Recently Bob tried out the new RetroTink4K feature announced by Mike Chi where illegal NES colours could be displayed in HDR: RetroTINK 4K – “Real” NES Composite Colors This is a pretty exciting development, and I’d like to take you through some of the technical reasons why. Before I start, however, there’s two points I […]
A fantastic CRT colour calibration guide has appeared on YouTube this week courtesy of Lex Locatelli. CRT colour calibration is often a task people like to do by eye. However due to a lot of factors around how human vision can be fooled by certain lighting conditions, this can leave you with a display […]
RetroTink creator Mike Chi announced on Twitter that the upcoming RetroTink4K will include full custom colour matrix support. If you’ve been following my posts on RetroRGB these last few weeks, you’ll know I’ve been working on a series of mathematical inputs and outputs that allow modern monitors and TVs to display accurate simulations of other […]
I posted a week or so back an article that covered a brief history of colour science and Japanese CRT display standards. If you missed that, read up to explain what this post is all about: https://www.retrorgb.com/colour-malarkey.html Since then I’ve fleshed out my GitHub repo, and built on the maths and python code to generate […]
Here we are on RetroRGB.com. And let’s take a moment to really ponder that last bit – RGB. What’s in a colour? Pretty simple right? Red is red, green is green, blue is blue. Or is it? Let’s ask our little buddy Link what he thinks: Can you pick which is the “right” colour? In […]
“Preservation” is a term we hear frequently in the retro video game community, and one that is extremely important to the art form of video games. Despite being such a young industry compared to other art forms such as novels, music or film, video games have arguably been some of the most difficult content to […]
Before I start, I offer my apologies to my US friends for the spelling of the words “grey” and “colour”, as well as a big hello to my fellow Australians and English speakers in the UK and Canada. Some time ago I released a series of YouTube videos that covered the basics of colour science […]
Some time back I documented the timeline of a group of an amazing group of people who worked together to bring correct colours to PC Engine / TurboGrafx16 console emulation (for software emulation, FPGA tools like MiSTer, and hardware mods like the Super HD System 3 PRO): PC Engine palette improvements – the amazing people […]
The Mother 4 Fan Game team have released their trailer detailing what their upcoming game will look like. The title is an unofficial sequel to the Japanese-only GBA game Mother 3, itself a sequel to the game released in the west as Earthbound on SNES (and later ported to GBA): The footage shows the teenage […]
A fantastic individual who goes by the username “ForeverMozart” on Reddit, and “GlobalVillageCoffeehouse” on imgur, continues to upload an enormous amount of technical-cultural imagery spanning across 4 decades. Obviously a big part of retro gaming is enjoying playing the games themselves. But I find it incredibly enjoyable personally, and important culturally, to look at the […]
