Josh128 wrote:Holy crap man, it almost looks like a bilinear filter has been applied to the right vs the left. Incredible! Do you have experience with a 1 chip / SNES Jr and if so, how would you rate the output of the unmodded SNES 2 chip, modded SNES 2 chip, and SNES 1 chip on a scale of 1 to 10?
Never owned a 1-Chip, so couldn't say.
I'd say the quality of the modded 2-Chip is somewhere between unmoddod and 1-Chip in terms of quality. While the difference is very much night and day, the picture still isn't perfect. There is still some very feint ringing in areas of high-contrast when viewed through my OSSC, but the picture on my 29" PVM might as well be perfect, neighbouring colours actually have solid line between them now!!
Josh128 wrote:
Do you plan to do more thorough tests just to make sure this wasnt due to capture settings or anything? The difference seems absolutely enormous to me. I have received my PCBs from OSHPark, currently waiting on parts from Digikey. I bought enough for 3 kits as I had a min. order of 3 PCBs. Excited to get off my Neo Geo MVS kick and dig back into some SNES stuff.
I don't know what meaningful comparison tests I can do now that I have the mod installed. I was too impatient to take a bunch of before/after screenshots lmao.
The difference really is huge, the A/B comparisons on the original Japanese page indicated that the improvement is quite big, and the mod lives up to it.
Josh128 wrote:
Also, in your opinion, taking into account the labor needed to assemble these, if you were to sell one, what would you consider to be a fair price? I will likely end up with some that I may sell assembled for those who dont has the tools to do it themselves but want that sweet clarity on their 2 chip console.
I'm not sure, a tenner probably? They're pretty quick to assemble once you get a rhythm going.
Trouble will be that you need to re-use the transistors from the SNES board. If you solder everything else on and supply the boards like that, the pads for the transistors become difficult to access.
You could source new transistors and attach them (part numbers in captaineos's post), then the buyers just have to remove the transistors from their SNES.
buttersoft wrote:Awesome, really glad people are getting some mileage out of this
I'd still love to know if it's skewing colours or crushing at all. The gains outweigh any issues there, but i still think it'd be worth examining.
Thank you for the effort you put in designing the PCB. Made everything much easier than "rat's nest" construction in the original Japanese post.
How could one test for the colour issues you mention?
) is on the shelf for repair and it has terrible color/white bleed to the right in RGB. I was lambasted for saying its S-Video output was better than its RGB but its true because the SVideo doesnt have as much bleed to the right as the RGB out. This looks like a fun project as I'd love to be able to game on my childhood SNES and put the SNES Jr. on the shelf.
