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The Scalable Video Switch Might Be The Ultimate AV Solution For Retro Gaming Fans | Time Extension
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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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My god I would have killed for something like this 20 years ago
Right now, I'm managing with Y cables, but this would be...
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A game changer...
$40 for the control module, $10 for the remote, then:
Composite/S Video - $30x7 - $210
Component - $35x4 - $140
1 output for each - $50
Soo... $450? Worth it!
$450? Jfc!
For 12 inputs and 2 outputs? Not awful.
Does anyone know if this allows inputs and outputs to be mixed? Like can I have SCART in and have it output over component? Or is it solely a switch.
At this point I rather emulate. Cartridges batteries run out and the electronics in those consoles won't survive forever either and you can get retro styled gamepads too, if you really want that for some reason.
I do mostly emulate, but I do have a retrotink 5x pro that I run my older consoles through (with a CRT filter and sometimes hdr, works pretty well with component inputs), sometimes I just like using original hardware. It's mostly nostalgia, they're all my childhood consoles, but it's an experience if you will, like how I do most of my music listening digitally but also enjoy the same album on vinyl or cassette.
Side on the batteries, I just did a bunch of battery swaps for my partner's gameboy Pokémon games as part of a gift for her, totally shocked that the original ones (red, blue, yellow) still had enough juice to keep their saves alive, had to solder a temp battery to a test pad.
Yeah I'm right there as well. No way my wife would be ok with stacks of consoles in the living room lol
I planned on building shelves for all my consoles and I wondered about how I was going to hook everything up... here it is! Thanks for posting this is awesome.
SCART was such a cool connector.
Only costs an arm and a leg.
an arm and a lag
well that's less than I have, what a bargain!
I don't know if it's where I live or what but all AV bits and bobs like Switches and Splitters are like this over here.
It's either no-brand Chinesium or an Arm and a leg, there's zero in between
Wow. What a remarkable "new" product.