The production of these videos totally gives me a 90s Discovery Channel Kids program and I LOVE IT.

Holy crap, UltraHDMI looks stellar!

It's funny, I do a lot of my own research on getting the best possible picture out of old consoles, but every time I watch your videos, you cover literally everything I've found out on my own and sometimes more. I should just stop wasting my time and watch your videos haha

My gawd, that fucking intro music always gets me. Its retro, dramatic, kinda sad and upbeat at the same time, and it sounds like a Sci-Fi movie soundtrack.

The year the n64 came out I wanted it so bad. I didn’t get one for Christmas but the summer after my parents took me to sears to buy one for my birthday. I played the display consoles the entire time while I waited for them to bag everything up. When I got home I opened the bag to find a Super Nintendo with donkey Kong country and super Mario world. I was told that we didn’t have enough money for a n64 and that this was just as good. I was very upset being a bratty child. But that system gave me countless hours of fun and actually got my dad to play video games with me. I’m glad I didn’t get a n64 until dk64 came out. By then I was able to get rogue squadron and Pokémon stadium. Thank you for reading my pointless rambling comment.

Personally, I think CRTs + S-video is a pretty solid combo and more than satisfactory for me, but it's nice that there are options available for people who are unsatisfied with what they've got. More power to the dedicated people who make mods like these!

Right now, my setup is the N64 with the Expansion Pak on a flat screen CRT through official Nintendo S-Video cable. Great image quality, flawless 480i content, no mod required, no overscan, no sync problems with resolutions transitions, and very cheap. Also, none of the problems that emulators have. And for those who don't want to spent money on each game, there is an Everdrive cart available for the system. The only "problem" is that you can't play that way without scanlines, but for me it is the way it is supposed to look.

You guys deserve way more subscribers than what you currently have. Great work as always!

These videos are amazing. There is so much depth and detail that satisfies me greatly. You guys definitely deserve more attention.

naturally i loved this :) great job !

CRT TV + S-Video is my way to go, I liked that look the best

Man, imagine if Try had seen the Voodoo 2 cards in SLi. He would have had his mind blown-er. XD But seriously, 1997-2007 is probably the golden age of gaming, console and PC-wise. Even if the SNES and Genesis were great leaps forward, the 3d era was just insane.

Your intro music is absolutely breathtaking... Brings me to tears (literally) full of nostalgia. The choice of the notes, holy crap. Anyway, I subscribed 2 weeks ago and you guys are doing a wonderful job! :)

why does my life in gaming have only 12 k subs, they should have at least 1.2 million!

Great video, guys! It's how i discovered your most excellent show, and inspired me to dig out the N64 to send off to get modded-- i haven't been this excited to play video games in forever, and can't wait to get it back and pop in all those old favorites! I'd kind of forgotten how much i loved that console, and how many of my all time favorites i played on it back in the day. I'm also getting the GameCube modded (i've just been playing GC games on my Wii), and picking up a GameBoy Player so i can play all my GameBoy Advance favorites. All because of your videos! I'd always kind of flirted with getting into retro gaming, but now it looks like i'm going full bore. Thanks guys!

Love your show! i can't believe you only have around 10k subs, you guys deserve a ton more

I L.O.V.E this channel... all the picture nerdiness i,ve been thinking about for years is explained in great detail.

I just got my N64 RGB modded...so far I'm really liking it!

Your intro 100% described my own experience before and right after I had my N64.

EXCELLENT video comparing all of the many options for N64 image scaling. Years ago I would have LOVED to have had these options, but even after all this time, I am so amazed by the UltraHDMI! It's incredible.

Another fantastic video guys. I really do look forward to your videos and believe they are without doubt some of the very best retro gaming videos out there. Thanks for lol the hard work that goes into making these guys - most appreciated. So refreshing to watch a retro gaming video presented in an adult fashion by people that actually know what they're talking about! The amount of times I've watched other gaming channels on YT and been discouraged by said persons lack of knowledge regarding the game/subject they choose to cover and the errors that result. Keep up the great work guys looking forward to the next episode :-)

scanlines hurt my eyes when they're not on a CRT

YESSSSSSS!!!!! But please, if you can, as , much as I loved the N64, PLEASE don't forget the TG16, PC-Engine, Dreamcast and the Neo Geo. BTW, Turok 2 with the expansion pack completely blew me away, it's still one of my top favorite N64 titles to this day.

The origin of "too real to be real". We need an MLiG shirt with that on it

i ate a whole chocolate bar while watching this video

This was the BEST discussion of N64 output ever. Thanks guys, I really enjoyed this.

The intro/outro music gives me goosebumps in a good way, love this show 👍

i just went out and bought a tube television from a thrift store

great work guys, I can't even imagine how much work must have gone into this video!

8 MEGABYTES

Have I watched this before? Yes. When will I watch it again? Don’t know. Could be tomorr-NOW!

I run my eTim RGB modded funtastic through an ossc with scan lines, and it's the best quality I've ever seen it in. I toggle deblur on/off depending on the game. Excellent video, yet again 😀👌

You guys have awesome production value! I'm sure I'll have questions for you at some point in the near future :D

Takes me back pretty hard. Sad that most kids will never know how amazing this was.

This video made me want to start collecting for the Nintendo 64. I do have some fond memories of the system but I was in my late teens when I had it so I don't get as nostalgic as I do with 16-Bit consoles. But, now that I see how great it can look I'm strongly considering getting one.

Getting rid of my N64 was not one of my better choices.

Yet another awesome video from you guys. I love the quality you two put into your content. More people should be seeing your stuff, so I posted this all over Reddit

Don't forget that some of the best N64 games have been rereleased elsewhere. For example, Mario 64 was ported to the DS, and the N64 Zelda games got 3DS ports. Also, the Banjo games, Perfect Dark, Blast Corps, Killer Instinct Gold, and Conker's Bad Fur Day are available on Rare Replay.

Very thorough, and spot on analysis of the entire N64 RGB situation. Thanks guys!

Probably the most anticipated episode for me. I was even trying to use a NOT64 emulator on my Wii to see if that will work as an alternative to play N64 games on a console, but it has a lot of issues, like disappearing textures (like Banjo lacking a face in the intro). As much as I respect the ULTRA we're still far and away from achieving the clean-PS1 look. But either way, my interest has peaked

S-Video through an old Trinitron is the way to go. Whole setup can be had for about $30. No mods required.

Excellent work guys! Very thorough, and I'm blown away by that Ultra HDMI mod! I had no idea that was even a thing! (Or will be, as the case may be.) Bravo! :)

just wanted to stop by and comment once again on how awesome you guys are! keep it up! i cant believe you dont have over a mil subs?!?! the info, presentation, and editing is top notch! truly work from two guys who love and appreciate the 8 and 16 bit era. its thanks to you guys that I own a frameister and a modded snes mini! its nostalgia central on this channel!

Am still empress that they put resident evil 2 in a cartridge and still looks good

Thanks for the emulation coverage, it's something I felt was missing from your past reviews and will be relevant again if you cover GameCube.

these guys rock...keep the videos comein...i luv to clean my n64 up...

Not gonna lie, that ending was freaking beautiful.

N64 was my childhood. Ill never forget the day i came home from school, excited to play banjo tooie (i had the console in my room at this time, cart in console and controller not wrapped up) and found out my mother sold it and bought my sister makeup. Rarely was i able to play n64 games again, at least not the way i enjoy it. Finally, about 20 yrs later, i bought an n64 myself. Man did i miss it! Finally played banjo again! Ive got a retro tink and mclassic. Sometimes im torn between just using the retro tink, because the pixels do look sharp like that and i kind of like it. But i specifically remember the n64 looking better than everything else because of that anti aliasing filter. On those old tvs, it looks fine and when you look at a ps1 game next to n64 on the same tv, the n64 always wins.

Another great RGB master class video guys,keep it up. (also for an honorable mention: make a SEGA DREAMCAST and SEGA SATURN RGB video) :D

Sweet Mother of Mercy... Wow. That "UltraHDMI" thing looks amazing. I wish that was kind of a thing with all the other consoles. I know, HD Retrovision is working on the HDMIzer (I'm super stoked for that, as hopefully it's a far cheaper, more native English speaker friendly alternative to the Framemeister), but I think that this unbelievable innovation is a game changer for clone consoles and native hardware alike. This innovation could, in the future, be used as a viable alternative to the Retron 5, which, let's face it, used emulator code that not only is imperfect, but it also was open source code that was used without attribution, which is a blatant violation of the GPL. There is a whole host of information on how that kind of practice hurts the open source software community, and frankly while I would like one for the translation patch implications, it means I'm going to never pay full price for the damage that Hyperkin did.

Great video. I think I'll just stick with my RGB modded one on a Sony Trinitron CRT

I put my s-video cables into my 50in hdtv, and since it stretched out the image, the anti-aliasing looked much better.

For any Goldeneye players out there, there's an .ips patch that not only removes Anti-Aliasing from the game but in doing so it actually increases game performance on consoles to the point where it's definitely noticeable. The patch can be applied to either a retail ROM of Goldeneye or a ROM hack of the game for those who enjoy the many awesome hacks that Goldeneye Vault have to offer. Keep in mind that this patch doesn't work for Perfect Dark however they are working on one suited specifically for Perfect Dark. The link for the patch is here: files.catbox.moe/s60gcp.zip Or if you want to visit the forums yourself and get the patch you can find that here (Toward the bottom): www.shootersforever.com/forums_message_boards/viewtopic.php?t=7325&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90

Another top notch episode guys. Any plans to do a feature on professional CRTs?

Thank you for including Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon gameplay and sound files in your videos. I loved this game growing up, and it seems to have been lost in time. It validates me to hear MN music in your videos :)

Great vid. I'm slowly working my way through these videos and enjoying them immensely. I prefer the modern HDMI look over the old scanline.

I'm watching this video in 240p by the way

fucking brilliant! personally the n64 is my favorite console of all time, if for no other reason than it innovated moreso in more areas than any other home console ever released, and created pretty much every staple for consoles that would come after it and even its rival the playstation borrowed a lot from. anti-aliasing at the time made the n64 look a lot more arcade-like and smooth on TVs at thetime so i agree with nintendo's decision at the time. it just felt so good to play a console which, at the time, did have the most 'real' look of anything out there and didn't contain textures or graphics that looked like all jaggy and pixelated like everything in console gaming looked like up to that point. i've been intending to purchase an n64 again, probably by next year, and start collecting towards having a complete game library for it. i will absolutely be getting the ultraHDMI mod now that i know it exists. thanks for a fantastic video as always.

Been rocking an RGB-modded JP N64 with HD Retrovision YPbPr cables (nominally for the SNES) for a while and I am one happy camper, many thanks MLiG for guiding me through this *vast* jungle

Revisiting this would be great! (Especially the emulation part.)

Awesome job on the video! I need to be able to do 1080p 60 fps!

Great video (as is all the RGB series). I was disappointed the French "Officiel" RGB Mod was not covered though as it's regarded as the superior RGB mod in the market using native RGB present on French consoles. It is different to both the Australian and THS7314.

Very informative and fascinating, thanks for this. I've always been a huge fan of the N64 and I appreciate the fact that people are still interested even today.

Nintendo 64 was so magic in the 90's and still...

Almost killing myself by single handedly lugging a free 32" Trinitron into my house and down a flight of stairs(with the help of some pillows) was one of the best additions to my game room to date!

You should’ve test ultra hdmi with a Sony Wega that has hdmi on its own

N64 is the most problematic of the older consoles so glad there's solutions to make the image look better. 👍

The description of how Mario 64 felt in the first minute of the clip, is exactly how I felt i myself. It was unreal. I saw some kids a year younger than me playing it, and I thought to myself. Those graphics are too rich and complex for their brains to grasp.

Metal Jesus sent me here!

Seriously though, Ive been on the mailing list for the UltraHDMI mod for months. I really hope they don't sell out in seconds like most things I anticipate to buy online. UltraHDMI plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

You guys are great! Hands down best video dealing with N64 video resolutions, and the discussion about scan-lines was really interesting. A lot of things I wondered about were cleared up in this video, thank you!

You guys are like the "History Channel" for gamers! I cant get enough.

"Should 240p games even be anti-aliased?" YES! The lower the res, the MORE you need anti-aliasing. The problem isn't the resolution of 240p. The problem is the N64 hardware AA is a CHEAP bi-linear filter, which is basically just a smear. 240p content would look much much better if you ran MSAA, but of course the N64 can't do that. So the real question is, "Should you use a bilinear filter if you can't do better?" and the answer to that, I would say, is "no."

UltraHDMI looks fantastic.... !

That booster pack really does work wonders! I noticed the most benefit on "Shadowman", it sharpened all of the textures and smoothed out some of the jaged edges however did not add cloth physics to his shirt like the PlayStation did. Still an awesome upgrade even if it is only 4 MEGABYTES!!

Glad to hear about the RGB mod availability for my jungle green console. Another great episode guys!

Dammit!!! Now I need to get an N64

Lester from GTA V can walk?

I remember playing Legend of Zelda at Walmart for hours. My neck was sore for days. I think they placed the monitors as high as possible to deter people fromn playing for hours.

I love this show. I've been binge watching this channel for like 2 days!

N64 graphics has not aged...display technology has advanced which is a completely different subject. If you play N64 on the same tv you used back in the days it will look exactly as you remember. Now for many new era gamers is completely trash graphics since their perception of "great" graphics is totally different from a 90's kid.

crt for life haha cool vid though

You guys make retro gaming sound so frikkin epic I LOVE IT!!

the first console to actually impress me with its graphics at home was the sega dreamcast. finally a system that matched (sometimes even exceeded) what was current in arcades (in the US at least) at the time. for old school gamers, that was all many of us really wanted.. to take the arcades home. I completely bypassed the n64 when it was out. think I played mario kart (or at least watched somebody play it) one time, and that was it until a few years ago when I got one as a gift. good for party games, I'll give it that! retro consoles like this look best on a crt tv, although emulation can make it look better than it ever did on the original hardware. now arcades are dead, and retro gaming lives. I am glad when people talk about the originals and not just the "classic" plug 'n' plays, "minis" or the emulation, which doesn't always give you the full experience

i still use a tube tv

5:07 I can't imagine anyone would want to play Legacy of Darkness at all...

Man, that intro is awesome, so many good memories.

Amazing. I love the RGB series. You guys really break it down well. One day I will get every console I have in max resolution...when I can afford it. In the meantime I have s-video for most. Thanks for your work.

I really want UltraHDMI but the website just says it's not ready yet. zzzz Been over a year since this video. I also noticed there's no link to retroactive in your video description - is it a dead project? EDIT: Found it, preorders all out of stock. :/

I dont understand one thing, I have a sony triniton crt display and N64 looks amazing, every 90's console looks beautiful on my tv, why would someone want to play old school games in LCD screens I just dont get it.

Seriously love these videos. Can't wait to get my retro consoles to look good on my HD TV. Can't wait for the next one!

Thanks for another outstanding video! Based on your glowing review I purchased an UltraHDMI kit from Game-Tech.us in June and BadAss Consoles finally installed the mod last night after a two and a half month wait. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the results on my new 75 inch 4k TV next week!

I'm not a computer whiz at all but here is just a thought. If quake had an option to turn off anti aliasing and the anti aliasing is a setting built into the N64s hardware. I wonder if it's possible to mod a N64 keep the antialiasing off at all times? BTW another great video guys.

why did you reverse the image at 6:36

Another awesome and very informative video, thanks guys, I am from the UK and have the N64RGB Board on my N64 as I always like CRT over LCD and I think this is an excellent device with really clear and sharp picture on my Philips CM8833 CRT monitor.

you guys remembered mischief makers so i liked the video

**sigh** The bit about the Sony PVMs depresses me. I work in the back stock of a department store and 3 days ago I walked into work and saw 9 dust covered monitors, 8 of them stacked on a large metal roller, that I was later told were waiting to be shipped out to a recycling facility. Curious, I brushed the dust off the front of one and saw a "Sony Trinitron" logo and my heart rate shot up (thought I was going to have a heart attack). Looking at the back of that same monitor I could see the model was a Sony PVM-2030 and it turned out 8 of the 9 monitors were the same model. I have wanted a Sony PVM since I got into retro gaming about two years ago but never had the opportunity to get my hands on one so, seeing 8 of these things on the same day in the same place had me shaking like a leaf. I rolled the monitors over to a nearby wall outlet (felt like I was pushing a car) and plugged them in to see if they still worked and wow... all 8 worked, 2 had a slight discolored line running horizontally in the middle of the screen, but other than that, they didn't appear to have any issues. The last monitor was sitting on the concrete floor in a corner with it's back facing away from me so it didn't originally catch my interest, but it was way larger than the other 8 monitors. It weighed a shit-ton and I nearly threw my back out trying to turn it just enough so I could see the model number on the back and when I saw it, I nearly pissed myself (no joke, I had to catch myself or I would have literally pissed all over myself and I was shaking so hard I think the security guy thought I was having a stroke [He came to check on me a few seconds after I felt like I couldn't stand anymore]). I had to sit down and seriously take some deep breaths. I felt like God was just showering me in glory, because it wasn't a Sony PVM, it was a Sony BVM. A Sony model# BVM-D24E1WU, sitting on the ground, waiting to be picked up, sent out to be recycled and here I was about to pass out because these things go for $3000 in excellent condition and I never thought I'd have the "chance" to see one, let alone "maybe" get one for free. I had to get an extension cord to hook it up to the wall outlet because I couldn't lift it even an inch off the ground without feeling like I was going to drop it, but it turned on perfectly. I spent 4 hours (between 2 days) after work trying to find someone who could give me the go ahead to take these things home, no one could give me a straight answer, and the second day around someone in charge said that I could take them as long as I cleared it with security (security had gone home for the day). So I went home, high as a fucking kite, came back in for work this morning while imagining myself home enjoying all my old RGB consoles on a badass, Pro CRT... and the metal cart stacked with PVMs... and the BVM in the corner were gone. I saw my boss... he said good morning, asked me how I was doing (tradition everyday), I said "I'm good" and then I asked him: "What happened to the cart that was sitting near the security office door, the one with all the old monitors on it?" and he said, "Oh I threw those in the trash this morning, first thing when I came in. They can't be taking up our work space all the time with their junk they don't even use anymore." (this actually is a problem we have at my work place...) I asked him if he cleared it with security first (I seriously felt dead, still kinda do...) and he said that they gave him permission to pitch them... I actually jumped into the giant trash compactor after work to see if anything survived, but nothing but glass and crushed components remain... So now I'm home and I'm watching My Life in Gaming videos to comfort myself, because I feel absolutely horrible. I wish I'd never seen those things, because while I was high on adrenaline thinking I'd be getting away with at least "ONE" PVM for free, now knowing they're nothing but crushed heaps of glass and metal heading to a landfill has me feeling like I went to hell and didn't come back.

All I can say is that I'm from the UK and every time I see one of these American videos that show off how bad all these older games looked on systems like the NES, SNES and N64, I actually feel sorry for American gamers. Games never looked this bad in my house, running on my SDTV through RGB/SCART most of the time.

Hello, I've just recently discovered this channel and so far I'm very impressed. Your videos are very informative and easy to understand, even when going into more technical elements. I certainly will use your videos to help get the best out of my games consoles as they're brilliant. This subscription is for you

Such a big difference using UltraHDMI! I didn't think there would be as upscaling always just enlarged pixels with an algorithm, but altering the blur is really neat! Any sort of lag introduced I'm not so keen with though. So it would be nice to see if they can work that out.