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Title: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: StarDust4Ever on June 18, 2016, 02:11:27 PM
What screen color does your Turbografx/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?

There was a similar thread some time back on NintendoAge regarding NES systems. Hardware registers tend to initialize to a random state unless instructions are given to clear this info. Due to slight variances in fabrication, different chips even out of the same batch tend to initialize differently. The GPU often displays a random color across the entire screen, typically unique to the individual console.

My US Turbografx displays a pale cream yellow color somewhat in between apricot and goldenrod, more towards apricot. What colors do other's consoles display and are they consistent between models or random?
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: sunteam_paul on June 18, 2016, 10:02:22 PM
Octarine.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Arkhan on June 18, 2016, 10:03:04 PM
Mine displays a gentle hue of potato, leaning more towards beef wellington.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: ccovell on June 18, 2016, 11:08:28 PM
PCE Coregrafx: Usually yellow, sometimes salmon.
Supergrafx: almost always white.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: StarDust4Ever on June 18, 2016, 11:25:16 PM
Quote from: sunteam_paul on June 18, 2016, 10:02:22 PM
Octarine.
Ooh, pretty! Which system is yours?
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: sunteam_paul on June 18, 2016, 11:29:34 PM
Quote from: StarDust4Ever on June 18, 2016, 11:25:16 PM
Quote from: sunteam_paul on June 18, 2016, 10:02:22 PM
Octarine.
Ooh, pretty! Which system is yours?

It's the TurtleGrafx
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: esteban on June 19, 2016, 01:52:23 AM
White
Turquoise
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Trenton_net on June 19, 2016, 03:55:04 AM
Are the colors different for troubleshooting purposes? Or are they always the same, regardless of the state of the machine?
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: wildfruit on June 19, 2016, 10:01:18 AM
Well if a duo boots without a HuCard it displays the 3.0 boot screen.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Otaking on June 19, 2016, 11:36:09 AM
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Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Digi.k on June 19, 2016, 12:50:23 PM
it seems to randomly display between colours.

pale like pink
turqoise
darkish skin tone
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Joe Redifer on June 19, 2016, 04:57:40 PM
I can power mine on and off and it's usually a different color each time, though most often yellow. Like you guys, I do this for hours. It's random and means nothing. I think the Turbo just picks a color to display when it sees voltage. There's no rhyme or reason, just immense entertainment for us lucky Turbo owners.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: ccovell on June 19, 2016, 05:12:24 PM
It just depends on the random state of the RAM bits for the VCE palette on startup... as Charles Macdonald tested years ago.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: imparanoic on June 19, 2016, 08:35:07 PM
Quote from: Joe Redifer on June 19, 2016, 04:57:40 PM
I can power mine on and off and it's usually a different color each time, though most often yellow. Like you guys, I do this for hours. It's random and means nothing. I think the Turbo just picks a color to display when it sees voltage. There's no rhyme or reason, just immense entertainment for us lucky Turbo owners.

it's like digital music generated by a fax machine, pure art !! you can listen for hours, not too dissimilar to UK's esoteric experimental dance artist aphex twin, squarepusher  and autechre

Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: imparanoic on June 19, 2016, 08:37:34 PM
seems like the op has too much time to kill
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: esteban on June 19, 2016, 11:43:14 PM
wht
trqse
a sterile yet sullen, somber grey
ht pnk
wht
trqse
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Lost Monkey on June 20, 2016, 02:12:06 AM
Make Mine Chartreuse

Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: SavagePencil on June 20, 2016, 03:29:18 AM
Honor.

Hate.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Necromancer on June 20, 2016, 05:15:28 AM
Mine's usually coquelicot.

Quote from: imparanoic on June 19, 2016, 08:37:34 PM
seems like the op has too much time to kill

Careful.  If you hurt his feelings he'll lock the thread and storm off again.
Title: Re: What color does your TG16/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?
Post by: Punch on June 20, 2016, 08:35:48 AM
"What screen color does your Turbografx/PCe/Super/Duo/etc display with no card inserted?"

Mine is black and reads "Push RUN Button"