[game_preservation] TV emulation

[Devin Monnens]

It's interesting too because artists don't like the scanlines (which is why
you have the option of using them!). This focus on how the technology looks
brings up other questions - what happens if I want to emulate broken
hardware (say the NES 'flash' or glitched graphics)? Is there a point where
you can try to do too much?

-Devin

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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> 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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