After years of waiting, we finally have Artemio’s 240p Test Suite now on SEGA Saturn care of hitomi2500, who’s ported it as their submission to SegaXtreme‘s annual Saturn homebrew game competition! According to hitomi, however, this port of the Suite is [currently] a work in progress, and calibration results based on this port could be […]
In May 2017 I picked up a lovely Sony PVM1944Q in Montreal. This was my first exposure to PVM monitors. When I first plugged it in I knew immediately that the quality was amazing but there was something not quite right with my monitor. Seemed like the colours did not line up correctly on the […]
sverx at the SMS Power Forums is developing a tool suite for the Sega Master System that is inspired by Artemio’s 240p Test Suite. So far it includes some basic but very useful video tools and a graphical controller test. Sverx will post the source on Github when it reaches v1.0, and is open to […]
Artemio released updates to the PC Engine/PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-16 and Dreamcast 240p Test Suites. PC Engine/Turbografx 16 Release 1.05 24/02/2019 (Super CD-ROM2, CD-ROM2 and HuCard) – Added 256, 320, 352 and 512 resolutions to Checkerboard – Added 352×240 resolution to Grid and Checkerboard (R-Type) – Added internal Horizontal resolution setup functions, skipping HUC defaults – […]
Artemio has just posted an update to the Dreamcast version of the 240p test suite. New features include: Aesthetic details for GDEMU Fixed Diagonal test help Changed Vertical Scrolling background to 320 instead of 256 The 240p Test Suite is a free, open-source tool that (in my opinion) should be in everyone’s ‘retro toolkit’! It includes test […]
Artemio has just updated the Wii and GameCube versions of the 240p Test Suite to match features of other console versions. The full updates are as follows: Added vertical scroll tests Finally added palette swap animation to water in the horizontal scrolling test Expanded Color test to cover the last and first 32 colors in […]
There’s now a custom firmware for the OSSC that extends the functionality of the test patterns. There’s a bunch of excellent features, but the one that’s most intriguing to me are the refresh rate tests: “Many classic game consoles do not operate exactly at standard 59.94/60/50Hz refresh rate, especially if typical 50/60Hz modifications have been […]
