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>>3351931
>Basically the Saturn has 1 rotating background and 4 scrolling backgrounds. Out of the 4 scrolling backgrounds, the first two (bg0 and 1) can do up to 16.7 million colours, linescroll, rowscroll, zoom, transparency, mosaic, everything except rotation. The last two (bg2 and 3) could only do basic scrolling and have 256 colour max - no zoom, no special effects, palette only colour.
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>SOTN on Saturn uses background 2 and 3 for the majority of the graphics (!!!). It even shows the title screen in two halves, loading the left half in bg2 and the right in bg3.
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>The 16-million colour background layers are reserved for... the options menu. Yeah, it wastes that entire bg on an options menu that basically uses 1 colour, plus a few sprites, and a background gradient (which is even stupider because the Saturn also has an independent gradient background layer on top of all of its other backgrounds).

What in the FUCK.