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Same, sorta. When emulating yes, I prefer crisp pixels. But the original hardware/CRT looked better and felt better. They looked great and the motion clarity is unmatched.
Emulators suck at emulating the look of it.

Actual CRT > Emulated crisp pixels > > > > > Emulated scanlines and blurry shit filters

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CRT shaders are uggo shit for fags, I just use a normal upscaling filters like I always have, even playing retroshit on a good PC CRT. As >>283835 notes though, this argument only applies to abusing crappy CRTs as a primitive AA filter, as opposed to...

>>270060 
This. 99% of the shitposting in this thread comes from anons (including OP on an implicit level) thoughtlessly conflating NTSC, SDTV, composite color, interlaced scan, shadowmask, etc., into the term "CRT", even when like the more technically apt posters such as >>270114 >>270217 
>>270341 >>270419 they are clearly knowledgable enough to understand the difference.

Almost all of the effects being described do not work at all on a p-scan aperture grille desktop PC HD CRT monitor, and likewise do work perfectly on the humblest NTSC LCDTV over composite. For the same reasons, on the aforementioned desktop CRT or modern LCD/plasma/OLED, shaders will perfectly reproduce all of these effects. Also, most games shown in this thread were multiplats that didn't need nor use these tricks on PC back in the day.

>>270435 
>I wonder if we could make lighter CRTs today
Yes, slimness/deflection angle was limited only by the sophistication of drive electronics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube#Slimmer_CRT
>>270461
>Chromatron
Speaking of difficult designs that might've been trivialized with digital electronics, I wonder why nobody took another swing at the Penetron? Resolution independence of a CRT projector, but in a single direct-view tube.

>>312300
High quality post. I only have a few things to add:
>rewinding the absurdly complex flyback
Impossible because the whole mess is potted in epoxy to handle the ridiculous voltages inside, plus every chassis needs a custom flyback tuned specifically for it. There's one guy in the arcade scene who specifically spent his life savings bribing chinks to make them again, and only for a handful of simple arcade monitors, and they still have bad batches. What you're thinking of is rewinding the deflection yoke, which is possible but requires jedi training and a homemade jig. Also, the tube is a black box as far as repair goes - I know of one guy who can replace electron guns (the real wear part, not the phosphor) in Green Bay and only because he bought the service tooling from Wells Gardner at auction.

>>312308
>Impossible because the whole mess is potted in epoxy to handle the ridiculous voltages inside
Yeah, I should've worded that differently, I meant even building a replacement. Apparently there are super versatile computer controlled robot winding machines now for as little as $10k that are used for all kinds of crazy shit comparable in precision to CRT windings.
>the tube is a black box as far as repair goes
I think this is just because people have grown soft these days. As recently as the 1980s there were independent shops in every town that could fill chips, evacuate tubes, swap guns, etc.

>>312291
CRTs were a cool experience but there was a lot of unpleasant stuff on older tubes.
Colors shifting, need to slap the TV or turn off and on to fix something, misaligning and overscan was common, you could see the curved lines, the tubes dimmed after some years... The more modern ones with flat tubes fixed most of this stuff but all of them still have some weird stuff happening from time to time.
If we still had someone mass producing and improving CRTs it would be cool but now even the folks who really knew how to fix them are dying out.

In the end, nitpicking too much you start to become like audiophiles.
A room or two full of stereos, decks, amps and pre amps were most of them need some kind of fix, and the ones that work you rarely touch it. And sometimes you question why you mostly use the a modern Bluetooth box that sounds almost as good as what you have.

>>312301
>I interpreted >>312275 to be that he simply didn't know that the 'vania' came from the game Castlevania
Oh, maybe. I didn't even think of that possibility and thought MetroidCastlevania was ubiquitous. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

>>312302
You're good dude, don't worry about it.

>>312301
>I think it's just because then you aren't paying equal homage to Metroid. Like I said, the idea is that both games came out at nearly the same time, and both were (are still?) incredibly popular, so it was never established in the lexicon which one deserved the "-like" epithet over the other. I think both series have even sold nearly the same number of copies at ~20 mil (don't quote me on that). I'm just shitballing, but I think it's just because neither one really established dominance over the other.
Same original anon that asked about Castlevania, Metroid, and compared Metroidvania with the use of Rogue(like). That's actually a good explanation, if true. And yes to other anons, my question(s) were perfectly innocent until the anon called me butthurt and retarded for simply asking about naming practices.

>>312301
>the idea is that both games came out at nearly the same time
Nah, like I said, the term was coined in response to Castlevania moving in a more Metroid-ish direction since SotN, along with the acquisition of lite RPG elements still distinguishing that from Metroid.

Is there a soundtemp discography out there?

>>311984
>spoiler
Sad but true.
>>311985
>the Vita has an OLED? in 2011? wow i didn't know that.
It was one of its selling points.
Vanillaware games looked beautiful on it.

Now, speaking of Chinkhelds, do you think a RETROID Pocket 7 is going to be a thing?

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>>312052
>Retroid 7
As it stands, who fucking knows. They seem to be keeping up with their usual pattern of releases, with a gimmick handheld (RP Nova aka a 4:3 RP6) in the middle of their yearly-ish flagship releases (albeit on a delay), and their usual pattern of their chipset being a year behind the industry's cutting edge means they've got a clear path laid out for them (RP7 would probably be a Snapdragon 8 Elite machine).
At the same time, chinkheld releases in general that are usually characterized by high-volume experimental products have ground to a fucking halt over the last year with the RAM / Memory wipeouts, so the question is if it's also going to hit Retroid and the other major chinkheld companies or not come later on in the year.

>>312142
>At the same time, chinkheld releases in general that are usually characterized by high-volume experimental products have ground to a fucking halt over the last year with the RAM / Memory wipeouts, so the question is if it's also going to hit Retroid and the other major chinkheld companies or not come later on in the year.
I recently heard that RAM companies are about to get sued over price fixing /cartel behavior, I hope that leads to something interesting.

How do I disable gyro on a retroid? 
It's much more of a hinderance than anything because it makes the screen rotate the wrong way all the time.

>>312307
isn't there force landscape mode or lock orientation like on regular android phones?
>>312052
>Now, speaking of Chinkhelds, do you think a RETROID Pocket 7 is going to be a thing?
It will exist. When? We don't know. tbh 8gen2 pretty much covers main retro stuffs ps2 included and even switch. Not that more powerful SOC wouldn't be welcomed but i think it will get a lot more expensive, so i'm not really craving for it.

>>308713
>do you have a fact to back up your opinion

>>308722
Why yes, you can't just say "thing bad" for the world to see and not at least elaborate a little about why it's bad.
Why does it look bad?
Why is it unsatisfying?
Why does this guy fall asleep playing one of the mode?

>>308710
I feel the same way, friend. Facerolling my way through the base game made me return to Freedom Unite.

What mod(s) were you guys playing MH RIse with?

>>308728
>you can't just say "thing bad" for the world to see and not at least elaborate a little
Watch me, faggot

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>>312154
Sam & Max has big Gravity Falls energy
>babbys first murrica the flightsim
I would personally point to picrel as the perfect example. Cheezy celeb endorsement aside, it's a guided tour through excepting WWI burgerstan's formative airwars: WWII Europe, Korea, and Vietnam. Missions usually focus on either straight dogfights, or escorting heavy bombers (or attacking them, if you play as OPFOR). The flight model also holds a special spot in my heart, being just hardcore enough to feel like a flightsim, but arcade-y enough that filthy casuals and small children can play it. Note the Mac version is much nicer, featuring high-rez modes, multi-monitor, and LAN netplay. Incidentally, this is also an EA game, by yet another one (Looking Glass) in their stable of beloved cult hit studios that was ultimately raped to death.

>>312154
I really enjoy the telltale games. Shame that the people who are attached to them are the lowest  of the low
>You don't get it they're totally gay
I hate everyone every faggot and woman who ever played the Sam&Max games.
>Dude but the joke
>But the title stands for S&M
>Men aren't allowed to have friends if they do they're gay or basically a bitch who orbits a worthless woman who gets pounded 3 different ways all sunday

>>312253
To be fair the joke about them (or at least Max) being maybe sorta possibly gay but not really goes back to the comics by Steve Purcell. Usually in the form of this running gag:
>wow, what a dame
<I thought you didn't like girls, Max
>oh right, I forgot
IIRC it even happens once in Hit the Road.

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STANDING HERE
I RE-A-LIZE
THAT YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME
TRYING TO MAKE HIS-TOR-Y

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Any good monster truck games?

>>312281
>Maybe there's something about pure scifi settings compared to fantasy that's anathema for RPGs?
I guesss Shadowrun really fucked things up with that.
>inb4 Metroid is hard science sci-fi
It has dragons. Looking at you, Ridley.

>>312283
>It's not being butthurt, it's about assessing illogical realities. By contrast, why are people butthurt about questioning bad architecture nomenclature when discussing the hereditary pedigrees of gaming genres?
You sound like a retard

>>312279
>I think >>312275 's question was way more innocent than that.
I don't know what you mean. I didn't think his question was strange. If I replied with an aggressive or negative tone, I didn't mean to.

>>312281
>These RPG elements are sufficiently common among other similar franchises
I don't find this to be true at all.  Most games do not in fact copy the actual RPG elements of Metroidvanias when they go with Metroid's action-ability-gated exploration structure.  Hence is much more appropriate to refer to the genre as Metroid-likes.

>>312285
This is what a retard sounds like

>>311918
The US Copyright Office is a house of Satan.

>>311979
Yeah, lots of shit need to be changed in copyright laws.

>>311855
>Marvelous
Are they as bad as NISA?

>>312258
NISA is pretty much the worst. Any good translations they ever had was because of the Japanese companies holding them to a tight leash, which is very rare. 
Marvelous might be pretty close these days, XSEED 
(The English branch) lost their only employees worth a damn like 8 years ago and hired lunatics, and they were already left-leaning back then. By now they're probably hopeless. Not to mention that Marvelous Japan has been fucked ever since Soyny fucked them over, they took Tencent money, and Takaki left because of how bad everything became.

>>312269
Holding them to a tight leash or straight-up doing it themselves*

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>>312219
Boy, it would be a shame if some antisemite completely unaffiliated with this website discovered the personal addresses and schedules of these creatures and shared them with a disenfranchised young man or three.

>>312219
>skg dude mentions private servers
>esa whore conflates that with reverse engineered server emus and maybe even offline cracks for freemium gaas
>skg dude is too autistic to call her on it
>boomertarded senator pipes up, apparently thinking they're talking about warez seeders
>esa whore says yeah
>skg dude too autistic to correct that either
On the one hand, what a shitshow. On the other hand, as someone who semi-recreationally watches legislative sessions, this bottom of the barrel level of debate is basically the default.
<abloo muh ai abloo muh plagiarism machines
LOL what a giant dweeb nobody cares

Also, on the subject of Minecraft, and private servers, and think of the children, M$ has done something far more insidious than attacking private servers.

Unlike most buy-to-own games even today, Minecraft is unusual in that it is linked to an account. If this account is revoked, not only will your server be removed from M$'s 1st-party hosting service ("Realms"), or M$'s 1st-party metaserver (Official Server List), or even the ability to host servers of any kind down to LAN. Your entire copy of Minecraft linked to that account will simply stop working, not just all of your hosted server down to LAN, but even joining a server, or playing single-player offline. And this policy was rolled out alongside overreaching EULA changes extending bannable offenses from mere piracy and hacking, to cover crazy stuff like firearm mods and (autoenforced by bots) naughty words in chat or signs, even on non-public or LAN servers.

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>>312230
No need to, just share it with anti-colonialist pro-transgender, open border communists, and tell them that all the jewish surnames are the biggest White oppressors of all. All of the propaganda that the jews spent a century planting are bearing fruit, plus militant leftists are still coasting off the high of being immune from the consequences of any and all violent / direct political action that the ((( government, media, and megacorporations ))) have given them for decades.

But we are getting off topic from /v/.

>>312219
>private servers are illegal 
I'd like to report a dozen criminal organizations.

>>312231
Well they already took the game away from people who bought the game before microshit was even involved, many thousands of accounts were effectively deleted when microsoft decided there was a due date to create a microsoft account and "transfer" your game from mojang to microsoft. There was/is issues with actually transferring and their answer is basically "fuck you"

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