navilink said:
hey Gaurav any platformer or racing or sideshooter to recommend for both Genesis, 32X, CD? I heard Soul Star on Sega CD is very good!!!
It is, but it's not a sidescrolling shoot 'm up, as your view is from behind the ship/mech.
For platformers that I would personally recommend while keeping your preference in mind:
-I once again refer to
Rocket Knight Adventures (Gen). You'll love it, no doubt.
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Tempo (32X) looks like a cute platformer, though I never really went far into the game yet. Its animations are superb.
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Popful MAIL - Magical Fantasy Adventure (CD) which is more of an adventure.
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Earthworm Jim - Special Edition (CD), which If I recall correctly, was something of two games in one?
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Sonic CD, which is one of the best games released on the MegaCD, and only entirely correctly emulated by Kega Fusion.
-Once again, both
Wonderboy V (Gen) and
Wonderboy VI (Gen) are fun platforming adventures, and should fit your need for a cute look.
-If you don't care about the kiddy image of these two,
Fantastic Dizzy (Gen) and
Cosmic Spacehead (Gen) should be colorful and cute enough for you.
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Decap Attack (Gen) is pretty fun to play and look at IMO.
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Dynamite Headdy (Gen), one of Treasure's classics, is supposed to be good, but I wouldn't know yet.
-Apparently, the same goes for
Ristar (Gen).
-Disney's
Aladdin (Gen) and
The Lion King (Gen) were also mentioned before. These are definitely good platformers, especially the former.
-You could try the graphically updated Megaman 1, 2 and 3, called
Megaman: The Wily Wars (Gen), if you're a fan of Megaman.
For racing, I only know a few titles, but I'd have to recommend:
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Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X).
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Chase H.Q. 2 (Gen) rings a bell to me as well.
-And ofcourse:
Super Hang-On (Gen), port of a great arcade classic.
-I'm sure there are more.. but I never looked into it.
For shoot 'm up games, in addition to
Soul Star (CD), side-scrolling, vertical, or otherwise:
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Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 (32X).
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Lords of Thunder (CD).
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Elemental Master (Gen).
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Silpheed (CD).
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Sol-Feace (CD) which is a definite upgrade from the earlier-mentioned
Sol-Deace (Gen).
-Be sure to try both
Thunderforce III (Gen) and
Thunderforce IV (Gen). Especially IV is awesome.
-There are loads more for the Genesis, like
Grind Stormer,
MUSHA (Aleste),
Arrowflash, etc.. but there are too many to name for that matter, of which quite a lot are no more than mediocre.
If I recall correctly,
The Adventures of Batman & Robin (CD) had some racing and shoot 'm up elements.
EDIT:
With Sonic CD, I said only Kega Fusion (3.4) emulates it most correctly, but that goes for pretty much all 32X games as well. Actually, it goes for pretty much any Genesis, SegaCD, and 32X game if you take in account the accuracy compared to say, Gens.