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The PPUSTATUS read race condition is not implemented. #6

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Reads to PPUSTATUS within the first three cycles of vertical blanking will cause special case behaviour in original hardware due to a race condition between the CPU and PPU clock rates. Reading at (0, 241) will read bit 7 as clear and prevent it from being set. Reading at (1, 241) or (2, 241) will read and clear bit 7 correctly. All three of these cases will prevent the CPU from observing a PPU NMI. Some games rely on this behavior, and so it must be emulated.

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    EmulationAn issue within the emulatorPPUAn issue in the PPUUnimplemented BehaviorBehavior in original hardware that is not currently emulated

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