arcade ports with different resoultions
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 4:52 pm
This would be an interesting topic that hasn't been discussed much. How were graphics downscaled in arcade to home conversions.
What port was this? On PS1 and Sega Saturn they did not scale the graphics or anything like that. But on SNES and Genesis the graphics were not the same as the arcade due to the 256x224 resolution which was not only used because SNES was limited to it (Genesis could do 320 width) but also because it takes less cartridge memory to store the "scaled down" graphics. I think it's wrong to assume they ran it through a program and scaled the graphics down. They just took the source art and redid it for the 256x224 screen space of the 16bit consoles. And it turned out very well. Also PC-Engine/Turbografx uses the same graphics, the same resolution, even though the console could actually run in the native Arcade resolution or atleast one more similar to the 32bit console ports. But it didn't as the larger graphics would again require much more memory to store.qbradq wrote:Some fighting game ports (Super Street Fighter series, IIRC) did not scale down the graphics. Instead they kept the original graphics and panned around the screen as needed, making the characters take up proportionally more of the screen.
They might've used a scaled down version as a reference when redrawing the background and characters.MottZilla wrote:What port was this? On PS1 and Sega Saturn they did not scale the graphics or anything like that. But on SNES and Genesis the graphics were not the same as the arcade due to the 256x224 resolution which was not only used because SNES was limited to it (Genesis could do 320 width) but also because it takes less cartridge memory to store the "scaled down" graphics. I think it's wrong to assume they ran it through a program and scaled the graphics down. They just took the source art and redid it for the 256x224 screen space of the 16bit consoles. And it turned out very well. Also PC-Engine/Turbografx uses the same graphics, the same resolution, even though the console could actually run in the native Arcade resolution or atleast one more similar to the 32bit console ports. But it didn't as the larger graphics would again require much more memory to store.qbradq wrote:Some fighting game ports (Super Street Fighter series, IIRC) did not scale down the graphics. Instead they kept the original graphics and panned around the screen as needed, making the characters take up proportionally more of the screen.