Shadow of the Beast for Sega Genesis US version longplay 1/3

[DanesGames]

This game is so God damn hard, good job.

[GBsdclf01]

5:12 - Best enemy ever

[johnny0seven]

This game has a weird feel to it hehe, never played it though, heard it was damn hard to beat

[NoMac90]

We own that game, I hate that game (not because it's bad), we never managed it to get further than that weird castle at the right side and I like the music of the Gensis (though the PAL versions are slower in terms of music of course)

[Seblike]

The original musics were mesmerizing, these ones are just awful.

[FunkeART]

i hate this game

[xmpc9000XL]

Really love the atmosphere and the music. It's like something out of a pleasant nightmare or something.

[ShadowoftheBeastHD]

I'm making a HD remake of this game. Check my channel for updates. Please comment on videos and other stuff.

[VanDerLaars]

Everything about this game was so great. And you who are playing is just genius.

[Yoshimasa00]

you are the biggest motherfucker ever. Congrats

[GiggiliGaiX3]

Two things...

1. You are GOD!!! ;-;

2. You must have the patience of a Saint to have to deal with this much stuff, damn!

[shihuandgi]

i never knew what i was suppose to do so i just ran around and sometimes i got into caves, but damn i was a happy boy at that time!

[xmadsonx]

I remember I read somewhere, long ago, that videogames where good for your brain (memory). No wonder... you had to fucking record (in your head) the whole game to beat it.

[Seblike]

Oh my....! Never seen the Megadrive/Genesis version & I wish I hadn't! Awful music compared to the Amiga version which was mesmerizing.

[Crystalwolf78]

omg we used to have this game but died when we got to the beast in the wall went the other way instead then when we got to the building and new area....we died everytime =/ we gave up after having no progress after a couple of years

[238418]

@Crystalwolf78 lol i had the same problem

[waytze]

very dificult game...

[Chubzdoomer]

This game relies far, far too much on level memorization and trial and error.  The music is very cool, but the gameplay itself is utter and complete shit.

[ElfWhisper]

@Chubzdoomer All old games were so. All about level memorization and trial and error. I am sorry for you, child.

[laffer35]

@ElfWhisper

That's not true at all... while it's true it was much more common back then, there are lots of old games where you don't need to memorize levels/enemy patterns to succeed.

[Chubzdoomer]

@ElfWhisper To an extent, yes, but not to the extremes in this game.

[globabir]

this game wouldnt be something without the music the musi is just legendary

[cowboy0212]

The hardest game ever

[princessshanna]

omg i rememeber this!!

[boraboe2]

i like the music at 6.36

[t3rr411]

did you do some cheating powers to do this?

[laffer35]

None whatsoever, other than a lot of practice.

[RottenRroses]

@laffer35 did you use a controller? if so what controller?

thanks for the lp.

[TheRoboticFerret]

o__O The music is turned into a rave party soundtrack on the Genesis/Mega Drive. XD

[Relugus]

Wish Technosoft had handled this conversion.

[themixturemedia]

Holly WHAT A SHIT version compared to the Amiga version LONG live Amiga

[prulcan]

Holly shit Shadow of the beast with hi speed, not good. PAL version is running with AMIGA speed. This game is to hard.

[marcoseli]

good times of sega genesis... :****

shadow of the beast, battletoads, hellfire, gaiares --- :****( LOOOOVE IT

[mrbeanchannel]

Best music ever

[triplestar100]

@mrbeanchannel FINALLY!!!

someone who agrees with me on this one!

[Cornughon]

A very faithful port of the Amiga original, including the music (though not as good, but much better than the stupid SNES-version)

One of the few Genesis games which was optimized for PAL and running too fast on NTSC-machines (normally it was the other way around)

[gabe0083]

man this game had such awesome music and graphics for the time

looks like an arcade machine

[tsiris1980]

man i only have beaten this game with cheats,very difficult.and this music was scary as shit...wooow ;P

[pasanlosdias99]

agree, needed to cheat to beat it and i was 11 when i played it, had some many nightmares. great game over all.

[macaroni11101]

i could never beat this game...nor could i figure out what to do.

of course i was only 4 back then.

[pokemamadas]

im 21 years ol man i had forgotten about this game as soon as i herd the music man i had a flashback from wn i wz a kid playing the game dont know what made me look for this game cant believe that 11 years passt by

[dickphair]

ah yes

i was younger and happier back then

[mwsiviero]

I hate this game! arrghhhhhhhh

[supersonictomlad]

quality music on this version on the megadrive/genesis. love this game! proper fuckin hard tho!

[r8qt7]

why have you activated the antialiasing ... looks like sharpened

[laffer35]

Because it ran very poorly when recording on my old PC otherwise.

[r8qt7]

should run faster without AA ... a genesis emulator should run on any machine from the last 8 years without problems.

perhaps some directx problems

[jesusarnold]

My god, so there's actually a Mega Drive game that runs at the right speed on UK consoles, thats a pretty rare occurence.

[tadeuvi]

hey laffer you must really love this game, you a lot about it. i respect that i have very good memories about this myself, very cool video game thanks for posting it

[triplestar100]

why so many complains bout the music's tempo...in my most humble opinion, I think-

scratch that-BELIEVE that, except for the intro, the speed of the USGenesis music is actually better-u read dat rite:BETTER-than all the others! otherwise yer right, it's missin a few things gamewise.hope I don't get too many hate letters out of this!

[ham256]

Totally agree!

[humid1980]

I don't. This version sounds more like rave than SotB.

[thoomie]

I agree! The Genesis music tempo is much much better!

[armakuni]

The music is played too fast in this emulation. I guess the whole game is faster than the original.

[laffer35]

The music does not play too fast in this emulation, it's emulated fine. The game itself was too fast, bad port. Makes the game quite a bit harder.

[armakuni]

I did own the megadrive pal-version years ago. I used to sit at the piano trying to play the songs. The speed of the music in this version is ridiculous , and definitely not the original one. Well, the us release could have this error, and the pal-release would be correct. But I can't imagine that they would be so clumsy as to release a game with accidentally sped up music. No way! The original tempo may well be faster than the amiga version, though, but not this fast.

[armakuni]

You can hear the music in original tempo by downloading the VGZ file from this page: project2612 . org

[laffer35]

From Wikipedia -

"This is due to a sloppy conversion; the original had a 50Hz refresh rate, but all Sega Genesis games had to have a 60Hz refresh rate due to being made for NTSC televisions. Accordingly, the conversion team increased the refresh rate to 60Hz, but did not change the amount of time each frame remained on screen, making it run 16.7% faster than the original."

So the NTSC version was faster due to sloppy porting.

[laffer35]

And I know how fast these tunes are supposed to be, I've played the original Amiga version tons of times. I have a longplay of that version as well.

[armakuni]

The gameplay might have been be faster, but I don't see why the music would be sped up since it was rearranged for the Genesis version (by Tony Williams, I guess). Anyway - one thing I can say with 100% assurance is that the PAL version plays at the same tempo as the Amiga version. You can hear the music the way it's supposed to sound, on project 2612. My suspicion is that the fault lies in this emulation - but I'll find out soon.

[laffer35]

I doubt the fault lies in the emulation. I've read in several places about the game and music being too fast - at first, I suspected the emulation as well but after reading all that and trying several emulators, I think the game simply is like this.

The PAL version would be normal obviously since the entire problem lies in converting it to 60Hz.

The Japanese version is normal as well (and has some improvements as well).

[mateuszpapis]

Amiga version direct RIPOFF ? :D Not as good as the original.

[laffer35]

It's harder than the Amiga version though as it's faster (due to sloppy conversation).

[armakuni]

So Psygnosis ripped off themselves? I like both versions, the amiga version seems visually better, and has nice percussion sounds in the music. But I strongly like the music of the megadrive version, sounds more unified, and feels darker. But don't forget the C-64 version.

[yann2bordeaux]

Je trouve ce jeu toujours aussi difficile mais quel bon jeu!

[jerome90160]

c clair yann,

je l'avais a l'epoque.

c'etait un enfer.

J'ai jamais reussi a butter le boss dans le grand chateau apres que tu ais recuperer la mitraillette.

je comprends toujours pas pourquoi j'y arrivais pas!

[aga060]

the amiga original was the best and the original sound was great.

[Arkhandroid]

@aga060

I disagree. The Amiga one has very nice graphics, but the PCE Super CD-ROM one has the advantage of awesomeeeeeeeee studio remixed songs. They are REALLY great....

and the Amiga ones gameplay is a bit goony. The up to jump, and slightly laggy punching is no good when compared to the PCE CD's smoothness and fluid controls.

[Feefle]

They don't make games like this anymore, I remember this game used to freak me out alot, still does but in a good ... "creative" way.

[laffer35]

Actually, this version is crap. The music is horrible and due to the sloppy porting, the game runs faster than it's supposed to.

IF you want to play this game, you should really play the Amiga version instead which is FAR superior.

[NagaSjekira]

does anybody know where to find the song in 00:40 when you enter the tree....i've loved this song ever since i first played shadow of the beast on my sega genesis many years ago.....so PLEEEEASE HELP!!! :)

[yersi]

do a search for "zophar's domain" and go to that site- look for a videogame music section, and you'll find this game under "genesis/megadrive".

[sirdrink13309622]

Did anyone notice the Psygnosis owl face balls in the Tree level?!

[LeisureSuitGaming]

I hated this game as a kid. I used to rent it. I remember it was one of those goofy looking EA cartridges with the yellow tab on it. WAY TOO DAMN HARD!!!

[phoenixan]

You can actually tell it's running faster than it's supposed to from the music too.

[pokupokupoku]

i thought the atari lynx one was the best version out of all of them. it had the best music too. lol

[SirLemming]

Not a bad attempt at replicating the original graphics, although the color is much worse.

[laffer35]

It's a horrible port. Due to sloppy porting, it runs faster than it's supposed to making it harder than it was meant to me. This is probably the hardest Beast version and all due to sloppy porting.

[Turkizz]

I have my Amiga 500 on it´s box.

I must search for it´s disks.

Anybody knows how to use Roms from PC on Amiga 500?

[shibshimself]

I miss my amiga

[8eemou]

SOTB = AMIGA ON HIGH

[jci10]

Geeez, they really destroyed the background music! The graphics are ALMOST like the Amiga's. I noticed some of the enemies sometimes have the same color gradients as the background indicating lack of colors or inefficient raster control.