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I believe the MSX 2 or 2+ added hardware support for scrolling which made many games much better. It's weird playing old MSX-1 games and having the background l
by bane 3y ago
I believe the MSX 2 or 2+ added hardware support for scrolling which made many games much better. It's weird playing old MSX-1 games and having the background lurch across the screen while single-color sprites move around in offset smoothness.
A few of the more popular games have smooth scrolling patches I believe to take advantage of the later hardware scrolling support.
I'd say that the MSX-2 and beyond games easily achieve a level somewhere between the NES and the Turbografx-16 when the hardware was really in full swing.
- timbit42 3y agoMSX 2 had the Yamaha V9938 which added vertical hardware scrolling and supported a light pen and mouse. MSX 2+ had the Yamaha V9957 which added horizontal hardware scrolling but didn't support a light pen or mouse.
- RetroTechie 3y agoV9958. Which also added some high color modes. Looked very impressive back then. But technically a V9958 is best regarded as a V9938 with some cosmetic tweaks. > and supported a light pen and mouse. Mice are supported through the joystick ports which are standard across MSX models (so eg. MSX1 + mouse = just plug in & write software to use it). V9938's light pen support was used in a few rare MSX2 machines. And yes V9958 removed this function.
- timbit42 3y agoSure, you can do a mouse on anything but the V9938 had support for it.