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Some new test patterns coming to the 240p Test Suite soon.

A couple replies down Artemio replies, “still unreleased, but yes. Won’t take me too long”

Love me some 240p test suite, lol (stolen from CRT Bot’s Twitter header)

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Wow that’s pretty cool.

SNES version updated:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/51080500

Some more details:

5x review

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On a totally unrelated note, has anyone with a CRT_Emudriver setup upgraded or changed the OS? I am wanting to upgrade from Win7 to Win10 on my emu PC but I don’t want to mess too much up.

Do I just make the upgrade as usual and then re-do the VMMaker modelines?

They got so many orders they’ve had to shut down the store. Mike Chi needs to look into making this a “real” business.

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Thank you for the chuckle with Dennis Nerdy, there.

Poor guy has been catching a lot of strange flack from people that want a product that only he makes. People online are awful sometimes.

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Could remove the “online”. Also the “sometimes”. How about we all just remove “people”.

Watched the whole review and saw zero mention of scanline filters for 240p. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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:joy:

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Finally cleaned up this little JVC roadside-find and brought it in the house after being quarantined in my car since February. Trinitron gets a little brother!

It’s from 1991 and only RF-input so I’m going to use it with my childhood Atari 800XL once I find some replacement joysticks and put it in the “kids” room. Worked out kinda perfectly since papa Trinitron has S-Video, ideal for my main N64 setup.

I turned it on and all the buttons work, along with the little speaker on the side. Really satisfied. I can’t wait to fire up Asteroids or Dallas Quest and invite my dad over lol

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That’s awesome, beautiful little set

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Hey guys, I’m kinda curious about this effect I’m seeing in Super Mario 64 on my 27" Trinitron via S-video. I never noticed it before but as I look around against certain backgrounds the colors of the UI letters/numbers sort of bleed out horizontally to varying degrees. The same thing happens at the title screen with Mario’s cap; the red color will project out horizontally past the edge of his cap a single “pixel” occasionally as he looks around. Is this a normal artifact of CRTs, a sign of aging hardware, or maybe something to do with the S-video output?

eg. The little bumps on the left side of the “1” and the star, the orange streaks through the 1 and 0, etc:

Almost to 120 again! Lol

Does it happen all the time against those particular backrounds?

If the answer is yes and the behavior is consistent, I wouldn’t be very concerned. Color bleed is pretty normal.

Right, on. Thanks! Yeah, completely consistent. If I can get the camera back in the exact same position the colors “bleed” exactly the same amount.

FWIW I have a similar issue on SNES with S-Video, the red colors tend to bleed out horizontally for 1-2px across several TVs. It doesn’t really bother me much but I always figured I had bad s-video cables. Doesn;t happen over component or on the MiSTer.

Ah! Possible it’s my cable then. I’m still using a cheap one I got on Ebay a while back. When I get a chance I’ll try switching it out for the thick shielded one I got from Insurrection Industries recently and report back if it makes any difference.

But yeah, at the same time I assume there’s always going to be a bit of red-bleed, like this example of an artist using it as an effect in SoTN:

That CRT Pixels guy blocked me after I enquired why they, as a business owner, need to accept gifts from people less well off than themselves. :man_shrugging:

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