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blargg · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 2537

After days of non-stop work on this, I think it's ready for some exposure (no source yet, as it's still not cleaned up as much as I'd like). NTSC only:

flowing_palette.zip

It works beautifully on my NTSC front-loader NES. I'm not sure it'll work on emulators; if someone has a PowerPak and can verify that an emulator matches what you see on your NES, please post which emulator you used.

All graphics are generated by manually setting $2006 and $2007. After initialization, all code is cycle-timed, as this is the only way to get a stable image with this technique. I had been working so many days non-stop on this that I wanted to go ahead and release it, before I got the new PPU timing technique working that will eliminate the need for cycle timing everything, since that will require a big rewrite.

Bregalad · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:32 am Post subject:

MAN THIS IS AMAZING !!

noattack · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 46 Location: Richmond, VA

Really incredible, blargg, thanks for sharing. I haven't checked on real hardware yet, but it looks great in Nestopia (OSX).

danntor · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 36

I will test it now on my PowerPak and use FCEU (0.98.12-3 from the debian testing repos).

Banshaku · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 1137 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Could only test it on nestopia. Interesting effect. Hope I can see it on the real thing someday. good work.

danntor · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 36

Bad news. Looks like interference(let me dig some batteries up and take a picture). Is this what it is suppose to look like?

danntor · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 36

Sorry about excellent photography and my CRT(why the black bar is there). If the screenshot of FCEU looks a little off it is because I could not be bothered finding out how to take screenshots(do not bother with emulators any more).

I will take my NES to the lounge TV (LCD) for a much better picture.

danntor · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 36

Took another picture and here it is.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4Y46H370[/img]

blargg · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 2537

Argh, I found a minor bug that caused the scrolling to sometimes stop when changing directions. Fixed now. Apparently I did need those three CLCs Smile

Screenshots don't really do any justice to this, as it's so dynamic. Apparently some emulators don't either. It also won't work on non-NTSC NES, so it's not worth trying. If someone wants to do a video capture from an NTSC NES and put on YouTube, that would be great. Until someone has verified that any emulators reproduce how it looks on a NES, it's best to assume thatthey don't emulate it correctly (if all you have is an emulator, you can't really tell whether it's emulating correctly).

danntor, are you using an NTSC NES?

danntor · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 36

Would have been nice if you said NTSC only. Still very good when I could see it actually work.

Dwedit · Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 1490

Looks great on Nestopia and Nintendulator.

tokumaru · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:59 am Post subject:

koitsu · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:05 am Post subject:

Damn, this looks like something off the Amiga (raster-effect-like stuff).

Memblers · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:12 am Post subject:

Cool! I was gonna say, the previous version you posted of this was the coolest NES palette demo ever (before it disappeared), but it's even better now.

tepples · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:19 pm Post subject: