NES Aspect Ratio Wars / Quest for the perfect picture

>>3806574
4:3.

>>3806574
if your shit is hacked you can download vc injects with whatever res you want

my fucking problem is that the pixels on my screen shimmer each time the pixels moves on my screen, usually on dark backgrounds. its distracting and I don't know how anyone can play like that

is this something about N3DS screens or what?

>>3806625
Care to elaborate?
>>3806630
It is hacked and that's what I plan to do. But after reading through threads on gbatemp, reddit, looking through the nesdec wiki and forums; I really don't know where it's at.

As for your problem, maybe you should turn off ghosting/DarkEnable or something like that? Though that's only a wild guess. Which game are you having this issue with? Can't remember that being the case for me with Zelda 1.

>>3806658
Castlevania 3, really noticeable every I move the background looks like it shakes.

where can I turn off settings like that?

>>3806708
You'd have to have a hacked 3DS. Either use injection or create a .cia file from your installed title. Either way you'll end up with a .cia file. Decrypt it and edit the config file I believe.

>it's a "babby tries to understand how TV's worked" episode

The correct ratio is 4:3. Retro games weren't designed with fixed-pixel, non-4:3 displays in mind.

>>3806732
/thread

>>3806754
Well, alright.
How do I achieve that on 3DS?

>>3806574
If you hold select while the game is starting up, it'll be at a resolution closer to the original.

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>>3806757
>how do I download more ram

The fucking screen is the part that's the problem and you can't replace that easily.

>>3806630
If the screen shimmers then the resolution is set wrong.
Idk about NES games, but for SNES and Genesis games, some of them run at 320x224 and others 256x224.
Some even use both resolutions for different parts of the game!

If you don't display with 8:7 rectangular pixels, you are doing it wrong.

http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Overscan
>Multiplying the pixel rate by the scanline length gives 39,375,000*6/4/11*640/(135,000,000/11) = 280 pixels per scanline. The PPU puts signal in 256 of these and a border at the left and right sides. The color of this border is the same as the backdrop color (usually the value in $3F00). This makes the pixel aspect ratio on a 4:3 TV to be 240/280*4/3 = exactly 8:7, or about 1.143:1.

>>3806847
Is that why Sonic 2's screen bunches up a little bit in special stages? That was driving me nuts after I noticed it.

Graphics were, with a few rare exceptions, made on graph paper with a square grid.

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>>3807104
Nintendo used rectangular-pixel graph paper

>>3807104
Maybe in some startups or budget studios. Once the tooling for a console was established, spriting was all done directly on a PC.

>>3806818
It's not the best screen but there's enough room to work with.
>>3806860
I think they use some kind of filtering/blurring to emulate that.

>>3806574
I think you can hold down Select while you select the game (and the game is loading) to make it pixel perfect in the 3ds, it works for DS games but never tried with a virtual console one.

>>3806574
>playing Mega Man 6

I found your problem, chief.

>>3807407
Not with NES games.