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[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I have so much of that old stuff in bins, and it's really a treat because one of my nephews goes nuts for gaming relics from 10-20 years before he was born.

But funny enough when I want to play an old game, I stick with emulators.I'm old and have limited time, so I ain't afraid to use rewind (save state on steroids) and most of the time I use no visual filters/shaders and go with sharply defined pixels. My 10 year old budding AuDHD videophile self would spend hours tweaking the 2 or 3 picture dials on my shitty old hand-me-down CRT trying to get the yellow blocks in Super Mario World the perfect shade of yellow or see the most detail in my ActRaiser avatar. I am aware that some of that old art was drawn to look more detailed on a CRT than the original clean pixels would look on their own, but I still dig it.

[-] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago

Fortunately, CRT filters and (allegedly) beam simulation are getting much better than ever.

Might not be worth your time fiddling with though, still.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

I remember reading a while back how 4K resolution is kind of a sweet spot for rendering all the phosphors for a really good CRT simulation.

I do like experimenting with those things sometimes. Just the other day I was showing my son something in Mario World and started playing with the filters. The worst looking ones (composite and god help me, RF) definitely were the most cozy!

[-] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If you have a high refresh screen (240Hz+) you should check out BlurBuster's and mausimus' ShaderBeam for motion clarity in retro games!

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Mine doesn't go that high but I am still gonna check it out. Thanks!

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