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Museum prepares multi-screen GoldenEye N64 to prevent ‘screen cheating’


Zoom in / One console, four screens, zero “split screen”-

Some remember to play gold eyes 007 On N64 will probably remember having to count “Cinema” It will look at a quarter of the split-screen shooter to gauge the opponent’s position. Until there modern game which forces players to rely on tactics to track down unseen opponents.

Now, 25 years later gold eyesOnce released, the Museum was able to do something about this filmmaker, setting up a way to divide the game gold eyes across four TV screens without modifying the original cartridge or N64.

Multiple screens gold eyes Gameplay will appear as part of 25 years gold eyes“It happened in Cambridge, England Center for Computational History This weekend. Proof of concept for unique gameplay (all screens awkwardly facing the same direction) You caught my eye with Wednesday’s tweetprompted Ars to seek more details on how the museum would do so.

“not elegant”

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Zoom in / C2-7210 video scaler is an important piece of technology for separation gold eyesSplit screen across multiple views.-

CEO and Trustee Computing History Center Jason Fitzpatrick Ars tells the idea of ​​​​multiple screens gold eyes It started when several museum staff discussed their own frustrations with the split-screen first-person shooter on consoles. We talked about it and they said, ‘The problem is you’re all on the same screen,’ Fitzpatrick said. Just look to the right to see what they do, and you can deal with it.” And we said, “Oh, actually, we might have a way around that.” So we just dabbled and thought it was fair. a little fun.”

Fitzpatrick is in a good position to disband gold eyessplit screen signal due to its daily function on Pure Energy TV & Movies, where he says he is often called upon to install old cathode ray tube televisions on film sets. That means he “had some equipment to tamper with the video,” he said.

In this case, the key to “Part of Equipment” is C2-7210 Video Scaler, is the ultimate in video production technology that enables professionals to process live video signals in a variety of ways. This includes the ability to amplify a specific portion of up to two input signals and then boost the output to full-screen output on another monitor or TV.

for multiple screens gold eyesFitzpatrick said he just broke up Standard N64 PAL Signal into four mirrors, then feed the two inputs into the two scaler units. Then, you point each scaler at a different quarter of the input signal and send the resulting output to a different TV. The second entry on one of these TVs also receives an unmodulated full-screen signal directly from the N64 for easier menu navigation.

“It’s not elegant because you took 704 x 576 [pixel] You magnify a quarter and then take that quarter and spread it across the screen, ”Fitzpatrick told Ars. “Even though we are dealing with something around 352 x 288 [pixels], give or take, as a solution for each of these quadrants, when pulled to full screen, it displays fine. “

It was partly because “the original game wasn’t good” and because of that CRT الأفقي Horizontal Line Continuous Scan Technology It covers a lot of sins, says Fitzpatrick. “The old DVD was 352×288, so we were used to watching movies in that resolution,” he added.

This kind of signal separation might remind Big CRT Video Wall Which you sometimes see in old art installations or music videos. But Fitzpatrick said use video wall console For this kind of processing “it will take hours to set up because you have to do each one individually… you don’t have precise granular control over it.” [split-screen] space. That will take the screen and divide it into four. Maybe he missed some parts.”

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