>I was just wondering, which cd game would you all say has
>the highest quality digitized video? Also, was HuVideo a
>proprietary format that was used to better the quality of FMV
>on the turbo systems? How often was it used? Did it look
>better?
Well, "Digitized Video" has different connotations on this system.
First, there was no such thing as FMV in games, for most of the life of the
PC-Engine.
Most of the cinema sequences are cut-scene, or use simple scrolling,
palette, or sprite effects. They made very good use of these devices, but
you could hardly call it FMV or even digitized video.
Sherlock Holmes was the first game that used digitized video - pretty much
on any system. There were only a handful of others that even attempted it
- Sherlock Holmes 2, John Madden Football, It Came from the Desert. The
best of this lot (IMHO) was John Madden Football, but it is only a
cut-scene device in this game, not a major factor in its play.
Then came HuVideo - since anime uses only a small color palette, it was
somehow easier to compress onto a 1x CDROM drive. And it is pretty
impressive - 10fps, 16KHz mono ADPCM, etc. By far the best digitized video
on the system, but it attempts to do less (smaller color palette, lower
frame rate).
Gulliver Boy was the only game to use HuVideo in it (but there was the Yuna
HuVideo sample), and it has a generous amount of HuVideo in it.
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