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It's so small, but AWESOME! I've had a little trouble with the video at first, trying to use the RCA to RF cable, which gave me a terrible looking picture. But as soon as my bro found our old snes rf box( thought I would never have to use it again), it greatly improved the picture quality. Now I can finally play Super Mario 3 Mix (and a bunch of other games) on a actual console using my Ever Drive N8!
Something very charming about that old RF look - it's exactly as I remember it on my friend's NES back in the day :)
When I first got mine I felt that it was like a relic from my youth that we were always barred from. Picking up those controllers with the wire coming out of the side instead of the top was different, but took little to get used to. Charming is definitely the right word for all of it.
Now all I need is a time machine to transport me to Tokyo around 1983 and grow up in the epicenter of it all.
All I have to say is thank god for this site, ebay, and the rest of the internet for bringing all this fun we missed to us at some point in our lives.
The only thing i don't like about older TVs is the over scan. Too bad there isn't a way to fix it... If only someone were to make a external device where you can hook up your game console to and manually adjust the screen position and aspect ratio. Or maybe possibly add such an option to the everdrive n8.
Display calibration can somewhat correct overscan. Another option would be a video processor/scaler that can underscan the video before sending to the TV.
Overscan is not really that big a problem. On SMB3 Mix, it's because the hacker didn't factor in the correct overscan, which retail Famicom games do keep in mind. I've also noticed Zelda: The Legend of Link likes to dip into the "illegal" overscan areas too. You won't often find a TV with overscan so bad that it affects retail Famicom games.
my nes copy of Crystalis has the same issue too.
Newer CRTs like yours usually have a secret hidden service menu that can adjust the position of the screen. You can try fiddling with that if you really feel like there's a problem, but you can screw up your TV if you do the wrong thing, so venture in there at your own peril.