26th August 2008, 3:38 PM
I've done a few tests with the Zapper. Here's what will work: Older LCD screens, older CRT screens. Here's what won't work: Anything "digital" in any way shape or form, meaning newer screens of any type, especially HD. It doesn't matter if it's CRT or LCD or Plasma, the newer HDs just don't work at all. It has to do with the timing. If the signal is being "upscaled" or whatever or has to have any sort of processing, it screws up the timing by a few milliseconds, which doesn't matter to us most of the time, but is noticed by the Zapper, which depends on the TV signal being directly locked and determined by the NES. It's okay if it's LCD, so long as it's one of a very few old models that still ties the signal directly into it's input so that the timing isn't screwed up.
Unfortunatly, I don't see any TV manufacturers ever taking the time to speed up the processing to the point where this is no longer an issue...
Unfortunatly, I don't see any TV manufacturers ever taking the time to speed up the processing to the point where this is no longer an issue...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)