[demo] SNES Sonic

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Re: [demo] SNES Sonic

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BTW the SNES can do blast processing via the SA-1 chip, which helped reduced slowdown in some games.
The SNES is my favorite console, not only because it is an upgrade to the NES, but because it had some quality games as well (e.g. EarthBound and Kirby's Dream Land 3).
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LucianoTheWindowsFan wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:27 am BTW the SNES can do blast processing via the SA-1 chip, which helped reduced slowdown in some games.
You can literally put anything on a SNES cartridge and, if it doesn't take too much power, it'll work.
A SNES programmmer with way too much time on their hands, probably wrote:hey ghuiz luuk@me i kann do blass procesing on muh snez cart w/ a cortex-a78 instaled
It'll be impressive to get said thingamajig to work in harmony with a SNES, but once you get it to work, it will work.

Poor enhancement chips don't get top billing...

Also nice bump m8.
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LucianoTheWindowsFan wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:27 am BTW the SNES can do blast processing via the SA-1 chip, which helped reduced slowdown in some games.
Is offloading calculations onto a second cpu really "blast processing", though?
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A lot of things were called blast processing. The important thing is that it can blast process, not what blast processing is or if it's actually used in any games.
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Pokun wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:42 pm A lot of things were called blast processing. The important thing is that it can blast process, not what blast processing is or if it's actually used in any games.
Okay, then I'll say every console is blast processing when I use my very own personal definition of 'blast processing' that means 'exist'.
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While you can do great things with extra processors on the SFC, the moment you use a co-processor to just run Sonic you outright give up and admit that the SFC is inferior to the MD. :roll:
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That's true. The use of co-processors may be considered part of the SNES' power, but one should at least limit it to the technology available and reasonable at the time of Sonic, which would eliminate the SA-1, Super FX and any modern stuff.
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If you need co-processors on the SNES to make Sonic work, Sega wins, period. The whole fun is making it work on stock hardware.
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LucianoTheWindowsFan wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:27 am BTW the SNES can do blast processing via the SA-1 chip, which helped reduced slowdown in some games.
You mean Super Processing (TM), since this is the snes.
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Nintendo used "Power Processing" in print comparison ads such as "Smashing the Myth About Speed and Power". "Power Processing" in the ad refers specifically to three things: HDMA affecting things other than BGxHOFS, background mode 7, and color math.

It appears Nintendo was choosing specific hardware features to put under the "Power Processing" umbrella to make the company appear more transparent than Sega, which failed to formally define "Blast Processing". If I had to pick anything to be "Blast Processing", it'd be the 68000's support for calculations with a 32-bit result (such as 32+32 add and 16x16 multiply) along with ability of decompression routines and tilemap update routines to perform mid-screen PIO writes to VRAM.
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tepples wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:26 amHDMA affecting things other than BGxHOFS
I’m in blank right now... What is this?.
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Well, it's H-blank DMA, except for the special case that Megan's VDP could handle by itself (individual pixel/tile row scrolling).
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SA-1, the lazy programmer best friend
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Maxwelthuthu wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:53 pm SA-1, the lazy programmer best friend
When you make it harder to manufacture cartridges of your game simply because you don't give a shit.
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Or it's an intentional screw-you to the repro makers profiting off others' work.
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