What is so special about SNES mode 7?

[Rogue Trooper]

What? I threw down the gauntlet there and none has responded!!!!

Was hoping to be given names of shmups to try on the old MD..... I've played a few over the years (Gairies was the business if I remember right) but currently I only have Thunderforce IV, Subterrania and Space Invaders '91 - 3 excellent shmups but I'm looking to for more..

Never played Super Aleste, so could'nt really comment.

MD shootahs though? hmn,if looking for technical feats, try Red Zone, Panorama Cotton or 3D sections of Lawnmower Man would be my suggestions.

[TL]

cheers......lots to look out for there.

Just remembered I have Raiden Trad too - not a bad port.

It's ok, I am just spoiled by the Jag version 

[108 Stars]

What? I threw down the gauntlet there and none has responded!!!!

Was hoping to be given names of shmups to try on the old MD..... I've played a few over the years (Gairies was the business if I remember right) but currently I only have Thunderforce IV, Subterrania and Space Invaders '91 - 3 excellent shmups but I'm looking to for more..

I like Thunder Force IVs graphics better than Super Aleste's, but you already have that.^^

Super Aleste has some great mode 7 effects + lots of sprites though, I must admit.

Maybe you should try MUSHA Aleste? The MD Aleste is not as technically advanced (it's an earlier MD game), but I think shooter fans often prefer it from Super.

[davyk]

Anyone have an opinion on the Thundeforce compilation for Saturn? think it has at least one of the earlier Thunderforce MD games?

[Rogue Trooper]

Anyone have an opinion on the Thundeforce compilation for Saturn? think it has at least one of the earlier Thunderforce MD games?

Know of the Thunder Force Gold packs.Vol 1 has Thunderforce 2 and Thunderforce 3.

Vol 2 has thunderforce IV+Arcade.

These what your after?

[TL]

At Revival this weekend somebody was playing Val D'Isere on my Jaguar and remarked that "Atari were trying to copy Nintendo's mode 7 with this game it looks like"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!

[Rogue Trooper]

At Revival this weekend somebody was playing Val D'Isere on my Jaguar and remarked that "Atari were trying to copy Nintendo's mode 7 with this game it looks like"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!

:-) It was'nt a magazine editor by any chance was it?.

No, honestly.....at this bloody rate Nintendo will have invented everything that ever was in gaming, graphics, sound, controllers, electricity, those stupid little plastic slug things that are used in packaging, all had Nintendo's hand in it, just like the gaming equiv.of Rod Hull, bat the incident of falling off a roof trying to fix a TV aerial.

[TL]

No, honestly.....at this bloody rate Nintendo will have invented everything that ever was in gaming, graphics, sound, controllers, electricity, those stupid little plastic slug things that are used in packaging

You mean they didn't!  :3:

[Rogue Trooper]

No, honestly.....at this bloody rate Nintendo will have invented everything that ever was in gaming, graphics, sound, controllers, electricity, those stupid little plastic slug things that are used in packaging

You mean they didn't!  :3:

Think they are still ironing out just what role Nintendo had in:

Sliced Bread, The Wheel, Flight, Walking Upright, seems some chap has discovered some cavepaintings in his garage loft, crude scratches etc but if you squint and get the light just right, you can make out the words...ugghhhhh....'is me....oggga..Mario....and just the faint outline of a 'tache


Apparently Nintendo's flock say SEGA was just put on this Earth to 'test their' faith, for is it not written in the scrolls (now avaiable in tablet form-Android, iOs etc) that Lo, did Nintendo not go forth into the wilderness (UK), bearing fruit (years old arcade conversions and tat) and thus did the people not fall to their knees, wailing with joy and thus were saved from eternal damnation...?


Or was that just the NES collectors guide in RG?.

[DreamcastRIP]

No, honestly.....at this bloody rate Nintendo will have invented everything that ever was in gaming, graphics, sound, controllers, electricity, those stupid little plastic slug things that are used in packaging

You mean they didn't!  :3:

Think they are still ironing out just what role Nintendo had in:

Sliced Bread, The Wheel, Flight, Walking Upright, seems some chap has discovered some cavepaintings in his garage loft, crude scratches etc but if you squint and get the light just right, you can make out the words...ugghhhhh....'is me....oggga..Mario....and just the faint outline of a 'tache


Apparently Nintendo's flock say SEGA was just put on this Earth to 'test their' faith, for is it not written in the scrolls (now avaiable in tablet form-Android, iOs etc) that Lo, did Nintendo not go forth into the wilderness (UK), bearing fruit (years old arcade conversions and tat) and thus did the people not fall to their knees, wailing with joy and thus were saved from eternal damnation...?


Or was that just the NES collectors guide in RG?.

The case of the Turin Shroud was a myth too, RT. The internets tells us so...



 

[Rogue Trooper]

No, honestly.....at this bloody rate Nintendo will have invented everything that ever was in gaming, graphics, sound, controllers, electricity, those stupid little plastic slug things that are used in packaging

You mean they didn't!  :3:

Think they are still ironing out just what role Nintendo had in:

Sliced Bread, The Wheel, Flight, Walking Upright, seems some chap has discovered some cavepaintings in his garage loft, crude scratches etc but if you squint and get the light just right, you can make out the words...ugghhhhh....'is me....oggga..Mario....and just the faint outline of a 'tache


Apparently Nintendo's flock say SEGA was just put on this Earth to 'test their' faith, for is it not written in the scrolls (now avaiable in tablet form-Android, iOs etc) that Lo, did Nintendo not go forth into the wilderness (UK), bearing fruit (years old arcade conversions and tat) and thus did the people not fall to their knees, wailing with joy and thus were saved from eternal damnation...?


Or was that just the NES collectors guide in RG?.

The case of the Turin Shroud was a myth too, RT. The internets tells us so...



 :24:   Thought Nintendo had strict policy regarding images from the Bible?

[davyk]

Anyone have an opinion on the Thundeforce compilation for Saturn? think it has at least one of the earlier Thunderforce MD games?

Know of the Thunder Force Gold packs.Vol 1 has Thunderforce 2 and Thunderforce 3.

Vol 2 has thunderforce IV+Arcade.

These what your after?

That's it......are they any good?

[Crusto]

Hellfire (MD) was highly regarded back in the day davyk. Don't hear so much of it nowadays, I remember being impressed with it.

[TL]

My favourite use of SNES Mode 7 is probably the overhead sections from Contra 3:

Contra III - The Alien Wars - HQ Stage 5 (ZSNES 1.42)

[TL]

Just came across this video:

mode 7 baby