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Both have dear memories for me, I wouldn't be without either... I can't decide.
But I spent more time with the SNES... simply because that's the one we ended up owning. But I played Megadrive games often with friends. |
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256 onscreen colors to the Genesis's 64 128 sprites to the Genesis's 80 "Slightly" is a ridiculous understatement. The only advantage that the Genesis had was its higher resolution. Same here, but I don't pretend that it rivals the SNES technically. |
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That's not true. The 68000 is technically much better than the 65816 in terms of raw processing power.
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22 February 2010, 12:10 | #66 |
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@ Dan Locke
It seems i've hit a nerve The Megadrive (or Genesis - gay name btw!) had a total of 10 audio channels compared to 8 on the Snes. Yes the Megadrive handles higher resolutions and is also a faster machine thanks to a better processor. I meant the graphics are "slightly" better if you compare them side by side... The Snes has a larger colour palette but this does not make a tremendous noticeable difference in real world gaming. Also i think it does rival the Snes technically... both have ups and downs but neither can compare to an Amiga or a 16-bit Neo-Geo All i can say from years of experience playing both machines and ignoring technical specs is the Megadrive appears to be faster and has more detailed music whilst the Snes has much better speech sampling and the visuals are better. Thats my opinion and nobody needs to agree with me |
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22 February 2010, 12:21 | #68 |
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The Yamaha YM2612 chip had 6 channels (5 channel FM + 1 channel FM/PCM) and the Texas Instruments SN76489 chip had 4 channels. The Megadrive may use 2 audio chips instead of 1 but it still has a total of 10 channels between them
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He had Amiga near MegaDrive.
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Ah, okay. Would call the TI chip a noise generator, but yeah it had 10 channels then
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22 February 2010, 12:36 | #71 |
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And how many channels from the 8 on the Snes would have been used for noise/FX? leaving maybe 4 for music/FM synthesis? They both have their advantages/disadvantages but both sound great for different reasons
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Truth is both had great games and people probably favoured one over for the obvious reasons like owning a machine first.Lots of games you couldn't get for your machine of choice
I'm not sure i agree that it was a style choice thing regards to why Megadrive games looked so glum - like there was a rain cloud always overhead - as even games like the brilliant Dynamite Heady had the same type of glum feel and that featured very rich colour schemes.Just about any game i can think of came with a muddier look on the machine.Each system tends to have it's own feel just like how it was on the 8bits, and Snes's output was a much more vibrant candy land style compared to the Megadrive- that of course doesn't make it better but for some i'm sure it was a factor.To be fair these days i like the different type of feel i get from both systems and of course this aspect at least is really only a preference thing The Snes and Megardive could both pump a lot of sprites around but Treasure benefited more in really pushing that faster cpu i would guess in the form of all the clever stuff we got to see in Gunstar- Snes's limit was perhaps more easily met but it didn't honestly need to be any more impressive thanks to all the clever stuff it could already do This is all farily redundant anyway these days as we can play both quite easily enough |
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22 February 2010, 22:50 | #77 |
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Wow my thread is still going. @PowerPie5000 and @DanLocke I think you two should probably stop shouting at each other. I never intended for this thread to make people bring up the technical specifications of the systems because that is when the flaming begins but I suppose it is inevitable right? Anyways all i wanted to see was what you Amiga guys preferred SNES or MD. I was surprised to see that more people enjoyed more of their time on the SNES. Where I live most people had a SNES but wanted a Megadrive. As for the gloomy feel to things on the Megadrive I know exactly what you mean and that is what I liked about the console.
I always thought the music sounded better on MD also, I own both consoles and I just checked and the music regarding instruments definitely sound better on the Megadrive. Also when you guys start talking about technical specs I hope you know it is all redundant because the power of the system means absolutely nothing. The PS3 can perform twice as many raw data calculations per second than the 360 yet the games on the systems are identical are they not? Before anyone starts a PS3 360 war just know that no-one cares. Cheers, Jawsykilla |
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Hmmm, if I was objective I would say the SNES was the better machine, but the subjective part of me prefers the Mega Drive as it was 'cool'.
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22 February 2010, 23:22 | #79 |
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The Megadrive was better as it had more chipware.
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As for looks i think both the Megadrive and Snes were excellent... except the US Snes as it looked absolutely horrible! Just as bad as the Turbografx 16 |
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