OneyPlays Animated: Sassy Sonic 【VHS】
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You can read the original commentary in the description of the Newgrounds post, linked above. Below is commentary about the VHS version.
0:00 Robotnik ANGIE
0:24 Sonic says the f-word
NOSTALGIA BLAST HAHA
Normally, I probably wouldn’t make my cartoons have such poor fidelity, but when I was a kid I had a few DIC cartoons on VHS, including Adventures of Sonic and The Super Mario Super Show. As I was finishing up this cartoon, I thought, “Why not put it on a VHS, just like old times?”
The process of VHS-ifying this was difficult to say the least. I tried shortly after the cartoon originally came out about a month ago and had tons of problems. The method I used was this: put the video file on a flash drive and play the video from my PS3, hook up the PS3 to my VCR in composite, play the video and record to a VHS tape, play back the VHS tape and capture it using a RetroTINK-2X to convert it to digital and an AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable to record it. Problems kept arising, whether it’s signal dropouts or sync problems. (If I had to guess the cause of the problems, it was probably the refresh rate of analog video not being EXACTLY 60 Hz—probably 59.91 Hz or 60.5 Hz or something like that—and running it through a capture card that expects a solid 60 Hz from a modern game console.) I decided to give up on this for now and focus on working on more pressing things.
Much later, I finally felt like giving it another shot. I tried a new method: burning a DVD and playing it on the DVD player and recording that to the VCR. I burned a DVD and tried it and that didn’t work either! No idea why and I couldn’t have been bothered to investigate, so I went back to trying the previous method.
Then the VCR stopped working! The DVD player portion worked fine, but the VHS player interface did not, including the play, record, and eject buttons. I had to reach inside the VCR slot and press some kind of jig that reset all VHS-related controls. That seemed to have fixed everything.
I then learned that standard definition actually has TWO resolutions: 720x480 and 640x480. Analog SD uses rectangle-shaped “pixels” to form its image, apparently allowing for higher resolution whereas digital SD uses the typical square-shaped pixels. It’s very confusing for me when converting from digital to analog to digital again.
In the end, it still looks weirdly pixelated and unlike the super soft picture from VHS tapes I’m so familiar with. I’m unsure why it looks like that, but I think that it looks pretty nice regardless :)
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