![06. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 6 @WhiteKhakis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fXlzbTDGRWk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
No Commentary / Blind Run / 4k60
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47Npz28houZEJDK9w9U6kv7
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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 isn't too overplayed). It's overall a short length and does not overstay its welcome. Definitely the kind of quick entertainment I was looking for!
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Technical Notes
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This game has fairly simple puzzles so everything is pretty much captured as played. I do make a couple cuts in later levels if it's 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.
No Commentary / Blind Run / 4k60
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47Npz28houZEJDK9w9U6kv7
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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 isn't too overplayed). It's overall a short length and does not overstay its welcome. Definitely the kind of quick entertainment I was looking for!
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Technical Notes
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This game has fairly simple puzzles so everything is pretty much captured as played. I do make a couple cuts in later levels if it's 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.
![06. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 6](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fXlzbTDGRWk/mqdefault.jpg "06. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 6
No Commentary / Blind Run / 4k60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47Npz28houZEJDK9w9U6kv7
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.")
![BONUS 03. [QHD] XCOM: EW (PC) Abridged - Tutorial Mission 03: Meld](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fZor76jVdr4/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 03. [QHD] XCOM: EW (PC) Abridged - Tutorial Mission 03: Meld
No Commentary / Edited Dynamically* / Classic Difficulty / 1440p60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR44G2wWcVD13Q891zTPTOjOk
THESE TUTORIAL VIDEOS ARE FROM A SEPERATE PLAYTHROUGH AND DO NOT CONTINUE INTO THE MAIN SET OF VIDEOS.
*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.
This mission appears if you tick the box for the meld tutorial mission in options. Basically, meld is a new pickup in the Enemy Within expansion pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown and it grants you access to some new tech trees later on. Its good stuff and it makes you want to move quicker through a mission rather than hunker down in a safe spot since the Meld will self-destruct after a bit.
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!")
![07. [FPGA 4K] Sub-Terrania (Genesis) - HARD Mode - Level Seven](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g1qmv9diO_I/mqdefault.jpg "07. [FPGA 4K] Sub-Terrania (Genesis) - HARD Mode - Level Seven
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!")
![BONUS 02. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Game Over](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gJ7iRqQIEJg/mqdefault.jpg "BONUS 02. [FPGA 4K] QuackShot (Genesis) - Game Over
No Commentary / 4k60 (x9 Integer9 Upscale) / High Res Audio
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. [4K] WarioWare Gold (3DS Capture) - Story Mode - Intro Games](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gKehYJYlsIE/mqdefault.jpg "01. [4K] WarioWare Gold (3DS Capture) - Story Mode - Intro 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!")
![EXTRA 01. [FPGA 4K] The Castlevania Adventure - Title Loop](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hFc5TOg9DvE/mqdefault.jpg "EXTRA 01. [FPGA 4K] The Castlevania Adventure - Title Loop
No Commentary / 4k60 (x15 Integer Upscale) / Near-Expert
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR45aZ1TACwvzzUzOVKKTcbEy
***NO DEMOS in this game***
***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!")
![01. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 1](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hQ_ByXXu594/mqdefault.jpg "01. [4k60] Darq (PC) - Chapter 1
No Commentary / Blind Run / 4k60
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47Npz28houZEJDK9w9U6kv7
Ive heard about this game but havent given it a look/go until now; just what am I in for?
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.")
![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.")
