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Vía Koohatsu, GN 1.0.

Legend of Iya (WIN)

Lleva las de convertirse en el eterno prototipo y la dinámica da miedito, pero le vamos dedicando un mensaje:

http://www.pixelprospector.com/indev/20 … nd-of-iya/

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/18864.htm

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http://dps.dengeki.com/2010/07/09/p20361/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeioNKe-b9w

By chance, do you have any Technopolis mag where Tamashii no Mon is featured or advertised? I'm desperately looking for the cover art at decent resolution.

Pasting here the promised PC88 Dios screenshot at its native res with 15 kHz video hardware. This is how the game looked like originally on the PC88:

http://i30.tinypic.com/2v8k9oy.jpg

Notice, despite the blurry pic (I was out of luck this time), that it has little to do with what you get with standard PC video hardware. Graphics look almost like a 16-bit console game.

Moving this here from the development subforum since I guess it will be of interest for non-contributors too:

Old-computer screenshots is indeed quite a tricky subject. Most of them from 1983 onwards--PC88 included--supported both, 15 kHz (low res) and 31 kHz (hi res) modes. For PC88 and PC98, almost always you'd find either, 640 x 200 or 640 x 400 (they were actually 640 x 240 and 640 x 480 once the monitors' benchmarks were set as I explained earlier, but let's just leave that apart for now). PC88's hi-res mode was pretty limited color-wise, so we must assume most games used 640 x 200. So an actual frame-buffer screen from your game should be like this:

By that (which I guess it's the first PC88 screen ever at its original resolution [laughs]), you can understand why the emulator--conceived, sadly, only for stardard PC video cards--automatically line-doubles the image (1st screen in your post) -- the aspect ratio through a standard PC is way too distorted. The game, you know, despite the resolution, had a 4 : 3 aspect ratio (not really 4 : 3 if we count the excluded borders, but close enough). It could be possible--I never had a PC88--that the game was line-doubled on the original frame-buffer for a 'fake' hi-res display so that the emulator is actually mimicking that behaviour, but given that there also existed 15 kHz-only PC88 monitors, I don't find that too plausible. That's also the reason for a universal scanlines simulation feature on the emulator (your 2nd screen) -- it's the most natural way to replicate the original low-res display on hi-res video hardware (therefore rendering the line-double method quite useless), though we've already explained that the final result here--no matter the type of monitor you're using--lacks the beauty of actual 'scanlines' for several reasons (hence the point I've been claiming for years of never using a standard PC for proper emulaton, if you're really into that).

Now PC98 is a bit different. It was especially designed for hi-res (most of its monitors indeed couldn't do 15 kHz) and we must assume that most games were rendered at 640 x 400. This was a problem for simultaneous PC88/PC98 releases or PC88 - PC98 ports -- you now needed to double the original lines for a hi-res display, and that's what many devs did:

PC98 Xak

PC98 Fray

(They didn't need any excuse though -- many original PC98 games were also designed at half the display resolution, saving RAM demands and well, effort.)

Fortunately others decided against this awful method and invented the scanlines simulation -- instead of drawing the same line twice, even lines would be black lines. That PC98 Tritorn II screenshot you mention, to answer your question, doesn't have scanlines added by the emulator; the game was rendered exactly like that. You can check these other examples for more color:

PC98 Lessern Mern

PC98 Vain Dream II

Notice the scanlines are applied only on the action area or the background -- there's no way an emulator could do that. Of course they went even further and invented different patterns which, applied on the line-doubled picture, would alleviate the issues of design - display discrepancies:

PC98 Digan no Maseki

So that's why you won't find (my guess) a scanlines simulation feature on any PC98 emulator.

This pretty much covers, not just your questions, but the whole core of what was going to be part 2 of the Scanlines -- Ab Initio article, so it's now done for anyone's interested. Thank Macaw. The only remaining thing would be illustrating with actual photographs the wonders of 15-kHz RGB CRTs to let everybody see what they've missed, and that will come with the new Site's content itself. So yeah.

Edit: Grammar bits.

Paquete con digitalizaciones a gran resolución del último avance de KOF XIII en Arcadia Magazine junto a la publicidad interior:

http://www.mediafire.com/?t5rmnuzmiiw

(http://cyberfanatix.com/forums/index.ph … l#msg27543)

La Technical Reference cuenta ya con varios capítulos, accesibles desde aquí:

Vía http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/ … countdown/

...mientras la útlima entrada del 'blog' de desarrollo está dedicada al equipo de Kim:

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/ … st_19.html

Star Soldier: Mission Code:

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/ne … 78720.html

A finales de mes se añadirá otro de los cotizados del 'shooting', Zanac X Zanac, curiosamente vía Gung-Ho y D4 Enterprise. La primera también sirvió ya los dos Black Matrix de PS, por cierto:

http://www.gunghoworks.jp/info/dl.html#section11

And more importantly, you can play the game that way since the system (either, the 3-60 or the Type X 2) does support 480p. Your samples are great and necessary for showing everybody that KOF XII's graphics are ruined by lame design decisions and a full-of-shit technology, and hopefully you'll create with them some short of a virtual museum in order to let the internet see and take notes, but... just that.

I do really wonder if there's not a true 768-lines mode on this game. Blaz Blue has it, and Type X 2's most common mode is WXGA, given the arcade monitor standards.

I'm sure there'll be an option to remove the filter (at least for home versions), but in the end, same issue as in XII -- you can't play the game and please your eyes at the same time.

It's called 'the brainless syndrome of our masses' and it's the same reason why handhelds have taken over proper systems, to name just one. Rhetorical answer for a rhetorical question, I know.

Fine then. Moving this part of the conversation to the development subforum then.

The truth is that I love the slight 'melting' with bright red lines and whatnot. I'm so used to it that I like to think of it as a particularity of CRT displays (and indeed I miss it in your photographs). But I can understand that, while it may help the overall visual enjoyment depending on your tastes, it goes against pure 'pixel analysis', yeah.

Looking forward to it, though you need too big resolutions for that and you know web design requirements... Nevertheless, your ultimate goal is solving to some degree the emulation-related issue, isn't it?