REFORGE
Atari 2600 / F11
BEING VERIFIED

VSYNC Guard Too Conservative — Pac-Man Writes VSYNC at sl=193

STATUS
BEING VERIFIED
AREA
Timing / bus
RECORDED
2026-03-28
PUBLIC SOURCE
Research dossier / finding 11
RECORD ID
atari2600-f11
SNAPSHOT
a58ea4ac37c644e9

Game: Pac-Man (NA) Bug: Scanline count fluctuated: 259, 263, 265, 271, 288, 326, 511 per frame instead of ~193. Root Cause: VSYNC handler guard required scanline_count >= 200.

Raw traces, ROM material, local paths, and personal data are not part of this public record.