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re: Got my NES RGB modded and it is incredible

Posted on 10/1/19 at 7:29 am to
Posted by efrad
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 10/1/19 at 7:29 am to
Looks great! Now will you go down the hole of modding everything with RGB?

Around ~2012 I went into this deep rabbit hole of modding the hell out of every console I had. I bought 2 studio RGB monitors (a 13" Sony BVM and a 20" Ikegami RGB monitor), tons of BNC and SCART cables for every console, a Framemeister, etc., modded everything for RGB + SPDIF audio, bought EverDrives for every console, etc.

A hell of a lot of money spent but it's worth it!
Posted by Contra
Member since Oct 2016
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Posted on 10/1/19 at 9:39 am to
Yeah, this definitely ain't a cheap hobby, lol. But it's very worth it to me.

I haven't gotten everdrives and probably won't. I enjoy going out to game shops, pawn shops, flea markets, yards sales, etc, looking for the actual physical carts. It's all part of the fun factor for me.

I have actually thought about getting me a PVM or BVM. I currently use a Sony CRT (flat screen) with component and s-video, but it has geometry issues so I want to replace it. I'm currently in the hunt to find one of the rare curved screen CRT's with component. My dream CRT is the 20" JVC curved screen with component, but it's a bitch to find since it's so rare. But the hunt continues.

Luckily, most of the consoles I already have stock RGB/VGA. The ones I currently use and mean the most to me (from all the great memories) are PS1, Genesis (model 1; it does have the jailbars but it's not that noticeable unless you get up to the screen) and Dreamcast. And also PS2 but I use component cables.

Then I have Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Sega Master System. Only the Atari 2600 and N64 has no RGB.

To answer your question, N64 is next on the list to get RGB modded :) so no I won't be stopping at least not right now. But that may be it. I had thought about getting the N64 HDMI modded, but I think I'll just stick with RGB. I'm going to get it with the deblur feature since N64 can be a blurry mess.

This is actually my second system with modded RGB. I bought an SNES Mini (1-Chip) pre-modded with RGB a few months ago so I never really got to do a comparison between composite and RGB. My (original that we got brand new as kids) SNES 2 chip that has stock RGB had a broken off power port so I hadn't been able to play it. I recently got that fixed and it's back working again, but I use the 1 chip SNES Mini since it outputs a crisper image.

This NES, I have been using this NES on the Framemeister through composite for months now so going from that to RGB is such a ginormous leap seeing it first hand. Everything is just crystal clear whereas before you just had a noisy image. No amount of upscaling to 1080p was going to help that composite signal, although it was still playable.
This post was edited on 10/1/19 at 9:40 am
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