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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
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00:00 Welcome
00:17 New FPGA GBC: www.retrorgb.com/modretro-chr...
03:48 Rod Land re-release: www.retrorgb.com/rod-land-off...
06:54 SMS to MK-2000 Adapter: www.retrorgb.com/sms-to-mk-20...
10:22 Mega Man 3 NES to SNES: www.retrorgb.com/mega-man-3-n...
12:15 Analogue Pocket on a CRT: www.retrorgb.com/analogue-poc...
14:12 Famicom Expansion Audio: www.retrorgb.com/all-famicom-...
17:14 Lu’s MiSTer Updates: www.retrorgb.com/mister-fpga-...
21:38 Thank you!!! www.retrorgb.com/support.html - Ігри
Excellent video Bob!
Super excited to get the Chromatic.
Yes I have two Analogue Pockets, and yes I have the FunnyPlaying FPGBC
But this looks amazing
I find myself waiting and refreshing your main video page every Wednesday now for these update vids, I'm a simple creature, once I like something I stick to it.
Thanks very much!
I almost treat these videos like a podcast. I love listening to them on my drive into work. It’s something I look forward to each week as well
You didn’t seem grumpy to me, tone was great throughout! Get well and rest up :)
All the best on your health, thanks for the videos!
“I don’t want to go off topic”
*immediately goes way off topic.
You’re a diamond Bob. Go off topic as much as you like, lol.
I hear ya. My health as I get older is harder to manage. All the best.
Regarding the video out on the new Game Boy FPGA handheld, I got to try it out briefly at Socal Retro and according to the booth organizer they do mention that there is a touch of lag when displayed on a TV, however they claim that the intenton is that the player looks at the display on the unit and the video out is for others to watch and spectate or even use as a method of capturing video as seen in the sponsored CTWC tournament (featuring Logan Paul of all people?!?). Can't really give concrete numbers or anything since I only breifly tried the unit on a whim but we'll find out sooner than later.
🤘I ordered a Chromatic the other day, seems fun enough for the collection.
The Genesis Adapter also works for the Commodore 64. I own every major console from the Atari 2600 to the PS5. I've disassembled and cleaned them all.
Posted this on Lu's video too, but: The NegCon does not have a rumble motor in it. I think folks have this confused with the JogCon, which is a NegCon backwards-compatible controller with force feedback launched several years later
Good morning Bob! Hope you are doing well man!
Thank you Bob! As always, I appreciate everything you do! Hope you feel better soon! 🤜🤛
Best wishes for a speedy recovcery, Bob. Thank you!
thanks bob.
Thanks, Bob!
I’m trying to lose some weight, too! Just got back from a run 25 minutes ago and this is what I watched as my sweat dried. Hehe.
Just walk/run and stay away from bread/sugar and you’ll start to feel amazing. Trust me!
This video came up before in my feed ahead of Stephen Colbert! Impressive
Thanks to all the contributors, especially Bob and Lou
MK-2000 owner reporting for duty!
Feel better Bob!
I wish all the retro inspired consoles, handheld or not, had legacy I/O options. Composite would be fine for me, but s-video would be nice too.
I couldn't agree more, I'd of been interested in something like the Evercade VS if it had Y/C or RGBS/VGA output, or even just a USB-C with Display-Alt Mode which carries native analogue VGA output, which can be easily output to RGB or SOG (sync-on-green) 240p via a VGA to Scart, DP-Alt Mode can do RGB up to 1600x1200p, if only more modern GPU's had DP-Alt Mode as well, sadly only the RTX 2080 Ti cards and some models of the RTX 3080 Ti had USB-C DP-Alt outputs for native VGA.
Hi Bob, just a heads up that I may have a nice high resolution Japanese Mark III label for the Everdrive Japanese Master System cart that I can share.
I made my own Everdrive compatabile cart about 6 years ago along with a video about it.
I won't post the link here as the post will probay get blocked.
But yeah, if you want to host a high res image of the label I made, shoot me a message or you can find my Email at the end of any of my Battle of the Port videos 👍
Thanks very much for the offer! Someone already sent me one, but I'll look for your video and check yours out too.
@@RetroRGBcheers. Hope you like it. The video is quite old mind you.
@5:50 what’s funny is you’d have to jump several levels of tech higher to find a modern day parallel.
Broken record - nope
Bad tape - nope
Scratched disc -nope
Low bitrate mp3 - nah
Buffering video - close enough. 😂
I can't be the only person in this community that actually likes NES sprite flicker and slow down right? I find them reassuringly authentic...
Nope. I'm with ya.
Why not both? :) I like that because it reminds me of my childhood experience, but its also very cool to play it in a way that wasn't possible back then
I prefer to use my analogue pocket on my crt with my retrotink 5x to downscale 480p to 240p. I have the analogizer but limited core support and it messing up my screen protector stops me from wanting to use it.
The NES actually has much more interesting audio versus the SNES imo (which can only do sequenced samples), especially the enhanced games with VRC6 & VRC7 audio expansion chips, that PSG real-time synth has just aged beautifly, so has the OG GB chip-tune audio, the GBA has better audio than the SNES when playing on a GC GBA player or MiSTer GBA core, but the master of them all is the Model 1 Sega Mega Drive, that FM-Synth is just silk, it's never gets old, I have a few Mega Drive music albums or real MD cartridges, and they are just so good, FM music just really manages to catch that sweet spot for perfect melodic sound, there is also OPL2/3/4 FM-Synth audio for PC & Amiga (Adlib), I'm hoping to pick up a OPL3 Duo when its in stock to hook up to my MiSTer, I also love XG & GM MIDI audio, though it's hard to choose between the PC & Amiga versions of Monkey Island games and other amazing Sierra & Lucas Arts games, and after MIDI audio in games we got the incredible multi-positional HRTF audio aka A3D & EAX, games like Max Payne 1 & 2 completely put modern game audio to absolute shame, the audio is part of what brings the atmosphere in the game t life, you can hear the rain drops bouncing of glass panes windows and the ceilings whilst mobsters banter in various rooms in the distance, and it's all so perfectly placed and realistic, you can hear sirens and cars out on New Yorks streets or the snow blizzard beating against the walls, tell me a modern game with audio of that calibre today, sadly there just isn't, audio in video games has regressed to generic flat sounding PCM stereo that at best can be software up-mixed to Dolby Digital or Dolby Atmos, which ironically, Atmos is Inferior to the hardware accelerated Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect audio up-mixing that were available in the Creative X-Fi chipsets, now it's all low quality audio codecs that use software mixing that doesn't sound as good as full hardware based surround, but nearly no games use hardware accelerated HRTF game engine level multi-positional sound any more, and games are also becoming very laggy now with seriously unoptimized engines (Street Fighter 6 has 92ms frame-times versus sub 5ms for SF4), so it's just not bad regressed audio technology and quality any more, its low input fidelity and heavy motion blur as standard with modern games, lol, sorry for the rant I'm a little stoned.
Lol Palmer Luckey. This guy has retired generals working for him at Andruil.
I said it before and i'll say it again. I'm all for Retro-bit selling cool re-releases of these old games, but it's such a missed opportunity not sell these as digital ROMs as well. Because when the cartridges are gone, most of these games isn't available anymore.
You can make digital backups of your carts don't forget, which is legal too (if that really matters anyway lol).
Tiny phones and big TVs. This is exactly my thoughts these days. I used to be into portables a lot growing up owning every Game Boy rendition and even the first Nintendo DS as well as the PlayStation portable but it's just not worth the next strain and I never have time
I am still waiting for a bunch of games from strictly limited.
The Chromatic sounds cool but I really need to see some reviews before I spend money. If that means they sell out and I can't get one, so be it. I'd rather have regret of not buying one than have regret of buying something that turned out to be junk.
Agreed
At least do keep in mind this is someone John Carmack really respects hardware-wise and has worked in world-class engineering teams 🙂
Not here for the weird shenanigans 👍 Amen, Bob
Hey Bob, the drivers in your tink firmware update video no longer match the video itself, there's no simple exe anymore and it's instead a bunch of random files. Do you think you can provide some updated instructions?
Love the mister content, particularly really enjoyed the retrocastle deep dive.
I currently have a retrocastle vga io board (dual ram) in my aliexpress cart. Waiting for the de10 clone to go on sale.
Would you say that is the best option if I plan to use the mister with a crt/component? Or would the digital board/direct video be better?
Get well soon 🙏
Thanks! The HDMI-only retro castle kit is awesome and my favorite case. Analog options are tricky. The RC ones are all excellent, but Sorg’s new 24-bit board might be better. If you’re not in a rush for an IO board, maybe hold off a bit until I can test those.
Yup, not in a rush. Looking forward to that review!
you only just covering the analogizer?!! i had it like 3 months ago
First, I’ve been in contact with the creator and we didn’t want to promote it on RetroRGB until he had stock.
Next, this is the second post about it.
And finally, if you don’t like how and when we cover things, you’re welcome to fuck off at any time.
Retro-bit lost a lot of trust in their products and brand with their gamecube component cable.
Could you elaborate? I am considering options for gc component cables. Wondering if there are other viable options besides the oem nintendo cables
Degraded video signal and mixed audio channels. For analogue use a good S-video cable is way better (or a Carby and a functional/low latency DAC).
It was a rebranded bitfunx cable. So yeah, proceed with caution. They DO sell some great stuff though!
Chromatic seems like 'guy who loved the Gameboy as a kid becomes super rich and gets to recreate/improve it to relive old times'. Not knocking that at all.. Maybe will be a passion project that has a huge benefit to the retro community and very interested to see what “Chromatic game cartridges” are and what reviewers think when it comes out. He does seem like a total plonker if he's harassing Game Sack Joe though :(
Palmer is a Trump supporter who does fundraising for him, and he also owns a drone company with multiple "defense" contracts, and he's always been pretty hostile towards journalists that asks uncomfortable questions about his products.
So personally I'm not surprised by his behavior, he's always been that way.
I was curious so I looked up the exchange. He definitely wasn't "harassing Joe" and I like Joe and Game Sack but if I was being unbiased, Joe definitely came off just like some common internet troll who didn't have all the facts. I think he even deleted his initial tweet b/c I can only find the one after where Luckey corrected him and he was still salty.
@@AxfNPn3lAgree. Joe was super negative from the beginning there but think calmed down gradually and maybe regretted that first tweet. All good, they’re both good dudes 🙂
If only the new Chromatic Game Boy used an OLED display, because as far as IPS GB's, the GBC with the ITA LCD is so much better than the cheap LCD in the Chromatic, and they are charging over £160 ($200) when a real ITA GBC is only around 80 to 100 pounds tops, or for a little extra you can get a real GBC with an AMOLED display and its real hardware, or even a GBA with an ITA IPS is only around 100 pounds, so you are so much better off getting a real GBC with an OLED display or a GBA with an ITA display and enjoying perfect compatibility, audio & video timings thanks to real hardware.
If the Chromatic was only say £49.99 or even less, I'd say it's a no-brainer, but you can get two real GBA's with amazing ITA displays for the price of the Chromatic, or for not much more an Analogue Pocket lol, which has much more functionality, a better GB/GBC FPGA core and a much better audio DAC, which is another point btw, the Chromatic has a very low quality DAC, so they haven't even given it decent audio hardware for that 200 bucks, this is a low quality cheap GBC with a cheap speaker, it makes no mention of having a proper headphone AMP either, I mean the MiSTer handheld will be under £160/$200 and will have an AMOLED display, 24-Bit RGB, 24-Bit audio DAC and I assume a proper headphone AMP, and the MiSTer has a 1:1 parity OG Game Boy core with perfect reference chiptune audio, same goes for the GBC core, I'm not sure if the GBA core is a perfect 1:1 core like the GB & GBC is yet, but it's pretty close if not as I can't tell the difference between a real GBA and the MiSTer GBA.
In fact, the MiSTer fixes the GBA's audio issues that you get on real GBA hardware, due to the low resolution audio DAC, the GBA actually has really stellar audio being put out by the GBA's processor, as well as the GB's & GBC chiptune/PSG generator, the GBA can use them all, but the real GBA & GBA-SP has an awful 8-Bit DAC, which destroys the otherwise amazing GBA soundtracks, which is why GBA games sound so incredible on the GC GBA player, as they use the GC Macronix DAC (a powerhouse audio chip), thus showing that the GBA has better audio than the SNES when using a proper DAC, also in part to do with the GBA's bigger game file size so can use larger samples, and having access to that beautiful sounding GB chiptune chipset for PSG synth, this could have been an amazing modern plug & play out of the box GBC option, as well as a great way to get improved audio quality if it had a HQ HP-AMP output.
You're missing the point of the Chromatic LCD, it's on purpose "cheap" looking to ensure it has correct color balance and automatically displays colors like an original screen, instead of showing RGB values like the other offerings do. The closest we currently have to that are shaders, be it Analogue's GBC filters, retroarchs shaders, or BGB doing the color correction.
An OLED display would not be any closer to the original screen than an IPS display that's properly calibrated. The other thing is the Chromatic IPS is made by some aviation display makers, specifically so it can have ridiculous brightness so it'll be very easy to see even in direct sunlight, something that OLED can't do yet, and if it does will drastically shorten it's lifespan.
All in all I think IPS is the better choice here for brightness and longevity without degradation, even if the blacks will suffer a little.
I do agree on the price tag being pretty damn high though, but $50 alone wouldn't even cover the magnesium shell of the thing.
@@RAHelllord I did consider that, and totally get your point, but that's why I rate the glass laminated ITA IPS display so much, you can get a GBC or GBA with one for £70 new now, and it also comes with the audio AMP upgrade and has a really decent HP-AMP, you can choose between the GBA or GBC and have real hardware with proper audio & video timings, the glass ITA screens are incredible imo, and I just can't see why you would spend over twice as much on an FPGA with a lower quality screen, those brightness levels will really hinder colour luminance levels and will really cause colour volume to drop I would have thought, IPS just can't put out a decent contrast without being washed out, unless it's using a miniLED IPS, which may be enough to give it decent colour volume, I'd like to see a dual-IPS, that would actually outperform OLED, you can get decent sub 5 inch IPS modules for under 10 bucks or half that at bulk cost, so two of them would still be very cheap, just an idea, but seriously, £160/$200 is just too much when the TangPrime 25K FPGA handheld that does GB/GBC/GG/NES/SNES/GBA with immaculate 1:1 FPGA cores under £60, you can buy the GBA ultimate with USB-C charging, upgraded speakers and audio amps for £100, honestly I'd not have anything to critique it for if it was sensibly priced under £80/$120.
@@Wobble2007 I think luminance might not be an issue considering the standard GBC screen is already fairly washed out, and this display aims to recreate that faithfully. All the current solutions, bar Analogue Pocket with filter, BGB, and retroarch shaders, are far oversaturated compared to what they should be.
Under that viewpoint, that the imperfection is intentional, it makes sense.
Granted, I'm not really trusting the claims so far, Palmer has a history of stretching the truth in places for the products he makes, but it at least makes logical sense in that it should be possible. Though we'll have to wait and see.
One other thing, it's not an of the shelf screen, but custom made. One of the small differences is that the subpixel layout is identical to the original GBC screen, including size, order, and orientation. It's not a huge difference and it becomes less relevant with higher PPI screens, but it should ensure proper aspect ratios and everything without any potential for shimmering. But again, those are unverified claims right now, though at least the macro shot the dude published seems to confirm that.
If you have an account on GBAtemp, or are a member of the FPGAming Discord, then I've actually posted some comparison macro shots of the Chromatic display and every GBC capable device I own, including that ITA screen in a GBA, but also the HighspeedIDO, Analogue Pocket, stock GBA SP, the new OLED GBC, and some others. My name over there is R.A.Helllord, and GBAtemp should be publicly indexed by google.
@@RAHelllord Will take a looksie at your macro shots, love that kind of thing, thanks for the heads up.
@@Wobble2007 ITA IPS would win if it had color correction but sadly it does not. Still waiting for someone that cares to do this for replacement screens (so far only RetroSix has bothered with their GBA screen, still nothing for GBC).
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Palmer Lucky skirts way to close to incel behavior for my liking.
I'd sooner take out a mortgage with Analogue for a brick than give that dude a single cent