no, mainly playing the older stuff on CRT's so didn't want to invest in that pricy scaler... plus also have all the Analogue consoles for my 4K TV so covered there when I actually play on the big flatscreen.
Yeah I’ve been running into weird green/cyan/yellow rectangles on screen…the games I try work perfect but this stupid glitch…kingdoms under fire heroes I was able to play 5 missions until it started…it’s so bizarre…
Yeah it's weird. Jet set radio future works beautifully. Crazy taxi 3 black screen unless you just skip the menu which sucks. Halo ce is super glitchy looking. Counterstrike, you cant see in buildings.
Man if someone could just show video of this thing running a SNES mini outputting 240p or something like the Castlevania Anniversary Collection via PS4.
I love how those CRT with those gorgeous colors, no lag and no motion blur look, but may I ask, why so many CRTs instead of one, the best of the best CRT (between a HD CRT PVM or BVM) for everything?
I'm confused... there's only ONE crt in this video. Normally though I like 2x 4:3 sets for dual screen games (like PS2 light gun games), 1x turned sideways for Shmups, and a larger widescreen HD for widescreen (which is the one pictured here).
Johnny G I need help I just bought the Sharp Shooter 2 light gun controller with House Of The Dead 3 for xbox plus I am playing it on a roku tv but i cant get past the calibrate screen on the game can you please tell me what to do
I can barely run Xemu on my PC with an RTX 3060 and with an AMD 5700 processor. PS2 emulator and Wii emulator is the way to go. I am going to try Dead or Alive 3 on my M1 iMac 24 inch but if it crashes there's no hope for this emulator unless you have a M1 Pro or M1 Max. I might return my M2 Mac Mini even PS3 games like Soul Calibur 4 cant run 100%. My PC is only able to handle PS3 Emulation fine but its a bit finicky.
Regular Mac M1 seems to run compatible games just fine from what others have said (just note that some games marked as 'compatible' are NOT compatible on Mac, only compatible on PC it seems like...). On my Mac mini M2 Pro the compatible games run perfect (proper 60 FPS or whatnot, game depending) - and my M2 Pro is slower than a M1 Max fyi.... problem is just that games marked as "compatible" should be compatible on BOTH Mac and PC... but some are not (which is why I made this video to show a few which run on PC but not on Mac).
Can you please tell me what rack you bought? I have many consoles and I’m looking to achieve something as close as possible. Did your rack come with the shelves? I see individual shelves online cost so much money!
Closest thing available now I could find is the Midwest Industries BGR-45SA-27 (that's 45U like mine, I would suggest 41U if you want a chance for it to fit through normal height house doorways). I paid $130 for mine off Craigslist though, way older model, with 7x included shelves.
Hey Johnny G, thanks for the video! I looked around at your forum posts and other videos and can't seem to find the mentioned link to the docs with the timings. Would you mind sharing it?
I'm on my phone now, but it's right on the Shmups forum Corio2 tutorial. Just search for "XML" and it'll have links to the files to use with Corio's software (for C2-400, 750, and 2200a models).
Awesome stuff! Looking forward to downscaling a bunch of stuff. I can't seem to find your XML file after going through the forums. Any chance you can upload? Thank you!
@@johnnyg8782 Thank you. Any updates on the CRT-centering project? Really looking forward to getting this going on my setup!! TY for all your contributions to the community.
Not quite. If you check the forum link above you'll see that for the older Crosspoints with black-buttons (which unlike the newer models lack an ethernet port and network connectivity, and don't have a built-in web server either), we're using Extron IP Link boxes (which DO have both ethernet and a built-in web server) to control those older Crosspoints through CRT-C... ...AND since many models of those IP Link boxes happen to have multiple RS232 ports on them... I'm making use of the other ports on the IP Link to control some other things like an Extron RGB box for centering. Have my TVOne Corio2 working off it as well! You can control the newer Crosspoints (w/ white buttons) with the IP Link boxes too fyi (or do it the original way via ethernet).
@@johnnyg8782 thanks for replying. Reading the thread, it seems sourcing the Phoenix-type RS-232 cables is difficult. Was hoping to potentially have an IPL box control a Crosspoint and an RGB 580xi, but the latter only has the Phoenix style connector on it. I can't find any reseller or eBay auctions selling those cables.
How did you hook RGB up to this - I have the same model (but the N version instead of Delta - afaik the only difference is the shape of the housing) and standard scart cables don't seem to get sync properly. Do you know what the correct pinouts for the SCART and DB9 inputs are?
A regular EU-style (not JP21) PS2 SCART cable hooked up to it no problem - that uses the regular pinout everything does. The DB9 (which I used for this video I believe) I wired myself through trial and error - don't have a pinout for it saved, sorry (it's easy once you find sync and any RGB color though - then find the other colors and you're pretty much done).
@@johnnyg8782 Thanks for the reply - I've got mine working now via SCART, turns out it was just user error. I had the SCART output from my video switch backwards lol...
My goal is to connect my smartphone (outputting 1080p via HDMI) to a consumer CRT with component inputs in 240p. Is it possible with this device? I also have a VGA to YPbPr transcoder if that would help this process.
I'm curious as to how this setup would look with a smartphone outputting to a consumer CRT with component inputs. For example, a Samsung Galaxy S series phone outputting 1080p HDMI via a USB-C to HDMI adapter > C2-400 > Tendak HDMI to VGA > VGA to YPbPr (component) transcoder. Goal is to emulate old games like the SNES to a crt in 240p from my phone with something like Retroarch. What are your thoughts?
Just built a RS-232 cable for my TVOne! But so far only been controlling Extron gear which has a baked-in method to send Telnet commands over HTML... so have to finish figuring out how to output to a non-Extron device (which will open up all sorts of even cooler uses!!!).
Wow that is strange. For what it's worth, I was able to get my green madkatz lightgun working with a PC crts (dell e772c and a ibm e74, both at 31kHz, 480p) I've connected the xbox to the monitors via the official Microsoft HD av pack, and am using linuxbot3000's ypbpr to vga transcoder. Starsky and hutch works great as well.
Here's the in-depth version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ke-B7Fv40d8.html Also an earlier in-depth (but not AS in depth about the rack): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z787SbwgHz0.html
Amazing setup! I’ve slowly been getting into the hobby. Picking up systems and PVMs. Looking into matrix switchers recently, yours are amazing! Though I feel I’d need to be an engineer to work it all out! You should get a tripod and teach us! Really! Cheers!
It's really not complicated tbh. All your devices like video game consoles, computer, converters, etc. gets plugged into the input of the Extron Crosspoint Switch. Any monitor/CRT/screen you use gets plugged into the output of the Extron Crosspoint Switch... after that it's just what to do with the mess of wires to keep them manageable (which I use hundreds of zip ties for that ;)
I remembered your video so wanted to come to say (and give you hope), it 100% works for me! I recently got a trisync monitor capable of 480p and have been testing everything out, I was happily playing THOTD3 in progressive scan last night. My setup: - Xbox with component cable (don't know the brand, I got it when the Xbox was current gen, but it is a Y cable with component and composite/s-video options and switch to choose, plus an optical out on the bit that connect to the Xbox) - Retrotink COMP2RGB - gscartsw - SyncSlayer 2 - Well Gardner D9400 - Mad Catz Xbox gun In calibration mode as soon as I point the gun at the screen "Progressive scan" is displayed and it works perfectly (apart from THOTD2 within 3 doesn't respond to the gun at all, but I'm not particularly interested in that as it doesn't run as well as the Dreamcast version; I've noticed graphical glitches and frame stutters).
Don't know what to say... I'm up to I think 3x different Xbox's (want to say 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6), 3x different Mad Catz lightguns (and that weird silent scope one), about 12x different 480p-capable monitors (PVM's, BVM's, PC CRT monitors, 480p video wall monitor, and 3x Sony HDTV CRT's which are really only 540p), 2x different Xbox official YPbPr boxes (and think the Monster cable my buddy had too), a custom N64Freak Frozen VGA Cable w/ LMH1980 set to RGBS (tried RGBHV too), both physical disc + HDD mod of this game, both through my Extron Crosspoint 32x32 matrix switcher and straight to the CRT's too (and with YPbPr to RGBS converter, with RGBHV to RGBS converter, RGBS to YPbPr converter...).... still will NOT work when Xbox is set to 480p in the dashboard (and/or set in XBMC4Gamers modded dash) and I launch this game. But you're NOT the first person who told me this works for them... just still don't know how/why since I've tried so many ways to do this... Does your Wells Gardner tell you which mode it's in? and it's confirmed 480p?
I would pass. Here's my review with ALL sorts of major issues: www.bladeforums.com/threads/spyderco-smallfly-2-%E2%80%93-quick-review-build-quality-issues.1794617/. I posted on the Spyderco forums as well and somebody posted months later saying that their (from a new batch I assume as these are out of stock constantly) knife STILL has these issues (actually said his is WORSE than my knife), so the issues have NOT been fixed either... seems like Spyderco simply doesn't care (and that's after the Sal, the owner of Spyderco, posted on that forum topic himself and said how they strive for "Constant Quality Improvement"... which seems to be a lie or those issues would have been fixed you would have thought...
Did I see a Panasonic CRT on the desk? How did you modify the cables to get RGB to initialize on that TV? I think it needs a 5V input on pin 8 or 16 of the SCART, but I'll be damned if I can find a video of anyone doing this. Thanks.
I'm in the US so not many SCART televisions around here... that Panasonic is a widescreen professional (PVM) multiformat CRT monitor, it has BNC connections for RGBS, RGBHV, YPbPr, CV, YC, etc. etc.
