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Connecting legacy game consoles to modern TV
Posted on 6/5/23 at 11:11 am
Posted on 6/5/23 at 11:11 am
Wasn't sure if this question was best here or on the gaming board. If it should be moved, please do so.
We are finishing our basement, and one of the rooms is going to be a small office/tv room/man cave.
We have a media room in the main house so I'm not going to go surround sound or anything fancy, but I do have a few legacy game consoles (NES, 1st Gen X-box, and Wii). I am thinking I would love to have moderately sized TV and connect the consoles to it to be able to do some retro gaming. Just not sure how best to do so given the connections/port needed.
If I remember correctly, the NES has one audio and one video RCA; the X-Box has component outputs; and the Wii has one video and two audio RCAs.
We are finishing our basement, and one of the rooms is going to be a small office/tv room/man cave.
We have a media room in the main house so I'm not going to go surround sound or anything fancy, but I do have a few legacy game consoles (NES, 1st Gen X-box, and Wii). I am thinking I would love to have moderately sized TV and connect the consoles to it to be able to do some retro gaming. Just not sure how best to do so given the connections/port needed.
If I remember correctly, the NES has one audio and one video RCA; the X-Box has component outputs; and the Wii has one video and two audio RCAs.
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 11:13 am
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Posted on 6/5/23 at 12:18 pm to PJinAtl
Probably just a composite to hdmi converter/adapter…amazon
Posted on 6/5/23 at 12:55 pm to PJinAtl
Posted on 6/5/23 at 4:25 pm to Lonnie Utah
Thanks!
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:51 am to PJinAtl
Get one of these: LINK
Some retro collectors would use what's called a Framemeister to upscale the analog signal to 1080p. The bad part is Framemeisters are discontinued, were only sold in Japan, and are expensive if you can find them on Ebay.
So some enterprising fellows came up with the Open Source Scan Converter. Does the same thing a Framemeister can do for far less. Cheap HDMI converters make the image look fuzzy, muddied, or the colors will be off. This actually scales it properly and can do a few tricks like adding scanlines.
Some retro collectors would use what's called a Framemeister to upscale the analog signal to 1080p. The bad part is Framemeisters are discontinued, were only sold in Japan, and are expensive if you can find them on Ebay.
So some enterprising fellows came up with the Open Source Scan Converter. Does the same thing a Framemeister can do for far less. Cheap HDMI converters make the image look fuzzy, muddied, or the colors will be off. This actually scales it properly and can do a few tricks like adding scanlines.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 9:35 pm to PJinAtl
If you want to play duck hunt, I believe you need to have a tube tv.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:14 pm to PJinAtl
Component cables for the Wii would give you a better image, and you’d also be able to enable progressive scan which would be a 480p video output rather than 480i.
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:16 pm to PJinAtl
Kinhank emulator
I have one. Connects by HDMI. You won't regret it.
I have one. Connects by HDMI. You won't regret it.
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