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by Drakon
Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:16 pm
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES's
Replies: 114
Views: 52142

Re: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES'

Sorry for the bump, I just want to apologize for the rude posts I made. That was uncalled for and wrong. On my system I actually have a game-specific vertical bar. Playing final fantasy 4 on my sd2snes in rgb I get this bar on the left that's fainter and wider but still strong enough to annoy me. Ot...
by Drakon
Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:23 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: RGB output from composite PPU
Replies: 146
Views: 111756

Re: RGB output from composite PPU

Nice Drakon! But why do you use hot glue on that cable (by the contact)? Wouldn't it be better to use heat shrink tubing instead? You can buy it dirty cheap at: http://dx.com/p/1m-black-heat-shrink-tubing-five-size-pack-0-8-1-5-2-5-3-5-4-5mm-23450 Thanks for the tip. This is a personal system I bui...
by Drakon
Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:39 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: RGB output from composite PPU
Replies: 146
Views: 111756

Re: RGB output from composite PPU

Some av famicom pics: http://i.imgur.com/7AcPFi7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/B8F1HYP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XFLirTR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zdEIsZE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zgA5OPK.jpg The audio circuit got changed around a little, adjusted the gain and filtering so it can be fed straight into famicom pin 45.
by Drakon
Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:17 pm
Forum: Reproduction
Topic: Megaman X2 on Rockman X3 PCB
Replies: 14
Views: 21966

Re: Megaman X2 on Rockman X3 PCB

Thank god I'm not a fan of x2/3, sounds like a pain. Meh, it's not really any worse than any other repro, other than the SMD soldering. I just wish the USA versions of MMX2/3 weren't so frakking expensive, they're pretty much the only 2 retail titles still on my wish list to collect, but I have no ...
by Drakon
Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:20 pm
Forum: Reproduction
Topic: Megaman X2 on Rockman X3 PCB
Replies: 14
Views: 21966

Re: Megaman X2 on Rockman X3 PCB

Thank god I'm not a fan of x2/3, sounds like a pain.
by Drakon
Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:17 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: RGB output from composite PPU
Replies: 146
Views: 111756

Re: RGB output from composite PPU

mikejmoffitt wrote:Ordered one. Hyped. Going to try to cram it into an original Famicom.
I'd love to see how you'd get it to fit. I can't wait to get my hands on the nes 2 / av famicom adapters.
by Drakon
Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:33 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: RGB output from composite PPU
Replies: 146
Views: 111756

Re: RGB output from composite PPU

hyarion wrote:Looks like someone took the idea and put it in a need little package ready to be ordered.
There are still rooms for improvements though, like configurable palettes, component output etc.
Personally I'd rather get rgb and use an external rgb to component converter.
by Drakon
Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:15 am
Forum: GBDev
Topic: Gameboy Devcart Version 3
Replies: 10
Views: 8854

Re: Gameboy Devcart Version 3

Made the case a little nicer. Also used a smaller switch that lets me use flash chips up to 512k instead of 256k like the old switch. http://i.imgur.com/u0IJ1go.jpg http://i.imgur.com/N15ufaA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VpBNgIw.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JC8XuNK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/n1Gvllh.jpg http://i.im...
by Drakon
Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:33 pm
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Removing a game menu need help
Replies: 3
Views: 2564

Re: Removing a game menu need help

Spikeman managed to disable the menu for now. The author of this romhack doesn't test it on real hardware he always intended it to be emulator only.
by Drakon
Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:07 pm
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Removing a game menu need help
Replies: 3
Views: 2564

Removing a game menu need help

This type of romhack is out of my league. Here's what I'm trying to do... I made a hardware cartridge of the megaman 4 minus infinity romhack. The game runs fine start to finish with a couple of very minor bugs. One of the bugs is some of the ending credits don't draw right...not a huge deal, it's t...
by Drakon
Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:22 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: External audio on Toploader NES with PowerPak mod
Replies: 42
Views: 43275

Re: External audio on Toploader NES with PowerPak mod

Assuming an original famicom and not the AV (where I don't know), the powerpak is probably biasing the 2A03 audio output too far from normal. If you look at the audio portion of the schematic (http://nesdev.com/Ntd_8bit.jpg, top right corner), the 100kΩ resistor self-biases the inverter to be an am...
by Drakon
Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:29 am
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: Sega Master System Modded
Replies: 0
Views: 4573

Sega Master System Modded

http://i.imgur.com/I6RxJK1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TMrF0Sp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/u5LxhVy.jpg http://www.youtube.com/v/tV-H4f5Rrr4 This system features the lovely viletim fm sound board, the krikzz mega everdrive, a blue LED, rca jacks for dual mono audio and a s-video circuit that's much cleaner an...
by Drakon
Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:37 am
Forum: GBDev
Topic: Gameboy Devcart Version 3
Replies: 10
Views: 8854

Gameboy Devcart Version 3

Same hardware as version 2, I just rebuilt the case. http://i.imgur.com/k7FIXMt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yA6KJ16.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UN5JP99.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UqTvNTI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9lxXO9P.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MtVL0vL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ns7H1lM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Gdxfmzx.jpg...
by Drakon
Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:45 am
Forum: NES Graphics
Topic: Need help removing colour emphasis from roms
Replies: 37
Views: 18557

Re: Need help removing colour emphasis from roms

After using spikeman romhacking + game genie codes I got to the spot in cossack stage 3 with color emphasis. I sent spikeman the savestate, he found the data, and it's changed. I wound up changing the rising / falling water from emphasis to grayscale. In the brightman stage the areas that you can't ...
by Drakon
Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:47 am
Forum: NES Graphics
Topic: Need help removing colour emphasis from roms
Replies: 37
Views: 18557

Re: Need help removing colour emphasis from roms

No way these $2001 writes could be filtered with some added hardware so that the top 3 bits were never set? D7 to PPU = D7 from CPU AND (address lines to PPU aren't 001)? That would be a cool device if it's not a pain to make. For now I'm content with romhacking. Yesterday I mentioned this to spike...