🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 on Nostr: The #SegaCD came with an ASIC for scaling and rotating sprites. This was likely used ...

The #SegaCD came with an ASIC for scaling and rotating sprites. This was likely used in the #SonicCD special stages to create the Mode7 effect for the tracks, and possibly other #games

But #Sega never ported their arcade super scalers to it. Instead they did ports of #Afterburner on the #32x a few years later where they do all the scaling in CPU!

I'm so curious why this is! Was the #hardware hard to use? Was there additional benefit to using the 32x's CPUs?

#gamedev #retrogaming #programming