I'm not sure if this goes in "General Talk"
The question is, one of the emulator I really craved to have in the Pandora is Stella, and I was very disappointed with the graphic performance in some of the games (something quite sad when you are talking about an Atari2600 emulator). Most of the games like Adventure are playable well emulated, but others with "fast" sprites are not. One example is Drangonfire, in the first screen only half of the fireball is visible, and in the dragon screen the fireballs are almost invisible. Dolphin is another example, moving the dolphin causes a weird black outline to appear. I might be a bit exagerated, but Dragonfire was THE game I wanted to play. I tried both Stella and Stella remix.
To my surprise, I was playing with the TV-out cable and... Dragonfire plays perfectly well in the TV!. Looks like crap in the Pandora's screen ... perfect in the TV!. No black outline in dolphin, shots clearly visible in Space Invaders, ...
The only explanation I can find for this is that the downscaling from 800x480 to s-video somehow in this case improves the image.
By the way, is there any explanation somewhere about the different TV out options? Some emulators do not display on the TV, some do.
The question is, one of the emulator I really craved to have in the Pandora is Stella, and I was very disappointed with the graphic performance in some of the games (something quite sad when you are talking about an Atari2600 emulator). Most of the games like Adventure are playable well emulated, but others with "fast" sprites are not. One example is Drangonfire, in the first screen only half of the fireball is visible, and in the dragon screen the fireballs are almost invisible. Dolphin is another example, moving the dolphin causes a weird black outline to appear. I might be a bit exagerated, but Dragonfire was THE game I wanted to play. I tried both Stella and Stella remix.
To my surprise, I was playing with the TV-out cable and... Dragonfire plays perfectly well in the TV!. Looks like crap in the Pandora's screen ... perfect in the TV!. No black outline in dolphin, shots clearly visible in Space Invaders, ...
The only explanation I can find for this is that the downscaling from 800x480 to s-video somehow in this case improves the image.
By the way, is there any explanation somewhere about the different TV out options? Some emulators do not display on the TV, some do.
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