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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2024
- You're a child in the 90s, and your TV in your room doesn't have the fancy new yellow white and red cables. You're stuck with the old screw in connector, but that doesn't matter to you because the games you play on your Nintendo 64 are still really fun. It doesn't matter how it looks, what matters is that you can play it and nothing can stop you.
I decided to both test my video production skills from school with the short introduction at the start, figured I hadn't made an actual skit type video in a few years. I wanted to try it at least once, and I want to try and make more content like that on this channel.
This video was made by recording the direct output from a VCR that the RF adapter from the N64 was plugged into. I made sure to wiggle it and have a bad video connection as much as possible in this video to get that pure 90s aesthetic. I remember the days of only having RF, and while it never looked amazing it still let me play these games and experience these worlds. I'm very happy to have been able to play them as a kid, and I wanted to share that aesthetic in this video.
Edited in Adobe Premier on Windows 10, this time on my laptop from 2012 lmao. - เกม
the sad thing is, this video quality is actually better than what I had from our sega megadrive that I spent hours and hours playing as a kid in the mid late 90s
I figured that some people would have very bad video connections back then, I remember using RF for every console without HDMI until 2017, and while it looked fine a lot of the time, there were definitely times it looked terrible as well. This was purposefully made to look bad by manipulating the cable while playing, but only in a realistic way that some kid may have encountered themselves over the years.
The dentists office I went to as a kid had an N64 in one of the store kiosks, the one with the clear plastic dome over the console and built in TV. They never replaced any of the parts and by the time I was old enough to go to the big boy dentist it looked something like this 😆 Thanks for dredging up that really obscure memory!
Glad I could bring back that memory! I was hoping to being up memories and experiences like that one with his video, because while we all think back on those days with everything being great, there were absolutely imperfections like this. It really was a product of growing up with analog technology!
I played N64 over RF when I was a kid, I don't remember it looking quite this bad. Could be nostalgia tricking me though
his cables are loose or something for sure, i remember this well but if you jiggled them it would clear up.
@@CkGamingxx14 yeah, it's exaggerated for the effect, hence why the video mentions a bad video connection. I'm sure there were people who didn't know any better as a kid and played like this, but generally making the cables tighter or replacing them would make it look better. You still wouldn't make it look great, but RF is like that lol.
I remember my aunt's n64 cables got chewed through by her cat so we had to jerryrig a solution and it looked exactly like this except the audio was also wonky too and it was in black and white but god damn I was playing mario64 and that was good enough.
That's all you need as a kid. You may not have the best setup with all the best tech, but playing the game and it being fun was enough. Just doing your best to enjoy what you had, I tried to capture that with this video!
When i was a kid and my parent offered me the N64, my TV wasn’t PAL, so i played mario 64 in black and white :)
I remember trying PAL PS2 games in the 2010s, and they were also in black and white. I remember later that when I tried them over AV instead of RF, the picture was in color.
Yup my game cube and third party cable connector! Had it when I first moved into my trailer!
I'm sure third party connectors were more prone to breaking than first party lol. I remember how many MadCatz products I had as a kid, and they would generally always break. You can't beat first party products until enthusiasts make new products for a then retro console.
@@NottJoeyOfficialI had nintendo dreams but Madcatz money!
"Bad video connection". Have you played using the traditional N64 AV cables? They were so finicky (and loose) that back in the day I ended up chewing through 3 different TVs since the N64 AV cords ended up breaking the AV cord ports on my tvs. And the sound cord was so unreliable that I wasn't able to get to the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time, but ended up clearing most of the water temple.
Thankfully the gamecube cords were compatible with the N64.
I didn't even know you could plug an N64 with RF. I always vad either SCART or composit.
The RF adapter was a product sold on its own, not included with the console. They also happened to repackage the same RF adapter for the GameCube when that came out. You only got it if your TV did not have the composite inputs.
Man I wish I were alive in those times...
It's a time where I am glad I experienced it, but would not like to go back to lol.
These HDMI kids will never understand 🤣
I wouldn't want to go back to RF for everything, but I'm so glad I got to experience it as a kid! I remember learning what the red cable was for on AV cables by just experimenting with plugging things in, and that was so cool as a kid.
wiggle the wires
super nintendo and regular nintendo
rf needles
fuzzy screens
snow static
RF is quite something lol.
I played a few NES games with RF on a wooden tv a 2 years ago.
I think there are games where you NEED this.
Not this kind of stuff. But RF or composite.
NES games look awful in HD and RGB.
Only PS2 games look enough to get a better signal than composite.
Oh for sure, I make sure to play the majority of my retro games on a CRT. My CRT is the one in this video, so small (13 inches) and RF only. I generally use a VCR to connect composite to it. Old games look beautiful, even on my really bad CRT from the 90s.
then theres tvs with bad shielding. had a tv with composite that would bleed static audio from the most recent tv channel you had on before switching to av. annoying as heck
That actually sounds super annoying, but not enough of an issue to replace the entire TV over right away.