NESRGB install troubleshooting

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Re: NESRGB install troubleshooting

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Joe wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 11:09 am
Aerik72 wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 10:50 amunless anybody can eyeball this and point me at a particular PPU pin
Looks more like a loose cartridge than a soldering problem to me. PPU A5 is forced to 1, but the PPU uses a multiplexed bus where A5 and D5 are on the same pin, and I don't see anything wrong with D5. PPU A5 is pin 24 on the cartridge connector.
If PPU A5 was being forced to 1, then the letter "C" would be showing up as "E", "G" would be showing up as "I", and "O" would be showing up as "Q".
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Re: NESRGB install troubleshooting

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Joe wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 11:09 am
Aerik72 wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 10:50 amunless anybody can eyeball this and point me at a particular PPU pin
Looks more like a loose cartridge than a soldering problem to me. PPU A5 is forced to 1, but the PPU uses a multiplexed bus where A5 and D5 are on the same pin, and I don't see anything wrong with D5. PPU A5 is pin 24 on the cartridge connector.
If PPU A5 was being forced to 1, then the letter "C" would be showing up as "E", "G" would be showing up as "I", and "O" would be showing up as "Q", so clearly there's something else going on.
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Re: NESRGB install troubleshooting

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Joe wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 11:09 am Looks more like a loose cartridge than a soldering problem to me.
You were right! The remaining graphical glitches were from bad cartridge connection!

I tested Mario, Castlevania 1 & 3, Final Fantasy, Zelda 2, all ok. Then I circled back around to Zelda and with the usual finagling and retries I got it working perfectly!

From here I just need to do some cleaning, and then I'm good to go.

Fiskbit, you're the hero of Hyrule for pointing me at the main issue, but thank you everybody who responded! :) :)
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Re: NESRGB install troubleshooting

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Looks like Joe actually identified the problem first (open bus and pin 24), though I didn't realize at the time he meant PPU /RD. Glad you got it working!
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