For the first time in ages I plugged my genesis in using composite and wow, dithering really does work to fake transparency sometimes. You absolutely cannot tell this isn't transparency.
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Here's what it looks like in an emulator, every other line is red. That creates the illusion of transparency when run through lower quality output whose colors bleed into each other.
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The lines are absolutely invisible via composite on a crt even if you're looking for them. Wild stuff.
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You can also see there's dithered transparency behind the scrolling text. Looks like a shadow box on my crt though!
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Is there a reason why recreating this effect in emulators for the wii etc wouldn't be doable?
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There are some decent-ish filters now but it has taken 20+ years of work to even get close, and they're still not all the way there. Though part of that is lack of interest I think!
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Yeah, that looks about right! It's real impressive - I'm going to try adventures of batman and robin next
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Man I haven't hooked up my Genesis via composite in ages either. I really love this effect and it's definitely more comfy but the rainbowing etc. from composite and RF still really bug me for whatever reason now. I mean it's not like I noticed any of that as a kid?
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