I'd need to play the two games again to remember exactly, but some parts of the last level are defiinitely different - the parts where you shoot gatling guns at walls in the arcade are gone from the SNES, for instance. Most stages are the same in both versions, but there are a few changes, beyond the censorship elements listed below. There are bonus stages twice in the game, and they are target-shooting minigames where you have to hit all the guys as they pop up on screen. (inside a bar), El Greco (on a train), Chief Scalpem/Wigwam (Indian area), Paco Loco (horseback #2), Sir Richard Rose (manor). Levels, arcade/SNES: Simon Greedwell (town stage), Hawkeye Hank Hatfield (horseback stage), Dark Horse (town stage), The Smith Bros. That's cool, the cover art is silly, awesome stuff. While the two carts have the same art on them, because the area on a Genesis cart for the sticker is larger, you get a bigger version of the cover art picture than you do on the SNES. Oh, the Genesis does win on one thing - cartridge art. (The lack of most voice acting in the Genesis version, noted above, should be mentioned here too, though, on the issue of audio.) The music is great on all platforms, though.
Genesis vs snes versions full#
The SNES also has more music, having for instance the full intro, more unique stages, and such, which the Genesis of course doesn't. I think the SNES music is slightly better, but not by a lot. The arcade version has the best music, but between Genesis and SNES it probably just mostly depends on whether you prefer Genesis style or SNES style music. Compared to graphics, design, and gameplay, the Genesis does much better here. The Genesis version's music is pretty good. but of the console ports, SNES is the winner for sure. The arcade version has the clear edge, though, of course. In colors, detail, sprites, etc, the SNES is just better. I don't think the characters are much different in size - they're about the same size, I think. Part of this is colors, as the Genesis can only do 64 colors versus 256, but the graphics just look worse. I did play it, and finish it, but compared to the SNES or arcade titles, it's pretty bad.Īs for the graphics, the graphics are noticeably worse on Genesis. it's really a very disappointing game, particularly gameplay-wise but also graphically. In addition to the above, these include that almost all of the voice acting was cut out of the game (the bosses don't speak in this version! Essentially the only line of voice acting in the game is the "Thank you, nice boys" line that the women you save at the end of each of the four stages without bosses say.), only four of the seven bosses remain, four of the eight levels (the first part of the two in each environment) have no boss at the end, while good the music is perhaps not quite as good as it is on SNES, as I said the graphics and level designs are are INCREDIBLY repetitive and boring in comparison to the original levels, the intro has been cut to just a couple of screens, there's no running animation when your guys are on top of the stampeding herd of bulls, just the standard walk. There are a few good points, including the great music and reduced censorship (though compared to the arcade game it still has some), but there are many more negatives. The Genesis version has many more problems, though. You see the same buildings over and over as you trudge through the two stages set in each location. This may sound like a good thing, but the new stages are much longer, extremely bland, and dull and repetitive in both graphical and level design in comparison to the originals. The Genesis levels are entirely original, not ports of any of the arcade game's stages. The two games have completely different levels - the Genesis version has four areas of two stages each with only a boss at the end of each area's second stage, while the SNES has seven individual levels, each with a boss. I don't just mean that as "lesser" it most certainly is lesser, but it also is different. The Genesis version, however, is a completely different game. just awesome stuff! And it can be had for just a couple of dollars used! Amazing. It's got the full arcade intro, all four characters, all the levels, a fantastic version of the soundtrack, all of the arcade version's voice acting, and more. It's a fantastic game, a nearly perfect port of one of the great run & gun games. The SNES version is a nearly perfect port of the arcade game, only altered in censorship, that it's two player only instead of four like the arcade game, and changes to some level design elements of a few of the later stages. I have both of them, and have played the arcade version a good bit too.