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[Idioteque]

I really wanna get this game.

For those of you who have played both, which is better?

 

[teiresias]

I totally read the title as Tekken 2k2 and was like, "Whaaaa???"

 

[dark10x]

DC version.

The PS2 version was a quick port and the image quality was crap.

 

[Gek54]

PS2 version for MUCH faster loadtimes.

 

[M3wThr33]

Every time you'll get a loading screen in the DC version you'll think to yourself "Damn, more time wasted. How much worse DOES the PS2 version look?"

 

[dark10x]

Hmm, I've only briefly tried it on PS2 so I never encountered loading. I didn't realize it was so improved in that regard.

They both look virtually the same, it's just that the PS2 version is field rendered (which equals teh jaggies).

 

[segasonic]

Dreamcast

PS2 version has jaggies all over the place

 

[Beer Monkey]

480p on the DC. 480i on the PS2. Half the temporal resolution on a 60fps game is VERY noticeable. You do the math. If you have an HDTV or VGA, don't even consider the PS2 version.

 

[dark10x]

If you have an HDTV or VGA, don't even consider the PS2 version.

To be fair, field rendered games actually look suprisingly great when running through a good scaler. The scaler on my set actually manages to make field rendered games appear almost as sharp as some 480p titles.

 

[Brandon F]

Would anyone recommend the last Smash Court tennis game? I hear you can play as Soul Calibur characters.

 

[Gek54]

Jaggies are not THAT bad, but the loading time is VERY annoying on the DC, especially when training which you do 80% of the time.

 

[Gek54]

Would anyone recommend the last Smash Court tennis game? I hear you can play as Soul Calibur characters.

Smash Court 2 is as good and better than Sega Tennis 2k2. I dont know about the Soul Calibur characters. Smash Court 2 is a little more technical and requires a little more skill.

 

[Fafalada]

Would anyone recommend the last Smash Court tennis game?

Yeah, I still rate it as the best tennis on PS2.
And at least two unlockable characters are from SoulCalibur (IIRC the Italian guy and the Korean girl? sorry I'm bad with fighting game character names).

 

[John Harker]

Dreamcast!

Virtua Tennis was like crack back in the day.
I miss those easy going gaming days ::sigh::

 

[segasonic]

Smash Court 2 is as good and better than Sega Tennis 2k2.

:lol

 

[dark10x]

How about VT on PSP? Could be the best version of the game.

 

[Fafalada]

Oh crap I thought you were talking about TopSpin PS2 for a moment ...

Anyway, PSP version of VT should be great, I can't wait.

 

[Gek54]

:lol

More fluid and realistic animations, better control, better graphics. Tennis 2k2 practically hits the ball for you, tennis game for babies in comparison.

 

[Brandon F]

Oh what the hell, how does Mario Tennis GC fit into the equation? I recall the Gamespot review quoting it as the best console tennis game currently available or something similar.

 

[Lazy8s]

For Virtua Tennis/Tennis 2K2 graphically, DC/NAOMI > PS2 > PSP.

The PSP replicates the realistically fluid animation and therefore has the overall impression of the console versions, yet most of the graphical aspects have still incurred some downgrading compared to the DC. Objects, like the players, are modeled with less geometry, shadowing is more pixelated from a lower proportional resolution, texture quality on the characters and the environment is reduced, and the image quality is rougher in ways like not having anti-aliasing to counteract the PSP's lower display resolution.

 

[dark10x]

For Virtua Tennis/Tennis 2K2 graphically, DC/NAOMI > PS2 > PSP.

The PSP replicates the realistically fluid animation and therefore has the overall impression of the console versions, yet most of the graphical aspects have still incurred some downgrading compared to the DC. Objects, like the players, are modeled with less geometry, shadowing is more pixelated from a lower proportional resolution, texture quality on the characters and the environment is reduced, and the image quality is rougher in ways like not having anti-aliasing to counteract the PSP's lower display resolution.

What the hell are you basing that on? You can't make those judgements based on screens (aliasing, shadows, etc. are not as the screen would suggest)

Why must you continue to speak of things you know little of?

Hell, it's not as if the models are good in any version...

You are probably basing your shadow comments on a certain screenshot we recently saw. Very foolish.

 

[mrklaw]

What the hell are you basing that on?

PSP doesn't have a PowerVR chip in it.

 

[dark10x]

PSP doesn't have a PowerVR chip in it.

Ah, of course.

It still amazes me that he constantly posts about things he's never actually tried...

 

[Raytow]

IMO Lazy8s probably posts from a psychiatric ward, that would explain his delusions and all...

 

[Lazy8s]

Graphical definition can be retained on a lower resolution screen and does not have to succumb to so much aliasing if the image is rendered at a higher resolution internally before scaling down to the output. For reference, the Dreamcast's version of Virtua Tennis at a small size:

 

[Fafalada]

texture quality on the characters and the environment is reduced

That's a natural result of rendering for a smaller screen.
Unless textures were already very low-res on console version, you'll want to reduce them for the small screen.

 

[Lazy8s]

Texture quality is more than just resolution, and texture resolution would've had to have stayed in proportion to the image resolution for the downscaling to have just been a natural effect.

 

[dark10x]

We just have to remember that Lazy is basing everything on artifacted screen shots that do not properly represent VT on PSP.

That's why his posts are so flawed (well, one of MANY reasons).

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Lindberg has Nvidia in it ROFL!