Not the asked person, and I'm a known bad opinion haver. BUT... the beginning rules as a place to start. Ys books 1 & 2 are short and incredibly good, and everybody should experience the joys of bump combat at least once. Outstanding music, just fun, simple, relaxing, and quick games.
Please put Castlevania back in the grave. I liked it better when it was dead and never coming back.
Friends just reminded me of this masterpiece I made a while ago
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
Burglar of the Year goes to....
Merry Christmas, and a happy Xenoblade 2 day.
I should mention that when the resolution would change and the image would hyper-stretch, OBS drops signal. The passthrough video feed throughout the entire ordeal was functioning. Most of the issues are OBS compatibility. The main issue that wasn't OBS related was Dynamic Resolution stuff.
I'm not super informed about the fancy details, but I assume this what Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing is for. I imagine this device is fine for like 7th gen systems hooked directly up to a TV, but for PS2 through a capture card I cannot recommend it. I'd rather just use the ABLEWE and Composite.
This is where I believe what I hear about certain Retrotink products comes into play. I tried 3 games and two of them were fine. I assume they ran at a consistent resolution. The 3rd however would change resolution between Menus, FMVs, and gameplay. The lower res stuff would go super wide stretched.
Eventually OBS would just instantly crash on startup. I restarted my PC hoping to fix that, which led to me finally getting a signal through OBS for the first time, which also meant audio. Picture was clean, lag was low. Seemed like things were looking up. Then I decided to switch games.
As I fiddled with OBS it for some reason would affect my passthrough feed which doesn't happen with direct HDMI consoles. Resetting or powering off the PS2 would cause OBS to crash but still run in the background so when I open it back up to try again it'd make a duplicate which caused future woes.
I was testing specifically with PS2 running through an Elgato HD60 Pro and using OBS. From simply plugging all the things in, I had video feed on my passthrough. Seemed normal. But OBS did not agree, and I needed OBS's compliance if I wanted audio output.
Stock image of a Newcare brand Component to HDMI signal converter.
I've gotten around to messing with the Newcare here, and I am once again surprised in testing these things. My experience so far with this device has been a nightmare. The troubles it gave me don't make any logical sense. It sort of worked right away, but once again my setup was an obstacle.
Overall, you get what you pay for, and for $7 I expected a much much worse experience. The gripes listed above are minor to me. Something like a Retrotink 5X would no doubt be leagues better, but what I got was a totally playable experience that felt better than playing the Anniversary Collection.
The most glaring issue I had was that I wasn't getting audio from the red composite input, only the white audio cable worked. I haven't tested enough to know if this is the ABLEWE's fault, or if my cable is just bad. It would fix temporarily though when I flipped the resolution switch on the device.
The image quality itself is tolerable, but noticeably bad. This thing isn't an upscaler, despite it saying so on the device. I knew this going in. The image of a SNES game blown to 1080p or whatever does onto my 1440p display results in a less than stellar image, especially in motion.
I've only had to time to test the ABLEWE so far, but to be honest I'm pretty satisfied for what $7 can do. I played through Contra 3 and didn't feel any lag. The image however wasn't streched to full 16:9 but it did feel like it was stretched a little with no clear way to fix that. Very serviceable.
An image of the ABLEWE Mini Composite to HDMI converter mentioned in the main post.
The premium stuff is super expensive, so I decided to gamble on the not so well-regarded stuff on Amazon for signal conversion. Went with ABLEWE for composite, and Newcare for Component. I've heard alright things about Newcare, but absolutely avoid nearly anything else. Further thoughts in thread.
A picture of my Xbox 360 copy of Resonance of Fate from the renowned RPG developer Tri-Ace of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time fame to celebrate another wonderful Resonance of Fate November. Happy RoFNov everybody.
#RoFNov
Confession: I can't draw the cool S.
I went through the Ninja Gaiden situation when Master Collection was released. I sought out 360 Ninja Gaiden 2, and ended up buying Master Collection anyways and enjoying that more. Notably, I don't have a One X or Series X, which would improve them greatly. Sigma 2 Black was my fave NG2 experience.
#1 Mega Man X #2 Mega Man X2. #3 A Link to the Past #4 Contra 3 #5 Final Fantasy 5 #6 Final Fantasy 4 #7 Donkey Kong Country #8 Donkey Kong Country 2 #9 Super Metroid #10 Donkey Kong Country 3 #11 Mega Man X3 #12 Final Fantasy 6 #13 Super Mario World #14 Star Fox #15 Super Mario RPG #16 Tetris Attack #17 Kirby Super Star #18 Batman Forever #19 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior #20 Turtles in Time #21 Demon's Crest #22 Kirby's Dreamland 3 #23 Final Fight 2 #24 Killer Instinct #25 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Could've swore this was one of the first lists I did. SNES 25 faves loosely ordered. I probably stalled as I was waiting to get around to Chrono Trigger and never did.
There have been some neat Assassin's Creed games over the years, but I definitely stopped caring about them in any kind of deeper way as soon as they wrote Desmond Miles out of the franchise. They were onto something and then they just sorta tossed it all in the trash.
I like lives in video games. I like the tension of potentially losing progress if you fuck up. I like getting a game over and saying, “ah, well, I’ll give it another go tomorrow.” and then succeeding where I previously failed, feeling like my skill grew.
I'm not sure how long I'll keep this up, but I had an itch to start writing my own crossword minis. Now that the NYT locked their mini behind a paywall, come play mine instead: www.go1den.com/crosswords/
Super Metroid, except the screen is half as wide and twice as tall. Stretched to fit the entire screen, making everything slimmer and taller than intended.
Weak and pathetic. Wide Stretch is a thing of the past. Don't they have phones? Vertical is the future. (fake opinion)
Renting these was always fun because of the box art confusion.
Ken is a nice lawyer.
Look out gamers! Shark to Glory - The mega thrilling subaquatic shooter minigame added in the latest patch to free-to-play Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising just might be this year's GotY.
LMAO are you fucking serious, Twitch? 14 years of highlights, and I'm expected to somehow get this under 100h? I am almost 60x that limit.
