The Video Game Archive

One of the goals that I had when I went back to visit my parents during Chinese New Year this year was to try and get my PlayStation 2 out of storage and see if I could manage to get it to work on a HDTV. I had not tried this previously because I only have an HD monitor while I'm living in Kuala Lumpur, so it didn't cross my mind to attempt this until fairly recently when I started thinking about collecting games for the older generation of systems. I was personally pretty excited to give it a try because I theorized that I could use the AV cable that came with my AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable (LGP) with the PlayStation 2 as the AV cables of the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 are the same. However, to my dismay, it didn't work out quite as I theorized and I spent the rest of my time back in Brunei looking up ways to get it to work. I was disheartened as many videos I saw online were quite straight forward, just change the Component Output from RGB to Y Pb/Cb Pr/C

January was a rough month in terms building my collection, due to me overspending during December. It didn’t help much that I had to get plane tickets to go visit my parents in Brunei for Chinese New Year. But knowing that I would be heading back gave me a little bit of hope, an oasis in a desert. However, the truth might have been closer to a mirage.