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thanks for the information. so the older 80ties boards seems to not be as ESD sensitive as the late 90ties, right? The ESD is most dangerous/often in direct physical contact (by touching the chips by hand when you are charged) or without direct contact (transfered by air in certain distance)? I...

Hi, I think the same, but probably its not just current state, but it lasts and rises some 2-3 years or not? Maybe thanks to all the retro articles and hype on the web there are many newcommer collectors rising the demand :-)

What is considered "extreme" temperature for videogame cartridge or PCB I am wondering, what is generally considered to be an "extreme" temperature for a videogame cartridge or PCB. There is often a warning to protect it from extreme temperatures. Its well known, that high temperatures...

thanks for information, thats interesting

Thanks for information. I think, that if the system is strong enough to offer very many smaller sprites (16, 32 pixel) and link them together, then its fine. The objects will be big and bold. From a gamer viewpoint it does not matter too much.

thanks very much for that great tips. I forgot, I was thinking of 64pixel big sprites at a standard resolution, so approx. 1/5 of screen size. But it seems that the typical "16-bit look" is probably not only about the sprite size. The color pallete (at least 4 bit/16 colors per sprite or tile)...

hi, I am wondering when did the "big and bold" sprites first time appear... I think, that a big sprite means something like 64 x 64 pixels and more to me. Games of the early 80ties had mostly smaller sprites. When did the "16-bit quality" graphics appear? I dont mean a 16bit color depth, but...

I understand, but wait, the Atari 2600 wasnt the best what they offered back in the day, there was much better graphics and sound on the 400/800 series computers from 1979. It was considered nearly identical to arcade (well, at least close to arcade).

Yes, Sega Genesis promised to bring the arcade experience home and they really did it. Well from todays view, it could not exactly cope with some high-tech arcade machines with hardware scaling, colors, etc., but at least at the first sight this was arcade-like graphics and sound back in the day.

sorry for reviving such an old topic :-D, but I am really interested in.:-) IMHO there was no "special" arcade version of Streets of rage made in 1989. IMHO there was just the Megadrive/Genesis version adapted for coin-op usage in Megatech/Megaplay hardware made (anyway not before 1990/91).

Yes, its also mine opinion. Home consoles offered the (almost, at least at first sight) arcade perfect conversion at the time of Playstation and Saturn. Before this, the arcade games conversions were rarely "arcade perfect" and often it was almost 1 computer generation behind. I mean there were...

cade regions (Europe, USA, Japan, etc.) and licenses explanation Hi, please, nobody has any information on this topic (arcade regions and regional licences explanation)? Thanks very much.

thanks a lot. So it seems that the cased home console cartridges are usually much more resistant than a plain PCB. Probably except the Microvision carts - I red somewhere they were very ESD sensitive. When was I a child, I also did not care very much about such things. Unfortunatelly, the more...

ESD vs home console carts, is storage in plastic boxes dangerous? Hi, please, I am wondering how much is the ESD (Static electricity) dangerous for the home console cartridges (like SNES and Genesis). I store my carts in closeable plastic boxes. I always try to discharge the box before putting...

Thanks very much. You are probably right. I also forgot, that at startup are probably ony main/basic CPUA and CPUB RAM and ROM tested. And its too fast to be precise. Not the whole (sprite/tile) ROM.