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Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Playing games is a long-time hobby of mine and I enjoy watching other peoples' game movies, superplay or otherwise. So I decided I wanted to put up some of my own. It also helps me to focus on a single game better when I'm trying to get some good footage recorded to get some more content for the site. My stuff's not as impressive as some out there, but maybe this will help me increase my skills as well.
Q: Have you played these on emulators? Are you using cheats?
A: No and no. All these games have been played on genuine, original consoles. No cheating whatsoever goes on in my videos.
Q: How do you do your recordings?
A: Through direct capture from console to computer. My systems are set up as follows:

You can see the PS1 peeking in the backAn old Philips 21'' CRT television and an old Philips 14'' monitor that is in permanent TATE. Underneath are my consoles: Famicom AV, Playstation 2, Dreamcast and PC Engine Duo-R.

Scart switch boxes I have two active scart switch boxes so I can easily choose what console to use just by flicking some switches. The image quality is still excellent; the switch boxes take care of that. I have noticed that if keep both the TV and the monitor on the image quality suffers, but this doesn't present a problem in reality, as those two are never on at the same time normally. The switch boxes then output the signal to the TV, monitor and...

USB capture device...my USB capture device, which I got off eBay for $20 or so. Nobody is more surprised how capable that little, cheap, plasticky thing is than myself. I grab the footage in realtime while I play using VirtualDub to capture it at 640x480 resolution with huffyuv compression. Then I use MeGUI and Avisynth scripts to compress the video into a format more suitable for spreading around teh intarwebs.
Q: This is one of those fake FAQs where the author thinks up both the question and the answer, right?
A: Oh yes.