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Related to this, I never knew just how bad the Sega Genesis composite signal looked until I switched to RGB. It may have the worst composite signal of any syste
by 83457 5y ago
Related to this, I never knew just how bad the Sega Genesis composite signal looked until I switched to RGB. It may have the worst composite signal of any system ever.
Europe had RGB so I wonder if that was part of the reason the Mega Drive (Genesis) was so popular. The SNES doesn't look (much?) better than the Genesis when both in RGB, but SNES composite is much much better than Genesis.
https://youtu.be/tT9OnPjQKWY?t=116 https://youtu.be/tT9OnPjQKWY?t=116
- thedeadfish 5y agoI think it might just be the NTSC composite that looks bad. I have never felt any desire to use RGB on my PAL Mega Drive since the composite output looks excellent. On PAL it gives just the right amount of blending to smooth out the dithering, but at the same time is sharp enough to resolve individual pixels, and lacks any sort of rainbow effect which apparently plagues NTSC.
- 83457 5y agoGotcha. Certainly sounds like it is only NTSC composite then.
- stormbrew 5y agoVideo and audio quality varies pretty wildly between models of the genesis, so some are better than others. But basically every model has some kind of notorious issue with output fidelity. I think they pretty often need to be recapped in modern times. More so than contemporary nintendo systems tend to need to, I think. In the end most of this wasn't really super obvious on an 80s/early 90s consumer CRT though, and I don't think people were really comparison shopping on it.