[PC-88] Dragon Slayer II - Xanadu (1985) (Nihon Falcom)

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The NEC PC-88's high resolution modes had scanlines that appear terribly distorted when forced to a lower resolution.

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• PC88
• Dragon
• Slayer
• II
• Xanadu

[Princejarethh]

SO wait, this is the 2nd game and Legacy of the WIzard is the 4th?

[LordKarnov42]

@Princejarethh Yup.

[LordKarnov42]

I think they just give the illusion of a higher resolution. You can disable them in an emulator and it just doubles the pixels from the line below each scanline. I'm also not familiar with the hardware much.. but I know there are at least a few games that use both the high resolution mode [with scanlines] for graphics and standard resolution mode for text at the same time.

[n9ng1225]

お懐かしや

[YoshiAngemon]

@LordKarnov42 And Faxanadu is a spin-off of this game.

[deadringerdude]

What caused the lines? a lot of PC-88 games seem to have them, but what I've seen says that output was through RGB to monitor so it seems strange that the picture isn't crystal clear (sorry, I'm a noob with this stuff).

I intially thought the lines might be an attempt at some kind of dithering