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Snes revisions1/7/2024 (2/1/3) (1995) (JP NTSC) " Super Famicom" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02 (21,478,849 Hz, seems to go down slightly over time (1Hz per a few minutes)) This means you can use a much wider range of TVs / monitors / capture cards, but some SNES frames are going to be dropped every couple seconds. It converts non-standard video signals, like that of the SNES, to HDMI-compatible framerates. It also really likes to operate in YUV color space instead of RGB, and afaik the conversation is not lossless. The Framemeister introduces some noise to the video. The picture showed //// checkerboard lines, especially visible on areas of solid color, and the sound carried an audible buzzing on bright screens (for example on the 240p Test Suite's "Horizontal Stripes" pattern). The SNES Multi Out to SCART cable did not have enough shielding around the individual wires, so interference and crosstalk influenced the video and audio quality. (The analog signals are generated directly in the PPU2 chip, so there's no way to go 100% digital unless the chips are reverse-engineered and replaced with modified clones.) This may have very well been the intention of Nintendo's original hardware designers, in an effort to hide dithering even via RGB output. The only problem with the '2CHIPs' is the smeared pixels due to slower video signal rise/fall times. The SNES games library is most compatible with the 'original-style' SNES units with separate CPU/PPU chips and separate SMP/DSP chips - 1CHIP consoles do show some glitches. These components had some issues, some of which I discovered only after some time. AVerMedia RECentral 4 (viewing/recording software) AVerMedia Live Gamer Extreme (LGX) (GC550) Framemeister (aka XRGB-Mini) v1.3 (with FireBrandX's SNES settings / profiles) standard SNES Multi Out to SCART cable (NTSC version) (2/1/3) (1993) (JP NTSC) "Super Famicom" SNS-CPU-GPM-02 (modded with physical NTSC/PAL switch, no switching via joypad button combinations) Today I got a 1CHIP-02 in the mail, which (hopefully) completes my SNES upgrade journey. Previous relevant threads: SNES Hardware Revisions, SNES: Detecting 1CHIP consoles in software (maybe), blargg's SPC test ROMs
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