Hello all.
I feel like this is probably a dumb question from an electronics standpoint but there's no harm in asking. I've been speedrunning games on the NES for about 5 years now and I was thinking it'd be a fun experiment to try and see how well we could play games we've spent countless hours memorizing if all the stages were backwards. The left/right on the controllers would have to be swapped but that's simple enough. We've got folks that make new controller PCBs, we could just have a L/R swapped board made. I was just wondering if there's a way to flip the video output off the PPU? I've build a few hundred guitar pedals on perfboard so I'm comfortable soldering and messing with electronics, I just don't know anything about video signals. I'm happy to dive in and tinker if someone can explain what I need to do. I know some arcade machines have dipswitches that flip the monitor and whatnot but I'm not sure if that's a monitor control or something on the game PCB. Anyway, if that's doable, I'd love to know how. This whole thing would be easier if I just played an emulator but the NES into a CRT just feels right and I can't go back.
thanks!
-MTK
I feel like this is probably a dumb question from an electronics standpoint but there's no harm in asking. I've been speedrunning games on the NES for about 5 years now and I was thinking it'd be a fun experiment to try and see how well we could play games we've spent countless hours memorizing if all the stages were backwards. The left/right on the controllers would have to be swapped but that's simple enough. We've got folks that make new controller PCBs, we could just have a L/R swapped board made. I was just wondering if there's a way to flip the video output off the PPU? I've build a few hundred guitar pedals on perfboard so I'm comfortable soldering and messing with electronics, I just don't know anything about video signals. I'm happy to dive in and tinker if someone can explain what I need to do. I know some arcade machines have dipswitches that flip the monitor and whatnot but I'm not sure if that's a monitor control or something on the game PCB. Anyway, if that's doable, I'd love to know how. This whole thing would be easier if I just played an emulator but the NES into a CRT just feels right and I can't go back.
thanks!
-MTK
Statistics: Posted by mtkww — Sun Nov 24, 2024 5:22 pm — Replies 3 — Views 137