Regarding the SHARPNESS option: It's perfectly fine to leave it on 1 since that doesn't do much harm. It's also very beneficial for some sources (e.g. 480p) for removing horizontal shifting. In any case it depends on the input, perhaps also on your Framemeisters's PCB revision.
Bondy wrote:Hi,
First post in this thread, I have had my mini for ~2 months now and i've settled on a few questions I can't find an answer for:
1. I see ghosting and loss of scanlines when moving vertically (in a vert shmup or a fast horizontal game). Is this my monitor not being fast enough or is it a necessary evil of the framemeister?
What's your input? SYNC setting on AUTO? Are you sure your display doesn't do any additional scaling/stretching.
2. Most of my consoles I've managed to get running perfectly but my RGB modded SNES jr shows a checkerboard pattern on solid colours. How likely is this to be because I use composite video as sync and not pure sync?
Very likely. You could try to improve this though be adjusting/calibrating color and brightness. When I moved from YCBCR to RGB and used higher BRIGHTNESS settings I realized a reduction of checkerboarding for example.
3. Is turning the power off every night while it's on standby bad for the mini?
The mini has a special POWER_ON mode which is made for switching it off by an external switch. I'm using that and haven't had any issues.
4. I'm using my psp 2000 psu to power it (240v power grid here) is this safe and are there any side effects?
Be sure it's feeding 5V and you should be safe. Be aware that it's necessary to provide enough amps to assure flawless functionality (cause of your issues?).
5. Is the 480p component image that bad? I haven't tried it yet but I want it for Outrun C2C.
No, it's not. Most people use the Framemeister brainlessly without setting everything up for their individual sources. Use FBX's profiles as a starting point to set aspect ratio and (sharpness-)scaling to maximize the output. Yet I'm not claiming it to be perfect.
6. If I like thick-as BVM-like scanlines what are the optimum scanline settings, or better still, what do both settings actually control?
austin532 promised to post his new findings for the latest firmware regarding this topic in the near future.
7. Is there any non-scaling way I can cut off the overscan, particularly on the megadrive and neo geo?
Please elaborate on your question and what you are trying to accomplish.