The calibration cart
One cartridge of our own, whose every screen is built to be measured: off a console through the scope, the grabber and a camera, and off the model through the same decoder, with one tool reading all of them. This section holds the plan, the tutorial that builds the ROM and puts it on a board, the screens as pictures, the blank boards, and the record of the build as it goes. The ROM and its manifest are served here too: cal.nes and cal.json, the same bytes the checksums in the tutorial name.
| Planning the calibration cartridge | One cartridge whose every screen is built to be measured off the real console and the model through the same reader, each frame naming itself; colour, resolution, filtering and the pad. |
| Building the calibration cart | From the idea of a frame that names itself, through a cartridge written with a sixty-line assembler, to the ROM in the model, its checksums, and the cartridge in a console. |
| The calibration screens | The cartridge's screens as our own decoder sees them, the strip that names each frame, and what each screen is for; the grabber's frames join them once the cart is in a console. |
| The blank boards and the programmer | Photographed and read: which board takes the calibration ROM's two chips, what the EPROM adapter is for, and what is still not known. |
| The build, as it goes | The cartridge being made, one measured step at a time: the programmer on the bench, each chip written and read back whole, the board's jumpers read off both sides, the parts it takes, and what is still open. |