Big RGB LED Panel Rev. Engineer & FPGA Gameboy Demo

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4 жыл бұрын

Skip to 30:28 for the FPGA Gameboy Action!
Ebay was generous, and provided me with two of these excellent high resolution LED displays! Of course, no documentation was provided, so I had to figure it out. This is the start to finish of how that was accomplished.

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@linkzz00 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for what you've done for us retrogamers. I'm excited for what's next with your fpga systems. This is a great video! More of your tinkering would be appreciated. Take care!

@RonaldRaiden 3 ай бұрын

I feel this comment... I had this idea back when I was a stagehand but totally forgot about it and that was before I was motivated enough to learn this kind of stuff. I just posted on reddit about it and got referred to this video, mind officially blown. I just so happen to have a super NT but I don't know if I can do modifications to the cores like on the mini

@BagofSchmidt 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see 4 of these together for some 320x240 Genesis action

@brett20000000009 4 жыл бұрын

damnit i wanna see that.

@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for these to get affordable enough to play with a 240p array. Kinda thinking it might just be possible to get light gun games to work on these. :-D

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

320 x 240 more like DOS games :)

@loganjorgensen 4 жыл бұрын

@@intel386DX No they both work, DOS was 320x200 typically and Genesis was 320x224 most of the time so either fits.

@intel386DX 4 жыл бұрын

@@loganjorgensen and the most DOS games are 320x240 :)

@franklinbrown7389 4 жыл бұрын

I loved this video. It was informative and your personality kept it fun. More please!

@pewcfpv8056 4 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for all of your work! I'm learning alot really.

@oldmandandan 4 жыл бұрын

"What we have here is a failure to chooch!" Kev's a fan of the AvE! Ha! Awesome.

@murrij 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the hell out of this. Thank you for documenting it. It's great watching giant brains reverse engineer stuff like this!

@Cliffsrepaircorner 4 жыл бұрын

Holy crap that looks so cool

@sajk 4 жыл бұрын

Incredible! Love this hardware and the video.

@dougdabandit2003 4 жыл бұрын

hey kevtris, in your one video you did with bob from retro rgb, you said u have a few gb's of video saved from when you were working on the super nt. is there any chance you could release that on your channel for us to watch? i love watching your work!

@Lenmaer 4 жыл бұрын

Great job. It looks amazing.

@danmons7446 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great way to enjoy pixel art.

@WildVoltorb 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! You get it

@devjock 4 жыл бұрын

8 pixels shy of a perfect LED pico-8 monitor.. It looks gorgeous though!

@devjock 4 жыл бұрын

On closer inspection, there's a few 128x64 P2.5 displays that match up nicely. Still not "so cheap it feels like stealing", but almost there! I bet in a year it'll be feasible to make a nice Pico-8 LED Laptop :D

@Sneakyturtleegg 4 жыл бұрын

Super cool! I'd buy something like this!

@MrTripcore 4 жыл бұрын

Good video. Thanks for sharing

@tony-mora 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing!

@ramshambo2001 4 жыл бұрын

Would be cool if analogue made its own retro gaming display, hdmi, RGB, component in 😁

@Izquierda 4 жыл бұрын

This must look so nice in person. Would love to play on something like this.

@FOSALGO 3 жыл бұрын

Very Cool Video...

@TheBarretNL 4 жыл бұрын

If this dude touch your washing machine, it starts playing whacky races. lol

@nocturnal0072 4 жыл бұрын

I'm interested in the response time of something like this. Would it be about the same as a standard TN panel? Edit: I noticed the inconsistency between led's but how was the contrast. Any suggestive opinion would be nice. Not asking for anything indepth.

@luiszuniga4368 4 жыл бұрын

this guy is so cool

@nbzwt 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool

@Intelligenz_Bestie 4 жыл бұрын

do you know how much an individual tile of those new microLED displays from sony and samsung cost? i'm not even sure you can buy them individually though but would be interesting to know how they compare to this, the sony tiles are 360x320 each

@nacho90000 Жыл бұрын

hi, Kev. I miss your videos. Some day you think to show the development process of some of your latest projects?? pd: i still hoping for nes core in the super nt );

@WarpRadio 4 жыл бұрын

"this is EXTREMELY scientific here!" (yank yank yank, tug tug tug....) LOL that, alone made my entire day! :)

@HPRshredder 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Kevtris: SO about the Hi-Def NES mod and the Famicom Disk System -- the sound is broken. Additionally, the settings to enable FDS sound doesn't save when you save your settings. This means that you need to re-enable it whenever you start the game again. That wouldn't be too big an issue on it's own except that you cannot access the menu until side B of the game card has been inserted. So for a game like Metroid; you don't ever get to hear the awesome title music without loading side b and then purposefully breaking it and re-loading side A. Will there ever be a fix? Does this work on the Nt Mini and just doesn't work here? Thanks.

@GianmarioScotti 4 жыл бұрын

Could you give us some info (tutorial?) on how the addressing works on this display?

@davidbahr7659 Жыл бұрын

hello it looks like you realy know your stuff , im curios what type of video signal was goming from the console? could this be done for VGA? like vga output from a esp32 or mabe pi pico w? this was the best rgb matrix video I have seen. I hope to see more mabe on building simple controller

@TheSmorsked 4 жыл бұрын

I Need to buy two of the se, can you send me a link of where you got yours

@nrdesign1991 4 жыл бұрын

Incredible. I wonder how these are made.

@jamescampbell8482 3 жыл бұрын

could the LEDs be de soldered and 2 panels stacked in a cascaded fashion to get a higher resolution?

@BennyBsolo 4 жыл бұрын

Would be awesome to see a Retrotech kit with a GBA Consolizer

@fretboarder4752 4 жыл бұрын

hi kev, are you going to be releasing another nes version of the analogue consoles like a more easy one to make more like the super nt and the mega sg that will use the DAC.. cheers davey..

@BrickedUpSenpai 2 жыл бұрын

Hey could you do a video of explaining why mirroring a new n64 with modern tech would be so hard ?

@kwigbo 2 ай бұрын

Would be cool if you could get one in the exact size of the gameboy resolution.

@specialformula14 Жыл бұрын

What’s up wth them stopping the super nt ????? Is it end of contract run ?

@MarioNintendoh 4 жыл бұрын

I need this

@HPRshredder 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, Kevtris! Is your 2.25 firmware available anywhere for your Hi-Def NES mod? I can’t find it. I bought Metroid for FDS recently and noticed the door sound effect wasn’t working. I was trying to see if I could downgrade my firmware to play with the effects working, but I can’t find it 😢 Please help! Thank you so much 🙏

@HPRshredder 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Kevin: I found it!!! Hopefully this can still be fixed in the future! I’m also a programmer by the way so let me know if you ever need any help. I’ve only worked with verilog once before in 2017 or so but I’m interested in your work and if I can help I’d like to! Also let me know if you like my retro reviews :-) thanks, man

@Zebra66 4 ай бұрын

Do these update one line at a time like CRT? If so it would be heavenly to create a 40" 4:3 240×320 or 480 x 640 retro gaming display that could work with light guns. If a custom retro gaming controller is used then a 15khz 240p image could be made to skip odd lines on a 480p display to preserve that scanline look.

@kevtris 4 ай бұрын

it refreshes in sets of lines so light guns wouldn't be too happy. the video has to be buffered and scanned out to each set of 30 lines at a time (line count varies with display, some are more some are less). it is refreshing multiple parts at once to keep the brightness up

@Zebra66 4 ай бұрын

@@kevtris Shame. Still... 160x120 panels means you can make a 240x320 screen. It's worth it just for that (so old games can look good without scaling).

@victordeoliveiramelo 4 жыл бұрын

U still alive!!!

@AlbertPuljos 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Kev, I was wondering if you were working on a PlayStation project you show lots of love to Nintendo with the likes of ultra HDMI and your NES SNES consoles, but what about PlayStation? You making an HDMI kit or FPGA console for PlayStation consoles?

@MylstarElectronics 4 жыл бұрын

Where have you been?

@Nukle0n 4 жыл бұрын

Dot Matrix Game indeed

@tehaxor69 4 жыл бұрын

These are cool, I've used the 6mm versions myself, but they are too big to work with video game resolutions, like the Dave and Busters Pac-Man game. The 2 ~ 2.5mm versions wouldn't be too bad for in home use.

@red2503 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you get them?

@tehaxor69 4 жыл бұрын

@@red2503 I get mine from aliexpress search for: LED display module you can add P2, P2.5, P3... to filter different sizes

@red2503 4 жыл бұрын

I found the one Kevtris used, but it is really expensive: www.ebay.com/itm/RGB-Small-Pixel-pitch-Hd-Indoor-P1-25-led-Display-Screen-Video-Wall-1x-sq-m-/273832578321?nav=SEARCH

@shaneomack91 10 ай бұрын

46:51 "While Barbie was busy getting some"... what was the age rating on this game? 😆

@jimmyeddy 4 жыл бұрын

Neato torpedo!

@velerosarchive1098 3 жыл бұрын

Is work for the N64 coming next? Its has most under-developed scene out of the Nintendo systems, I figure that would be up your alley.

@alexsinclair2012 3 жыл бұрын

Reverse engineering game consoles and implementing them into FPGA's takes decades of electronics/programming knowledge. Especially if there's incomplete documentation on system chipsets. With that being said.. There was plenty of reverse engineering efforts (lots of early work done by kevtris himself) on the NES, Atari 2600, colecovision, and their hardware. The genesis and SNES added a whole other layer of complexity and difficulty, of which he's currently maintaining FPGA products with those systems, still ironing out verilog bugs, which takes time. Now imagine the N64 just exponentially adding a layer of complexity... it really won't be done any time soon unless hardware documentation is leaked of that system's chipsets.

@scopedpixels 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Kevtris - wonder if there's a possibility you can look into the troublesome audio issues with the PC Engine Duo consoles? Changing out DAC chips, sound chips, checking points with a multi meter and recapping sometimes wont solve the issue, so looking to see if you can deep dive on what is really the cause. I have a couple of consoles with the issue and i refuse to give up on them. It will help out greatly.

@DirtyBob7777 4 жыл бұрын

When do we get a fucking analogue fpga tg16?

@RWL2012 2 жыл бұрын

The last video...? I guess Analogue becoming "big" has effectively shut this channel down...?

@greenkoopa 4 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a question. How difficult would it be to build a board from the ground up with modern electronics, that could play both Genesis and 32x cartridges?