John Stamos Mullet

Just for shits and giggles, I enabled this on the non-experimental firmware and yep - scrolling is smooth as glass, without sacrificing screen size. Also - the blurring (on Xevious at least) is very slight, and actually looks better (to my eyes anyway) than the harder edged pixels. If an option is to be added I would think this would be the best compromise.

Oh.

To be honest, I don't even really think you need to go too far to enable it as an option, since most people won't care. As long as the retroarch menu is accessible via an OTG cable/keyboard, that's probably enough for us "tinkerers" it would just be nice if we were able to save changes to the config so we don't have to access the menu every time.

I was thinking that would probably be a best case scenario for integer scaling It also had my thinking my Sammy 4k wasn't the greatest for 720p content.

Another option would be to only enable it for specific games affected by the "shimmer" - by saving game specific settings in retroarch. That way you're not doing it for all games. Though - I would note that I found it initially while playing Ms. Pac-Man 7800, because the dots are different sizes, and it looks kinda weird.

I tried it on the last non-experimental firmware where you can still access the Retroarch menu with a keyboard. Works great, sort of. It scrolls nice and smoothly, but without the performance gains of the experimental firmware, there is screen tearing. I get that some people want to see the whole screen filled, and that’s the reason for the non-integer scaling, but personally I think the smoother scrolling is more accurate. Obviously not my call to make, but just a thought.

Uh - can't you just enable integer scaling in retroarch? It's right there. It's an option? Is there a performance hit for it? I wouldn't think so.

I will check this against my other monitors/TVs tomorrow as I only played this on my main gaming TV which is a 55” Samsung 4K. It is possible it’s the TV scaling 720p content weird. I also have a native 720p old 32” HDTV to compare.

Ok - So something I noticed with this latest experimental build (but may have been the case in previous builds) On vertically scrolling games, specifically noticeable in Xevious (7800) and River Raid (2600) - as the screen scrolls up (or the background goes down off the bottom as it were), some elements appear to be "undulating" or "sizziling" for lack of a better word. Specifically the "grass" background elements on Xevious first level. The beige/gold grass pixels appear to be "jumping" forward rather than smoothly scrolling. You see a similar effect in River Raid where the Fuel Tanks and enemies seem to undulate the same way. Because it is present and the same issue on both emulators, this would appear to be a Retroarch level video output/options issue. It appears to be at a constant rate, so this isn't a stuttering/timing issue. If I may hazard a guess it looks like the vertical screen height is being stretched at a scale that isn't an even scale factor with the 2600/7800 screen resolution, so alternating lines of pixels are different thicknesses across the board vertically as it tries to compensate for the screen height mismatch. So the pixels are riding over these line thickness changes like they are waves, in and out. smaller and larger. Compare to Xevious on a real 7800 and the background scrolling is smooth as glass. Though I will note - the Improved 7800 color palette is top notch now. Thanks!

Still waiting for mine. Don't wanna bug Albert but I am getting jealous over here.

I misspoke. MS has required all new PCs that ship with Windows 10 to have TPM 2.0 since 2016. either way, you can install Windows 11 on any PC even without TPM. It takes a few really easy steps to accomplish. if you’re worried about MS taking away your OS based on your hardware, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s never happened yet, and I can’t see why they would. They’re not the “Evil Empire” everyone makes them out to be. More like Incompetent boobs driven by profit and lawyers.

Windows 10 has the TPM 2.0 requirement now too.

You realize they could have done this with any of their OS all the way back to XP if they wanted to, right? The TPM requirement has nothing to do with CPU speed or support and everything to do with MS covering their asses from getting sued because unencrypted data theft in a real, constant threat in 2024.

What?

Windows 11 runs just fine on older PCs. A 30 second google search shows results that demonstrate how to install Windows 11 on non-supported devices with relative ease. The reason they went with only “officially” supporting hardware with TPM 2.0 and up is because they want people to be smart and encrypt their drives to prevent data theft. It’s always been one of the biggest loopholes in Windows.

That’s always an option. No offense intended, but if you want to be the kind of gamer who also tinkers with experimental firmware and upgrading/downgrading with test versions on devices like this, having a windows PC is kind of a necessity. Mac OS gets nearly everything last, if at all. Im not going to get into whether that is fair or not, but it was a choice you made buying a Mac. For example: I’m an iPhone user. I made the choice consciously to purchase one knowing that the options to tinker with experimental builds or plug in external storage etc, wasn’t really an option like it is with Android phones, unless I wanted to invalidate the warranty. But I was fine with that, because it’s not really that important to me. if fiddling with stuff like this is important to you, then you might want to consider getting a cheap Windows PC.

I own Mappy and Turbo Arcade. They are both great, and I can patiently wait for 2600+ compatibility. the cart, packaging, instructions are all top quality.

Boot camp. Parallels. VirtualBox. WINE. There's no shortage of ways for you to run a windows instance for free on your Mac.

Neither the Dragonfly nor Matteo's carts are being made anymore, so those aren't really an option unless you want to pay eBay wallet-rape prices. My preferred combination is: Concerto, because it plays all of the original 7800 commercial games that are hard to find, and most of the homebrews, + buying the newer homebrews as carts from this site or direct from the devs who made them, so they get their well deserved money. The GD is nice for the newer homebrews, but it's way too expensive for what it is, and has added features I will never use (RGB output), and isn't ARM compatible for 2600 games.

If you follow the link he put, he is talking about the latest dumper.

Bump. any betas we can break stuff with?

I believe that's called "the clap" in France.

Or you can just stop derailing my thread, thanks.

I’m asking for the bios because it would bring original console accuracy to the 2600+ I really don’t care about save states.