N64 HDMI Coverter

[Demon_Skeith]

he more television technology advances, the harder it is to keep our classic consoles hooked up. Modder Marshall over at Retroactive is working on a device to bring the last cartridge-based Nintendo console into the HDMI age. Anyone know how to solder?

Tentatively scheduled for a Q1 2014 release, the N64 HDMI Coverter is a board that the tech savvy can install inside their ancient consoles in order to give them a DVI output, which can then be adapted to HDMI or VGA if need be.

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That's pretty neat, anyone here thinking of buying this?

 

[FinalSmash]

So you can play N64 on your flatscreen?

 

[Demon_Skeith]

So you can play N64 on your flatscreen?

pretty much. Otherwise the games don't look as good.

 

[FinalSmash]

Well N64 games can't be HD though. My PS2 looks terrible on my flatscreen; I almost threw up when I saw it. The Wii doesn't look bad.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

PS2 doesn't look to bad, but I think the HDMI cable would upscale the resolution or something.

 

[ToCool74]

My Playstation 2 games look horrible on my flatscreen tv.

I recently found out that some games have progressive mode on it which makes it look much better on the flatscreen such as tekken 4 and Soul Calibur 3.

There was a adapter that makes forces 480p progressive mode for all playstation 2 games but recently its all sold out by most online retailers.

But this new tool for N64 sounds pretty interesting, I'm a huge fan of some of the older N64 titles such as 007 Goldeneye,Super Mario 64, and Goemon Adventure.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Now that I think about it, this connection most likely forces a black bar sides to the game holding their original resolution.

 

[Mikaya]

this might turn out to be really good, if they do it properly and works. xD