It’s cool to see that in 2014 there are so many porting for MSX Games. It’s curious to see that there are 2 different philosophy: 1) Porting from Z80 family as SPECTRUM and AMSTRAD and 2) Remake of 16bit-like games.
Family n° 1 is the biggest part, because porting code from other Z80 machine is easier. This was the standard of a lot of software houses in 80’s, when MSX GAMES = SPECTRUM GAMES. But we know instead that MSX has better features. Nowadays a lot of coders use this philosophy to port games.
Family n° 2 is a small group of games. I think about SONIC, MARIO WORLD, Eggbert and few others where the inspiration is a game from a console or a 16bit Home Computer.
I think that MSX deserve more games from 2nd family. How is complicated to remake games like LOTUS, GHOST ‘n GOBLINS, XENON2 from Amiga on ours MSX2 or MSX2+?
What do you think?
Which Games released since 1990 for MSX do you consider member of the 1st or 2nd family?
MSX PORTING and REMAKING
Space Harrier. Easy, the penguin machine 
wants the tiles of sega master.
A "z80 port" is from ZX. That sega too has a z80 somehow plays no role in that picture.
Another example, just recently was shown an MSX1 game with beauty background. That can't have been a C64 CPC ZX port. Practicaly 8bit homecomputers should be avoided if you want inspiration for MSX tiles. This is true for both MSX1 and MSX2.
e.g. for colorsprites I would suggest looking at Wii Mario instead of C64 giana.
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Also, I think that Eggbert was an original game, not a port from something.
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Correct Eggbert is the original, Toki Tori the follow-up
http://www.file-hunter.com/Fony/eggbert.html
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