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PCs only competed when they ran games which took advantage of a frame buffer vs a tilemap. Try running something like DOOM or Privateer on a vanilla SNES. Then you had the games which used a mouse instead of a joypad. Try to imagine playing something like Civ or Master of Orion with a joystick, you...

When did this meme start? Considering my familiarity with old PC hardware, why do some people pretend that computers were always super imba master race gaming machines? Let's see: NES was better for gaming than the 80s IBM PC (which was weak in gaming even compared to ZX Spectrum) and pretty much ev...

This is also why the C64's CPU is so slow - because the RAM access are interleaved between the video chip and the 6510 - so both have to run two times slower than the RAM's speed which is pretty terrible. Yet it is still faster than the original IBM PC/PC XT's 8088 http://trixter.oldskool.org/2011/...

Thanks for all the answers folks, just 1 another question, do the PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 Hu-Cards work in the same way? A ROM card instead of RAM? Are they basically miniaturized cartridges?

By the way, Merry Christmas!

thefox wrote:For whatever reason, PAL NES image quality is way worse than NTSC NES on my HDTV.

Is your HDTV PAL? Plus, HDTV is not for such signals anyway.

Although SECAM in theory could provide better picture quality, SECAM Famiclones had rather bad picture. Probably because an official SECAM NES did not exist, so it probably had to be converted from PAL or NTSC inside the machine, correct me if I am wrong. Also, is this SECAM Famiclone you mention D...

For another, the standard viewing distance for a desktop PC is defined as 28 inches (711 mm) according to the CSS specification, not 3.9 inches (100 mm) as you suggest. The difference between TV viewing distance and computer monitor viewing distance can be accounted for by running games at 2x in a ...

There is also artifacts on PAL screens. I've always noted "staircases" in vertical straight lines, and an isolated pixel will randomly have another color than the one it's supposed to. If it scrolls, then it will flickers among multiple colors. A good example of this is the eye on the sta...

Judging from comparing these 2 on a picture, athough on a Sega Genesis http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/21/1876835/NTSCcomposhit.jpg http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/21/1876835/PALcomposhit.jpg it seems that PAL picture is much higher quality. Is that correct also for the NES/Famiclones? These...

Shiru wrote:Famiclones use Famicom pirated cartidges, often in Japanese. So it is NTSC forced to display in PAL.

So the actual video is not NTSC?

For some reason, CRT TVs do make the resolution seem better, but I can't really explain why. I remember the first time I ran Sonic 1 on Genecyst back in 1997 or so and showed it to my father... The first thing he said was "the resolution is better on the console, right?". I knew it wasn't...

Also, I don't know if most the famiclones were NTSC forced to PAL, I just know Pegasus and Terminator were, the others might actually used ordinary PAL. What sort of picture would PAL NES/Famiclone bring? Hell, I am not even sure what "forced to PAL" really means, they were Famicom (60-pin...

This is not "accurate NES signal on a TV", but "how would it look like if you outputed a composite signal to a modern HD LCD screen and then looked at it from the distance of 10 centimetres". I agree with you in principle. I want the picture to look the same through an NES plugg...

Look at the bottom. And read. Besides, no matter how accurate the filter is; it doesn't: 1. Emulate the CRT 2. Take usage into account This is not "accurate NES signal on a TV", but "how would it look like if you outputed a composite signal to a modern HD LCD screen and then looked at...

http://filthypants.blogspot.com/2010/12/crt-pixel-shader-filter-for-snes.html This is about SNES, but the same things apply. The "NTSC filter" only image looks horrible, the NTSC + CRT filter image looks wonderful and very TV-like. So how can you achieve a truly TV-like image? NTSC on a PC...