CD32 Feature

[BubbleMan]

Amiga CD32 feature with special mention to developers that could be bothered to add content to the games rather than just port them across.

[oldtimer]

i never really got into the CD32 stuff, i did have a couple of machines but i think i traded one with shinobi a couple of years ago with the games,

[clarance]

Amiga CD32 feature with special mention to developers that could be bothered to add content to the games rather than just port them across.

Were there any games with added content though? Apart from an upgraded audio track or a nice animated intro, I cant think of anything that was ported from the Amiga that had any meaningful added content. And there were very few exclusives, maybe a handful?

[Megamixer]

I briefly had one but didn't use it much. Couldn't get over how huge the PSU brick was!

Would like to read up on the hardware conception and how such an awful CD drive was used in the final product.

[woody.cool]

Would like to read up on the hardware conception and how such an awful CD drive was used in the final product.

The "double speed" CD drive was pants - I'm sure other CD-based consoles had faster drives !!!!
Despite this, I liked the idea of the CD32, until I realised most of the games were A500 versions ported to CD (yeah, a lot of developers couldn't even be bothered to make AGA versions, just patching the OCS/ECS versions to work on the Kickstart 3.1/2MB CHIP RAM/AGA combo)

[AceGrace]

Nope. Double speed drives were standard at that point.

[Matt_B]

Nope. Double speed drives were standard at that point.

For consoles, certainly. The Saturn and PlayStation certainly have double speed drives, and I'd be surprised if any of the less popular machines of the time had better ones.

You could get some much faster PC ones, but you'd be paying the price of a console for the drive alone.

[woody.cool]

Nope. Double speed drives were standard at that point.

Really? OK! DIdn't realise that.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

The CD32 version of Skeleton Krew had LESS content than the Mega Drive version - it had a somewhat hip-hop-ish soundtrack, but this was at the expense of the extra (gigantic) last boss that the Mega Drive version has.

[David]

Would love a cd32 feature!!!

Man Utd premier league champions on cd32 was the greatest football game ever

Striker on cd32 is the WORST game ever

[rocky1980]

if they do a CD32 feature then you need to talk about the MPEG module, SX1/2, and other stuff like that

[David]

I absolutely loved my cd32 back in the day. Convinced about 4 of my mates to get them for Xmas too.

[sidney]

Another interesting Commodore machine that is lurking just outside the mainstream. I use mine often, maybe in 1993 they were limited gameswise and also costly but in 2015 you can play practically all of the Amiga catalog on it and they are relatively cheap, I wouldn't be without my CD32!

[Seadog74]

Yep, would love an in depth look at the machine. Would be great if they could cover EVERY game as I am still missing a couple....