PC Engine Pixelization

[geise]

NEC Ave was lazy.  Strider could've been so much more.  At least Hellfire-S and Forgotten Worlds were good games regardless of no scrolling.

Again, thank you for sharing all these gif images.

[Digi.k]

Scaling sprites during opening cinema.

Dragon Saber... I really dislike some of the changes Namco did with this compared to the arcade but I too feel they were lazy as developers.

[shubibiman]

And here's an earlier stage in Terraforming with a subtler, better looking wavy background effect:

Isn't there a transparency effect in the background ?

[Digi.k]

Isn't there a transparency effect in the background ?

that kind of makes me wonder how they did the shadow effects on magical chase stage 4.

[Sadler]

Isn't there a transparency effect in the background ?

that kind of makes me wonder how they did the shadow effects on magical chase stage 4.

I'm guessing it's all the same set of dynamic tiles, just a different palette for the shadowed areas.

[Necromancer]

Isn't there a transparency effect in the background ?

I think it's just shaded to look like they're transparencies, as the ovoids wave together as one piece, never changing the amount of overlap.

[Joe Redifer]

I think the shadow effect on that level of Magical Chase is very poor. I mean technically the effect is good... it's just wrong. A shadow would not travel WITH the foreground. It would be stationary against the background. That is assuming it's the player that's moving and not the foreground itself. But even then, the shadow would be smaller than the foreground and should not scroll as fast. The developers did not understand how perspective works.

[Bonknuts]

If the foreground is casting the shadow, then it makes sense that it's attached to it. The shadow isn't going to change as long as the angle of the light casting it doesn't as well. 

 There are a lot of things that are unrealistic in 8 and 16bit games. Nit picking this one seems a little strange. 

[ParanoiaDragon]

IIRC, Spriggan does a similar thing with shadows in one of the levels....can't remember which one though.

[Black Tiger]

That Magical Chase stage is on the more plausible side as far as 16-bit games go, particularly because of the theme and style.

If you want to see non-sensical shadow/lighting effects, try playing Steel Empire. 8:00 in this video shows how realistic/effective that Magical Chase effect is for the time:

[Bonknuts]

I like the design of the effect in Magical Chase. Even though the set of dynamic tiles are pretty repetitive, they break it up with some horizontal color striping against it. Even if it's surreal or unrealistic, it looks really well done. This isn't the only game to use this effect (Star Parodia, Psychic Storm), but it looks best in this game from what I've seen.

[Bonknuts]

Nexzr - ship arriving from hyperspace..

[touko]

you have forgotten the sprite zooming in chuck no-rice intro :
https://youtu.be/mzFYqOY11Ik?t=1m8s

 

[Black Tiger]

That effect in Nexzr is basically the vertical equivalent of the Zentradi ships arriving in Macross Scrambled Valkyrie.

[Bonknuts]

<- scaling PCE demo. Doesn't fit inside the 10sec limit of gifs.com