The retro scene continues its experiments as the developer of the Castlevania fangame Maria Renard’s Revenge, DomKid, has announced a new project, with the new project being a port of Capcom’s Midnight Wanderers for the Neo Geo.
Midnight Wanderers, was a run ‘n gun platformer that was first released in arcades back in 1991 as part of Capcom’s Three Wonders compilation arcade cabinet that also contained Chariot, a side-scrolling shoot and Don’t Pull, a puzzle game. Midnight Wanderers sees players take control of the hobbits Lou and Siva on a quest to retrieve stolen chariot from a demon’s castle. These games were designed to run on Capcom’s CP-1 hardware and received ports for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in Japan in 1998 from Xing Entertainment, and has since been re-released as part of Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium on modern platforms and PC.
DomKi has stated that the port is being built using Earok’s Scorpion Engine, and will not be a 1 to 1 copy of the original game. Currently, the port features 30 animations for the main player, as well as a fairly basic recreation of the main HUD, but no music or sound effects have been implemented yet. DomKid intends to take the project further, and it will be exciting to see what is to come.
