Joe & Mac [MegaDrive Genesis - Beta / Cancelled?]
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Joe & Mac is a platform game originally released in 1991 for the arcades by Data East. It was later ported for various consoles, as the SNES and Mega Drive / Genesis. Rod_Wod sent us some screens from a version of Joe & Mac for the Mega Drive / Genesis that seems to be different from the released one (a simple port of the Arcade version).
For example the background of this boss from the magazine scan:
Looks different from the one in the final game:
Could those screens in the magazine be from a beta version, or a different / cancelled Joe & Mac? We have not finished the final game, so we are not sure. If you have finished Joe & Mac and recognize those images, please let us know!
Thanks to Rod_Wod for the contribution!
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10 Responses to Joe & Mac [MegaDrive Genesis - Beta / Cancelled?]
John Doom
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:01 pm
In the arcade, dinosaur’s neck (?) is like the one in the first shot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzezyucTIKo&feature=player_detailpage#t=448s
The problem is that doing the neck in that way needed a lot of memory expecially for Graphic. Probably it was too much for the consoles’ versions because they could not handle enough memory size in their’s cartridges.
About the background, IMO they wanted to enhance game’s graphic but it was too much again because of the rom’s size.
Anonymous
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:29 am
I strongly doubt they are Mega Drive shots. The colours and sprite size are easy tell points. Also, the Mega Drive would probably have flicker on that Dino’s neck if it was to use that many sprites in a row.
Yakumo
rod_wod
August 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 am
looking good :)
i think we are missing one pic its a tiny one from a sega pro i think its not worth adding really but i though i would just say..
good work mono :)
monokoma
August 24th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
These screens are still a mistery then, maybe they are from a beta Arcade version? Probably we’ll never know :P
John Doom
August 24th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
If it isn’t the arcade version, probably they are mock pictures showing what they actually wanted to do on MD and SNES.
Dumby
August 24th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
When the beta version looks 10x better than the final version, you can say without a doubt those are mockup screenshot taken from another hardware version, definitively not MD (too many color depth & big sprites)
Dumby
August 24th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Also, just compare with other existing 8Megs games on the Mega Drive…
monokoma
August 26th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Here’s a comparison of the Joe & Mac ports: http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/compaisons%20-%20Joe%20and%20Mac.html
warped022
August 30th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
I think this image was from the Arcade Version. Compare with this image:
http://www.videojuegoblog.com/galleria/big/data-east-classics-01/1
and this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzezyucTIKo (seek to minute 7:30)
if not the same, at least very similar
slop
January 15th, 2012 at 2:15 am
in conclusion the genesis has a perfect processing but the snes doesnt and plus the sprite color is downgraded in genesis but in snes the sprite color is identical to the arcade version the beta version was better than the final one and did you know that the first joe and mac version was ported in nes