Weekly Roundup #444 - January 15th 2025

00:00 Welcome

[jawsfan]

This type of weekly coverage is tremendous. Keep up the good work!

[maxrichards]

I got an Everdrive pro N8 for my sharp twin Famicom during Christmas so I’m glad there’s a new update available :)

[TheProgressiveStyle]

Retrofighter deserve respect for the effort to provide real data on lag etc, beside that the quality of the joypad is very good.

[paisleyboxers]

I hadn't updated my Everdrive N8 Pro yet. Good to know about the saves! I have... at least 10 or more unfinished "i'll get around to it" save files with over 20 hours on them from translated famicom jrpgs. Lookin' at you lagrange point!

[Nilbelec]

Thanks Bob! I’m relatively new in this retro world and thanks to you I’m able to follow up all of the amazing things happening every week. Really appreciate your work!

[retromegabitsegadude]

You should absolutely leverage your youtube channel to help sell something you want to get rid of. You earned your audience. And you're an expert at so much of what you do that it adds a huge level of 'peace of mind' for anyone buying something from you.

[PyronsLair]

The CRT beam emulation is so sexy, glad to see this kind of feature on upscaler device

[kranibal]

This weekly show is my favorite on YT. Great work Bob!

[Roshenbo]

I freaking love this show! 😎 Thank you Bob, for everything that you do for us!
🤜🤛

[natese]

@15:10 Love that the Tink4k Pro is getting more features to reduce motion blur. CRT still beats my modern TVs BFI for motion clarity. Maybe one day Mike will give us a "Tink eXtreme" that can do 4k, Beam Emulation, and CRT filters to completely rival the CRT.

[Ductape]

That GB Slideshow sounds like an awesome way to share GB Camera pictures, like a digital photo album that could be shared.

[Henners]

The Neo SD Pro also has link play. But it would only allow link to one other cart. But the Back Bit has two link ports allowing proper daisy chain for games like league bowling which has two ports - you can link up to 4 consoles.
League bowling, thrash rally have 4 console support.
Riding Hero has one link support. 4 link was intended but cut.
There is a very rare version of Kizuna Encounter that has 4 players through the use of a special Jamma board.

[Ivy_Writer]

Just grabbed the Satiator. Thanks for the news on the discount!👍👏

[Kido]

My Alienware 4k240 Scaled the 1080p image shockingly well. It was clear at 240hz but it certainly wasn't bright.

Also, Bob, when/if you go to buy, there are "Dual Mode" 4k240 monitors on the market that do 1080p480, perfect 1080p scaling. LG and Asus currently offer them.

[Dark_Jaguar]

Look at all the power modern displays use to imitate even a fraction of a CRT's abilities. I do hope that this "rolling BFI" becomes something major manufacturers try to implement baked right into newer displays, because I can easily see this making a big difference outside of retro gaming.

[eliotcole]

I have always said that the 'Saturn' pad was the best ever ... but the truth is that it's actually the ASCII Fight Pad (maybe that's fight pad ii) for the Dreamcast, which was an evolution of that pad. This was an official 6-button pad, at the time ... but I believe it was made by HORI ... I could be completely wrong on all accounts, there, though. 😅

The reason I mention all that is that those Retro Fighters controllers look to be VERY much modelled on *that* particular pad ( _of which a version was _*_also_*_ released for _*_PS2_* ) ... which is super amazo.

[itchyisvegeta]

35:00 - I absolutely love my 2.0 audio set up in my game room. Just a cheap little $40 stereo from Amazon powering my old big box front speakers, and its perfect for retro games. Definitely a nostalgia of playing 2.0 over 5.1 with retro gaming on a CRT, even with more modern consoles like 360 and PS3.

[felipe_ossa]

Only 222 more weeks for Roundup # 666. Keep at it Bob, we're gonna make it! (April, 2029)

[RAHelllord]

Not sure if it's interesting to anyone here, but Dragonbox Shop in Germany managed to get 8bitdo to manufacturer them a bunch of their small NES keyboards with the proper german QWERTZ layout.
I'm curious if that'll mean we might see more non-US layouts in the future, or if it was basically just a one-off because Dragonbox threw a bunch of money at them to foot the production run.
Price is the same as the regular US one, which is nice.

[mrmaestrom]

The RetroTINK 4K beam emulation feature sounds sick and I’m defs keen to see more demos. However, the fact you have to drop resolution in order to use it, down to 1440p or 1080p for the best experience, kind of ruins it imo. To me, the whole point of the TINK 4K is all the CRT subpixel/mask emulation effects the 4K resolution allows.