Madaracs Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 (edited) Is there a bad Planet of Zoom bin out there or has someone else possibly seen this? When I used my Harmony cart for the first time last night to play a bin of a game I already own: Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom, the ROM loaded and then I saw this: Once into the game it appears to work alright. I was also playing on my 7800. So I was thinking this might be a game that plays better on the 2600. Anyway, if anyone has experience with this issue--I'd appreciate advice! Edited October 8, 2010 by Madaracs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 The binary that is out there produces an incorrect frame during the title screen (240 scanlines, with 5 scanline VSYNC pulse) so you're likely to get rolling on a newer television, or possibly no video at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madaracs Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 (edited) The binary that is out there produces an incorrect frame during the title screen (240 scanlines, with 5 scanline VSYNC pulse) so you're likely to get rolling on a newer television, or possibly no video at all. Cool. +1 for the speedy reply and tip. I think I have a way to dump my current cart's ROM so that might potentially fix it. Edited October 8, 2010 by Madaracs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Darn I was hoping we were getting an Atari 7800 version of Doom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Darn I was hoping we were getting an Atari 7800 version of Doom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 or even !Doom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 or even !Doom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 The binary that is out there produces an incorrect frame during the title screen (240 scanlines, with 5 scanline VSYNC pulse) so you're likely to get rolling on a newer television, or possibly no video at all. Cool. +1 for the speedy reply and tip. I think I have a way to dump my current cart's ROM so that might potentially fix it. I just dumped my copy of Buck Rodgers and it is identical to the ROM that's out there. It has the same 240 scanlines; so it must be a programming "bug". Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madaracs Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 The binary that is out there produces an incorrect frame during the title screen (240 scanlines, with 5 scanline VSYNC pulse) so you're likely to get rolling on a newer television, or possibly no video at all. Cool. +1 for the speedy reply and tip. I think I have a way to dump my current cart's ROM so that might potentially fix it. I just dumped my copy of Buck Rodgers and it is identical to the ROM that's out there. It has the same 240 scanlines; so it must be a programming "bug". Mitch Crap! :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animan Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 or even !Doom What about a version of Wolf 3D? That would be easy to program, and would just work better (if it even could). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 What about a version of Wolf 3D? That would be easy to program, and would just work better (if it even could). When are you starting the project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 It appears that Omegamatrix provided a bug fix for Buck Rogers here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madaracs Posted October 22, 2010 Author Share Posted October 22, 2010 It appears that Omegamatrix provided a bug fix for Buck Rogers here. Hey, thanks! I'll give it a shot tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underball Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 It appears that Omegamatrix provided a bug fix for Buck Rogers here. Hey, thanks! I'll give it a shot tonight. This works on my harmony/7800 combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madaracs Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 It appears that Omegamatrix provided a bug fix for Buck Rogers here. Hey, thanks! I'll give it a shot tonight. This works on my harmony/7800 combo. Marked improvement. Thank you. This place rulez. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Ghost Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Darn I was hoping we were getting an Atari 7800 version of Doom. Ha.....I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but my 1st reaction was exactly that! I was thinking....'hmm, how do you hack Planet of Zoom on the 7800 into Doom???' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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