Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The S3 ViRGE is famous for many things, but "perfect black levels" isn't one of them. In this video, I track down and kill the notorious "pedestal" bug that causes the background to look grey/washed out.

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00:00 The S3 ViRGE
00:57 Brightness
01:25 Probing with DEBUG
04:48 Get BIOS
05:10 Hunting With Hiew
08:25 Checksum In Hiew
09:00 Checksum In HxD
10:44 Replacing EEPROM
11:05 Testing
12:08 Summary
13:23 Teaser