Mega CD - The music has been completely re-done, and being on the CD format the general quality of the Mega CD versions' music is substantially higher. Many of the songs contain that easily identifiable sound style specific to the hardware. Mega Drive - An eclectic mix of musical genre's and a very good use of the system's sound chip. The parallax looks very nice and works well. SNES - Remember earlier when I said the Mega Drive version's backgrounds tended to look a little flat? well that issue has been solved here as most of the levels of the SNES version have extra parallax added to them (parallax scrolling is a trick which simulates depth by moving the background layers at different speeds). Mega CD - Pretty much the same as the original. SNES - The animation in this version seems to be pretty much the same as the original, I even checked a few of the actions in slow motion and couldn't find any missing or additional frames at all. Mega CD - For the most part its pretty similar to the Mega Drive version, I did however notice some new standing animations in this version. Mega Drive - Very high quality animation that contains loads of charm. SNES - Many areas have been re-coloured with a much more vibrant and brighter pallet, many more colours have been used compared to the original version, with a lot of the dithered sections in the original replaced with extra colours. Mega CD - Seems to be pretty much identical to the Mega Drive version. Mega Drive - A fantastic use of colour throughout which matches the game style extremely well. Other than that the transparent foreground clouds in "What the Heck" are also missing for some reason (most noticeable on the snowman boss fight).Įven when taking into account the stretched graphics (which do actually get to me a little), I would say that the SNES version has the best overall graphics detail of the three. Lastly onto effects, the SNES version has a new, and very nice lens flare effect on the first stage (see screenshot 1), but apart from that it doesn't seem to have any other additions later on, it actually also has a downgraded effect for the "Down the Tubes" level, originally the entire screen waved back and forth to appear underwater, but now in the SNES version the effect is only utilized for one of the background layers.
"For Pete's Sake" (see above) has also been changed, but in this instance I personally feel that it was for the worse as I prefer the original background and colour scheme, and feel that the new design is a little haphazard, it does have parallax scrolling now, but the perspective is wrong (planet's in orbit should not scroll that fast and wrap around the screen).
So the first point here is that the SNES version is in lower resolution, and unfortunately has warped graphics (you can see this in the sprite screen shot above which is fatter than usual, and in the first two level screen shots which have less horizontal screen area).Įnough of the bad, on to the good, many of the backgrounds seem to have been entirely re-drawn, adding some very nice extra details, two levels which spring to mind are Evil the Cat's boss fight (see screenshot 2) and the sky section of "Snot a Problem" which now has a detailed cloud background as opposed to the basic blue background seen in the original.
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SNES - Firstly, when converting from Mega Drive to SNES developers always face one problem, the different horizontal screen resolutions of the two machines, the usual solution to this problem that most companies would take is quite simple, they would use the SNES' lower resolution mode, cut the left and right hand sections of the screen off, and then stretch the image to fit the TV screen. Mega CD - Basically the same as the Mega Drive version, there are some minor extra details added here, and there but the game generally looks the same most of the way through.
The only thing I would say against the graphics is that the backgrounds tend to look a little flat, and the dithering (see here for more details) can be quite noticeable when using high end cables or emulators. It uses the Mega Drive's higher resolution mode, has some very nice, imaginative backgrounds, fantastic character sprites with impressive animation, and a generally excellent design with many nice touches and humour. Mega Drive - This is the original version of the game, the foundation that the other versions were built from. Earthworm Jim Comparison: Genesis Vs SNES
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