Improving Retro Consoles on Modern TVs: What are some options? RetroTINK, RAD2X, and CARBY Overviews
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Love Retro Gaming? Have a modern day Tv and wonder how you can combine the two? In this video, I'll be going over some of the options that allow you not just to connect your Retro Consoles to a TV with HDMI, but improve their picture quality as well. I'll be showing the RetroTINK 2X Pro, RetroTINK 5X Pro, and also the RAD2X and CARBY HDMI Adapters. Hope you find this helpful!
Forgot to call it out, but this video uses my 1-Chip SNES for the SNES footage.
Chapters:
Intro 00:12
AV2HDMI 02:16
Seeing What is Possible 04:29
2X Pro 05:58
Stepping Up The Cables 09:35
5X Pro 10:15
Comparisons 16:23
RAD2X 25:56
CARBY 28:17
5X Pro Deinterlacing 29:42
Wrapping Up 30:08
The End! 32:30
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*Important Call-Out: RUclips's compression does takeaway a lot of detail that is seen in person that devices like RetroTINK, RAD2X, CARBY, and more output. Bear that in mind with any content containing capture footage from those devices. My commentary and opinions come from the Raw Capture Files and what it looks like on my TV, I can't accurately account for what details are lost to compression until after the video is uploaded.
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I managed to find a 2X Pro-M at a local thrift shop (the 2X Pro-M was a limited release and no longer available). They knew what it was because they priced it at $85. Obviously shoppers just saw it as a basic overpriced HDMI convertor because it sat there for a few weeks. It was marked half-off so I bought it for ~$45. Not bad for an original NES. The 2X Pro-M does have 480p passthrough so Wii and PS2 won't glitch out but because it is a passthrough and therefore adds nothing to the 480p image, the 2X Pro-M becomes nothing more than a HDMI adapter which there are already good HDMI options for a lot less like Electron Sheperd's ElectronWarp Wii. I haven't tested the 2X Pro-M with my PS1, mostly because I don't play my PS1. It does work well for the NES but at the same time, my Analogue Pocket w/ CRT Trinitron filter looks awesome for NES and any other retro system, mostly SNES, NES, SMS, Genesis (no CD or 32X) PCE/TG16 and PCE/TG16 CD and many others.
@@GiSWiG For 45$ you got a great great deal, the only eBay listing I saw for it was $500 lol, it retailed for $129, so you still got a great saving in that respect, which is rare in this industry. Check out the firmware updates for it, the community has done a lot with it, I think they added 720p output among other things.
I would talk about it more if it wasn’t discontinued. It’s everything the 2X Pro is, but with 480p Passthrough, and though it lacks the smooth filter, it boasts an improved composite video performance vs the 2X Pro. Quoting the Store Page:
“One use case where the 2X-M shines over the current 2X-Pro for 240p sources is the handling of composite video.
In the Super Mario NES title card, the 2X-M's output is noticeably cleaner with less dot artifacts and no ghosting around sharp vertical lines. If your setup exclusively focuses on composite video, the 2X-M will generally produce better results. Due to composite artifacts, the difference between nearest neighbor and bilinear filtering is much less visible.
Our testing has also shown that the 2X-M's composite decoder is more robust and and may handle poorly behaved sources such as the Sega Genesis and earlier PSOne models, where the 2X-Pro fails to produce a correct image.”
Overall, great grab for the price, hope you enjoy it!
Another great example of what's out there., and what one should do. I wonder how many still connect their consoles via UHF? As I get older (57) and the modern consoles/games have less and less appeal, I do feel my next purchase will not be a PS6 or whatever Microsoft call the next Xbox, but a retrotink 5x. Thankyou
@@djm9937 You won’t get the XboXxBoxX DX? Maaaan, missing out. I want to say I read about some people using coax and RF adapters on Reddit sometime recently. Glad this was helpful too, the 5X Pro has become a helluva device over the years. When it comes to modern stuff, I’ve mostly fallen out of the new consoles, the last new console I got was a switch, never got a PS5 or Next Box, what little modern gaming I do is on PC.
hey retro boost, i can tell that you probably prefer digital scaling and sharp pixels, but i would suggest getting a 20 inch consumer crt just for reference (just a suggestion) , one digital and one analog split , you'l probably enjoy gaming more (maybe). i know this hobby can be addicting and expensive.
@@spapa9292 So thanks to my Extron switches, I can do exactly that. Run one of the outputs to something like a CRT, but I’ve got one big issue: no where to put the crt lol. Even a small one. I’ve been on the lookout though, checking my local thrift joints here and there and so on.
@@RetroBoost yeah getting a 20 inch to smaller size crt are getting harder to find, in my area there's alot of 27 inch dirt cheap but people are not picking it up because the size.
Would you rate the OSSC to the retrotink 2x ?
I don’t have one personally, so I can’t really weigh in. Spec-wise it comes across as something in between the 2X Pro and 5X Pro, lacking only the 5X’s level of customization (unless that’s changed via firmware updates for OSSC?).