apparently most old consoles are more capable than we gave them credit for. a lot of old games that used special chips didn't need them after all. there's a resource management technique that, where games needed more vram for example (tomb raider), are now able to be ran on consoles like the 32x. it's predicted that most ps1 games (if properly ported) could run on the 32x, including FF7. ff7 is a very low poly game, no shocker there though... but something like the shenmu prototype on saturn (which used the sound chip to help process 3D graphics, astoundingly as impossible as that seems), probably could have been all been done without such radical measures after all. check out Doom resurrection on 32x too, the graphics are now up to par and the music rivals that of the PC version.
Good point. One bit of old school trickery that always surprised me was the crazy techniques programmers used on the Atari 2600 to get a 1970's glorified Pong machine to pull of games we saw in the arcade. Mad wizards, those folks!
Must be the angle I filmed it at cuz honestly I haven't wiped that screen in a long time. The game room doesn't get a ton of traffic these days so maybe I'm just lucky in the Dust Department lol
This is NOT standard vectrex with no extra hardware under the hood. It's in the cartridge. If he wanted to do it, Kristoff Tuts could do it without the extra hardware. Just look at his moon patrol and time pilot games. Also John Dondzilla's rockaroids remix is very, very impressive and only shows slowdown when the number of asteroids grows to the maximum.
@@bjy128 Exactly, he clearly didn't hear me mention this is on a normal Vectrex just using a ROM flash cart to allow me to play the game. By the way Brandon thanks for the footage of the Death Star run on a Pi-Trex, that looks incredible! Definitely going to get me one of those cartridges one day!
Thomas Sontowski did an amazing job with Rocks 'n' Saucers and its really cool that he made it a free download.
I just can't wrap my head around how he accomplished this! Absolute wizardry!
Looks amazing, especially the fire shots. Can’t duplicate that with other than vector screen.
you're darn right ... the little Replicade tries what it can with LCD but it just can't compare
btw it does preserve the high scores on carts with the memory chip fitted and some of the flash carts that emulate the chip.
oh really? way cool!
apparently most old consoles are more capable than we gave them credit for. a lot of old games that used special chips didn't need them after all. there's a resource management technique that, where games needed more vram for example (tomb raider), are now able to be ran on consoles like the 32x. it's predicted that most ps1 games (if properly ported) could run on the 32x, including FF7. ff7 is a very low poly game, no shocker there though... but something like the shenmu prototype on saturn (which used the sound chip to help process 3D graphics, astoundingly as impossible as that seems), probably could have been all been done without such radical measures after all. check out Doom resurrection on 32x too, the graphics are now up to par and the music rivals that of the PC version.
Good point. One bit of old school trickery that always surprised me was the crazy techniques programmers used on the Atari 2600 to get a 1970's glorified Pong machine to pull of games we saw in the arcade. Mad wizards, those folks!
It works well! Wow!
total wizardry I swear!
I'm more impressed that your Vectrex is so shiny. What are you using to clean it?
Must be the angle I filmed it at cuz honestly I haven't wiped that screen in a long time. The game room doesn't get a ton of traffic these days so maybe I'm just lucky in the Dust Department lol
Is Mindstorm already built in??
Yup but this is WAY more like Asteroids
So the rocks and saucers game is not built into the Vectrex??
Game has no lag, it is not an Atari🤣
This is NOT standard vectrex with no extra hardware under the hood. It's in the cartridge.
If he wanted to do it, Kristoff Tuts could do it without the extra hardware. Just look at his moon patrol and time pilot games.
Also John Dondzilla's rockaroids remix is very, very impressive and only shows slowdown when the number of asteroids grows to the maximum.
you clearly didn't hear what I said
Rocks 'n' Saucers is a .bin file that will run on most vectrex flash-carts. So I'm not going to split hairs.
@@bjy128 Exactly, he clearly didn't hear me mention this is on a normal Vectrex just using a ROM flash cart to allow me to play the game. By the way Brandon thanks for the footage of the Death Star run on a Pi-Trex, that looks incredible! Definitely going to get me one of those cartridges one day!
@@DowntheRabbitHole0 Thanks, that was hard to convert with all the vectors.
@@DowntheRabbitHole0 Yes, I misunderstood what you said. Sorry.