Quick Look: Contra Anniversary Collection

Here?

This look is not quick. And I'm okay with that.

Still no CTR quick look.

Was there technical difficulties?

I've complained konami doesn't know what they're doing with contra

And I still feel that way. 2019 this runs worse and the colors seem off compared to the originals

This might just be me but I seem to recall those slowdowns in the original arcade cabinet as well. Still no excuse as to why it would perform like that tho.

I don't know how this ran on arcade hardware, but hardcore folks would be real upset if it wasn't emulated accurately. With a lot of shmups this has caused huge problems in the past. Especially with some CAVE games, the bullet patterns were somewhat based around the slowdown so changes when the games were ported to 360 or whatever ended up making the game unbalanced.

But hey, I really don't know how arcade Contra is supposed to run.

"Final form of Mitch McConnell" :D :D

I always love a good reason for more Dan & Vinny Contra gaming.

Despite just having played it, Dan forgot that there's text preceding the first deadeye joe battle in Hard Corps when playing Probotector. Also neither Dan or Vinny remember that Probotector is the European version, Dan assuming it's Japanese, oy vey.

This is ... the quick look!

I know nothing about arcade Contra, but if that slowdown is present in the original hardware, then it should absolutely be present in the emulation. I guess some sort of an option to disable it would be good for people who don't want/care about a completely faithful version.

These are the runs of our lives.

I'm so happy the world finally sees Contra Hard Corps as the masterpiece that it is. It took a few decades but we got there.

Should've added the remaining 5 mainline Contra games into this collection too, so we could've had a three hour QL.

I thought for sure that the runs were "being posted" earlier today. In the end though, it turned out to be just regular BM: Soft, firm, brown and zeppelin-shaped. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Contra.

Well, that´s my two cents.

I should probably never post a comment on this site again...

100% pure Dan in this video

Dan is definitely the runs.

90 MINUTES

You spoil us

"Contra: The Run" quick look?

@lyndbako:

They played it during a GBE Playdate at least, maybe they just didn't get to it yet.

@ravelle: A QL was in the upcoming for a little bit, then disappeared Saturday

Indeed. It was just a way for Konami to get around any concerns of excessive violence involving humans in European markets.

@lyndbako:

Uhh, apperently it has been up for a while? But nobody noticed!

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/crash-team-racing-nitro-fueled/2970-19415

@ravelle: Probably backdated because it definitely wasn't up before.

If you guys really like Hard Corps you should play Shattered Soldier. It got a bad rep mainly because people were expecting it to be like traditional contra and not hard corps.

The arcade Contras hardcap your continues, no matter how many credits you throw in.

So, if I'm understanding right, there's only actually 4 games on this collection with the rest just being different ports or versions of those 4 games?

Yassss

Comparing this to an old This Is the Run video it doesn't seem that Hard Corps is running any faster in this collection. If it is it's only by just a hair.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Jeff played Contra (arcade) in one of his streams and he said that the arcade version of the game had slowdown.

Contra Force is missing

A little googling seems to indicate that the slowdown was present in the original arcade version, so this is just faithful emulation. They still should've had a toggle for it, though.

I hope Vinny does a QL of the Castlevania Anniversary Collection.

Also, M2 does not screw up emulation

Huh, so they have the Mega Drive and SNES Probotectors, but not the NES one?

i kinda feel like this might be too much contra

Wow Dan sucks at every contra game, seems like the more he likes a series the worse he is.

Putting Hard Corps in the same breath as Contra 3 is laughable, HC is hot garbage.

The mode 7 levels are fine, y'all just bad

@fisk0: Dan and Vinny didn't cover the added games. There is a button in the main menu that goes into even more versions of Contra like Probotector NES and Contra Hard Corps JP.

Oh, alright, didn't see that button either, and the store page for the game only lists Probotector once, which I thought could've been the Mega Drive game they played. Weird way to split the games up since some of the games are already just versions of the same game.

Speedrun world record for the Arcade version (single player) is 4mins........

@shaitan: Would've taken 20 seconds if not for the slowdown! :)

Contra-versary ?

Noiman Cascade

Actually, Hard Corp/Probotector is the the best Contra game, so you're wrong. Sorry.

I wish this had contra 4 for DS (the best one) and slow down or not the aspect ratio has a large portion of wasted screen. Why would you not make it as large as possible instead they leave what amounts to letterbox mode which is awful for video games and well anything.

these were not the runs

I've never heard of anyone refer to a Towerfall-type game as "couch co-op." They're labelled as local multiplayer.

The Mode 7 levels in Contra 3 were a really cool idea, and they looked awesome at the time, but they could have been implemented a LOT better.