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bonzobanana on 25 February 2018
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curl-6 said:
Barkley said:

Asterix and Obelix XXL on GBA, crazy.

 

That's a GBA game!? Holy guacamole, that could pass for a PS1/Saturn title.

bonzobanana said:
Doom on the Atari Jaguar was pretty amazing for the time.

Vastly superior to Saturn, 3DO, 32X and Snes SFX versions and competing nicely with PS1 for frame rate and feel although not quite as many levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Q_Jl7nGdM

I know the Jaguar was described as a 64bit console but at its heart was a 13mhz 16bit 68000 and its GPU wasn't even 64bit it had 2 pretty weak 32bit GPU's (added together to make the 64bit claim if I remember rightly) and many games on Jaguar struggled to improve on Snes and Megadrives games. So a pretty decent version of Doom was quite surprising.

Yeah, aside from the unfortunate lack of music, the Jaguar port of Doom was a damn fine piece of work.

The SNES port is also noteworthy for being something of a technical miracle. 

The snes port was weird though the way they always faced you, you could never approach from behind plus missing floor and ceiling textures. Got the job done though. I guess the snes wolfenstein port is more impressive in someways as it was achieved without a SFX chip. Here's the megadrive and snes versions of wolfenstein compared. The megadrive version is quite impressive but is unofficial and very recent and only features the shareware level I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4SyWSlnJA

I wasted a lot of time on the snes version many years ago.