Game Dev: Mode7 Demo in HTML5
I recently got interested in remaking some classic console games using modern tools. I decided to try emulating the old Mode7 type games in a browser using HTML5 canvas tools. Since I have never actually developed a Mode7 game for the old consoles, my knowledge here might be a bit lacking. However, the gist of what I was able to glean was that Mode7 was a hardware accelerated way to quickly transform and draw background images to give the illusion of perspective. The background was scaled and rotated on a scanline by scanline basis to allow for this illusion.
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