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Message: [QUOTE="Sumea, post: 318637, member: 569"] No. Super Nintendo Entertainment System does [B][I]not[/I][/B] have sprite scaling abilities, and neither does Mega Drive for that matter. Art of Fighting uses several, non sprite scaling tricks to achieve the faked version of same effect Neo Geo uses; true (one way) sprite scaling. One way because neo geo also cannot enlarge a sprite, it can only shrink one. Though, with arcade cartridges that would go to very massive sizes, the constraint was worth the space sacrificed. Most other examples of "sprite scaling" are mode 7 backgrounds, which is in the most arse way to say "none of it is sprites". Mode 7 deals with background tiles that are by definition not sprites. There is few games though, where the effect is used on a boss monster or such, giving the illusion but it is not true sprite scaling, and with limitations. The funny trick with these inverse use situations is that sprites get used as fake background or such. Only example you point out of SuperFX(2) being used as sprite accelerator is the only case of true sprite scaling on SNES, helped by additional hardware. 3D acceleration tends to do such effects manageable, as it does also add 3D shapes and objects as parts of some levels. Though, the fact that Yoshi's Island manages a lot of SuperFX accelerated stuff while maintaining 60fps is the true miracle. There is lot of simplification tricks to make every effect in the game run at the desired framerate. Optimization around SuperFX's relative slowness is next level on Yoshi's Island for sure. This is to say; aside SuperFX and creative reverse uses of Mode 7, other types of sprite scaling is brute forced with code, not using any SNES specific graphical features to accelerate such. Or using existing feature set, that does not include sprite scaling, to fake it. Swapping sprites is very common, was even done on NES. One would likely say "what is the difference there? Fake sprite scaling is still sprite scaling and SNES did it?" but then we would have to also claim GameBoy has 3D acceleration capability because Faceball came for it. I would like to say GBA too, but it's CPU just competently makes it 3D capable. Not great at it but it can pull off Yoshi's Island, Doom even Duke Nukem 3D without additional helper chips. But we would still not call it 3D acceleration. This concedes a halfway for the claim though. This video: [MEDIA=youtube]XQtc170VoKI[/MEDIA] This channel in general with Sharopolis go into many examples and breakdown explanations of these impressive "impossible for device x" effects. There is a lot of really cool stuff achieved on 16bit generation. I do think these are all clever and cool but I do have to debunk a sentence like "SNES has Sprite Scaling Capabilities" when normal understanding of that sentence would be wrong. As far as gaming devices went, sprite scaling hardware existed on arcade platforms, out of which Neo Geo is prominent one, as is Sega's various systems. 32x, Sega CD and Saturn are likely only home systems with straight out sprite scaling hardware capability, if we disqualify 3D(acceleration) as it's own thing, namely Playstation and any game on it. [/QUOTE]

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