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A lot of Genesis games use an odd dithering technique consisting of vertical lines, rather than the usual dot pattern, because an NTSC TV will blend the lines together (though I don't know about Toy Story, never played it). Ristar makes use of this in combination with shadow mode on the map screen, ...

I dunno...I tried a similar adapter when I was a kid, and it caused a loud hum in the audio. You'd probably be better off in the long run finding a Genesis adapter (the old model 1602, NOT the newer one with the yellow tip!). They seem to be fairly common, at least around here. (side note: I seem to...

It's hard enough getting the CopyNES to work with an actual parallel port. Such an adapter would almost certainly not work.

I'm curious, hows it the Japanese ROM but w/ a correct palette on the PAL PPU? What do you mean? The palette is organized the same between the NTSC and PAL PPUs (i.e. $16 is red on both), the colors are just rendered somewhat differently due to the different video formats. The RGB PPUs used in Vs. ...

It's the same adapter the original NES used. AC9V, 850mA (this is less than the original @ 1.3A, but it doesn't matter).

Yes, the original toaster NES always had A/V output. Why they removed it in a newer model is a mystery. Why didn't they just use the same A/V port as the SNES and A/V Famicom, and include/offer a separate RF adapter like the N64 had?

I think he means he'd rather use Y/B instead of B/A (or allow them to be swapped, like Super Mario All-Stars or the Super Game Boy). It feels more natural to place your thumb across Y and B on a 4-button configuration, and most platformers over the past couple of decades have used that setup by defa...

Surprisingly, MC Kids does NOT turn off the screen early for longer vblank, it's actually doing it to mask off an area of the screen. After it turns off rendering and makes rendering black, it sits around and WAITS until a vblank occurrs. Huh, I had always heard otherwise. The More You Know... Rega...

Hmm...you're right. 1.00 seems to fix every problem I mentioned except M.C. Kids (which is arguably worse), and passes all the tests. The only real drawback is that it doesn't have the soft-reset functionality of 1.20. How difficult would it be to add that particular function to the old mapper file?...

Is anyone else having occasional problems with MMC3 games? I've noticed the following problems: - flickering lines not present on real cart: Pinball Quest title screen, several others - occasional crashes: SMB3's status bar bounces a lot, then eventually becomes garbled and the game freezes; occurs ...

$240 worth of Best Buy gift cards = 22" Samsung LCD. Moved my older 22" ViewSonic to the secondary output, and now I have a nice 3360x1050 desktop. Hoo-rah!

I went through DOS->Windows 3.11->95->98SE--along with several major hardware upgrades-- without a complete reinstall on my other computer, which is still happily chugging away as a file server. There are still DLLs and random 16-bit apps from 1992 in my System folder! It's not that hard to maintain...

The Commodore monitor is closest to what I'm used to seeing. That light purple just looks wrong.

This isn't the first time I've seen an HDTV have some kind of trouble with the NES's output...

You can load this into Nintendulator for a pretty good representation of the NTSC palette (ripped from one of blargg's old topics).

I like nesDS for the most part, it's just the lack of DMC/raw support that really bothers me. Why couldn't that be included, anyway?