krikzz MD Pro features announced

[eukara]

I take it you can sync the video up with CD audio as well?

[Sik]

Apparently audio is still being worked on.

Also hah
https://twitter.com/krikzz/status/1283733158379257860

Check this out! Few images converted using megacolor in regular rom format. Works only with real hardware or with most accurate emulators (seems blastem it the only one accurate enough)
https://krikzz.com/pub/support/var/megacolor.zip

It definitely looks better in motion (also the dithering may have been what threw me off before since it has a tendency to wreck silhouettes).

[axel]

Is there some kind of NTSC filter in BlastEm? IrfanView says that image has over 3000 colors. I opened that in Photoshop, resized it to a width of 320 px using nearest neighbor (hard edges) and it still has over 2400 colors.

[Sik]

The texture filtering is throwing it off. You'd need to download the ROM and work off a screenshot taken from within BlastEm.

It is changing two entire palettes every line, though, so expect more colors than usual.

[Joe Redifer]

How do you check number of colors with Photoshop?

[Sik]

OK, taking screenshot with BlastEm then counting colors using ImageMagick:

identify -format "%k" «filename.png»

sonic-mc.bin has 150 colors:




vivid-mc.bin has 151 colors:




jelly-mc.bin has 246 colors:




The problem here is that finding an image that looks good and uses up all 512 colors is hard. I think the 512 color screen in Overdrive 1 (basically the same effect) only manages to be in the 300+ range, and that one was custom tailored for the effect.

Also I opened the CRAM viewer in the first one and roflmao, you can tell apart Sonic in the palettes being streamed:

[axel]

How do you check number of colors with Photoshop?

You can't, to my knowledge. I used Photoshop to resize it and then IrfanView to count the colors.

[axel]

The texture filtering is throwing it off. You'd need to download the ROM and work off a screenshot taken from within BlastEm.

It is changing two entire palettes every line, though, so expect more colors than usual.

OK I'll have to download BlastEm and try it out. But now I think I get it. The screen resolution must be around 160x200, so with an effective frame rate of 30 fps there is just enough bandwidth to pull it off.

[Black_Tiger]

How do you check number of colors with Photoshop?

I use Telegraphics' "Count Colors" plugin.

If you select a portion of an image it will tell you how many colors are within that space of that layer. It only works on RGB color images.

[Pyron]

I think this video with the recent changes to both products shows the differences well

[Joe Redifer]

I want to see a 257-color image because that would mean that it's one color better than the SNES and also means Genesis wins the 16-bit war forever.

I use Telegraphics' "Count Colors" plugin.

If you select a portion of an image it will tell you how many colors are within that space of that layer. It only works on RGB color images.

Unfortunately it only works with versions of Photoshop that are much older than what I have.

[axel]

I want to see a 257-color image because that would mean that it's one color better than the SNES and also means Genesis wins the 16-bit war forever.

In terms of hardware it already happened with the CD32X. Sadly no one made a game that really took advantage of that. I would like to see a flashcart that includes the 32X on an FPGA + video output but I know there's just not enough demand for it.

[Sik]

(should I bring up the PC Engine, or that SNES can do blending…?)

Anyway:

[crazyteknohed]

That is amazing! So what’s stopping this being implemented on real hardware? Is it the 1x drive?

[roce]

Alas, SNES's 256-color mode is a standard mode. If you were to "cheat" using DMA tricks like they do with the Gen here, you'd get much more colors on SNES. Plus it has 15-bit color depth vs Genesis's 9-bit.