Green outlines on sprites?
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Green outlines on sprites?
I just got a used NES but when I boot it up I noticed that there were green outlines everywhere and a green bar across the middle of the screen. Has anyone ever seen this?
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Pictures please.
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Sorry for the late reply, here are the pictures
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That green bar has been seen before, some kind of shadow image of horizontal blanking. I can't remember if there was a solution for this, but there was definitely a thread about it before (but I can't find it at the moment).
As for outlines on Mario I'm not sure what that's a picture of but it's normal/standard for the NES to have colour errors at the edges of shapes due to how it generates its NTSC signal (example).
As for outlines on Mario I'm not sure what that's a picture of but it's normal/standard for the NES to have colour errors at the edges of shapes due to how it generates its NTSC signal (example).
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I noticed that when I do anything it gets mirrored on the other side of the screen in that same green
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Would the horizontal blanking interval be due to the up scaling? Could it be due to the TV itself? I am using an adapter to convert it to HDMI but it works perfectly on the ATARI.
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As you can see the blocks are being mirrored to the left, thi bugs me the most
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Interesting. It looks like those are off by 128 pixels. Maybe some counter in the PPU's 8th bit is broken, and something funny inside there is actually affecting tile fetching. That is going out on a limb considerably, though.
Do you have another TV to try?
Do you have another TV to try?
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Oh wow, maybe that's not the problem I'm thinking off.Jackknife18846 wrote:As you can see the blocks are being mirrored to the left, thi bugs me the most
I would guess this is some sort of analog signal delay, not any kind of logical failure in the PPU. I think a logic problem would have much stronger consequences than an afterimage kinda thing like this.mikejmoffitt wrote:Interesting. It looks like those are off by 128 pixels. Maybe some counter in the PPU's 8th bit is broken, and something funny inside there is actually affecting tile fetching. That is going out on a limb considerably, though.
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Does it do anything like this without the upscaler? If not, whatever adapter you're using should be the prime suspect.Jackknife18846 wrote:I am using an adapter to convert it to HDMI but it works perfectly on the ATARI.
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I have a portable sreen to try acually but not a CRT or anything
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I just replaced the TV with AV support before I got the NES, I can only try it with the adapter
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You appear to have a "reflection" in the video output. The easiest things to try first depend on how you're connecting to the TV right now: if you're using the RF output, try another RF switch; If the RCA output, try another (different length) RCA cable.
The green vertical bar is how the TV signal specifies the hue of the color information on screen, repeated somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 of a scanline (≈20 to 30µs) later. This can be caused by the TV lacking the correct input impedance, the NES having the wrong output impedance, or the cable being damaged.
(I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a cheap composite-to-HDMI converter had the wrong input impedance)
The green vertical bar is how the TV signal specifies the hue of the color information on screen, repeated somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 of a scanline (≈20 to 30µs) later. This can be caused by the TV lacking the correct input impedance, the NES having the wrong output impedance, or the cable being damaged.
(I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a cheap composite-to-HDMI converter had the wrong input impedance)
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I'm pretty sure the adapter is the problem. It does work on my ATARI though.
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The adapter needs to be plugged in but I haven't tried it unplugged. I'll see if that fixes it.