Video Game Perfection is now selling the awesome 8×2 SCART switch from Gamescare. I reviewed it last year and found it performed really well. They’re also hoping to carry Gamescare’s component video switch too, but those aren’t in stock yet. The price is about $150 plus shipping and for more info on it, please check out the video above, as well as further analysis below:
UK Seller: https://retrorgb.link/gamescare82scartuk
Main Gamescare Page: https://retrorgb.link/gamescare82scart
In the video, I showed the scope results and while the results were good, my presentation of the results came out bad; You can’t really see the voltage. I really felt that seeing them all side-by-side was important though, so I wanted to post that picture here. Please excuse the mis-matched time for the green shot – I must have zoomed in when checking the GamesCare switch to verify. The voltages (BY-AY) are all that matter for this test though and all match (click all pics for full-sized views):
Also, I messed up the comparison shot. To be clear: The demo I showed in the video accurately demonstrated how the GameCare switch does NOT add any interference, but I didn’t use the proper RT4K settings for this type of demonstration. You probably won’t be able to notice, due to YouTube compression, but stuff like this bothers me, as I might be accidentally mis-representing a product…so here’s some re-shoots I took:
…and here’s the originals below. Notice the haloing outside the letters in “Mario”? I don’t know how that happened, but it was definitely my fault. Now, once again, even those this comparison wasn’t done correctly, it still perfectly demonstrated the point I was trying to make: The switch doesn’t add any more analog interference then was already there. I didn’t think this was worth re-editing, re-rendering, re-uploading, re-previewing and waiting a day for it to re-settle at 4K again, so I left these shots in…and once again, I doubt this will be visible on most people’s TV’s:
Here’s links to everything else I mentioned in the video:
Buy that awesome t-shirt I’m wearing: https://retrorgb.link/tshirts
RGC Cheap Switch: https://retrorgb.link/scart621
RT5x Version of the switch: https://retrorgb.link/rgcscartswitch
Gscartsw: https://retrorgb.link/gscartsw
RGB Xbox Component-Over-SCART Cable: https://retrorgb.link/xboxypbprscart
PlayStation Cables: https://www.retrorgb.com/playstation2.html
SCART Switch Page: https://www.retrorgb.com/scartswitches.html
….and if you’d like more info on how I use the Oscilloscope, this page has everything you need, with the main “getting started” video below: https://www.retrorgb.com/oscilloscope.html
