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I've been thinking about what kind of content I want to publish to YouTube. I bought a lot of expensive equipment last year in order to capture footage of retro games, including a Micomsoft XCapture-1 capture-card and Open Source Scan Converter line-multiplier (OSSC), and so I wanted to get some use out of them.
I do want to make reviews and top-ten lists in the future, but for now, I decided to make a quick video chronicling one playthrough of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega Genesis/Megadrive.
I played the game on a Model 1 NTSC Sega Genesis using a Mega EverDrive X7 flash-cartridge even though I have two real copies of Sonic 2, one of which is featured in this video's thumbnail. I used an HD Retrovision component-video cable to output video from the console to my OSSC, which line-quadrupled the image to 1280 x 960. The OSSC sent the video to my XCapture-1 via HDMI, which sent the data to my PC via USB3, while simultaneously passing through the video to my monitor via an HDMI-out. I used Micomsoft's own VideoKeeper2 software to capture the footage on my Windows PC. In short, it was a big mess of cables.
After my playthrough, I used Blackmagic Design's free video-editor called DaVinci Resolve to upscale the 960p image to 1080p. I then used Handbrake to compress the video a little bit so that I would have less data to upload to YouTube.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. What you see here is how I normally play the game. I usually ignore the 3D half-pipe bonus-levels, try to get 100 rings on every stage, and overall I don't try to complete stages as quickly as possible. Contrary to popular belief, Sonic-games can be played methodically with occasional bursts of speed in the mix.
Oil Ocean Zone is where I usually start having trouble keeping rings because those flying seahorses come out of nowhere. Metropolis Zone features comically-cheap enemy-placement that results in rings lost as well.
I know that a lot of you subscribed because of my Splatoon-montages, and for that, I thank you very much. I hope that you will stick around for the next chapter of this channel as I branch out and explore different areas of my gaming-palate and life.
