WIZ and vic emulation issue with PAL/NTSC
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:05 am
Anyone else have a WIZ and run VICE on it from openhandhelds.org? Its works pretty well, its great fun having a pocket VIC20 that I can fire up Gorf on.
It seems that the VICE port to the wiz emulates a PAL VIC however. So lots of the NTSC games that I run have the video chopped off. Fortunately Gorf has a feature built into the game where you can move the video down and right to avoid it being chopped off. However it doesn't seem like this is a feature in most of the other NTSC games.
Any idea how to get around this? I don't believe the guy who ported VICE to the wiz is going to do much with it in the future, so that means I'm stuck trying to play a game where I can only see part of the screen. Doesn't really work. And I don't see a feature in the port that allows you to set the video standard either.
Are there usually multiple versions of a cartridge, one for PAL and one for NTSC? I haven't noticed in gamebase20 that it archives multiple versions for different video standards.
Are there hacks for some games to make them "universal"? It seems like the megacart had this, the games would play on a PAL or NTSC vic. I could be mistaken.
Any thoughts on this appreciated!
It seems that the VICE port to the wiz emulates a PAL VIC however. So lots of the NTSC games that I run have the video chopped off. Fortunately Gorf has a feature built into the game where you can move the video down and right to avoid it being chopped off. However it doesn't seem like this is a feature in most of the other NTSC games.
Any idea how to get around this? I don't believe the guy who ported VICE to the wiz is going to do much with it in the future, so that means I'm stuck trying to play a game where I can only see part of the screen. Doesn't really work. And I don't see a feature in the port that allows you to set the video standard either.
Are there usually multiple versions of a cartridge, one for PAL and one for NTSC? I haven't noticed in gamebase20 that it archives multiple versions for different video standards.
Are there hacks for some games to make them "universal"? It seems like the megacart had this, the games would play on a PAL or NTSC vic. I could be mistaken.
Any thoughts on this appreciated!