Hindsight: Which Console was REALLY more powerful? Super Nes or Genesis

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d21lewis said:

ethomaz said:
SNES overall but Mega Drive did have some powerful features... SNES had a chip inside the game cart that simulates 3D effects making games like Star Fox and Donkey Kong a gen ahead.

Donkey Kong Country didn't have any special chips, if I remember correctly.  Yoshi's Island, Starfox, Stunt Race FX and a few others did but Nintendo was pretty proud of having DKC run with just the power of the console.  Now, if you're talking about NES games like Castlevania 3 and Super Mario 3, then yeah.  Donkey Kong on the SNES?  Nah.

DKC didn't used a chip. They rendered the characters on workstations (Silicon Graphics if I'm remebering it correctly) and transformed on sprites to give the game a more advanced look. It was the first home console game with pre-rendered graphics (Killer Instinct was the first on arcades. I believe).