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  • The VS system that Nintendo built for arcades with high-quality CRTs has a graphics processor that does output RGB, unlike the NES/Famicom PPU.
  • Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble.

    But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos.

    Really interesting investigation!

  • The missing dot is not just a thing that helps stabilize the colors in a picture, it's literally a missing dot. The first scanline is literally twitching left and right by one pixel every other frame. You probably can't see it on your TV without messing with the vertical hold.

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