In fairness the only reason the Saturn didn't have as much of them was because it lacked the FMV abilities of the PS and also lacked Hardware Video compression.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
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In fairness the only reason the Saturn didn't have as much of them was because it lacked the FMV abilities of the PS and also lacked Hardware Video compression.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
Man ya'll sure do come up with some strange topics on here. :daze:
How so? When standard codecs were used cutscenes in Saturn games looked just as low res and pixelated as the PS1's best.Quote:
Originally Posted by SonicTheHedgehog
I think it was the Duck codec that was real good for the Saturn. Most of the codecs were terrible for the Saturn.
I recall Panzer Dragoon Saga's cut scenes were noticeably worse than the FMV's of Final Fantasy VII. Also i think the PS1 ver of Tomb Raider had slightly superior quality FMV to the Saturn ver although it was minor.
The PS had hardware to help make its FMV look much better than Saturn's.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
Panzer Dragoon FMV windows was always poor in all the PD Saturn games series I have no idea why the Team never used cinepak or True Motion . Btw The digital Pinball games run FMV in the Saturn higher res mode of (640X480) Think other than Grandia it was the only games to do soQuote:
I recall Panzer Dragoon Saga's cut scenes were noticeably worse than the FMV's of Final Fantasy VII. Also i think the PS1 ver of Tomb Raider had slightly superior quality FMV to the Saturn ver although it was minor
Yeah i remember being impressed with the FMV in the Digital Pinball games. Just out of curiosity why didnt Sega choose to have video compression built into the machine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
Because it's a stupid waste of money? The Saturn CPU's are more than good enough to decode MPEG in software.Quote:
Originally Posted by SonicTheHedgehog
No. The Saturn itself was a huge waste of money in it's setup. Twin CPU's and twin VDP'S are the main reasons it cost the equivalent of $400 at launch. The Playstation had hardware video compression built in and it retailed much cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
How does this contradict what I said? If they had shoved a mpeg decoding chip on the saturn it would only make it even more expensive, for no reason. They should just have put a MPEG decoding library in the SDK from the get go.Quote:
Originally Posted by SonicTheHedgehog
Sega didn't really have any idea what they were doing with the saturn. It's surprising it did as well as it did.
Ah i thought you were agreeing with the setup in general so i got confused. Yes it's clear Sega messed up with the Saturn big time but it's confusing when the Master System was a good enough setup, the Megadrive was very good setup and the Dreamcast for it's time was fantastic.
No no, the Master System and Mega Drive have plenty of silly design problems (nothing as bad as the saturn though). The dreamcast was a masterpiece that's for sure. Funny how the PS2 was the mess of the 6th generation and it was the most successful.Quote:
Originally Posted by SonicTheHedgehog
Because everyone was like, "You mean it can play those new-fangled DVD tapes?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
I know there are more reasons than that I just wanted to say "DVD tapes."
True that, thankfully this time Blu-ray wasn't enough for the PS3 (another mess).Quote:
Originally Posted by Obviously
The DC's online ambition sank it in the shortest time of them all. Then there's the controller. Excellent graphics and antialiasing though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
That's cz it didn't follow a trio of missteps.Quote:
Funny how the PS2 was the mess of the 6th generation and it was the most successful.
What exactly does this matter? The PS uses JPEG format, isn't that why its video is always cleaner?Quote:
Because it's a stupid waste of money? The Saturn CPU's are more than good enough to decode MPEG in software.