Lawfer wrote:For GBA and GB/GBC games the GBA Consolizer is the best choice, the picture is very clean and very sharp, a much better option than the very expensive and very rare IS-AGB-CAPTURE
I don't want to take away from the GBA Consolizer, which is absolutely great! Aware this is a bit off-topic, but just to complete the picture as the following seems to be rarely mentioned – for playing GB/GBC/GBA games on genuine hardware on a larger screen, there's also the option to use
GBI. Along with a good scaler or line multiplier, the video quality can be on par, if not a touch better even
(see MLiG comparison here). Here are two sample recordings I made - without going into too many details here - via the GBI route using an OSSC, both using 320 optim. mode, first one is line 3x, second one is line 5x (please watch in 720p, also note that YT's encoding takes away another little bit of the original sharpness/introduces artifacts):
[1] [2]. If your GameCube has the Digital AV port, you could also couple that with a GCVideo-based solution to eliminate any remaining analog noise, but you'll probably want to scale/line multiply that further down the line as it only passes through the GC's native standard definition resolutions.
Some disorganized, non-exhaustive pros/cons compared to the GBA consolizer:
+ Considerably cheaper than pre-built Consolizer, potentially even cheaper than Consolizer kit version, depending on what building blocks you already have available (a dedicated scaler/line multiplier will probably be the most costly piece of kit). Potentially also cheaper than the upcoming Analogue Portable even if you start with nothing.
+ No hardware modification required
+ GBI has some nice extra features like a ROM+savegame dumper
+ If you want to play on a CRT, simply skip the video digitization part of the chain
+ Can optionally run on unaltered 59.7Hz framerate (which in this case is tied to overall gameplay speed), making it eligible for speedrunning
- Not a nice all-in-one solution, you have to take care of the individual parts/steps involved for setting this up yourself
- Assume that overall, more research/tinkering will be required to get optimal results
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