How many games used the SNES's high res 512x448 mode? I know Seiken Denetsu 3 and Marvelous used it, but I can't think of any others.
It seems like the Snes had a lot of wasted potential
>>321530523
Every Nintendo console is rife with wasted potential, given that Nintendo has a history of filling in only a select few developers (who are typically either fully or partially owned by Nintendo) on how to take full advantage of their hardware.
>>321531067
This desu. The NES had extra sound channels in Japan, but they never decided to update the Western models for example.
>>321531067
It doesn't help nintendo tends to burn bridges with third parties on a regular basis.
If they'd even just sell off some of their old IPs like pokemon snap to a third party developer the wiiu could have some really good games.
>>321531884
Actually, it was an on-cartridge chip that added the extra channels, and that shit always makes things just expensive enough that you don't go slapping it on every game that isn't guaranteed to sell - like Castlevania.
The reason Yoshi's island in the SNES has the best graphics of any game for the system is also because of an add-on chip that allowed it to perform vector graphics for all the "flexible" objects in the game, as well as more advanced sprite transforms. Again, no one except the A-team at Nintendo could justify the use of something like that if it didn't have the word Mario somewhere on the box.
>>321531884
Was the Nes mono or stereo?
>>321532429
no, the famicom literally had more sound channels than the NES.
they took it out in favor of anti-piracy shit in the west
>>321532836
You are somewhat mistaken. The extra audio chip was on the cartridge, but due to a different pin setup it can't actually pass the audio data to a NA console. With a bit of handywork it's still possible to create a passthrough and mix the audio back in.
>>321530523
It seems it was only used mostly for text or static elements, since it was expensive power wise and ran like shit for everything else.
IIRC a bunch of games like Secret of Mana 1 used it mostly for displaying text.
Fuck, what was the name of that SNES airplane game that could only be emulated through Higan properly due to some high-res scanline bullshit?
>>321536460
air strike patrol
>>321533491
You don't have to bother with that passthrough bullshit if you buy an ENIO or solder a single resistor inside your console
>>321537908
Ah, yes, thank you.
