The Playstation 2 also supports Component (YPbPr) video output, and, if you use that, a number of games support 480p, whereas RGB Scart will only get you 480i. You need to hold X and Triangle at the start of the game to enable this. There’s a list of games on Wikipedia that support 480p.

(In case anybody is wondering: yes 480p is better than 480i, since 480i only gives you 240 lines per frame at 60 Hz vs 480 lines at 480p, so it’s only pushing half as many pixels. Modern digital TVs will deinterlace the video, which creates some artifacts and also delays the video by one frame. It’s not that bad though, especially if the game is only running at 30 fps anyway.)

PS: in case someone wants RGB output from the PS2. Make sure you buy a RGB scart cable for it, not the composite scart cable. They might look the same but they do not have the same connections.

SSokolow, yeah, the web page offers .pal files for emulator and Nt mini users, and NESRGB firmware packages for people that use those. Full instructions on flashing the NESRGB board are provided.

He says that he has a 65-inch TV, he probably moved it to another room (it was a 4K Samsung). But now he has a perfect screen for retro games, an RGB Sony monitor.

Nice… but it’s hard for me to find time to play NES outside emulation these days.

Do you happen to have fceux palettes for those or should I just screenshot and eyedropper-tool them to put together my own?

(I have a bunch of USB controller adapters attached to my desktop PC for Pomodoro breaks and an OpenPandora (pocket laptop with gaming controls) for when I’m on the go.)

*facepalm*

When I wrote that, I was so tired that I forgot an un-modded top-loader has an RF-out, not a multi-out.

(ie. I was so tired I thought “but not all the systems can be RGB” to mean “this multi-out only does composite” rather than “I had this RGB modded. See?”

Don was probably more referring to the dinky speakers instead of a full-blown A/V receiver amplifiers and big-ass floor speakers. But I will say that my SNES mini with the digital audio mod does sound much crisper on my receiver. That one is at least worth doing if you have the means.

I also offer palettes that improve the NTSC experience for the NESRGB board:

http://www.firebrandx.com/nespalette.html

I know. I actually showed it in this video