Road Blaster for Snes

[Black_Tiger]

Any system can do 16:9 video, it just has to be anamorphically compressed. The TV then stretches it sideways. I'd love to play a properly designed 16:9 16-bit game.

Also, it appears the Mega Everdrive plays WAV files right out of the box. I assume it does this using the cart's audio pins. Anyone have information on that?

What I was talking about, is how Gulliver Boy uses animation that was made for widescreen film and that the horizontal letterboxing isn't cropping. The viewable area takes up most of the screen that it would if it was as big as possible.

It may conveniently take up less memory space when designed for 4:3 screens, but today everyone knows how perfectly viewable widescreen perspectives are. Even in the early 2000's I had to try to explain to people how letterboxing isn't cropping, full frame pictures were cropped. I think that every one of those people were still convinced that I'm just stupid.

[TVC 15]

I'm not in any way deriding the quality of this chaps work, but this cartridge interface, doesn't it use an onboard chip to decode and play the Movie file? And basically just the use SNES audio and display hardware? I did read about it a while back, but didn't quite understand it.

If they got that pansy 65c816 doing this in software then colour me impressed, if not surely all this shows off is the SNES colour palette?

[tomaitheous]

I'm not in any way deriding the quality of this chaps work, but this cartridge interface, doesn't it use an onboard chip to decode and play the Movie file? And basically just the use SNES audio and display hardware? I did read about it a while back, but didn't quite understand it.

If they got that pansy 65c816 doing this in software then colour me impressed, if not surely all this shows off is the SNES colour palette?

Yes, the pansy 65816 is doing the fmv. Look at the specs at byuu's site. Besides being a memory mapper, it only streams audio on its own. The video though is probably uncompressed since it doesn't have the bandwidth limitations of 1x cdrom transfer rate.