Nine Things You Might Not Know About The Super Nintendo's Graphics

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It's hard not to get wrapped up in nostalgia whenever you look at a SNES game—and while there are a number of reasons for this, one of the major reasons has to be the visuals. As it turns out, there is actually a lot that is unique about the graphics on the Super Nintendo.
The ever-knowledgeable DYKGaming tells us all about the fascinating graphical capabilities of the SNES, including:
  • Special features like the SFX chip and Mode 7
  • What games make use of the SNES' special graphical capabilities
  • The many graphic "modes" the console includes
  • What made mode seven so special amongst these modes
  • How the system renders its graphics
  • How the system dealed with sprites and scaling
  • how Starfox used a special chip inside its cartridge in order to render its unique graphics
  • What other games went on to use special chips for their graphics—like Super Mario RPG
  • And most of all, how the system kept afloat as a 16-bit console in the 32-bit age
It's an educational and enlightening watch, the kind you can see more of here.
Super Nintendo Effects Dev Special - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Mario Castañeda [DYKGaming]
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http://kotaku.com/nine-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-super-nintendo-1555432677
 
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prefer genesis but these things are always great to read, wish it was much more in depth though with photos and what not
 
Cool video but I can't stand when people call the NES "Nes" and the SNES "Snes." They're not words. They're abbreviations. :smash:
 
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Cool video but I can't stand when people call the NES "Nes" and the SNES "Snes." They're not words. They're abbreviations. :smash:
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Boy must you hate NESter ;). (We called it Nintendo and Super Nintendo in Europe usually ;))
 
I loved the SNES. The 2D consoles were special. I think that's the time when video games still felt like video games. I loved the transition to 3D but now it just feels like everything is a movie.
 
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Megadrive (takes a bow). Loved my SNES, but it was the lower species of the two consoles.
 
Those games still look good to me considering. I actually played Doom on it and was blown away they even attempted it, it actually ran well best I remember.
 
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