STV medium res?

[jepjepjep]

Can any Sega STV owners verify whether Soukyugurentai or Radiant Silvergun output in 24 khz?

[thegreathopper]

Can any Sega STV owners verify whether Soukyugurentai or Radiant Silvergun output in 24 khz?

No, STV is low res 15 Khz only.

[Ed Oscuro]

Can any Sega STV owners verify whether Soukyugurentai or Radiant Silvergun output in 24 khz?

No, STV is low res 15 Khz only.

So Wikipedia has this one wrong, then, don't they?

I did take a look at MAME earlier, and it looked like the definition of low-rez but I didn't want to write some nonsense so I held off.

[undamned]

No, STV is low res 15 Khz only.

So Wikipedia has this one wrong, then, don't they?

Yes. Love that internet.
-ud

[Ed Oscuro]

It's interesting that Wikipedia has these stats in the info box:

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Arcade system 	Sega Titan Video
Display 	704 × 513, 6144 palette colors

I probably shouldn't care, but I am wondering where the hell those numbers are coming from. Maybe somebody is quoting the ST-V's max resolution. But at no point does the game seem to come close to that resolution.

[nZero]

Interlaced hi-res display mostly used for company logo/title screens and the like (on the Saturn, anyway)

[undamned]

Well, hardware capabilities and what the software actually utilizes aren't always the same. For all I know, the system may very well be capable of pushing medium res, but I've played my fair share of STV carts and they are all low res (15kHz). Also noteworthy are the print club STV boards which have composite video out. You cannot push medium res through composite video.
-ud

[Ex-Cyber]

IIRC, VDP2 even has a Hi-Vision mode. That doesn't mean that the DAC used on ST-V boards has the bandwidth for that, though.

[Ed Oscuro]

Interlaced hi-res display mostly used for company logo/title screens and the like (on the Saturn, anyway)

Duh, but again, I didn't see those being used here. Not in the loader (the Sega screen), not on the title, nor the intro, or the high scores board. MAME does have some video problems with the game but nothing looks obviously out of place (well, aside from the ugly intro launch scene colors, but that's probably just a palette issue or something).

[antron]

the Saturn does have a progressive scan mode. some hombrew apps use it.

[system11]

I've had most of the carts - they're all low res with occasional use of interlace.