SNES Vs Genesis

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might learn something in the process and also this is just going to be about the original consoles themselves not any add-ons and also i'm not going to talk about which has the best games mario versus sonic versus bonk or whatever no this is just about the hardware which has the best features for gaming where do we start well street fighter 2 i think a game that appears on all three systems why here well i think it illustrates a very important point that these machines really are comparable they were marketed head to head certainly at the same time competing for the same gaming cache but also they were pretty broadly similar in their capabilities and their architecture street fighter 2 was an absolutely enormous game in the early 90s and the fact that all three of these systems are able to run it pretty well was a big deal so many game systems of the time just couldn't hack street fighter 2 or anything like it and it was one of the factors that made a lot of older 8-bit machines start to seem past their sell-by date none of these versions are perfect translations of the arcade original but they do all make a pretty decent fist of it if you were a street fighter fan back then you'd probably be pretty happy with any of these versions as long as you had the six button controller i've left off labeling them up till now maybe if you really know the systems you could guess but it's not so easy and that sort of proves my point these systems were devoted to colorful 2d graphics as was the style at the time and they all do it in pretty much the same way fundamentally they use tile based graphics yes tiles t i l e every time i say that word someone pops up in the comments tails trowels towels tony owls what are you on about man i mean graphics that are built up of predefined blocks of pixels like these character-based graphics you might call them arranged on the screen to create backgrounds and sprites or moving objects all three of these systems devote themselves to dealing with these tiles to draw their graphics and it's going to be the basis of a lot of these comparisons so let's start with colors each tile is a block 8 pixels high by 8 pixels wide how many colors can each one have well on all three systems the answer is basically the same a lot of the time 15 or 16 that's how many individual colors you can have in each little block sometimes tiles will have one less color available because they need to have invisible parts so you can see what's below them but they all basically have four bits per pixel usually that's the case but the super nes can go further than this and have up to eight bits per pixel though games don't use this mode as often most of the time we could call this even across all three systems for many games that's true but the super nes has the ability to go above and beyond this when it wants to up to 256 colours per tail yes there's only 64 pixels in an 8x8 tile but it can pick from 256 colors now total number of colors this is an easy comparison that the super nes again wins with 15-bit color giving a palette of about 32 000 shades to choose from both the mega drive and the turbo graphics have 9-bit color or 512 total possible colors available for them to choose from putting them both quite a bit behind the super nes in this one now let's move on to the total number of colors on screen available at once starting with the mega drive we get 61 colors in total for everything on the screen backgrounds and sprites each tile can choose its colours from one of four subpalettes or sets of colours of 15 with one background colour that's the same in every one games still can definitely look pretty darn fantastic but this is less than the other systems that we'll see in the comic zone here showing just what is possible even with this limitation onto the super nintendo and that can have up to 256 colors on screen the exact details of this vary depending on which of the super nes's many graphics modes you're using but 256 is basically the max and the wonderful worlds of donkey kong country here showing what this means in practice though in this game and many others there is a bit more going on but moving on to the tg-16 well that is the winner at this point with a total of 482 colours on screen at one time potentially backgrounds get 16 sub pallets of 15 colours to choose from giving them 240 colours in total and sprites get another 16 sub pallets of 15 giving them another 240 plus one extra background color and one border color this definitely makes it sound like the turbo graphics is the winner here and well by this measure it is but well there has to be a butt yes both the super nintendo and the genesis can do some extra tricks to make their graphics even more colorful nothing that the genesis can really do will get it up to the level of the turbo graphics outside of maybe some tech demos making it the definite loser but the super nes well that might be able to go a bit further thanks to some tricks with transparency but we will come back to that and just briefly before i move on maybe you could hit that like button if you're in any way inclined to it does help me out and hey maybe subscribe too if you haven't already now let's move on to backgrounds which should be pretty self-explanatory what i'm talking about yeah all three of these systems have dedicated features to drawing backgrounds constructed out of tails let's start with the simplest case the turbo graphics or pc engine if you're tired of me calling it that yeah all these systems have at least two names that they are known by around the world and whatever i call them someone complains in the comments so i'm just gonna switch back and forth between all the different names just to annoy as many people as possible but anyway the pc engine or turbo graphics or whatever has a single background layer that is larger than what is visible on the screen you can scroll it around in four directions making different parts visible and by loading new graphics in off camera as you scroll you can create very large levels for your character to move around in you can also split the screen into strips and scroll them at different rates giving rise to all sorts of lovely effects like curry yoon here with the different bands of background moving along at different rates giving the impression of depth you can also freeze a part of the screen in place and use it as a status bar like darius does moving on to the mega drive or genesis well that goes one step further by adding a second background layer this is a whole new set of graphics that lay on top of the first both of these layers are a bit smaller than on the pc engine but the key thing is that they can be both on the screen at the same time with one layer visible under the other that's what's going on here in the opening level of sonic 2. the foreground is one layer with the platforms and ramps and the fields in the sky and other stuff is another layer which both move independently of each other as well as this these layers can also be split like they are on the pc engine an effect that is applied to the yellow spotted meadow that can be seen in the distant background you can also on the mega drive split the background up into vertical strips as well making this effect in the amazing panorama carton possible a similar idea but the other way up and just to reiterate both layers here share the same 61 colour palette the same that the sprites use the extra layer doesn't affect the total amount of colours on screen there is the one trick that can increase this amount as i alluded to before it is possible to change the colour palettes that are being used in the middle of a frame essentially swap out the colours that you've got for a new lot halfway down at the screen you can see this in action on the original sonic where a much greener set of colours is added where the water line is with this trick you can potentially double the number of colors on screen but it isn't either or a thing when you change the color palette it affects all the layers and the sprites and everything you could probably swap out the colors more than once to even triple the amount of colours available but do any games do that i don't know let me know in the comments if you know of any that do moving on to the super nintendo things get way more complex here we have eight different background modes numbered from zero to seven i don't need to go into all of them in detail but there is a lot of options surprised to say that basically anything the mega drive can do with backgrounds the super nes can do too but with great big honking bells and whistles you can have up to four different background layers in mode 0 though using that many limits due to just 4 colours per tile and 32 overall for each layer more commonly used was mode 1 which gave two layers of 128 colours each and one more with 32 colours and yes you can do column scrolling stuff like you can with the mega drive and that's what's responsible for the famous touch fuzzy get dizzy freak out stage from yoshi's island though using that effect does limit you to just two 128 color backgrounds there's a pretty baffling range of different things you can do here and that's not for getting the famous mode 7. this uses a single 256 colour background layer though that is eight bits per pixel and it can be rotated stretched squashed and scaled with what's known as a fine transformations mario kart is of course the classic example of mode seven background maps like this one put through the mode seven ringer come out as these rotating courses that stretch off to the horizon you can mix and match different graphics modes too in horizontal bands on the screen like street racer here with a mode 1 background at the top allowing for a parallax effect on the distant scenery and a mode 7 rotating track at the bottom developers came up with loads of clever tricks swapping out background modes making use of mode 7 and the other modes to create all sorts of effects the super nes can also do some very neat transparency tricks with backgrounds too and then well the details are complex as always but it allows for stuff like this water effect in macross scrambled valkyrie basically layers don't have to be solid they can be translucent and you can see the layers below them with four slightly different methods for determining how the colours change this in practice increases the amount of colours visible on the screen by quite a lot new shades created by blending the layers and they don't take away from the total 256 colours defined by the graphics so which is the best of these three after looking at the options do i really need to spell it out yes the super nes no question of course anything the other two can do the super nintendo can do too but more so is there any way they can claw anything back well maybe but this could be the killing blow even without mode 7 the super nintendo is just so much more capable in this important area next i think we've got to consider sprites the stuff that moves on the screen that's up next but first here's a word from today's sponsor squarespace squarespace is a platform that lets you make your own website for whatever you want whatever you need whether it's personal professional business or just a hobby if you want if you need some sort of a web presence well squarespace can do all that for you it's not just a blogging platform though you absolutely can use it to set up a blog if you want and it's not just more social media though it does integrate very well with all that kind of stuff you can use it to sell your products advertise your services promote your brand or like me use it to support your youtube channel and this is not like it was in the bad old days of terrible web design extremely professional results are possible without specialist skills or knowledge very easily thanks to a whole load of customizable templates and 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on the screen at any one time is 64 and like the backgrounds they can have up to 15 colors defined with eight pallets to choose from so the total sprite layer can be up to 240 colours the mega drive does a little better in terms of pure numbers but not in terms of colours a maximum of 80 sprites on the screen at once in sizes from 8 by 8 pixels to 32 by 32 you can have a maximum of 20 sprites per line and yes like on the pc engine larger sprites can end up counting as more when they're taken together sprites on the mega drive make use of the same color palettes as the background like i've said before so you end up with the same 61 colors as everything else on the screen that does mean if you do the palette swap trick the sprite colors change as well now the super nes well that can handle 128 sprites with sizes from 8 by 8 to 64 by 64 pixels you can have a maximum of 32 sprites with a maximum of 34 sprite tiles on a single line and when i say line here i mean a scan line or a horizontal row of pixels that's what graphics like these are ultimately constructed out of when they are sent to the tv super nintendo sprites have eight palettes of 15 colors to choose from giving them a maximum of 120 colours with one transparent background colour depending on the background mode being used this can either be a whole new set of palettes for the lower colour backgrounds or shared with the background in the 256 color modes once again this really does sound like the super nintendo might be the winner doesn't it i mean it does seem to have better capabilities but well the devil is in the details i'm afraid when you start drilling down into the fine details it turns out the super nintendo doesn't handle sprites in terms of numbers that much better than the other two certainly the mega drive and it can be worse in some situations the super nes is limited to just two sizes of sprites at any given time from a list of six size combinations so even though you may have more sprouts to play with you can end up wasting them if they're too large for what you were doing if you've got a 64 by 64 pixel sprite in the memory it still counts as 64 by 64 pixels even if many of those pixels aren't filled in and it eats into the number of sprites you can have on that line and on the screen plus the way the super nes handles sprite programming is a bit more inefficient so it can get bogged it down more easily trying to draw them all and yes gradius 3 that we've been looking at is particularly notorious for its lagging sprites this puts the real world performance of the super nes much closer to the mega drive in terms of numbers and still the pc engine makes a pretty good showing especially when you consider how colorful sprites can potentially be on this system but transparency effects also come into play here too though yes this is not just limited to backgrounds big boo in super mario world being a memorable example the pc engine can't do this and now they can mega drive and not in anything like the same way so with that in mind i would probably put the super nes ahead in terms of sprites too but not by much all three systems do do a pretty good sprite game way better than any of the 8-bit systems all of which would choke on huge characters like these yes we're back to fighting games again here so at this point i can't help but feel that the super nintendo is cruising to victory but there is some more to talk about isn't there what about sound now this this is not going to be easy there's a real lot of subjectivity in this what you personally like could well play a big part in which one of these wins more so than with other features personal preference here is going to be huge so let's lay out what we've got so first off we have the pc engine with a six-channel programmable sound generator built right into its cpu like what the nes did with its sound but much more sophisticated actually quite a common theme on the pc engine which was built to be the nes but better anyway these six channels can all be programmed individually with 5 bit 32 sample waveforms allowing for a lot of options in creating sound this is in contrast to a lot of earlier sound chips like what you'd find in the nes or c64 where you'd find a fixed set of waveforms to choose from plus on the pc engine some channels have extra functions channel 2 can act as a low frequency oscillator on channel 1 allowing for vibrato effects and channels 5 and 6 can also generate noise handy for things like drums as well as this you can also coax the chip into outputting pulse code modulated samples by passing the synthesis functions all together the downside of this being that it will sap quite a lot of cpu power though it is capable of cutting out pretty good quality sound this whole setup is quite similar to a lot of arcade games from the 80s and as well in advance of anything you'd see on many home systems available at the time when this first came out it even had some stereo panning effects how does this compare to the other two systems well moving on to the genesis that has two sound chips controlled by their own dedicated cpu z80 yes it's got the original master systems four channel sound chip plus another one especially for the genesis a yamaha six channel chip based around fm synthesis what does that mean well this is a more sophisticated method of generating sound that was very common in the 80s in fact this chick was really a sort of stripped down version of yamaha's dx7 professional synthesizer which was just everywhere at the time without getting too bogged down in the details fm synthesis or frequency modulation was quite a big step up from the sort of thing the pc engine could do i'll put some links below to sources if you want to find out more about it on top of that the mega drive could also play pcm samples as well and in better quality than the turbo graphics even on the mega drive with the extra cpu this was still fairly resource hungry so games tended not to use this type of sound very often usually just for spot effects the key thing is though that we have more channels available here that can do more stuff and with its own dedicated cpu which takes away fewer resources from the main processor there is though still a lot of room for a subjective choice and if you told me you just preferred the sound of the turbo graphics just because well i wouldn't think you're mad because they do both have their own unique distinctive sound and finally what about the super nes that really has to be the one to beat if we've learned anything from this comparison so far and yeah it is really a different beast entirely its sound is based solely around digital samples and yeah let's just have a quick listen to the intro music to the secret of mana [Music] i'm sorry i may be showing some buyers here but i absolutely love this intro anyway these snares a different beast it had its own separate processor like the mega drive but this powered a digital signal processor with eight separate channels everything on the super nes was done with samples whether of real instruments or just synthesized sounds it doesn't matter it could be either giving a tremendous range of possibilities now the exact inner workings of the super nintendo's sound subsystem are a bit of a mystery even to nintendo at times it seems but we can say that it did have some problems one of them was lack of available memory it did have its own pool of ram separate from everything else which is great but this was just 64k not a whole lot when you're dealing with digital audio especially when you consider that this needs to include the code that the specialist sound cpu runs to the result is lower sample quality that sort of hollow muffle sound that some super nes music can have is because of this although it used advanced for the time audio compression it still meant that you lost a lot of the higher frequencies some of the definition of the sound despite this though the system sound is really just a more primitive version of the sort of sound hardware you find in many modern systems meaning that it's very flexible there's not much that the mega drive or pc engine can do that the super nes can't emulate but hardware limitations do hold back the final result somewhat personally i think the super nes wins this one based purely on technology can just do so much but i can totally understand if you disagree the mega drive or genesis especially has some really great tunes with a unique sound in its catalogue so yeah i can see why you might pick that ahead of the super nes but that said the soundtrack to the modern super mario world hack casio mario world it's just something else entirely and you would never hear anything like that on the mega drive so well the choice is yours okay then now we've seen the graphics we've heard the sound let's get on to processing power once again i'll lay it out for you the turbo graphics has at its heart the hudson soft hu huc6280 chip yes of course that old deer that we're all intimately familiar with now okay what what is that well it's basically a jazzed up version of the 6502 cpu that was in the nes it retains full compatibility with the original more or less and has two speed modes 1.79 megahertz the same as the nes and a massive 7.1 6 megahertz mode making this one very speedy 8-bit cpu and yes it is definitely an 8-bit cpu potentially making this system strictly speaking an 8-bit one if you want to look at it like that what does the super nes have well it's another souped up 6502 the ricoh 5a22a derivative of the western digital 65c816 yeah i get the impression that these chips were named by the engineers themselves without any involvement from the marketing department anyway this is again pretty something that retains pretty much full compatibility with the original nes processor but now it has a 16-bit mode and runs it between 1.79 again and 3.58 megahertz maximum by some definitions this is still not actually a true 16-bit processor it has an 8-bit data bus which basically means that it has to access data from the memory in eight bits or single byte chunks have we been lied to all these years is the super nintendo really just an 8-bit system well i don't know it just depends on how you define the whole thing and it was only ever a stupid marketing term anyway 8-bit and 16-bit but it does have a 16-bit arithmetic logic unit which by other definitions does make it actually 16-bit the sega mega drive genesis i just know the comment section is going to be full of people when i was growing up we called it the sega mega dagger and you'd be a fool and a communist to call it anything else clearly you know nothing about video games i'm sorry i'm just i just i don't know what else to say it's the mega drive it's the genesis and powering it was one thing that we could probably agree on the name of the motorola 68 000 running at 7.6 megahertz this one is definitely at least a 16-bit chip at the very least it's got a 16-bit data bus but it can handle 32-bit data internally making it by some people's reckonings a 16 32-bit hybrid so which of these is the most powerful which is the winner well i don't know i really don't it might sound like the 68 000 would have to be the victor it's got the highest clock speed and it is at the very least 16 bits that's got to be the best right well it is very difficult to compare processors of different families like this 6502 based chips in particular are known to be very efficient in terms of clock cycles meaning the slower clock speed might not necessarily mean the processor is slower anecdotal stuff that i've read online puts the super nintendo's cpu pretty close to the 68 000 when it comes to real world number crunching the type of stuff you'd actually want to do in games and well what about the cpu in the pc engine well uh 6502 over 7 megahertz is pretty speedy i would not be at all surprised to hear that there are scenarios where that is actually easily the fastest of the three but i can't say for sure even with a whole industry devoted to benchmarking today it's still pretty difficult to compare modern processors even when they're of the same family comparing old cpus with very different architectures of very different characteristics and no standardized benchmarking tools is not going to be easy the best that i've really been able to find is just people speculating on web forums and well you've just got to take all that with a grain of salt if i had to pick though well i'd still give this to the mega drive why well the 68 000 was a really very widely used chip in the 80s and well into the 90s apple max used them the amiga the st tons of arcade machines it was a really powerful cpu that a lot of people knew how to program a lot of coders knew how to get the best out of it it was an industry standard and the other two were much more obscure even if they are based on fairly well known architecture finding people to write good code for either of those two would be quite a bit more difficult and real world examples bear this out when it comes to cpu heavy workloads the mega drive does i think do the best pretty clearly were they able to crank out a lot of very impressive 3d stuff on these dark hardware like duke nukem here but about that stock hardware how can we forget all those enhancement chips that the super nes has in its arsenal do we count the use of those extra chips in the cartridges to increase the capabilities of the system well the turbo graphics didn't really make use of that sort of technology at all but the mega drive it did well once in the form of the virtual processor which appeared in virtua racing the opposite number on the super nes was the super fx chip found in star fox amongst other games which one is the most powerful well we're back to difficulties in benchmarking and comparing different chips but from what i can gather the virtual processor was possibly a bit faster than the super fx certainly the original super fx chip and probably the super fx 2 chip as well the one that was found in doom and yoshi's island but there were way more super nes enhancement chips that ended up doing all kinds of things in a whole range of games but well they weren't quite as common as they are sometimes made out to be out of over 1700 releases for the super nintendo only 66 games used some sort of enhancement chip now admittedly this did include some of these systems best known games mario kart had a dsp chip but some and he didn't donkey kong country chrono trigger they didn't use anything special if we are going to count enhancement chips well the super nes wins out on that front just because it used them more often for so many other things but even without that the super nes is pretty strong what else do we need to consider in this comparison well how about blast processing we need to think about that surely the awesome genesis power that the super nintendo lacked well if blast processing was anything other than just a stupid marketing buzzword it was direct memory access this means the ability to move data around from the cartridge to the video chips memory to the sound chip to the main ram without direct intervention from the cpu this is good because it makes it faster to copy data around which is always useful and when it comes to dma the genesis is clearly the fastest of the three in terms of pure throughput it can definitely move that data around faster than either of the other two this is another part of the reason the genesis can do 3d stuff better than the super nes on the base hardware the pc engine is out of the running in this question its dma is much more limited but the super nes dma is still no slouch either and it is more sophisticated in the way that it's set up the super nes has what's called horizontal direct memory access it can be set up to move data automatically in that very brief window of time in between horizontal lines of pixels being drawn the genesis can do this kind of thing but it's much harder to make it work and actually this feature plays a big part in the rotating landscapes of mode seven which one of the two is better well again i don't really know very easily in this comparison we can get into weird hypothetical stuff what potentially each system could do in the right circumstances you know if you set it up right the pure numbers may be but i'm trying to keep this more grounded in reality and things that i could show you and demonstrate but i can tell you that all those playground legends about how the super nes can't do a game as fast as sonic because it doesn't have blast processing well there's just there's just no real basis in that kind of stuff is there anything else i could talk about well resolution may be the number of pixels on the screen each console had a bunch of different resolutions they could use and different games could end up with different pixel densities as a result of this i'm going to put the genesis as the winner for this one as the majority of games tended to use the 320 by 224 pixel mode which is higher than the majority of super nes and turbo graphics games so yes genesis games tended to be a bit less chunky and it also had a more pleasing aspect ratio although that may be a controversial view people do get very worked up about aspect ratios but well there's other stuff that i could maybe mention too there's the shadow mode that the genesis had which allowed colours to be altered potentially increasing the amount of colours available on the screen but a good use here in ranger x but it's still kind of limited but to ranger x does make a brilliant point sega genesis sega mega drive games could look absolutely amazing that's not in any doubt games developed for this system done by people who know what they are doing can easily be some of the best this generation has to offer but it is hard to escape the fact that in pretty much every way the super nintendo has the genesis beat in terms of technical ability it really does i'm sorry but it's true i just can't come up with any other conclusion i mean certainly there are some types of games that the genesis can do better without relying on enhancement chips this isn't hard driving on the genesis not amazingly smooth but it is pretty good for systems of the era and this is race driving on the super nes okay a slightly different game but close enough and yes it's absolutely terrible on the other hand though this is the same game hacked to run using the sa-1 chip this was an official enhancement chip used in quite a few super nes games essentially a cpu upgrade to the system built into the cartridge this unofficial patch by victor viela optimizing the game to make use of it if we're going to allow enhancement chips into this comparison the advantages of the mega drive disappear largely i tried i really tried to find ways that the mega drive or genesis can beat the super nes but well it was hard the best that i can really come up with though is just like i say hypothetical numbers if anyone had made more games using the virtual processor enhancement chip then well maybe we'd have more to talk about there are times when the mega drive can sometimes have more unique tiles on the screen and it's faster dma throughput means that it might have been able to have better frame rates in chip enhanced 3d games but there's not much to base that on other than speculation though virtua racing does seem to run better than comparable super nes super fx games i mean it's certainly certainly a bit smoother than stunt race fx and then there's the pc engine or the turbo graphics it entered the competition an underdog and it leaves that way too it could definitely do some very nice graphics but it's single background layer really holds it back it can emulate some multi-layer effects with a clever coating but it's not really the same i'm afraid it suffers here far more with the no add-on restriction than the other two nec and hudson stuff the console's co-creator didn't really go in for enhancement chips they probably wouldn't have fit on the tiny cube card cartridges anyway instead they put all their efforts into the pc engine cd and unlike the sega cd this was a huge success in japan at least more games came out on cd that on cartridge in fact and the slightly bumped specs it offered and the masses of extra storage space it had really made games shine on this system it was the first console ever to use cd roms and one of the very first ever publicly available uses of cd-rom technology full stop it was a real pioneer and if we're talking about add-ons well sega did really put in a good effort there even if it didn't work out so well in the marketplace taking account of the sega cd and the 32x well the genesis can probably outpace the super nes quite easily certainly with the 32x's massive processing power and massively enhanced colours so yeah i think the super nes has got to be the winner if we're just talking about the bear system itself and the games that you plug into it it's got lots of color and games use it very well its sprite capabilities might not put it that far ahead but well it's got those transparency effects hdma stuff and a whole mixed bag of tricks that its hardware has tucked away that put it at the forefront maybe we shouldn't be that surprised it came out over a year after the genesis in japan at least in three years after the pc engine that's a long time in the computer and electronics business things move quickly looking back at some of this footage now i really can't help but think that the mega drive's color situation is what held it back the most the super nes so easily beats it there so many super nintendo games are just so much more colorful than anything you'd see on the mega drive and the tg16 well that is a different situation some of the early games do look like they could be on the master system but many of the later games are really hugely colourful and really nice looking and it's the extra stuff like layers and transparency that hold it back with a real extra background layer this again would have been a much tougher call anyway let's leave that there i should give a shout out to segarretro.org where i got loads of great info for this video i should also thank rodrigo capetti whose architecture of consoles website is absolutely amazing and full of wonderful information i will link to both sites below so well this is the end thank you as always to my wonderful patreons your help really does make a difference if anyone else would like to join them there is a link below that would be fantastic and well i will say thank you for watching and i'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Sharopolis

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Keywords: Super NES, SNES, genesis, sega, pc engine, turbo graphics, turbographics, pce, gensis, super nimtemdo

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Length: 40min 45sec (2445 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 17 2022