/vr/ - Retro Games

Pic related is how bad scanlines are on a 20" PVM. Sure it makes a neat picture, but scanlines on 8 bit are SOULLESS.

>>5713052
>the effect is based on how the brain sees the pixels. the dark lines make the brain fill in the gaps and everything seems smother than it is

You're 100% correct but I also want to add, another benefit of this was the game companies only had to pay artists half of the normal going rate as they only had to render 50% of the total picture. Pretty sneaky but if your brain can fill in 50% of the picture, there is no use paying artist twice as much to render the whole picture. I guess it's good economics if you think about it.

>>5390753
I hope this is poor bait, because (You)'d have to be pretty dumb to not know how to adjust the settings on a crt.

>Hur de durrr I have the brightness and contrast cranked way up, why are my blacks gray?

>>5063917
Dude, I'm gonna tell you about pricecharting.com and famevaluenow.com Just look there.

Ebay has no risk, if you get shit, you get a refund. Ebay bends over backwards to side with buyers and sellers can't afford bad feedback.

While, we're at it, realize retro prices are dumb as fuck and there are flashcarts like sd2snes, everdrive 64 etc. Look up stoneagegamer.com or krikzz website where you can buy them. Even the most expensive flash cart is often way cheaper than getting 3-4 expensive games and you literally have them all with flash carts.

Also FYI, if you hook retro consoles to modern tvs you'll have less than ideal results. Either get an old crt or buy consoles that output hdmi or learn how to hook them up to modern displays with upscallers. retrorgb has a shitload of info on getting good video on modern displays as does the youtuber mylifeingaming.

I joined the PVMeme. It's a sony PVM-20L2MD.

The picture is great. Small issue with the geometry, The left side is perfect on top and bottom, the right is like the top and bottom are slightly squashed in toward the center. Honestly it doesn't bother me as it is, but I'm gonna try to adjust it. Any ideas?