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koilazka wrote:

Oh man, this reminds me of the hi-res sprite multiplex trick on C64. Good times.

even an MP3 playback tool for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was made that piggybacked off Gens Sounds like a pretty gross hack. It would be more elegant to port Sonic 2 to Sega CD... if it's possible (some levels change tiles midway through, also, bosses, title cards, etc). But, I think they already ported ...

You can't exactly do that with tile based sprites.

Ranger X has heavy parallax scrolling, extremely smooth 3d tube-like effects, dynamic palette loading to darken/brighten the screen depending on where you are, and the last level had fancy background warping as I recall.

Probably the most graphically impressive game on the Megadrive.

Ex-Ranza (Ranger X) has wireframe polygon cutscenes.

Why? Specifically coded effects for small on-the-rail sections of a game do not equal generic true 3D polygons. :lol: I only watched the youtube videos, I did not try the game. If they are indeed effects and not actual 3d (hard to imagine how they would do that, based on the videos alone), then tha...

Watching these games in action makes me feel really, really sad for Virtua Racing.

Wow, a blast from the past. I remember when these were linked as incredible finds, back in 2001/2 when Gens didn't have a debugger.

eteream wrote:Anyway, I think nobody understands how mode 7 works.

I understand that mode 7 was an overrated visual gimmick.

SmartOne wrote:There was even an "Enhanced Sound" option that modified some operator to smooth out Sonic's jump sound.

PSG Sound "improvement" option from Gens.

I hate that damn thing.

The Saturn was way too complicated, had an underpowered VDP1 which couldn't keep up with the PlayStation's 3D capabilities, and a large part of the good Saturn titles only saw a japanese release. With the Dreamcast they corrected most of these problems and released a good console with a strong soft...

Hight is 224 in ntsc, 240 in pal. 256 mode gives you a little more speed I think, not rom space (unless you shrunk down everything to take the screen size into account - then you do get less rom space of course). Someone else will be able to give you a more detailed answer on the whys and hows, but ...

If the people here made a game, it would be something like the Zyrinx titles. Nice coding, interesting concepts, awesome as a technical demo, but playability is relative to zero.

Or to sum it up in a single sentence:

Good graphics are not about what the hardware can do, but what programmers are willing to make the hardware do.

The SD card interface is impressive, but otherwise, let's just say "Sega CD".