From: keqingshandholder@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 7:54:23 AM UTC-5, Scott H wrote:   
   > benstylus wrote:   
   > > Scott H wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> This is similar to what I was saying about DOA Ultimate, the   
   > >> filtering just makes everything more blurry than it was originally.   
   > >   
   > > A little bit blurry versus a lot pixelated is a very difficult battle to   
   > > decide.   
   > I haven't noticed a lot of pixelization in the original Dragon   
   > Force, some of the sprites get a little blocky if you set the camera to   
   > leave one as big as it can possibly scale, but aside from that every   
   > object has good color and detail and any depth. One of the things I   
   > noticed with PS1 and N64 ports to the Dreamcast is that they needed to   
   > increase the texture resolution if they were going to use the   
   > Dreamcast's resolution and texture filtering, otherwise the graphics   
   > often times looked worse for the DC version. 4-bit color low res   
   > textures don't look good with a simple screen resolution boost plus   
   > filtering, they just look blurry, and the same is true for the Saturn's   
   > 8-bit color stuff to a lesser degree.   
   > >> Some of the graphical effects don't seem to work right either.   
   > >   
   > > What, specifically are you referring to? It may be due to my recording   
   > > methods (as is the case with the red daytona shadows).   
   > When the sprites are walking away from a castle, they are supposed to be   
   > on the castle graphic, not under it. I also saw some of the mage's   
   > fireballs disappearing oddly when that doesn't happen in the original.   
   > >> Maybe the gameplay is intact and it's still worth looking into, but it   
   > >> certainly doesn't replace the Saturn version (you didn't say it did,   
   > >> but others have).   
   > >   
   > > I'd say if you can read Japanese, it definitely replaces the Saturn   
   > > version.   
   > >   
   > > Mostly because it's about a third of the price :P   
   > I can sell you the Japanese Saturn version of Dragon Force for $15. ;)   
   > --   
   > Scott   
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