Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs

There's a nice video demonstration here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2kaV_m4iNU

It would have been neat if Nintendo had set this up so the stock unit could have been expanded like this.

What I'd like to know is: Why did Nintendo allow the PPU to pass along another pixel color, but didn't take advantage of it in a shipping product?

Is this a case of "you ain't gonna need it" overengineering; or was the PPU used in other products. (And thus these pins were used elsewhere?)

great name following the NESticle lineage

Reminds me of a NES that I overclocked when I was around 14 years old. It was the sort of silly thing a nerdy kid would do with too much free time on their hands, and didn't do much to improve the system. Most of the time it caused more issues than it fixed, but it was a good learning experience.

This is far more exciting, since it adds functionality to they system. Maybe I'll dust off my old hacked up NES and do this at some point. If only I had the free time these days.

Thx for sharing :)

ANES? Like the homophone to anus?

that's a really sweet ANES

Oh man, A thing I literally needed right now haha