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Discussion in 'Engineering & Reverse Engineering' started by LOst, Dec 25, 2005.

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  1. LOst

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    On hardware, very wierd things may happen when you write to the VDP. Some of you have forgotten that Sonic runs on the Genesis originally, and not in Gens. One of the biggest pain in Sonic is the water. Both in Sonic 1 and Sonic 2, dirty pixels are appearing at the title card in a water level. I found a way to remove them. I will use this technology in my upcomming hacks.

    Here is a visual fix that I managed to put into Game Genie to show you on real hardware. This is Megadrive Sonic 1 US PAL:
    http://www.kund.hemmanet.se/~lost/lzfix.avi

    You may need Windows Media 9 codec.
    Thanks to LocalH to give me a way to make the Genesis output almost perfect.
     
  2. LocalH

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    Ooh, very nice. I'd be interested in seeing this on real NTSC hardware myself.
     
  3. Heran Bago

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    I don't understand, I don't recall this... Could you describe it more?
     
  4. The Mighty Boosh

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    On water levels, when the title card shows, white pixels are visible at the bottom of the title card.

    I think this is what LOst is referring to (and fixed with the use of a game genie)
     
  5. Rika Chou

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    Most of my TVs cut off the bottom lines, so I never noticed this.
     
  6. LOst

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    That's probably why Naka never fixed the problem. When I saw the output of Fiz's Genesis, I realized that NTSC cuts the borders totally. THat's also why Rika made his hoax that way.

    As for LocalH. Game Genie has many limits, as I needed all the code slots to make this fix, it didn't work under water. Because I had to remove code where I inserted the new code. In my hacks I have a perfect fix. You will see this when I am done fixing the rest of the water bugs.
     
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