Well I'm bummed! Just got this and the emulation is indeed dodgy. I've only played Guerrilla Wars (arcade) so far, and it not only has really annoying screen tearing that was not in the original game, but there is NO PORTRAIT / TATE MODE!!!! In my opinion emulated retro games like this live or die by how well they nail the basics. And the real tragedy was that they went to such great lengths to add some really cool features, like converting rotary controls to dual-joystick... but they just didn't nail the foundation.
UPDATE!! You have to be in handheld mode for the screen rotation option to appear in the main menu. So computer monitor users are out of luck. I own a lot of vertically-oriented Switch games (Pinball FX3, all the Psikyo games, Ikaruga, Namco Museum, etc, and this is the only one that requires being in handheld mode.
Does anyone know if Knights of the Round has a control option for a "block button"? The SNES version had a block button that made the game a lot more enjoyable. I've always hoped Capcom would add an option for that when they got around to re-releasing the arcade version.
@Jazzem I was wondering the same thing. Poorly implemented scanlines are a deal breaker for me. Some emulated games, like the Psikyo/Zerodiv titles have excellent scanline filters... It's too bad that not all emulated releases were up to that level. I really wish there were some good pictures of the filters online, so I could see what we're dealing with.
Not only that, but being unable to map buttons to 3P and 3K is a big step backwards in my opinion. Trying to press 2 face buttons and a shoulder button simultaneously is no fun! Even with a 6-button pad like a Fighting Commander, one expects to be able to use shoulder buttons for 3P and 3K. Every other Capcom home console fighting release I can think of has had this - starting with the PS1 Street Fighter Collection discs from the 90's. Hopefully the multi-button mapping is added in a future update.
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Well I'm bummed! Just got this and the emulation is indeed dodgy. I've only played Guerrilla Wars (arcade) so far, and it not only has really annoying screen tearing that was not in the original game, but there is NO PORTRAIT / TATE MODE!!!! In my opinion emulated retro games like this live or die by how well they nail the basics. And the real tragedy was that they went to such great lengths to add some really cool features, like converting rotary controls to dual-joystick... but they just didn't nail the foundation.
UPDATE!! You have to be in handheld mode for the screen rotation option to appear in the main menu. So computer monitor users are out of luck. I own a lot of vertically-oriented Switch games (Pinball FX3, all the Psikyo games, Ikaruga, Namco Museum, etc, and this is the only one that requires being in handheld mode.
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Does anyone know if Knights of the Round has a control option for a "block button"? The SNES version had a block button that made the game a lot more enjoyable. I've always hoped Capcom would add an option for that when they got around to re-releasing the arcade version.
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@Jazzem I was wondering the same thing. Poorly implemented scanlines are a deal breaker for me. Some emulated games, like the Psikyo/Zerodiv titles have excellent scanline filters... It's too bad that not all emulated releases were up to that level. I really wish there were some good pictures of the filters online, so I could see what we're dealing with.
Not only that, but being unable to map buttons to 3P and 3K is a big step backwards in my opinion. Trying to press 2 face buttons and a shoulder button simultaneously is no fun! Even with a 6-button pad like a Fighting Commander, one expects to be able to use shoulder buttons for 3P and 3K. Every other Capcom home console fighting release I can think of has had this - starting with the PS1 Street Fighter Collection discs from the 90's. Hopefully the multi-button mapping is added in a future update.