MSX easier to emulate than C64?
I just could not resist. 
Well done, NYYRIKKI !!!! 
C64 users don't even know Almost Real, Unknown Reality and other great MSX demos !!!!
oh, but there's a lot we don't know about them either 
I think the C64 community is a lot bigger than the MSX one. Well, outside of Japan, at least
But that doesn't really matter, does it? Anyway, the fact they notice this OCM; I'd say the MSX community should take it as a compliment.
Make retro games, not war
C64 and MSX can't really be put on one and the same scale.. on some points the c64 is a mile ahead, on other points the msx is a mile ahead. while the C64 has the SID and the standard MSX1/2 only the PSG, the soundextensions do count, and on that point MSX wins big time. GFX/game-wise, the MSX wins as long things are not moving too much in non-MSX ways. There's no way a C64 can match games like Usas, SD-Snatcher, Fray, etc. But otoh there's no way an MSX can match some c64 demos (wolf3d with moving fractals on the walls, all on a 1mhz cpu, anyone?) on things that aren't available in the VDP. With that I mean that the MSX2 is fast when it comes to vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling in limited number of situations, vertical stretching, horizontal waving, page-cycling, color-cycling etc., all functionality of the VDP. But if an effect requires something that isn't available as VDP-effect, then the C64 usually wins.
So, which is better, I dunno. Let's at least say that I'd appreciate it when a few low-res modes will be injected into the OCM, for ex, 160x160 with chars based on 4x8 pixels, where each pixel has its own color. Ideal for 'moving' things.. MSX is currently only better in showing things that don't move a lot according to non-VDP..
Even the c64-msx2 comparison is tricky tho. Have a look at some C64 demos first
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