There's absolutely no reason to buy an external scaler for your retro gaming - your TV already has a scaler, that's why the screen is stretched out. Unless your TV has a crappy hardware scaler, you don't need an additional one - don't waste money on something you probably don't need. A lot of people invest in a crappy TV just to buy an expensive scaler later on when the price of both combined could probably just get them a good TV.
The NES can be connected in two ways - using the RF modulator (useful back in the day when RCA was not commonplace, these days a terrible solution as the picture quality is really dodgy) or RCA cables (available on the other side and far superior, as the sound signal is not mixed in with video signal and they're not processed by the RF modulator), but keep in mind that the NES does not output Stereo sound, so you'll need to use one RCA splitter to get sound from both speakers.
You could fool around with soldering direct connections to the on-board video encoder to squeeze out a little extra juice out of the system, but you need to know what you're doing. Start off by just testing the system as-is and if the picture quality will leave a lot to be desired, think about further modifications.
There's absolutely no reason to buy an external scaler for your retro gaming - your TV already has a scaler, that's why the screen is stretched out. Unless your TV has a crappy hardware scaler, you don't need an additional one - don't waste money on something you probably don't need.
The NES can be connected in two ways - using the RF modulator (useful back in the day when RCA was not commonplace, these days a terrible solution as the picture quality is really dodgy) or RCA cables (available on the other side and far superior, as the sound signal is not mixed in with video signal and they're not processed by the RF modulator), but keep in mind that the NES does not output Stereo sound, so you'll need to use one RCA splitter to get sound from both speakers.
You could fool around with soldering direct connections to the on-board video encoder to squeeze out a little extra juice out of the system, but you need to know what you're doing. Start off by just testing the system as-is and if the picture quality will leave a lot to be desired, think about further modifications.
Except most internal scalers suck or they aren't being utilized correctly. The scaler in my Sony Bravia XBR is absolutly horrid and it's a top of the line TV. The best scaler out there is still the XRGB Framemeister.
Except most internal scalers suck or they aren't being utilized correctly. The scaler in my Sony Bravia XBR is absolutly horrid and it's a top of the line TV. The best scaler out there is still the XRGB Framemeister.
Alright then, pay $375 (Amazon price) for an expensive scaler and scale up passable composite signal. Meanwhile you could use that money to modify the NES to output pure RGB or S-Video signal that's going to look quadrillion times better and you'd probably save $200, if not loads more, depending on how you go about modifying the system.
Alright then, pay $375 (Amazon price) for an expensive scaler and scale up passable composite signal. Meanwhile you could use that money to modify the NES to output pure RGB signal that's going to look quadrillion times better and you'd probably save $200.
Alright then, pay $375 (Amazon price) for an expensive scaler and scale up passable composite signal. Meanwhile you could use that money to modify the NES to output pure RGB or S-Video signal that's going to look quadrillion times better and you'd probably save $200.
Techically speaking, an expensive, high-quality TV coupled with an expensive, high-quality external scaler and using an expensive NES PPU modification for RGB output would be ideal, but we're talking about ridiculous expenses here. Most everyday users really don't need this kind of picture clarity, nobody's going to play their NES games with a microscope against the screen.
Modifying the SNES to output RGB is childs play, getting S-Video output out of it is a matter of buying a different cable. You can get even better results by replacing some on-board chips, but I digress. HDMI mods are usually just doing that plus adding a small scaler to the innards.
I just bought a DVD scaler that had the drive busted for cheap and it does the job fine. It takes component, S-video and composite and outputs component/composite. It does all the necessary interlacing things to remove artifacts and then the TV does the scaling fine.
Hey,
I'm thinking about buying a NES along with a Everdrive N8 but is it even possible to use the system on a modern LCD TV? Which cables do I need and does it look okay?
Also does anybody here have any experiences with the Everdrive N8? Do Gamegenie codes work well?
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