SMS 3d glasses support

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Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-06-09T06:34:13.000Z:

SMSPlus does not really emulate 3D Glasses. This device is normally controlled by the game with alternatively switch off the left & right lens, while displaying an appropriate image on the TV screen. With the glasses, your eyes will adapt the images they see for a pseudo-3D effect. If you don't have 3D glasses, the picture will look weird and kinda shaking. That's what happen with emulators which normally render the screen as usual.

Now, we can intercept the commands that the game send to the glasses (they are writes to some ports, just like the game send commands to the Video Controller or Sound chip) to know which lens is "supposed" to be shutdown and therefore skip frame rendering for one of the two lens. The result is like a normal game, which is why it is called 3D faking, it simply makes 3D programmed games playable without those 3D glasses. But off course, there is no 3D effect anymore.

I think it's possible to connect Master System 3D glasses to your computer but it requires an home-made adapter and some hardware skill. Meka seems to have support for that and some instructions to make the adapter but I never tried that and never had those 3D glasses anyway. Off course, there is no way you can connect them to your Wii (maybe it's possible \*in theory\* but I am pretty sure this will never happen).

Because of the way Master System 3D glasses work (controlled by the game), it's not possible to use traditional glasses (red/cyan anaglyph ones or those used with 3D movies) without heavy modification to the way the screen is rendered by the emulator. I know some emulators exist which made possible to use red/cyan glasses but I don't really know how this works and the effect is not really good anyway with 3D master system games.

And as far as I know, always because of the way they worked, it should be possible to use Master System 3D glasses with a LCD TV, what matters is only image generated by the console, not how it is displayed.

2011-06-09T06:34:13+00:00

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Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-06-09T06:34:13.000Z:

SMSPlus does not really emulate 3D Glasses. This device is normally controlled by the game with alternatively switch off the left & right lens, while displaying an appropriate image on the TV screen. With the glasses, your eyes will adapt the images they see for a pseudo-3D effect. If you don't have 3D glasses, the picture will look weird and kinda shaking. That's what happen with emulators which normally render the screen as usual.

Now, we can intercept the commands that the game send to the glasses (they are writes to some ports, just like the game send commands to the Video Controller or Sound chip) to know which lens is "supposed" to be shutdown and therefore skip frame rendering for one of the two lens. The result is like a normal game, which is why it is called 3D faking, it simply makes 3D programmed games playable without those 3D glasses. But off course, there is no 3D effect anymore.

I think it's possible to connect Master System 3D glasses to your computer but it requires an home-made adapter and some hardware skill. Meka seems to have support for that and some instructions to make the adapter but I never tried that and never had those 3D glasses anyway. Off course, there is no way you can connect them to your Wii (maybe it's possible \*in theory\* but I am pretty sure this will never happen).

Because of the way Master System 3D glasses work (controlled by the game), it's not possible to use traditional glasses (red/cyan anaglyph ones or those used with 3D movies) without heavy modification to the way the screen is rendered by the emulator. I know some emulators exist which made possible to use red/cyan glasses but I don't really know how this works and the effect is not really good anyway with 3D master system games.

And as far as I know, always because of the way they worked, it should be possible to use Master System 3D glasses with a LCD TV, what matters is only image generated by the console, not how it is displayed.
- 2011-06-09T06:34:13+00:00
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Comment # 2 originally posted by ferran_r1@hotmail.com on 2011-06-09T10:01:27.000Z:

Thank you for answering. About 3d glasses I’ve tested 4-5 years ago with a SMS 1 of a friend who is collector like I .We played Outrun & Zaxon 3D and the 3D effect it’s not cool (my point of view) . SMS 2 hasn’t the connector for them.
- 2011-06-09T10:01:27+00:00
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