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(Sigh) Great we got another Sega shrill who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Buddy your numbers talk was seriously flawed and this entire comment is false and biased. There is no reason that high res mode was used only for those types of things. And no, higher resolution doesn’t mean that the program has to write more data to the VRAM, it can actually do it without having more data. And VRAM doesn’t only be written during vertical blanking and what you heard is false since there is enough time to upload a full tilemap so you can update to VRAM during one VBlank. (There isn’t one frame.)

Using higher resolution doesn’t and still doesn’t mean that video memory had no offscreen space to work since time and time again that has been proven wrong and for loading upcoming level map data for smoothly scrolling in background/sprites there are not that many limits.

(No you wouldn’t, also that was never the problem on the NES since is actual,t designed to scroll on both axis at many times. Doing to opposite wouldn’t mean to reposition all the tile map data in memory and keeping up with scrolling isn’t hard to do. And no the mega man series scrolling is irrelevant and it didn’t have slow vertical scrolling. Capcom never utilized that to create that bull you call megaman jumps.

No the majority of Snes games ran at high res of 320x224 and or more. The genesis standard resolutions were not around 256x224. Wasn’t a common standard resolution and not useful by any means for porter games. Also they didn’t use 320x224 in any game. Thats another fallacy. Nintendo has 256 colors and more and that’s not only achievable in mode 7, it’s achievable in snes hardware regardless of modes.

Again, normal commonly used screen modes didn’t have lower color counts. The snes never used 2bpp and didn’t use 4bpp. Normal tile based modes would NOT have been max 241 colors. That’s a huge downplay and you should know better. Also most of their games used many colors from their pallets and they have shown to have more color and it’s not 16 palettes. Each of those color palettes don’t have a transparency color so no it’s factually NOT only 15 that are useable.

There are no VBlank limitations and it wasn’t even a thing. You never spent any time to rewrite the (it’s not poor either) textbox routine in that game and there was no desperate need to extend the textbox. The game would never glitch out and two tiles wider is lowballing.

No you really aren’t an SNES fan if you’re actually going to be downplaying the snes and highballing the genesis like it’s your daddy. Also what you said was a lie. I’ve played many shmups and they are mostly better on the snes. Sorry but those Shmup fans are saying things false. When it comes to 16 bit shmups most people talk about the snes and play Gradius 3, Star Fox and
Super R Type. Space Megaforce is NOT the only game you heard to get a strong recommendation, you need to expand your taste buds because most shmups are better on SNES. And another thing, it does NOT seem like Genesis and PC Engine get more talk from that generation, it’s actually and factually the complete opposite. The Snes factually gets all more talk by most people in that generation and you know that for a fact.

No the majority of Snes games ran at high res of 320x224

Posted by tomman
"will we have games other than bloody FPSes or EA sportsball games?"

Posted by Kawa
You remember right.

I suppose if you don't BRR compress low-frequency samples a bunch, they'd be a lot crisper... but then you wouldn't be able to fit 'em into less than 64K.