Shadow1980 said:
I'd put the SNES above the Genesis. It had multiple graphical advantages, including:
- A larger color palette (32,768 vs. 512 for the Genesis, a 64x difference)
- More on-screen colors (256 vs. 64 for the Genesis, a 4x difference)
- More on-screen sprites (128 vs. 80 for the Genesis)
- Larger sprites (64x64 max size vs. 32x32 for the Genesis)
- Sprite scaling/rotating via Mode 7
The Genesis did have the advantage of being able to render large numbers of sprites with less slowdown thanks to its faster CPU, but in most respects the SNES was |
Shadow1980 said:
I'd put the SNES above the Genesis. It had multiple graphical advantages, including:
- A larger color palette (32,768 vs. 512 for the Genesis, a 64x difference)
- More on-screen colors (256 vs. 64 for the Genesis, a 4x difference)
- More on-screen sprites (128 vs. 80 for the Genesis)
- Larger sprites (64x64 max size vs. 32x32 for the Genesis)
- Sprite scaling/rotating via Mode 7
The Genesis did have the advantage of being able to render large numbers of sprites with less slowdown thanks to its faster CPU, but in most respects the SNES was just a beefier system in terms of graphical prowess. The SNES's capabilities didn't always translate to better-looking games, and the Genesis had some stunning games in its own right, but on average the SNES seemed to pull off better-looking games on a more consistent basis. |
Didn't translate to better looking games because it wasn't straight forward better, anyone saying so is just fanboying
Genesis had higher resolution
More flexible sprites (snes could have 2 sizes at a time genesis could do any configuration) , oam tables were also really restricted
Genesis had a 512x512 sprite table snes had 2 128x128 tables
Both were limited to 15 color sprites and in practice snes games rarely if ever had 256 colors on screen during gameplay
Sound was more of gems (the Genesis sound driver) sucked , badly, snes sounded like over filtered and echoey
Graphically the snes couldn't do what the Genesis was good at and the Genesis couldn't do what the snes was good at
