Board:   [DoveNet] Hobby Corner
Subject: Re: Retro gaming
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Thu Sep 16, 2021 21:17

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  Re: Re: Retro gaming
  By: Mr Ned to Nightfox on Thu Sep 16 2021 11:10 pm

 MN> In any case there's plenty of quality games on SNES which hold up today,
 MN> more than the Genesis/Mega Drive I think.

So it seems.  I've also read that hardware-wise, the only real advantage the Genesis had over the SNES was a higher CPU clock speed.  Otherwise, the SNES had better technical specs in other areas.

One thing I think was interesting about cartridge-based consoles was that cartridges allowed game developers to include additional processor chips inside their game cartridges if they wanted.  I heard Starfox had a processorchip in its cartridge that was some sort of graphics processor, which helped with the 3D graphics in the game.  I think I heardF-Zero used it too.

Nightfox

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