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Posted on Sep 4th 2015 at 08:29:24 PM by (Gamer4Lyfe)
Posted under upgrade, stream, twitch, buckethealien, upgrade

If any of you have been reading my blog here and/or on blogger.com then you know that I have been limited in the games I am able to stream due to the fact that I (purposely at the time) got a composite only capture device.  I am actually really happy with it as far as what it does and is supposed to do, however, it has gotten to the point where it is quite a limiting factor.

As a collector (and I'm sure at least some of you can relate) not all of my consoles work perfectly all of the time.  I am working on getting them all refurbished and in some cases modded.  My main roadblock comes in when I want to stream a PS1 game.  I have two PS2's, but neither of them will read a PS1 disk (at least one of them did within a year of this blog, but didn't work the last two times I tried) and so I have to use my PS3 to play PS1 games.

If you know anything about connectors you probably already see my issue.  The PS3 uses an HDMI connector (I'm sure I could get a composite connector, but that is just silly) and my capture device only has composite.  I have a long weekend with Labor Day (woohoo!) so I am planning on doing some streaming.  It was getting on my nerves that I may be limited in my selection of game, so I ordered a new capture device off of Amazon and had it overnighted.  This capture device is more than twice the cost of my other device, but has composite as well as HDMI inputs for capture.

I am excited at this possibility since it will unlock streaming for any and all of my systems including Wii U and PS4.  This allows me to stream absolutely anything from my collection (unless my xbox keeps acting up which only limits me from less than half of my xbox games since half of them run on xbox 360).  Needless to say Xbox and PS2's are next to be refurbished and PS2 is getting modded for region unlock, maybe some other fancy stuff.

Anyone else having fun keeping up with refurbishment of their disk based systems?



Posted on Aug 13th 2015 at 05:07:20 PM by (Gamer4Lyfe)
Posted under stream, twitch twitch tv youtube streaming lets play

So yesterday was the second episode from my twitch.tv channel.  It took awhile to get going since my buddy showed up very late (over and hour late).  We got it together finally and began broadcasting around 9:30PM. 

I was having a great time beating my friend at Hi-Octane for the Sega Saturn when I noticed one of our fellow RFG members nupoile sent a message telling me that there is massive echo.  In the end of the broadcast it is him helping me to mitigate the echo.  It turns out that OBS software allows you to select one microphone for more than one mic input source.  I still have some echo after removing it from the audio source, but I will be going over it with a fine toothed comb to ensure that the next broadcast is (hopefully) echo free.

I do post the twitch.tv videos to youtube, so if you don't have time to watch live, please feel free to watch on twitch.tv after the fact, or on youtube.

Still going to be broadcasting with my buddy (or buddies when I can get 3+ player games going) on Wednesdays at 8:00PM EST, and will start broadcasting single player more often, but I don't have specific times for it yet.

Anyway, hope to see more of you guys tune in!


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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