danmaku said:
Oh no, it will. If the game runs faster it's much more difficult to avoid bullets and you will be forced to take less risks during a scoring run. Usually less risk means lower scores. This doesn't mean much to the average player, but if you want to compete with japanese top players, you need to play the "proper" version (the arcade one or a faithful port), an american "high speed" version is totally useless.
Of course if the game is like 90% accurate, it's perfectly fair to compare scores. Death Smiles US is an extreme example of what shouldn't be done in a port, usually the accuracy is much better.
I wouldn't compare scores of the 360 versions to the arcade, period. Think King of Kong here.
The King of Kong players play on 100% true PCB's. If you are taking the games that serious, PCB is the only way to go, no other score IMO would be legitimate. Even if there is a 1% difference in the slowdown, that's too much of a difference if you are talking true, world record scoring against the top Japanese players in arcades (if that is your aim). Your scoring potential is not compromised on 360, because your aim should be that 360 leaderboard and not top Japanese scores, they are playing a different game. 10% difference is pretty big when you are talking about this level of gameplay.
Since it is very difficult if not impossible to do 100% ports, since some of the slowdown is not intentional but caused by the SH3 (or whatever it's called) that the originals run on, we will never have 100% true ports.
That's why when I play Death Smiles, I have no problem with the HD version, even if it's a little less accurate. In my eyes, you keep the scores of 360 Mode totally seperate from Arcade mode or a PCB.
So, in my eyes even a 75% accurate game might as well be 100%, it's just a new version of the same game anyway. Arcade accuracy is great, but considering it's next to impossible, people shouldn't be so worried and dismiss a port even though it's a little off accuracy wise. Less slowdown does not equate to bad, it equates to different which is what these ports are by default. Just play it for what it is, and compare your scores to other 360 players, just like the Japanese would to each other in an arcade. You aren't playing a worse version, you are playing a different version. This is the key understanding that I am trying to get across.
80% accurate vs. 90% accurate - it simply doesn't matter,
because the point is it's inaccurate, and because of that, if you are truly interested in getting a high score to compete with the top Japanese arcade players, King of Kong style you need the PCB!
The 360 ports are really a dream come true for us. We have a global leaderboard to compare and compete with, superplays at the touch of a button, you don't have to worry about pumping 100 yen each play to master the games, and you have highly improved graphics. The only trade off is that you don't get to play in a true arcade. Nothing can match the atmosphere and draw of a real arcade.
Sorry if that was long winded.
