I never went for the OSSC. For me there was too much faffing about so I stood with the Framemeister but now the RetroTINK 5x Pro is available, it’s a no brainer.
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Battle Master Kyuukyoku no Senshitachi on Super Famicom. Favorite fighting game on this system.
Setup:
- Nintendo Super Famicom JR RGB Modded (inner SRGB Amp),
- Grundig GR2150 CRT TV with Scart RGB in (native), 15khz.
- Xiaomi Note5Pro smartphone.
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I’ve got that game. Pretty cool for a none big boy Fighter.
Joined the D-Series gang today. AV-32D203. Only had a cursory glance at it but the picture is great. There’s some weird warping on the right hand side, I’m not sure if that can be fixed in the service menu or something, but I noticed it only appears periodically, usually in bright/light colours. Quick shot, I’ll take more when I figure out how to get the shutter speed right on my app and get a stand.
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Looking good. Is this a scanline filter?
Yes, it’s one of the presets on the Retrotink 5x that I’ve slightly customed.
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Breakers and Karnov’s Revenge/FHD are the best street fighter clones from that era.
The controls are sharp yet forgiving and neither tries to do too much. Great games, I wish more people played them.
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While I could play the Rare replay version, there’s something about the way the N64 renders polygons that I adore.
Via RGB on a PVM 20L2
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I wanted to share this with you.
So, owning a CRT is great but sadly that isn’t possible for us all and in my case I wouldn’t want any CRT smaller than 28 inches but sadly I don’t have the room.
This is where the Retrotink x5 comes in. Check out how two base filters make an ugly blocky mess of a PSX game on a 55 inch 4K screen look.
No filter - man, that’s ugly.
Grille 1 preset
Consumer TV preset
Of course there are many other options and all can be tailored to suit your preferences.
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I recently got a CRT after using an OSSC for about a year and I was very surprised when I realized these new scalers are already about 90% of the way there with the scanlines. The only thing left is for the motion clarity of the displays themselves to catch up to CRT’s really. 240p on the RT5X/OSSC is handled superbly.
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I love all the scanline options the Retrotink 5X seems to have. I think the last one (Consumer TV Preset) looks best to my eyes.
I’ve only recently become a scanline convert. When we moved away from CRTs to flatscreens and HD display in the early 2000s, I was always excited to get as sharp a display as I could. But after seeing so many comparison shots, it’s obvious that artists didn’t intend most of the games to be seen that way, and actually do not look best that way. I played through Xenogears on my XStation last summer with scanlines, and it was fantastic.
What I really find interesting is when scanlines are added to newer games, like Huntdown and Cyber-Shadow. I was playing Cyber-Shadow with scanlines, and I think it looked so much better than without.
Great comparison I just found today:
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Really enjoying my new D-Series. Interlaced video and games are just jaw dropping (seriously, anime on this needs to be seen to be believed). 240p ain’t half bad either. Some shots I took here and there:
Composite is pretty clean. Very minimal dot crawl, no rainbowing (and video is pristine)
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Standard def cartoons are the things that improve the most from watching on a period accurate screen for me. They really never look right anywhere else. Even the PVM 20L5 doesn’t do them as much justice as an older set from the 90s due to the sharpness.
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It gives them so much life it’s crazy. I can’t go back now.
Older shows look great too. Star Trek: TNG on Netflix looks superb on the CRT but washed out on my 4K TV.
Yea, upscaling can do that. Not sure why. It makes things dull somehow.
