Esprade 4/14 issue

Alien Soldier · Post by **Alien Soldier** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:25 pm

I've got the first japanese version of Esprade (4/14) today and tested it. Unfortunaly, I've noticed an issue. When there is too much action on the screen, the bottom part of it start to blink badly. During a boss battle, the top part of the screen start to blink as well.

I've owned an internationnal version of this game and I don't remember about such an issue. Does anyone have the 4/14 version ? Does the 2nd version (4/21) correct this bug ?

Thanks

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:55 pm

I have the international version (don't know which date, to lazy to boot it up), but mine does the same thing. Its just the hardware being pushed to the max and not anything wrong with the PCB.

Alien Soldier · Post by **Alien Soldier** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:22 am

There is only one internationnal version of this game.

As I said, I've owned the internationnal version and I think that the first japanese version has many more blink, really.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:33 am

All Esprade PCBs I've ever played had the flicker, as Dave said it's an issue of the hardware. The flicker will not appear in MAME, because of the more powerful CPU, maybe that's what you are remembering.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:22 pm

Does that flickering appear on the other games running on the same hardware, like the first Donpachi game?

Alien Soldier · Post by **Alien Soldier** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:17 pm

Stan wrote:Does that flickering appear on the other games running on the same hardware, like the first Donpachi game?

I have both PCB and no, Donpachi don't have this kind of problems.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:06 am

DoDonPachi (not DonPachi) has the flashing sprites problem at times like when 2nd boss explodes. Sometimes even your ship disappears during the explosion.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:07 am

Alien Soldier wrote:
Stan wrote:Does that flickering appear on the other games running on the same hardware, like the first Donpachi game?
I have both PCB and no, Donpachi don't have this kind of problems.

Good. Planing to buy this game.

Post by **system11** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:16 pm

Welcome to PCBs

Many have their little hiccups which MAME can't emulate.