@Felthry ... Wait... Mode 7 is like... The flying map screen in final fantasy 6/5 and secret of mana right?
@Felthry more mundanely I think they used it for things like Bowser's clown ship in smb spinning around and falling into the background, and the pendulum on the title screen of chrono trigger if memory serves too
@Felthry I dunno, they're pretty impressive to me how they managed to fake a moving, scaling sprite so well with little tricks like that ^^
@Nine yeah those are both also mode 7, just less impressive examples of it
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