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fhoedemakers / pico-infonesPlus

NES Emulator with SD card and menu support for the Raspberry PI Pico, Pico 2 and other RP2040/RP2350 based microcontrollers. Play your games from SD card on a HDMI display.
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RGB/Correct resolution output #73

Open retrorepair opened 1 month ago

retrorepair commented 1 month ago

Just wondered if there were any plans for either of these?

Of course RGB direct output would mean a lot more GPIO and extra hardware (resistors) but if the original resolutions/refresh rates were supported a cheap HDMI to VGA DAC could be used to get RGB output for CRTs.

fhoedemakers commented 1 month ago

No no plans for this. Looked shortly into https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-demo-base but did nothing with it.

retrorepair commented 1 month ago

Fair enough. I'd imagine supporting the correct resolutions wouldn't be too difficult though as an option? I imagine they're currently integer scaled?

I may have a play with it if I can work out how to compile it :)

fhoedemakers commented 1 month ago

There are build scripts included on the repo. They are documented near the end of the README. The scripts are intended to run on Linux on a raspberry pi. You can also build on x86 using Ubuntu in a VM. I now develop using a Windows 11 desktop with Ubuntu running in WSL

retrorepair commented 1 month ago

Great thanks. Will get that set up and have a fiddle with it