Timeline for How can 1/4 connected Sega Rally machines display the demo with unique glitches?
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| Feb 25 at 21:00 | answer | added | Valentino Miazzo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 25 at 17:01 | comment | added | Matt Lacey♦ | Having flicked through the video a bit, it does appear that #3 has some issues. Around 1:50 it shows an artefact that looks like a rendering error. Bad memory location perhap? | |
| Feb 25 at 13:14 | comment | added | Matt Lacey♦ | As someone who reguarly takes pictures of a CRT I Was thinking the same as @AlanB - the fact it's a horizontal artefect and polys etc. wouldn't be perfectly straight across the screen makes me think the CRT isn't quite in sync with the others | |
| Feb 25 at 9:41 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | Bad rom. Looks like a data error. | |
| Feb 25 at 8:11 | comment | added | Alan B | Do you mean the blue band in your screenshot? Is that not just a CRT thing? If you single step the video around that point you can see blue flashes at the left and right bottom. | |
| Feb 25 at 5:01 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | obviously all run the same "program": Is it obvious? Why couldn't there be multiple versions of the software / firmware? | |
| Feb 25 at 0:23 | comment | added | Justme | @Stan But they might not show the exact same picture. In most scenes they render a different picture to have a wide multi-monitor video wall view. And all it takes for those glitches might be one bad solder joint that either makes contact or not or a damaged memory bit. Depending on where such a bad solder joint or memory bit is, it may render a scene incorrectly. | |
| Feb 24 at 23:57 | comment | added | Stan | @dave The demo/attract mode switches between creative "combined" use of all four (or two) monitors, and also showing the exact same picture on all four monitors at once. My question is based entirely on the fact that this glitch happens when they are in the latter "mode". | |
| Feb 24 at 23:19 | comment | added | dave | For much of the video, each screen shows a different image (which is presumably the point of the demo). It's only a guess that each is executing the same thing at this point. Perhaps what you see is an artifact of the synchronization mechanism interacting with broken hardware. | |
| S Feb 24 at 21:10 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Feb 24 at 21:10 | history | asked | Stan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |