Games That Pushed the SNES To The Limits

[racketboy]

So the server is back to normal and coming back with a vengeance via an epic post that has been well over a year in the making.

Yes, I am finally publishing the Games That Pushed The Limits of the SNES -- behold and many thanks to those that pitched in and waited so long for it to be finished!

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2011/02/ ... -soun.html

[Flake]

I wondered where this had gone off to. I love this topic - I still feel as impressed by the SNES as I did when I was a kid.

[Hatta]

That seriously is epic. Glad to see the Mana series there, beautiful games. I remember it took a while before they were emulated correctly, especially the transparency effects.

Rendering Ranger is one I was not aware of. Going to have to give that one a try on the PowerPak.

Also worth noting, one of the programmers on Axelay went on to co-found Treasure. That might help explain both the high quality graphics and gameplay.

[sevin0seven]

never heard of Rendering Ranger R2 as well. i do think Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension should be on the list. it uses a SA-1 (65816) chip. It's the same chip that was used on Super Mario RPG and Kirby Dream land 3.

[Limewater]

Great article!

I did notice one thing--

It says that Star Ocean is the "only other" game to use the S-DD1 chip, but it's the only one mentioned. I am assuming that Tales of Phantasia is the other one, but it's not mentioned.

[Dakinggamer87]

Great article!! I really need to add Terranigma to my SNES collection.

[Dakinggamer87]

never heard of Rendering Ranger R2 as well. i do think Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension should be on the list. it uses a SA-1 (65816) chip. It's the same chip that was used on Super Mario RPG and Kirby Dream land 3.

That game was awesome I remember playing that via emulation years ago. It still looks great.

[Ziggy]

It says that Star Ocean is the "only other" game to use the S-DD1 chip, but it's the only one mentioned. I am assuming that Tales of Phantasia is the other one, but it's not mentioned.

The only other game to use the S-DD1 chip was Street Fighter Alpha 2. What SO and ToP have in common is that they're both 48Mb games, the biggest size of an official SNES game.

[sevin0seven]

It says that Star Ocean is the "only other" game to use the S-DD1 chip, but it's the only one mentioned. I am assuming that Tales of Phantasia is the other one, but it's not mentioned.

The only other game to use the S-DD1 chip was Street Fighter Alpha 2. What SO and ToP have in common is that they're both 48Mb games, the biggest size of an official SNES game.

from what i recall SFA2 for the SNES is only 32 megs. they should had used all 48 megs to stop the slow down (loading) before the fight starts..

[Ziggy]

The only other game to use the S-DD1 chip was Street Fighter Alpha 2. What SO and ToP have in common is that they're both 48Mb games, the biggest size of an official SNES game.

from what i recall SFA2 for the SNES is only 32 megs. they should had used all 48 megs to stop the slow down (loading) before the fight starts..

Yeah, I've always wondered about that myself. But I don't think the extra space would solve the slow down issues. The SNES does have a pretty slow CPU. But with the extra memory they could have included the missing frames of animation, and whatever else is missing. They might have been working against cost of production though.

Also, it would have been completely possible to have 64Mb of game data.