King of Fighters 11 on PS2, RGB on Sony CRT. F*** the last boss in this game, my god!
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True Pinball on Saturn, RGB on Sony CRT. This uses the hi res mode and looks pretty good! Shame they used 1/5 of the screen for a dot matrix display, could have almost seen the whole table if not.
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TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge. In an alternate timeline, there would be a version tailored for CRTs nad 4:3 T_T
GBS downscale to 240p
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Is the game out already or is that the trailer?
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Just the trailer, the game doesn’t have a release date yet.
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It’s Grundig time! 21" Grundig GR2150 with Scart RGB playing Top Hunter on Neo Geo AES. Really nice slot shadow mask in it.
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Sexy shots!
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Some shots of Strider on the Genesis Mini via Retroarch and the zFast shader.
I’ve been using scanlines on pretty much every older game that I could for it, including everything I play on my OSSC and its built in scanlines generator. Up til now it was just a pretty form of anti-aliasing and playing games closer to how they were intended to appear. But this zFast shader is the first time I got hit with that wave of nostalgia like “ohhhh that’s what CRT’s used to look like”.
I have my work cut out for me now because I just have to replicate this on the OSSC.
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Hoping next-gen scalers will allow various blending options, scanline overlays are good but there’s some way to go. Maybe even shaders at the cost of a frame or two of lag would be pretty cool to really close in on the look.
N64 on a consumer slot mask crt
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Aw man that looks awesome, I’m really considering getting a CRT just for the N64, even though I don’t have the room for one.
I managed to get pretty close with the OSSC after fiddling with the settings. Here’s Guilty Gear XX AC on the PS2 patched to 240p. The pictures I took doesn’t really capture it but it was absolutely stunning. The difference with scanlines on and off, it’s like 2 different games. There is a contrast and shadowing that the scanlines give that just makes the picture pop.
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Can’t really guess what your space is like but 14 inch crts are very reasonably sized and are great to squeeze onto a desk.
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Yeah I was considering a smaller crt but then the only desk I had is now my work desk during the pandemic and it’d be really weird to have on there.
There’s a 32FS100 available for free pick up near me and part of me wants to snap it up but the other part of me knows it’s a behemoth.
I just bought this game for MVS. How is it?
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Not sure how period accurate scanlines are for 480p content (I don’t remember ever playing in 480p back in the day) but it actually looks really nice. Free anti-aliasing lol
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Nice platformer.
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DKCR looks really great there. I know how I’ll be playing Wii/GC games from now on. I did my most recent playthrough of that game on a Wii U before I got my OSSC as 480i for the Wii on a modern TV is just too blurry for my eyes.
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Yeah, I can imagine modern TVs messing up the interlacing. PAL Wii RGB and 480i actually looks good on a CRT, like surprisingly sharp.
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