LGR - Motocross Madness Retrospective (Patreon)

https://youtu.be/0qKGuboX1oA

Classic game review time! This one is Motocross Madness from 1998, one of my longstanding favorites from back in the day. Some nice, happy, comfy memories with this one. I hope it brings some of that same feeling to you as well, it's still such a neat game world to screw around in and enjoy. Good ol' out of bounds invisible cannons, hehe.

Now, I hardly cover games anymore because, one: they rarely perform super well with the algorithm or with the general LGR audience. And two, I simply have more interest in hardware nowadays. Buuuut well, it's January. This is always the lowest time of the year for revenue and YT tends to tank channel numbers across the board no matter what I post. So hey, may as well cover a game that I love, screw the numbers! You'll note that this time last year was when I covered Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, and the reasoning is the same :)

I'm also using a new VGA capture setup here, or at least a modified one. I've been dissatisfied with my Startech VGA scaling box for years, as the visuals are always softer than I'd prefer and 60fps never quite looks correct, with  dropped frames and stuttering that make higher frame rates look odd. So instead of that I'm using an OSSC to convert VGA to HDMI here. It's a device I've had for years but I've only used it with arcade boards and consoles, never with PC footage since in my testing it does not play nice with many DOS games and certain sub-480p resolutions. But considering MCM here was running at 640x480@60Hz, well that's pretty ideal, and the results are crisp and free of stutter. Footage from the old setup made it in there too with some of the menus, but everything from ~5 minutes in is from the OSSC.

And that is all for this week! I'll likely be taking next week off to catch up on projects, both IRL and LGR related. We shall see. Either way, have a good one and thank you for your ongoing support in 2023!