DEFINITIVE VERSION: DUNE

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If you'd like to experience absolute peak 90s in video game form. I highly recommend you immediately find a way to play Earthworm Jim 2.

RELEASES

GENESIS - 1995

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PROS: Solid gameplay, least buggy experience.
CONS: Can't change weapons. Lower resolution graphics [320×224]

SNES - 1995

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PROS: Better graphics and audio than the genesis version, ability to change weapons
CONS: More bugs than the Genesis version.

SEGA SATURN - 1996

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PROS: Higher res graphics, new or upgraded parallax backgrounds, far batter audio especially the soundtrack. Additional voice clips.
CONS: Very strange 3D rendered title cards between levels.

PLAYSTATION - 1996

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PROS: Slightly higher soundtrack bitrate.
CONS: Same issues, and longer load times than the Saturn version.

DOS - 1996

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PROS: Uncompressed audio, and highest resolution graphics. Original level title cards.
CONS: Missing level “Lorenzo's Soil”
NOTES Although the graphics have been upgraded the new backgrounds from the disc versions were not implemented.

GAME BOY ADVANCE - 2002

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PROS: Possibly none?
CONS: Poor graphics and audio, glitches and bugs throughout. Seemingly unfinished.

DIGITAL - 20XX

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NOTES These are simply emulators playing other versions of the game depending on the platform.

NOTABLE DIFFERENCES

GRAPHICS

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Earthworm Jim 2 graphics compared.1) GBA how you gon' do my boy like that?

DEFINITIVE VERSION

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I was surprised to find so many subtle differences when researching Earthworm Jim 2's Definitive Version. It was a close race, but the Sega Saturn barely edged out the competition here with it's upgrades over the original 16-bit releases, in combination with its minor advantages in load times and parallax backgrounds when compared to its PS1 counterpart.

Some would say the original PC/DOS version is truly the definitive version of Earthworm Jim 2 however its omission of the “Lorenzo's Soil” level makes it a no from me dawg.

SUPPLEMENTAL

VIDEOS


CODES & GUIDES

Yeah yeah yeah, I'll get back to ya.


CITATIONS

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GoG62wH7OUw