![04. [4K] The Swindle (PC) - One Thief Attempt - Casino Town @WhiteKhakis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5uKhBk2eV4/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
No Commentary / 4k60 / Experienced Player
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44DWZlv4i_GGml2iM6kbVty
Steampunk Thievery at its finest! Procedurally generated so it's always a surprise!
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Last video I talked about some confusing physics in this game but failed to mention the most annoying one of all:
STAIRS.
Freaking stairs are your number one wildcard after drones. They might eat your jump, they might not! Maybe when traversing them you''ll be considered "falling" so many of your actions are delayed/unavoidable. Basically, they make it so you have no idea how reliable your movements will be. If there's a sticky situation beyond them this can be devastating. My recommendation is to try to make it so the stairs aren't part of your plan whether it means avoiding them or blowing them up!
An easily missed mechanic that's helpful is the wall scramble. If you jump up towards a wall and are one "block" short of reaching it to stick your character will scramble up it if you are in a certain position. It's closer than not, but it's still rather hard to get just right but it's a powerful tool to learn!
And we'll end with a glitch that's new to me but when hacking a door I've sometimes found myself frozen in place afterwards. I'm not sure why this is happening but if I have a bomb in my pack I can start placing it (and cancel) to break out of the freeze. Still unpleasant when it happens. Another door related incident is if you are hacking close to one the door may open as you hack which can let unwanted robots peek in, so beware! Final door-thing: You may notice I've been avoiding an upgrade. I forget the exact name but it lets you bust through a door damaging whoever is behind it. It's a bit wonky in execution and honestly I would rather not accidentally break a door, so I avoid its purchase.
It may sound like a bunch of criticism I'm levying against the game here, but these are oddities that I feel are worth mentioning. As a whole they are controllable if you understand where and when they may occur.
No Commentary / 4k60 / Experienced Player
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44DWZlv4i_GGml2iM6kbVty
Steampunk Thievery at its finest! Procedurally generated so it's always a surprise!
----
Last video I talked about some confusing physics in this game but failed to mention the most annoying one of all:
STAIRS.
Freaking stairs are your number one wildcard after drones. They might eat your jump, they might not! Maybe when traversing them you''ll be considered "falling" so many of your actions are delayed/unavoidable. Basically, they make it so you have no idea how reliable your movements will be. If there's a sticky situation beyond them this can be devastating. My recommendation is to try to make it so the stairs aren't part of your plan whether it means avoiding them or blowing them up!
An easily missed mechanic that's helpful is the wall scramble. If you jump up towards a wall and are one "block" short of reaching it to stick your character will scramble up it if you are in a certain position. It's closer than not, but it's still rather hard to get just right but it's a powerful tool to learn!
And we'll end with a glitch that's new to me but when hacking a door I've sometimes found myself frozen in place afterwards. I'm not sure why this is happening but if I have a bomb in my pack I can start placing it (and cancel) to break out of the freeze. Still unpleasant when it happens. Another door related incident is if you are hacking close to one the door may open as you hack which can let unwanted robots peek in, so beware! Final door-thing: You may notice I've been avoiding an upgrade. I forget the exact name but it lets you bust through a door damaging whoever is behind it. It's a bit wonky in execution and honestly I would rather not accidentally break a door, so I avoid its purchase.
It may sound like a bunch of criticism I'm levying against the game here, but these are oddities that I feel are worth mentioning. As a whole they are controllable if you understand where and when they may occur.
![04. [4K] The Swindle (PC) - One Thief Attempt - Casino Town](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5uKhBk2eV4/mqdefault.jpg "04. [4K] The Swindle (PC) - One Thief Attempt - Casino Town
No Commentary / 4k60 / Experienced Player
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44DWZlv4i_GGml2iM6kbVty
Steampunk Thievery at its finest! Procedurally generated so its always a surprise!
Last video I talked about some confusing physics in this game but failed to mention the most annoying one of all:
STAIRS.
Freaking stairs are your number one wildcard after drones. They might eat your jump, they might not! Maybe when traversing them youll be considered falling so many of your actions are delayed/unavoidable. Basically, they make it so you have no idea how reliable your movements will be. If theres a sticky situation beyond them this can be devastating. My recommendation is to try to make it so the stairs arent part of your plan whether it means avoiding them or blowing them up!
An easily missed mechanic thats helpful is the wall scramble. If you jump up towards a wall and are one block short of reaching it to stick your character will scramble up it if you are in a certain position. Its closer than not, but its still rather hard to get just right but its a powerful tool to learn!
And well end with a glitch thats new to me but when hacking a door Ive sometimes found myself frozen in place afterwards. Im not sure why this is happening but if I have a bomb in my pack I can start placing it (and cancel) to break out of the freeze. Still unpleasant when it happens. Another door related incident is if you are hacking close to one the door may open as you hack which can let unwanted robots peek in, so beware! Final door-thing: You may notice Ive been avoiding an upgrade. I forget the exact name but it lets you bust through a door damaging whoever is behind it. Its a bit wonky in execution and honestly I would rather not accidentally break a door, so I avoid its purchase.
It may sound like a bunch of criticism Im levying against the game here, but these are oddities that I feel are worth mentioning. As a whole they are controllable if you understand where and when they may occur.")
![01. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Level One](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UBLzP7x22Ac/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Level One
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Capable Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47cFeVP5ZPojNHCpuwcSEUX
Full Title: Tom Masons Dinosaurs for Hire
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!
Originally a comic book, this game is about 3 wisecracking dinosaurs that are actually aliens who LOOK like small dinosaurs running a mercenary gig while wielding ginormous firearms.
Its better not to worry about it.
This is contra-esque run and gun with some wonky platforming and design choices - but - overall is a fine brainless time once you know whats coming.
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!")
![01. [4K] Everspace: Encounters (PC) GYRO CONTROL - First Attempt!* - Sector 01](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UfnBd2o4Ks8/mqdefault.jpg "01. [4K] Everspace: Encounters (PC) GYRO CONTROL - First Attempt!* - Sector 01
No Commentary / 4k60 / Fairly New Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47QRIEp3uYFjDSbIKZSiAjM
*This is my first attempt after a clean reset of the game following a few practice runs calibrating gyro controls and the like. Its a pretty solid go, surprisingly! Better than some of my following runs.
You know what a space exploration/dogfighting game needs? It needs to be a rogue-like/lite! I would have never thought of something like this being a thing but here we are. And its beautiful. Looking, that is. I maxed out all the settings and this thing looks magnificent.
Also, Im using gyro controls to aim/steer (yaw and pitch). The game is kinda odd in that you normally would use your mouse to move the aiming reticule across the screen and the closer you get to the edges the more you turn, but instead I mapped that to gyro. Originally I was using the cockpit view but that didnt play so nicely with certain control elements so Ive taken us outside the ship. Its actually kinda cool out here and with the odd aiming system it works out.
As for how the game plays... youve got a limited time in each section to pick up as many resources as you can while fending off baddies before super dangerous reinforcements swoop in to clean you up! Resources in early runs arent as useful because you dont have the blueprints collected yet to build the neater things, but its still a good idea to get used to the process.
And the fights can get very heated very fast. One slip-up and youll be short on energy or health or swarmed to submission! Its not a very forgiving title in that respect. I mean, it IS a rogue-like. Your best bet is to try to incapacitate as many as possible before a real fight begins and to keep moving!
Good concept, pretty game, but~... way too grindy. After playing it for a bit I feel like itll take a bit too long to pick up the credits to upgrade a ship to an amount Ill enjoy let alone all the permanent upgrades you can pick up, too. And then the resource gathering in the game takes a while too, iunno. Its good, but needs some kind of tuning to keep the game moving at a brisker pace, I think. Id almost think that if you were allowed to just sense where everything is it wouldnt be too strong a benefit because of how you have to hurry yourself before reinforcements come in. Well, maybe things are better done in the sequel!")
![03. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Level Three](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V7RBzvIgqwI/mqdefault.jpg "03. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Level Three
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Capable Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47cFeVP5ZPojNHCpuwcSEUX
Full Title: Tom Masons Dinosaurs for Hire
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!
Originally a comic book, this game is about 3 wisecracking dinosaurs that are actually aliens who LOOK like small dinosaurs running a mercenary gig while wielding ginormous firearms.
Its better not to worry about it.
This is contra-esque run and gun with some wonky platforming and design choices - but - overall is a fine brainless time once you know whats coming.
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!")
![02. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Through Transylvania](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vd47usNinZI/mqdefault.jpg "02. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Through Transylvania
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Experienced Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45YP4HVy8IN0stGHJCUmwOm
Full Title: QuackShot Starring Donald Duck
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!
Donald finds a hidden treasure map among Uncle Scrooges books and does he share the find? Aw, phooey! That old bags got enough money as is! So Donald charters a plane and gears up for an adventure to claim it himself! With all the money he doesnt have!
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!")
![01. [FPGA 4K] Sub-Terrania (Genesis) - HARD Mode - Level One](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WjlM-y9iS-k/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Sub-Terrania (Genesis) - HARD Mode - Level One
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45plDi7TC7PeBUFKsd7fjxv
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!
Touted as one of the hardest games on the Genesis, Sub-Terrania is an exploratory shooter where gravity is constantly pulling on your ship as you contend against various monstrosities and objectives!
Ill be playing the game on Hard difficulty because it turns out that that was the intended experience. It has stronger gravity and inertia which actually affect your motion making it a much more bumpy ride than the other difficulties.
There are a couple other minor changes with the difficulty but the main one I noticed was how when youre dragging things attached to your ship that youll EXPLODE if the attached component knocks into a wall. Also your shields are weaker.
Its one of those learn what to do then do it all together in future runs games. Good, tricky fun!
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!")
![05. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Hideout](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X-42r0kZrqY/mqdefault.jpg "05. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Hideout
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Experienced Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45YP4HVy8IN0stGHJCUmwOm
Full Title: QuackShot Starring Donald Duck
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!
Donald finds a hidden treasure map among Uncle Scrooges books and does he share the find? Aw, phooey! That old bags got enough money as is! So Donald charters a plane and gears up for an adventure to claim it himself! With all the money he doesnt have!
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 01. [4K] The Swindle (PC) - Additional Bank & The Swindle Heists](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XQSlbOZsp4Q/mqdefault.jpg "EXTRA 01. [4K] The Swindle (PC) - Additional Bank & The Swindle Heists
No Commentary / 4k60 / Experienced Player
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44DWZlv4i_GGml2iM6kbVty
Some additional gameplay showing you more of these levels!
This was one of the thieves I played with between the loss of my original guy. One of my better goes, too.")
![BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Rad Racer (NES) - Title & Demo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YYglnkcog0U/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 01. [FPGA 4K] Rad Racer (NES) - Title & Demo
No Commentary / 4k60 (4:3 Integer Upscale) / Digital Prime (FBX) Color Palette / Decent Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44Lsym0AXzlkcixYzLe0jhU
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!
Not much to this Demo, the guy doesnt even know how to turn!
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!
I went for a 4:3 output with pixel perfect sharpness via integer upscales. 4:3 was selected because this was the aspect ratio people played the game in on the original console. The video is compressed losslessly so no definition is lost.
256 x 240 - internal NES resolution
256* 10 = 2560 / 4 = 640
240* 8 = 1920 / 3 = 640
2560 x 1920 = 4:3
So you can fit the nearest neighbor upscales in a 4k frame and suffer no interpolation and have it in 4:3!
Im using the Digital Prime (FBX) Color Palette developed by FirebrandX. The Nintendo Entertainment System does not have any way of letting you know what its colors should be EXACTLY by our current digital standards. It was all analog and cant be translated precisely. This hasnt stopped some people from trying though! The Digital Prime (FBX) Color Palette was developed to look very nice and accurate to how a modern day NES would appear!
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 NES exactly, you can pretty much program this chip to behave like a NES exactly. Which is what this is.
Im playing this using the OpenFPGA feature on the Analogue Pocket which allows developers to import/create cores (systems) to be used by the FPGA chip. The Spiritualized NES core is the one being played on and is widely considered to be a port of the core in Analogues NT Mini/Noir systems and made by the same developer.
Im using the Analogue Dock to play this on my TV and capture the footage.")
