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Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? (kbin.run)
submitted 2 months ago by Eggyhead@kbin.run to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I’m putting a lot of my old games on my steam deck by buying their PC ports whenever they go on sale.

It got me wondering, is anyone aware of games where it’s actually better to run the console version through an emulator than play the native PC version?

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[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

The original port of devil may cry 3 was a disaster. The only way a lot of people could get it to run at over 5fps was by deleting all music from the folder.

The port of the devil may cry hd edition (dmc 1-3) also had its issues. Especially for dmc 1, where quite a few visual and audio effects werent implemented correctly, or sometimes at all