Genesis vs TurboGrafx Parallax. How do they compare?

[sheath]

Legend of Xanadu has much better sprite animation and scrolling than I am seeing in that video too.

[awack]

Xanadu has beautiful layered scrolling(3)

[Kamahl]

It's a poor recording. The game is much smoother than that.



Also has some great parallax.

[Sik]

Of course the Genesis wins, it has 2 backgrounds layers.
The SNES is still the best though, with 3.

SNES has 4, though in that mode all layers are 2BPP =/

[Kamahl]

Forgot that one, did any game use it?

[Sik]

Yoshi's Island uses it. Why do you think they went with that art style? 2BPP limitation =P Also Super Mario World.

[Curryman123]

The Genesis wins!

you mean Megadrive?

Speaking of parallax, there's some crazy effect goin' on in this vid at 1:44.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDwobzZW3s

Forgot that one, did any game use it?

S.o.S for Snes uses 4 background layers.

[Cornelius Spunkwater]

S.o.S for Snes uses 4 background layers.

S.O.S. is an amazing game. Challenging as all hell though.

[evilevoix]

The Genesis wins!

Agreed, end thread.

[evilevoix]

Exactly, the Turbographx can't do Aladdin or Alien Soldier, the system needed upgrades its whole life, no other argument could hold up in court. The system was 8BIT and couldn't compare to the 16BIT generation. Just quit trying, your only making yourself look stupid.

WOW, what a perfect argument!!! I couldn’t have said it better my self!!!

[Kamahl]

Glad to see you back evilevoIX.
But yeah, other than being a little tribute to that past thread, I really don't see the point in this.
Genesis wins by far.
True parallax vs dynamic tiles (which the genesis can do anyway, and better in realtime, although less if prerendered).
Not to mention it's the easiest system to do linescrolls. No HDMA or Interrupt bullshit.

[evilevoix]

Glad to see you back evilevoIX.
But yeah, other than being a little tribute to that past thread, I really don't see the point in this.
Genesis wins by far.
True parallax vs dynamic tiles (which the genesis can do anyway, and better in realtime, although less if prerendered).
Not to mention it's the easiest system to do linescrolls. No HDMA or Interrupt bullshit.

Thank you for having me back. I assume I was a casualty of these hackers and I simply joined this forum too late which I regret. This is a very addictive forum, very nice people; some dude just sent me a battery for free for my Sega Saturn! I need to find out who that was because I lost everything in the attack.
To avoid the massive shit storm we once had that the hackers mercifully destroyed by infiltrating our fine message board (almost forgive them for that) I will not participate in a massive point-by-point discussion between the TG16 and the MD. There were some neat tricks on the TG16/PCE that worked around the hardware limitations. That is one of my favorite things about classic gaming, having a system perform tasks and visuals that should not be possible.

[Kamahl]

Yes 2 months were gone from the forum, If you joined in those months then you lost your account.
Apparently there was a more recent backup but Melf's kid decided it would be a good idea to delete it

[evilevoix]

Apparently there was a more recent backup but Melf's kid decided it would be a good idea to delete it

Ahaha oh man that's what kids do.

[Curryman123]

Thank you for having me back. I assume I was a casualty of these hackers and I simply joined this forum too late which I regret.

I think he is trying to mock your argument on the subject of TG16 vs Genesis graphics.