The SNES had a revolutionary video mode, mode 7, that allowed a game to set a relatively high resolution background, and then rotate and scale that background during gameplay. This pseudo 3d ...

Thanks to Mode 7, games reached entirely new levels of speed and aesthetics. The Super Nintendo featured seven different video rendering modes, each offering a different level of display detail ...

A mod released today for Super Nintendo emulator bsnes, called HD Mode 7, shows how much detail you can get out of the faux 3D mode's graphics. You can see the difference above—the left half of ...

F-Zero was a Super Nintendo launch title that really showcased the new 16-bit technology. Mode 7 was on full display in the game, as players zoomed around at 400 km/h and higher with boost power.

Of course, no Super Nintendo game was ever developed supporting this, so for now the only bits of the game that properly stretch beyond their 4:3 original confinements are the Mode 7 backgrounds.

Some still end up a mess of pixels. The HD Mode 7 mode for bsnes exploits a graphics trick SNES games used for a completely different purpose. Called Mode 7, it practically allowed backgrounds to ...

“In fact, I have a demo that we made similar to Mode 7 on the Super Nintendo, but on the PC to make a racing game.” A significant part of id Software's foundation came from figuring out how to ...

Anyone who has ever played the original Super Mario Kart or F-Zero on the SNES will recall the glorious Mode 7 graphical effect. Its ground-breaking rotating backgrounds had a way of inducing ...

Let's say the SNES is rendering its iconic mode 7, which is an affine texture transformation with per-scanline parameter adjustments. To determine any given pixel on the screen, a computation such ...

The Super Nintendo was a technical marvel upon release in 1991, with a 3.58 MHz CPU capable pumping out 256 colors alongside the famed Mode 7 graphics, which rendered a background layer at an ...

Indie studio Muteki has published a new trailer for its 16-bit JRPG throwback Dragon Fantasy: Book 2, in advance of next weekend’s PAX East convention.

If you know where to look, you can play any retro game you desire very easily, and they're only becoming more accessible thanks to services likeNintendo Switch Online. Still, even Nintendo's own ...