The (Not As) Many Ports of Earthworm Jim 2 | Retro Rampage

Lorenzo's Soil is the reason I didn't beat this game on my PS1 as a kid, not because it was difficult, well not just because it was difficult, but because the skeletons along with the music and the darkness terrified me. I would have played on if I had one of the 16-bit versions, because they aren't scary, at least not in this level.

Puppy Love is why I play the game on easy mode. It ends after 3 rounds instead of 4.

I own the japanese Sega Saturn version...cool game but i much prefer the original one over this...that chip buddy at the end looked different than the one at the beginning, ahahah...more tomato...less fries xD

This is fantastic, I loved how the Earthworm Jim games took advantage of different hardware! I hope this guy does more reviews of console ports.

I had the Playstation port as a kid, so it's great to hear I grew up with the best version. Played through the Genesis version on Nintendo Wii a little while ago, and I could swear something was different! ...and now I know why. But... was somebody else freaked out by the naked salamander stage in their younger years!? I always felt really creeped out whenever I played it, and the quiz meister at the end was so scary to me that I almost stopped playing the game. I would just close my eyes and answer the questions blindly until I passed that sequence.

Now it's on NSO.

I really like this game, besides I can only get a chance to play it on the snes service on Nintendo switch, yeah you heard it right: this game is even in that service, but anyway, I made far til puppy love 2, and overall it only had two faults in my opinion:
1: you were true about the puppy love part in the first review: sometimes I lose many puppies that I have to rewind
2: I may be not addicted to the snott swing, but that life in anything but tangerines is straight up stupid

every day I want Jim in Fortnite.
the suit could use Jim himself as the pickaxe.
snot, the glider
his backpack holding snot, backbling.
various weapons could easily be added, for example----Iron Man's Unibean = the Plasma shot lol

Have you ever tried the nes bootlegs of 1 and 2?

There's one more version of this game... the EVERCADE VERSION!

Oh wow XD this review says some of what I said in my own review of the game, even some things about the different versions of the game. Yeah, Jim 2 is always an iffy case to me because, while I like it, it's nowhere near as fun as the first one to me. I think I described it in my review as "the first game is more fun to play while the second one is more fun to watch" when I got to 2 (was covering both games in that review) due to the improved animation quality and stuff =)

In Puppy Love, you can press one of the buttons to make Jim dive to catch puppies too far to catch normally. There's also another button to turn Jim around to catch puppies right behind him.

Super Nintendo version sucks! It's like you all conspired to praise her. Music on sega is the best, graphics on sega is the best! Just look at Jim in the dog love level, on the sega it's more detailed and sharper animation, and the proportions of the houses on this level are more correct, while on snes the proportions are not logical. On snes, the level in the caecum is not beautiful, there are a lot of crooked sprites, the color palette is boring when on sega the colors are bright, expressive. In the TV show, the presentation itself is better on sege. The second level on snes is completely buggy! He digs the ground incorrectly, the ground is digging in pieces of glitches. The very resolution of the game on snes is several times smaller than on sega. On the level king of the sky on snes, if you fly to the end of the level without a ball, there will be no boss! And the animation itself of the fall of the slug on snes is not complete in both animation and voice acting, and only on sega this moment is complete. On the sega level in the cecum, you can go without bursting a single lamb, on snes it is not possible to do this. You can go to the second level on sega by digging up all the ground on the level, this moment is thought out on sega, not on snes. The continue animation is the best on this one. Before the start of the level, the splash screen in the sega version plays music, but it doesn't. Sega has many unique hidden walkers that are not in the snes version. For example, you knew that the first level on the shoga can be passed in a circle as many times as you like! It's fun, on sega every level is unique and special, every level has a lot of fun, which can't be said about the snes version. The last level on sega is subjectively better. There are more cheat codes on this one. Only the sega version has a shield. The version on sega is generally prettier and exciting, I'm not talking about an erection, but about the emotional excitement that the game on sega causes in children. The version on snes objects is much worse, a pathetic copy of the original version on SEGA GENESIS❤

TIL that Primanti's specializes in Chip Buddys

Where can you buy a chip butty?

I find it more beautiful, easier and funnier than the first one. I have it on PC, I don't know which is the best version.

That Saturn soundtrack

MAN IT’S SO GOOD!!

I have Jim 1 and 2 on the Gensis Online and Super Nintendo Online for my Switch accordingly. Good times!

Man, never know about shield move! Спасибо!)

Weird how they cut Lorenzen's Soil from the DOS version, there really is no reason for the level to be missing other than they were crunched for time and programming the sand physics would've taken too long. Either way, it's a shame that one of the best levels in the game was cut, yet all three Puppy Love levels remained intact.

you can get the saturn's soundtrack on the snes version with the use of msu-1 patches

This and the video on the first game are… Grooovy!

I could switch weapons in the snes version

My favorite is (PS1)(SEGA SATURN)

It's especially weird that they didn't have the ability to switch weapons in the Genesis version, since... well, other games figured out how to do this without the 6-button controller. Like Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - lightly tap Start to switch weapons, hold it to pause the game. EWJ2 on the Genesis should've had the same deal.

Lorenzo’s Oil was probably cause TenNapel and co. left Shiny after EWJ2’s release

Well done 👍

I never minded puppy love (I sort of like it honestly). I really really don't like The Flying King tho.

Thank you so much for also reviewing and doing Earthworm Jim 2 awesome you were able to do both games 🤎🤎🤎

Let’s hope Jim really makes a comeback been missing him for some years now 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

Does the Saturn version have long load times?

funny how they called it "totally forked"... what is it with earthworm jim and making puns of swears???? lol

There is also 3 nes versions that are unofficial and here are what they are:
The first one was by a taiwanese development team known as "Shin-Shin" which were ex-developers from a taiwanese company known as "Sachen" and it only has 4 levels that being "Anything but Tangerines" "Puppy Love (Part 1 only)" "Lorenzo's Soil (No soil at all)" and "Udderly Adducted" but my rom of it does not have lorenzo's soil in it and this port only has 2 guns that being that the "Plasma Gun" obviously and the "Finger Gun" you have to select between weapons to whip due to the nes only having 2 action buttons and this version had passwords and parts of the stages are separated into different levels due to limitations and also there is no snott backpack and also this port was published by yet a other taiwanese developer that being "Ka Sheng".
The second one was by a taiwanese development team known as "Super Game" which actually is a division of a taiwanese developer that being "Realtec" and this port has 7 levels that being "Anything but Tangerines" "Inflated Head" "Puppy Love Part 1 and 2" "The Ville People" "The Flyin' King" and across we have "Udderly Adducted" and jim can not whip and you have infinite ammo in it and you only have the plasma blaster though you have the snott backpack the physics in this port are very bad with a very awful hurtbox but the music slaps but isn't faithful to the original but interestingly it uses the konami sound engine and it is missing the "Well done" screen and when the game ends it just resets for some reason and also it has no options menu so like your not going to know the controls at first but we are not dumb we know how controls are in nes games and that is what I can say with this port.
The third one was by a chinese development team known as "Waixing" though this port is known as "Happy Biqi 3 - World Fighter" and I don't know much about it rather than it literally replacing most of the characters with more generic ones and you now play as a boy named "Biqi" and it's just the worst of the worst the music is not the same (Except for puppy love) and the sprites are butt ugly I can't say more of those it just exists though it is the only port to include "See jim run, Run jim run" and that really is all.

The hell? I had no idea the shield existed...

You tell me that the first oje was meant to be Genesis exclusive, and LESS THAN A MONTH they regret? Man, not even Dreamcast.

The Saturn and playstation had worse collision , enemy and bosses doesn't bounce back when shot making the game harder, in the other hand the SNES version has a MSU patch with the Redbook music making it probably the best version to play.

I just watched and enjoyed your two Earthworm Jim videos but was bummed to see you didn't do one on 3d. Give the people what we want, there are dozens of us!!

I was looking for which version to play and this was incredibly helpful. Sounds like the DOS version is best (updated soundtrack without the weird Saturn backgrounds) excluding the missing second level, think I'll play that and just play the Genesis version separately up to Lorenzon's Soil.

Holy Sheetz! You live in a blessed region.

Saturn and dos are the definitive versions and snes is the best handheld entry

I feel so dumb. For decades I didn't understand why a the homing missile was a house. It wasn't until I heard you say it out loud that I realized it's "home-ing"

I couldn’t imagine being a young kid and playing puppy love and watching puppies fall the the ground and die that would give me nightmares

Depending on the Difficulty, you have to complete either 3 (easy), 4 (normal) or 5 (difficult) rounds of Puppy Love. On top of that, if you picked Difficult, take care to pay attention, as Psy-Crow will counter the bombs thrown by Peter.
Oh, and if the cows explode in Udderly Abducted, it's an instant kill. Regardless of difficulty. You're welcome.

Where is bootleg EWJ2 for NES?))