To be honest, Mode 7 was more of a gimmick than a useful feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkDragon
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To be honest, Mode 7 was more of a gimmick than a useful feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkDragon
The rotating room is awful and one of the worst examples of "mode-7" usage.
And we know now that the genesis can do mode-7 in software anyway (thanks fonzie), making it a null advantage.
http://www.joeredifer.com/reviews/piersolar9.jpg
Is there ANY excuse why this wasn't used back in the Genesis heyday?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
Yes, they successfully "nullified an advantage", decades after the fact. Retroactively affecting all sales and review scores of said games. :|Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
Probably because a home brew tech demo, and a finished game are two entirely different animals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orchid87
Yup, no one figured out how to do it at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orchid87
Are you saying that Pier Solar isn't a finished game?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastardcat
Mode 7 was fine for games like F-Zero, although I wouldn't want too many flat racers like that. I never liked it when little tidbits of mode 7 were used in games for no real reason.
No, but like many homebrew projects, it didn't face the stringent restrictions that developers of the 80s and 90s faced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
For starters its on a 64Meg cartridge. As that wasn't a standard cartridge at the time, it is the equivalent of "extra hardware"/"special chips", something I hear decried all the time, when people talk about NES games.
I think Bram Stoker's Dracula had a little zoom-in effect when starting a level.
Doesn't really apply to the developers of RedZone and stuff, they were all about the special effects. It's simply a case of no one figuring out how to do it. It's the kind of thing you figure out in the shower. It either happens or it doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastardcat
The size of the cart doesn't contribute to the effect, if you remove a town or two and the cutscenes, plus some compression, you can fit it in a standard size cart. This is not like addon chips whose removal would completely change the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastardcat
The final boss in Super Fantasy Zone has a scaling effect when he dies:Quote:
Originally Posted by blobolonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A19LGAmQSGg&t=3m13s
EDIT: And yes, there's a scaling effect in the genesis version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Seems to use part of the trick used in Pier Solar (double sized pixels are much faster to draw than normal sized pixels)
You know what? I'll just save us all some time here and take a big gulp of the blue Kool-aid.
Praise Sega! Herpaderpaderp! Nintendo am suck! Derpaderpidydo!
I don't hear that about NES games, only SNES games. NES usually gets a pass in my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastardcat
Some BGs
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Redone death
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Serpent rondo serpent dracxx
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Drac rondo(subtract 3 of the demon form drac)
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SCIV drac(no orb)
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