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Best colours on Genesis/Mega Drive Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:10:31 2023 No.10144380 [Reply] [Original]

Which games do you think have the best use of colour? A great many Mega Drive games have really crushed darks, garish reds, pillow shading, and strange greys and maroons, so it's really nice whenever a game has a pastel colour scheme, a muted palette, or more balanced contrast. I guess this is the "Mega Drive games that pass for SNES games" thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:12:05 2023 No.10144386 File: 13 KB, 320x224, Flink%2C_Stages%2C_Mountain_3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't really like the foregrounds in Flink, but the backgrounds are nice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:13:06 2023 No.10144389 File: 7 KB, 320x224, stargate.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stargate looks good too

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:14:48 2023 No.10144394 File: 126 KB, 320x224, Beyond Oasis.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I already posted the Beyond Oasis title screen (Story of Thor in PAL) but the game itself is also very pretty

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:23:08 2023 No.10144417 >>10144380 What's the zelda-alike in 2nd column, 2nd row? And the sidescroller in first column, third row

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:23:59 2023 No.10144419 File: 10 KB, 320x224, desert-demolition-starring-road-runner-and-wile-e-coyote_5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144380 Desert Demolition might have the most impressive reds/magentas on the system >>10144417 Crusader of Centy, and Hook

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 08:25:00 2023 No.10144420 File: 227 KB, 1280x448, Other MD graphics.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144380 For comparison, this is what a lot of Mega Drive games end up looking like to me. Not bad by any means, but not my preference.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:11:29 2023 No.10144489 >>10144420 Battle Mania and comix zone have fantastic graphics The rest are very early gen shit. Golden axe is trash and a bad representation of the genesis

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:21:12 2023 No.10144510 >>10144489 Battle Mania and Comix Zone are very detailed but the colours are a bit garish

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:45:41 2023 No.10144549 File: 39 KB, 320x224, Battle Mania before and after.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144510 >>10144489 Whadiya think?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:49:24 2023 No.10144553 File: 38 KB, 320x224, Battle Mania before and after.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144549

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:49:55 2023 No.10144556 >>10144380 What about Dynamite Headdy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 09:51:47 2023 No.10144560 >>10144556 I think it looks garish

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:28:52 2023 No.10144716 >>10144549 I like these colors though. It fits the game. Similar to a lot of the edgy Geiger inspired stuff like Contra alien wars

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:30:02 2023 No.10144718 File: 237 KB, 384x288, crusader of Centy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Crusader of centy looks normal

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:31:31 2023 No.10144725 File: 102 KB, 580x431, Phantasy star 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Battles in phantasy star 4 look cool. Outside of battle, not as much

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:33:31 2023 No.10144727 File: 1.68 MB, 360x336, Streets of Rage 1-4.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Streets of Rage is moody but it's not "garish"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:34:45 2023 No.10144729 File: 185 KB, 640x448, Xeno crisis gif.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Most homebrew games seem to understand how to properly balance colors on genesis

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:37:29 2023 No.10144731 >>10144725 Definitely garish

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:43:40 2023 No.10144742 >>10144731 You're using the word wrong.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 11:48:20 2023 No.10144753 >>10144742 With the contrast it's definitely garish

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 12:16:18 2023 No.10144823 >>10144753 It's low contrast. So you're using the word wrong. Retard

Anonymous Fri Aug 11 12:43:06 2023 No.10144875
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>>10144823
Here I have gradually upped the contrast of the Phantasy Star screenshot (obviously high contrast to begin with) and the Mickey Mouse screenshot (obviously low contrast). We can prove that the Phantasy Star screenshot is high contrast because it preserves a significant amount of information when the contrast is increased, unlike Mickey Mouse. Furthermore, the Phantasy Star screenshot begins to see diminishing returns for increased contrast as early as +50, whereas the Mickey Mouse screenshot continues to be dramatically sensitive to changes in contrast. Retard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 13:28:55 2023 No.10144981 >>10144875 False. You are very literally a fucking idiot. Mickey gets blasted out because it's already high contrast so going higher just blinds you Like i said, you're using the word wrong you dumb fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 13:47:25 2023 No.10145029 >>10144981 Say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens.

Anonymous Fri Aug 11 13:50:15 2023 No.10145037
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>>10144981
You really are a fucking retard, you know that? Mickey gets blasted out because THE HIGHS AND LOWS BECOME CONTRASTED, whereas the Phantasy Star screenshot doesn't suffer as much because THEY ARE ALREADY CONTRASTED. If two things are contrasted, then increasing the contrast will leave them still contrasted.

I'm not going to waste any more time on a disingenuous retard like you, so here is one more image: upping the contrast on a very low contrast image (a colourless gradient going from 61 brightness to 76 brightness) and a very high contrast image (black on one extreme and white on the other). Clearly and obviously, there is a more transformative effect when contrast is added where there had previously been none, you miserably retarded cunt. There's nothing I could say to sufficiently sum up how fucking mentally disabled you sound. I shouldn't have to create these comparisons to help articulate this simple concept to you when it should be easily understood even abstractively, and if you still cannot draw the appropriate conclusions from this you then you have an IQ below 90. It is astonishing that you have typed any of this garbage.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 13:51:07 2023 No.10145042 Every time I read words like "colour" or "superiour" I read them as "Coh-Loh-Oor" and "Soo-Peh-Ree-Oh-Oor"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 14:19:20 2023 No.10145123 File: 11 KB, 840x410, battlemania.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144716 If you're going for the Giger look then it'd make sense to dull down the reds some

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 16:15:55 2023 No.10145450 File: 993 KB, 1280x1120, 1535235828902.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144380 It's Flink.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 16:48:09 2023 No.10145570 >>10145450 >1st column, 2nd and 4th rows Beautiful

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 17:24:20 2023 No.10145717 >>10144380 sonic looks the least worst in this

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 11 23:09:38 2023 No.10146964 >>10145450 looks good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 02:14:19 2023 No.10147506 >>10144727 so cool

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 15:06:42 2023 No.10149076 >>10144419 hate the vertical lines

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 15:37:34 2023 No.10149183 >>10145450 The lava lit rocks look so tasty.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 16:07:33 2023 No.10149248 File: 32 KB, 320x224, desdem.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10149076 Consider composite video

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 16:40:11 2023 No.10149315 >>10144380 Whats bottom right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 23:29:56 2023 No.10150195 File: 187 KB, 650x569, Keio-Flying-Squadron-screenshot-3-650x569.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144380 Keio Flying Squadron

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 23:45:41 2023 No.10150248 >>10149248 Genesis composhit is noise af, it's not clean like that screencap.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 00:04:34 2023 No.10150305 >>10145450 Why is it so apparent that a game is originally an Amiga game even after being ported to another system?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 01:40:42 2023 No.10150523 dynamite headdy or battle mania daiginjou

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 01:57:16 2023 No.10150561 >>10144727 3 > 4 > 1 > 2

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 02:02:44 2023 No.10150572 File: 3.12 MB, 3265x3024, 20230720_211437(1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144510 >>10144549 >>10144553

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 02:06:50 2023 No.10150578 File: 16 KB, 320x240, 1075screenshot4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10150523 Garish magentas/reds

Anonymous Sun Aug 13 02:23:26 2023 No.10150618
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>>10144380
Super fantasy zone is just unreal but there are many other the cartoon looking games that are great too.

I know what you mean, many Genesis games have a sort of dirty grainy look to them somewhat like EGA graphics but a couple of steps about that. I really think part of it is that developers were using uncalibrated tv's and also it could have a been a style choice to have gritty realistic for the time graphics to be different from 8 bit systems.
The master system has plenty of those pastel coloured games so I think it was the developers choice.

>>10144420
I personally think the colours in alien storm are really good, not everyone agrees though. EA and many western especially sports games have that grainy look with clashing colours near each other but Kid Chameleon is one of the worst in a few levels.

>>10144386
Music is even worth it on sega cd.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 06:12:20 2023 No.10151074 >>10150618 Or just incompetence and ignorance, how many genesis ports have been recolorized right now to look arcade accurate now? And yes they work on real hardware.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 07:24:23 2023 No.10151162 >>10150305 Sky color gradients.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 07:33:32 2023 No.10151174 Man Genesis looks like it actually had some cool games if they'd stop wanking off Sonic all the time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 08:54:47 2023 No.10151279 >>10144727 4 looks like borserline tumblrshit. I can't believe boomers ate that shit up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 17:17:27 2023 No.10152208 >>10144420 What are the two bottom right games (isometric with octopus, and vertical shmup)? I wanna try them out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 18:54:35 2023 No.10152507 >>10152208 Arcus Odyssey and Truxton.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 18:56:40 2023 No.10152512 File: 34 KB, 400x400, 16994-henk-nieborg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10144729 >Xeno Crisis >>10145450 >Flink The god of pixel art.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 19:38:24 2023 No.10152641 >>10149315 Pulseman

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 13 21:18:55 2023 No.10152957 File: 476 KB, 765x670, Monster World IV.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 00:04:14 2023 No.10153436 >>10152957 beautiful

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 02:02:23 2023 No.10153715 >>10152957 Wonder how it looks with all of that dithering blended

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 06:54:02 2023 No.10154319 >>10152208 >>10152507 truxton on pce is more colorful granted, it came out 4 years after

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 07:11:59 2023 No.10154345 >>10144380 That 3rd column from the left looks worth playing for some reason what are those, other than the one that looks like Gradius, since I played that enough

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 07:14:01 2023 No.10154354 >>10154345 Ranger-X, Sonic 3K, Gleylancer, and Streets of Rage 3

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 14 11:07:22 2023 No.10154698 File: 152 KB, 640x480, 793805-938477_20070504_001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No one mentioned Monster World III yet

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 03:13:06 2023 No.10156952 >>10154698 Damn that's striking

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