Retro.
Ps3.
I haven't really felt old until this very moment.
2 GTA games landed on it. Think of how long that is. It was out for 11 years, nearly forever in console time. A literal generation of time passed.
My retro system is a PS3
I'll just be over here, dead. 💀
Seriously, it was rare/very short lived to see a PS3 played on displays that weren't LCD'S or plasmas
Dude, I was there and this is not true. Ps3 is what pushed me to opt for HD, and 90% of the time I spent on that system was in HD. That shift happened everywhere very quickly, especially by the time Skyrim came out - the text of which is damn near unreadable on a CRT.
One of the things that sold the PS3 was it's blue ray player. At a cheap price. As someone who also "was there" I never saw anyone playing blue ray on a crt. Like I said, it was short lived to see any ps3's being played on one as well
Ooops, I misread your comment. Looks like we just agree.
You don't want to fight to the death? Lol. It's all good friend. We are all on edge with the world at the moment, and it makes us lash out easily. Not that you did. But I have to often
It launched in 2006. A 40" was still more than $1000. A 32" Crt TV could be had for $~400~300. I'm guessing a lot of these wound up attached to CRT tv's
The Ps4 was released 47 years ago.
Feel old yet?
The biggest difference you're going to see for fidelity on CRT displays will be improvements for 2d and early 3d games. There are some SNES games with some great art styles that are better suited to CRT. If you like RPGs, I'd check out Shadowrun, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG. For 3D games, FFVII is one that particularly stands out for me as looking pretty bad on modern monitors but pretty good on CRT. Even something like Goldeneye for N64, which looks comically bad on modern screens, was a lot nicer looking at the time.
Admittedly, especially in the case of Goldeneye, some of this may just be that the games looked comparatively better before later 3D gave it us a better basis for comparison, but CRT is at least a factor. SNES games really shine with CRT, though. The art styles had really come into their own in that final 2D console generation, and a lot of them look much better than what followed on the first 3D consoles.
Would the Nintendo switch remakes of the Square game through HDMI also carry the improved look?
I don't have a switch so I don 't really know. Emulators that simulate CRT blur aren't terrible, but they're not really the same. I think most of the remakes tend to have more modern looking pixel graphics, though, so it's not going to be quite the same as genuine CRT blur.
I was thinking of running the switch games though the crt.
If it’s not doing any processing to the image maybe, it’s certainly worth a try.
If anything ps3 was the point where they started designing with HD in mind. You want ps2 and lower. So for one example, the textures in Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast version) result in a pseudo-3D effect on a CRT, but become noticeably flattened on an HD display.
You could also give the famous Symphony of the Night a try, and see if the art really does match that example picture. Really anything ps1 era, and SNES as well.
Try to get yourself a console with a lightgun like a NES. Those game are basically only possible on a CRT.
I don't think that's going to be in the cards. I might see if there are places I can rent/borrow one.
PS3 comes with Composite cables. Why not use them instead of trying to downscale HDMI back to SD and adding lag?
The D24 is a 1080i monitor. I'd been reading around and it seemed that was a better way to connect it them the component cables.
Not sure that HDMI to component would be any better than just going straight component if your PVM doesn’t accept HDMI. Even if it does accept HDMI, it probably would be better to do straight component anyway. I would defer to your research as I’m not an experts on PVMs.
But personally I would probably just play ps3 on an LCD rather than a CRT. Most games, especially the last half of the generation were designed to plan on an LCD and it’s the easiest to connect and get good picture quality.
That there is a Gem in the CRT community. Please use it for GameCube! Id give my leg to try a BVM
Is there a specific game?
Star Fox Assault, Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Battalion Wars, and Chibo-Robo! are all good games.
Super Smash bros Melee
In my opinion, PS3 is in it's trash/waste phase and not quite retro yet. And it's a correct opinion.
So it's in the perfect buy it now phase. Like when goodwill would have 4-5 Snes on the shelf and a shopping bag of games for $20
Pretty much that, with plenty of replacement parts to show for!
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