Audio crackling in 1.120b1 in most the games I tried. The worst was RC Pro Am.

Yeah, that's why I'm waiting for the full updated firmware. I would like to check out the new pallettes at some point.

Is there a blog or forum thread that posts details of all the updates?

Updated to AVS-v1.20b2 and it looks like the crackling sound is gone. I'll run a few more carts and report back if this is not the case. I noticed that when using an Everdrive, using the select + a + b combo the AVS now locks up and needs to be reset manually. The reset boots back into the Everdrive menu, not the AVS menu. Using default settings. Is this expected behaviour?

I can confirm these behaviors, I have a Famicom Everdrive N8 and v1.20b2 is doing the same thing for me. Ended up reverting so I could use the scoreboard
 

Has anyone had issues launching the scoreboard program on a Mac?

If anyone should be in trouble, it's me. I posted the link to the beta firmware, giving people the impression that it was allowed. No need to yell at anyone but me.  

Think I'm just going to wait for the firmware to be updated officially, but I'm looking forward to the palettes and other options.

I have a general question about AVS. What is Expansion Sound, and how does changing the slider affect whatever if affects?

It is for games that have extra / expansion audio. Mostly found on Famicom games like Castlevania 3, DokiDoki Panic, FDS Kid Icarus, etc. Also some PAL games like Mr Gimmick have extra audio.

The slider changes the volume level of those extra sound channels.

Thanks. Is the default position ideal?   I assume it is, but it's not centered like the other default functions. Just wondered.
 

It's a volume slider, so whatever level you want is best.  

 

How do you add friends so i can see friends scores on the AVS?

The AVS friends list is the NA friends list.
ON NintendoAge go to
"Menu"
"My Home"
"Friend" Tab
Type in Name in Box and "Add" or "Search"

Then you can compile all the friends you want!

Thank you

I know this is a long shot, but with updates would the AVS ever be able to do multi-player over the Internet via the usb cable?

I added you to my friends list playa  



 

I think you would need to talk to Khangames about that request  

There will never be a way to do simulatenous multiplayer, but there are different ways that multiplayer can be implemented. Stay tuned!
 

Scoreboard didn't factor in the rolled score in my DK Jr. game  

Adding a screenshot of my time spent. Hope the score can be changed.

Seems like it may be a good idea to allow the NES itself to submit new games + times if possible. I noticed a lot of very popular titles are not detected such as Zelda, MegaMan 2, etc....

These games do not have literal scores but many people speed run games these days so if every US release could be added to the database with a base "score" using the game time with a max score being scaled from whoever has the best time that would be pretty darn awesome.

Is there a possibilty to add an overall volume slider to the menu? I noticed that the system is much quieter than my nesrgb nes I normally use.

Also the Beta version link is currently pointing to 1.20b2 when b3 is the current version available so it loops back to the AVS page w/o downloading anything.

It will never factor in any rolled scores, sadly. It will only report exactly the value as it's seen in RAM.
Thanks. Fixed.

Another interesting thought, is that while a game like Zelda doesn't have "a score", what it DOES have are a series of bits in memory that represent the items in your inventory (though I don't know when they get wiped from memory).

So it might be feasible to have a game like that auto-detect "minimalist" runs of one sort, or another.
 

Any other bugs noticed with the Beta 3 firmware? I was going to wait for the official firmware, but those palettes doe.

I haven't seen anyone post any bugs re: Beta 3. Only people saying it corrected the audio glitches/Everdrive bugs. Seems to be a safe bet!