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RetroTINK 4K Review: A Must-Own For Retro Gaming Diehards
11.12.2023 - 09:49 / comingsoon.net
There are a few schools of thought when it comes to playing retro games in the present day. Some argue that the games from yesteryear were meant to be played on an old-school CRT, with concerns regarding their bulky designs and aging, decades-old electrical components chalked up to the cost of doing business. Others contend that retro games are perfectly serviceable when paired with an inexpensive scaler and a flat panel display, with no care paid to how these titles look when hooked up to a modern TV.
And then there are those in the middle. Sure, some of us might play old-school games on a consumer CRT or professional-grade monitor, but there’s also the undeniable allure of kicking back on the couch and booting up your go-to childhood favorite on a massive 4K screen. Of course, such lofty goals have largely been out of reach. While there are plenty of analog-to-digital scalers and line multipliers on the market, none have been able to leverage the power of high-res, high-refresh rate, HDR displays — that is, until now.
Enter the RetroTINK 4K, the latest product from Mike Chi — a well-known figure in the retro gaming scene, responsible for a handful of high-quality scalers and transcoders that have dominated the market for the past few years. His latest device might, on the surface, seem like a refinement of his previous products, but it’s anything but. As it stands, the RetroTINK 4K (or RT4K, for short) is the most robust, versatile, and fully-featured video scaler I’ve ever used.
Ironically, the RetroTINK 4K’s main selling point — scaling games up to higher resolutions — is arguably its least exciting feature. For starters, the RT4K supports just about every input type imaginable: HD15/VGA, SCART, RCA, S-Video, and even an HDMI port (more on that later). There’s also a wide degree of flexibility as to what types of video signals you can feed into its many inputs. For instance, the VGA and SCART ports can accept composite, S-Video, YPbPr (component), and a few different flavors of RGB, and there’s even a TOSLINK audio input for good measure.
As for outputs, there’s just one: an HDMI 2.0 port that can output a bevy of resolutions and refresh rates, though I imagine most folks will default to 4K at 60 Hz. That being said, there’s a wide degree of customizability here. 1080p and 1440p at 60, 100, or 120 Hz are supported right out of the box, and 480p is included, presumably for those who want to output to older, 4:3 monitors. Of course, you can always add custom resolutions via the SD card slot, which also allows for rather seamless, drag-and-drop firmware updates.
Unsurprisingly, the same robust and flexible scaling we’ve seen on other RetroTINK products is present and accounted for. Automatic
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