One of the rare occasions I can say I like the PS1 version of a 2D game over the Saturn version…and I want to say it’s because of dithering, but I don’t see any obvious patterns like on other PS1 games, but it just pops in a way the Saturn version doesn’t
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Do you think Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on Saturn is better than PSX?
No, unfortunately it has slowdown (especially when used with a memory cart I’ve recently found, could be wrong though) and some weird scaling issues, but worst of all, the menu takes a good second to come up and go away which makes gameplay even choppier. It’s definitely not game breaking and it’s a good play through for the extra features at least once. There’s also an undub hack for the PSX which is probably the definitive version I’d say.
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I should mod my PlayStation and give that a go. I’d love to hear the Japanese voices
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Actually, I’ve come across a new hack today that greatly improves the performance and has a lot of quality of life features, bringing it closer to the PSX version. Only problem is it isn’t translated (mostly). The pause menu transitions are shorter (even more so if you have the 4MB cart) and there are full transparencies now. I’ve yet to test it, unfortunately I’ve just run out of CD-R’s today, but this is promising. Hopefully this can be combined with the translation patch in the future for the ultimate version.
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Longshot but does anybody know of a phone model (or app?) that lets you adjust the ‘shutter speed’ to allow for oddball speeds like 1/59, 1/61 etc?
Ooh nice, I’ll have to look into trying this. Thanks for the suggestion!
Is that happy cake day for you?
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Oh it’s the anniversary of the day I joined
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After months of searching, I finally got my hands on a 27" D-Series! Larger models pop up semi-frequently in my area, but I specifically wanted something smaller (and lighter). I got it from a fellow retro gamer, and it was refurbished by a previous owner (which I assume means a recap in some capacity.
It’s a JVC AV-27D201. Colour is amazing, as expected from a D-Series, and it’s a huge step up in sharpness/geometry/convergence compared to the 20" Toshiba 20AF44C it’s replacing. It’ll sit nicely with my PVM and incoming Commodore 1702 to round out my CRT set up.
Some shots:
The obligatory geometry shot:
Some games:
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Awesome! I’m hoping to join the D-Series gang soon as well.
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Looks perfect
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Absolutely stunning.
I’d love a D-Series but as far as I can see I don’t think they made it out here in Australia.
I’m not familiar with the models in Australia, but here in Canada there are a bunch of different models with this chassis style.
Within that line of models there are some that share the same tube as the D-series, and they also have component video.
Not much help, I realize, but this information will hopefully help you find a nice JVC with component and a good tube at least
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I always assumed the ones that looked like that capped out at s-video. Interesting.
Yup me too until I saw a couple for sale locally. If I was smart I would’ve wrote down the model numbers.
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