iNCEPTIONAL wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:49 amSilly me--I had it right all along. Now, the only part up for consideration is whether more games use the Master System legacy channels than those that don't, and I'm comfortable leaving my article as is until I see a definitive list or at least a full count on that one way or another. Yeah, I'm cool with that. Cheers.
Let me get this straight: The official development documents lists it and show how to use it - it was there from day one.
Day one. And offical games use it.. and that's not good enough for you? Let me put this in SNES perspectives for you. "The 512x448 resolution on SNES is only used by one game, and even though it's in the official development documents, I'm comfortable leaving it off the list because it's a hack.. or until someone proves otherwise". Honestly, I know you're willing to die on the sword for hi-res mode - but far-far more Genesis games used PSG+FM than SNES games used high res mode... and yet you have no qualms about that. 1 game used 512x448 and that's good enough for you to have it in the spec list. A good amount of games used PSG in combination with FM, and you're saying that's not good enough? How are you not embarrassed by this??? Have some dignity.
What is it with you have thinking everything is either a "hack" or "proper"? Is everything that black and white to you? Is the z80 a "hack" on the MD too? Is shadow and highlight, that gets you a palette of 4k colors not "proper"? There are plenty of things to debate between the two audio setups, but you touched on none of them. You tout "universal this" and "common that", but you gloss over and/or entirely neglect the same that puts SNES in bad light. Where's the infamous "snes muffled sound" - right or wrong, that as huge common belief/opinion/whatever. I know you think you're being smug, but you're just prancing around as ignorant (and arrogant).
As for the writing; it's very glossy and gives the impression the opinion(conclusion) is what drove the article and research, rather than the research driving the conclusion. All you did was look for sparse evidence to support your already preconceived conclusion. You even purposely provide miss information. The only positive I have to say, is that at least you seem to understand the concept of "nod to the opposition" haha. I'm not saying the Genesis
needs to "win"; it doesn't - just portray things accurately. But the very fact that you see things as winners and losers, tells me you have a very child-like mentality; black and white. Instead of deciding what the outcome, how about presenting all material (putting whatever focus on what you think is important) and let the reader decide? Otherwise this garbage is just article is just "here's my glorious opinion, and here's how I justify it". If this supposed to be a console war article, then this just amounts to trite propaganda.