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Games Which use hardware tricks (on old generation cpcs)
Useful if you want to dissect games to work out how they did it.
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Hardware Scrolling
- R3 used to make an approximate byte lenght horizontal scroll (not really smooth)
- R5 used to make smoother vertical scroll (1 line)
Title | Year | Vertical | Horizontal | R3 | R5 | Confirmed |
Action Force | 1988 | No | Yes | No | No | |
Anarchy | 1988 | No | Yes | No | No | |
Axys | 1991 | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Bob Morane Science Fiction | 1987 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Builderland | 1991 | No | Yes | No | No | |
FlySpy | 1986 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Fusion 2 | 1988 | No | Yes | No | No | |
Gothic | 1988 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Ghosts 'n' Goblins | 1986 | No | Yes | No | No | |
Led Storm | 1988 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Legend of Kage | 1986 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Le 5eme Axe | 1985 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Mission Genocide | 1987 | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Monty Python's Flying Circus | 1990 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes(?) | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Prohibition | 1987 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Rick Dangerous 2 | 1990 | No | Yes | No | No | |
Roland On the Ropes | 1984 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Skatewars | 1989 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Stryker In The Crypt Of Trogan | 1992 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Super Cauldron | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Titan | 1988 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Warhawk | 1987 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Rupture
A technique to split the screen into more than one block vertically. (independant videoram offset) Used to hardware scroll one part of the screen while another is static.
Title | Year | Confirmed |
Action Force | ||
Dynamic Duo | ||
Enlightenment: Druid 2 | ||
Grell and Falla | ||
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | |
Skatewars | 1989 | Yes |
Snowstrike | ||
Super Cauldron | 1992 | |
Turrican | 1990 | Yes |
Usagi Yojimbo | ||
Xyphoes Fantasy | ||
Sol Negro(opera) |