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edit: b-boy has given your answer - he's looking into PAL compatibility and is also recovering from pretty much a crippling surgery. The rest is light-hearted messin' around. 

      You also can't expect getting certain features without asking either.   
 

All I'm saying is that the rocks in Contra shouldn't be green.

 

Which palette are you using that has green rocks? I use unsaturated and I don't see green rocks.
 

I'm talking about the rocks in the background.  If you watch this video of the NES RGB mod made by Tim Worthington you can see them side by side.  The "Improved" palette more closely matches what I see from composite video.  I know people say composite is never the same, but I don't think it's off that much.  I think it's like this because everybody uses the palette from the playchoice chip, which was always inaccurate.

"Natural" is BS.  If their set looked like that then it probably needs adjusting.  The rocks have always been distinctly brown on every TV I have ever owned.





 

I see. Unsaturated (along with a neutral tint setting on my TV) gives me roughly the same as "improved."

I'm hoping the noise channel gets fixed as well, the explosion sounds in the later Mega Man games sound noticeably off as do a few other games.

Did you report it to support so it gets added to the list?

 

Happy to report that my 1.30 update, as well as cart connector replacement and plastic cutting, went smoothly.

 

was it difficult? I see my constant nervous sweaty brow as a huge impediment to any AVS fix

Did you update your firmware and retest it first? Audio was fixed a long long time ago. A game like Mega Man would definitely have been reported a while ago if it still had an issue.  

The plastic didn't come off as cleanly as i'd like, but it was all of 2 minutes of prying.
 

The cart connector just drops in place. It's actually tougher to get the top shell apart to get to it.

The plastic mod isn't difficult, you just need a strong, sharp blade and take your time. The plastic will break off cleanly if you make enough incisions and think it through.

 

That's the same 1.30 fw that's been out since last year, right? I'd go back the the prior firmware if it weren't for the interpolation. 
It totally breaks their own 8-BIT XMAS 2018 cartridge compatibility. 


 

 

What? No way! If that were true someone would have said something by now.  

I heard rumors there would not be a 2019 game cart. 2018 was the 10 year anniversary and last of the carts.
Glad to see not all rumors are true.

Shit’s broken, FYI.

From December 2018. 
 

Some 1.40 betas are now available, up to 1.40b4. I haven't tried them yet.

I don't see any on retrousb.com... Where did you see them? Wonder if PAL NES Open works now...
 

https://retrousb.com/downloads/...
Keep in mind the changelog.

1.40b2
  Fixes some PAL games with audio and game speed issues

1.40b3
  Fixes more PAL games (ppu)

1.40b4
  Fixes boot to black screen issue in Mega Man 5. May break other games!

I think I'd wait until they got it all sorted out. If they haven't publicized it yet, it's probably still a work in progress.

To be completely honest other than maybe some very minor bug fixes these features are the only ones I would want to see or feel should be added. PAL compatibility definitely isn't quite right and for someone who lives in a PAL region with quite a few PAL carts that is a bit of an issue. I'm not saying PAL compatibility is currently bad but some more work on it would be great to see. As for palettes, it's obviously a very optional feature however, pretty much every premium NES solution does have a better selection for it so an update using the PC app would be fantastic and really finish the product off perfectly. 

I completely understand about time being limited by other things and I don't want to cause extra pressure. Real life things are more important and always will be. To make it clear at least from my point of view. I personally think it's completely acceptable to want the features mentioned above but not ok to expect and certainly not to expect them quickly. I really appreciate your reply to this though and mentioning those features. 

In summary, those features sound great and are the only things needed (other than maybe some very minor bugs) so I would love to see them happen someday but I totally understand they might not happen and if they do it won't be straight away. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I wish the best for you in your real life situation. 
 

Thanks! I tried v1.40b4 and NES Open now works  

However, I've got the issue that there is a horizontal "pixel row shift" about one third down from the top of the screen. It looks like the top third of the screen is lagging behind when the game scrolls. It's pretty dominant in Blades of Steel. Check out the red and blue lines:


It's only there in PAL mode, not in NTSC mode. Any other PAL user have the same problem?
 

I noticed the display is still cut off a slight bit at the top in Battletoads EU (good thing HDMI is PAL friendly).