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[Funky Papa]

Well, you just reminded me how utterly garbage most driving and flying games were on the GB.

Which is probably my favourite portable console ever (even if I always had a huge crush on the Lynx and the TurboExpress), but still.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Dreamcast, Sony Trinitron KV-27FS120, RGB->Component Transcoder
Image quality is not as nice as a PVM, but the 27 inch consumer Trinitorn is still quite good looking and it's way bigger than my 14 inch PVM lol.

 

[Coda]

Dreamcast, Sony Trinitron KV-27FS120, RGB->Component Transcoder
Image quality is not as nice as a PVM, but the 27 inch consumer Trinitorn is still quite good looking and it's way bigger than my 14 inch PVM lol.

Hell yeah! I have a Sony 20 inch KV-20FS120 and I love it. Found it on the side of the road this past summer, kept it as my main CRT. I should post some pictures of Metal Wolf Chaos and other old school on it. Sega Saturn with a SCART to component converter looks great on it.

 

[Huggers]

Ninja Gaiden. Sony BVM and NES RGB. Looks great;

 

[missile]

^ Fukkin nice, mf!

 

[Coda]

Decided that I wanted to play some Espgaluda today on PS2:

 

[valkillmore]

Ninja Gaiden. Sony BVM and NES RGB. Looks great;

CRISP

 

[sixteen-bit]

Decided that I wanted to play some Espgaluda today on PS2:

Game's gorgeous. Arika ports FTW.

 

[D.Lo]

Something extra special about tate scanlines.

 

[Coda]

Ahh those other Espgaluda pics are nicer than mine. It's really hard getting a good picture when the camera doesn't like being pointed at a CRT image.

 

[jbueno]

Played some Fatal Fury 3 tonight. Game´s still a looker IMO, but I´m just a regular SNK fanboy. No PVM for me yet ;(

 

[PassiveObserver]

Bit of a struggle shot. Virtual Console on the Wii through S-Video to my Trinitron. The reds are much brighter in person.

 

[blast processed]

Playing around with Raspberry Pi2 so I decided to take these to see how they turned out.

Waku Waku 7

League Bowling

 

[sixteen-bit]

Metroid anime tiddies edition

 

[TeaJay]

I'm constantly amazed how good Megadrive games can look after looking at shitty composite all my childhood. Here's Castle of Illusion.

 

[Peagles]

I see your MD Castle of Illusion and raise you an MS version...

 

[TeaJay]

I see your MD Castle of Illusion and raise you an MS version...

Damn, that's good! Here's a close-up at Metal Slug I was playing earlier.

 

[Mega]

Final Soldier on PC Engine!

 

[PassiveObserver]

Are everyone whose screens show such thick scanlines running on PVMs or Framemeisters? I can't get that crispness out of my Trinitron.

Wii Virtual Console thru S-Video

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Are everyone whose screens show such thick scanlines running on PVMs or Framemeisters? I can't get that crispness out of my Trinitron.

I'm guessing that your setup is doing 480i on your Trinitron through S-video adding blur and flicker. I believe you have to enable the 240p mode through a button code on the Wii, but I don't know it offhand and I'm not sure if Wii can properly send the signal to your CRT with S-video though it should. Someone more knowledgeable about the limits of the official VC output modes, games, and cable required can probably set you and I straight on this. You can also soft-mod/add homebrew emulation channels to your system and just use emulators that all support 240p for all of the classic 8- and 16-bit consoles. Anyway, settings can help and I think decent-quality consumer CRTs are all capable of nice images close to the quality of many shots in this thread provided that you can get 240p mode working on your set. Personally, I think a bit of softness is required to get the best image out of LD/SD consoles and PVM/BVM tier displays aren't necessarily the only way to get bold and sharp scanlines.

 

[PassiveObserver]

I believe you have to enable the 240p mode through a button code on the Wii

Thanks for the extensive edit. Didn't know about forcing 240p on Wii, I'll give that a try. Sadly my CRT don't have component inputs.

 

[Peagles]

PVM here.

Edit: 14L2

 

[TeaJay]

Are everyone whose screens show such thick scanlines running on PVMs or Framemeisters? I can't get that crispness out of my Trinitron.

I have a PVM-20M4E.

 

[Mega]

Fucking shit.

When an image is uploaded to imgur, it creates various resized versions in addition to the intact original (intact if it's an image under 5MB). I've been using these resized versions when I want to post batches of photos and not kill people's connections with the huge originals. I always thought these resized versions looked off but couldn't put my finger on it.

The resized version I use is the "huge" option: 1024 x 683 px, 72ppi. I just took my original and resized it to these specs. It's a lot sharper and colorful than imgur's blurry and dull, color-shifted version. Dammit. Imgur uses a resampling that makes the image blurrier when it resizes. It also throws out the color profile which may be causing the dulled color problem.

It's also under 80KB or roughly JPG Quality 45 (out of 100) in Photoshop... unnecessarily low. But for accuracy, I set my own version to under 80KB and it still looks better than imgur's crappy resize. Blah. This may all seem minor but I'm trying to be extremely accurate with what I'm seeing on my monitor and imgur's "web-friendly" options were undoing some of that.

I'm only posting originals from now on which in imgur's defense are not altered. Sorry in advance to anyone's Internet connection!

imgur resized crap (blurry, dull)

my resize (look at that color pop!)

This is the unaltered original which matches my resized image directly above:

 

[jbueno]

Played some Chrono Trigger tonight. No fancy setup, just a SNES through composhit to a Samsung Tantus. Looks pretty nice, was used to playing SNES that way growing up. Do plan to get an RGB monitor any day now ;/

EDIT: Found this pic just now while browsing for old pics on my laptop. It was my old Wega, which malfunctioned a few months back ;(

 

[Cosmonal]

Guys, please more scanline goodness! This is great stuff, in love with this thread, thank you all!

 

[Coda]

I feel like the Sony WEGA TV's have a nice yet different scanline look. Almost like you can see the individual pixels moreso than the scanlines. It's definitely interesting. It's so hard to capture a nice picture of it.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Played some Chrono Trigger tonight. No fancy setup, just a SNES through composhit to a Samsung Tantus. Looks pretty nice, was used to playing SNES that way growing up. Do plan to get an RGB monitor any day now ;/

Maaan... one of these days, I think I'll have to get Chrono Trigger on the SNES. I like the DS port, but it just doesn't feel quite the same.

 

[russian box]

Can I get some feedback on the scanlines on ths video,
The game gets captured through rgb but then I fix the colour and add scanlines over it,
I want it to be subtle while keeping the brightness of the game. The issue with looking at a video of something you normally see on a TV is that the video doesn't seem to have the same intensity, hence why I've made the lines subtle.

I feel it helps when the game moves as you can still see where blocks of colour are and move.
Point Blank PS1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxyoij-LV3Y
OPM UK Demo Disk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-jxEv0PVg

I did play with adding a glow over the top of the whole thing but it adds to render time to the point of being too much.

 

[PassiveObserver]

Every time I boot up the Wii I feel like taking some snaps. I only ever played many of these older games on my computer through emulation. Seeing them all over again on a CRT is such a treat. Gets in the way of playing the game, honestly.

I'm feeling the spirit..Ninja Spirit.

 

[Peagles]

Can I get some feedback on the scanlines on ths video,
The game gets captured through rgb but then I fix the colour and add scanlines over it,
I want it to be subtle while keeping the brightness of the game. The issue with looking at a video of something you normally see on a TV is that the video doesn't seem to have the same intensity, hence why I've made the lines subtle.

I feel it helps when the game moves as you can still see where blocks of colour are and move.
Point Blank PS1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxyoij-LV3Y
OPM UK Demo Disk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-jxEv0PVg

I did play with adding a glow over the top of the whole thing but it adds to render time to the point of being too much.

Personally, I think they're very tasteful.

 

[Peltz]

Can I get some feedback on the scanlines on ths video,
The game gets captured through rgb but then I fix the colour and add scanlines over it,
I want it to be subtle while keeping the brightness of the game. The issue with looking at a video of something you normally see on a TV is that the video doesn't seem to have the same intensity, hence why I've made the lines subtle.

I feel it helps when the game moves as you can still see where blocks of colour are and move.
Point Blank PS1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxyoij-LV3Y
OPM UK Demo Disk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-jxEv0PVg

I did play with adding a glow over the top of the whole thing but it adds to render time to the point of being too much.

Scanlines look good to be too, but the picture is so darn sharp. Some slight blur (very slight) would look nice.

Don't overdo it though. This looks good as it is.

 

[Lettuce]

Been playing some Revenge of late....

 

[FoxSpirit]

Ninja Gaiden. Sony BVM and NES RGB. Looks great;

Late, but could you please and try a closeup of the pixel makeup? I have an idea.

 

[Mega]

Wonder Boy III - Monster Lair

Dungeon Explorer

Adjusted for brightness, contrast and chroma... Yoshi's Island on GBA looks about as good as the SNES version. But it still sounds a lot worse!

DBZ on the backlit modded GBA

 

[sixteen-bit]

awesome pics! always nice to see this thread bumped.

 

[Lettuce]

 

[RSLYG]

Am I doing it right?
Messing around with pcsx2 shader setting

 

[blast processed]

That avatar is nightmare inducing.

 

[Timu]

Soul Calibur with scanlines???

 

[Mega]

Am I doing it right?
Messing around with pcsx2 shader setting

That game probably shouldn't have scanlines and the lines themselves look pretty bad.

 

[Peagles]

No.

 

[Dunkley]

Am I doing it right?
Messing around with pcsx2 shader setting

Those look like 3 pixel wide scanlines, so nope.

 

[lazygecko]

Uneven lines is usually what happens when the image is stretched after the scanlines are being rendered.

 

[Mac@NeoGAF]

Mame: HLSL: Streetfighter III 2nd Impact: 16:9 Dip Switch Enabled:

 

[Peltz]

Mame: HLSL: Streetfighter III 2nd Impact: 16:9 Dip Switch Enabled:

Street Fighter III had a 16:9 mode? Or is this just through emulation?

 

[xemumanic]

Street Fighter III had a 16:9 mode? Or is this just through emulation?

It had a 16:9 mode. Most didn't know until it got emulated, but the game itself supported it.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I believe 16:9 only in the arcade version of 2nd Impact. It's not in the home port, and it's not in 3rd Strike at all.

 

[ViciousDS]

They looked weird after I transfered them....hoping the scans came out alright....and yes I'm using gameshark codes on my 8th play through lol

 

[davidwhangchoi]

sixteen-bit linked me here:

image on ps1.

Special thanks to Mega again for setting me up in the world of CRT scanlines.
KoF 99 ps1 drop dead gorgeous:

re3

re1