Nintendo Vs. Game Differences from NES and PC10

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Wanted to start a thread with a comprehensive list of known VS. games and the actual differences between the NES and Playchoice counterparts.

Vs. Super Mario - Items are in different locations. Difficulty

Vs. Castlevania - I believe the Playchoice one is the same as the Vs. set to the Medium Difficulty. Some Color Differences.

Vs. Excitebike - Frizz knows this one.

Vs. RBI - I think Jow can fill this one out best.

I don't have a good grasp on the Vs. games and how they compare, anyone want to help expand or correct the ones I listed?

What about Dr. Mario, Ice Climber, Gradius, Goonies, etc?
 
NES Balloon Fight = good

VS Balloon Fight = awesome

VS BF has vertically scrolling levels, NES BF doesn't. NES BF allows you to just hold down one of the buttons to flap your arms repeatedly but that option does not exist on VS version.
 
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In vs. castlevania, the timer is way shorter than the new console version and you take double the damage. All the items and stages are the same.
 
Goonies was never released on the NES but was released on the Famicom and the PC-10. I believe they are all the same. Goonies II was on the NES.

SMB has the lost levels in it. These can be found on the SNES Mario Super Stars Cart.

Balloon Fight is way more vertical.

AFAIK, Ice Climber is the same as the NES.

Duck Hunt supposedly has enhanced graphics/colors over the NES. I read this somewhere.

Vs. Wrecking Crew is very different than the NES version - levels are totally different. The NES version has a level editor.

Dr. Mario is pretty much the same as the NES.

Overall, most games are similar or have minor differences. But it's hard to say without playing each one side by side. Besides the obvious ones, some of the differences are trivial I think. I hope we can come up with a ton of great collective info and compile it here. I'll add it to my site. Good idea!

List of most available games:

http://www.johnsarcade.com/nintendo_vs_ppu_info.php
 
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Vs Duck Hunt : You can shoot the dog. Yes, John, colors are enhanced. NES or PC-10? No.

Vs Hogan's Alley: The idea is the same but they streamline it here. Instead of choosing Option A, B, or C like the PC-10, you get all 3 at once. For example: You start the first 5 rounds in the gallery, then the next 5 in the yard, the next 5 at the trick shots. Great cut scenes after that. The PC-10 you would choose options A, B, or C and play only one of those choices, until you get sick of it.
 
RBI you ask?

NES (PC-10) v Vs RBI

NES (PC-10) - Teams are made up of the 8 Playoff teams from '86, along with 2 All Star teams. Players are from the '86 season only.

Vs RBI - made up of 10 dream teams (both legends and current players from those teams (up till '86 I do believe)

No errors in Vs RBI, while you have errors in the PC-10 Version

Flyballs in the Arcade version are much higher, and go much farther thus resulting in many more home runs in the Vs version (yes, I have played both enough to confirm this).

Vs RBI has a timer when it comes to substitutions. I would say this is obviously because the game was public based, and took quarters.
You can pause the PC-10 version all day long.

Vs RBI has the "instant ending" feature. No matter what point in the game (could be the 1st inning) as soon as you fall behind, your game is over.
PC-10 does not do this.

No extra innings in Vs. RBI. If the game is tied after the 9th, its ovah.

Both have 10 run mercy rules as well. As soon as you are up 10, done.

I have also heard (and read) that the gameplay of the arcade is slightly faster? I have never noticed it though.

Vs RBI > PC-10/NES RBI -- IMO.

That is all.
 
Vs Duck Hunt : You can shoot the dog.

Wow, that right there makes it worth owning. What happens when you shoot him? It seems like EVERYBODY who plays NES Duck Hunt invariably shoots at the dog...even if they've been playing the game for 20 years and already know nothing happens.. they just want to be ABLE to shoot the dog. I hate that stupid dog.

-Adam
 
Vs. Excitebike:

• The colors are different, which is a given in all cases because the Vs. hardware used a different palette than the NES.

• There is no level editor/designer.

• The intermission scenes have better graphics (larger, more detailed sprites), plus there are additional intermission screens, and the ranking platform shows 5 positions rather than 3. It also has you put in your initials when you have a record time.

• There is an attract mode which says "Insert Coin", scrolls through the record times and scores, and gives a game playing demonstration with visual instructions (the NES's attract mode consists of toggling between a playing demonstration with no visual instructions and the static game selection screen).

• There is no option to choose selection A (race alone) or B (race against other riders). All games start with a qualifying race consisting of one lap on the track alone. If you qualify then you race the same track against other riders, for 2 laps.

• You can select tracks 1-3 to start on (the NES version allows you to select tracks 1-5 to start on).
 
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what Vs. Duck Hunt does when you shoot the dog. :)

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Vs. Baseball and Vs. Tennis (when played on a Vs. DualSystem) allows both players to play on their own screen allowing for different angles, for instance, the pitching team in Vs. Baseball is shown from the outfield view instead of home plate. Vs. Baseball plays via a timer system, when you score, you earn more timer points, and if you mess up, it makes a hilarious sound while your timer ticks off gobs of points.

in Vs. Tennis's case, on either side, your player is viewed from the bottom on both screens.

by comparison, the PC-10 versions are limited to 1 screen and play like the ordinary NES versions. there are no changes between Baseball that I know of between the PC-10 and NES versions. Tennis... I have not played the NES version in almost 18 years now, it's a distant memory.

Vs. Baseball and Vs. Tennis, to my understanding, were the only 2 games made to utilize both sides of a Vs. DualSystem for playing 1 game.


and since I've been playing tons of it lately...

Mike Tyson's Punch Out on PC-10 has 1 modification that I know of, which was done so that the game doesn't gyp you out of time, and that's when you win a title match and Doc Louis is on the bike and Little Mac is jogging, it doesn't play the whole intermission sequence, instead, as soon as it comes on, the Pass Key box pops up.

and I tried the "Another World Circuit" code about 8 times today. I've done it before on my NES, but I think it doesn't work in the PC-10 one.
 

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vs SMB the 1up is a flower, coin box is missing, and the level is missing the last 2 bricks on 1-2 that allow you to get to minus world (-1)

2-4 is missing the platform above bowser. 3-2 is way more difficult than the nes version.

the farther it gets the less its like the nes version. all kinds of stuff is missing or moved around.
 
Vs. Baseball and Vs. Tennis, to my understanding, were the only 2 games made to utilize both sides of a Vs. DualSystem for playing 1 game.

VS. Wrecking Crew and VS. Balloon Fight also utilize both screens on a dualsystem.
 
Vs. SMB may have some of the levels in "The Lost Levels", but it isn't "The Lost Levels". The Lost Levels is the original Super Mario Bros. 2 only released in Japan on the Famicom.

Vs. Duck Hunt - I wish I could find the link from yesterday, but I found a really good description of the differences. Mainly how the levels are, bonus, and you can shoot the dog. I don't undestand the enhanced colors part though. What's enhanced?

RBI - I don't think there is a version of RBI released on the Playchoice. I believe they were going to, but didn't due to the Nintendo Atari thing.
 
So far there is mostly good information in this thread. Would be nice if blkdog7 can post the factual differences between the 2 to include on his site.
 
RBI - I don't think there is a version of RBI released on the Playchoice. I believe they were going to, but didn't due to the Nintendo Atari thing.

There was a Playchoice version, licensed by Tengen (I think).
 
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