Comment by ddingus
6 years ago
You should consider editing the downvote comment away. Wasn't from me, and my advice is to just ignore all that. I do.
Yes, that article is right about the timings. The signal standards were abused in small ways to improve graphic quality, get speed and more.
Similar things happen in NTSC land too. Those deliver 60 fps. Many TV sets will permit further abuse and deliver NTSC with more PAL like timings to get 50fps, but still with NTSC color encoding.
An Amiga and Color Computer 3 can both do this. It is correct to do in some parts of the world too. I have done it in video signal projects.
Whether my comment is incorrect depends on POV.
From the NES pov, and how gaming generally thinks of frames, its fine.
From the signaling POV field is more descriptive.
Consider when there is no interlace, what happens to the concept of a field? There aren't any. Just frames, as in one complete image completely displayed.
Many people think in simple frames per second terms. This is why many, particularly those who grew up during retro times, will say PAL 50fps. To them, PAL does in fact deliver 50 complete frames per second.
Edit, oh yes! I do see where I should have said field early on. Too late to edit now. Basically, when the half scanline is not part of the signal output, fields go away.
When it is, there are fields and they get displayed sequentially, interlaced fashion, one full frame displayed every two fields.
Cheers!
> This is why many, particularly those who grew up during retro times, will say PAL 50fps. To them, PAL does in fact deliver 50 complete frames per second.
That doesn’t make it correct, but I agree now in retrospect and thus edited my post.
(Also, agree re: intro part to your reply. The problem I have is when factually correct comments without anything wrong about them get greyed out)
Ignore it. Over time you get thicker skin, handle exchanges better[1], as I did here, and your net upvotes go up
Yes, not worrying about it improves it. Strange world sometimes, isn't it?
[1]not saying you are bad. No judgment here. And that's the point. I basically don't do judgment and treat you the same way whether I see upvotes or not. That really improves things.
And again, it is just advice.