PAL60 under KOS.

[chui]

Anybody knows 'vid_set_mode_ex(vid_mode_t *mode)' values for PAL60 screen modes?

I need it for my SDL driver, now i use NTSC screen modes for 60Hz.

[Pavlik]

For Katana value you can ask Nachbrenner from XploderFreaX.de Maybe he know also value for KOS... He is a good code hacker and my teacher. He makeing PAL 50/60Hz and NTSC codes for PSX/DC/PS2

[Rone]

Hi

60 hz:
DM_320x240 ,
DM_640x480,
DM_800x608,
DM_256x256,
DM_768x480,
DM_768x576

other:
(PAL=50hz)
DM_320x240_VGA ,
DM_320x240_NTSC,
DM_640x480_VGA,
DM_640x480_NTSC_IL,
DM_800x608_VGA,
DM_640x480_PAL_IL,
DM_256x256_PAL_IL,
DM_768x480_NTSC_IL,
DM_768x576_PAL_IL,
DM_768x480_PAL_IL,
DM_320x240_PAL,

[chui]

But these default DM_XXXxXXX values are NTSC screen modes, not PAL60.

[Phantom]

But these default DM_XXXxXXX values are NTSC screen modes, not PAL60.

If you use DM_640x480 (etc..) on a PAL Dreamcast it will still use PAL colour encoding. So the result is PAL60.

[chui]

Are you sure? When i use DM_640x480, KOS stdout show NTSC mode and TV info too (when i play european game with 60Hz option TV info show PAL60).

Also, i can't find at 'kos/kernel/arch/dreamcast/hardware/video.c' PAL60 timmings, only NTSC and PAL50.

[Phantom]

Are you sure?

I was sure... but after your last post I'm not anymore. If your TV shows "PAL60" for commercial games and "NTSC" for KOS then there must be a difference in the signal.

[flaming_carrot]

If you absolutely want to output PAL, read up on hardware register 0xa05f80d0, specifically bits 6 and 7: bit 7 is set for PAL output and bit 6 for NTSC. However, this doesn't seem to work for Japanese dreamcasts.

So, I don't know anything about KOS, but if you initialize a standard NTSC display and then clear bit 6 and set bit 7 of that register, you might have a PAL60 output signal....

[chui]

Thanks. I will try it.

[scherzo]

I have a question a related to this subject.

A couple of people have given me the impression that the DC can do just about any mode you can fathom, as long as you give vid_set_mode_ex a properly formulated struct. Some people could probably guess that I'm looking for an NTSC mode of 256x224, roughly. This would be for a true NES mode in NesterDC SE.

I've already tried playing with vid_set_mode_ex. I used the builtin 320x240 NTSC as a base and tried tweaking that. It actually shows up but it is not positioned correctly, and no amount of tweaking various values produces what I want.

Any ideas?