Street Fighter & Mortal Kombat Snes Vs Genesis

[Y2Jericho]

What versions do you think are better?

I personally think Mortal Kombat on Genesis plays better and for Street Fighter I also prefer the genesis version

[miquell]

I say Genesis for MK. Because of the blood and the music. YES I said it, I prefer the genesis music over the snes because it´s more gritty and dark on the gen. The voices however...

[Zebbe]

Haven't played SNES MK, but I prefer MD SFII because of music and 6-button controller.

[Jesse813]

Both games are better on the Genesis as the SNES pad sucks for fighting games.

[Leathco]

It depends. Graphically, I prefer Street Fighter on the SNES, although it looks great on the Gen as well. I prefer the Gen for Mortal Kombat.

Music, I prefer both SNES. I always liked the SNES sound chip.

Gameplay is a whole different ballpark though. Genesis wins hands down for both IF you are using a 6 button controller. If you are stuck with the 3 button controller though, the edge goes to the SNES.

[Devil N]

What bother me most about the SNES versions of MK2 and MK3 in particular is that they don't feel at all like the arcade versions. It's like the developers used the original games as a basic template and then created their own fighting game around it. Which is basically what happened, I suppose, but seeing how the MD versions do have the authentic arcade feel, I can't help but feel that the SNES versions are lame.

[NeoVamp]

MK1 - Genesis version, the Snes version is a horrible port and just plays.. wrong!

SF2 - Snes, just feels better can't really explain.

MK2 - really difficult to say, Snes looks and sounds nice but the Genesis version has gameplay closer to the Arcade.
But the Genesis version was gutted from all the eye and ear candy, which was always kind of an MK selling point.

[N.Saibot]

UMK3 is better on the Mega Drive, if only because of the Brutalities alone. They look
totally wrong on the SNES version. Since the Brutalities were censored so much, some
Fatalities may have been censored too, not sure though.

In general I prefer the Mega Drive sound effects in every version of Mortal Kombat over
the ones on SNES. The screams, the punches, all sounds better on Sega. The music is
also really good on the Mega Drive. SNES's music seems not that appropriate, but maybe
it's only because I grown up playing the Sega version of Mortal Kombat.

Street Fighter looks nearly identical gameplaywise to me, but I don't play it that much to
begin with. Maybe I'd give the edge here to Mega Drive as well, since the sound effects
seem to be better on the Mega Drive. The 6-button gamepad is of course an important
point here, but afaik you can buy a fighting game stick for the SNES, so it's kind of
evened out.

[Olls]

MK I: Genesis because it plays better, has blood and different music.

MK II: SNES, looks, plays and sounds better.

SF II: SNES because of higher quality port, genny version is faster though if you prefer that.

Funny how people bring up the controller issue, since the SNES also has better controllers available for fighting games.
Also, for any MK game the SNES controller is better since you can block using the shoulder buttons, eliminating the need to take your thumb off the action buttons.

[QuickSciFi]

Gameplay-wise: The Sega Genesis.

...The same goes for all the 16-bit fighters.

[tomaitheous]

SF2: Definitely SNES. Yeah the graphics are better on the SNES, but it's the sound FX that give it to the SNES. It's not that the SNES version had great sound FX, but that the Genesis laryngitis voices really annoyed me. The arcade music compositions are nice, but nothing special about the sound of the chip. Which makes the snes instrument version sound pretty nice IMO. If I had to choose, I'd probably pick most of the SNES sound tracks over the arcade too.

MK <x>: I played this in the arcade, but only as a break from SF2 mania from time to time. I thought the game overall was very gimmicky. The gameplay mechanics definitely took a step back from SF2. For this reason, I never cared to pick up any of the console versions. If the gore and fatalities were missing for any snes port, then I could definitely see that as the lesser port (because those attributes made up a majority of the experience).

I find the comment about the controllers pretty funnier and irrelevant too. It's not like 3rd party controllers didn't exist for either system. Why would you judge the merits of a game based on a controller bundled with the console? Absurd. It doesn't 'devalue' a game because the stock controller isn't prime for said game. Unless of course there was no other option.

[Mista_Ed]

...the SNES pad sucks for fighting games....

no way dood!!!

the standard snes pad is wayyy better than any of the megadrive pads - PERFECT for fighting games!!

i guess youre not a 'shoulder' button lover?

[N.Saibot]

MK I: Genesis because it plays better, has blood and different music.

MK II: SNES, looks, plays and sounds better.

SF II: SNES because of higher quality port, genny version is faster though if you prefer that.

Funny how people bring up the controller issue, since the SNES also has better controllers available for fighting games.
Also, for any MK game the SNES controller is better since you can block using the shoulder buttons, eliminating the need to take your thumb off the action buttons.

Yeah, right, try doing the full Liu Kang combo, or any of the Brutalities and it won't
annoy you at all that the block button is not in the right place. Also making the freeze
move with Sub-Zero is not clumsy at all when you have no diagonals.

Maybe you never noticed, but with the Sega pad you don't have to push down,
forward, A. You just push a diagonal, then A. This is also true for any other
combination that requires you to push down and some direction afterwards. Much
easier (and faster) to do with the Sega pad.

[Y2Jericho]

no way dood!!!

the standard snes pad is wayyy better than any of the megadrive pads - PERFECT for fighting games!!

i guess youre not a 'shoulder' button lover?

But the 6 button genesis controller is perfect for street fighter 2 and for all the other fighting games but personally I use my mega drive arcade stick

[PimpUigi]

Genesis MK1
32X MK2
Genesis MK3/UMK3
Genesis Street Fighter 2
Genesis Super Street Fighter 2

All assuming a 6 button controller.
Genesis got the best version of all of those fighting games...except MK2

32X MK2 plays better, but SNES MK2 is the real deal, the version to get.
It's 95% complete, where as the 32X version was only about 65% complete.

32X misses out on art for the endings, and many Shao Kahn voice effects.

SNES misses out on half of the stage background, as they're mirrored to save memory.



If anyone wants me to go in depth as to more differences, such as SSF2, SF2, etc.
Just PM me, because this board has heard it a million times already.