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I'd rather want an explanation for why sometimes people sign their posts every time, which is the original concept behind a signature.

-MM

The PHPBB topic icons, like the one featured to the left of this post in the forum index, are all very antiquated with the primary issue being that they were anti-aliased against the off-grey color found on a stock board. Does an updated alpha-channel-enabled set of icons exist, or would it be worth...

I can confirm from a unit I received recently that the Generation NEX Messiah has the swapped cycle bits, as does the Super Joy 3.

If isopropyl alcohol is going to destroy the PCB from contact, that's not okay as far as the PCB design goes. I've doused (turned-off and discharged) NES and SNES motherboards in alcohol as well as liberally applied it to cartridge PCBs that were properly manufactured with no such issues... it shoul...

tokumaru wrote:

80sFREAK wrote:Which mappers supported?

Does it matter? Except for the MMC5, that can work around the "same palette for each 16x16 pixel area" limitation, NES graphics are always the same no matter the mapper.

Don't forget lil' VRC6!

The Super NES has the same dot clock and the same 341-pixel line length as the NES, which produces the same diagonal artifact pattern in composite output. Its palette is nominally RGB with 32 levels per component, but does it also have the same problem of e.g. (5, 14, 0) being "greenish, excep...

If anyone wants to give Age of Empires II a try, I recommend hunting down the Age of Conquerors expansion pack as well as this neato hack-job that lets the game run at your monitor's native resolution. Playing AoE2 at 2560x1600 is a wonderful 30" experience that I can never step down from :D I...

The other way would be switching to 640x480 pixel mode, scaling would be faster in that case, but the mode switching would be 2-3 seconds (on my computer at least... maybe better monitors/drivers can be doing it faster... or even slower?) - if you want to frequently switch from one window to anothe...

May I ask if fullscreen would be too much to add? A mode that runs fullscreen at 512x448 (2x blocky scaled) would be wonderful and I would donate happily for it.

If anyone wants to give Age of Empires II a try, I recommend hunting down the Age of Conquerors expansion pack as well as this neato hack-job that lets the game run at your monitor's native resolution. Playing AoE2 at 2560x1600 is a wonderful 30" experience that I can never step down from

You can't just cheaply "copy" a chip that you don't have the original design to. You have to go through the whole process that org is doing in his current thread (or pay someone a LOT) of money to do it for you. And even still getting an exact analog match for sound/video is difficult com...

So what is this "Great" list of consoles where the 2nd revision didn't have big improvements? I myself don't know of any. A2600 jr? I dunno. Wii Family Edition (no GameCube controller ports) Genesis 3 (no power LED; a couple games don't work because they expect the TST instruction to be b...

You cannot get NTSC video with 50Hz from that machine. you get only 60Hz NTSC or 50Hz PAL. B/W is normal if your TV does not support PAL, and rolling image is because it cannot lock to 50Hz. Not good for the USA folks. The mod worked perfectly on my TV, which supports both PAL and NTSC, aswell as S...

I hate HDMI. With help from someone else I have mostly made up a different digital video cable called "Digi-RGB" which is blah blah blah Fantastic? Not really the focus of the thread, though... what Tepples was trying to point out was another opportunity for PC manufacturers to cut in to ...

Can I recommend pre-scaling by a factor of 2 in each dimension, then applying bi-linear filtering? This serves to help non-integral scaling factors still look crisp, but not have such uneven-looking pixels. Plain bi-linear filtering looks too soft and ruins small lines and dots, so such a feature wo...