Another great video. It seems to work very well with the av famicom and the cheap nes hd clones. I have never been a big fan of colour palettes in nes clones but I guess the RGB adjustment switch will allow me to customise it to some extent.
Thanks. Yeah I was tempted to use the analogy of taking cheap vodka and running it through a charcoal filter to make it taste better. I loved tweaking the color palettes by just twiddling the knobs. Seriously marking it with a silver sharpie so I could see the dot on the knob better help me align the three knobs. But this thing is intended to be stuck inside arcade cabinets so they're not really meant to be fussed with but I had a lot of fun doing it. I need to rearrange my mini consoles and Blu-ray player to take advantage of this thing.
Again it's just 35 bucks, It's a little teeny tiny device that's meant for adding scanlines to arcade games and I made a 41-minute video going off about it. I'm sort of surprised that more retro game folks don't know about these things.
Whilst I can see some value in the comparison with the Retrotink 4K, which only real suckers would purchase at it's enormously over inflated price. this particular £35 device is essentially a 1 trick pony. But when assessing value, there are many software emulators out there that can add scan lines with great effect and with no discernible effect on performance for £0, which is the very best value that you can get. The power of devices today (and even for quite a few years now for many old systems) means that all manner of effects and modifications can be made that give great flexibility to the end user, whilst maintaining performance, all without having to outlay a single penny. As far as scan lines themselves are concerned, I come from a time when these were the norm and I looked forward to a day when they could be eliminated. Without them I have a much cleaner experience, with LCD/LED/OLED etc also giving me the option of upscaling in many cases, getting rid of those awful, jagged aliasing lines that made games look somewhat annoying at the time. I can adjust colour, contrast and all manner of on screen looks to get the best colour saturation that was present by default in CRT's, the one, single advantage that they had over LCD's, that required modification of the settings to get close to what we were used to. I would not go back to vinyl records, or even CD's, despite coming from those very eras. The advantages of digital are just so overwhelming, with the sole advantage of vinyl being those sumptuous album cover with great artwork. But I can now show that artwork in glorious colour on a 48" TV screen, where I can see even more detail. I have also never heard of anybody yearning to go back to standard definition 4:3 movies on a 28" CRT TV either and there are very good reasons why most of the planet moved on and doesn't really look back. But even if you want a nostalgia trip, before you outlay a single penny, there is the option of trying out emulation for zero outlay in order to try it out for size. I have a feeling that once the initial fascination wears out in about 5 minutes, you will be glad that you saved yourself £35 and left a nice space in your junk drawer that can be filled up with something else, not to mention not adding to e-waste.
Well, the reason why I mentioned the Retrotink 4K is I am most intrigued by the HDMI in and the various scanline filters but it's phenomenal overkill. This thing is affordable and it does one thing (add scanlines to HDMI) actually two things (removing HDCP allowing me to capture it and use it in my videos) but it does it well. I don't just use emulators, I also use clone consoles and fpga consoles. But one big mantras Is however someone wants to play games is fine as long as they enjoy it. But it is an entirely a personal choice. I am clearly in the Pro CRT camp. I have five CRTs of various sizes and designs and I have retro video game systems hooked up to all of them. I also help admin a CRT Facebook group for people my part of America who are looking to find a CRT TV. I also live in Portland, Oregon and it's ironic that you mention vinyl records because vinyl records is kicking ass in Portland, Oregon and the record stores are plentiful and are doing a great business. It's crazy as even for generations that did not grow up with vinyl. You haven't met people who are down with the joy of CRT TVs, Then you and I are hanging out and completely different parts of the internet. It's funny because the CRT groups that I'm in have an incredible love of SCART, and they wish that they had big Phillips tubes or Sony tubes with native RGB SCART. You just don't find that in America. But back to scanlines personally, I'm really glad to have the option to get them using this device and I am sort of surprised that more people don't know about them. It's not for everybody but by God it's for me. But I wear my anachronistic retro video game hipster status on my sleeve with pride
Another great video. It seems to work very well with the av famicom and the cheap nes hd clones. I have never been a big fan of colour palettes in nes clones but I guess the RGB adjustment switch will allow me to customise it to some extent.
Thanks. Yeah I was tempted to use the analogy of taking cheap vodka and running it through a charcoal filter to make it taste better.
I loved tweaking the color palettes by just twiddling the knobs. Seriously marking it with a silver sharpie so I could see the dot on the knob better help me align the three knobs. But this thing is intended to be stuck inside arcade cabinets so they're not really meant to be fussed with but I had a lot of fun doing it. I need to rearrange my mini consoles and Blu-ray player to take advantage of this thing.
Great video! This looks like an amazing option!
Again it's just 35 bucks, It's a little teeny tiny device that's meant for adding scanlines to arcade games and I made a 41-minute video going off about it. I'm sort of surprised that more retro game folks don't know about these things.
Whilst I can see some value in the comparison with the Retrotink 4K, which only real suckers would purchase at it's enormously over inflated price. this particular £35 device is essentially a 1 trick pony.
But when assessing value, there are many software emulators out there that can add scan lines with great effect and with no discernible effect on performance for £0, which is the very best value that you can get.
The power of devices today (and even for quite a few years now for many old systems) means that all manner of effects and modifications can be made that give great flexibility to the end user, whilst maintaining performance, all without having to outlay a single penny.
As far as scan lines themselves are concerned, I come from a time when these were the norm and I looked forward to a day when they could be eliminated. Without them I have a much cleaner experience, with LCD/LED/OLED etc also giving me the option of upscaling in many cases, getting rid of those awful, jagged aliasing lines that made games look somewhat annoying at the time.
I can adjust colour, contrast and all manner of on screen looks to get the best colour saturation that was present by default in CRT's, the one, single advantage that they had over LCD's, that required modification of the settings to get close to what we were used to.
I would not go back to vinyl records, or even CD's, despite coming from those very eras. The advantages of digital are just so overwhelming, with the sole advantage of vinyl being those sumptuous album cover with great artwork. But I can now show that artwork in glorious colour on a 48" TV screen, where I can see even more detail.
I have also never heard of anybody yearning to go back to standard definition 4:3 movies on a 28" CRT TV either and there are very good reasons why most of the planet moved on and doesn't really look back.
But even if you want a nostalgia trip, before you outlay a single penny, there is the option of trying out emulation for zero outlay in order to try it out for size. I have a feeling that once the initial fascination wears out in about 5 minutes, you will be glad that you saved yourself £35 and left a nice space in your junk drawer that can be filled up with something else, not to mention not adding to e-waste.
Well, the reason why I mentioned the Retrotink 4K is I am most intrigued by the HDMI in and the various scanline filters but it's phenomenal overkill.
This thing is affordable and it does one thing (add scanlines to HDMI) actually two things (removing HDCP allowing me to capture it and use it in my videos) but it does it well.
I don't just use emulators, I also use clone consoles and fpga consoles. But one big mantras Is however someone wants to play games is fine as long as they enjoy it.
But it is an entirely a personal choice. I am clearly in the Pro CRT camp. I have five CRTs of various sizes and designs and I have retro video game systems hooked up to all of them. I also help admin a CRT Facebook group for people my part of America who are looking to find a CRT TV.
I also live in Portland, Oregon and it's ironic that you mention vinyl records because vinyl records is kicking ass in Portland, Oregon and the record stores are plentiful and are doing a great business. It's crazy as even for generations that did not grow up with vinyl. You haven't met people who are down with the joy of CRT TVs, Then you and I are hanging out and completely different parts of the internet.
It's funny because the CRT groups that I'm in have an incredible love of SCART, and they wish that they had big Phillips tubes or Sony tubes with native RGB SCART. You just don't find that in America.
But back to scanlines personally, I'm really glad to have the option to get them using this device and I am sort of surprised that more people don't know about them. It's not for everybody but by God it's for me. But I wear my anachronistic retro video game hipster status on my sleeve with pride