The RetroTINK 5x Pro is a MASSIVE upgrade

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The RetroTINK 5X is the best purchase I've made for the channel in quite a while. I bought this for myself and there's no promotional considerations or affiliate here. I'm just reviewing something I bought.
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-- Chapters --
00:00 - RetroTINK 5x Pro Unboxing
04:56 - Initial Setup
07:53 - Connecting the Gamecube
09:00 - Troubleshooting
09:51 - Fixing the resolution issue
10:14 - Fixing the Black & White issue
11:41 - Capturing with the Game Boy Player
15:05 - PS2 Setup
16:39 - GTA III
#retrotink #retrogaming #gamecube #ps2

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6 авг 2024

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@DrYak 7 месяцев назад

S-Video on Scart: it's a limitation of the SCART standard (pinout). - Initially SCART was designed to carry composite video (in both direction) or RGB with composite sync (in one direction only). - S-Video is an extension that was added later. It reuses some pins normally assigned for RGB to do S-Video (in both directions) instead. The Y components go on the composite pin. The C component re-uses pins used for Red (up) or Blue (down) - Pluging the wrong type of cable on the wrong connector could fry it (Wikipedia page has more details). So, to do S-Video over SCART one need a SCART connector that is wired differently. - On old TV that used to be wired statically (e.g.: SCART-1 is RGB input, SCART-2 is S-Video bidirectional). Your RetroTink is wired to do RGB (input) on its SCART. Depending on the analog electronics (can it be resilient to wrong plugging without frying ?), maybe a future firmware could make the SCART input menu-reconfigurable between RGB, S-Video Y/C and component Y/Cr/Cb ?

@kingforkings 7 месяцев назад

I misread your title and thought some update came out. Love that device.

@Alberto7tube 3 месяца назад

Nice 👍 so happy for you !!!

@kybone25 4 месяца назад

Hi, can you tell me appromiately how much the box with the 5X unit, remote and cable weighs? Im thinking of ordering one and I want to know how much the full package weighs. Thanks

@Kniffel101 7 месяцев назад

11:45 Gardiner, you're breaking my heart! =D The disc holder has a push-button to release the disc, discs are not supposed to be taken out without pressing it... though you're not the first person on the internet to not do this! =P

@Kniffel101 7 месяцев назад

Also, I'm not sure whether it works without a digital-out, but setting the output res to 240p in Swiss for Game Boy games instead of 480i should in theory grant a better image quality! =)

@Kniffel101 7 месяцев назад

But generally, even for the PS2, I feel like image quality in your video is _way_ below what I'd expect. Are you passing a 720p image to your capture device instead of 1080p/1440p? And how are you splitting the image between the CRT and the capture card to begin with?

@BigDom1002 7 месяцев назад

5:20 Just a heads-up, that charging station is from Sabrent not from Anker!

@RamuneRabbit 7 месяцев назад

Didn't know you were a retro gamer as well. What capture card do you use? I too, have a Tink 5X Pro and just need a capture card to do the same with my setup! Happy (Retro) Gaming! I shall look out for your retro content, in addition to the wonderful Steam Deck coverage!

@WIImotionmasher 7 месяцев назад

Wait was the s-video mixup that you selected "S-Video" as output. But you were trying to output via the Scart? Did it not work when you selected Scart as the tink's output?

@gardiner_bryant 7 месяцев назад

The SCART adapter was set to "in" and I guess the S-video on the SCART adapter is for output only.

@user-tk8zx2cw7n 3 месяца назад

Thanks Bro

@JamesSmith-sw3nk 7 месяцев назад

Wouldn't it be a LOT easier just to emulate & upscale using a pc.

@gardiner_bryant 7 месяцев назад

You can't play games on original hardware through emulation. That's what I want to do.

@VeronicaExplains 7 месяцев назад

@@gardiner_bryant Some stuff doesn't emulate super well, either. My N64 is terribly challenging to get right. With the amount of work I'd put into tuning an emulator for each console or game, I might as well just bring out the original hardware. To each their own, though!

@Artificial_IntelligenceX 6 месяцев назад

@@VeronicaExplainsEven the cheaper mini PCs these days can run N64 emulation with no issue or tweaking. What are you working with? I'm genuinely curious.

@7229swkang 7 месяцев назад

I’ve done a bit of research on upscalers and found that composite video doesn’t benefit much from upscaling since it is analog signal. As far as I know s-video is an analog signal as well.

@Kniffel101 7 месяцев назад

It being an analog signal has nothing to do with its quality. Through composite multiple signals get sent through the yellow cable, introducing noise (I think because of interference, but I'm no electronics engineer, so my knowledge is limited). S-Video sends each of the signals usually sent through composite video separately, and if the cables are shielded and of good quality that leads to much better results. But also you can have Component input (YPbPr) or even native RGB as analog signals as well and those outclass composite by a LONG shot. For this video some of the settings aren't optimal, but it's hard to tell what exactly messes up the image, since Gardiner doesn't go into detail with that information. Maybe he can do a follow-up video with some optimized video settings for his setup! =D

@yournightmare9999 4 месяца назад

I glad that you finally afford one now another 4 years save to buy retrothink 4K

@robinson32993 6 месяцев назад

I just got my 5x on Friday specifically for my Wii, and I got to say, I’m very disappointed with the poor image quality it gives Wii games and how horrible the anti aliasing is on the 5x. The mclassic gives Wii games a billion times way better image quality and cleans up all the jaggies way better than the 5x. 5x is good for gamecube games though.

@Sinhalayaki 6 месяцев назад

Why does the only 3D game on this video look so dark? Do try to do these videos with games that have some colour vibrancy and dynamism?

@glebzhulik 7 месяцев назад

Kudos for UT99 OST

@ethankeller5606 7 месяцев назад

Minor upgrade. I don't see the difference between 5x Pro and the 4k

@gardiner_bryant 7 месяцев назад

4k has more inputs, higher res output, and better HDR support

@RetroRockGamer 3 месяца назад

Is the 5x pro 700 bucks?

@TheKotor2309 7 месяцев назад

Micro-usb; fail.

@OutlawMantis 7 месяцев назад

Sponsored content?

@saschakirchner1004 7 месяцев назад

According to him not. But if it is true or not? Although I would say it is true else he would have gotten the flagship, the 4k version.

@d34dbolt20 7 месяцев назад

Can’t wait till the cheap knockoffs hit the market. Price of these is laughable.

@DrYak 7 месяцев назад

These use FPGAs, hence the high price. Technically it should be possible to do something similar with good quality high-speed ADCs and a programmable IO controller (like the RP2040 or Raspberry Pi 5 and its RP1).

@VeronicaExplains 7 месяцев назад

This isn't some project by a big company- Mike Chi (the creator of these) is a treasure to the vintage computing community and this is a great project of his. Calling for knockoffs because you don't like the price is a bit off the mark if you ask me.

@spewp 7 месяцев назад

If Adrian's Digital Basement is any kind of reference point, hard pass on any of RetroTINK's offerings. Janky AF as soon as you wade into the weeds with anything slightly niche or older than a game console, you're in a world of hurt.

@VeronicaExplains 7 месяцев назад

I literally have plugged in 70s gear into mine, works great. I think the challenge comes from knowing what your hardware is expecting and setting up the scaler accordingly- that's a challenge across all scalers, though.