/maho/ is the people in it.

To be honest, I don't even know what VCR and VHS stand for, but I definetly had them around me as a kid.

This was my most memorable VHS in my memory

>>153058
VCR - Vagina and Cock Recreation
VHS - Very Hard Sex

Maybe you can get someone to do the AV mod so that you can get composite video out of it. The RGB mod is not something for the faint of heart, looking at the tutorial.

If you can affort the money to burn, you have several options:
- Buying an AV famicom. It has the same AV out as the Snes
- Getting an RGB Blaster, if your famicom PPUnis compatible. It goes between the cartridge slot and the game and has its own video out
- Buy an already modded famicom with the RGB kit. I have seen them in aliexpress.

There are some pal VHS VCRs with NTSC playback for tapes, but even those are usually going to tune pal signals. The ones that can convert the signal are very uncommon

From what I remember reading years ago in /vr/, RF may be so saturated with interference nowadays that the image will be even worse than in the nineties

>>153066
>RF may be so saturated with interference nowadays that the image will be even worse than in the nineties

They will have to construct a gaming room.

>>153058
They were just called video tapes when I was a kid. It's only on the internet that I've seen the VHS/VCR terminology used, and I've never bothered looking up the details.

>>153058
>>153071
We used to just call them video tapes and video recorders as well. I assume people settled on the VCR (video-cassette recorder) abbreviation for ease of use / to distinguish it from recorders of later formats and I bet it's the same for VHS, referring to that specific type of tape.

>>153066
Thank you for the recommendations! It was your dog bone controller even that made me remember I still have my own FC lying around.
I am actually aware of the AV version and mod option, however, I'm hell-bent on getting the RF to work because of my autism that has me seeking out specific versions of a console and which prohibits modding. There's some more to it, but it would be a little too much to go into detail about.

I do own a few anime VHS from Japan as well, though getting to watch those would just be a nice bonus. I THINK the SV-5000W, NV-W1 and HV-MX100 are all models that should work, but of course they all start at 500 bucks at the cheapest.

Oh, I forgot to add one thing. Each console's RF outputs to different frequencies (not fully accurate values):
- Famicom: 91.5 and 97.25 mhz
- US Nes: 60 and 66mhz
- PAL Nes: 52.25 and 62.25mhz

The famicom is using the VHF range reserved for FM radio that american and european TV's can't tune. On top of that, the channel width differs between PAL and NTSC (7 and 6 mhz). Unless you have a TV with an universal tuner that supports japan (mine only does europe, america and china) or an imported japanese TV, you are out of luck. Sorry.


Now, chatting about video...
>>153058
>>153071
TBH, I did not start using "VCR" until internet came, and mostly to avoid confusing the american majority. We just called the device "the video" and yep, we only said "tape" or "video tape". There was no point in saying "VHS" since Betamax had been deader than Norman Bates' mom for some time.

I did not start using VHS in conversation until it became a necessity to differentiate between tape standards, MiniDV, VHS, VHS-C, SVHS... Although I suspect rips of old media also played a part since we now have VHS rip, Betamax rip, Laserdisc rip...

Anyways, to anyone daydreaming about VHS: please forget about tapes and you will be happier. No matter what a nostalgia addled brain thinks, it's not something you want to go back to. 352x288, interlaced, no rgb, just composite, it's impossible to rip tapes without a professional VCR, those things tend to self destruct worse than laser discs with the years, and the tapes degrade too. The last time I played Porco Rosso, most of the colour was gone.

me and my family always called it a VCR

>>153112
>it's not something you want to go back to
If only you knew.

>>153117
Tracking issues?

Some of the worst memories I have of VHS is watching all of Evangelion in bootleg LP tapes. Retail tapes being already crap + quality degradation from copying + Lowering the quality to fit 6 hours in a 3 hour tape = Hell. Given how the red colour degrades with copies, the Magma Diver episode was unwatchable.

>>153113
Technically VCR is a generic term that applies to all systems that use recordable video cassettes - this includes VHS, Betamax, and even uncommon formats like V2000

I don't have any experience with the stuff, really. I mean, I'm old enough to have recorded Pokemon and Sailor Moon on VCRs from local TV stations, but that's about how far I went into them.
I find the history behind the fansubbing community that had those big bulky machines and set up meetings and catalogs to sell them back in day very interesting. I deeply respect those nerds that laid the foundation for other people (and companies) to discover and bring more anime out West and they really deserve far more recognition than they get.

>>153112
>>153117
>Anyways, to anyone daydreaming about VHS: please forget about tapes and you will be happier. No matter what a nostalgia addled brain thinks, it's not something you want to go back to. 352x288, interlaced, no rgb, just composite, it's impossible to rip tapes without a professional VCR, those things tend to self destruct worse than laser discs with the years, and the tapes degrade too. The last time I played Porco Rosso, most of the colour was gone.
I don't care. If it comes with the territory then that's fine by me.
It's not the same as it used to be and it will never be the same.
I'm so sick of Keeping up with the Joneses™ and Modern™ and I hatehatehatehatehate it so much.
It takes divinity to manage to pull magic out of old tech. Yokoi was right, it matters much more how you use things than if they're cutting-edge. This isn't war where you need to keep going and going ad nauseum.
If they wanted all those tapes to end up in the landfill maybe they should have created something actually worth streaming.

As stated in /amv/'s DGC thread, I'm replying here because it's more fitting.

>>>/amv/9837
It is! The still is taken from my own home release copy however, with all capture settings set to default, which sadly makes it look just a little bit more bleached out than it looks on my TV. I have since bumped up the saturation and color of my scaler to best match the output of my SNES and I'm too lazy to always switch that around. I am not from a Locomotion area, but funnily enough, I believe the VHS and / or TV rip that's out there from Aika actually is from Locomotion! That's where I first heard their name even.
It's an awesome show with a kickass soundtrack!

>>>/amv/9871
>If you can specify the country, I may have something that may interest you, if the tape has survived after 20 years stored
Germany! Though I bet it would be too good to be true if you had something related? I usually take anything 2D-related I can get, be it anime or cartoons. I like to get physical releases as well, though it's hard to find the ones I really want, like the 10 tapes (I think it was) of Ashinaga Ojisan, a single tape of which I once saw get offered for like 100 bucks! Like as if there are more than 5 people looking for them, if that.

Bonus: The superior Mega Man intro with actually good quality audio!

Tracking and the little bit of signal disturbance aside, this really just looks and sounds like an average blown up SD video. I used one of the lower end consumer tapes I bought off of a granny specifically for taping over and can't say how often it got recorded to before this. The only really funky tapes I own I can't tape over because they have sentimental value, so I might try to force-degrade this one soon. Or check my own bad tapes to see just how much late-90s setups might have affected that traditional VHS-Rip characteristic.