are your Lynx' displays fading, too?
ArcadeAge
brightness have drastically faded over the years. Do you experience
the same, and is there anything that can be done about it? I am mostly
playing games with emulators, but their all flawed and will probably
never match the original.
Sam Smith
Some of the original Lynx units will be about 20 years old now so I
suppose it is to be expected. If you haven't looked into this already
you can just get a PSP and run a Lynx emulator on it such as PLynx here:
http://plynx.dcemu.co.uk/
Not sure how 'flawed' this is but it may be the best you can get.
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Sam
ArcadeAge
> Some of the original Lynx units will be about 20 years old now so I
> suppose it is to be expected. If you haven't looked into this already
> you can just get a PSP and run a Lynx emulator on it such as PLynx here:http://plynx.dcemu.co.uk/
>
> Not sure how 'flawed' this is but it may be the best you can get.
>
> ---
> Sam
Thank you Sam for your answers!
Yes I own a PSP, but if I remember correctly (I am not at home right
now) the only Lynx emulator for the PSP I have tried is HandyPSP,
which is not bad but the graphics are somewhat jerky and the sound is
imperfect. I will try Plynx when I'll be back home.
Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Sam Smith <unkn...@floatingislands.com> wrote:
>ArcadeAge wrote:
>> I own several Lynx consoles, and it appears to me the colors and
>> brightness have drastically faded over the years. Do you experience
>> the same, and is there anything that can be done about it? I am mostly
>> playing games with emulators, but their all flawed and will probably
>> never match the original.
>
>Some of the original Lynx units will be about 20 years old now so I
>suppose it is to be expected. If you haven't looked into this already
>you can just get a PSP and run a Lynx emulator on it such as PLynx here:
>http://plynx.dcemu.co.uk/
Theoretically, all the Lynx units are solid state and should have no
degrading components. In practice, I've found that many units contain
defective capacitors that have burst or leaked over time. This is the same
bad batch of components that made many TurboExpress and Game Gear screens
fail. Thankfully, the lighting fixture inside the Lynx is pretty resilient
and replacing the capacitors will bring the screen back to full brightness
nine times out of ten.
I don't have the specs in front of me, so I couldn't tell you what values
the capacitors are or where they need to be installed. I'm sure someone
out there in the vast Internet has this procedure documented.
-KKC, running off to do some searching.
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ArcadeAge
> In article <g6kdsg$q74$1$8300d...@news.demon.co.uk>,
Why do I always feel ashamed whenever I get professional-level replies
to my naive postings?
It turned out the emulator I was referring to as 'flawed' is indeed
Plynx, so I think I have to learn to live with the fact that the world
is not perfect.
I apologize to everyone who is or was involved in the development or
porting of Plynx. I understand that developing an emulator is not a
piece of cake and that is not exactly fair of me to expect a Lynx
emulator to be as close to perfection as, e.g. VICE is as a C64
emulator.
Furthermore, even in my fit of disrespect, I was using an inappropiate
term. 'Flawed' is something a design can be, not an attempt to
recreate a machine's behavior.
I feel sorry, brazen and incompetent.
Thank you KKC for the hint at the capacitors as the likely source of
the screens' dimming.
I did some searching trying to find the specifications you were
referring to. I have not found anything that I could use yet, but I
will go on searching.
I am quite impressed by the fact that it is possible to pose a Lynx-
related question in 2008 in a usenet news group and get two competent
answers within hours. I hope things will remain like that for years to
come.
Sam Smith
> I am quite impressed by the fact that it is possible to pose a Lynx-
> related question in 2008 in a usenet news group and get two competent
> answers within hours. I hope things will remain like that for years to
> come.
Well the Lynx was cool. I'm not about to stop using it. Besides - I've
not finished ElectroCop yet. ;)
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Sam
ArcadeAge
> you can just get a PSP and run a Lynx emulator on it such as PLynx here:http://plynx.dcemu.co.uk/
Damn...can't play Blue Lightning decently with PLynx because of that
option key mapping bug.
Think I'll have to learn how to compile the sources...shouldn't be too
hard to fix it in the source code.