There's a lot going on in this game... also, this was the first time I'd played either game, so not really sure what I was doing ... I'll try again soon...
Splendor Blast 1 & 2 are fantastic games to play Matt. Alpha Denshi did fantastic games for its time. They also made my favorite title ever for the Neo-Geo, which is Magician Lord. Thank yo for sharing this with us brother man. 8^) Anthony..
Thanks for the info! Strangely, I had never seen these games up until recently, so I had to have a go! Now that you mention it, I remember seeing the "Alpha" logo on some Neo-Geo games ... Maybe I should start with Magician Lord !
This is a bizarre but effective way of masking the field. They fit the stats in those corners. I wonder if the technique to scale requires that those areas be blank, which then have the stats rendered over those areas. It looks very chaotic since you can't see very far ahead, especially when you move faster.
@@arcadesunday4592 If you are familiar with interpolation, my guess is that they have the square play field and then "squeeze" the top end of the field to a smaller width than the screen resolution then gradually increase the width of the playfield as it goes down. If they had the memory then, they could probably store a copy of the field in memory for one frame, then sample the value at each pixel of the square playfield and interpolate it to accomplish the effect as described above. That would leave blank triangular areas at the top of the final rendered field. It probably wouldn't require any specialized hardware, but maybe a fast CPU and more memory.
@WhatsOnMyShelf I'll have to take your word on that! Great description of a pretty technical subject ! Now I understand interpolation (a bit better than I did before reading your explanation!) Thank you !
@@arcadesunday4592 I did a poor job explaining it :) An easier way to understand interpolation is an example such as mapping / determining a way to assign the values between 0 and 1 to a value between 1 and 100. It's a mathematical equation. The thing about a monitor is that it has a discrete resolution, so information / pixels of the original unscaled image will be lost or distorted in the resulting image. What I mean is that the top end of the screen squeezes a bunch of pixels together and not all of the original pixels are rendered. The bottom end of the screen stretches out so multiple pixels of the original image are duplicated in the resulting image. Either way, I'm sure the programmers behind Splendor Blast were fooling around with rendering graphics and were like, 'What can we do with this?' Six years later, the tech was built into a console.
this look's tough...well played!
There's a lot going on in this game... also, this was the first time I'd played either game, so not really sure what I was doing ... I'll try again soon...
Wow, I've never even heard of this one. Looks awesome, and makes me feel slightly motion sick
Haha! Know what you mean! In person it's not too bad... We didn't get this game here back in the 80s. Quite good looking for the day though!
Interesting looking game, The second one is definitely a Slight improvement
Yea I seem to think that "2" is a bit more "finished" / polished as if number 1 was a prototype (beta version)... I guess we'll never know!
Splendor Blast 1 & 2 are fantastic games to play Matt. Alpha Denshi did fantastic games for its time. They also made my favorite title ever for the Neo-Geo, which is Magician Lord. Thank yo for sharing this with us brother man. 8^)
Anthony..
Thanks for the info! Strangely, I had never seen these games up until recently, so I had to have a go! Now that you mention it, I remember seeing the "Alpha" logo on some Neo-Geo games ... Maybe I should start with Magician Lord !
WELL PLAYED 🤍🤩🤍✍🏼
Thank you! This way my first run ever. Interesting visuals, for sure.
@@arcadesunday4592 AMAZING GAME. YOU DID GOOD BROTHER. 🍀🤍💐🔥✍🏼
This is a bizarre but effective way of masking the field. They fit the stats in those corners. I wonder if the technique to scale requires that those areas be blank, which then have the stats rendered over those areas. It looks very chaotic since you can't see very far ahead, especially when you move faster.
That's a great theory! Moreover, I suppose the short "view distance" helps them squeeze this 3D-like effect out of the 1985 CPU!
@@arcadesunday4592 If you are familiar with interpolation, my guess is that they have the square play field and then "squeeze" the top end of the field to a smaller width than the screen resolution then gradually increase the width of the playfield as it goes down. If they had the memory then, they could probably store a copy of the field in memory for one frame, then sample the value at each pixel of the square playfield and interpolate it to accomplish the effect as described above. That would leave blank triangular areas at the top of the final rendered field. It probably wouldn't require any specialized hardware, but maybe a fast CPU and more memory.
@WhatsOnMyShelf I'll have to take your word on that! Great description of a pretty technical subject ! Now I understand interpolation (a bit better than I did before reading your explanation!) Thank you !
@@arcadesunday4592 I did a poor job explaining it :) An easier way to understand interpolation is an example such as mapping / determining a way to assign the values between 0 and 1 to a value between 1 and 100. It's a mathematical equation. The thing about a monitor is that it has a discrete resolution, so information / pixels of the original unscaled image will be lost or distorted in the resulting image. What I mean is that the top end of the screen squeezes a bunch of pixels together and not all of the original pixels are rendered. The bottom end of the screen stretches out so multiple pixels of the original image are duplicated in the resulting image. Either way, I'm sure the programmers behind Splendor Blast were fooling around with rendering graphics and were like, 'What can we do with this?' Six years later, the tech was built into a console.
@@WhatsOnMyShelf Really appreciate your insight !