Software-Houses
- Alligata Software
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Games Which use hardware tricks
Useful if you want to dissect games to work out how they did it.
Please move to somewhere more appropiate
Hardware Scrolling
- R3 used to make smoother horizontal scroll
- R5 used to make smoother vertical scroll
Title | Year | Vertical | Horizontal | R3 | R5 | Confirmed |
Action Force | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Axys | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
Builderland | No | Yes | No | No | ||
FlySpy | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
Ghosts 'n' Goblins | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Led Storm | 1988 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Legend of Kage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Mission Genocide | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes(?) | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Rick Dangerous 2 | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Super Cauldron | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Titan | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
Turrican | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Rupture
A technique for breaking the screen into more than one block vertically. Can be used to hardware scroll one part of the screen while another is static.
Title | Year | Confirmed |
Action Force | ||
Enlightenment: Druid 2 | ||
Grell and Falla | ||
Octoplex | 1989 | Yes |
Prehistorik 2 | 1992 | |
Snowstrike | ||
Super Cauldron | 1992 | |
Turrican | ||
Usagi Yojimbo | ||
Xyphoes Fantasy |