I never tried the fully redesigned one that came out a year after I released the RGB bypass mod for it, I'm surprised to hear it was even worse; the major change seemed to be that they added the amp to do the buffering just like the bypass mod did, though in our bypass mod we cheated by just pulling the luma line from the input and buffering that to the output, because the GARO's sync generation was broken and it was much simpler to just buffer the input luma signal and basically not touch sync at all, rather than trying to convert the HV sync output from the TI chip. However, I do know that not long after the bypass was released, they just stopped including a SCART port on the GARO to get around its broken csyncorange808 wrote:All the influencers were pushing Behar Bros hard. When I got a second "fixed" "new design" Garo that was significantly worse than my original unit, I knew to steer clear of Behar Bros. I still can't figure out how the new Garo got out the door in that state.tongshadow wrote:I remember Adam Koralik shilling the hell out of those boxes, I had no idea they were that bad.
People like mikechi2, citris3000psi, bucko, voultar, borti, and marqs (among so many others) have really helped out by raising the bar for quality.
The two main issues with the GARO (among many) were that, first of all the colourspace conversion chip from TI explicitly says in the datasheet that you can't drive video outputs with it without buffering (they wired the VGA/SCART ports directly to the chip's output, causing tons of bloom/glow/fade issues), and second of all they weren't using a valid method of combining HV sync into sync, causing lots of compatibility issues. Their "new design" claims to fix all that, but I haven't tried it.
And besides, ever since Mike released the COMP2RGB and RGB2COMP, who cares about the GARO