direct-capture footage of Arcadia Gundam/Macross games

[ubersaurus]

I've been working on a video capture setup for a project that involves getting footage of Atari 2600 games, but as a side project I also have the idea of getting direct-feed video capture of pre-NES game consoles in operation to help make an "archive" of sorts for people down the road, when these systems are going to be nearly impossible to find in working order. While a friend was visiting over the past weekend, we did some video capture for his own website of the Arcadia Gundam and Macross games - he discovered that there aren't any direct-capture videos of either game on Youtube, and none period of Macross that he could find. Figured folks may like to take a look in case they've never seen these games in action!

 

Video was pulled from a Canadian Leisurevision running the multicart from a few years ago. RF cable running into a demodulator, that composite signal running to an amplifier/splitter and that going into a CRT and an Elgato Game Capture HD. I'm not satisfied that youtube can't do 60 fps off of a 240p video, but I've got a framemeister on the way so I may do a second take using that as a 720p signal upscaler. Incidentally, if you want to read about either game, my friend has posted about them at his site onemillionpower.com: http://www.onemillionpower.com/choujikuu-yousai-macross-arcadia/and http://www.onemillionpower.com/kidou-senshi-gundam-arcadia/

 

 

https://youtu.be/uDcYMhzK24Q