I just learned that a lot of relatively recent games supported old TVs well, but did anyone use them this late?
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I just learned that a lot of relatively recent games supported old TVs well, but did anyone use them this late?
Consoles support TVs, not games
Dark Souls has 16:9 letterboxing and hard to read text, it clearly had no developer support
(ignore all the wires, it's a temporary setup)
homie playing Dark Souls 64
Is this a troll thread or do CRT gays literally brain damaged?
The Halo one looks amazing.
amazingly shit
stop sitting so close to your crt, it's frying your eyeballs
Yes, they're moronic.
It looks much worse in photo because my phone doesn’t take crt photos well. Makes them very blue and undetailed
>that setup
What a fricking manchild and that's coming from me.
Ok, but there were specific games that did better at certain aspect ratios and resolutions compared to others. Dead Rising was famous for being basically unplayable without an HDTV, and it came out in 2006 when HDTV penetration was low in the US. For reference, by 2009 it had reached 33% of households.
Halo 4 supported it because it's literally just Reach with different assets and more bugs. And Reach was made by Bungie and back then they didn't just cut existing functionality for no reason.
Bioshock Infinite had 4:3 support on consoles, at least it's the latest game I know of that did. Many PS3/360 launch titles did as well. Most of Wii games did but later ones had baked in black bars on top and bottom if you played them in 4:3 (which you could remove with a hack).
The WiiU is the last console to have analog outputs but it's pretty shitty doesn't have any real 4:3 picture settings.
Late model CRTs often supported 1080i and had HDMI inputs. I had one. They're not ideal for retro gaming due to added input lag however.
me and a lot of my friends played Xbox 360 on crts until like 2013 or whatever when we got jobs. the whole 360 era we played 4 player split screen on a huge ass crt because it was the biggest tv any of us had. honestly when we first plugged my buddys 360 into a 720p plasma or whatever I hardly noticed a difference.
HD CRTs were relatively rare, the widescreen variety even more so.
if a console still had av jack cables then obv crts could play them
dont know how you would get a ps3 or ps4 to play on a crt unless theres hdmi to av jack convertor module out there
>PS3
Anon, the PS3 has AV cable support out of the box.
I play my slim on my CRT because I don't feel like making a new setup just for it.
i couldnt remeber, i used both av and hdmi with ps3 since my headset used the av jacks
but i was using a hdtv obv
i might even have used my crt for it before i got my hdtv, that time was so long ago i have no real memory of it
Fair enough, it's been about 20 years anyways.
I didn't even grow up with a PS3 but the fact that it's almost a 20 year old console now made me do a double take.
I tried a 360 on my 480i CRT back in the day. Used component cables and all but the text on screen was illegibly small. TV is 68cm too.
Street Fighter IV was legitimately better on 4:3