AtariLeaf Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Broke out the 7800 and played a bunch of games, food fight was among them. On Food Fight and Food Fight only, I noticed a weird bit of graphic garbage at the very top left of the screen outside of the play field and almost outside the screen altogether. I tried two food fight carts on two different 7800's with the same result on all combinations. I went on youtube and found this video (not mine) which shows the exact thing I'm talking about in the top left corner. Anyone know what this is and why it happens with food fight? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgIUaeuZHg BTW, don't know why i can't seem to embed youtube videos anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollett Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 What are you using for a TV/Monitor? I know from using the Atari 8 bit software that there are several games that now show garbage somewhere along the edge of the display which back in the 80's would have been largely not visible because the displays back than did not show nearly as much over-scan compared to today's modern displays. Bob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I vaguely remember seeing that glitch in Food Fight as well, though I'm not at home right now to verify. bfollett is right, though, glitchy graphics and such at the edge of the screen is not uncommon for old games. In most cases they're the byproduct of some shortcut the programmer took to save space, time and/or other resources. Old TV's tended to have a lot of overscan, so most people back in the day wouldn't see such glitches, which explains why developers were less likely to clean them up. NES games seem especially prone to border-glitching, particularly when scrolling. At any rate, it's nothing to worry about. BTW, don't know why i can't seem to embed youtube videos anymore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgIUaeuZHgThe trick is "[ media ] <URL> [ /media ]" without the quotes and spaces of course. And make sure you use an "http" URL. The media tags don't seem to like "https" URLs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 ok thanks guys, I'm using a commodore 1702 and an old vcr to run the rf to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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