{"video_id":"5IyzPJ0jtpA","title":"My consoles have NEVER looked THIS GOOD! - Open Source Scan Converter","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":588,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":6.319,"text":"so here's the deal you've got a retro game collection","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.52,"end_s":11.12,"text":"you've got a super nintendo you've got a tower of power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.48,"end_s":13.44,"text":"but you've also got like an lcd tv and you've got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.0,"end_s":16.48,"text":"i don't know a capture device that only takes HDMI this is all you're going to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.04,"end_s":21.359,"text":"get out of these things by default at least in north america what do you do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.96,"end_s":24.8,"text":"you can get hd retrovision cables for like the super nintendo but then you 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oh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":575.76,"end_s":583.519,"text":"the stdusness the cartridge to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":580.959,"end_s":589.279,"text":"rom adapter that we reviewed a little while ago on LTT","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":585.2,"end_s":589.279,"text":"thanks for watching and subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so here's the deal you've got a retro game collection you've got a super nintendo you've got a tower of power but you've also got like an lcd tv and you've got i don't know a capture device that only takes HDMI this is all you're going to get out of these things by default at least in north america what do you do you can get hd retrovision cables for like the super nintendo but then you got to make sure that your tv is compatible with it because it only outputs 240p it's a mess and that is why this exists this is the ossc open source scan converter basically what it does is it takes component vga and this big chunker right here that many people in north america probably won't be familiar with called skirt it's a rather large connector that can carry composite video RGB which is kind of like vga but not really it's a little bit different basically it was like HDMI before digital signals were a thing or at least for video a lot of these older consoles actually had the ability to output RGB and what's the most convenient way to get it start it can carry it it's fine so we don't need to worry about any kind of ridiculous converters or anything these just exist in europe and also in japan as the jp 21 connector all you need to do is plug one end into the ossc and the other into your console here and as long as your console is either RGB modded or in the case of the super nintendo and the sega genesis uh it cannot put RGB on its own then you're fine you have a very clean signal coming out of your retro console now there are other options available for you if you just want to get your retro game up on a tv you've got these uh kind of inexpensive raz fox av to HDMI converters that just basically take your regular barrel plugs and spits out a digital signal the problem is they're using these barrel plugs and this is just composite video basically it's taking the entirety of the video signal so chroma luma that is the color information and the brightness information and just combining it what you get is a lot of interference compared to RGB which has the red green and blue and synchronization all on separate lines this is a vastly inferior connection standard at least as far as resolution goes i guess we can take a look at the actual unit itself a little bit more closely so we have again these component inputs and scart as well as vga there's the barrel jack for the power we've got an lcd on the front that is backlit you can turn the back light off and the options if it bugs you it's got two little buttons for control here on the kind of recessed in the inside here and it has a jtag port for programming you won't really need that because it also has a micro sd card slot through which you can actually load up a micro sd card with firmware and it'll just flash itself but if you ever pricked it for some reason then you have the jtag port aside from that we've got two audio inputs these are both three and a half millimeter these go with uh the component and for the vga whereas scart carries its own audio this is one of the standard remotes that comes with it it is a lot more complex than it needs to be just as a result of it being a universal tv remote it's just kind of a standard one i'm not sure if there's like a model or any distinctive markings or anything on it i don't think so but yeah this one has an overlay applied for the ossc and it tells you all the different functions that you're able to access through the remote directly so we have all the different controls for the first input ab1 which i believe is the skirt av2 i believe is the uh component and av3 would be vga i think that's about it for the remote there are more settings we can tweak when we have it up and running but well we'll have to get up and running for that let's get a baseline by using the raspbox avid HDMI converter this will give us basically the same kind of image quality that we can expect on a typical tv these days not quite what we would have gotten out of crt back then but nothing is quite a crt these days this does not look good i don't know how well this is coming through on the camera but there's all kinds of artifacts here um a lot of it might be just because this kind of cheaper raz fox box here i think might expect 480i versus what's currently being displayed which is 240p the problem with that is that 240p was never standardized it has all these weird graphical bugs and just in general you can see how the hard lines there kind of change color between like green and magenta and let's just play it for a minute and see how the latency is anyway it's not perfect but it's not terrible either if it's if there's any lag it's probably like one or two frames this feels a lot like just playing with an emulator where there's a little bit of lag uh there are options available now that allow you to run the emulator ahead of time which is kind of interesting it's like time traveling so you can actually get latency that's less than the original consoles but in this case this is the original console and i think all the latency is both in the box itself which might be a frame maybe and in the display so that's what super nintendo looks like let's uh let's flip it over to sega and see what that looks like that is super blurry like the text is barely readable here you can see 1994 sega it's like full of rainbow artifacts and all that kind of stuff i don't even have to explain what that is you can see it there's just colors where there shouldn't be colors oh man that's distracting that signpost there don't do this why not because it doesn't do anything you just the best way to do it let me show you feel that that's friction it'll take the dust off fun fact you don't need to press the eject button on this nest no you don't have to they just thought it would be fun but if this nest is on it won't come out retrotech tip now let's grab the ossc and see how that works now you may be wondering where we get these cables these aren't exactly commonplace in north america and they've been obsolete for a fair while now these came from retro game cables a company in the uk that actually builds these this is their universal snes pack-a-punch or actually universal nintendo works on n64 and gamecube as well and here we go this is a 4x3 picture and it looks ridiculously sharp so the first thing that's very obvious there's no ghosting whatsoever this actually looks more or less like an emulator now this is an analog signal still it's just analog can look good like vga used to be really good this is more or less the same thing as vga it's just you know not quite one of the big things about the ossc is that it's actually taking the input that it's receiving and looking at it line by line not frame by frame so there is less than one frame of lag and i can feel it it is smooth this game could be flaky i might need to clean it oh now that that happened let's try sega you can clearly make out the text i'm sure you can make it out from way back there there's no rainbow in this waterfall there's no rainbows anywhere which i mean nothing against rainbows but they're not supposed to be there that's the difference between having like a good analog signal and a bad one and RGB even though it's analog is still way better than well anything else other than if you can get pure digital out of the console which requires a mod there's a little bit of wonder in seeing something this old fire up and output an image this clean and for that matter there are people like speedrunners who actually need to be able to verify that their run works properly on an original console i would say that this is probably your best bet got 150 bucks it's not a huge investment and it definitely makes a huge difference this or the rad2x cables based on the retro tank from retro gaming cables this was a bit of a different video than usual as seems to be kind of a theme when i'm on camera but if you want to see something else similar to this maybe check out alex's imac teardown that he did and oh the stdusness the cartridge to rom adapter that we reviewed a little while ago on LTT thanks for watching and subscribe"}