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Cool visual effects in 16bit console games.
- Thread starter nkarafo
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Not that GAF doesn't know already but that entire game is magic. Resolution aside that game still holds up today.
From Mega Drive shooter Battle Mania 2
https://youtu.be/fQ_OsgU1NUk?t=28s
https://youtu.be/fQ_OsgU1NUk?t=28s
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I just got a cart of it yesterday. Seems alright so far. Haven't played it since back in the day.
HueyFreeman
Banned
What a fucking great thread, thanks to everyone who's contributed.
AtomicShroom
Member
Sapiens
Member
Any games that use fancy chips ain't count. (Is this all that the m2 chip was used for?)
Zenlightened
Banned
Chrono Trigger
I watched this for way too long before I was going to post that I could watch this for hours.
Every time I look away and back, it spins in a different direction!
Afterburner 2, an early Megadrive game with crazy levels of sprite scaling and rotation. So fast and smooth.
https://youtu.be/AcaXbr6l-54
Street Racer on the Megadrive with its Mode 7-like road.
https://youtu.be/h-6sjEqMXYY
Vroom / F1.
Megadrive version: https://youtu.be/GrMMfjsYez0
Amiga version: https://youtu.be/BVKDvLM8pKw
https://youtu.be/AcaXbr6l-54
Street Racer on the Megadrive with its Mode 7-like road.
https://youtu.be/h-6sjEqMXYY
Vroom / F1.
Megadrive version: https://youtu.be/GrMMfjsYez0
Amiga version: https://youtu.be/BVKDvLM8pKw
AtomicShroom
Member
So Yoshi's Island doesn't count either, then? And neither does Stunt Race FX? And neither would Mario Kart, Pilotwings, Super Mario RPG, and the dozens of other SNES games with special chips? Come on. 16-bit is 16-bit.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Isn't the Neo Geo technically 16-bit?
Vectorman
OMG! That is insane!
nkarafo
Member
You should see it on the real hardware. That gif has lower frame rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcL_kM9twZk
Skip to 8:30
Also skip to 1:03:05 for those monitors in the background i was talking about earlier.
Sir Abacus
Member
Street Racer on Genesis isn't mode 7 like at all. It's a scanline based raster road like every other racer on the system. It becomes entirely clear when you put them side by side and you can see the Genesis version clearly isn't a rotated background.
PassiveObserver
Member
Simple effect but I really dig how 16-bit games depicted flashing neon signs.
Snatcher
Snatcher
Discomurf
Member
Indeed, but believe it or not the PCE version was actually even better...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKK-s8OfiLM
Zombegoast
Member
Tales of Phantasia is probably the best looking RPG in the 16 bit era. Shadows cast over the environment as well as light sources creating shadows on characters with water having reflections and effects.
Did you finish it before?
Hesemonni
Banned
What game is it?
Clock Tower.
KainXVIII
Member
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
That 240p 30fps footage. Blech.
At least my recording setup has improved an awful lot since then.
ThirdNostril
Banned
Nothing technically about it, its absolutely 16 bit.
MrCunningham
Member
It is purely a 16bit arcade board.
Sapiens
Member
The marketing said it had a medium endian cpu with 24bit registers and a giga spec instructions. Why would they lie?
IronicSonic
Member
Yeah there are a lot of cool effects in the games.
Better atmosphere than Tropical Freeze IMO
Had to make a gif from Red Zone:
That's truly amazing
Axelay (SNES) had some crazy effects for the time
(the choppy gif doesnt do it justice)
Early Treasure title?
Sapiens
Member
Septimus Prime
Member
Konami, actually. That's Axelay, which really deserves a sequel or remake.
FlashbladeGAF
Member
More from another beauty...Tales of Phantasia is probably the best looking RPG in the 16 bit era. Shadows cast over the environment as well as light sources creating shadows on characters with water having reflections and effects.
whiteninja
Member
Don't have a gif of it but the mana fortress from secret of mana. Like a crazy light show all over the place.
I can stare at some of those GIFs all day.
Here's one from Probotector (aka Contra: Hard Corps) that simultaneously looks awesome and hilarious:
Haha, walkin' into the club like...
I loved this effect in the Terranigma underworld as a kid, thought it looked so unique and otherworldly.
The weird part here is that I can actually hear the music in my head.
I know its a demoscene demo. But there are a load of cool effects in this thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDtViPngi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDtViPngi8
FlashbladeGAF
Member
the image is still cool enough to post
Secret of Mana/Seiken Densest 2
EDIT: As close as I could get
Secret of Mana 2/Seiken Densetsu 3
KojiKnight
Member
Cx4 (the chip used in MMX2 and 3) handled sprite effects as well as vector graphics.
ThunderForce IV had the coolest parallax I'd seen up to that point:
This game has a fucking otherworldly soundtrack for a Genesis game. Firing from so many cylinders.
PassiveObserver
Member
Treasure Hunter G's world map is pretty cute
The Last One
Member
Ah, i remember loving this particular effect.
Everytime the parrot changed direction the screen would flash as the flashlight was momentarily in your face.
I remember hearing that they removed this flash effect in the VC version or something?
I remamber I used to try to pause the game at the right moment of the flash so the screen was all white lol
Just take it with you.
Member
Not the best GIF, but Rocket Knight had these cool reflections.
I thought a similar effect was p cool in Seiken Densetsu 3.
