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so here's the deal you've got a retro game collection

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you've got a super nintendo you've got a tower of power

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but you've also got like an lcd tv and you've got

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i don't know a capture device that only takes HDMI this is all you're going to

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get out of these things by default at least in north america what do you do

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you can get hd retrovision cables for like the super nintendo but then you got

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to make sure that your tv is compatible with it because it only outputs 240p

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it's a mess and that is why this exists this is the ossc

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open source scan converter basically what it does

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is it takes component

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vga and

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this big chunker right here that many people in north america probably won't

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be familiar with called skirt it's a rather large connector that can carry

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composite video RGB which is kind of like vga but not

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really it's a little bit different basically it was like HDMI before

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digital signals were a thing or at least for video

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a lot of these older consoles actually had the ability to output RGB

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and what's the most convenient way to get it start it can carry it it's fine

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so we don't need to worry about any kind of ridiculous converters or anything

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these just exist in europe and also in japan as the jp 21 connector

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all you need to do is plug one end

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into the ossc and the other

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into your console here and as long as

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your console is either RGB modded or in the case of the super nintendo and the

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sega genesis uh it cannot put RGB on its own then

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you're fine you have a very clean signal coming out of your

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retro console now there are other options available for you if you

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just want to get your retro game up on a tv

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you've got these uh kind of inexpensive

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raz fox av to HDMI converters that just

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basically take your regular barrel plugs and spits out a digital signal

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the problem is they're using these barrel plugs

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and this is just composite video basically it's taking

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the entirety of the video signal so chroma

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luma that is the color information and the brightness information

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and just combining it what you get is a

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lot of interference compared to RGB which has the red green

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and blue and synchronization all on separate lines this is a

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vastly inferior connection standard

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at least as far as resolution goes i guess we can take a look at the actual

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unit itself a little bit more closely so we have

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again these component inputs and scart as well as

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vga there's the barrel jack for the power we've got an lcd on the front that is

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backlit you can turn the back light off and the options if it bugs you

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it's got two little buttons for control here on the

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kind of recessed in the inside here and

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it has a jtag port for programming you won't really need that because it

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also has a micro sd card slot through which you

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can actually load up a micro sd card with firmware and it'll

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just flash itself but if you ever pricked it for some reason

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then you have the jtag port aside from that we've got two audio inputs

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these are both three and a half millimeter these

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go with uh the component

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and for the vga whereas scart carries

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its own audio this is one of the standard remotes that

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comes with it it is a lot more complex than it needs

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to be just as a result of it being a universal tv remote it's just kind of a standard

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one i'm not sure if there's like a model or any distinctive markings or anything on it i

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don't think so but yeah this one has an overlay applied for the ossc

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and it tells you all the different functions that you're able to access through the remote directly

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so we have all the different controls for the first input

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ab1 which i believe is the skirt

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av2 i believe is the uh

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component and av3 would be vga i think

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that's about it for the remote there are more settings we can tweak when we have it up and running but

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well we'll have to get up and running for that let's get a baseline by using

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the raspbox avid HDMI converter this will give us basically the same

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kind of image quality that we can expect on a

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typical tv these days not quite what we would have

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gotten out of crt back then but nothing is quite a crt these days this

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does not look good i don't know how well this is coming

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through on the camera but there's all kinds of artifacts here um a lot of it might be just because

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this kind of cheaper raz fox box here i think might expect

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480i versus what's currently being displayed which is 240p

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the problem with that is that 240p was never standardized

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it has all these weird graphical bugs and

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just in general you can see how the hard

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lines there kind of change color between like green and

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magenta and let's just play it for a minute and see how the

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latency is anyway it's not perfect but

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it's not terrible either if it's if there's any lag it's probably like one or two

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frames this feels a lot like just playing with an emulator where there's a little bit

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of lag uh there are options available now that

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allow you to run the emulator ahead of time which is kind of interesting it's

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like time traveling so you can actually get latency that's

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less than the original consoles but in this case this

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is the original console and i think all the latency is both in the box itself

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which might be a frame maybe and in the display

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so that's what super nintendo looks like let's uh

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let's flip it over to sega and see what that looks like that is

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super blurry like the text is barely

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readable here you can see 1994 sega it's like full of rainbow

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artifacts and all that kind of stuff i don't even have to explain what that

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is you can see it there's just colors where there shouldn't be colors

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oh man that's distracting that signpost there

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don't do this why not

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because it doesn't do anything you just the best way to do it

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let me show you

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feel that that's friction it'll take the dust off

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fun fact you don't need to press the eject button

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on this nest no you don't have to they

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just thought it would be fun but if this nest is on

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it won't come out

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retrotech tip now let's grab the ossc

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and see how that works now you may be wondering where we get these cables these aren't exactly

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commonplace in north america and they've been obsolete for a fair while now

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these came from retro game cables a company in the uk that actually builds

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these this is their universal snes pack-a-punch or actually

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universal nintendo works on n64 and gamecube as well and here we go this is a 4x3 picture and

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it looks ridiculously sharp

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so the first thing that's very obvious there's no ghosting whatsoever this

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actually looks more or less like an emulator now this is an analog

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signal still it's just analog can look good like vga

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used to be really good this is more or less the same thing as vga

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it's just you know not quite one of the

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big things about the ossc is that it's actually taking the input that it's

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receiving and looking at it line by line not frame

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by frame so there is less than one frame of lag and i can feel it it is

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smooth this game could be flaky

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i might need to clean it

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oh

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now that that happened let's

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try sega you can clearly make out the text

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i'm sure you can make it out from way back there

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there's no rainbow in this waterfall

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there's no rainbows anywhere which i mean

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nothing against rainbows but they're not supposed to be there that's

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the difference between having like a good analog signal and a bad one

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and RGB even though it's analog is

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still way better than well anything else

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other than if you can get pure digital out of the console which requires a mod

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there's a little bit of wonder in seeing something this

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old fire up and output an image this clean and

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for that matter there are people like speedrunners who actually need to be

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able to verify that their run works properly on an original console i would say that this

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is probably your best bet got 150 bucks it's not a huge investment

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and it definitely makes a huge difference this or the

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rad2x cables based on the retro tank from retro gaming cables

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this was a bit of a different video than usual as seems to be

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kind of a theme when i'm on camera but if you want to see something else

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similar to this maybe check out alex's imac

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teardown that he did and oh

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the stdusness the cartridge to

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rom adapter that we reviewed a little while ago on LTT

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thanks for watching and subscribe