![04. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 4 - Gardandi Beach @WhiteKhakis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hhAa1sbFQBI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Good Player
Playlist: 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!
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A steam-punk shooter on the Genesis! This one is neat because it's all made in the conceit that it's an old-timey war-film, so don't 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 don't 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 you've leveled up a bit the health is more than satisfactory!
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Technical Notes:
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Check out the demo video for the explanation here:
youtube.com/watch?v=FPfN6ZHJR84
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Good Player
Playlist: 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!
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A steam-punk shooter on the Genesis! This one is neat because it's all made in the conceit that it's an old-timey war-film, so don't 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 don't 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 you've leveled up a bit the health is more than satisfactory!
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Technical Notes:
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Check out the demo video for the explanation here:
youtube.com/watch?v=FPfN6ZHJR84
![04. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 4 - Gardandi Beach](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hhAa1sbFQBI/mqdefault.jpg "04. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 4 - Gardandi Beach
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 02. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Character Bios](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hlaps90XeZ4/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 02. [FPGA 4K] Dinosaurs for Hire (Genesis) - Character Bios
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. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 1 - The Mine City of Rahl](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hnHr_Ld9NS8/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Steel Empire (Genesis) - Stage 1 - The Mine City of Rahl
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 earlier videos for the explanation here.")
![01. [FPGA 4K] Rad Racer (NES) - Courses 1-4](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i1l064WC9LE/mqdefault.jpg "01. [FPGA 4K] Rad Racer (NES) - Courses 1-4
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!
If youre a RAD enough dude, you should be able to handle the ridiculous speeds of this popular NES racer by Square! Yeah, you might have heard of their other decidedly less bodacious series, Final Fantasy. Pshaw! Thats for nerds! Rad Racer feeds my need for speed!
Courses and enemy vehicles featured in this video:
Player Vehicle - 328 Twin Turbo
Sunset Coastline - VW Bug
San Francisco Highway - Corvette
Grand Canyon - Citroën
Ruins of Athens - Mercedes Benz
Im always holding the acceleration button AND the UP button for the turbo which kicks in at 90 km/h or higher! Yeah. Weve gone all Euro here, deal! I attenuate my speed with the brakes on turns or when otherwise needed, but I never let go of those other buttons!
The game manual told me of this tubular button combo thatll let me retry a course if I dont make it to the goal in time by holding A when pressing Start after a Game Over on the PRESS START screen. Dont worry, I edited out those crashes, but it still wipes out my score. Bummer!
Some dork told me to let you know that this game has some extra black space on the bottom of the screen, but who cares? Im too busy keeping my eyes on the road!
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.")
![BONUS 03. [RGB QHD] The Adventures of Batman & Robin [HARD] (SNES) - Wrong Answers with Riddler](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iM1fpom1kV0/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 03. [RGB QHD] The Adventures of Batman & Robin [HARD] (SNES) - Wrong Answers with Riddler
No Commentary / Practiced Run / 1440p60 (4:3 Integer Upscale) / Hard Mode
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45AgjVKpmbFyyQGjHpP8Zi4
The video provided to YouTube is 4:4:4 and lossless! Details below in Technical Notes!
Hard Mode allows for no password saves and less retries!
That warp can be a real killer on progress! Also, I believe if you pick D Key youll only get two blades because there are only two sharps on that scale.
Technical Notes:
TL;DR: YouTube was provided a perfect video so pixels are sharp and shapes are correct.
I went for a 4:3 output with pixel perfect sharpness via integer upscales. The video is compressed losslessly so no definition is lost.
256 x 224 - internal SNES resolution (8:7)
256* 7 = 1792 / 4 = 448
224* 6 = 1344 / 3 = 448
1792 x 1334 = 4:3
So you can fit the nearest neigbor upscales in a 1440p frame and suffer no interpolation and have it in 4:3!
***More details potentially pending.***")
![02. [FPGA 4K] Fatal Labyrinth (Genesis) - Levels 05-09](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iybWahrj2dE/mqdefault.jpg "02. [FPGA 4K] Fatal Labyrinth (Genesis) - Levels 05-09
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio / Capable Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47OU4Tbpv0lXhiKnHJ0JfTS
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!
Time for some hints and tips! (More general info in first video)
As long as you have any amount of food you will heal as time passes. Very handy! Without food you lose health as time passes.
You identify items by using them and some can curse you or worse so be prepared!
Elemental rings are weird. You dont wear them and use spells... you throw them at your enemy to activate a one time use elemental bomb. You can also throw bad potions at enemies.
Chaos is one of the best spells forcing creatures to dance around aimlessly. They will attack if adjacent, however. If you choose to use or throw an item you will not change directions if youre confused.
Thats all Ive got for now!
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] Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - Make Money Fast!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j-BPBJHXLC4/mqdefault.jpg "EXTRA 02. [FPGA 4K] Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - Make Money Fast!
No Commentary / 4k60 (x15 Integer Upscale) / Experienced Player
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45ZPut_wX53gpziSb7z1vEe
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!
You can always just pocket 300+ coins if you feed all the enemies to the birds and dont play the bucket game!
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!")
![02. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Apartment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jrM0fQYCGbs/mqdefault.jpg "02. [FPGA 4K] Ghostbusters (Genesis) - Apartment
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!")
