Hello

Recently I've been thinking about going back to speedrunning, so I bought in Canada a GV-USB2, and I successfully tested it with my SNES. To give more context, I'm from Brazil... I believe that the color system used here is PAL-M (it is pretty much only used here). From what I've understood, there's pretty much no difference between PAL-M and NSTC aside from inferior color quality.

When testing the GV-USB2 with OBS, The image quality looked decent, pretty much on par with emulator... the only thing that bothered me a bit was some tearing when moving fast through the screen - I'm going to buy an S-Video cable to see if it improves the quality. Since I don't have an extra TV, I just play using the OBS video gameplay.

One important aspect from my set up is that I use a Super Magicom - a piece of hardware which, in summary, allows me to load games from floppy disks. I don't know if that affects performance in comparison to physical carts or not tho.

Aside from this, there were some things I noticed that I wanted to confirm with and ask the community:

• Are my assumptions about NSTC and PAL-M correct?

• Does using the Super Magicom (which I assume is a poor + old man's version of a flashcart) hinder performance? Will the performance of a physical cart always be superior?

• Let's suppose that I buy a video splitter and use it to send the SNES signal to a TV + my GV-USB2. Will the video stream on the TV look superior in any way than using the video from OBS? I ask this because I thought that I would find a considerable difference between playing in an emulator and on the actual console, but I definitely didn't see any major difference so far.

• Lastly, I didn't feel any input lag difference between console and emulator (I use a USB SNES controller adapter to plug the controller in my PC). Is this something game-dependent or is it just a personal thing?

Sorry for the long post. I'd be very grateful for any replies and opinions on these matters (other Brazilians that do runs on console can also help in this matter)

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