I don't believe that any hardware edition of the mega drive/Genesis has native s-video out. The only way to get that would be to emulate it on a Wii or OG Xbox.
I had to check and sure enough, the thing can output s-video but there was no cable or w/e originally. The console can do RGB natively though and used SCART in pal territories soooo...
The point of my smartass question is that the Mega Drive, and also the Saturn for Sonic Jam ofc, can display video that doesn't have the awful composite video artifacts that cause the dithering transparency things. The Mega Drive was SCART originally, right?
I guess I'm just not convinced about the whole, dither-composite-transparency thing, and I actually have an old CRT plus a real Genesis. It's such a weird thing people fixate on, like why make the video output look awful for one goofy visual effect? Plus I'm not convinced that the devs did these things assuming NOBODY would ever see their games in better quality than combined chroma/luma... (composite)
Right so like, if you played Sonic 1 on a mega drive/genesis using its native s-video out on a consumer shadow mask set, what happens?
I don't believe that any hardware edition of the mega drive/Genesis has native s-video out. The only way to get that would be to emulate it on a Wii or OG Xbox.
I had to check and sure enough, the thing can output s-video but there was no cable or w/e originally. The console can do RGB natively though and used SCART in pal territories soooo...
If that's the case, there's a good chance some hobbyists have made a hob for the hardware that can do it.
As for your first question, I don't know A/V stuff that well so I have no idea. What's a shadow mask?
A shadow mask is a type of CRT television :)
The point of my smartass question is that the Mega Drive, and also the Saturn for Sonic Jam ofc, can display video that doesn't have the awful composite video artifacts that cause the dithering transparency things. The Mega Drive was SCART originally, right?
I guess I'm just not convinced about the whole, dither-composite-transparency thing, and I actually have an old CRT plus a real Genesis. It's such a weird thing people fixate on, like why make the video output look awful for one goofy visual effect? Plus I'm not convinced that the devs did these things assuming NOBODY would ever see their games in better quality than combined chroma/luma... (composite)