RGB Modded Commodore Amiga CD32 - Yes, Really - Adam Koralik 

I have literally 100% no practical purpose for watching this video, but your videos are always informational and relaxing so fuck it guess I'm watching it anyway

RU-vid recommended this video. So here's a few notes, I admittedly haven't watched the whole thing. There are some expansion carts that can be plugged into that back that add RGB video output. I have a TerribleFire 328 card for that purpose along with the ability to hook up IDE drives or IDE compact flash adapter stuff to use it like an Amiga 1200. Also there are some ways around PAL/NTSC differences in games with things not displaying or running correctly on the NTSC unit, by doing RGB out and using a mouse hold button combination (hold both mouse buttons when the unit starts up) most games will at least run on the NTSC system. Despite the fact that it wasn't officially released in the US, some of the models do have US rather than CAN in their serial # information.

I prefer the paint can mod.

Might be worth getting a 'Terrible Fire' expansion card for your CD32. A more cost effective modern take on the SX1/SX32 expansions that are very rare and insane money when they come available. More RAM, faster processor and a IDE port, you can take advantage of A1200 games then as well as launching CD32 games from a hard drive, or a cf. 100% agree with it being more of a 16bit-esq experience, I'm an Amiga fan, but it was a poor effort to repackage a a1200 to take on the console market, Commodore should have known after the CDTV and the C64 console failures. Good video!

I was actually looking for an RGB solution for my Amiga CD32. I just got one, thanks dude. :D

I remember seeing ads in EGM where you could import these. When I was playing my NES and C64 I always lusted after the Amiga computers, so naturally when I was playing my Super Nintendo and Pentium 60 PC, I wanted one of these. Too bad PCs and Apples won the home computer wars. We have to put up with Bill Gates and "Apple People" because of it. I like to think that in some alternate reality everyone is using their Commodore smartphones to post their poltical opinions on Twitter.

Can’t wait for the video on the Nuon with a Blu-ray drive :)

The thumbnail alone made me want to watch this, lol.

Wow, great video. I guess the cool thing with the Amiga CD32 is that you get music and soundfx at the same time whereas with my A600 you had to choose either soundfx or music, you couldn't have both together, or often no music at all.

This is some of the cleanest Cd32 gameplay i have seen.

I have one! Great video and well worth making it.

this thing broke my heart when i was 15 now it makes me laugh.

"It's only going to get 8 views" *When it got 1664 views* Low, but higher than I expected

It’s absolutely disgusting how beautifully that cleans up lmfao. Like, that image quality, the colours, everything. Yeah. Commodore built a beast of a machine.

Had a Amiga CD32 back in the day, traded my fully loaded Amiga 500 for it, it was a mistake because cd games were expensive and had few improvements over A1200 versions. First game I ever played on CD32 was Microcosm, mindblowing graphics at the time but gameplay sucked.

Haven't watched any of your videos in ages, but its just like i remember. Cheers brother.

Your videos about these obscure consoles are my favorite.

The Commodore scene (of which Amiga is part) is pretty amazing. These days, you can easily replace your A500's or A1000's Kickstart ROM with the CD32 BIOS if you so desire but also expand the CD32 to the point that it actually becomes a fully working Amiga computer. One of my friends has one but I never got to see it, also because of the current virus.

"I can hear again, and I can see... but who am I?"

I remember seeing the CD32 magazine well into 1997 in my local store

very nice retrovision cable makers. they extract the composite sync signal and modified it to work with clean rgb very clever stuff man they make it easy for ppl who dont know a lot about all the sync over rgb stuff and the quality shows

Why though. Lol. Fine, I’ll watch it and find out.

Soooo, I am one of the 8 people. I have a CD32 and still need to recap it. I want to connect it to my HDMI monitor, so this video is actually incredibly helpful. Thanks!

My life wouldnt be fulfilled without knowledge about RGB modded Amiga CDTV. Now I can die happily. I wonder where are other 7 guys?

I really love it that you do these kind of obscure retro gaming videos. This is why I love this channel so much. I am 26 so I grew up with the PS1/2 but I love retro gaming and the history of the medium. It is because a lot of youre videos that I start buying old and obscure consoles and games. Thank you so much for not only let us see this stuff but also informing us about the history and even the future of all of this.

CD32 is a underrated machine :-)

4:04 It's upsetting that your old SCART scaler doesn't get much love anymore. It still has its benefits. If you're primarily going to be playing or recording 480i or 576i games, there's little incentive to buying a Framemeister over it. Plus there are some practical uses - the HDMI input correctly recognizes 240p coming off PS2 and Wii HDMI adapters and it normalizes odd-ball signals coming off the OSSC and RetroTINK devices. There are also many games that use 240p for gameplay but 480i for the menus. Because the SCART port deinterlaces everything, it never loses sync between resolution changes like the Framemeister and OSSC do.

You're using a step up converter since your inputting 110 and outputting 220. Surprised cd32 isn't native Rgb since all amigas were. Nice video. Glad it works.

Man he got my view because I like his style of "this is a video of some type"

I'm disappointed that you didn't use The Town With No Name to showcase the Amiga CD32 upscaled.

Great video! Love my Amiga CD32!

Choose to rewrite my comment due to a bad joke. It's great to see the Commodore Amiga CD32 to look as best as probably ever will. Thanks for sharing this Adam.

8:50 Linedoubling 576i? Yeah... If I ever was to get an Amiga CD32 RGB mod, I think I'll just go with the passthrough or your old scaler. Linedoubling just doesn't do it for interlaced video. It gets way too far from the original intended look and you lose half the vertical resolution. And the constant vertical jitter it annoying. With the Framemeister or your old scaler, they buffer the two fields that make up the frame and put them back together again. THAT's how interlaced content should ALWAYS be handled.

I admit I was very curious myself. I had an A1000 and an A1200 but so wanted the CD32 back in college. So it was fascinating seeing someone deal with the issues I would've run into if I ever had. I know you are keeping in collection but would be curious if the various expansion cards for the CD32 to make it a full Amiga. And then if it would be able to run demos through that scart/retrotink/marseille/hdmi setup. So nope. There's a few of us who found it interesting.

ever since I met you in the Shenmue stream way back, Im watching so many of your videos for stuff I've never heard of and should never care about BUT I CANT STOP. I LOVE YOUR CONTENT.

I don't currently own a Amiga CD32, but I watched this video anyway, because I watch every single video you put out, you are my all time favourite content creator, and I'm always curious to learn more about the most obscure consoles. I remember the days where you loved that cheap Scart to HDMI box. Now it's a piece of crap to you... how far we've come

I'm from Québec and I know 2 persons that owned one back in the days, one of them owned a 3do too lol. I would like to own one for curiosity sake but it's almost impossible... Maybe one day while checking yard sales I will find one. It's almost like I'm more interested in the story behind it than the device itself lop

really good video who show the potential of the CD32, ok, many games were just port of 500/1200 but when you have cd glorious track with sfx, intro , user friendly cd speed it’s a nice console, ready to go everywhere, i had one with all the modern stuff :tf330/wifi/mk2 hdmi out and it’s my beloved console ! cause she have the best of the uk developers at 80/90’s apogee of retro gaming and news games still come out !

Also, there's an NTSC AMIGA CIB for sale down here in Champaign

I wish mine was still working. I had the bright idea about 20 years ago when I was unable to find my Microsoft mouse with serial plug to play Diggers with to use a screwdriver at the pins (gently touching them) to try send inputs but obviously I shorted. It still turns on but it's dead. I wish someone was there that could stop me :P

I didn’t notice any jittery footage when you did gameplay with it. It almost looks like a progressive signal more than a jittery, line doubled signal.

I honestly wanted one of these.

This System is one I’ve been trying to obtain for years. I might potentially have someone sending one my way eventually (nothing concrete) it would be coming from somewhere in the Netherlands or near.

I love your vids don't matter what the content is lol

Damn, I just found out the hard way if you edit a comment to correct a typing error, RU-vid takes away the "Adam loves your comment" icon. :( The comment was: *4:04** It's upsetting that your old SCART scaler doesn't get much love anymore. It still has its benefits. If you're primarily going to be playing or recording 480i or 576i games, there's little incentive to buying a Framemeister over it. Plus there are some practical uses - the HDMI input correctly recognizes 240p coming off PS2 and Wii HDMI adapters and it normalizes odd-ball signals coming off the OSSC and RetroTINK devices. There are also many games that use 240p for gameplay but 480i for the menus. Because the SCART port deinterlaces everything, it never loses sync between resolution changes like the Framemeister and OSSC do.*

Bro If we had all the software and tools to create a game would you do it or put it off

I had a cd32 many years ago, gutted I sold it🙄. Great vid btw

It looks awesome ( picture quality )

I don't know what it is about the amiga 32 but it really intrigues me.

You should check out Reshoot R for the Amiga CD32. Just ordered a copy of it and it seems amazing.

I f**king love Amiga! It was multitasking multimedia wonder computer back in 1985 and maintained the crown of ultimate gaming system for at least 7 years. There was nothing like it back in the day. It still gets lots of love with new hardware, software, demos and games released even today which is absolutely incredible. Amiga CD32 can be expanded to full blown Amiga computer with a keyboard and hard drive which opens a whole new world for the user.

Shout out from Wales👍

For the eight people who are going to watch this one hahah.

1:23 I remember reading somewhere that they were sued by a patent troll and couldn't afford the legal fees.

I love how all parts of the retro scene has a tonne of support to keep them alive with innovations.

Everyone is also talking about Cyberpunk and how they tanked their ps4 port! But anyways, I still think you are missing a gaming PC, adam bro!! I know PCs are less nostalgic, but it is the easiest platform to modify.

Dude, that looks so clean! wow

The CD32 actually IS 4th gen no matter what shyte it says on wikipedia. It's a chopped down A1200 from 1992 and it competed with the Snes and Megadrive / Mega CD the same as the A1200 did in the 4th gen. Commodore went bust in April 1994 and it was discontinued, the Neo Geo CD came out 5 months later in September 1994 (do you see where i'm going with this?) but the bullshit on wiki says that is 4th gen?! how does that work? lol The NGCD was on the shelves at retail up against the Saturn, Playstation and it was even still on sale when the N64 was released in 1996! the CD32 was long gone before any of those were ever released. Commodore even ran billboard ads outside of Sega's HQ because that was the console's competition. At best it's a late entry into the 4th gen and every game released on it works on a 1992 A1200 and most of them were the same games as on the 16bit consoles. It doesn't even have rudimentary 3D cpabilites such as texture mapping that the Jaguar and 3DO had. I own one and like it but 5th gen my arse.

People from Europe love the Amiga

Very informative video even though I don't own this console 👍

Had one, swapped it for a cdi as I had a Amiga

That smoothing filter is fairly horrible, I would not like to look at that at all.

I don't have an Amiga CD32 and I ain't planning on getting one, but FUCK IT

Broke: PAL region Commodore Amiga CD32 for a collector living in NTSC territory Woke: RGB Modded Amiga CD32 with Marseilles' mClassic Ascended: RGB Modded Amiga CD32 with mClassic and AVGN's paint-can add-on Transcended: RGB Modded Amiga CD32 with mClassic but instead of the paint-can, the entire CD-ROM drive is replaced with Dan "citrus3000psi" Kunz' Amiga SDLoader32 ODE

I have a RetrovisionHD cable for SNES. I use the best display option. On a TV with YPbPr the image quality is as good as on a CRT. You can see this in Pinball Dreams, where the lights are not just points or vectors, but beautifully displayed with interpolation that is used in the image. Instead of what I have with the CD32, I feel that the image is too blurry, if you could display the image from Workbench or even read something. Generally, the French version of the CD32 (without modulator) has an 8-pin Mini DIN output instead of SVIDEO for RGB to SCART. The image quality is excellent. Probably the cleanest RGB to HDMI image I have seen.

Nice video. Always like seeing the CD32 getting some attention :). The output you were able to getlooks real nice. Don't know if you know but there is no need to mod the CD32 to get RGB out. There are several riser cards that attach to the expansion port on the back that add RGB out some add a keyboard connector too. the risers allow for adding expansions like the terrible Fire cards that boost memory and CPU considerably add a hard drive connector. I have both PAL and NTSC versions of the CD32 the power connector on the console is the same for Europe and the US. So you can use the US brick with the PAL version.

RGB signals are on the expansion slot. A simple adapter is enough, no need for internal modification. The port also has signals for an Amiga disc drive, Amiga Keyboard etc. You can turn the thing into a fully featured Amiga 1200. Such adapters were available back in the day.

I've had my CD32 RGB modded for years here in the states. It does look amazing, but honestly I play my nuon more than the CD32! 🤣

You need a TF330 in that

Great! Have just dug my CD32 from my parents garage! It's been there since 1995... I think I'm one of the few portuguese people that spent the equivalent of 400 eur plus 250 for the full motion video for a console that was only a port from the Amiga. You couldn't save anything because it was CD only and the controller was a joke but hey it's a rare console nowadays. I'm thinking of connecting to an older LCD Tv with S-Video and audio cables to see how it works.

I have a pal and a ntsc amiga CD32 oddly enough some games work on both consoles and some games only work on their respective region. I’ve heard with an amiga mouse you can boot to a bios screen and swap over to whatever region you want.

Glad to see you got the RGB rolling, I was wondering if you'd get time to chase that down after mentioning it a few months back. I can confirm that the Amiga does some let's say "unique" things with its RGB output that can make it an adventure to get working with things made for other RGB-modded consoles/micros. Mainly the csync is odd, IIRC the output levels are slightly over 1A which some devices won't handle and you might need a signal stripper too. I found a source for Amiga 23-pin RGB to SCART cables that have the right resistance to bring the signal down and that actually works with a RetroTINK SCART and TF328 addon with the RGB port on the backplane pretty well as long as you don't use non-15 Khz screenmodes (almost no games do.) I used Amigas exclusively in the 90s so I can't get enough of Amiga gaming and a good CD32 setup is a fantastic way to do that. If you ever want to open the library up the TF328 (I think there's a newer design now with a 68030 onboard too) will get you the full "regular-ass Amiga" (as Joe says over on Game Sack) WHDload library loadable from flash, and there are loaders for most anything you want to play on Amiga these days. Also highly recommend TinyLauncher for the menu frontend to get you into your Amiga games with a quickness when you have beer in hand and are ready to rock an 8-way 1-button joystick into 16-bit nirvana. Love the channel and especially when you cover the fringe stuff, we'll have plenty of time to cover PS5 developments later ;-)

I watch for the fact of listening, doesn't matter the content. I WATCHED A VIDEO ABOUT A DISHWASHER TODAY, EVEN THOUGH I DO NOT OWN ONE! So Amiga CD32 it is :)

This IS why im big fan of you channel! From the dentist jaguar machine to the casio console these videos are so awesome! Thank you!

I thought no one bothered with RGB-mod for the cd32 because it’s much easier just to buy the floppydrive add-on (at least a few years ago when they didn’t cost an arm and a leg) and get RGB through that using a regular amiga rgb-cable. But cool that you got it to work eventually! My Cd32 deserves more love but since I boughy A1200 a few years back and recently a MiSTer it’s mostly collecting dust.

i have been running my CD32 RGB on a Framemeister for a while now without any physical alterations at all. Just buy a terrible fire CPU breakout board (fits in the module slot on the back). This gives you an RGB port that you can buy a cable for. Works perfectly, doesn't hurt the CD32. The CPU board also allows you to play games directly from a compact flash card. Once again no soldering or modifications.

Loved the Amiga CD32, should check out a game called Liberation , was like a pre PlayStation cyber punk RPG

Awesome video as always dude. I'm curious if the HD retrovison cable combination works on the OSSC And/or the framemister. Cheers dude.

The RGB issue is probably power related. For example, the Amstrad CPC has RGB SCART cables that only work on CRT sets, due to power related issues. There's a powered SCART cable that's been developed, that sorts this out. I guess that the Amiga CD would need a similar device to boost the sync signal, or whichever is lacking.

Nice job!! I have a CD32, NTSC version. I'll follow-up. Thanks for the links!!

The whole idea behind the CD32 was that since it was based on existing Amiga hardware (the A1200 , with lineage going back to the A500) , it would be easier for devs to work with it, as opposed to other consoles which often used specialised hardware. It ended up biting them in the behind , as it meant that devs just ported their old Amiga games over (And most Amiga games were developed for the older A500). All that being said, the idea of building a console around standard PC hardware isn't crazy given that's what modern systems do (albeit a PS5 isn't just a PC, it is more custom than that)

Guess I must be one of the 8. Got an NTSC system with a weird modem attachment for online banking. I wouldn't call the system region locked, though there are compatibility issues, apparently you can tell the system to boot into PAL mode if you have an Amiga mouse and hold down both buttons on boot. Still trying to get my hands on an Amiga mouse to test this out. I've got several games though, and a bunch of demo discs. It's about 50/50 on whether they play correctly or not.

After the AVGN videos, how could I NOT check this out?! 👍🏻 3.5K in one day and you thought you’d only get 8 views!

The Amiga CD32 got me into collecting retro-game consoles. I was really into video games and consoles in the nineties, played Jaguar and Philips cd-i and read a lot about the 3do but had never heard about this one when a saw it at a retro game show here in Sweden 6 years ago. I started collecting other early cd-based consoles since the CD32 was hard to find and expensive but one year later my dad won one for me on a swedish auction site CIB scandinavian version bought in Sweden for approx 120 in usd. So this video was nice to watch and if it will be a solid RGB mod in the future i'm interested :-)

They better mod the FM Towns Marty next.

Commodore made interesting hardware, the Amiga CD32 is incredibly expandable, it's basically an Amiga computer with a CD drive bolted on to it

My last new console was the Xone, not interested in series x or ps5, modern gaming is just not my thing. Though I do have a switch but im loving my DS and modded GBA too and love my modded wii u.

As a Brit it’s great to see this, I had an Amiga 500 and they were a badge of pride in the early 90s! My cousin got a CD32 and I was really envious... your videos actually help with our memories as well as our nostalgia. Great work Adam

Zool.... soundtrack was probably the best thing about it if I’m honest..but not that soundtrack....

Wow the amiga 32 cd with ray tracing and full 480p Hd!!! Welcome to the future!!!

Adam likes collecting and talking about videogame history more than actually playing games (except Shenmue of course).

Just because you can doesnt mean you should....but I'm so happy you did. This is the kind of content I come back for. Keep doing fun and random things, cus why not. Brought me some happiness.

A 1000 options for current gen hardware videos, but that gets dull quick. So cheers tl you for being unique, now I think go get some chicken and Honey Dill sauce

A 1000 options for current gen hardware videos, but that gets dull quick. So cheers tl you for being unique, now I think go get some chicken and Honey Dill sauce

I think the fun of these projects is the challenge of making the impossible possible. I know looked at my Sega Nomad and loved the system, but hated the lousy screen. So I did the 3” screen mod. Then I looked at it and said, why can’t I have a bigger screen. So I mounted a 5” screen to the top of it. I can’t tell you how much better it makes playing Genesis games!

Omfg The image quality is amazing 👍😃 and I think you are the only one who managed to squeeze such quality out of this console. This is crazy 🤣🤪👍

I have a Canadian CD32 with the banking modem and remote control that was only available in Vancouver Canada at the time, I also sold the empty box it came with for $150, lol

I just use the av out on my UK PAL cd32. Games are getting increasingly expensive...

You put me in contact with Raymond awhile back and he did some repair work on my CD32. Thanks to you both. Much appreciated.

This video is exactly why you only have 100k subs and exactly why you are my favorite youtuber 7 years running!