Capcom's brilliant 1987 platformer ported to the Sega Mega Drive and Amiga!

Str1der has announced that his ambitious conversion of Capcom’s classic arcade hit, Black Tiger, targeting the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 has been released. Rather than building from scratch, this release is a direct port of the latest Sega Mega Drive/Genesis conversion project hosted on GitHub by Rester159. While Str1der utilized AI tools to significantly accelerate the initial coding and development phase, they emphasized that the transition has been far from automated. Bringing the game to the Amiga has required extensive manual labor, including endless hours of rigorous testing and adapting months of previous foundation work built for their proprietary Shinobi engine.

Original Version by Capcom/US Gold
Arcade Version for Amiga
Sega Mega Drive Port

This migration to a heavily optimized and faster iteration of the Shinobi engine has allowed Str1der to pack the Amiga version with a wealth of custom features. The graphics have been completely remapped to maximize the system's vibrant 32-color palette, giving a fresh visual edge to the horizontal playfield originally designed by Capcom in 1987. Players can look forward to a comprehensive experience featuring an intro, dedicated title screen, an authentic arcade attract mode, custom sound effects, and a fully functional HUD and shop system. The core gameplay looks to remain faithful to the classic arcade game as well, challenging players to guide a lone barbarian through dangerous landscapes while whipping walls for hidden secrets and collecting coins to purchase vital armor upgrades, whip-like weapons, chest keys, and anti-poison potions.

[UPDATE] Glorious news, I've been informed that the Black Tiger Mega Drive to Amiga conversion has been released! Here's what was said " Release full version, both adf complete, all stages in, final sequence too. Playtested multiple times (like 6-7 times) end to end, corrected many bugs, pushed to 32 color limit some stages graphics which were sub-optimal like stage 6. Stages 1-4-5-6-7-8 have their own music. Most sfx in, Bonus cave level has it's own music. End sequence with arcade credits intact from the original as it's only 15 colours, it's own music too. Took many many hours to rip YM2203 music, then figured out to mathematically produce it's sound patterns per channel, instead of ripping MAME sound, then merged/deleted the 2 less active channels to fit in Paula 4 ch.. See/listen the result. Total data packed in 2 disks: 2718 KB (still had 350 Kb free in disk 2), probably can pack around 3,5 mb of any game data in 2 disks. Next: whdload version"

Links :1) Sega Mega Drive Version 2) Amiga EAB 3) AMIGA DOWNLOAD