Reminds me of a NES that I overclocked when I was around 14 years old. It was the sort of silly thing a nerdy kid would do with too much free time on their hands, and didn't do much to improve the system. Most of the time it caused more issues than it fixed, but it was a good learning experience.
This is far more exciting, since it adds functionality to they system. Maybe I'll dust off my old hacked up NES and do this at some point. If only I had the free time these days.
Should be able to fix a bunch of stuff. Slowdowns, missed frames, etc.
The game only has a limited amount of time to do all of its logic before the VSYNC interrupt forces it to draw to the screen. Game have different ways of handling this, e.g. by rolling back and abandoning the changes, drawing whatever they have, etc.
A faster clock should make it s/t games that don't always get done in time should at least have a better chance.
There's a nice video demonstration here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2kaV_m4iNU
It would have been neat if Nintendo had set this up so the stock unit could have been expanded like this.
What I'd like to know is: Why did Nintendo allow the PPU to pass along another pixel color, but didn't take advantage of it in a shipping product?
Is this a case of "you ain't gonna need it" overengineering; or was the PPU used in other products. (And thus these pins were used elsewhere?)
great name following the NESticle lineage
Reminds me of a NES that I overclocked when I was around 14 years old. It was the sort of silly thing a nerdy kid would do with too much free time on their hands, and didn't do much to improve the system. Most of the time it caused more issues than it fixed, but it was a good learning experience.
This is far more exciting, since it adds functionality to they system. Maybe I'll dust off my old hacked up NES and do this at some point. If only I had the free time these days.
Thx for sharing :)
What did it improve? Sprite flicker? Slow down? I'd no idea this was possible on real hardware!
Should be able to fix a bunch of stuff. Slowdowns, missed frames, etc.
The game only has a limited amount of time to do all of its logic before the VSYNC interrupt forces it to draw to the screen. Game have different ways of handling this, e.g. by rolling back and abandoning the changes, drawing whatever they have, etc.
A faster clock should make it s/t games that don't always get done in time should at least have a better chance.
Oh man, A thing I literally needed right now haha