The best part is that a lot of those games worked differently so grabbing a random gun wouldn't work. So even if you got an HD set up to adapt to one, you have twenty others.
There are times where I legitimately miss CRT monitors. The poor contrast and terrible black levels make a lot of modern displays a pain for some older games.
Granted, display technology has only just in the last... 2-4 years started to address some of that without sacrificing other important display properties.
It still took nearly 20 years of scuffed LCD's and LED's to get to that point though.
I'd heard some good things about Quantum Dot QLED, and from what I've read there's actually not a lot of drawbacks. Some potential VRR flicker and stuff, no ghosting or smearing issues. But apparently there's a purple hue issue that can occur when viewed in a brightly lit room... bah.
Assuming the purple hue is pretty bearable it might be a much bigger step up over OLED.
I hate smart TVs. They are just outright worse than older TVs and you cannot tell me otherwise. If they were more open maybe but its an entirely closed system. I can do better with an external thing that isn't on my tv directly and have kodi on something.
I also think old games, those that were played when CRTs were around just feel better on said TVs. This isn't nostalgia to me, stuff genuinely looked better on them.
Those games were designed for those displays. For example, reds were very prone to leaking on older displays, so game artists used red very deliberately to depict certain effects and aesthetics. They counted on those reds to leak. Fast forward to emulation on modern displays and the old graphics suddenly look boring and flat.
On a previous TV my folks owned, there was this annoying auto brightening/darkening setting you actually COULDN'T turn off without accessing the secret engineer's menu. Newer TVs have AI-powered picture smoothening that makes anything shot at 24 FPS look jumpy and horrid. And on the current model we own for watching pirated Blu-Rays on, there is an aspect ratio setting, but ONLY for 4:3 and 16:9, not 1:85:1, meaning every movie we watch is slightly stretched vertically with nothing we can do about it.
A lot of retro games were designed for that tech. So even if you got an adapter you have some slow down and weird looks on pixels.
I know the shooting games with the gun adapters needed the vacuum tubes to work
The best part is that a lot of those games worked differently so grabbing a random gun wouldn't work. So even if you got an HD set up to adapt to one, you have twenty others.
It has better contrast and color control directly and it smoothed out the graphics.
I love pixel art in all it's forms, but I can't deny the magic a real CRT brings to old-school gaming.
There are times where I legitimately miss CRT monitors. The poor contrast and terrible black levels make a lot of modern displays a pain for some older games.
Granted, display technology has only just in the last... 2-4 years started to address some of that without sacrificing other important display properties.
It still took nearly 20 years of scuffed LCD's and LED's to get to that point though.
I think I’ll only feel safe buying an OLED when the doctors give me like six months to live lol
I'd heard some good things about Quantum Dot QLED, and from what I've read there's actually not a lot of drawbacks. Some potential VRR flicker and stuff, no ghosting or smearing issues. But apparently there's a purple hue issue that can occur when viewed in a brightly lit room... bah.
Assuming the purple hue is pretty bearable it might be a much bigger step up over OLED.
I hate smart TVs. They are just outright worse than older TVs and you cannot tell me otherwise. If they were more open maybe but its an entirely closed system. I can do better with an external thing that isn't on my tv directly and have kodi on something.
I also think old games, those that were played when CRTs were around just feel better on said TVs. This isn't nostalgia to me, stuff genuinely looked better on them.
Those games were designed for those displays. For example, reds were very prone to leaking on older displays, so game artists used red very deliberately to depict certain effects and aesthetics. They counted on those reds to leak. Fast forward to emulation on modern displays and the old graphics suddenly look boring and flat.
You also had way more control over the picture.
On a previous TV my folks owned, there was this annoying auto brightening/darkening setting you actually COULDN'T turn off without accessing the secret engineer's menu. Newer TVs have AI-powered picture smoothening that makes anything shot at 24 FPS look jumpy and horrid. And on the current model we own for watching pirated Blu-Rays on, there is an aspect ratio setting, but ONLY for 4:3 and 16:9, not 1:85:1, meaning every movie we watch is slightly stretched vertically with nothing we can do about it.
At this point if you don't need the full on TV experience it might be worth to just buy a big display...
The only downside is those suckers were HEAVY!
The image is superior in some ways when it comes to older stuff. Brighter and more glow like.
'The Glow', lol. Love getting me a dose of that sweet, sweet radiation. Ahhh...
I mean. I miss leaving mine on overnight.
You can leave modern tvs on overnight
Not without fucking with tons of power-saving settings first to prevent it from turning off after 3 hours of inactivity.
Haven’t bought an older tv but love the channels that play old shows. Most of what I watch