Somewhat related a friend of mine asked me if I had played any good snowboard games recently. Yes, SSX Tricky!
He dismissed it because it wasn’t a new release or for a current system. He couldn’t give me a real answer as to why he wouldn’t entertain a legitimate classic game.
The analogy I always use is only listening to me releases in music and refusing to listen to The Beatles, Prince, etc
I think we all have friends like that. They just stare off blankly when you discuss how amazing a game is that came out on any SD console or handheld.
He’s usually good and loves retro. He has said he wants the snow to be as realistic as possible. I get that.
Yeah, the rapid upgrade cycles today have really changed the narrative around what truly matters out of our hardware and it’s a real shame.
I really like how modular old hardware used to be - the DS and PSP might be the last systems ever like that. The game, battery, and your save files are all detached from the hardware itself, and the hardware itself was never made irrelevant via future upgrades since developers were only designing their games around a fixed hardware platform.
Edit: Was just reminded of this blog post: http://famicomblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/sony-ps2s-can-no-longer-be-repaired-by.html
Tongue-in-cheek but so true!
I picked up an AVS. Really loving it. I was holding out for Analogue’s rumored NT update, which apparently would be more in line with their SNES/Genny clones in terms of price. The NT noir was way too rich for my blood. I love the NES, but 500 was too much of asking price IMO. Looks beautiful, though.
However, Analogue stocking issues are now infamous, so after doing some research, the AVS seemed like a great option–4 score, Fami and NES support, 720P, and good reviews.
Nice being able to play my NES carts on my 4k TV with 720p being a perfect integer scale.
Any owners of the AVS?
I bought the stupidly expensive ($800 CAD all in) NT Mini, despite having a more than serviceable RGB modded AV Fami, but the AVS seems like a great get especially if you mainly want HDMI NES.
One thing is it’s made me appreciate the NES library a lot more so I hope you’re digging in more too.
I would always add to cart and cancel lol. The noir was very tempting too, but same thing happened there.
Their stock issues have been frustrating as well.
hey! so my NES has the RGB mod (not the old arcade board one) and goes through an adapter to make the signal component, with the RGB cable also having plugs for audio. said audio runs back from the adapter to a receiver, which currently has a loud buzzing drowning out much of the game’s audio.
nothing really changed in my setup; the CRT itself is closer but the system is on a kallax like shelf with some distance from it.
no other systems are having this trouble, and i swapped the av cable from the adapter to the receiver for a new one to rule that out, but no changes. should i then assume its the audio part of the RGB cable?
i don’t currently have another setup to try this on (maybe the HDTV though?), both new everdrive and old carts are having this trouble…don’t know how to explain it but it only happens when lighter colors are on the screen? like, title/gameplay of Contra you won’t hear it, title & game of SMB3 is really loud, if that helps
appreciate any help here, as always!!
What model? If original use the separate sound out on the side instead?
If top loader, try a regular Nintendo AV cable to check sound through that. They’re all the same single mono signal.
yeah original model, i’m using the ones on the side as it is, should i do something else then?
PS nothing quite as fancy as 7.1 mono 
Show pics? Can take a look.
I doubt the console itself has bad audio, more likely somewhere in the cabling.
I have the same setup with my NES, but I’m currently using the component for video instead of RGB.
Does audio run along side RGB in the same cable, or are you running separate audio plugs? What cable are you using, the one that Tim sells on his site that adapts to SCART?
the NES with RGB audio cables onna side
proximity to CRT
receiver the buzzing comes back out of
cabling is obviously ghost in the shell levels of a mess, lemme know what specifics you’d need to see here m’man
Wait… That cable on the side of the NES is your audio? There is only mono audio there unless you changed one of the RCA jacks. Do you have one audio channel plugged into the composite video out?
Red = Mono audio
Yellow = Composite video
…shit
right right okay, let’s try that haha
god i forget these things even sober
PROBLEM SOLVED GUISE 
Haha, I’m glad it wasn’t something serious.
me too! it’s this scary game of “oh man please let it be something other than the modded console”
“only happens when lighter colors are on the screen”
it was the damndest thing
