Why do people have issues with others not being fans of the SNES?

[Team Andromeda]

It makes real hardware video output look like emulation. Some people think it's super cool.

The typical and usual response from people who's never used Frame

[Team Andromeda]

I just plug the SCART straight into my HDTV, what does the Framemeister thing do thats so special as to me having to drop £200 on one?

Genuine question, no shade.

. Playing old consoles on modern TV they look pretty crap . Frame allows you to scale the image (instea of using the TV to do it with rubbish results) and also allows you to have scanlines for the CRT look that retro users love . Its even great for consoels like the 360 too . Where you can upscale Cave shooters and the like to 720p

[Barone]

The typical and usual response from people who's never used Frame

Hahahahah
I knew you'd bite it since you're so anal with those screenshots.

[Black_Tiger]

I only use my framemeister to capture classic console footage at 60fps in HD.

I actually play games on a 32" crt.

[Gogogadget]

. Playing old consoles on modern TV they look pretty crap . Frame allows you to scale the image (instea of using the TV to do it with rubbish results) and also allows you to have scanlines for the CRT look that retro users love . Its even great for consoels like the 360 too . Where you can upscale Cave shooters and the like to 720p

Well, I hate scanlines. Looks so artificial and stupid to me.

Then again, with anything above 16-bit I seriously don't see the need to spend 100s of dollars to make games that already look pretty poor look that little bit better.

[Thief]

Well, I hate scanlines. Looks so artificial and stupid to me.

Scanlines help fill the low-res void and in turn make these old 2D games look less pixelated.

Also anyone who played arcade games back in the day should have good nostalgic memories of scanlines, since you were always right up against the screen playing Arcades.

[cleeg]

I do like my XRGB Mini, but it's not without its slightly annoying quirks. The main reason I wanted one was for future proofing (as far as one can) and being able to shift the picture about.

Interestingly, I have been trying out a SNES emulator on the PS3; it works a treat (runs StarFox 2 really
well). Also, it scales the graphics to 1080p with nice scanlines.

[Flygon]

What would peoples thoughts on the OSSC be?

[cleeg]

My thoughts are that it's very nice. I use it for my PS1 and Saturn as they switch res a lot. It even likes the split screen in Sonic 2.

[gamevet]

What would peoples thoughts on the OSSC be?

I've been looking at this as a nice alternative to the XRGB. I don't know enough about it though, other than these overview reviews that don't go into great detail about all of the input options.

[gamevet]

https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/ sells an adaptor to use scart cables with the framemeister, as well as an English overlay for the remote. scart is not PAL and RGC also sells custom scart cables for every console and misc you'd ever want to use and you can choose composite sync, which is required for most, but a few consoles/mods won't work with it. So you can get everything you'll ever need from one place.

There is a difference between PAL scart and JP21 (scart). I've seen people warn Saturn owners against using the PAL scart with the XRGB, because it blew out the video on the console.

https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/...rt-versus-jp21

Yeah, here's the cable that must be purchased for your Framemeister to work with the EuroScart.

https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/...m1881-for-sale

[zetastrike]

Why was it decided back in the 70s or 80s that we can't have RGB in NA? That's the one thing that gamers in PAL regions can point and laugh at us over. I can live without it, but man some screenshots I see look great.

[Gogogadget]

Scanlines help fill the low-res void and in turn make these old 2D games look less pixelated.

Also anyone who played arcade games back in the day should have good nostalgic memories of scanlines, since you were always right up against the screen playing Arcades.

Old 2D games will forever look blocky and pixelated because they are that, old.

I don't really play old Genesis games because of their insanely good graphics or music, more because they are incredible games. They look a bit ropey on my modern TV of course but thats just what it is. Still can't stand fake scaliness on emulators because LCDs don't have scanlines.

[Flygon]

Why was it decided back in the 70s or 80s that we can't have RGB in NA? That's the one thing that gamers in PAL regions can point and laugh at us over. I can live without it, but man some screenshots I see look great.

Money. It's all about the money, man.

About the only reason Europe got universal SCART was due to the European Union requiring it. Notice the conspicuous lack of SCART in Australia, despite being a PAL region.

[TmEE]

I read that USA never got RGB as it allowed near lossless copying. It didn't seem to be an issue over here though. EU didn't mandate SCART, only French did, and it doesn't really add any cost, in fact if composhit was dropped you'd save lot of cost due to not needing a whole bunch of components.