My Life in Gaming

Coury checks out Anbernic's 353M, a cool little portable emulation machine thats capable of a lot more than it might seem.... while also getting more of a grasp on RetroArch and Emulation Station. ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 02:02 - Anbernic 353M Overview 08:24 - Features and Assorted Emulation 19:42 - Anbernic 35XX 20:52 - Final Thoughts and Outro

Its been a couple of years since we last looked at some ROM hacks that we'd actually use. Let's see what new Improvements, Restorations, Colorizations, Fan Translations and more that have caught Coury's attention! ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Ad 00:48 - Intro 01:47 - Overview 02:52 - What I Missed 04:58 - FastROM 07:18 - Game Boy Colorizations 09:46 - General Improvements 16:46 - Translations 21:51 - Saturn Translations (Guest: John Linneman) 27:36 - Variety Time! 32:49 - Outro

Do you have multiple retro consoles hooked up? Hate those wall wart power bricks? Did you know that the PlayStation 2 Slim AC Adapter Power Supply is secretly the ultimate multi-console power supply out there, and the best thing is, you might already have one! Coury show you how to get this power supply working with different retro consoles! UPDATE: Just found out that Sony recalled PS2 Slim power supplies made between August and December 2004 for being a fire hazard. If you have one of these, check the date on the bottom label, which will tell you the manufacture date. "Adapters considered at-risk and eligible for the recall are printed with the model number "HP-AT048H03" and have one of the following five date stamps: 2004.8, 2004.9, 2004.10, 2004.11, 2004.12" ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:19 - Overview and Capabilities 07:07 - Hooking up your consoles 11:16 - Making polarity reversal cables and adapters 14:06 - Hooking up multiple consoles to one power supply

The Viture ONE glasses have tiny micro OLED screens in each lens for big screen gaming on the go. How do well do they work? More importantly, can we use them to make a portable MiSTer FPGA console? ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:26 - Features and Accessories 08:26 - 3D Capabilities 10:45 - Modern and Classic Games 13:07 - Portable MiSTer!

Coury and Try look through some of their favorite and most used video accessories as of 2023. ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Ad 01:04 - Intro 2:12 - (Coury) Save File Backups 6:04 - (Coury) Console Customization 9:48 - (Try) Console Storage 12:42 - (Try) Controllers 19:56 - (Coury) Controllers and Bluetooth Retro Recievers 27:10 - (Try) Cables, Upscalers, Splitters and Switchers 33:00 - (Try) Everdrives and Homebrew Launchers

Coury checks out BenQ's newest 4K HDR Projector, the X3100i. How does it look? What can it do? More importantly, how does it work with games new and old? ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:46 - Gaming on Projector's Recap 03:34 - BenQ X3100i Overview 08:17 - Let's play some Modern Games! 15:50 - Classic Games on the Projector! 18:19 - Closing thoughts and outro

The RetroTINK 4K ushers in yet another scaling revolution for those who crave the jump to 4K. In this episode, Coury gives an overview of the RetroTINK 4K and takes a look at how its analog video features are shaping up, before Try goes deep on exploring the new connection that has him most excited - the HDMI input. ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 02:05 - Features Overview and Analog Input 10:33 - 720p and 1080p HDMI Input 16:56 - 480p HDMI Input 19:04 - Interpolation and Color Correction 23:28 - Introduction to Pre-Scaling 27:15 - Pre-Scaling In-Depth 31:44 - Pre-Scaling VS. Direct Video 34:00 - Pre-Scaling + Aspect Ratio Correction 36:09 - Decimation and Fixing Uneven Pixels 42:48 - HD Game Pre-Scalingpalooza! 51:15 - Connectivity Concerns and Final Thoughts

The Analogue Duo is finally here, offering a new way to play PC Engine, TurboGrafx, and SuperGrafx HuCard games, not to mention, it's the first FPGA console to offer a CD drive! Coury and Try put it through its paces to find any weird edge case compatibility issues, ponder about missing features, see how its audio/video quality measures up, and if it can benefit from 4K upscaling! ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Who is PC Engine and Duo for? 03:20 - First impressions 04:41 - Video output 10:38 - Upgrade to 4K? 15:07 - Audio analysis 18:45 - Analogue OS 21:31 - Accessories, compatibility, and quirks 30:01 - Edge case testing 34:56 - Ending

Check out what kind of gaming we got up to in 2023, from the newest and new-ish, to games a few decades old! 2023 also had a lot of interesting remakes, and there's also the question of whether Coury and Try finished the 10 games they each pledged to beat throughout the year. Let's get to it! ► Episode Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - [ Try ] Misc. Games and Remakes 13:44 - [ Coury ] Modern Games 28:32 - [ Try ] More Games and New-to-Me GotY! 43:16 - [ Coury ] Retro Games 59:22 - Games We Both Played + GotY 1:17:15 - [ Coury ] Random Games 1:24:19 - [ Coury ] 10 New Beat Pledges 1:25: 17 - [ Try ] Lightning Round 1:33:02 - [ Try ] 10 New Beat Pledges and Ending