Hello my friends, and welcome back to another episode of Lifestyles of the Rich in Retro. Is your current retro console experiencing input lag or ugly deinterlacing artifacts? Well, we don't have time for that after all. We're rich! My console would laugh at a thing like that. Why would we ever play retro games with inferior technologies, hook them up through two dollar buck chuck interfaces that we bought on Amazon for ridiculously discounted prices? No, that's not what we would do, my friend. After all, like I said, we're rich, so we use the most expensive connectivity methods to make sure we rid our lives of deinterlacing artifacts. We turn our voice into leprechauns instead of a British man, and we put an end to crappy, low-resolution images. So in this episode, let's explore the possibilities, because after all, like I said, we're rich! Hey guys, welcome back. So obviously I'm kind of joking around about this lifestyle is a rich and retro thing, but there are certain products that I've held off on buying just because they are really expensive and you almost would think you have to be rich to buy them. So anyways, one of those products is the OSSC. So it's an open source line doubler. So effectively, you know, basic 101 is it takes a 240p signal and doubles the line. So you end up with a 480p signal from a legacy console, like something retro, like a Dreamcast or Genesis or Neo Geo, whatever it is that you have. right and so it's kind of interesting because I really didn't want to like the product because of the sheer cost of it actually sold some things in order to get this because I just I couldn't justify just buying it out right and so I did that I got rid of some things I didn't really care about and I gotta say I actually really like it I didn't want to like it especially when there's products like this I almost felt like it was irresponsible to like it because there are products like you know the hyperkin cable for the HD or the HD cable for the Dreamcast, the Hyperkin cable for the Sega Genesis, and these are like $30, and they hook up to your HDTV, so it provides, you know, the ability to play these consoles in a modern TV, but, and you know, it's decent. I'm not a super, like, crazy elitist, you know, guy about the resolution of the image, but I kind of didn't think I was until I saw this. It just looks so damn good. If you already own, like, let's say a Mega SG, then you've probably already seen what a Genesis can look like when it's pristine. But here's the thing, guys. This is legitimately my opinion, so take it for what it's worth. But when I hooked these retro consoles up to my TV as a kid, they didn't look anywhere near the way they look with this. This almost looks, it doesn't almost, it looks better than the original experience ever looked for me. So it does kind of open this debate of what really is retro. But anyways, so it looks freaking awesome, it looks amazing, it looks killer on an HDTV, but this doesn only double the lines So keep in mind the 2x line conversion is pretty much lag free You don notice any input lag there a very small amount but it nothing that you would ever i mean unless you're i don't know i just don't think you'd ever notice it there's 3x 4x and 5x obviously you can get up to crazy resolutions with it the only bummer is that the elgato capture card won't capture it at 5x so the highest i can get this thing to go up to show you is gonna be 3x but it looks really good and i'll uh turn scan lines on and off and stuff like that i'm not I'm not gonna do a comparison video because there's just so many out there. I just kind of wanted you guys to see what this thing can look like. But there's one thing that's really cool. So the system I'm gonna use, this is so neat. I wasn't even gonna do this, but it came today in the mail. I was on a work trip and it came and it was sitting on my doorstep and I was so freaking excited it's not even funny. So I'm gonna go get it really quick. I'm gonna show it to you and then we'll jump over to the computer. Okay, so the system we're gonna be using is a Neo Geo Consolized MVS. This is a splurge item for me, no doubt, but I actually sold a couple of my arcade one-up cabinets modifications that I did to be able to afford this. This thing is sick. And the other cool thing is I'm using a traditional SNK Neo Geo CD controller. So I don't know if you can hear that, but it's got the clickies. I love this. This is something that everyone complained about that they didn't have in the Neo Geo Mini. It would have been a nice touch to put this the Neo Geo Mini as the controller and even maybe on the onboard one but they didn't choose to do that. So in another episode we're gonna review this. I'm just gonna use this to hook it up to the OSSC and we'll play a couple Neo Geo games and I'll show you you know with it turn scan lines turn on turn off and all that stuff. So this is really cool I will tell you one more cool thing about this. So obviously I had to make this arcade specific there was no way I was gonna do this without bringing arcades into the element somehow but this board does both JAMMA and Neo Geo so there's a connector that you're not seeing here where I can hook up any JAMMA board to this and use this Neo Geo controller so if I buy some JAMMA boards or have some JAMMA boards laying around and I want to test them you can test them with this so those are called super guns so typically a super gun is sold separately from this unit it's not usually two units in one but this was super unique because not only is it a consolized MVS but it's also a super gun so like I said you can there's a little switch on the side you can press it to go from JAMA to MVS mode and you can hook up any arcade board you want to it super cool because I'm gonna definitely leverage this because I don't really have a really easy way to test arcade boards I usually throw them in an arcade cabinet so this is super cool but anyways let's jump over to the PC and we can see what the OSSC is all about. All right, guys, we're over on the PC. We are going to do Metal Slug 4 first. Let's get over there and give it a shot. Now, this is without scanlines. Keep in mind, we're playing on original hardware, which is pretty damn true.