PixelFX have finally opened orders on their Morph scaler’s Analog Bridge. The price is $100 and you get the Bridge itself – the board in the middle above that “bridges” the input connector card to the main Morph PCB – plus a choice of one connector card. Extra connector cards can be purchased for $30 each and they all come with the matching rear faceplate for the case. To purchase just the Bridge, select “Analog Bridge Only” from the drop-down menu, then choose if you’d like the SCART + Component, VGA + Component, or dual-VGA input cards (S-Video and Composite video are supported on all); The rear plates are all black, so just select N/A under color. At the moment, only the main site has them for sale, but I’ll update the post when other vendors start selling them as well:
Main Site: https://www.pixelfx.co/product-page/Morph-4k-Upscaler-Advanced-HDMI-Gaming-Media
US Seller: https://retrorgb.link/morph
UK Seller: https://retrorgb.link/morphuk
I was curious how my typical “Link shot” would look and the PixelFX team actually included a .png screenshot of ALttP in the zip file from their official press release. I dropped it into Photoshop and did a 10x nearest-neighbor scale, then cut out just Link – This is the same exact procedure I use for all my “Link shots”. Now of course, there’s tons of variables like what video cable was used, if it was SCART were the RGB capacitors in the SCART head or console side, what motherboard rev SNES was used, was it recapped, what other mods were done, what PSU was used…etc. Also, how was phase set, does the Morph do this automatically, was there any color processing done…basically, analyzing analog video is hard and it takes someone with a ton of experience to get it right. I still have a ton of questions as to how it all works, but hopefully we’ll start to see reviews with people demoing it soon.
