What Is Classic Gaming's Greatest Need?

[derFunkenstein]

The Retrotink 2x seems like a really good compromise. Composite and S-Video along with Component gives a good selection of inputs (and thanks to HD Retrovision, component video is everywhere), and simple line doubling makes it simple. It won't be the highest-quality like the OSSC, but it's lag free and it's not trying to deinterlace 240p signals. For $100 that's pretty great. Even with S-Video, all the YouTube vids I've seen have been excellent. An SNES with S-video on one of those things should be the color space you remember and sharpness you can enjoy.

 

The OSSC needs a 2.0 version that outputs at UHD resolutions and does 9x pixel scaling. 2160 is a perfect fit for 240x9. The very large number of pixels means you can have any integer of scaling you want for (near) perfect aspect ratios. 9x9 for 320px-wide consoles or 11x9 for 256px-wide consoles. Unfortunately it needs to be 11.25x9 to get it exact. I think it's just lines of color being stretched so it doesn't need to be exact anyway.

Edited November 11, 2018 by derFunkenstein

[Great Hierophant]

Quality FPGA solutions that work at 1080p and accept original cartridges, controllers and accessories

 

High quality newly-made wired controllers for classic consoles

 

A audio/video capture device that can accept fractional refresh rates up from 50-70Hz vertical and 15-31KHz horizontal without freaking out, analog RGB (separate sync, composite sync, luma as sync, composite as sync, sync on green), digital RGB, component video, s-video and composite video.

 

More Optical Drive Emulators (PC CD-ROM, Sega CD)

[DJ Clae]

An easy way to recap our failing old consoles and arcade boards without being a soldering master with 5 hours and a box of spare parts laying around.

[Flojomojo]

I gotta have more cowbell.

[godslabrat]

We need a way to take $5 Android apps, slap them into $60 cartridges, and play them on a bastardized Jaguar.

[thetick1]

I gotta have more cowbell.

 

That was a great skit!

 

Edited November 13, 2018 by thetick1

[xenomorpher]

I'd like to see more independent Dreamcast games that aren't SHMUPs or puzzle games. Ports of older PC games are admirable, but I wish they'd put that effort towards something more unique. Xeno Crisis looks cool though and I'm still waiting for SLaVE, which I pre-ordered like three years ago. I wish I could find a guide for dummies like me that have never programmed a game before so I can make something myself for the lovely system.