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Halloween is upon us once again, and to celebrate the occasion, one developer has released a fan port demo for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis of one of his favourite games, the original Splatterhouse.

Game developer Chris from Monster Bath Games Inc. has been working on an unofficial fanmade port of the original Splatterhouse, which was originally released back in 1988 by Namco for arcades. The game later saw ports to the PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 (albeit with censorship and other modifications), and the rather obscure Japanese exclusive FM Towns Marty console. Other ports came later on, but as far as consoles from the time, only those two received ports of the original game, with the game being absent entirely from the more popular 16-bit consoles of the time, like the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis or Mega Drive.

However, with the current evolution and interest in homebrew and game development for retro consoles, that will change soon, as developer Chris took the opportunity to port over the original Splatterhouse to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, titled "Mega Splatterhouse", while remaining faithful to the original artwork and aesthetic of the original Arcade release.

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This is a fan port of Splatterhouse I've been working on to learn the ropes of Sega Megadrive/Genesis development.

This game will be made free to play on release. For now please enjoy the demo.

Please note that this is a ***WORK IN PROGRESS*** and that what is in this demo is not necessarily the final versions of art, color, sound or music. There may be bugs as well. They will be fixed. There is tuning to be done - it will be done.

***We will not be adding red blood to the game, we will not be adding the cutting room floor sprites/objects/enemies that were not in the final game. We will make adjustments to some things to make it look better with the genesis color palette and will do a few things to show off the genesis abilities over the original game (parallax scrolling etc). ***

The demo for this fanmade port "Mega Splatterhouse" is now available on Itch.io for anyone interested in trying it out.

Mega Splatterhouse on Itch.io
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[SDA]

Well, this is pretty nice. Makes me want to see a port of one my favorite Genesis games, Pulseman, on the SNES.

 

[AmandaRose]

Hey @ShadowOne333 you forgot to put a banner so the story on the front page looks like this.

 

[Xdqwerty]

I never played splatterhouse

 

[AndorfRequissa]

people releasing demo's and not completed works very rarely finish their work. most these people are clout chasing. hopefully im wrong but i doubt this guy will ever finish the game.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Hey @ShadowOne333 you forgot to put a banner so the story on the front page looks like this.

It seems like the site's feature that took YouTube thumbnails from the linked video for the banner images is not working anymore.
I have added it manually, but that's certainly something that could be fixed later on, but I am not sure who is in charge of that.

 

[raxadian]

On one hand this is great on the other the game itself kinda sucks and is hard to go back to play nowadays.

 

[duwen]

I got pretty stoked for this after seeing Sega Lord X's review of the demo last week...

 

[Bladexdsl]

meh id' still rather the mame version it looks so much better

 

[Lostbhoy]

Cam someone please enlighten me as I appear to be suffering a major Mandela effect...

I played splatterhouse on megadrive and snes back int day I'm fucking positive or have they shrooms fucked my reality??

Seriously, I have a memory of playing this, am i wrong?

 

[AmandaRose]

Cam someone please enlighten me as I appear to be suffering a major Mandela effect...

I played splatterhouse on megadrive and snes back int day I'm fucking positive or have they shrooms fucked my reality??

Seriously, I have a memory of playing this, am i wrong?

Nope the first one was never on the Megadrive or SNES.

Splaterhouse 2 was on the Megadrive but again not on the SNES.

Splaterhouse 3 was on the Megadrive but again not on the SNES.

Splaterhouse Remake was on PS3/Xbox 360

Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti a spinoff title was on the nes

 

[Robert Newbie]

Cam someone please enlighten me as I appear to be suffering a major Mandela effect...

I played splatterhouse on megadrive and snes back int day I'm fucking positive or have they shrooms fucked my reality??

Seriously, I have a memory of playing this, am i wrong?

I thought the exact same thing at first, but I think I was just remembering Splatterhouse 2.

people releasing demo's and not completed works very rarely finish their work. most these people are clout chasing. hopefully im wrong but i doubt this guy will ever finish the game.

Spoken like someone that's been part of the scene for a while. I understand this pain well.

I'm not familiar with this dev. If they have a lot of proof of concepts and demos in their portfolio, I'd expect similar results here. The dev(s) did outline goals for the project, as shown in the OP, so hopefully, this is a project meant to reach completion.

That reminds me, I have to see how the Mega Man 4-6 Genesis project is coming along.

 

[AmandaRose]

I thought the exact same thing at first, but I think I was just remembering Splatterhouse 2.


Spoken like someone that's been part of the scene for a while. I understand this pain well.

I'm not familiar with this dev. If they have a lot of proof of concepts and demos in their portfolio, I'd expect similar results here. The dev(s) did outline goals for the project, as shown in the OP, so hopefully, this is a project meant to reach completion.

That reminds me, I have to see how the Mega Man 4-6 Genesis project is coming along.

The Dev behind this port has several games on the Nintendo eShop including the not bad at all Deathwish Enforcer's. Also the awesome arcade game Super Battle Princess Madelyn was by him.

 

[Lostbhoy]

@AmandaRose you are a fountain of knowledge! Thank you, it must obvs be SH2 then I played and no clue about my snes recollection then lol!

Btw that game looks awesome!

Thanks for the extra confirm @Robert Newbie, I thought I was going mad!!

 

[AmandaRose]

@AmandaRose you are a fountain of knowledge! Thank you, it must obvs be SH2 then I played and no clue about my snes recollection then lol!

Thanks for the extra confirm @Robert Newbie, I thought I was going mad!!

Did you ever go to Largs/Ayr when you were young my boyfriend says he remembers playing the arcade game in the arcade in Largs and in Butlins Ayr. Perhaps that's what you played lol.

As for being a fountain of knowledge well I did get banned from my local pub quiz because I won it 15 weeks in a row

 

[AndorfRequissa]

Cam someone please enlighten me as I appear to be suffering a major Mandela effect...

I played splatterhouse on megadrive and snes back int day I'm fucking positive or have they shrooms fucked my reality??

Seriously, I have a memory of playing this, am i wrong?

i played it on sega channel. i remember playing it as a kid but not sure if that is considered a true port when it was the first streaming service for games.

 

[Robert Newbie]

i played it on sega channel. i remember playing it as a kid but not sure if that is considered a true port when it was the first streaming service for games.

Just mentioning the Sega Channel put me back on the Garfield: The Lost Levels track. This time is different because user PZTunleaded posted new video as of September 29, 2024:

The description of the video reads "You'll get to play it sooner or later so don't be a nuisance and/or a menace pls"
Could it be?

Sorry to derail the topic, I just came across this.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Did you ever go to Largs/Ayr when you were young my boyfriend says he remembers playing the arcade game in the arcade in Largs and in Butlins Ayr. Perhaps that's what you played lol.

As for being a fountain of knowledge well I did get banned from my local pub quiz because I won it 15 weeks in a row

Yeah I remember they Arcades very well if not games too well and the one on Rothesay too! Blast from the past lol but you may be exactly right!

 

[AndorfRequissa]

Just mentioning the Sega Channel put me back on the Garfield: The Lost Levels track. This time is different because user PZTunleaded posted new video as of September 29, 2024:

The description of the video reads "You'll get to play it sooner or later so don't be a nuisance and/or a menace pls"
Could it be?

Sorry to derail the topic, I just came across this.

sega channel was such an awesome concept at the time. before online services became obtrusive and full of gatcha purchases. NSO can never compete with what sega channel was. i played garfield when it was on sega channel too. great game it was. hopefully the find is released publicly