Those jump/fall sprite animations are too fun to watch.

So THAT is what Dr. Claw looks like

During the boss fights, I noticed there was something unusual about the Mode 7 effects. Sprite transformations like rotating, squashing, stretching, growing, and shrinking aren’t unusual for SNES games, but usually they have that aliased and jittery look to them, whereas the transformations here are smooth. I paused the video and by the Pharaoh head boss fight I found the very surprising culprit. Apparently, the game uses bilinear filtering on the Mode 7 sprites? Bilinear filtering is a pretty obscure term that usually is a nuisance to pixel art, but to see it here in a SNES game of all places is so confusing. It raises so many questions; how do you add bilinear filtering to Mode 7 on a SNES in real time? Why did the developers go out of their way to have bilinear filtering when nearest neighbor was fine for every other developer? In fact, nearest neighbor is so popular, it persists in pixel art games today! Most importantly, why would they use a needlessly advanced scaling algorithm for the special effects in a game about Inspector Gadget?!? It’s only a small detail, but it’s very unique and has confusing implications. It’s a shame that these obscure developers who’ve been defunct for over a decade had so much talent in using ridiculously advanced techniques for the special effects of a licensed game. The most surprising part is that with the SNES’s resolution and color pallet limits, the use of bilinear filtering with pixel art actually looks really good, at least in motion, and it doesn’t come with the downside of the billions of colors bilinear filtering introduces in modern photo-editors. EDIT: never mind, I’m stupid and bilinear filtering on Mode 7 is an issue with the Snes9x emulator. It would be interesting if bilinear mode 7 could be introduced as an option for other emulators, but here it’s an issue you can’t turn off.

@ezgames6925

2 жыл бұрын

From what I understand, this version of snes9x has some graphical error with the mode 7 emulation, so bilinear filtering has to be used for it.

@johnclark926

2 жыл бұрын

@allright715 damn, I was searching up “bilinear filtering mode 7” and nothing came up, and I assumed that TASvideos doesn’t upload videos with weird “enhancements”, I had a gut feeling there might have been something to do with the emulator but from what I searched it didn’t seem the case.

@johnclark926

2 жыл бұрын

@@ezgames6925 oh, that explains everything. The description showed this was an old TAS, but I hadn’t known what emulator was used until I clicked the link in there. I wonder if there could be a way to transfer the inputs from this TAS to a more accurate emulator to remove any graphical glitches.

Go Gadget Go!

I have a soft spot for these 90s platformers where the levels are basically nothing to do with the title characters. Did developers premake games and then just slap some characters on once it got licensed?

@Mordecrox

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually the case for many. Sunman, an unreleased Sunsoft game is an example, however that one was mostly meant to be a Superman game if they got a license. Many would have a few barebone games for such cases.

@chrismingay6005

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mordecrox Haha brilliant, thanks for the reply!

Weird, Inspector Gadget saved the day, not Penny and Brain.

Inspector *PINGAS*

This is like crazy Super Mario World in a way 🤔

@adventureoflinkmk2

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me more like super ghouls n ghosts

Inspector Gadget for the S-NES is based on the popular kids show that used to air in the 80s to late 90s/early 2000's.

Happy new year!!!

That castle sure had a lot of BROWN BRICKS

@user-qj3nh4jb3f

2 жыл бұрын

Also this game looks like MINECRAP

"I love building brown bricks with Minecraft!"

Stay up legends!

Ah yes, Hudson Soft's take on Super Ghouls n Ghosts... Only not as bad

Cool.

i miss this lil nigga like you wouldnt believe