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Tangentially, here's an explainer on how the original SNES Mode7 actually worked, with excellent animations demonstrating the input, settings, and output: http
by AceJohnny2 3y ago
Tangentially, here's an explainer on how the original SNES Mode7 actually worked, with excellent animations demonstrating the input, settings, and output:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVN_Ze7bzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVN_Ze7bzw
(I highly recommend the entire channel, Retro Game Mechanics Explained, https://www.youtube.com/@RGMechEx https://www.youtube.com/@RGMechEx, for top-notch content)
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoThe quality of these videos are absurdly high: technically very deep and well illustrated. I'd love to know what tools he uses to create them.
- bestham 3y agoMy bet is that they used native code and an emulator for a lot of the effects.
- msephton 3y agoEmulator with Lua capability.
- hbn 3y agoHe actually did a video about part of the process, in this case importing memory data from the game into After Effects to annotate sprites with 1:1 tracking. It's pretty impressive and seems like a lot of work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVx4QI6fIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVx4QI6fIM
- araker 3y agoI can also recommend these blog posts about mode 7 (2 parts) https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7.htm https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7.htm https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7ex.htm https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7ex.htm