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Sep 21, 2017 · There are 2 tilemap planes available for use on the Sega Genesis: a background plane ("Plane B") and a foreground plane ("Plane A"). Depending on the machine type (NTSC or PAL) and the video mode used (H40 or H32 mode), a full-screen tilemap will take up either a width of 32 or 40 tiles by a height of 28 or 30 tiles.
Dec 2, 2015 · So here it is - Beehive: A Complete Art Tool for the SEGA Mega Drive! Well, it will be when it's finished. So far I've implemented: - Import tiles/palettes from bitmap (16 colour, indexed only) - Palette editing. - Palette swatch slots with import/export. - Tile editing.
Aug 5, 2019 · There are 2 tilemap planes available for use on the Sega Genesis: a background plane (“Plane B”) and foreground plane (“Plane A”). Depending on the machine type (NTSC or PAL) and the video mode used (H40 or H32 mode), a full screen tilemap will take up either a width of 32 or 40 tiles by a height of 28 or 30 tiles.
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Sega (and their TV ads) want you to know: Developers can’t come up with decent games unless the console provides faster graphics and richer sounds. Their new system includes lots of already familiarcomponents ready to be programmed. This means that, in theory, developers would only need to learn about Sega’s new GPU… right?
The answer is Blast Processing!, what else do you need to know? Okay, if you want to know the real answer: graphics data is processed by the 68000 and rendered on a proprietary chip called Video Display Processor(or ‘VDP’ for short) which then sends the resulting frame (in the form of scan lines) for display. The VDP runs at ~13 MHz and supports mu...
The audio capabilities of this console are a bit unorthodox, to say the least. On one side, the Mega Drive provides existing audio technology from the previous generation, on the other side, it adds a new (but complicated) synthesis technique on top of the existing one. So, in some ways, you get both generations. That being said, the Mega Drive hou...
Games are mainly written in 68000 assembly while the sound driver is implemented with Z80 assembly. Both reside in the cartridge ROM and can size up to 4 MB without the need for a mapper.
To block imported games, Sega slightly changed the shape of the cartridge slot between regions though it kept the same pinouts. Games could also perform ‘region locking’ by checking the value of the Versionregister (which outputs the region value). There were two easy ways to bypass this. First, by buying one of those third-party cartridge converte...
May 30, 2017 · The window layer is fixed to 32x28/30 in H256 and 64x28/30 H320 and you can freely use the unused parts for tiles. You can put one extra tile in the offscreen rows in the window tilemap in H320 (actually 1.5). One row takes 2 tiles in H256 and 4 tiles in H320 (of which 1.5 tiles can be used for other purposes).
But the map is very detailed to load 4096 tiles into limited VRAM of this console. Obviously a way to store, such example, 512 tiles, and dinamically modify these 512 tiles is needed to succesfully display the map on the screen for a Megadrive system. I was thinking on a way, via C coding, of load the first 512 tiles, and when the map advances ...
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Feb 8, 2010 · Tiles are stored in a top to bottem format. eg: if you make a 32x32 tile, and you change the tile height to 8, those tiles that go from top to bottem will now go from left to right, 1,2,3,4. All tiles are defined as 8x8 big.
