Why do developers continue to avoid the much more powerful 7800? I mean, I love the 2600, but let's be real, its not the first console I'd pick for games like this. I MUCH prefer the 7800 for 8bit goodness.
@Exerion76 Agreed. All those games were indeed easily possible on the 7800, and they wouldn't have had any flicker. And would have had better color too. And I imagine that 3rd party Japanese devs in the 80s would have also chosen there own sound chips too, since the 7800 can be easily equipped with any sound chip within the cartridge.
@Exerion76 The 7800 was more powerful than the NES, and as is common with Atari hardware, sported vastly better color. It was demonstrated that the 7800 could take on R-Type too. If you have studied the 7800 hardware, you'd notice how much more flexible the 7800 was compared to the NES, offering so much more freedom to make games. It was just the shared memory bus that made things a bit difficult, because thats where you really had to optimize your code. Bruno Steux who did this Tiger-Heli port, talked about that, and his code in this game is so tight, and refined, he was able to pull off full screen vertical resolution, and still maintain 60fps and make the game 99.9% flicker free.
@cawley1 I completely agree. Even though there have been quite a number of homebrew jaguar games released in recent years, I think the ST, which has 2500 games, would be much smarter. The ST mini, and as you said, buy up the old activision 2600 games, and there are so many 80's era devs that could have, and should have made 7800 versions of NES games, but make them better for the 7800+.
@Daggot I hope so. New games will also work on original 7800 consoles, so there are potentially millions of buyers who can just purchase the game, and play it on a console they have had for years.
@KainXavier The Atari 7800 is actually 41 years old, it was supposed to launch in 1984. Great console, very capable, and I too am glad it is getting new releases!
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Why do developers continue to avoid the much more powerful 7800? I mean, I love the 2600, but let's be real, its not the first console I'd pick for games like this. I MUCH prefer the 7800 for 8bit goodness.
Re: Review: Tiger-Heli (Atari 7800) - There Are Better Ways To Play, But That's Hardly The Point
@Exerion76 Agreed. All those games were indeed easily possible on the 7800, and they wouldn't have had any flicker. And would have had better color too. And I imagine that 3rd party Japanese devs in the 80s would have also chosen there own sound chips too, since the 7800 can be easily equipped with any sound chip within the cartridge.
Re: Review: Tiger-Heli (Atari 7800) - There Are Better Ways To Play, But That's Hardly The Point
@Exerion76 The 7800 was more powerful than the NES, and as is common with Atari hardware, sported vastly better color. It was demonstrated that the 7800 could take on R-Type too. If you have studied the 7800 hardware, you'd notice how much more flexible the 7800 was compared to the NES, offering so much more freedom to make games. It was just the shared memory bus that made things a bit difficult, because thats where you really had to optimize your code. Bruno Steux who did this Tiger-Heli port, talked about that, and his code in this game is so tight, and refined, he was able to pull off full screen vertical resolution, and still maintain 60fps and make the game 99.9% flicker free.
Re: Atari, Which Just Had Its Best Year In Over A Decade, Says New Consoles Are On The Way
@cawley1 I completely agree. Even though there have been quite a number of homebrew jaguar games released in recent years, I think the ST, which has 2500 games, would be much smarter. The ST mini, and as you said, buy up the old activision 2600 games, and there are so many 80's era devs that could have, and should have made 7800 versions of NES games, but make them better for the 7800+.
Re: Toaplan's Tiger-Heli Is Getting A New Port For The Atari 2600+ & Atari 7800+
@Daggot I hope so. New games will also work on original 7800 consoles, so there are potentially millions of buyers who can just purchase the game, and play it on a console they have had for years.
Re: Toaplan's Tiger-Heli Is Getting A New Port For The Atari 2600+ & Atari 7800+
@KainXavier The Atari 7800 is actually 41 years old, it was supposed to launch in 1984. Great console, very capable, and I too am glad it is getting new releases!