Overdrive by Titan (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Demo) 

The trick that used is Palette swap, where the palette is swapped to another color during h-blank, so yes, you can cram more colors to limited colors of palette to theoretically unlimited colors. Mega drive has 64 colors, each with 16 colors per sprite.

Nah. They're just speaking the language of the Sega Genesis really well. (i.e. no program parsers/interpreters, or code translation. That would take extra power.)

I know Virtua Racing heats mine, or maybe it's because I play it for hours at a time lol

Not sure if some of the later cost reduced Genesis consoles could play this 100% without glitches

Blast processing can’t Handel the titan

@Critty I know that isn't true, my NES would get hot if left on for long hours.

Genesis does what Nintendon’t!

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial Actually comparing with this video in special... no ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-di_MnKNDfm0.html

It's called a demo.

Sega probably didn't have these skills, but Treasure certainly did!

@@lunaticmotorstormer i mean i cant say you're wrong, but even sega games are impressive like sonic 3 & k , ristar, and the stuff from sega technical institute , but thats like late in the console's life tho

@@bangerbangerbro i can read

@@kiwibro6454 Really? Basically what I mean is that it's a demo, and every other platform will have certain strengths that would allow similarly phenomenal demos just with different effects.

Fuckin fancy spritework.

Eh. It's just an animated effect. (No actual environmental reflection calculations are being done)

Really only one way to find out. Get coding! Oh wait... That's too much work. ;p Never mind then. XD

KuraIthys Sadly devs back in the day said just that and very few games utilized the pseudo 3D effects. everyone was marveling over the SNES's mode 7 while the genesis could've easily done it in software with its blisteringly fast Motorola 68000. unfortunately that means there's no super Mario kart or F-zero equivalent on the genesis.

It would need second and third SNES to pull it off...

KuraIthys Okay, see you in year or two when my new game gets under way

GoldenGrenadier They were getting close to getting a Super Mario Kart and F-Zero going. The got a start in the very impressive looking Red Zone for Genesis. Now using similar methods they almost have a Mario Kart demo running on the Genesis.

Barbara Ruff there’s only one part on the video that uses polygons, and it’s only a cube being rendered....it definitely needed the svp chip to do 3D at a good level (for the time)

Actually that’s completely false check on a game called RedZone for the genesis.

Critical Pilot red zone didn't have a fast pace gameplay like Virtua Racing.

Yes it did. If all the processing were to be shoved on the 68K then it wouldn't be able to handle the gameplay part of the game. All those demos have amazing effects only because no gameplay needs to be processed, for genesis especially since 64K is a powerhouse in the right hands and all the music is offloaded to Z80, or hell you can even do some basic multithreading.

Or it didn't use it properly...

Merci Strobeflux et j'espère qu'il va mieux.

I'm not an expert. I think Plutiedev - plutiedev.com/ - may cover this, however.

Bankruptcy?

+Omegaknucklesaltenan I don't think it's possible to load ROMs off of the Sega CD. I've looked into it before once, when I was curious, but I think the answer I found was that it wasn't possible. Else it would've probably been more widespread, as it's easy to burn discs and cheaper than an Everdrive for those who already have a MD and Mega CD.

Daniël's Tech & Music Channel I would have thought it would be possible provided the ROM is small enough to fit in the MCD RAM.

Pretty much yeah. Though this is probably only possible in a short demo since it's taking up all the system's resources at once! What I find impressive is @4:43 which looks like the entire 512 color palette of the Mega Drive being displayed simultaneously on screen! When normally the D can only display 61 colors on screen. So this is Sorcery!

mawthecringelord so was California games. 256 colors

Yes, i think that hats are cool

BGizzle/BFree8098 yes

There's another watermelon tribute in Overdrive 2.

+XXAlkhatri XX (XXAlkhatriXX) The meager color palette (512 colors total) of the Genesis would have ruined a lot of the artwork...

+penguin10916 Obviously, the artwork had to be reworked for the color pallete of the Genesis. Not only copy and paste. More high contrast shadings and gradients could be a possible way.

+DANMAKUMAN VGM Just slap it onto the 32x instead XD

Brett Bates Well, if they would have made the sega cd a lil more powerful and not whored out their console business like they did, it could have worked if they pushed these games on the sega cd.

penguin10916 Sega's whole console business has been really shortsighted, tbh. Sega's first three consoles released on a 2-3 year cycle SG-1000 (JP only): 1983 Sega Mark III (Master System): 1985 Sega Mega Drive: 1988 And being used to that short cycle, the Genesis/MD wasn't actually designed to be heavily upgradable. Sega couldn't implement a lot of graphical horsepower into the Sega CD without doing a video pass-through like the 32X, because the expansion slot was designed for the kind of bandwidth a floppy drive needed, not a CD add-on, since Sega hasn't even had the possibility of such in mind with the MD's original design. Then the Saturn was designed for 2D functions almost exclusively, until seeing the Playstation 1's specs prompted Sega to haphazardly slap some 3D hardware and extra processors to it only a few months before production had to start. Then Bernie Stolar made the infamous mistake of telling the world the Dreamcast was coming a year too soon and cannibalized the sales the Saturn had left. I love old school Sega for their style and their games and the kinda cool novelty their consoles had, but they weren't terribly bright in actual business strategy.

It'd sound hyper bizarre and blurry in parts id imagen.

Yeah, I thought that as well, music remind of Jesper Kyd early works, like in Red Zone, for example...

It’s emulated so nope But it can run on a real genesis in a lower definition

Deh bLuE BalLs

yep

Not at a reasonable frame rate.