[game_preservation] TV emulation

[Andrew Armstrong]

I need to find some PAL versions of these kind of things, hehe :) neat 
links and info guys, the NTSC filter looks amazing according to the 
screenshots. Scanlines for the arcade machines, well, looks a little odd 
- must really be monitor specific.

Andrew

Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> I love the NTSC filter made by "Blargg." I switch to it once in a 

> while on Nestopia. It's probably similar to what Ian's team came up with:

>

> http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html 

> <http://www.slack.net/%7Eant/libs/ntsc.html>

>

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx 

> <mailto:mike at multimedia.cx>> wrote:

>

>     I remember when scanline emulation was implemented in my TuxNES

>     emulator. Screenshot here:

>

>     http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/snaps/tyson-snap-0001.gif

>

>     It seemed silly to me, but on another mailing list, Jim Leonard

>     (Trixter) explained the following examples where it's a little

>     more useful:

>

>     'I think every single game in MAME looks like this, personally,

>     which is why I play with scanlines on all the time.  But if you

>     want specific examples... Dig Dug, Roc'n'rope, Zookeeper,

>     Robotron, Tutenkahm (sp?) and Punch-Out (arcade, not NES) come to

>     mind..  Actually, Frogger is probably the best example.  It's too

>     saturated/bright/"primary colors" to me without the scanlines.'

>

>     -- 

>        -Mike Melanson

>

>

>     Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>         Yeah, interesting stuff. I should really start posting things

>         to the list like this - I've not been doing them on the blog,

>         although this might well class as "preservation news" I guess.

>

>         Andrew

>

>         Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>             Ian Bogost posts about how the Atari 2600 was designed to

>             interact with TV's in a specific way. I have also noticed

>             this on the NES (especially the Chozo statues in Metroid):

>

>             http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml

>

>             -- 

>             Devin Monnens

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