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Retro games really did look better on a CRT (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[-] Elektrotechnik@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, those phosphor strips of that screenshot on the left are plenty coarse to be achievable with a consumer grade CRT. Throw in the fact that European sets pretty much all had RGB and it's pretty realistic. Although most of us only heard about RGB cables with the advent of chipped PS1s and pirated NTSC discs (they oftentimes only displayed in black and white and RGB cables were the widely known fix for that).

EDIT oh by the way, the community CRTgaming also made it over here to Lemmy :-) I'll have to post some content there...

[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

@Elektrotechnik Here in the EU/Germany we was used to SCART connection, even on the SNES (and upwards). MULTI-OUT/SCART supported composite, Svideo and RGB. The image I had was cleaner than what I emulate nowadays!

[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My man. Now THIS person knows about CRT gaming. I’m merely an old man with limited time to research all this. Anyone talking about phosphor strips and halation and magnetic interference /gaussing probably knows their 💩.

I just know I like wearing the nostalgia goggles that add those artifacts my old eyes still hazily remember and weirdly prefer.

[-] Elektrotechnik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you have the space, I highly recommend just getting a mid-sized CRT for the lulz :D It's such a fun hobby. I went down the rabbit hole a little too hard in 2016 and have to downsize now. But I'd still get one to play around with while they're still available for a couple of bucks (I hear it has gotten harder in the US already).

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

YES! Please join us! I don’t want our community to be full of elitists, play how you enjoy playing! But I happen to really love the look and nostalgia of playing on CRTs. Everyone is welcome to come and post about CRTs, or even CRT filters and masks in emulators to get that authentic experience!

I mod the one here on Lemmy.world - !crtgaming@lemmy.world