>Hoarding a bunch of old consoles and CRTs that make your eyes go fuzzy to play old games in 240p when you could just get a single PC to emulate all prior console generations and play them in modern resolutions
>each remake/remastered is yet another mass produced 3d realism slop >people want to play games from when it was actually made to look good despite inferior tech >suddenly
It’s newbies trying to fit in by reminiscing about the “good ol’ days”.
Thing is, anyone who was actually old enough to play games on CRTs back in the day would NEVER EVER want to go back to them and would much rather just emulate their older games.
I was old enough. They were pretty shit but the one thing I hate about new displays is the motion blur for 60 and under fps. I was trying to play Yoshi's Island the other day and the whole thing is just a smear anytime the screen is scrolling. Even at 240fps on new games it can still be pretty shit. I know there's the strobe thing but it seems like most monitors can't strobe at 60hz and even if they do, people say its really noticeable.
>Thing is, anyone who was actually old enough to play games on CRTs back in the day would NEVER EVER want to go back to them and would much rather just emulate their older games.
Love this personal anecdotes and massive projection, believing that everyone must think identically to yourself. I was born in the eighties and still love and use CRTs every single day.
same bro! back in 2007 i was so happy to go from my shitty 32 inch sony wega to my epic 42 inch bravia with half a second of latency, god awful colors AND god awful blacks, it was very flat though so it was totally worth it!
Basically a bunch of people took really clean pictures of their studio-quality CRTs, now people are buying trash ones thinking they'll get an amazing picture. People think CRTs are a much better display tech than they actually are.
Some of these people are insane enough to want to bring back interlacing. No one ever liked interlacing.
Don't get me wrong, I do think some games genuinely look better on the older displays. But it's not so dramatic that you can't enjoy them on an LCD or with a filter. Also CRT delay is near zero which is nice.
>People think CRTs are a much better display tech than they actually are.
I laugh my ass off at the people who drive 8 hours to pick up some piece of shit eMachine Monitor or a Durabrand Television. R3ddit is such garbage because they don't allow people that actually know shit bully the ignorant into silence. And this site is becoming just as bad.
What I really like about old consoles is the lack of OS or internal memory or account bullshit.
If your PS1 dies you just fricking buy a new one and put your memory card in it and you're done. If your switch dies I don't even know what fricking loops Nintendo is going to force you to jump through just to transfer your account over to it.
This. I am a senior engineer at google. I just bought a PVM from a guy who was a senior programmer at cisco.
Dude had a CIB copy of snatcher and a complete Saturn collection. When I asked why he was dumping the PVM he said he got a 20in that did 720p and liked the extra space.
the piss2 is only playable with a crt since every game is rendered at 512x448 (or worse if its a game using field rendering), smeared with a shit bilinear filter, then poorly upscaled to 480i or if you're really lucky 480p, it looks like fricking dogshit on anything other than a 15khz crt with component/rgb
and no, pcsx2 is not a replacement
It's the second one I've bought. I liked the 2X-mini a lot but wanted deinterlacing for my big living room TV and didn't want to go to the trouble of setting up the OSSC. The deinterlacing on that thing really does look good to me family to be perfectly honest with you
PS2 games on my PS3 shockingly look decent on my giant OLED but PS1 just looks like shit.
That's pretty weird. I don't know the particulars but can only assume that's an emulation issue.
Since the N8 has become so mature I gave up on trying to get a twin. I got an A/V and it's f'n great for playing everything now. I can adjust all the audio levels with out modification when needed.
5 years ago yes today no unless you're a serious enthusiast. Shaders are good enough at this point to create a reasonably convincing approximation to trick your brain into believing it's experiencing the memory of what CRTs were like. Especially played in a pitch black room. If you get seriously into retro gaming as a hobby then they're absolutely worth it though
It's great but its expensive. Good component cables, original hardware and the CRTs themselves are pricey.
Sure you can get a console with coposite cables and a small 13in consumer set for under $100 but something like a Dreamcast with component cables plus a PVM and an rgb to component switch can send up in the $700+ range and that doesn't even include the games themselves.
100% but you NEED the space. It would be cringe going into some dude's apartment for a smash sess and seeing a giant old ass TV taking up half the living room space, but if a guy had a retro room in his basement or something that would be fine.
Yes. The pixels don't blend on an LCD, so the games will look off. Some games like the Sotn remaster have simulated pixel blending so it looks like it should.
They are for me. Just got off with playing KoF94 on a Neo-Geo. Gotta love how even the cheapo mid/late '90s European TVs have 60Hz support and RGB SCART.
That Panasonic in the OP looks beautiful.
yeah, theyre worth it if you have the space and are going to actually play the consoles. older consoles look fricking horrible on newer HDTV's unless you get an expensive scaler like a Retrotink.
Yes
Yes, especially if you have a component or s-video input on your tv.
Darkstalkers with component cables on a CRT shits on the PS3 "HD" collection on my OLED.
>Hoarding a bunch of old consoles and CRTs that make your eyes go fuzzy to play old games in 240p when you could just get a single PC to emulate all prior console generations and play them in modern resolutions
Collector gays are mentally ill hoarders.
>said modern resolutions
>they/them prefers their pixels ribbed like their dildos
there're shaders that look like that pic already
>if you have the space
read the topic, newbie
>what is CRT royale
You already have the games for free. Go play them. Stop projecting your envy.
>when you could just get a single PC to emulate all prior console generations
But I do. On a CRT.
hoarding is based though.
I like to call it collecting personally
I want to take a baseball bat to all that trash. Frick you.
autism
only for pixel games made specifically to look good on them
games on a CRT look better than emulated slop.
Ummm….. no. They’re blurry messes with godawful frame rates. Take the emulator pill, you caveman.
Imagine being a zoomer
I'm no zoomer. I remember distinctly how happy I was to be rid of bulky, heavy CRTs.
Talk about a mental illness.
>framerates
ZOOM ZOOM
>Liking smooth performance makes you a zoomer
This is your brain rotting desperately trying to fit in with the morons on Ganker.
lcd with 240hz is less smooth then a 60hz crt
You talked about frame rates with CRT. You couldn't have made your self look any more f'n stupid.
>more f'n stupid
It’s okay to swear on Ganker. Your mom won’t give you into trouble.
Who knows any more with the literal reddit mods on this board.
Plenty of early 3D games were designed for CRTs too
Absolutely, yes.
I own 3. a 13in PVM, a 19in PVM and a 32in consumer trinitron from the ealy 00s.
I also own an 83in LG C1 oled. The OLED is by far the best for modern video games, but for older games ESPECIALLY 2D ones you need a CRT.
XBOX 360 and beyond=OLED except Wii
XBOX and before=CRT.
>not using the real famicom disk system
ishiggydig
Aren't they notorious for breaking? Also the twin fami looking like Char's Zaku is based.
>Aren't they notorious for breaking?
It's a fricking belt. Relax. They're easily replaced.
Why suddenly there's so much CRT spam?
why are you brown?
>each remake/remastered is yet another mass produced 3d realism slop
>people want to play games from when it was actually made to look good despite inferior tech
>suddenly
This. New games are fricking trash so I even bought one last year to get the best experience for older titles.
It’s newbies trying to fit in by reminiscing about the “good ol’ days”.
Thing is, anyone who was actually old enough to play games on CRTs back in the day would NEVER EVER want to go back to them and would much rather just emulate their older games.
I was old enough. They were pretty shit but the one thing I hate about new displays is the motion blur for 60 and under fps. I was trying to play Yoshi's Island the other day and the whole thing is just a smear anytime the screen is scrolling. Even at 240fps on new games it can still be pretty shit. I know there's the strobe thing but it seems like most monitors can't strobe at 60hz and even if they do, people say its really noticeable.
>Thing is, anyone who was actually old enough to play games on CRTs back in the day would NEVER EVER want to go back to them and would much rather just emulate their older games.
Love this personal anecdotes and massive projection, believing that everyone must think identically to yourself. I was born in the eighties and still love and use CRTs every single day.
I bet you have a rotary telephone as well, you fricking hipster.
I do have my grans old rotary telephone, but only as an ornament.
Funny how you're the one that brought up a rotary phone.
same bro! back in 2007 i was so happy to go from my shitty 32 inch sony wega to my epic 42 inch bravia with half a second of latency, god awful colors AND god awful blacks, it was very flat though so it was totally worth it!
normies unironically think that
Because they are fun
Basically a bunch of people took really clean pictures of their studio-quality CRTs, now people are buying trash ones thinking they'll get an amazing picture. People think CRTs are a much better display tech than they actually are.
Some of these people are insane enough to want to bring back interlacing. No one ever liked interlacing.
Don't get me wrong, I do think some games genuinely look better on the older displays. But it's not so dramatic that you can't enjoy them on an LCD or with a filter. Also CRT delay is near zero which is nice.
>People think CRTs are a much better display tech than they actually are.
I laugh my ass off at the people who drive 8 hours to pick up some piece of shit eMachine Monitor or a Durabrand Television. R3ddit is such garbage because they don't allow people that actually know shit bully the ignorant into silence. And this site is becoming just as bad.
>is becoming
The CRT craze was in /vr/ for at least 5 years.
I'm not talking about some craze. I'm talking about forced ignorance.
If you can get it for cheap and have the space for it then sure, you can play light gun games with it and some games look better on it
Short answer, yes. I have a little 14 inch set with component and S video and it makes my GameCube and PS2 look incredible.
Visually yes but after getting used to large tv's I just can't go back to small sizes of CRT's.
It's good enough this way for me.
>Hey guuuyyyyys…… anyone remember THESE things? How heckin soulful!
PS1/2 save icons were unironically SOVL
Especially the ones that cried when you tried to delete them.
>zoomers will never get to experience Godjima when it was kino
The one thing I actually like about memory cards is how easy they made it to take your saved games over to friends’ houses.
Considering local multiplayer doesn't exist anymore outside switch (which you can just grab and use in a new dock) this isn't a big loss.
Yeah they totally fricked that up. Had the best thing and went back to shit.
What I really like about old consoles is the lack of OS or internal memory or account bullshit.
If your PS1 dies you just fricking buy a new one and put your memory card in it and you're done. If your switch dies I don't even know what fricking loops Nintendo is going to force you to jump through just to transfer your account over to it.
I don't get zoom lust of CRT's
Zoomers are too poor to afford retro vidya.
I only got into it when I bought a house and started making 6 figs.
Damn it feels good to be an oldgay and just have all my consoles from decades of gaming
This. I am a senior engineer at google. I just bought a PVM from a guy who was a senior programmer at cisco.
Dude had a CIB copy of snatcher and a complete Saturn collection. When I asked why he was dumping the PVM he said he got a 20in that did 720p and liked the extra space.
the piss2 is only playable with a crt since every game is rendered at 512x448 (or worse if its a game using field rendering), smeared with a shit bilinear filter, then poorly upscaled to 480i or if you're really lucky 480p, it looks like fricking dogshit on anything other than a 15khz crt with component/rgb
and no, pcsx2 is not a replacement
Piss2 looks pretty great with the Retrotink 5X in my humble opinion, family
then you're a blind moron, confirmed by the fact you bought a retrotink in the first place
It's the second one I've bought. I liked the 2X-mini a lot but wanted deinterlacing for my big living room TV and didn't want to go to the trouble of setting up the OSSC. The deinterlacing on that thing really does look good to me family to be perfectly honest with you
That's pretty weird. I don't know the particulars but can only assume that's an emulation issue.
My PS3 uses original hardware. Only difference is PS3s include a smoothing option.
all deinterlacing looks like shit
PS2 games on my PS3 shockingly look decent on my giant OLED but PS1 just looks like shit.
Yes absolutely, that's a sweet twin Famicom btw
Since the N8 has become so mature I gave up on trying to get a twin. I got an A/V and it's f'n great for playing everything now. I can adjust all the audio levels with out modification when needed.
5 years ago yes today no unless you're a serious enthusiast. Shaders are good enough at this point to create a reasonably convincing approximation to trick your brain into believing it's experiencing the memory of what CRTs were like. Especially played in a pitch black room. If you get seriously into retro gaming as a hobby then they're absolutely worth it though
It's great but its expensive. Good component cables, original hardware and the CRTs themselves are pricey.
Sure you can get a console with coposite cables and a small 13in consumer set for under $100 but something like a Dreamcast with component cables plus a PVM and an rgb to component switch can send up in the $700+ range and that doesn't even include the games themselves.
>Are CRTs worth it for older consoles if you have the space?
Yes.
>if you have the space?
100% but you NEED the space. It would be cringe going into some dude's apartment for a smash sess and seeing a giant old ass TV taking up half the living room space, but if a guy had a retro room in his basement or something that would be fine.
I hate weebs so much
Congrats on not even knowing what the word weeb means.
I keep mine around solely to replay Elemental Gearbolt for the PS1. (a few times a year but it's worth it)
Yes. The pixels don't blend on an LCD, so the games will look off. Some games like the Sotn remaster have simulated pixel blending so it looks like it should.
no. ugly as shit, outdated. use integer upscaling on a QLED display and don't fall for the scanlines meme.
>QLED
You will never be a real OLED.
reminder that visible scanlines on a CRT look ass.
bad opinion
They are for me. Just got off with playing KoF94 on a Neo-Geo. Gotta love how even the cheapo mid/late '90s European TVs have 60Hz support and RGB SCART.
That Panasonic in the OP looks beautiful.
I love weird looking CRTs
Why don't you get a power base converter?
I don't know how anyone A. watches DVDs/VHS or B. plays old consoles on a modern display.
I don't know how you read those books your TV is sitting on.
yeah, theyre worth it if you have the space and are going to actually play the consoles. older consoles look fricking horrible on newer HDTV's unless you get an expensive scaler like a Retrotink.
Are you playing duck hunt? No? Then play it on a modern TV.