With enough practice, the bonus chaos emerald stages become very easy. I find that the most difficult part about them is finishing the preceding level with enough rings to unlock them.
Yeah I actually really enjoyed the added challenge of hanging onto my rings throughout each level.
I think it’s the rotation in the bonus stages that makes me feel slightly ill - along with the physics. That said I’d probably take these over the blue sphere stages from S3&K.
I actually think the sphere stages are slightly better. Sonic 2’s bonus stages were my least favorite of the Genesis trilogy + Knuckles.
This looks beautiful!
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Viewsonic 17’ CRT with the Steam version of Sonic Mania Plus over VGA. Modded to run in proper 4:3 and I’m using the Genesis mini USB pad, lol.
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Looks good. Is that real 240p or is it that 480p + in-game scanlines? Either way, it looks real.
Could you post one of the 3D saturn-like bonus level? I’d love to see that in proper 240p.
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Pixel perfection
Welcome! Love these snaps, looks great!
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Amazing! - welcome, please don’t be shy about posting more! 
Nice pics. That Spritework is so perfect.
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Awesome! What are you playing it on?
Oh yeah sorry that’s on a New Astro City cabinet. Nanao MS9 Monitor. I don’t think it’s been recapped in a while, so I might do that while I have the time.
The Simpsons game definitely does have some great sprite work. The animations are a little lacking, but if you consider this game was super rushed out due to the first season of the Simpsons exploding like it did, it’s a great accomplishment.
The animators only had the first season to go by, and some stuff from the Tracy Ullman show, which was definitely a different type of show from what the Simpsons eventually became.
You can see stuff like Binky the bunny being a featured character, when I don’t he ever really had an appearance in the main show past the first season.
Smithers is a completely different character personality-wise - I honestly think they didn’t have enough character references to spread around as enemies.
Also, if you play as Marge and get shocked, the skeleton X-ray animation will show her rabbit ears, which was the original plan for her character.
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Wanted to share some shots of Link’s Awakening in 240p. It completely holds up. The simple style of this game and vibrant colors make it really pop in this format.
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Really cool!
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Bit of a question, does anyone remember the original DOOM64 review from IGN? Back when the site was still N64.com, they had a few screen caps that were really sharp at native 240p, but as I was looking at it today for reference I clicked the pics and they were upscaled HORRIBLY. It seems strange cause back then PC resolutions were low around 480p or 800x600. The thunbnails are still the original, yet I actually have to sit up close to see the pics unfiltered.
Does windows or something resize with interger scaling?