Supa pixerurarut

[Anonymous No.2466172]

Can you guys post your favorite pixelart of any old-games?. Those backgrounds or sprites that even if the game sucks you play it just for the visual stuff!. (I'll start with an un-released game).

[Anonymous No.2466174]

>>2466172
inb4 metal slug

[Anonymous No.2466181]

>>2466174

[Anonymous No.2466202]

>>2466172

Pretty much all the Disney licensed games from Capcom. Magical Quest and Great Circus Mystery are just GORGEOUS.

[Anonymous No.2466205]

>>2466172 (OP)

Pretty much all the Disney licensed games from Capcom. Magical Quest and Great Circus Mystery are just GORGEOUS.

[Anonymous No.2466208]

[Anonymous No.2466210]

>>2466205

Agreed. Capcom's disney games are the definition of comfy, especially the magical adventure series.
Great backgrounds, full of detail.

[Anonymous No.2466286]

>>2466172
That's a fanart mockup (a God level one, but still). The game that guy's been making for like eight years, now -that's- unreleased.

I'll go with some western games before the SNK background dump begins:
The older Bitmap Brothers stuff's got great pixel art and color palettes (stuff like Chaos Engine or Cadaver. Even the menus look sexy.

[Anonymous No.2466302]

The filigreed GUI in Cadaver looks great too.

[Anonymous No.2466319]

>>2466172
I love classic sprites on low-poly 3D backgrounds (with low resolution pixel art-based textures); it's a great look when done right, pic related.

[Anonymous No.2466321]

>>2466319
Also, dem muted palettes.

[Anonymous No.2466346]

FFTA always impressed me with how neat it looked. Here's a gallery of other maps: http://ffta.mimigyaru.com/medias/lieux/

[Anonymous No.2466417]

>>2466319
How does it look in motion? I'm imagining a lot of flickering pixels?

[Anonymous No.2466421]

>>2466417
Not him, but BoF4 looks gorgeous, I think it's one of the nicest looking games on the system and definitely one of the best 2D/3D mixes. Sprites are all well animated and the palette is really lovely. Emulator screenshots don't do it justice.

[Anonymous No.2466428]

>>2466421
Art and animation quality are some of the only really really strong features of the BoF series on Playstaton. Everything else is completely mediocre, or flat out bad.

[Anonymous No.2466429]

[Anonymous No.2466431]

>>2466429
>dat aspect-ratio
der fuhrer is not amused

[Anonymous No.2466463]

[Anonymous No.2466472]

I don't have any good pics, but I always though Earthworm Jim was done beautifully.

[Anonymous No.2466504]

>>2466472
Great animation too

[Anonymous No.2466536]

>>2466172
>an un-released game
That's a mockup and you know it.

[Anonymous No.2466594]

>>2466174

[Anonymous No.2466608]

>>2466172
>pixel art
>jpg
>JPG
>FUCKING JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP

i'm done


It's also done by Konjak, the same guy who made Noitu Love

[Anonymous No.2466646]

>>2466472

[Anonymous No.2466649]

>>2466608
Nope. It's Simon something/Snakepixel (Owlboy, Savant Ascent). Konjak is OK, but has nothing on this guy

[Anonymous No.2467297]

All the backgrounds in the last blade 2 are great, Though I like the stages in SNK fighters in general.

[Anonymous No.2467308]

Not a real game but it looks nice.

[Anonymous No.2467309]

A remake like this might be fun.

[Anonymous No.2467312]

Not real game.

Metal Slug has the best pixel art.

[Anonymous No.2467532]

>>2466594
dat 60 fps explosion

[Anonymous No.2467710]

>>2466205
>>2466210
Got a list of those titles?

[Anonymous No.2467734]

>>2467710

Known as the Magical Quest series.

-The Magical Quest (part 1)
-The Great Circus Mystery (part 2)
-Mickey to Donald- Magical Adventure 3 (part 3, only released in Japan on the SNES)

There is also the "Illusion" series for Genesis/Mega Drive with castle of illusion being the most famous one. However keep in mind that with its more limited color abilities the Genesis by design displays the graphics a lot less color- and beautiful than the SNES could.

[Anonymous No.2468351]

>>2466428
if anything, is it good for exploring the world and enjoying the art?

[Anonymous No.2468770]

>>2466208
What game is that?

[Anonymous No.2469169]

>>2467734
TY, anon

[Anonymous No.2469332]

>>2468770
SaGa Frontier 2, PS1.

[Anonymous No.2469626]

Demon's Crest has a really nice spritework

[Anonymous No.2470264]

>>2469626
Amen.

[Anonymous No.2471279]

>>2469626
Then why did you scale it up and make it blurry?

[Anonymous No.2471285]

>>2471279
Do you want a picture for ants?

[Anonymous No.2471286]

>>2471279
actually closer to how it looks on crt than nearest neighbor

[Anonymous No.2471292]

>>2471285
>>2471286
The image here >>2470264 looks significantly better. I mean, this is pixel art, small is good, that's half the point. I just got this image off google, and while it's smaller I think it looks a lot better.

I mean, playing upscaled is fine, but I don't see why you'd show off graphics while actively making them worse.

[Anonymous No.2471304]

I forgot, you can even upscale while maintaining aspect ratio and without blurring and whatnot. Pic related: Left is no blur, right is the upscaled blur I pointed out. I *think* it should be unanimous that the left looks plain better, but then again, that's probably just personal bias.

[Anonymous No.2471380]

>>2471304

For the text this is true, however for the charater the right one is better. The left is too pixelly, you arenot supposed to see the individual pixels of his coloring. A CRT would blur this together and it was made with that in mind meaning the right one actually is how it is supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.2473431]

>>2471380
I'm genuinely surprised you think that way. I can hardly look at the right without my eyes crossing.

[Anonymous No.2473464]

>>2471380
I 100% agree here, the character on the right looks much better. The shading is very nice on the right. Weird how that hole int he ribs isn't even visible on the left, but it is on the right.

[Anonymous No.2473469]

>>2473464
I don't believe you

[Anonymous No.2473476]

I feel like I want some kind of a filter that combines the two - where the blurring only begins a couple of pixels inside of a black outline

The areas of muscle look ok when blurred because that was essentially the effect they wanted, but blurring the text and the sharper details around the head sucks shit. I couldn't do it in paint but if you could have the top of the flames stark and pixellated against the black but the rest of the fire blurred it might look dece

[Anonymous No.2473484]

>>2467297
Why are there cowboys in Japan?

[Anonymous No.2473508]

>>2473476

Now that head stands out like an orange among lemons. Looks really weird and doctored, like floating above the layer.

[Anonymous No.2473618]

>>2473508
Tried something else - has probably been tried before and probably will be awful for a more complicated scene

Isolated the darkest pixels and the lightest pixels on separate layers, blurred the image and then layered the darkest and lightest pixels over the top of it

You'd hopefully end up with crispier edges and more pronounced highlights? I dunno

[Anonymous No.2473660]

>>2473618

A lot of work for a result that imho is not really distingushable or worse than a much easier option.
Right is yours, middle one I took the original and simply applied a bit of good old gaussian blur (0.4 px) to it. Looks pretty much identical- with the difference that in that one the text is even better readable.

[Anonymous No.2473724]

>>2473660
Ah, whoops, i fucked up the order of my example image, it was:
finished - dark - light - blurred

Attached pic is 4px gaussian on the right - and on the left is 4px gaussian with linearly scaled high and low brightness pixels overlayed

[Anonymous No.2474321]

>>2473724
The one on the left here at least isn't visibly blurry and unfocused.