psycopathicteen wrote:Since it was commonly used on the Genesis but not on the Snes, and tile per offset mode was unknown to the gaming public, people started beleiving the 68000 was so fast that it could rotate large backgrounds pixel by pixel in real time.
Yet Mode 7 in games like F-Zero didn't have the same effect on public perception of the 65C816.
It just goes to show you, Genesis got all the badass programmers
Or at least the ones familiar with Atari ST or the Amiga (which just turned 25).
tepples wrote:
Yet Mode 7 in games like F-Zero didn't have the same effect on public perception of the 65C816.
Thanks to Nintendo being open to the public about the Snes's Mode-7 feature, and how the 65816 already had a horribly bad reputation once the Super Nintendo came out.
tepples wrote:
Or at least the ones familiar with Atari ST or the Amiga (which just turned 25).
Yet Mode 7 in games like F-Zero didn't have the same effect on public perception of the 65C816.
Maybe because Mode 7 was used in marketing, so that it was understood that it was a feature of the video processor. I recall having seen the term "mode 7" in one or more of those brochures they sent out to Nintendo Club members here in Sweden in the early '90s (and those were usually very low on technical details).
Perhaps it's because offsetting had its own buffer on the Genesis VDP (because it's per 2 columns of the whole screen) but required full nametable rewrites on the Super NES PPU (because it's actually per tile).
tepples wrote:Perhaps it's because offsetting had its own buffer on the Genesis VDP (because it's per 2 columns of the whole screen) but required full nametable rewrites on the Super NES PPU (because it's actually per tile).
When you write it into the second row of tiles of bg3 with #$20 written between scroll offsets, it scrolls the collumns whole. I don't know why I need to write #$20, it just works with that value but not with #$00. I guess I can do some playing to see what happens when I use other numbers.
There was at least one fortress level in Yoshi's Island that used it for platforms waving in a sinusoidal pattern. At least I think it was using offset per tile, since they froze in place when I switched that off in Snes9x.
There was at least one fortress level in Yoshi's Island that used it for platforms waving in a sinusoidal pattern. At least I think it was using offset per tile, since they froze in place when I switched that off in Snes9x.
I always wondered if those were sprites or offset-per-tile mode. If it froze in place when deactivating tile-per-offset, then they were tile-per-offset.
tepples wrote:Perhaps it's because offsetting had its own buffer on the Genesis VDP (because it's per 2 columns of the whole screen) but required full nametable rewrites on the Super NES PPU (because it's actually per tile).
Definitely this. Because the Genesis offers it in a much simpler way, offset per tile mode looks over complicated when you read the SNES doc and using it for simple column scrolling is not as obvious as on the MD.