Output Devices

welcome home.

also, i went to Mikado and their deluxe Outrun cab has an LCD swap

Better running with an LCD than not running at all.

I was really impressed with CRT switchres except for the part where retroarch is a flaming pile of shit and the combination of it and Windows couldn’t figure out that, no, I fucking said display 2, why are you turning my main display into a tiny 320x240 window floating in a vast sea of black and then also the PSX Beetle core accurately changing resolution every so often except oh no, that would break my main display every time it happens

I like retroarch, it is a good program

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Yeah, in my experience the multi display config in retroarch just doesn’t work there’s no secret trick; gotta manually set the monitor you want it on to primary (currently I have CRT output as display 2 of 3, and use Win+P to switch). I also had similar issues with specifying a particular audio output, but once I switched to dsound from xaudio it worked.

I don’t have interlaced modes correctly setup, and my monitor takes forever and violently clicks and pops when syncing to different resolutions so the psx intro is always eventful.

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I literally only set 320x240 as a custom res so it just murders the holy hell out of anything that’s supposed to be proper 480i but this is a small price to pay because I’m not playing much of anything at that res (though I should probably configure 640x480 for DC/Naomi stuff at some point)

also my monitor would have visual artifacting on one line if I stretched out the vertical size too much, which then fixed itself when I killed all shaders but then pops back up if I try to enable a core-specific shader (mostly talking about Blargg’s NTSC filter in GX Plus and now let me take a moment to complain that the composite filter looks way, way worse than my dinky 8" PVM, which is composite only)

I’m excited to one day have money and build a machine whose job is to just boot into Linux and run RA hooked up to a CRT and it works and I don’t have to give a shit about anything else and also all the guts are inside a Dreamcast so it looks cool and all the people give me upvotes

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I got a Onkyo Integra TA-2058 tape deck a few months ago. Here it is playing back a tape I made last year on my previous deck, a Nakamichi CR-2A, audio cable straight into the camera.



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neat
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u/Elektrotechnik’s baby rig

Sony PSP Go with N340 charging cradle, official Component Out Cable, PSP 1000 charger and Dualshock 3.

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Fascinating content, thank you @Victor

Techmoan’s got some footage of the MSX+VHD port of Data East’s FMV arcade game Thunder Storm, from a Japanese VHD promo disc.

Also, from further reading, an interesting tidbit about Road Blaster and Thunder Storm:

Proving how iconic this title has become among LD games, however, is the fact that this game also saw a PC port in 2009 by Jitensha Sougyou for not only Windows but also (amazingly enough) the Sharp X68000, specifically the X68030 from 1993. I should also point out that Jitensha Sougyou also ported Thunder Storm to these PCs as well in 2010, as I didn’t realize that back in Part 1; these may be the last games released for Sharp’s iconic gaming PC, in fact.

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One third of every techmoan video is him talking in too much detail about his ebay troubles.

The second third is going on about how he doesn’t want to lose any revenue on his videos because of licensed music.

And the last part is the shitty puppet bit.

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I’m coming for the puppet man

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cool

MoFi would sell you Beta/VHS tapes with PCM encoded albums in the early 80s. A forum post suggests maybe their release of Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly might be the first widely available digital format release of a fully digitally recorded album?


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digital video cassette is absolutely the way donald fagen’s “the nightfly” was meant to be heard

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oh my

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Does anyone have any cool project ideas for these handheld tvs now? They’re constantly popping up for like $2 at thrift stores.

my actual early portable-lcd opinion is that the screens are atrocious in an uninteresting way

but like the cases look cool all devices should be game boys

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I’m not sure what the deal was regarding refresh rate or whatever else but I love the end result with those ghostly black and white screens. Old camcorder eyepieces have that same effect too.

i changed my mind you are right