Mario Galaxy is Old School

February 22nd, 2008 by Nat · 2 Comments · Gaming

There’s nothing innovative about Mario Galaxy. We could have had it back in the early ’90s. Cool re-imagining.

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Tony // Feb 22, 2008 at 7:01 pm

Mode 7 for the victory!

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rtf // Feb 22, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Mode 7 can’t handle both a rotated background and sprites simultaneously as depicted – the sprites either have to stay unrotated, or there are prerotated images stored on the ROM. However with a Super FX chip it is possible…

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