Hacking Nintendont *possible* issue with Eternal Darkness

[DragonBoy]

Hey guys! I have a PAL Wii U with the the latest firmware running the latest, at the time of writting, version of Nintendont.

Whilst playing Eternal Darkness (USA Version), I've noticed a strange visual issue that sometimes occours on the TV but not at the tablet. Please check the uploaded photos.

- These lines appear only when the camera moves from left to right and from right to left fast.
- When the screen is in one place, the image is fine... No lines/distortion.
- If the issue occours, it happens for the whole time the game is active. If I turn off the Wii U, turn it ON and boot the game again, the lines might gone and the game will run normal.
- The issue from the game session that appears in the photo, is taking place at the top part of the TV and goes all the way, from left to right. But when it happened before it was placed a bit lower, towards the center of the TV.

This issue appears only with Nintendont (and Eternal Darkness so far... I haven't nioticed it in other Gamecube games but further testing needs to be done). It never happened with a Wii game or a Wii U game.

What do you guys think? It this an issue with Nintendont or my TV?

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

That is indeed odd. But unless sb can confirm that this does not happen on a GC, I would think this is a software issue. Isn´t Eternal Darkness a game which has pseudo glitches on purpose? Does this happen in specific levels?

 

[DragonBoy]

That is indeed odd. But unless sb can confirm that this does not happen on a GC, I would think this is a software issue.

I've played the game back in the day on my Gamecube (on an CRT TV) and I've never encountered that particular issue. Also If the issue occours, it happens only on the TV and only whilst there's camera movement but at the same time on the gamepad everything is normal!

Isn´t Eternal Darkness a game which has pseudo glitches on purpose? Does this happen in specific levels?

That's true, but this is not one of those glitches.

Fun personal story. When I first played the game back in 2003, I came across the Blue Screen of Death pseudo glitch. I had no idea about this aspect of the game. I got so scared that I've actually turned OFF the Gamecube, rebooted it to see that it still worked -I had just bought it 2 days ago!-, and then I wrote about the blue screen of death on the Gamecube at a forum. You can imagine the amount of trolling that came uppon me!

 

[pedro702]

if you cant see it on the gamepad is becuase probably the resolution is too low to see it on such a tiny screen probably, you may see stuff you didnt see before becuase tvs have higher resolutions and bigger screens so we can spot game errors more easily than on blurry low rez crts.

what settings do you have set to on on nintendont?