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cedel2k1today at 8:10 AM3 repliesview on HN

Haven't seen so many uninformed comments in a while on HN :-/ This is a MegaDrive game running in an emulator for the modern ports. Made by Makoto Wada and Yuzo Koshiro. Doesn't get mich more authentic than that imho. Original hardware, original artists. I understand it's not everyone's tea (anymore) tho.


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vunderbatoday at 3:54 PM

Just to put it out there, since some people might not know, Koshiro who is probably best known for Streets of Rage, is widely regarded as a master video game composer, right up there with Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Koji Kondo (Mario/Zelda).

Give the Stage 1 music from ActRaiser a listen to see (or hear) what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9Pym-sdbs

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grysontoday at 11:51 AM

Don't you know - everyone's an expert because they saw a YouTube video about how modern pixel art isn't authentic...

Seriously, this game is a miracle, and the amount of love Ancient put into it is unlike anything we've ever seen for a modern commercial release on hardware that came out in 1988!

It certainly beats out a good portion of the games originally released on the Mega Drive.

smaudettoday at 1:33 PM

While this is an informative comment, did HN start deleting comments? These comments you mention do not seem to exist...

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