Ciao! I’m Marc, a YouTube content creator on the channel MarcoRetro (MarcoRetro316). I am a hobbyist with a focus on CRT gaming (team RGB) and also… Downscaling! Stop by my channel any time and check out the Downscaling Chronicles playlist to follow my journey into the forbidden 240p rabbit hole. The best way to reach me is in the YouTube comments but I occasional drop a post on Instagram/Twitter (X)
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The Universal Video Converter (uVC) was actively supported by UltraCade Technologies between 2003-2005, and were intended for downscaling PC’s to a tri-sync arcade cabinet. They officially support the following resolutions: XGA (1024×768), SVGA (800×600) and VGA (640×480), and downscale to EGA (640×384, 24KHz) and CGA (640×240 15KHz ie 240p). The 640×480 input will likely be […]
The prestige of RGB has long been sought after by retro gamers. Unlike Europe and some other parts of the world, not all CRT TV’s had a factory RGB input. Thanks to the collective efforts of the CRT modding scene, there are loads of great resources on how to unlock this premium input signal. In […]
The RetroTink 4K received a significant update via Experimental Firmware Version 1.5.1 which adds some interesting features for downscaling: Menu now works in 240p output using temporal downscaling Added ability to generate interlaced output timings A custom modeline is required for interlaced output, where the vertical active size is the sum of both fields, and interlaced […]
The RetroTINK 4K is first and foremost an upscaler, and although possible, downscaling is not an officially supported or advertised feature. How well it downscales is dependant on the menu items intended for upscaling. Fortunately, downscaling (technically decimating) on the RetroTink 4K works well to restore integer-upscaled games that were drawn in 240p. So well in […]
This is a very interesting product that came out of left field… While the anticipated release date of the Analogue Pocket Dock+DAC support has come and gone, developer RndMnkIII fills the void with an unofficial digital to analog converter (DAC) that does not even require the Dock. The Analogizer-FPGA plugs into the Analogue Pocket’s Gameboy […]
