> A bit of info on that, please? Thanks!
the 'enhanced' NES clone chips many of those silly handheld units you can pick up these days use.
typically adding additional colour modes, crazy banking schemes, pcm audio (not yet implemented) removed sprite limits etc.
work has been progressing slowly on them for a while; when I started looking at them there were no other open source emulators for them, I think there are now, but I didn't have time to continue with the work, thankfully an external contributor has picked up where I left off and improved a number of them to playable level, or at least a lot of the games in each one.
there are a number of generations of the things, the later ones even adding sub cpus clocked many times faster than the original NES cpu, with the possibility of internal ROM there too, although at the moment only the early-mid generation tech is covered (presumably due to cost and compatibility that's the most common stuff anyway, even in more modern machines)
but yeah, the chinese manufacturers basically took the NES and turned the dial to , you can still tell they're NES based, but they have some very un-NES like features.
Some of the games on the platforms aren't even NES hacks, but original games developed by people such as Hummer Technology (who also worked on the XaviX Ping-Pong game, another 6502 derived platform - actually I suspect the Ping Pong game on VT hardware and the XaviX one might end up being connected in some way too even if they're different hardware platforms, but we'll see)
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