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AdeptnessApart7616 t1_ivn6d1o wrote

Reply to comment by MonoChaos in CRT and Amendment 3 by AttorneyTime4601

I side loaded an emulator on my firestick tonight. Retro gaming on a 70" TV, and the game selection, one you figure out where to get ROMS, is pretty much endless.

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Netzapper t1_ivofn0x wrote

I think they're talking about the fact that old games were designed to run on CRTs. In particular, they took advantage of the way pixels bleed together on a CRT screen to make art look substantially smoother than it does on a crisp LCD/OLED. There's a bunch of videos and articles that go into detail about it, but it's a real thing you can see for yourself with side-by-side comparisons, not just nostalgia goggles.

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nickcash t1_ivv5p72 wrote

> There's a bunch of videos and articles that go into detail

Meh, I think this is vastly overstated. 90% of those videos and articles are like "BattleToads The Way It Was Meant to Be Played!!!!" and then they're showing it on some super high-end sony trinitron from like 2008.

In the 80s, NES was really played on some old wood-paneled monstrosity from the 70s with fucked up color balance, because CRTs lasted forever back then and were too expensive to replace often. It did not look better.

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Netzapper t1_ivv9swl wrote

I mean, I was there... but I'm not saying that they looked better overall at the time. Our game TV all the way up to like 2000 was fuzzy as fuck, and certainly from at least the early 80's. An LCD is an improvement from that. But so was my $100 college TV from BestBuy.

But the pixel artists of the day really were optimizing around the geometry and physics of TV pixels, and I do think it looks smoother when viewed on a nicely-calibrated CRT than on a similarly-calibrated LCD. Again, this isn't about nostalgia. The artists had high-end CRTs on their desks when they were making the games.

You also get into stuff like the Nintendo Zapper not working on LCDs because of the way it depends on CRT scanlines.

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purple_yosher t1_ivoofkn wrote

/uj

How difficult was this to set up? and can one connect Bluetooth controllers to the Firestick?

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