Why recap the old voltage regulator instead of replace it entirely? I hear the modern replacements are quite a bit better. Sorry if I wasn’t clear, but I replaced the voltage regulator with a modern higher rated regulator, in addition to upgrading the caps and adding the cap on the output of the ne...

very cool! is that a playdate emulator in the last animated gif?

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Ooo, can't wait to read this!

Page took a while to load, but when it did I can see why - there's a lot of good games to page through!
Thanks!

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I think they [Nindendo, Ricoh] did great back in '83, and, all things considering - I'd leave everything just as it is.

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org, this is very nice, thank you!

Nice work on the Crystalis Patch!
I'm curious about the "random fixed color output from PPU reads" mode and possibly some demo name's that use it?

oRBIT2002, love your patches! :) Would you be interested in doing a patch to allow VS. Wrecking Crew to work on a 1-player VS, so it can work in most emulators that only emulate 1 side VS. board for use in fceux, mesen, or even a regular vs pcb on 1 side? But still maintain the VS platform? :) I fig...

org, that's really a beautiful piece of work! thank you for creation / sharing!

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I really missed this place, so happy it's back!
Thanks brizzo, Fiskbit & lidnariq!!

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That's awesome!

Some day, one (or more) of the bullies is going to be up against something that is going to make them see the world in a different way; different from what they're used to.
It will be at this point, from then on, that they have a very hard time living with themselves.

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Buying chips from aliexpress is a bad idea, there are quite a few videos on youtube about this counterfeit ic scam. Check the videos by some notable yt'ers: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aliexpress+counterfeit+ic I recommend the one by plgDavid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72SFBOZ...

All I can remember is that my attempt at mirroring was completely wrong to begin with :) after having a peek at your ppu I'd recommend: when reading and writing from/to the nametables make sure you translate the addresses properly. for example (pseudocode from memory) uint16_t translate_nt(uint16_t ...