Software wise horizontal overscan can be corrected. When it comes to vertical width that would mean opening tv and adjusting the pot on the chassis. And I've spent way to much time finding the sweet spot for Mame already. It's not worth it imo. Charm of old tv's i suppose (no service menu and extremely bulby screen). Can't complain though since it's typical guest room set. Barely used.
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Scanline screenshot thread. Because 240p is all the p's I need.
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Software wise horizontal overscan can be corrected. When it comes to vertical width that would mean opening tv and adjusting the pot on the chassis. And I've spent way to much time finding the sweet spot for Mame already. It's not worth it imo. Charm of old tv's i suppose (no service menu and extremely bulby screen). Can't complain though since it's typical guest room set. Barely used.
sixteen-bit
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sixteen-bit
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Awesome Street Fighter pics!
Laevateinn
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Phantasy Star IV from my PVM.
Spiral Insanity
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This thread is beautiful.
Conquest of the Crystal Palace (Famicom/NES)
Gimmick! (Famicom)
Mad City (Famicom) - it's Bayou Billy but with fairer difficulty
(on a side note, it was damn hard to take a picture where the sprites aren't flickering like crazy or I'm not getting my ass handed to me on Mad City)
Gimmick! (Famicom)
Mad City (Famicom) - it's Bayou Billy but with fairer difficulty
(on a side note, it was damn hard to take a picture where the sprites aren't flickering like crazy or I'm not getting my ass handed to me on Mad City)
Kim is the best
sixteen-bit
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took this closeup for the 25th anniversary of Puyo Puyo yesterday. Apologies for the fithy screen.
What version of the game is that?
sixteen-bit
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In the title of the post; FDS = Famicom Disk System.
potatohead
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Yo I need to buy one of these maybe a larger screen where should I be looking?
Nice! I never played PQII but played a ton of the original. It, along with Space Quest, King's Quest, and Thexder were my first exposure to video games. Fuck Thexder.
Darkwing Duck is IMO one of the most beautiful games on the NES. Best 8-bit cityscapes too?
e: picture's kinda dark, here's another. Again these are taken with my cellphone (G4) cam so there's some noise. And I assure you it looks even better in person.
Extreme close-up! Whoa!
e: picture's kinda dark, here's another. Again these are taken with my cellphone (G4) cam so there's some noise. And I assure you it looks even better in person.
Extreme close-up! Whoa!
Laevateinn
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It's amazing that Capcom went from a company that had some of the most talented people in the industry to one that couldn't even spell its own name properly.
sixteen-bit
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They rather do pachinko now, lol.
Most of my retro gaming is done via emulation these days on my Retropie setup.
Thankfully I have Floob's excellent Video Manager script to help simulate that authentic CRT look without overdoing it.
To my eyes it looks pretty much perfect. Integer-scaled so that the scanlines from the overlay line up perfectly, and then there are a few light shaders applied to bring it all together.
Thankfully I have Floob's excellent Video Manager script to help simulate that authentic CRT look without overdoing it.
Click to enlarge.
To my eyes it looks pretty much perfect. Integer-scaled so that the scanlines from the overlay line up perfectly, and then there are a few light shaders applied to bring it all together.
I haven't messed around with CRT shaders in a while, and could use some advice.
This is perhaps a very general question that has been asked a lot, but what would you recommend as the best CRT shader for the goal of reproducing a high-quality CRT, and features geared towards the original developer's intention rather than nostalgia.
I'm using puNES at the moment. I tried crt-easymode-halation and couldn't get it to load, with the incredibly useless error message "Errors on shader. Use no filter". Crt-easymode works however.
This is perhaps a very general question that has been asked a lot, but what would you recommend as the best CRT shader for the goal of reproducing a high-quality CRT, and features geared towards the original developer's intention rather than nostalgia.
I'm using puNES at the moment. I tried crt-easymode-halation and couldn't get it to load, with the incredibly useless error message "Errors on shader. Use no filter". Crt-easymode works however.
In my opinion blargg's NTSC filters are the best looking, but those require decent hardware to use at full speed. They are OpenGL shaders, however, so if you're playing on PC and using an emulator that supports them then I highly recommend it.
Edit: Just looked up puNES, and it looks like that emulator includes the NTSC filters. Try it with the S-video preset.
sixteen-bit
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Bionic Commando
Thanks. I did a quick comparison, though I'm not yet sure which I prefer.
No filter
NTSC S-video
NTSC RGB
crt_easymode
^ None looks good. Esp. the NTSC ones do miss many of the subtil features
stemming from encoding and decoding an NTSC signal. And what's NTSC RGB
supposed to mean? Doesn't make any sense.
Edit:
key role for proper reproduction esp. for signals like NTSC/PAL. However,
proper video signal processing is expensive. As such most of the shaders just
fiddle with the colors a bit, but won't produce many of the subtil distortions
due to non-ideal filters the video signal undergoes on its way to a CRTs
guns.
stemming from encoding and decoding an NTSC signal. And what's NTSC RGB
supposed to mean? Doesn't make any sense.
Edit:
The CRT is just one part of the equation. The video signal itself plays a
key role for proper reproduction esp. for signals like NTSC/PAL. However,
proper video signal processing is expensive. As such most of the shaders just
fiddle with the colors a bit, but won't produce many of the subtil distortions
due to non-ideal filters the video signal undergoes on its way to a CRTs
guns.
Pancakes R Us
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Oh my. I love this thread!
I need a BVM. Or Framemeister. Eek.
I need a BVM. Or Framemeister. Eek.
It's just another one of the included NTSC filters in puNES.
Another one I tried for the sake of comparison:
crt_aperture
D.Lo
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NTSC RGB doesn't make any sense, because NTSC is a composite colour encoding. RGB bypasses colour encoding altogether and so NTSC RGB is a meaningless term.It's just another one of the included NTSC filters in puNES.
Another one I tried for the sake of comparison:
crt_aperture
That picture looks like a low res LCD screen, like an NES game emulated on a DS/3DS.
I take missile's remark to mean there's no such thing as NTSC RGB since RGB is the pure signal generated by the PPU (without any encoding).
I agree none of these shaders look good. Some of the RetroArch shaders do a better job but I'm still not a huge fan of most.
RadarScope1
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This looks great. So clean. You're on a CRT, right?
That is fine!
How heavy are you willing to go? The Sony PVM-20s are really good, and not too hard to find, but they weigh almost 70 pounds.
Best way to get video out of a graphics card would probably be a DVI to RGB converter of some sort, but I've never really tried it.
mattwhite924
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DVI is able to carry analog signals, and a lot of older cards did that and you'd just use a simple adapter. No idea if modern cards are still wired up for analog though.