Many people felt that the Sega CD didn’t offer much over the standard Genesis besides CD music and grainy FMV. As you can see from this video, that is not the case.
These are clips from many games that use the hardware scaling and rotation feature built into the Sega CD. Granted, some of it is not that great, but this goes to show you that the hardware was indeed used to provide games that could not be done in the same manner on the cartridge systems at the time (with the exception of Sonic CD’s special stages, which I believe the SNES could do even better than the Sega CD did them).
The SNES could not scale sprites, and the Neo Geo could not rotate or do perspective due to its complete lack of axis’s. The Sega CD can do all of these things on both backgrounds and sprites. Recorded from real hardware (Genesis 1 with a Sega CD 1).
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