NES Tech Demo

Fucking impressive video, shows one of the many things the NES can do that we didn't know about.

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[Jumpseri]

Well dunno. There are people who can do better stuff called demos on NES and other 6502 processor jusing system(mostly on commodore 64). Go and check out "High Hopes" demo by aspekt. :-)

This tech demo dosent even show any tracmo skills and thats not real 3d its just a huge scaled image doing wobbler.

[animefreak2346]

You've got a point. But to the average Joe, the NES was only a step above the 2600. One of the things you didn't see on the NES was warping, like this. It was mostly all standard 2D stuff, no scaling, no rotation, no multi scrolling.

With things like this, I like to show off stuff people didn't know the NES could do.

[neogeon]

@animefreak2346 there's more to it than that, though. Even if the NES can do something, it doesn't mean they're willing to take the time to incorporate (what is likely) such complicated code that offers so little to the gameplay. Furthermore, once you add enemies, etc., it really starts to tax the processing capabilities of the system.

[animefreak2346]

Good point...

Although I find it interesting to see things like this. Though there are quite a few games on the nes that show off some impressive effects.

[nooblet911]

I mean ray casting, lulz

[nooblet911]

there is some scaling in battletoads I think (the small spaceship in the intro) and nes can do ray tracing (someone made a tech demo)

[killerogun]

I think the NES can do alot of stuff. Look at Link's Awakening on Gameboy, it had an effect like this with the Dream Fishy thing.

The NES can even do 3D - just look at Elite!

And one more thing. I think it might be able to do resizing too - look at Super Mario Bros 3 - in World 4, the supersized stuff looks like it's resized. Anyone who's in on the tech side help me out here?

[tkwtube01]

The 2600 is not just one step down from the NES.

Although it can do this kind of stuff as well.

Actually, in some ways it surpasses the NES, in terms of color, and the speed of certain effects that the NES wasn't designed to do. But in other ways the NES clearly wins.

[nooblet911]

tech demos on the nes, luls

[Jumpseri]

But what is my final point and to what i have been leading in my past messages is :::

Really you can do all the same stuff on atari that you can with NES. Atari only suffers from the lack of quality in its effects and gfx.

Proof to that is demo(yeah im using demos for examples because they are usally having the best effects and gfx on the system) called Doctor by Trilobit

[Jumpseri]

So in that way Recca havent never supriced me in any way(but its a good shoot em up still <3).

But you really think should check out high hopes by aspekt for NES (I saw it live at the party where it was relesed).

Theres some real skills!

[Jumpseri]

Well there are some demos made for Commodore 64 (it had similar hardware as NES) that have thousands object flying around, have to remember that C64 was meant to show only 8 sprite at the same time.

( example. Tower Power by Camelot )

In Regga the second stages background effect would been a lot cooler,faster and better if was a wobbler effect.

(Theres a wobbler effect in DTC demo by RAMLAID / ARKOS and BEB / OVERLANDERS [but Amstrad uses mask and not sprites] )