Jeremy Parish
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March bonus: Meet the Super Cassette Vision
🕑 Added 2023-03-12 11:50:39 +0000 UTCThe time has come to embark on a new journey, whether you like it or not. Yes, this month, we begin a survey of a new library, Epoch's Super Cassette Vision, perhaps the most successful of the failed Famicom-era competitors to emerge in Japan between 1983 and ’85. If nothing else, its library is 50% larger than Virtual Boy's. And it can claim some weird firsts, including the first battery-backed save files on cartridge, the first console versions of properties like Doraemon and Dragon Ball, and the first console to ship in a specialty pink variant. It's also the first vintage console to allow me to record RGB video output without mods! Epoch even made an official RGB cable for the thing. It's not as strange a system as the original Cassette Vision, but it's still pretty odd, and I think that's going to make for an interesting series. So please join me monthly for the next year or so as we unravel this thing.
Comments
Dan Bailey
The RGB sync on the SCV can be a little finicky with a lot of other hardware. I wound up buying a second unit believing mine to be defective before I tried using it on different PVMs until I found one tolerant enough to accept the signal. I have found the platform to be very interesting to delve into especially in context to where the Famicom and SG-1000 were in that same time frame.
PT
I admit a spiteful part of me wants to see those controllers get the retrobright treatment to get that yellow off of them. But I also understand that you aren't going to show them on screen for more than a few seconds at most. As for the games, they seem perfectly fine for launch titles. Bright and colorful and I admit the "sequel" would have caught my eye at that time thanks to how fast it was going. That controller though, yikes.
