PC Engine Pixelization

[shubibiman]

Nexzr - ship arriving from hyperspace..

Definitely the coolest trick I've seen in a PCE game.

[NightWolve]

Nexzr - ship arriving from hyperspace..

Nice, good to see that effect captured in a GIF. I bought that game in the 90's, enjoyed it quite a bit. It's not as great as Blazing Lasers or Super Star Soldier, but the CD soundtrack stands out - it's an overall respectable shooter to have in your library, maybe just a bit too short.

[deubeul]

Nexzr - ship arriving from hyperspace..

The first time I saw that destroyer appear back in the days, was such a shock. It still thrills me today each time I play the game. Thanks for that gif!

[NightWolve]

Yeah, it does induce panic/freak you out a bit along with the accompanying sound effects!

[deubeul]

Totally, I was testing the game with a friend and we both jump, after that we were "WTF" and laughing for the next 5 minutes. Good memories.

[Necromancer]

[ParanoiaDragon]

And....that's probably the best part of the entire game sadly!

[NightWolve]

Totally, I was testing the game with a friend and we both jump, after that we were "WTF" and laughing for the next 5 minutes. Good memories.

Wow, and it's popular nostalgia for us retro types. I shared it on Twitter and my rarely used account got the most likes/retweets its ever had since creation! Heh. Got a like from HappyConsoleGamer on it in there too.
 
https://twitter.com/NightWolve1975/status/734848727689482240

[touko]

It's not PCe but SGX,hope you like it too  .

[esteban]

It's not PCe but SGX,hope you like it too  .

It counts!

[Black Tiger]

Tom has a similar SuperGrafx transparency demo using LttP assets.

[touko]

Tom has a similar SuperGrafx transparency demo using LttP assets.

Yes is the same effect (playing with windows), but the book effect after is original, and not done already on PCE/SGX world, even on Md (in comic zone) is not at the same level .
it's not obvious here, but i can do a dual playfield scrolling and at the same time the book effect .

[Digi.k]

your demo reminded me of this.

Although not as clever as yours

[touko]

It's a sprites priority trick,clever too ...

[spenoza]

Shearing (just slanting the image by changing the scroll registers each scanline) is a little bit easier than the vertical stretching/scaling that we can sometimes see in PCE games.  Proper scaling (in both dimensions) is more CPU/RAM-intensive which is why it's usually limited to the SNES & Genesis.

Well, the SNES is effectively cheating because it has dedicated hardware to do the job, and it usually sticks to using that method. And the Genesis CPU is a multiplication monster, so yeah.