What causes sprite transparency in SNemulDS. The best examples I can think of are in Mega Man X, VII, Super Punch Out!! and Dragon Quest V (when your in the overworld and in some areas of the game).

Is there any way to fix this with the GFX config?

Thanks.

 

It has to do with the number of possible layering configurations on the SNES being more than what the DS can supply. You can mess around with the graphics config screen to try to fix some of the issues, but you probably won't be able to get it looking 100% perfect.

 

Would it be possible to reverse engineer Ultimate Mortal Kombat DS, to help get a better understanding of SNES emulation?

 

I'm just impressed that it supports partial transparency at all. I can still remember a (distant) time when even ZSNES wouldn't show the Haunted Forest in Secret of Mana correctly.

Now even portable systems can handle that admirably, and PC-based emulators are close enough to perfect for 99.9% of us (aside from the people who want each SNES CPU cycle emulated perfectly, and there's pretty good progress on emulators that do just that, though they consume hella resources to do so).

 

I think you're just going to have to take what you can get with Chrono Trigger. I was going to try to play it but the red text bothered me to no end. From what I can tell it seems like leaving the backgrounds and sprites on auto is the best way to go.

 

For Chrono Trigger, I found that using layers of 2/0/3/1 was good for some areas (example: the cliffs you arrive at when you first travel to 600 AD at the beginning of the game) but you must switch back to Auto for the battles. Turn the "BG3 Block Priority" option on, and tap the "Fix Graphics" area whenever text or other graphics get screwy. Text in battles is always hard to read, but normal in-game text should be navigable if you tap this area a few times. The menus are still rather wonky though.