![03a. [QHD] XCOM ABRIDGED! - Enemy Within (PC) - UFO Crash Site: Operation Crimson Crown @WhiteKhakis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xdhmXw9ycwk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
No Commentary / Edited Dynamically* / Classic Difficulty / 1440p60
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44G2wWcVD13Q891zTPTOjOk
I LOADED MY GAME ONCE NEAR THE END OF THIS MISSION. I DO NOT INTEND TO LOAD DURING THIS PLAYTHROUGH EXCEPT FOR GLITCHES AND SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. (Explanation below.)
*Wait times, overplanning, and dead time is edited out to make viewing much more interesting! I do try to include moments of forethought so it makes some sense and isn't just constant shooting.
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At the end of this mission around 16:10 you'll notice the battle music stop and then I move my sniper. This is because I loaded my game. I am NOT loading my game during this playthrough because I intend it to be an "Ironman" playthrough which is an option that disables saves. However... this game is full of glitches. Some of which can even brick your save. I had one happen to me before. Never again!
Anyway, I loaded here because the glitch made it appear that the "Outsider" enemy had loaded in and so I moved my Assault to take an easy close range shotgun blast using her "Run & Gun" ability that allows her to take a shot after dashing. So I moved in, and the Outsider immediately reacted and moved out of range behind cover with a clean shot that would kill my Assault unit.
I then loaded and instead moved my Sniper which "activated" the Outsider as you can see in the video and continued play.
Again, I do not make use of "cheat-loading" this playthrough. This was an unfortunate circumstance that confused me on the status of the enemy unit - it normally only manifests once it's already activated.
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First Video Description Follows
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Quick breakdown for you: XCOM is a long running series that set a definitive style of turn based battles using ranged weapons, various powers, and other equipment to repel the aliens menacing Earth!
Whew.
Anyway, this is the reboot which brought nice graphics and other doodads. The "Enemy Within" expansion pack is being used on the base game "XCOM: Enemy Unknown". It basically tightens up the mechanics and adds a couple new classes and the "meld" pickup to reward people for quickly moving through maps rather than biding their time.
Hopefully this "abridged" playthrough will be a refreshing way to view the series!
No Commentary / Edited Dynamically* / Classic Difficulty / 1440p60
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44G2wWcVD13Q891zTPTOjOk
I LOADED MY GAME ONCE NEAR THE END OF THIS MISSION. I DO NOT INTEND TO LOAD DURING THIS PLAYTHROUGH EXCEPT FOR GLITCHES AND SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. (Explanation below.)
*Wait times, overplanning, and dead time is edited out to make viewing much more interesting! I do try to include moments of forethought so it makes some sense and isn't just constant shooting.
---
At the end of this mission around 16:10 you'll notice the battle music stop and then I move my sniper. This is because I loaded my game. I am NOT loading my game during this playthrough because I intend it to be an "Ironman" playthrough which is an option that disables saves. However... this game is full of glitches. Some of which can even brick your save. I had one happen to me before. Never again!
Anyway, I loaded here because the glitch made it appear that the "Outsider" enemy had loaded in and so I moved my Assault to take an easy close range shotgun blast using her "Run & Gun" ability that allows her to take a shot after dashing. So I moved in, and the Outsider immediately reacted and moved out of range behind cover with a clean shot that would kill my Assault unit.
I then loaded and instead moved my Sniper which "activated" the Outsider as you can see in the video and continued play.
Again, I do not make use of "cheat-loading" this playthrough. This was an unfortunate circumstance that confused me on the status of the enemy unit - it normally only manifests once it's already activated.
----
First Video Description Follows
----
Quick breakdown for you: XCOM is a long running series that set a definitive style of turn based battles using ranged weapons, various powers, and other equipment to repel the aliens menacing Earth!
Whew.
Anyway, this is the reboot which brought nice graphics and other doodads. The "Enemy Within" expansion pack is being used on the base game "XCOM: Enemy Unknown". It basically tightens up the mechanics and adds a couple new classes and the "meld" pickup to reward people for quickly moving through maps rather than biding their time.
Hopefully this "abridged" playthrough will be a refreshing way to view the series!
![03a. [QHD] XCOM ABRIDGED! - Enemy Within (PC) - UFO Crash Site: Operation Crimson Crown](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xdhmXw9ycwk/mqdefault.jpg "03a. [QHD] XCOM ABRIDGED! - Enemy Within (PC) - UFO Crash Site: Operation Crimson Crown
No Commentary / Edited Dynamically* / Classic Difficulty / 1440p60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44G2wWcVD13Q891zTPTOjOk
I LOADED MY GAME ONCE NEAR THE END OF THIS MISSION. I DO NOT INTEND TO LOAD DURING THIS PLAYTHROUGH EXCEPT FOR GLITCHES AND SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. (Explanation below.)
*Wait times, overplanning, and dead time is edited out to make viewing much more interesting! I do try to include moments of forethought so it makes some sense and isnt just constant shooting.
At the end of this mission around 16:10 youll notice the battle music stop and then I move my sniper. This is because I loaded my game. I am NOT loading my game during this playthrough because I intend it to be an Ironman playthrough which is an option that disables saves. However... this game is full of glitches. Some of which can even brick your save. I had one happen to me before. Never again!
Anyway, I loaded here because the glitch made it appear that the Outsider enemy had loaded in and so I moved my Assault to take an easy close range shotgun blast using her Run & Gun ability that allows her to take a shot after dashing. So I moved in, and the Outsider immediately reacted and moved out of range behind cover with a clean shot that would kill my Assault unit.
I then loaded and instead moved my Sniper which activated the Outsider as you can see in the video and continued play.
Again, I do not make use of cheat-loading this playthrough. This was an unfortunate circumstance that confused me on the status of the enemy unit - it normally only manifests once its already activated.
First Video Description Follows
Quick breakdown for you: XCOM is a long running series that set a definitive style of turn based battles using ranged weapons, various powers, and other equipment to repel the aliens menacing Earth!
Whew.
Anyway, this is the reboot which brought nice graphics and other doodads. The Enemy Within expansion pack is being used on the base game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It basically tightens up the mechanics and adds a couple new classes and the meld pickup to reward people for quickly moving through maps rather than biding their time.
Hopefully this abridged playthrough will be a refreshing way to view the series!")
![01. [FPGA 4K] Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Genesis) - Grenada](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xirinftXSzQ/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Genesis) - Grenada
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR46qtK2RTc0uUIjF4NczHxVa
This is being played on an Analogue Mega Sg FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
Surfs up dude! Or not. Greendog has lost his ability to rip waves until he can find all the pieces to some randon aztec treasure because... plot? I dunno! Just listen to his beach babe, Bambi. Shell fill you in!
Greendog is a rather simplistic platformer made by the US branch of Segas game development teams probably trying to create another cool pseudo-mascot. And who wouldnt fall in love with the faceless beach bum? (Many people. Many.)
Games alright and has its place as a part of the odd history of Sega!
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct. Audio is high resolution compared to a Genesis system due to no processing constraints. Watch in 4k or 1440p if your computer can handle it.
This video has suffered no lossy compression before reaching YouTube! Its a lossless video file with no chroma subsampling (4:4:4). Essentially, its a perfect copy until YouTube works its magic which now makes it a 4:2:0 video with lossy compression, yes. However, the better the initial copy... the better!
The video was originally captured in a 320 x 224 resolution, the native square pixel resolution of most NTSC Genesis games, and then integer upscaled x9 times to 2880 x 2016 with black borders added along the outside for a clean 4k display!
This results in a pixel perfect output that is slightly wider than what you might have seen on your old CRT TV set! However, the pixels are sharp this way AND the art was designed in this pixel perfect resolution before being squashed to 4:3 back in the day. In short: Pixels are sharp AND circles are circles and squares are squares.
Some games were a 256 x 224 resolution, originally. These will be uploaded in 1440p to fill the screen as much as possible and maintain a pixel perfect integer upscale. The native resolution is far too thin for what the game looked like on a CRT OR for the art, so the width is integer scaled a step higher to result in a 4:3 aspect ratio (256 x 7 for 1792 and 224 x 6 for 1344 = 1792 x 1344). These will look a little thinner than the 320 x 224 games Im uploading, but the art will be crisp AND be how it looked in the old days!
Some games switch between 320 x 224 resolution and 256 x 224 resolution (Sonic 2 special stage, Lion King Stampede level, etc.). I will generally upload levels containing large sections in 256 x 224 resolution as 1440p to maintain perfect integer upscales and preferred ratios. 320 x 224 does not change ratio between 4k or 1440p. You will know when the genesis is using 256 x 224 cause the screen will shrink a little in these videos!
About the Mega SG... Its a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based game system which to explain in laymans terms (BY a layman): Its a chip dense with circuits and stuff that can be programmed to use only so many in whatever ways necessary to replicate another chip. Basically, if you can reverse engineer a genesis exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a genesis exactly. Which is what this is.
Im playing in Zero Delay mode so the game is running marginally faster. 0.15%, to be exact. Thats less than 1/7th of a single percent. Ive also cropped out the colored border Genesis games tend to have.
The sound has been tweaked slightly per FirebrandXs recommendations, Ive enabled YM2612 High Quality Mode for uncompressed audio, and I have not engaged the ladder effect or lowpass filter. This will definitely sound different than a normal genesis because of the latter option. Its essentially listening closer to what the source sound would be like before the Genesis muffles it a bit.
I also want to mention dithering for just a moment here. In Genesis games youll often see lines of color alternating here and there, this is because on an old CRT tv the screen would be a bit blurry resulting in those colors bleeding together and becoming a mix of the two. This can also result in transparencies if used correctly. Unfortunately with a clean digital image this wont happen. The only way to enable these extra colors is to blur the digital image and this certainly would not be pixel perfect as is my goal. I like to think that we are now able to see how the artists tried to achieve their effect! You can always squint your eyes a bit if you want to try to replicate the blurriness!")
![04. [4K] WarioWare Gold (3DS Capture) - Story Mode - Round 3 Games](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yHaWjJ-A5CU/mqdefault.jpg "04. [4K] WarioWare Gold (3DS Capture) - Story Mode - Round 3 Games
No Commentary / 4k60 (Integer Upscale) / Direct Capture
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR46ijTot9Uw3rHjTj5CfhTMw
This is being captured from an actual 3DS console with a built in capture card.
Its a-me, Wario~! Wahahaa! (I love this game.)
Technical Notes:
Ill keep it short for the time being: My 3DS has been modified to output sound and video to my computer and Im using OBS with various scenes to change the layout of the screens in the video. The screens are ALWAYS upscaled at a whole integer value using point/nearest neighbor so no interpolation/blurring is created there. So far, so good!")
![BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Demos](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yScqsWX8qNY/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Demos
No Commentary / Practiced Run (Bill Murray) / 4k60 (x9 Integer Upscale) / High Res Audio
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44zxYe2vrbFXiH2PJL6ssIE
This is being played on an Analogue Mega Sg FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
I aint fraid of no ghosts!
OooOo~! Spooky season may technically be over but its never a bad time to play a horror game! Wait, is this a horror game? Well, its moreso than the movie which was arguably more a comedy... Anyway~!
This is a mild-maze platformer where you gotta find and capture all the middle ghosts haunting a property then beat up the boss ghost! Yay for simplicity! Whats not so simple is the wide array of items and weapons and nonsense you can buy most of which youll get little to any use of because if you change them the music in the level resets! Booo~! Seriously though, there are two winning weapons and the rest have random usages.
Sometimes all you want is a simple game with a rocking tune!
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct. Audio is high resolution compared to a Genesis system due to no processing constraints. Watch in 4k or 1440p if your computer can handle it.
This video has suffered no lossy compression before reaching YouTube! Its a lossless video file with no chroma subsampling (4:4:4). Essentially, its a perfect copy until YouTube works its magic which now makes it a 4:2:0 video with lossy compression, yes. However, the better the initial copy... the better!
The video was originally captured in a 320 x 224 resolution, the native square pixel resolution of most NTSC Genesis games, and then integer upscaled x9 times to 2880 x 2016 with black borders added along the outside for a clean 4k display!
This results in a pixel perfect output that is slightly wider than what you might have seen on your old CRT TV set! However, the pixels are sharp this way AND the art was designed in this pixel perfect resolution before being squashed to 4:3 back in the day. In short: Pixels are sharp AND circles are circles and squares are squares.
Some games were a 256 x 224 resolution, originally. These will be uploaded in 1440p to fill the screen as much as possible and maintain a pixel perfect integer upscale. The native resolution is far too thin for what the game looked like on a CRT OR for the art, so the width is integer scaled a step higher to result in a 4:3 aspect ratio (256 x 7 for 1792 and 224 x 6 for 1344 = 1792 x 1344). These will look a little thinner than the 320 x 224 games Im uploading, but the art will be crisp AND be how it looked in the old days!
Some games switch between 320 x 224 resolution and 256 x 224 resolution (Sonic 2 special stage, Lion King Stampede level, etc.). I will generally upload levels containing large sections in 256 x 224 resolution as 1440p to maintain perfect integer upscales and preferred ratios. 320 x 224 does not change ratio between 4k or 1440p. You will know when the genesis is using 256 x 224 cause the screen will shrink a little in these videos!
About the Mega SG... Its a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based game system which to explain in laymans terms (BY a layman): Its a chip dense with circuits and stuff that can be programmed to use only so many in whatever ways necessary to replicate another chip. Basically, if you can reverse engineer a genesis exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a genesis exactly. Which is what this is.
Im playing in Zero Delay mode so the game is running marginally faster. 0.15%, to be exact. Thats less than 1/7th of a single percent. Ive also cropped out the colored border Genesis games tend to have.
The sound has been tweaked slightly per FirebrandXs recommendations, Ive enabled YM2612 High Quality Mode for uncompressed audio, and I have not engaged the ladder effect or lowpass filter. This will definitely sound different than a normal genesis because of the latter option. Its essentially listening closer to what the source sound would be like before the Genesis muffles it a bit.
I also want to mention dithering for just a moment here. In Genesis games youll often see lines of color alternating here and there, this is because on an old CRT tv the screen would be a bit blurry resulting in those colors bleeding together and becoming a mix of the two. This can also result in transparencies if used correctly. Unfortunately with a clean digital image this wont happen. The only way to enable these extra colors is to blur the digital image and this certainly would not be pixel perfect as is my goal. I like to think that we are now able to see how the artists tried to achieve their effect! You can always squint your eyes a bit if you want to try to replicate the blurriness!")
![06. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 6 - Germburn Fortress](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ydAlzi8Gl00/mqdefault.jpg "06. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 6 - Germburn Fortress
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Good Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR46PbQZRbXzsF6W-iBldSbyx
This is being played on an Analogue Mega Sg FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
A steam-punk shooter on the Genesis! This one is neat because its all made in the conceit that its an old-timey war-film, so dont adjust your sets! The cutscenes are meant to flicker.
Besides the aesthetic, the game has a couple uncommon shooter mechanics: The ability to shoot in either direction, and a persistent level-up system. Each time you grab an EX item you fill up one of three slots in your status bar. Once that fills and rolls over you gain a level giving you and your wingmen additional firepower. Even if you lose a life your weapons keep their strength!
Other items include an S for addional speed, an O which grants you wingmen (options), and a B for an additional smart bomb!
Bosses with multiple weapons that van be individually wrecked are featured and are destroyed once you demolish their core!
I choose to pilot the blimp for the first couple levels simply because it has more health. I dont care much for the way it lobs bombs or its mobility. The smaller craft you can pilot zips around and can fit between projectiles more readily. Once youve leveled up a bit the health is more than satisfactory!
Technical Notes:
Check out the demo video for the explanation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPfN6ZHJR84")
![BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Genesis) - Opening & Demos](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yjFFl2sHkHA/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! (Genesis) - Opening & Demos
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR46qtK2RTc0uUIjF4NczHxVa
This is being played on an Analogue Mega Sg FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
Surfs up dude! Or not. Greendog has lost his ability to rip waves until he can find all the pieces to some randon aztec treasure because... plot? I dunno! Just listen to his beach babe, Bambi. Shell fill you in!
Greendog is a rather simplistic platformer made by the US branch of Segas game development teams probably trying to create another cool pseudo-mascot. And who wouldnt fall in love with the faceless beach bum? (Many people. Many.)
Games alright and has its place as a part of the odd history of Sega!
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct. Audio is high resolution compared to a Genesis system due to no processing constraints. Watch in 4k or 1440p if your computer can handle it.
This video has suffered no lossy compression before reaching YouTube! Its a lossless video file with no chroma subsampling (4:4:4). Essentially, its a perfect copy until YouTube works its magic which now makes it a 4:2:0 video with lossy compression, yes. However, the better the initial copy... the better!
The video was originally captured in a 320 x 224 resolution, the native square pixel resolution of most NTSC Genesis games, and then integer upscaled x9 times to 2880 x 2016 with black borders added along the outside for a clean 4k display!
This results in a pixel perfect output that is slightly wider than what you might have seen on your old CRT TV set! However, the pixels are sharp this way AND the art was designed in this pixel perfect resolution before being squashed to 4:3 back in the day. In short: Pixels are sharp AND circles are circles and squares are squares.
Some games were a 256 x 224 resolution, originally. These will be uploaded in 1440p to fill the screen as much as possible and maintain a pixel perfect integer upscale. The native resolution is far too thin for what the game looked like on a CRT OR for the art, so the width is integer scaled a step higher to result in a 4:3 aspect ratio (256 x 7 for 1792 and 224 x 6 for 1344 = 1792 x 1344). These will look a little thinner than the 320 x 224 games Im uploading, but the art will be crisp AND be how it looked in the old days!
Some games switch between 320 x 224 resolution and 256 x 224 resolution (Sonic 2 special stage, Lion King Stampede level, etc.). I will generally upload levels containing large sections in 256 x 224 resolution as 1440p to maintain perfect integer upscales and preferred ratios. 320 x 224 does not change ratio between 4k or 1440p. You will know when the genesis is using 256 x 224 cause the screen will shrink a little in these videos!
About the Mega SG... Its a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based game system which to explain in laymans terms (BY a layman): Its a chip dense with circuits and stuff that can be programmed to use only so many in whatever ways necessary to replicate another chip. Basically, if you can reverse engineer a genesis exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a genesis exactly. Which is what this is.
Im playing in Zero Delay mode so the game is running marginally faster. 0.15%, to be exact. Thats less than 1/7th of a single percent. Ive also cropped out the colored border Genesis games tend to have.
The sound has been tweaked slightly per FirebrandXs recommendations, Ive enabled YM2612 High Quality Mode for uncompressed audio, and I have not engaged the ladder effect or lowpass filter. This will definitely sound different than a normal genesis because of the latter option. Its essentially listening closer to what the source sound would be like before the Genesis muffles it a bit.
I also want to mention dithering for just a moment here. In Genesis games youll often see lines of color alternating here and there, this is because on an old CRT tv the screen would be a bit blurry resulting in those colors bleeding together and becoming a mix of the two. This can also result in transparencies if used correctly. Unfortunately with a clean digital image this wont happen. The only way to enable these extra colors is to blur the digital image and this certainly would not be pixel perfect as is my goal. I like to think that we are now able to see how the artists tried to achieve their effect! You can always squint your eyes a bit if you want to try to replicate the blurriness!")
![07. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 7](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zOqbz1184tQ/mqdefault.jpg "07. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 7
No Commentary / Blind Run / 4k60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47Npz28houZEJDK9w9U6kv7
The Final Act! (Before DLC~)
Looks like an monochromatically spooky time! The puzzles are fairly standard but get a twist due to the rotating nature of the game (which surprisingly isnt too overplayed). Its overall a short length and does not overstay its welcome. Definitely the kind of quick entertainment I was looking for!
Technical Notes
This game has fairly simple puzzles so everything is pretty much captured as played. I do make a couple cuts in later levels if its me just doubling back and fumbling around. And I THINK on the level with the horn-guy I spliced in my first encounter with him which is why you may see an item I used still in my inventory. Uh... also sped up a puzzle in the DLC.")
![01b. [QHD] XCOM: EW (PC) Abridged - Base (Post Alien Abductions: Operation Unceasing Blade)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zbWGbp_XrcA/mqdefault.jpg "01b. [QHD] XCOM: EW (PC) Abridged - Base (Post Alien Abductions: Operation Unceasing Blade)
No Commentary / Edited Dynamically* / Classic Difficulty / 1440p60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44G2wWcVD13Q891zTPTOjOk
*Wait times, overplanning, and dead time is edited out to make viewing much more interesting! I do try to include moments of forethought so it makes some sense and isnt just constant shooting.
After every mission comes a base segment where you use your oddly limited resources to build up your operations so you can take out those darn aliens! This first segment has a bunch of hand holding but you get a nice overview of the base. I try to edit down the waits on some parts but be warned I do read all the flavor texts and descriptions in these!
Once I have full control of the base my main objective (besides general upgrades) is to increase my satellite coverage of the world because it helps protect countries and grants me monetary bonuses. Its resource intensive though and also requires a large number of engineers per additional satellite for the necessary relay buildings. Also sending out a satellite at the end of the month is important because you can clear the panic of a region by doing so and not have them leave XCOM during the monthly report.
Perhaps Ill include summaries of upgrades and such that I make in future descriptions for people that truly want things abridged... otherwise I recommend skipping through the video if youre impatient.
First Video Description Follows
Quick breakdown for you: XCOM is a long running series that set a definitive style of turn based battles using ranged weapons, various powers, and other equipment to repel the aliens menacing Earth!
Whew.
Anyway, this is the reboot which brought nice graphics and other doodads. The Enemy Within expansion pack is being used on the base game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It basically tightens up the mechanics and adds a couple new classes and the meld pickup to reward people for quickly moving through maps rather than biding their time.
Hopefully this abridged playthrough will be a refreshing way to view the series!")
![01. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Home Sweet Home](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zutWYb7Scbw/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Home Sweet Home
No Commentary / Practiced Run (Bill Murray) / 4k60 (x9 Integer Upscale) / High Res Audio
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44zxYe2vrbFXiH2PJL6ssIE
This is being played on an Analogue Mega Sg FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
I aint fraid of no ghosts!
OooOo~! Spooky season may technically be over but its never a bad time to play a horror game! Wait, is this a horror game? Well, its moreso than the movie which was arguably more a comedy... Anyway~!
This is a mild-maze platformer where you gotta find and capture all the middle ghosts haunting a property then beat up the boss ghost! Yay for simplicity! Whats not so simple is the wide array of items and weapons and nonsense you can buy most of which youll get little to any use of because if you change them the music in the level resets! Booo~! Seriously though, there are two winning weapons and the rest have random usages.
Sometimes all you want is a simple game with a rocking tune!
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct. Audio is high resolution compared to a Genesis system due to no processing constraints. Watch in 4k or 1440p if your computer can handle it.
This video has suffered no lossy compression before reaching YouTube! Its a lossless video file with no chroma subsampling (4:4:4). Essentially, its a perfect copy until YouTube works its magic which now makes it a 4:2:0 video with lossy compression, yes. However, the better the initial copy... the better!
The video was originally captured in a 320 x 224 resolution, the native square pixel resolution of most NTSC Genesis games, and then integer upscaled x9 times to 2880 x 2016 with black borders added along the outside for a clean 4k display!
This results in a pixel perfect output that is slightly wider than what you might have seen on your old CRT TV set! However, the pixels are sharp this way AND the art was designed in this pixel perfect resolution before being squashed to 4:3 back in the day. In short: Pixels are sharp AND circles are circles and squares are squares.
Some games were a 256 x 224 resolution, originally. These will be uploaded in 1440p to fill the screen as much as possible and maintain a pixel perfect integer upscale. The native resolution is far too thin for what the game looked like on a CRT OR for the art, so the width is integer scaled a step higher to result in a 4:3 aspect ratio (256 x 7 for 1792 and 224 x 6 for 1344 = 1792 x 1344). These will look a little thinner than the 320 x 224 games Im uploading, but the art will be crisp AND be how it looked in the old days!
Some games switch between 320 x 224 resolution and 256 x 224 resolution (Sonic 2 special stage, Lion King Stampede level, etc.). I will generally upload levels containing large sections in 256 x 224 resolution as 1440p to maintain perfect integer upscales and preferred ratios. 320 x 224 does not change ratio between 4k or 1440p. You will know when the genesis is using 256 x 224 cause the screen will shrink a little in these videos!
About the Mega SG... Its a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based game system which to explain in laymans terms (BY a layman): Its a chip dense with circuits and stuff that can be programmed to use only so many in whatever ways necessary to replicate another chip. Basically, if you can reverse engineer a genesis exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a genesis exactly. Which is what this is.
Im playing in Zero Delay mode so the game is running marginally faster. 0.15%, to be exact. Thats less than 1/7th of a single percent. Ive also cropped out the colored border Genesis games tend to have.
The sound has been tweaked slightly per FirebrandXs recommendations, Ive enabled YM2612 High Quality Mode for uncompressed audio, and I have not engaged the ladder effect or lowpass filter. This will definitely sound different than a normal genesis because of the latter option. Its essentially listening closer to what the source sound would be like before the Genesis muffles it a bit.
I also want to mention dithering for just a moment here. In Genesis games youll often see lines of color alternating here and there, this is because on an old CRT tv the screen would be a bit blurry resulting in those colors bleeding together and becoming a mix of the two. This can also result in transparencies if used correctly. Unfortunately with a clean digital image this wont happen. The only way to enable these extra colors is to blur the digital image and this certainly would not be pixel perfect as is my goal. I like to think that we are now able to see how the artists tried to achieve their effect! You can always squint your eyes a bit if you want to try to replicate the blurriness!")
![EXTRA 02. [FPGA 4K] The Castlevania Adventure - Unedited Playthrough](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zwbzGO0stvI/mqdefault.jpg "EXTRA 02. [FPGA 4K] The Castlevania Adventure - Unedited Playthrough
No Commentary / 4k60 (x15 Integer Upscale) / Near-Expert (Except Last Stage)
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45aZ1TACwvzzUzOVKKTcbEy
***A few deaths remain in this playthrough***
***This game is FULL of bad scrolling and graphical artifacts. Maybe the amazing music will distract you from the rushed programming!***
This is being played on an AnaloguePocket FPGA game console allowing for clear output in sound and audio! The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
As mentioned above, this game has issues but it was my first title on the system so I didnt mind! Except the ignored whip/jump inputs could be a bother. ...and the slow pacing. And the weird physics. And the ENTIRE MISSING PLATFORMS ON AUTOSCROLLING SEGMENTS.
I still loved it.
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct. Watch in 4k if your computer can handle it.
This video has suffered no lossy compression before reaching YouTube! Its a lossless video file with no chroma subsampling (4:4:4). Essentially, its a perfect copy until YouTube works its magic which now makes it a 4:2:0 video with lossy compression, yes. However, the better the initial copy... the better!
The video was originally captured in a 160 x 144 resolution, the native resolution of Game Boy, and then integer upscaled x15 times to 2400 x 2160 for a clean 4k display!
About the Analogue Pocket: Its a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based game system which to explain in laymans terms (BY a layman): Its a chip dense with circuits and stuff that can be programmed to use only so many in whatever ways necessary to replicate another chip. Basically, if you can reverse engineer a Game Boy exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a Game Boy exactly. Which is what this is.
Ive turned off Frame Blending in the options because it overall softens the picture with the minimal benefit of making transparencies not flicker. Ive also chosen not to use the really cool video mode which makes it look like a Game Boy Screen because that would mess up the lossless video Im capturing. I can always add a filter later if I want to!")
