NESRGB vs Playchoice PPU

[MBombchu]

Hi Guys,

I'd like to know, if anyone of you has done both rgb mods and can honestly say one has better video than the other

[muckyfingers]

The NESRGB is far better, the Playchoice PPU is dependent on the model of NES/Famicom used for picture quality and also the color palette is incorrect. The NESRGB will look crisp and clear regardless of NES/Famicom used and allows you different palette choices including the incorrect Playchoice one.

I tested this with an NES 101 on a PVM-2530.

[MBombchu]

Thanks. Thread can be closed :p

[P]

There's also the colour emphasis feature that is handled differently by some (all?) VS-System/PlayChoice PPUs http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/PPU_registers#Mask_.28.242001.29_.3E_write. This results in that some games that uses colour emphasis doesn't work correctly or are totally unplayable.

[MBombchu]

thanks P. So this is fixed in NESRGB ?

[muckyfingers]

thanks P. So this is fixed in NESRGB ?

Yes the NESRGB works with all games, so far. The firmware can also be updated if a game were to be discovered that is not compatible with it.

[SukkoPera]

It seems the NESRGB has issues with some games, to name a few: Duck Maze, Orb 3D, and Micromachines.

I only tested the latter and, while still playable, has some artifacts in-game and many more in the menus.

But I still love NESRGB, it's a great mod!

[muckyfingers]

It seems the NESRGB has issues with some games, to name a few: Duck Maze, Orb 3D, and Micromachines.

I only tested the latter and, while still playable, has some artifacts in-game and many more in the menus.

But I still love NESRGB, it's a great mod!

That's good to know, I don't play those games, so I'm ok with that.

[SukkoPera]

The Hi-Def NES mod that is still being developed seems to work fine for those games. I actually took the list from a YouTube video of theirs, where they show that they are working fine .

But I don't know if that mod will be applicable to Famicoms as well.

[2A03]

It seems the NESRGB has issues with some games, to name a few: Duck Maze, Orb 3D, and Micromachines.

Not anymore, those issues were fixed almost a year ago.

[muckyfingers]

It seems the NESRGB has issues with some games, to name a few: Duck Maze, Orb 3D, and Micromachines.

Not anymore, those issues were fixed almost a year ago.

Yup, more info can be found on the firmware page

http://etim.net.au/nesrgb/background_fault/

[SukkoPera]

Interesting, but Micromachines is not mentioned on that page, and actually it still has issues on my NESRGB, which is v1.7. I can post a few pics maybe.