NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-11-24T15:37:26 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-11-07T14:39:56 -05.00 Aaendi 31 "One of the most obvious problems with that is the screen resolution. It has a resolution of 320x240 square pixels."

Here is a fun fact about having NTSC standard square pixels, and the NES color palette. The NES samples it's output video signal at 42.95Mhz, and the chroma signal is a square wave that is 12 subpixels longs, and 1 NES pixel is 8 subpixels long. NTSC standard square pixels require a 6.136Mhz pixel clock, which is exactly one 7th of the NES's video signal sample rate. So all that would had to be changed was changing the number of subpixels from 8 down to 7.

Of course, this will cause relatively more dot crawl per pixel, without filtering the chroma signal. ]]> Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-30T11:59:21 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-17T01:31:44 -05.00 Aaendi 31
The protanopia example's numbers look like nothing to me, it's just the background. Can't see any numbers in that picture at all... ]]> Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T23:57:15 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Originally posted by: Guntz

According to that page, I have protanopia, and some deuteranopia. I can see the blue 56 just fine though...


Weird huh? ]]> Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T18:05:18 -05.00 Aaendi 31 ]]> Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T17:53:11 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Originally posted by: Aaendi

I always find it funny how whenever I see a modern day game with so-called "retro" graphics, they always do some things that you almost never saw in real retro games.  Here is a list of top 5 retro game tropes, rarely found in real retro games.

5) Multiple Overlapping Layers of Parallax.  Sega Genesis games are known for having a lot of parallax layers, but they have some very noticeable limitations.  You rarely saw vertical parallax scrolling, and you hardly ever see parts of one layer overlap another layer on the same scanline.  In a typical "retro" game mockup, there are usually 4 or more layers, overlapping eachother everywhere, and when you climb up or down the level, the background layers scroll vertically and horizontally at the same time.
  Genesis has 2 layers, a sprite layer, and a window layer (which is useless for any parallax effect, so don't count it as it actually replaces once of the layers when it's visible, and can't do any scrolling).

Vertical parallax was in many games on the Genesis, and a lot of times, developers used sprites to give a more "layered" look. Also, there's a few programming tricks (or bugs, whatever you want to call it) on the Genesis and TG16 that allows transparency by confusing the priority order of backgrounds and sprites.

Oh, and the Genesis can also rotate sprites. ]]> Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T17:48:30 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T17:34:44 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Top 5 retro game tropes rarely found in real retro games http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=85529 2012-10-16T12:49:30 -05.00 Aaendi 31 Originally posted by: DoctorEss

Originally posted by: Aaendi

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What about the parts where it's just yellow-yellow?
Check this... look on the right hand side at the three pictures. Can you read the numbers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Blindness#Dichromacy

Don't get too caught up on Colors.  I'm Partially color blind..  the "deuteranopia" test image is almost completely blank to me, just little sparks of color to make out the "49".  The other numbers in the other two are plain as day.  I'm typically unable to distinguish between colors in the green–yellow–red section of the spectrum.
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