Just been made aware of the gscart_sw SCART switches! Look great but pricey. £400 a touch. They are hand made though. It takes 8 in and has 2 out (one for streaming I imagine).
My Thor switch which is connected to my main CRT has 5 in and 1 out (+1 s-video and 1 composite though I've never got the s-video to work) and it's great but I do have to do a bit of swapping from time to time. At that price I'll suffer it though. (I can also get by when using one SCART lead with >1 console - with my Nintendos for example)
One of these + an OSSC would be the optimal way of hooking up to an new screen with a multi-console set-up then.
They are beautiful but yeah £400 is a bit steep. My Otaku Switch is holding up well and also takes component too which is nice (6&6).
Something I learnt the other day is that a component cable is nothing special, you can use a composite cable to replace it and it will still transfer the component information!
Took delivery of a copy of Vampire Saviour this week for the Saturn. It's a 4MB versus fighter game from slap-meisters Capcom. Seemed to be glitchy using the AR cart so I used the official 4MB cart and it worked great. I probably need to clean the edge connector of the AR which I've never used since getting JP consoles.
Gorgeous looking game and wonderful character designs. Is accessible because if uses SF moves. Jumps off the CRT in all its pixelly glory
I already have the US version of the earlier game in the series. It's lovely too but isn't 4MB and is redundant now that I have this. If it was the JP version I'd keep it but I'll probably sell it so I don't have to fanny about with the AR to play it. If anyone fancies it PM me. It's complete with manual in the big old US box.
Some guy over at atariage is taking some of the 2600 games that have large numbers of variations and coding in a menu system meaning you don't have to refer to the manual.
Nice job. Has done Video Olympics (50 variations) and Space Invaders (112). I've suggested he tackle Asteroids next with its 66 variations.
He has done a really nice job with Super Breakout which has a small number of modes but is just a lovely bit of icing on the cake as it's one of my most favourite games ever.
The first was a bit of a risk from Aliexpress was a hdmi converter for the Gamecube for $40 using the opensource firmware that the GDHD uses and it's not quite paid off. It works at 480i fine but line doubling at 480p changes all the blues for reds so it's going back.
The second is a new cable from a collaboration with retrotink x2 and retro cables which line doubles and outputs over HDMI with or without smoothing. They've got one for the Mega Drive one for SNES/GC&N64 and one for PSX and PS2 all for around £40 which I think is pretty decent.
Also interested in the OSSC. I'm of a mind to just get one even though I am CRT at the minute. Will be interesting to experiment with though my 50" Sony is wall mounted and a ball ache to work with. I should have put HDMI extenders into all the inputs when it was being mounted. All the cables run down embedded ducting in the wall for a clean appearance and it's getting a bit crowded in there! The Wii component cable is a bulky thing.
Yep but not specifically the cable but heard the dongle (mclassic) apparently works wonders for early 3d smoothing and processing. I'm on a Facebook group for the ossc and frameister (good for ossc settings) and someone was raving about it. Think there are a few videos on youtube. It apparently does very little to 2d sprite based games though and not heard about delay.
I might start a thread on this but it will probably drop like a stone so here is better.
Watched a documentary on Prime called The Lost Arcade which is about the last "proper" one in New York. Called Chinatown Fair, it was a sleepy place in Chinatown during the peak of the arcade era when Times Square had all the action but it was a hotbed of arcade goodness after that - owned by an elderly Pakistani immigrant and was a hub for the versus fighting game community. It also became a place of work for some homeless people and was more than just an arcade.
It's a nice watch.
I could wax lyrical about the peak of the arcade era as I was just the right age - I was 14 in 1980 - when genres were still being invented.
Will post more later but still might start a thread.