/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9645307
zsnes will absolutely work, i remember that bad boy running at 60 on a pentium 3 450mhz from 1999. visualboy advance will probably hit 60 wtih a 2006 laptop, i remember running it on similar laptops in the mid 2000s.

> > Data on the chip gets corrupted
> It can be rewritten
Uh, no, it can't. A rom chip is physically burned with the data. The good news is these really don't fail and should outlive you.
You can get a replacement EEPROM chip that is writable with specialized equipment but this requires serious technical skill to operate ancient chip programmers and desoldering abilities.
> and you can also replace the chip if you really need to
not so easy, most of the old carts take 5v chips while everything today is 3.3v, you'd have to add voltage converters to the existing PCBs.

>>9557498
mmmmm debatable NTSC has voltage drops for signaling vertical and horizontal blanks, as well as luma for brightness and chroma in the color burst which they hacked into the black and white signal for compatibility.
considering the NTSC signal does go line for line with specific instructions and timing for each part of each line, does the amount of decoding that takes place semantically make it enough to say that the NTSC signal doesn't directly drive the electron beam(s)? it's a beautiful fucking mess is all i know

>>9492234
> what's your point?
on the motherboard. you didn't have to deal with ports or cards or drivers or anything, freeing up computing power to run trackers and editors like cubase. this was a big fuckin deal in 1985 on a motorola 68000 running at 8mhz.

>>9285605
an actual SID? unobtanium.
there are several attempts to replicate it with an FPGA like this
https://github.com/CornN64/C64-SID-on-a-FPGA

>>8165578
>>8204870
someone tried to get an electronics and repair general going. it died out. i wish there was more interest... also YW everyone for keeping /vr/hbg alive. this thread is my baby. it will never die: not on my watch =)

>>7728375
it's the PLA