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Diagram of safe area on 60 Hz NES PPU (and other 5.37 MHz NTSC VDPs)
- Red
- Danger Zone, top and bottom 8 lines
- Most 60 Hz TVs hide all of this. Keep scroll seam artifacts here if possible. (Visible at 50 Hz)
- Yellow
- Action Safe Area, 256x224, (0, 8)-(255, 231)
- Most TVs show some of this.
- Blue
- Post-1985 Safe Area, 240x212, (8, 16)-(247, 227)
- Practically all TVs show this. Platforms, pits, and indicators are fine.
- Gray
- Title Safe Area, 224x192, (16, 24)-(239, 215)
- Marked on Nintendo background planning sheet. Keep menus, score, dialogue, and legal notices here.
The diagram applies to any signal source using TMS9918's 5.37 MHz dot clock rate, not specifically only the NES. This includes ColecoVision, SG-1000, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx-16 H32 mode, Genesis H32 mode, and Super NES.
Made by Damian Yerrick in February 2017. Revised in January 2023. Dedicated to public domain using Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
This version is scaled to correct NTSC pixel aspect ratio (8:7). File:Safe areas (pixel perfect).png is unscaled.
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| current | 13:06, 10 August 2024 | | 640 × 480 (7 KB) | Tepples (talk | contribs) | Update with revised text from current version of 240p Test Suite, particularly "PocketNES" to "post-1985" |
| 21:56, 21 September 2021 |  | 640 × 480 (7 KB) | >Maintenance script | == Summary == Importing file |
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