How's it going guys?
I'm back again with another of these game room updates.
Where I'm gonna tell you about
you know how I hook things up and
my general game room setup
I've done these before.
I've done one in...2016?
And this is a update to that.
Now the reason I do these is because often in comments and...
I get emails from people that say, "How do you record the gameplay?"
And I'm always trying to make improvements.
You know I've talked about it before, but I've made some major improvements and now I just wanted to give you guys an update.
So the major update
and the main thing that I want to tell you
is that
all my consoles before
were hooked up with
composite AV cables.
And now
I've finally made the upgrade
to RGB.
And right here,
this is an RGB TV.
This is the kind of thing you
might wanna play retro games on.
because it makes the game, uh..., it makes it look really really nice, basically.
You get a really nice signal
But let's talk more about it.
So here we are on the back side of the tv.
And as you can see
The tv is uh..
RGB.
Red, Green and Blue
And this
now hooks into
if we tr..if we follow this along...
it actually hooks into this
...which is pretty awesome. This is a SCART switcher.
Its a G SCART and...
The deal with this is
...basically all the consoles
hook into this
where it use to just be... you know... the consoles would be... all... AV
I've gotten rid of that
...and I had them all going into that AV switch box, that's totally gone now
now now I've made the upgrade, so again the reason you-ou would want to do this
is because it makes the game footage look a lot better and again it's an also ideal
to have it on a nice display as well so how is the game even getting onto the TV right?
so basically like I said the Super Nintendo
the Saturn and all the different systems are going in here then coming out of that they
come out of this wire and then they go on and they you know they go into the TV
with the RGB so that's how the games getting onto the TV
now what about audio right here this is the audio which goes into two speakers
see one of my speakers is there and the other one is right there so have those
turned on I get my sound and what else so this right here is the main out from
from th-the Z start but where does this go so this is where it gets more
interesting so this comes out and it goes into... the front of the framemeister
and so how does it get out of the framemeister basically there is an HDMI
here and it comes out and essentially that ends up going into the game capture
device here your game capture device now from there
the game capture comes along and where does it go? it goes into the TV actually I
wasn't clear right (don't mumble) it goes into the TV into my HDMI 2 to so this game can appear
on this television and this one comes out and it comes around and it goes down
into the PC down there... a little hard show but basically that's what's going on
so essentially it's going from the framemeister to the Game Capture one-one
part of the game capture is going into television and the other ones going into
the PC so you know that's so I can see it on the TV and the other way so that I
can record the gameplay so let's go onto the computer so there have the Super
Nintendo it's turned on and basically but you know runs to the G SCART goes
into the framemeister then it goes in the Game Capture and thats how it ends up
going on to... the computer screen and that's how I record the gameplay
now people are always asking about this so I'm going to try to answer I use XSplit
and we used to record everything on DVDs on discs like all the old nerd episodes
but the problem with that was everything was 60 frames per second... I'm sorry
al-all that old footage was 30 frames per second when we were recording
on DVDs but you know these systems like NES and stuff output at 60 frames per
second so by using the PC and the framemeister and all this all these
gadgets were able to record now at 60 frames per second which is which is how
you want it so when you see my playthroughs and.. um... episodes that we record
of James and Mike Monday at my place we're recording at 60 frames per second
so by recording the gameplay at 60 frames per second... now instead of 30
frames per second the footage looks better for you guys when you're watching
and on my end the game looks better when I'm sitting here playing it because I'm
playing it on a nice RGB monitor so I think that this is probably about as
good as it's going to get. Another thing I have to mention is my turbo duo and
this used to piss me off see how this fits in this cubbyhole well it didn't
used to because on the side the AV used to stick out and I wouldn't
I wouldn't be able to fut it I wouldn't be able to fut it I wouldn't be able to put it
into the cubbyhole but now you see the RGB is going into the back of the
console now if you give them see that right here and coming out from there and
then you know going right there into the G SCART so that's a huge improvement as well
now the newest addition to the madness is this bad boy right here
here's my Intellivision 2 - but what's interesting about it hmm that's right...
folks you've got an RGB modded intellevision 2 - because you know everybody
needs to have their intellevision 2 - RGB mod no this is the example of overkill
but I know Ryan recently said to me he's like he's like all set the intellevision
but you know Mike you've gone one step too far
when you get your pioneer lazer active *weird laugh* done with RGB I haven't done it yet but
getting there and this is an older system and I think it's cool but while a
lot of people might not be in interested in having your intellevision
games look pristine what you guys might be a little more interested in because
I'm trying to make everything as awesome as I can this is my original jungle
green N64 but the difference is now we have this deal going on to where the
game don't have to look like shit because now we have... if I can get this out
now we have HDMI for the N64 which is which is pretty awesome because the N64
watching it on newer big screen like LCD like you know I have like a 65 inch
television it looks like shit you know wit-with those you know the way it used
to be but now with HDMI it looks great so that's another big improvement that I
really like but as you can tell by this big mess of wires there's a lot more
that goes into this that and then I haven't even gotten to umm another thing
is that not all of the systems you know it can be done through RGB so the ones
that can be done or what we got here Genesis, NeoGeo,
NES, SNES, Saturn, Turbo Duo and but not all the systems, y'know, can be RGB so we
have other systems here like you know Playstation 2 and I want it to have the
Playstation 2 footage as good as possible as well and other systems such
as you know what about Xbox I have my Xbox down here and it used to be AV like
everything else and now my Xbox you know I have a component for Xbox
I have a component for Wii another one that you can't do RGB for is the 3do
so how do I handle that since cus I don't yo-you know, here's the AV which I
which I used to do it that way but now I have it coming out of this and it's
going into S-Video if I can get this to be not so blurry it's going into
S-Video on the back of the new monitor and then coming out from that going into
the framemeister so let's travel along this wire here
here we go goes along there and it goes right there into the front of the
framemeister let me get a little light on the subject these are very hard to
film because but right there that is going into the S-Video on the front of
the framemeister so that's how I'm doing 3do
so anyway figuring all this out was obviously I mean look at this this is
insane but figuring all this out definitely took a long time to get
everything you know updated to RGB but you know the question still remains is
it worth it and I think that goes to personal preference and what you're
doing with it honestly I think you're fine if you just have a AV you
know I played video games my whole life with just a AV and love them just as much
then as I do now so it's nice to you know be able to have the games look as
good as they possibly can but it is I think it's a little bit overkill and
this is not something that everybody needs to be doing but if you're really
really really into you know the quality and the picture quality and if you game
a lot you know if you're gaming every day what you might want to do is think
about just getting maybe your favorite system upgraded to you know RGB like
maybe if you play a lot of Super Nintendo just do that one I'd say to do
them to as many consoles as I'd done it to it is kind of nuts but we all know
that I mean if you look right here I think you guys can tell that I'm clearly
have fucking mental problems but um yeah this is this is overkill I don't think
anybody needs to be doing this really but uh it does I I will say it does make
the games look better especially I noticed the most difference with SNES
and Sega Genesis like for example I remember James and I did a James and Mike Monday
of Aladdin and I think we recorded that AV and then I then I
played it with RGB right after that and it was noticeably it looked much much
better on Sega Genesis so I would say there's one
to really do it for it's Sega Genesis because it looks way Sega Genesis looks
way way better RGB but um anyway so that's my general thoughts on it I'm
glad to have finally made the upgrade and I hope that the quality shows
through in the future so thanks for watching guys