| ▲ | zeta0134 a day ago |
| The amazing part is that my cartridges still work perfectly well in my original consoles, decades later. There's no server, no login, no account, no downloading, no ads, no microtransactions... I just turn the console on, grab the controller, and I'm in game in seconds. |
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| ▲ | chrismatheson 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I bought a Retro Gameboy for my kids this year specifically to avoid all that non-sense. Turns out that Mario & Tetris & bomber man etc are just as fun to a kid now as they were in the 80's |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How do you handle the NTSC video output? Or are your consoles new enough to output composite video or VGA? |
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| ▲ | zeta0134 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Personally I use a Retrotink 5X, which handles every old console I own (NES, SNES, N64, GameCube) in visually lossless quality to my eyes. The built-in composite upscaler on a lot of modern televisions handles 240p as though it is 480i, leading to bad flicker. The Retrotink and other similar products upscales the signal properly, producing quite clean visuals. | |
| ▲ | jdmoreira a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | framemeister, ossc and rgb mods | |
| ▲ | bitzun a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Do TVs not have composite input anymore? I haven’t bought a new one in forever. | | |
| ▲ | tazjin a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Composite - no. But an adapter costs less than a good beer in most countries on AliExpress (well, shipping excluded). | |
| ▲ | extraduder_ire a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Most of the ones I've seen do, but via an rca to 3.5mm dongle. The main issue is that the scaler built into most modern TVs does a worse job than even a cheap external one. |
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