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xwkd | 2 years ago

Needs to be played on a CRT in general. For retro games, you can't beat the low latency and fantastic glow of an electron gun. No shader emulation comes close.

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Wowfunhappy|2 years ago

...I find this hard to believe. A modern high-quality 4K HDR screen is exceedingly good at recreating all sorts of lifelike imagery. You're telling me the one thing it can't effectively recreate is a CRT television?

Input lag is probably the biggest issue, but you can get very low-latency screens nowadays! None of them are actually 0ms, but neither were CRTs unless you're measuring only the top of the screen and not the bottom.

tracker1|2 years ago

It depends.. the waterfall effects in the likes of Sonic are pretty hard without a real CRT.

If you're using an emulator, there are quite a few filters that can help to recreate that old feel, none are quite right though.

kgwxd|2 years ago

No matter how nice a tv, when someone shines a flashlight at the camera, it won’t make you squint. Same problem. Plus, no static.