Quality tests

[Dot50Cal]

Which of these sets looks better to you? Let me know in the poll please! For clarification, A is first, then B is second. Also, if you don't see any images then you'll need to use a browser that displays PNG's.

[doomed]

"B", but they are almost the same.

[BLSR1]

B is sharper but its only barely noticeable in Sets 1 and 2

[A-J]

the second set imo.

[rewak]

B for me as well, every so slightly sharper

[Gradon]

Same with everyone, B.

[kevstah2004]

B it seems slightly shaper on the outlining of Mercenaries and the stitching on Leon's clothes.

[Bobelvago]

Am I the only one who sees no change? I compared it and everything, yet I see no change or difference...v_V...

[A-J]

Am I the only one who sees no change? I compared it and everything, yet I see no change or difference...v_V...

look closer at the hair, textures etc, the B set is veeery slightly more sharp.

[FeurMensch]

They both look really close to me. B seems to be a bit sharper and more defined. It's a hard choice though since they look so much alike.

[nemesis_lover]

A, i like to be diffrent


....ok maybe B

[U and S]

They're both bad. A and B have colour banding an aliasing. I wish there was a proper HD version of Resident Evil 4 without the clipping of the Ganados and Leon's hand through doors as he pushes them and without the hideous colour banding on Leon's black top in dark areas.

[Dot50Cal]

Gamecube Devkits don't record video anyway.

[Mr_Zombie]

I don't see any difference o_O

[Dot50Cal]

You never said we were talking videos here. ;)

Single frame capturing makes it possible either way.
Additionally, I'm pretty sure I've also seen a video capturing folder in the development kit, alongside the screenshot one.

Theres no point since GCNrd can do that anyway. The quality leaves a lot to be desired when compared to a 480p capture.

[Dot50Cal]

Sure, but like I said, the differences are so slight I wont even bother. The cost of GCN Dev kits is on the decline, but they take up so much space as it is and I wouldn't be using it for anything but screenshots. Thats frowned upon, and I wouldn't want to take a kit out of someones hands who would do something with it. Heres some pictures samples I did. The shots on the right are off the frame buffer from GCNrd while the left is my capture card. A sharpen filter, and a quick color tweak (less green) and they'd nearly be 1:1, but I don't even go that far. When you introduce sharpening you need to increase the bitrate a lot or things get ugly. Its a slippery slope but you have to draw the line somewhere.

Thanks for the responses everyone. Set A was captured while having the Wii in Widescreen mode, which seems to simply stretch the image to fit the screen, while Set B was the game in its native 4:3 mode (which when cropped nearly comes to 16:9 anyway). In the future I'll be doing 4:3 mode, as it takes up less HDD space and also looks better, thanks to sloppy widescreen implementation.

[Borman]

And also, for the Xbox XDK, if Dot was capturing for, say, Silent Hill 2, it has really, really sloppy video recording, that is pretty much worthless ;)

[Dot50Cal]

Any samples for that? Does it compress to a lossy codec?

[Borman]

I think its uncompressed by default. But no sound, and not a high framerate, 4:3 and no HD (All for the XBox 1, still dont have an XeDK so ><)

http://www.ptop.aborman.com/index.ph...sk=view&id=131

Video of it. If you pause it, it looks good, but still, framerate and no sound = blah

[Dot50Cal]

I seen a video of someone's recording off a 360 kit and it looked considerably worse than my capture card, which is surprising. Seems like thats crap as well :|