazine a decade ago. They were talking about unlicensed games in a kinda biased way. Now that i had an excuse to play it,i can safeully say that i hate the collision detection in this game. And it doesn't help that this emulator doesn't have Zapper emulation support. Most of the time,my shots don't register even when i'm clearly shooting something. Volume is too low as well for this game. I had to turn the volume all the way up when i edited this. PCM samples don't play either,but that's not suprising. There's a reason why the PCM sound channel is turned off by default,because this emulator just doesn't play PCM samples very well at all,assuming it's gonna play them in general. Also,this Rom i'm playing is a dump of an australian release,and the only difference i could find is in the title screen with the copyright information. It is kinda crazy to see a violent game being released in australia cause sometimes violent games don't make it on there even nowadays.

Unfortunately, i didn't find the source of where i got the unamed platforming game,but i do remember that it said it's a recent homebrew game in the works.As for the Happy Halloween Demo,I belive it is and old tech demo from 1998.Also,when i made a video about the halloween demo on a different emulator the previous october,i noticed the graphics for the letters were glitching and i wasn't sure if that was supposed to happen. Well,now that i ran the game here,we know the answer. How about that by the way?a rom that runs graphically better in Nesticle than a more modern NES emulator.

You thought i was done with the halloween crap?Gah ha ha ha ha ha Think again.

The emulation is definitely not perfect, but the game is entirely playable despite this one being seemingly a beta version of the game. Sound may not be great when playing the sample recordings of the voices, but sound as a whole is miles better than the PS3 & Xbox 360 version that was included with the Splatterhouse 2010 reboot. Sound for Splatterhouse 2 & 3 was pretty innacurate and bad. It was just as bad as the sound from those cheap AtGames megadrive/genesis clone consoles. I would still recommend getting the 2010 game just to get the classic trilogy for a cheap price, assuming the 2010 game is not going up in price nowadays.