i think another reason to use H32 is because 256x224 mode is sharper than 320x224 mode with composite video or RF connections. So if you want your game or a particular sreen to look sharper thru composite video you use H32 mode and when you want a blurrier picture that blends better the dithering patterns and create the perception of more colors you use H40 mode. Again this applies to composite video and Rf connections on a crt screen, as the higher the horizontal resolution gets the more the pixels will blend, even over rgb or component connection on a crt tv.

Great video as always! A video about collisions and physics would be great

I still got and still play hyperstone heist!

I have to say that I used to prefer the idea of porting SOTN to Mega Drive in H32 mode. I mean, the Saturn port suffered because it couldn't do 256 pixels wide resolution and, by not streeching the graphics, you would play the game with smaller sprites and oval circles (like clocks and pentagrams) in a CRT. But watching this video, I actually changed my mind, since the game is being made in a time where we can play the game in a wider TV (and now we can play with a wider field of view). In the 1990's the H32 mode would made more sense, but now I got your point better, specially with number of sprites. That being sad, would you cover the compression of graphics to fit them in a smaller cartridge? Anyway, thank you so much for your work and for keeping this channel so insightful. It's one of the best sources to try to start a Mega Drive game, and that's a rare thing.

im glad you made this video because i got so confused in the last video lol

Shining Force has a ton of backgrounds, low resolution was most probably used to limit rom size and also reduce the amount of work. Both Lunar games on SEGA-CD are the same, by the way. Otherwise it was used by third parties to port their SNES games to MegaDrive, which is a bit disappointing as the console could have done more (SFII, TMNT etc...) and visuals would have been crisper.

I never knew the Mega Drive could do this.

256x224 consumes mess memory from unique tiles, such as images and title screens. It's also used with many 3D, polygonal games, and games like MegaDOOM that have to output each pixel in software.

Many things changed in SGDK version 180. I updated some days ago and many of my studies doesnt build anymore. I fixed some vdp loading sprites and now seems flawless

acho incrível seu trabalho

By the way, the NHL series (94-98) for the Sega Genesis now supports in-match wide mode (H40).

will there be widescreen mode in castlevania? that would be awesome, can it be changed into 4:3 or 16:9 options?

It would be an interesting experiment to train an AI model for stretching and scaling pixel graphics.🤔

What about Wolfenstein 3D half rez 256 colors option?

Very cool video, though I kind of get a bit lost on the technical explanations, LOL! Strangely enough, the link to Daniel's channel is broken! YT couldn't find the page, as it seems to have been removed!

@Pigsy do you any talk on to pixlated an image?, like dowloading an image to have pixel colors?, i have some facination for images that are used in games when he art gets pixelated, do you know how that works?.

I wonder why you have less sprites when you decrease the resolution, you'd think you'd have more VRAM available to increase the number of sprites. I was wondering if the SNES had 256 pixels width due to that fitting nicely in an 8-bit number and its 8-bit data bus?

Could the low resolution mode be used to increase the number of simutaneous colours on screen? Congratulations for your channel!!

El juegaso de nes q podrian pasar para sega genesis es las tortugas ninjas 3 van a ablar vastane con ese juego en la sega , me emociono de solo imaginarlo

Oh, so that's the difference: more sprites, less screen real estate. That kinda explains the special stages of Sonic 2 and 3 using lower resolutions, considering how many blue spheres have to be drawn all at once.