Hmmm ... about Sunsetriders 3rd boss ... am I mistaken?

[NorseChief]

Back when I was a kid, I remember playing this game in the arcade with a friend and the thing is, I remember the 3rd boss (the Dark Horse guy) differently to how he is in the MAME roms.

Instead of merely running up and down and shooting at you, I have a vivid memory of this boss jumping up to different levels of the building and chasing you.

I remember that I constantly had to jump up to higher ground to evade him. You couldn't just camp on the upper floor and shoot at him like you do in all the other MAME versions. I also remember something like the floors collapsing as he was climbing higher and higher after you. He was much harder than he is now! Wtf?

Can anybody tell me if there is such an arcade Sunsetriders version where the 3rd boss is like this? If so, could it perhaps be named differently?

Another possibility I had in mind is that the game is not emulated exactly like it is in the arcade and that is perhaps why this boss was so different.

I also thought that perhaps there could have been a slightly different asian/japanese/european/uk version that isn't supported by MAME.

Am I the only one who remembers this boss differently or do you think I dreamed this whole thing up somehow? If that is the case then wow, that ought to be one hell of a potent dream. I am so confused

Thanks for your help!

[leon_belmont]

Well i remember the third boss jumping too ,but not floor collapsing.

[Epsi]

i remember playing sunsetriders on sega... maybe get thes rom and verify? id imagine the boss would behave the same

[NorseChief]

The sega genesis version does not have Dark Horse in it.

The snes version is very similar to the arcade version.

I was wondering if perhaps there is another arcade version of Sunset Riders that has not been emulated by MAME yet. I was thinking something like Capcom Sunset Riders, Neo Sunset Riders, etc.

I am so confused because I know for a fact that I played a Sunset Riders game in the arcade where the Dark Horse boss, or some other boss similar to him, was different to the version emulated by MAME.

I just wish I could put that question to rest in my mind and find out once and for all why on earth I saw that boss in Sunset Riders and where I can find the version that featured this.

Another possibility I had in mind is that this game could have been some sort of hacked version. But then why on earth would a hacked version be emulated in the arcade?

[Epsi]

can always check out Maws

mayb you played Sunset Riders (bootleg of Megadrive version)

[NorseChief]

Thanks, I will check that one out. Could actually be the game that I played

Do you know perhaps if that game also features the Dark Horse boss?

EDIT:

Hmmm, that rom does not appear to be fully emulated at the moment. It would be cool if I could play it to see if it was the game :P

[Epsi]

well yea. the rom was only added in Mame 0.132u4 thats less than a month ago.

But since its the megadrive bootleg, i gues its the same rom used by the sega game.