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Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

Since 'extra sprites' is being talked about here, has anyone experienced an NTSC title that breaks with extra sprites enabled?



Yes, it happened to me on Castlevania. On the last stage against Dracula, it happened on the very last hit. Meaning, I would have beat him and he would have turned into that demon. Basically, the transition from Dracula into the demon caused the game to freeze. It happened twice. I turned off extra sprites and it allowed me to finish the game.
Ouch. So enabling extra sprites can actually cause games to crash as opposed to harmless graphical corruption?  
  ]]> Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-10-07T01:05:50 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16 Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

Since 'extra sprites' is being talked about here, has anyone experienced an NTSC title that breaks with extra sprites enabled?


Yes, it happened to me on Castlevania. On the last stage against Dracula, it happened on the very last hit. Meaning, I would have beat him and he would have turned into that demon. Basically, the transition from Dracula into the demon caused the game to freeze. It happened twice. I turned off extra sprites and it allowed me to finish the game. ]]> Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-10-03T06:09:12 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16 Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

Since 'extra sprites' is being talked about here, has anyone experienced an NTSC title that breaks with extra sprites enabled?
You've robably already found some, but I know Felix the Cat messes up with it enabled. That was the one Brian used in the demo videos to show what could go wrong.


Originally posted by: skinnygrinny

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What does extra sprites do?

It enables extra sprites  . Joking aside, the NES can only support 8 sprites per scanline, otherwise you will see things like them flickering (if the programmers bothered to program in flickering at all). Many emulators support 15 sprites per scanline, and the AVS does too, due to some unused space in the NES. It helps with some games, and breaks other games, since if a programmer counted on the ninth sprite being hidden they might not have moved it off screen, but instead simply stacked it. TMNT is a good example of how great eliminating flicker can look (technically it is still flickering, but you'll never see it unless more than 15 sprites are on the same scanline).


Originally posted by: Mog

Originally posted by: Tulpa

I leave extra sprites off unless there is significant slow down.
 

Extra sprites gives you more sprites per scan line to reduce flicker. It does not speed anything up.

Unless you program it in for homebrew games! I look forward to making this statement not true very soon  . Then you can tell me all of the ways that it was unecessary to do so, hahaha.


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I was getting a small white line, about 1/2 inch tall and the width of a dime, about four inches left of the border and three inches from the bottom of the border , at a title screen in a certain game. When I lowered the pixel aspect it went away.

The verticle border (set at a higher setting) cuts into some of the info at the bottom of the game screen sometimes.

What does extra sprites do? ]]> Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-09-23T18:57:06 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16 Originally posted by: Synapse

Originally posted by: johnnyboy113

Just hooked up my avs and hit pal mode on the picture mode now I can't get a picture at all . Tv says mode not supported . Anyone know how to fix this
Put the controller in to port 2. Then hold A, B, Select, Start and Up while turning the system on. 


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Just hooked up my avs and hit pal mode on the picture mode now I can't get a picture at all . Tv says mode not supported . Anyone know how to fix this Put the controller in to port 2. Then hold A, B, Select, Start and Up while turning the system on.  ]]> Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-09-23T18:44:55 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16 Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-09-22T14:38:40 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16   ]]> Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-09-22T11:39:57 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16 Retro AVS - Your Video Options http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=106&threadid=166937 2016-09-22T11:32:48 -05.00 Chocomog5678 16